Number	17450
Subject	Pornography
Source	Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)
State	Arkansas
Year	2001
Publication Date	Jan. 7-10
Summary	Arkansas-Democrat-Gazette examines how "the Web has opened the floodgates on child pornography," and delves into the horrors that sexually abused children and their families have gone through. The four-part series finds that "preying on children to feed adult fantasies, pornographers are spreading sexually explicit images faster and farther that authorities can handle." The investigation uncover the results of a recent study, which finds that "1 in 5 children [has been] sexually solicited on the Web," and that 25 % of children have seen pornographic websites. The story also details how undercover FBI agents "pose as children to attract the predators" on the Internet. The series profiles a notorious criminal,John MacMullen, who has drugged and raped eight girls and two women, and five other sentenced pedophiles.
Category	General
Pages	40
Keywords	children;Internet;crime;courts;Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Perevention;FBI;computers;sexual abuse;rape;pedophiles;police
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