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Search results for "child pornography" ...
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Led by an innocent into a web of evil
The investigation chronicles the tireless efforts of Boston federal agents who followed the trail of a single photo of a distraught toddler erroneously sent to them by a Boston-area man obsessed with child pornography. It ended with the arrests of more than 42 men from California to Mexico and the discovery of more than 140 exploited children, one of them only days old. In the telling, staff writer Jenifer B. McKim deftly details the exploding worldwide problem of child pornography, the new and innovative efforts made by investigators to rescue children and track down criminals, and the devastating toll that child porn takes on victims and families.
Tags: child porn; pornography; sex abuse; children
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Project Flicker
A four-year undercover international operation to expose the market for child pornography ends with hundreds of convictions and the identification of 30,000 child porn customers in 132 countries. The Scripps Howard report discloses the extent of the international investigation and shows step-by-step how the criminal rings exploited gaps in international law to perpetuate their crimes.
Tags: child porn; child pornography; international investigation; undercover; criminal ring
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The Child Porn Pipeline
Russia and the United states are two major players in child pornography. Russia produces the pornography and the U.S. is able to post images online.
Tags: child porn; child abuse; children; pornography; Internet; online; cybercrime; child exploitation; courts; federal court; state court
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The Youngest Profession: Seattle is a Hub for Luring Teens into Lives of Prostitution
A look into the explosion of child prostitution in Seattle in 2005. Rowe found some girls as young as 11 being prostituted.
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Innocence Lost
The story concerned the short life of Evelyn Miller, a young girl found slain after she disappeared from her home near Floyd,IA. The investigation revealed a life of neglect, including being overlooked by the Department of Human Resources. The reporters also investigated the extensive search for the girl in the days that followed her disappearance.
Tags: child pornography; neglect; child abuse; FOIA; drugs; parental rights
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Caught in the Web
Eichenwald uncovered a nightmarish truth unknown even to law enforcement and child advocacy groups: Children, encouraged by adults who find them online, have been performing from their own homes for cash and gifts in online pornography shows sent onto the Internet by inexpensive Webcams. The six month investigation ended with a federal criminal investigation into online child pornography, the shutdown of one of the busiest illegal Web sites and Congressional hearings.
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Canada vs. Vatican
Le Point magazine compares the Catholic Church's official doctrine re: homosexuality and gay marriage to the realities of sexual abuse by Canadian priests, finding a blatant conflict between the Vatican's condemnation of gay marriage and its long-standing toleration of priests' child abuse. The article is in French, but the Resource Center has provided a basic translation in English.
Tags: separation of church and state; discrimination; civil rights; Catholic Church; Vatican; the Pope; child abuse; child pornography
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"Peace at What Price?"
ABC news documented the extent of abuse U.N. peacekeepers have been inflicting on women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although reports of child pornography, rape and paedophile rings have been rampant, U.N. officials have refused to allow either military or civilian employees to be tried, and even have refused to cooperate with further investigation of its personnel.
Tags: United Nations; sexual abuse; investigation; African peacekeepers
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Selling Innocence
A joint investigative effort by WMAQ-TV Chicago and WTVJ-TV Miami uncovered "child erotica," a new industry exploiting young girls that spans several states. The two stations were able to combine their investigative sources and perform more research as well as undercover and surveillance work across the country. As a result of their combined work a convicted child sex offender who was recruiting young girls is being investigated by the Justice Department, one of the largest child erotica sites on the internet shut itself down, and representatives from Illinois and Florida asked the Attorney General to shut down the child erotica industry and review current law that deals with the area.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; crime; child pornography
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The Web's Dark Secret
Newsweek takes an in-depth look at how Father Fortunato Di Noto has been combating child pornography on the Web. "Before the Internet came along, pedophiles were lonely and hunted individuals. Authorities had child pornography under control. Today networks of child abusers are proliferating worldwide."
Tags: Child pornography; Pedophilia; Pedophiles; Internet