80 million images of child pornography analysed to identify victims

80 million images of child pornography analysed to identify victims

Hundreds of thousands of missing children in the US alone.  From toddlers  to  young teenagers  and almost nothing is being done about it.
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Child sexual exploitation

• U.S. law enforcement agencies have seen a dramatic increase in cases of sexual exploitation of children since the 1990s. According to a report to Congress in 2010. [4]
  
• In 2006 U.S. attorneys handled 82.8 percent more child pornography cases than they had in 1994.
  
• State and local law enforcement agencies involved in Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces reported a 230 percent increase in the number of documented complaints of online enticement of children from 2004 to 2008.
  
• ICAC Task Forces noted a more than 1,000 percent increase in complaints of child prostitution from 2004 to 2008.
  
• As of December 2012, the CyberTipline has received more than 1.7 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation since it was launched in 1998. Suspected child sexual exploitation can be reported to the CyberTipline at www.cybertipline.com or 1-800-843-5678.
• As of December 2012, NCMEC’s Child Victim Identification Program has reviewed and analyzed more than 80 million child pornography images since it was created in 2002.

Missing children

• The most recent, comprehensive national study for the number of missing children estimated in 1999: [1]
  
• Approximately 800,000 children younger than 18 were reported missing.
  
• More than 200,000 children were abducted by family members.
  
• More than 58,000 children were abducted by nonfamily members.
• An estimated 115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. These “stereotypical” kidnappings involved someone the child did not know or was an acquaintance. The child was held overnight, transported 50 miles or more, killed, ransomed or held with the intent to keep the child permanently.
  
• To find the number of children missing from a specific state or territory contact the state’s Missing Child Clearinghouses.
• The first three hours are the most critical when trying to locate a missing child. The murder of an abducted child is rare, and an estimated 100 cases in which an abducted child is murdered occur in the U.S. each year. A 2006 study indicated that 76.2 percent of abducted children who are killed are dead within three hours of the abduction. [2]
• The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children^® has assisted law enforcement in the recovery of more than 183,000 missing children since it was founded in 1984. Our recovery rate for missing children has grown from 62 percent in 1990 to 97 percent today.
• The AMBER Alert program was created in 1996 and is operated by the U.S. Department of Justice. As of April 17, 2013, 642 children have been successfully recovered as a result of the program. [3]
• Of the endangered runaways reported to NCMEC in 2012, 1 out of 8 were likely child sex trafficking victims.
• As of December 2012, NCMEC’s toll free, 24 hour call center has received more than 3,716,044 calls since it was created in 1984. Information about missing or exploited children can be reported to the call center by calling 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like… if, during periods of mass arrests, … people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn