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Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demonstrate that one in five high school-attending youth experience physical and/or sexual abuse by a dating partner each year in the US.
And I was working with a research team that was hunting for novel answers to the question: What's causing dating abuse, and how do we stop it?
And I picked it up, and it was two federal agents, asking for my help in identifying a little girl featured in hundreds of child sexual abuse images they had found online.
They had just started working the case, but what they knew was that her abuse had been broadcast to the world for years on dark web sites dedicated to the sexual abuse of children.
And so they called us, because they had heard we were a new nonprofit building technology to fight child sexual abuse.
We had nothing that could help them stop this abuse.
And today, as she struggles to recover, she lives with the fact that thousands around the world continue to watch her abuse.
This is a truly global problem, but if we just look at the US: in the US alone last year, more than 45 million images and videos of child sexual abuse material were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and that is nearly double the amount the year prior.
Abusers are cheered on in chat rooms dedicated to the abuse of children, where they gain rank and notoriety with more abuse and more victims.
The first is with law enforcement: helping them identify new victims faster, stopping abuse and stopping those producing this content.
Twelve companies, 45 million files of child sexual abuse material.
But there are hundreds of other companies, small- to medium-size companies around the world, that need to do this work, but they either: 1) can't imagine that their platform would be used for abuse, or 2) don't have the money to spend on something that is not driving revenue.
Within 20 minutes of going live on our system, someone tried to upload a known piece of abuse material.
Hundreds more pieces of child sexual abuse material that we had never seen.
And when the millions of hashes we have lead to millions more and, in real time, companies around the world are identifying and pulling this content down, we will have dramatically increased the speed at which we are removing child sexual abuse material from the internet around the world.
We have to activate thousands of officers, hundreds of companies around the world if technology will allow us to outrun the perpetrators and dismantle the communities that are normalizing child sexual abuse around the world today.
The first generation of children whose abuse has gone viral are now young adults.
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection just did a recent study of these young adults to understand the unique trauma they try to recover from, knowing that their abuse lives on.
And most of them live with the fear every single day that as they walk down the street or they interview for a job or they go to school or they meet someone online, that that person has seen their abuse.
They had been recognized from their abuse material online.
Now it's going to take the will, the will of our society to look at something that is really hard to look at, to take something out of the darkness so these kids have a voice; the will of companies to take action and make sure that their platforms are not complicit in the abuse of a child; the will of governments to invest with their law enforcement for the tools they need to investigate a digital first crime, even when the victims cannot speak for themselves.
In my research on cyberstalking, I found that law enforcement lacked the training to understand the laws available to them and the problem of online abuse.
It would be a different matter if I was talking about child sexual abuse imagery or content that incites violence.
And we are talking about decapitations, mutilations, executions, necrophilia, torture, child abuse.
Others were more concerned about alcohol’s potential for abuse.
Abuse of steroids, binging and so on.
It can also contribute to substance abuse and to suicidality.
And some people even believe that placing children with gay parents is a form of abuse.
And not only do we not abuse him, we support him in dealing with the very difficult early years that he had which led to him being in the care system in the first place.
Now, all cases are different, but the majority of children who are up for adoption are there because of abuse or neglect, or both.
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