Over 12,000 people have been arrested in child porn cases flagged by the Child Protection System software over the past 10 years, Child Rescue Coalition says. But the problem has intensified since the coronavirus lockdown, law enforcement officials say.
The Child Rescue Coalition is based in a low-rise, leafy business park here in Boca Raton. During a tour in February, before the coronavirus pandemic forced the staff to work from home, 10 people sat in the small office with walnut desks and striped beige carpet tiles. A framed collage of police patches hung on one side of the far wall. Next to it: a screen showing clusters of red dots, concentrated over Europe, where it was already late in the day.
"It's the underbelly of the internet. There's no one to hold responsible and no security team to report it to," said Yoost, the Child Rescue Coalition's CEO.NBC News"People who use these networks think they are anonymous," said Nicewander, the assistant state attorney."You don't have to pay or give your email address to a website. You just put in your search terms, and off it goes.
In 2009, Asher invited a handful of law enforcement investigators to Florida to work alongside a team of software developers at his company, TLO. Together they built the Child Protection System. "It's not a teenage boy sending a picture of his girlfriend," said Glen Pounder, a British law enforcement veteran who is the Child Rescue Coalition's chief operating officer."Every single one of the files we track is illegal worldwide."
Earlier this year, the Child Protection System technology was used to coordinate a five-country bust run out of an operations room in Brazil.Clicking on an IP address flagged by the system lets police view a list of the address' most recent downloads. The demonstration revealed files containing references to a child's age and graphic descriptions of sexual acts.
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