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Problem

There are hundreds of thousands of children being sexually abused and exploited waiting to be identified and rescued.

Right now, law enforcement can see over 500,000 unique IP addresses around the world actively trading child sexual abuse material, which are images and videos of children under 12 being abused, raped, and tortured. The majority of those offenders are also committing hands-on offenses against children in their own homes and their own communities. These offenders have an average of 13 victims each. That's hundreds of thousands of little boys and girls who are in despair.

How We'll Solve It

Solution

With a donation, you will help identify and rescue these children in three ways:

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Expand global rescue operations to identify, locate, and rescue as many children who have been sexually abused and exploited as possible.

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Equip law enforcement with training and technology that can lead to the most vulnerable children and the most dangerous offenders.

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Build a bigger rescue team of analysts, investigators, and law enforcement to rescue children faster and prevent new victims through legislation.

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Dive Deeper Into
This Fight With Us

More than 800 victims of child sexual exploitation have been preliminarily identified in the past year!

More than numbers and locations, we want you to read the words of precious little boys and girls who have been rescued and safeguarded.

"I am free."
"I found hope."
"I feel alive."
"I found a home."
"I found new friends."
"I am valued."
"I feel safe and free from the people that abused me."

Law enforcement can see 500,000+ IP addresses actively trading child sexual abuse material.

From just one undercover law enforcement database, view the top 25 countries with the most IP addresses trading Child Sexual Abuse Material.

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Inside
the mind of
an offender

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Dr. Michael Bourke // Licensed Clinical and Forensic Psychologist

Dr. Michael Bourke is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist and a former federal law enforcement officer.

Over the course of three decades, he worked with offenders in county jails, state and federal prisons, a juvenile correctional facility, and a secure psychiatric facility. In 2008, he joined the United States Marshals Service to create their Behavioral Analysis Unit, which he headed until 2021. As one of the most respected experts in his field, Dr. Bourke has worked on a number of high-profile cases around the globe and has interviewed or evaluated more than 1,000 sex offenders as part of comprehensive risk assessments.

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There are different types or motivational pathways for sex offenders.

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Pedophiles

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Sadists

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Wins to Celebrate

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800+
children tentatively identified
Hundreds
of children rescued
4,400+
law enforcement trained across 6 countries
30
countries united for victim identification operations

Protect Your Children

Protect the Rest

Together, we can fight against child sexual exploitation and abuse.

We must have courageous conversations with our children and loved ones about this issue, so we can make offenders’ tactics ineffective. Arm your family with the knowledge and tools needed to fight this battle, starting at home. Download “Child Sexual Abuse: Four Warning Signs and How to Respond” — This resource provides a wealth of information on how you can spot potential red flags when it comes to child sexual abuse and the steps to take if a child discloses abuse to you.

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Questions & Answers

What is unKNOWN?

Child sexual abuse videos and images of more than 50,000 children sit in a global law enforcement database. These children are seen, but their identities are unKNOWN. Through partnerships with law enforcement, we can work to identify and protect these children who have experienced the darkest of evils.

What is CSAM?

Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is the crime scene recording of the actual sexual abuse of a child. These photos and videos are shared, traded, and circulated across the internet. They memorialize a child’s worst moments.

How did TTF find out about the 50,000+?

Through our work in Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation, we have learned more about the growing problem of child sexual abuse material. We have collaborated closely with law enforcement and other agencies and witnessed firsthand the challenges they face in their tireless fight against this heinous crime. During an international gathering hosted by TTF in early 2023 with the world's top victim Identification experts, we learned that there are more than 50,000 boys and girls around the globe that law enforcement has seen in abuse images, but who have not been identified.

How did all these abuse images accumulate in a global database?

This database exists to allow countries to collaborate since online exploitation has no geographic boundaries. If Country A finds images from a lawful seizure during an arrest of children in another country, they are sent to this database. This database acts as a central repository for countries to locate children in their own communities. The internet has facilitated a global market for these images, and the demand for new images can only be met with new victims. Governments all over the world have not resourced law enforcement to a level where they can combat these crimes at scale.

Why TTF and not the government?

The identification of these children presents a huge challenge, requiring highly skilled and trained analysts who can uncover the subtle clues within the images to determine the children’s identities and locations. The disparity in investigative resources, inadequate laws, access to technology, public education and awareness globally continues to be a significant issue. Only the most developed countries have dedicated cyber-crime units investigating this specific crime type, and even less have dedicated victim identification units. It has very much been the role of the developed nations to take the lead on this issue by both proactively identifying the children depicted in CSAM, and then getting that evidence to the relevant country. Even then, countries don’t have the proper resources to carry out the investigations and prosecutions of these cases. While law enforcement agencies are doing their utmost, they cannot keep up with the overwhelming scale of this crisis. Every nation should mandate and invest in changing their legal frameworks in addition to creating workforces to address this exponentially growing backlog of images and videos. TTF is dedicated to helping nations develop these specialized teams to do the work of victim identification, so these children can be identified and protected.

How will we prevent this?

To understand the prevention of child sexual abuse material crimes, there first needs to be an understanding of the types of offenders who are committing these acts. For children whose images are actively traded across the internet – the majority of these children are being abused by family or people in their circle of trust. This abuse is then photographed or filmed. To prevent these crimes, we need to address the root cause of sex offending, like early childhood physical violence. We also need to believe children when they come forward and report sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse material producers have dozens of victims. If you stop one offender, you can prevent the abuse of dozens, sometimes hundreds of children. To prevent the online exploitation of children, both parents and children need to be equipped with tools to keep themselves safe online. Some online safety resources can be found here.

To prevent the accumulation of these unknown images, governments must increase investments in specially trained victim identification teams who have the expertise to do this type of child protection work.

How will TTF train & equip?

At a time when child exploitation crimes have grown faster than any other crime type, many countries have decreased funding to law enforcement. TTF will step into this void and provide critical support for nations to collaborate, share best practices, and continue victim identification operational efforts around the world.

How will TTF unite law enforcement, what does that look like?

In March of 2024, TTF testified in front of Congress and told them about all of the children who are being abused and are waiting for rescue. Lawmakers are currently drafting legislation that will build a rescue team of analysts to locate and protect the children seen in sexually abusive imagery at the global level.  

Specifically, the bill will:

  • Create a position focused exclusively on victim identification within law enforcement and the funding to deploy these analysts around the world.
  • Expand Homeland Security Investigations and INTERPOL's world-class training capabilities to support this work globally
  • Modernize the International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database so that law enforcement around the world can keep pace with this growing threat against children.