Child Pornography on the Rise

Sick and detesting web sites containing pornographic pictures and videos of children being exploited is on the rise throughout the world. The following websites gives a report dealing with the rise of child pornography and what is happening to battle the sick predators who are encouraging this to rise: http://www.c-a-s-e.net/Reports%20of%20Child%20Continues%20to%20Rise.htm. New statistics released by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) show child pornography reports to its CyberTipline, a congressionally mandated mechanism for reporting child sexual exploitation, jumped 39 percent in 2004. Since the CyberTipline was established in 1998, reports of these illegal images have dramatically increased every year. "This is the seventh year that our statistics show a significant and steady increase in child pornography reports to the CyberTipline. This upward trend is very disturbing and shows the seriousness of this issue," said Ernie Allen, president and CEO of NCMEC. "The images transmitted on the Internet portray brutal sexual assaults of children and the harm does not end upon completion of the assault. Every time a child pornography image is sent out on the Web, that child is victimized again." Since 1998, NCMEC has had to deal with more than 300,000 reports of all types of child sexual exploitation including the following: child pornography, child molestation (outside the family), child prostitution, online enticement of children, child sex tourism, unsolicited obscene material sent to a child, and the federally mandated reports of child pornography from Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The CyberTipline is operated by NCMEC in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces, along with state and local law enforcement.