Child Sexual Exploitation
Threat from Pedophiles Online is ‘Vast and Extensive’

The Washington, File FBI Post |  May 10, 2016 11:58 MYT

This article talk about Cyber Crime is that related with Child Sexual Exploitation at America. Base on investigation and experiment made by FBI as one of that dubbed Operation Subterfuge, they found the threat came from Pedophiles Online. Through this page, most of cases they run from many channel and subsidiary of staff and made it as ‘Vast and Extensive’.

In this article also say, the victims and their families came from all social and economic backgrounds, according to Special Agent Daniel Johns, an Operation Subterfuge investigator. “There were victims who came from good homes with very active, stable parents.”

Special Investigation Agent Cha and John explained that most of the children caught up in the exploitation had no idea they had been victimized. That is because Pedophiles Online got lots of tactics and they're are experts at grooming and coercing youngsters.

There are a number of arrests and sentencing of several offenders of cyber crime, that such as :

- A Tennessee man sentenced last month to 21 years in prison on child pornography charges,

- Brian K. Hendrix was convicted earlier this year in connection with his operation of two websites whose sole purpose was to trick children into engaging in sexually explicit activity,

- Conviction of eight others besides Hendrix, with average prison sentences ranging between 18 and 21 years. 

Statement by Special Agent Paul Cha from the FBI’s Violent Crimes Against Children Section, “Hendrix was one of several main members of the conspiracy and Pedophiles are very active online,” it's very dangerous.

According to him also , the 42-year-old Hendrix and his criminal colleagues showed them pre-recorded sexual videos of prior victims to make the new victims think they were chatting with their peers. An investigation identified more than 300 American children who were victims—some as young as 8 years old—and an estimated 1,600 other youths who were lured to the websites.

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