Justice Department Increases Protection Against Online Crimes
The funding will also bring the presence of ICAC task forces to all 50 states while being used to support a seamless network to make communities and children safer nationwide.
The grants were awarded by the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs, which provide federal leadership for developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, administer justice, and assist the victims of crimes.
Project Safe Childhood is implemented through a partnership of U.S. Attorneys; ICAC Task Forces; federal partners including the FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Marshals Service; advocacy organizations such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; and other state and local law enforcement officials in each U.S. Attorney's district.
Possible crimes against children over the Internet are new territory for law enforcement. In the world of cyberspace, a chat room or an instant messenger can transform a stranger into an intimate online "friend." With the lack of the spoken voice, sexual predators can realistically pose as younger people and people of the same sex as the victim-to-be. These predators can even use advanced technology to create "bots" that pose as human beings but are truly designed to assess whether or not a child is a good target for pornography moves. The typical child does not have the experience to be able to analyze the content or patterns of an online conversation to be able to suspect a potential sexual predator.
Needless to say, every parent's worst nightmare is that these sexual predators will gather contact information and be able to locate the child physically.
Researchers and criminologists say that there is a defined pattern with the actions of child pornographers. Their activity begins in fantasy, moves to self-gratification through sharing pornography, becomes elevated to voyeurism, and at last becomes a need for physical contact.
They also say that online forums have allowed sexual predators, once upon a time marginalized to extremes even by other types of criminals in society, to form associative groups for themselves, where they encourage each other's perverse desires and make them seem more like homosexuality: unusual but perfectly healthy.
"As long as our children use the Internet, there will unfortunately be predators who seek to exploit them. While it is significant that our Internet Crimes Against Children task forces have made over 10,000 arrests since their inception nine years ago, it is even more important that we continue to give these task forces the funds they need, and increase the pressure on child predators from law enforcement," says Acting Attorney General Peter Keisler.
Source:
U.S. Department of Justice (PR Newswire), "Department of Justice Announces Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces in All 50 States"
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