Only yesterday, humans who preyed on children hid in the shadows. It seemed everyone wanted children to “come forward and tell.”  Today, that’s all changed…we now KNOW where these pedophiles are located.  This law enforcement map–introduced as evidence in Congressional hearings—shows 100s of 1,000s of criminals trafficking in child abuse images. At least 1 in 3 is a hands-on abuser! Most will continue to hurt children unless we force our government to act.

The days when sexual predators were hiding in the shadows–when we had to rely upon children to come forward and disclose what was happening–are over. Authorities KNOW where they are, right now.  Adults who are sexually attracted to children (and willing to act upon that interest) have given up their locations to law enforcement by going online and trafficking in child rape video and photos (child pornography). But 98-99% of these *known* predators will never even be investigated, because law enforcement has been starved of the resources it needs to go get them.

So now, in 2012, we are faced with a big question. Now that we finally have the technology to detect child sexual abuse on a massive scale, and the means to interdict it, will we use it? Most of the “child advocacy” world is silent. The news media is silent. Congressional leaders refuse to take action. State level politicians ignore it as well, preferring to spend their time on gimmicks that get media coverage.

But the map is evidence.

Each dot is the approximate location of a computer or cluster of computers (many explode like fireworks when clicked on in Google Earth) that was seen by law enforcement trafficking in the worst known images of child abuse. The computers were identified by GUID (a unique serial number), not by IP addresses, which often change. It represents a very conservative subset of all traffickers. The ICAC task forces identified 300,000 in the U.S. in 2008 and entered them into a database supported and endorsed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Imagine if DOJ had such a database of foreign terrorists like that and was caught ignoring them as they continued to commit crimes on U.S. soil.

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