Child Porn Rising on Web ; Internet Exploitation of Children Is Prompting Action in US and Abroad
Ron Scherer writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
Despite highly publicized arrests, law-enforcement officials say that the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet is growing dramatically.
Over the past four years, the number of reports of child pornography sites to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) has grown by almost 400 percent. Law-enforcement officials are particularly disturbed by the increased number of commercial sites that offer photos of exploited children in return for a credit-card number. Those fighting child porn say it has become a global multibillion-dollar industry.
"We are encountering staggering proportions of violators or offenders we would have never …
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Article title: Child Porn Rising on Web ; Internet Exploitation of Children Is Prompting Action in US and Abroad.
Contributors: Ron Scherer writer of The Christian Science Monitor - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: August 18, 2005.
Page number: 1.
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