...The Internet has facilitated a flourishing trade in child pornography, bringing together millions of producers, distributors and collectors. Every image and video of child pornography is actually a crime scene recording, showing the rape, sexual abuse and often torture of a child. These are no “baby in the bathtub” photos. They’re not really even “pornography” in the normal sense at all.
Child abuse material depicts the most horrific and brutal moments in a child’s life. Law enforcement reports the victims are typically very young, often infants and toddlers. U.S. law enforcement has identified over 300,000 suspects in the U.S. alone trafficking in images of children being bound, gagged, raped and horribly abused.
The insatiable appetite for these videos and photos can only be supplied one way: through the rape and torture of more children.
Much of the global apparatus behind this marketplace lies overseas. But an estimated 50 percent or more of the victims are here in the U.S. That means that every day, criminals in the U.S. and abroad are commissioning the rape and torture of more American children. The incidence of these offenses dwarfs other types of cross-border crimes that get more news media coverage...
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=981138
These laws are the only way to punish these criminals since most of their victims are too young or disabled to speak for themselves in court. Many are deranged for life and cannot live without trained care. Their future and freedom and who they could have been, has been stolen from them. The videos are the only way to convict the perps as they put them online to share with their friends and child pornography consumers.
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