The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

and prosecutors, as well as enhancing forensic and technology available to both, will increase theimpact the Department can make on this problem. Through partnerships with Industry, theDepartment will explore strategies to reduce the ability of offenders to use the Internet to traffickin these vile images. The Department will also increase the level of coordination between PSCand the ICAC task forces, leveraging all the nation’s child exploitation investigative capabilitiestogether.The Department will assess its current methods of collecting data on the scope of the problem,and determine whether further, or different, data collection would contribute more fully toeradicating this problem. The Department will also increase training coordination between PSCand the ICAC task forces, so that investigative tactics, techniques, technologies, forensics, andanalysis are more fully standardized and continuously updated as information is shared andtechnology advances. The Department will explore close partnerships with the State AttorneysGeneral and District Attorneys to share best practices, standards, information and strategies toattack this threat. These partnerships should include education, outreach, sex offendermonitoring and deterrence.The Department is also fully committed to its role in the global battle against the sexualexploitation of children, and will foster international cooperation in sharing information,technology, victim identification, forensics, and best practices. We will also participate intransnational enforcement operations and training opportunities. As previously noted, researchinto various aspects of child sexual exploitation, from offender behavior to victim impact, iscritically important so that the Department can adjust to the ever-changing practices of those whoprey on our children. The Department will focus substantial research funding into theseimportant areas, and will ensure that this research is informed by all the key partners involved inchild exploitation prevention and interdiction.2. The Domestic Prostitution of ChildrenThe Threat Assessment described that children, often runaways, are recruited and coerced intoprostitution by pimps who lure the children with food, clothes, attention, friendship, and love.They then use violence or intimidation to trap these children into a life of prostitution.Through the Innocence Lost Initiative, a joint effort of the FBI, CEOS, and NCMEC, 38 taskforces operate to collect intelligence on pimps, recover child victims, and prosecute the pimpsand madams who prey on these vulnerable children. These cases are uniquely difficult toinvestigate and prosecute, but progress has been made, as noted previously in this Report.PrioritiesThe Department will explore the expansion of the Innocence Lost Initiative into other cities. Wewill also work to ensure that adequate victim services for this group of child victims are availableto assist these victims break free from their offenders and aid law enforcement in investigatingand prosecuting those who have abused them. The Department will also explore strategies toreduce the demand for prostituted children through public awareness campaigns and systematicenforcement. The Department will also explore further coordination between ICAC task forces139