The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction
The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction
The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction
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looking online <strong>for</strong> kids; when I get off work at 5:00, I’m online looking <strong>for</strong> kids <strong>for</strong> sex; when Iwake up in the morning, I’m online looking <strong>for</strong> sex with kids.” <strong>The</strong> defendant claimed he hadhad sex with more than 500 area children. <strong>The</strong> AUSA did not believe him until he confirmed justover 125 children.Operation Falcon (Regpay)http://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/press/files/pdffiles/regp0228rel.pdf<strong>The</strong> investigation into subscribers of the web site was dubbed Operation Falcon (2003-2004). Through February 2006, the operation netted 341 federal, state, <strong>and</strong> local arrests in the United States <strong>and</strong> approximately 703 additional international arrests. http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/09212006hearing2032/Christie.pdfCongressional Testimony of U.S. Attorney Chris Christie to the U.S. House of RepresentativesOperation Falcon (Regpay) <strong>and</strong> an ongoing investigation into a group (not named <strong>for</strong> lawen<strong>for</strong>cement reasons) revealing the existence of thous<strong>and</strong>s of web sites offering childpornography <strong>and</strong> up to 100,000 people from 60 countries purchasing the child pornography.Regpay was a company that operated a global Internet pornography business that had thous<strong>and</strong>sof paid memberships to dozens of web sites featuring children. In addition to operating several ofits own web sites, the company earned millions of dollars by processing credit card fees <strong>for</strong> morethan 50 other web sites. <strong>The</strong> Regpay web sites were operated from Minsk, Belarus, <strong>and</strong> had hostInternet service companies in the United States <strong>and</strong> abroad. Regpay processed between $2.5million <strong>and</strong> $7 million (USD) in credit card transactions <strong>for</strong> sales of web sites containing childpornography.Operation Falcon resulted in the identification of hundreds of persons who paid <strong>for</strong> subscriptionsto commercial child pornography web sites, approximately 78, 825 transactions. In New Jerseyalone, law en<strong>for</strong>cement identified 52 such targets. Of those, five had prior convictions <strong>for</strong> sexualoffenses against children, three others admitted to molesting a total of at least 14 children, <strong>and</strong>two targets—one of whom had a prior conviction—admitted to attempting to meet children inonline chat rooms.Operation HamletU.S. Customs Service Press Release, August 9, 2002Operation Hamlet, an investigation begun in November 2001, uncovered an international ring ofactive child molesters, many of whom were molesting their own children. <strong>The</strong> sexual abuse wasphotographed <strong>and</strong> videotaped <strong>and</strong> then exchanged among the ring of child molesters usingvarious Internet methods including ICQ, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), <strong>and</strong> e-mail. In someinstances the abusers molested the children while simultaneously running live-feed via webcamsso that other molesters could watch the abuse occurring in real time. In other cases, abuserstraveled to each other's homes so they could molest children together. Investigators identified 45A-3
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