The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

high-profile jobs. Some seemed isolated and obsessed with the Internet. Some had long criminalhistories. They came from cities, suburbs, small towns, and rural areas.”p. 5The National Juvenile Online Victimization (NJOV) study looked at data from July 2000through June 2001 and found that 21 percent of child pornography offenders had images thatdepicted violence “such as bondage, rape or torture,” and explained further that most of theseimages involved children who were “gagged, bound, blindfolded, or otherwise enduring sadisticsex.”pp. 17-18A 2005 study—based on a survey of 2,574 local, county, and state and 2 federal law enforcementagencies involving arrests between July 1, 2000, and June 30, 2001—revealed that one in sixcases that began as a child pornography investigation with no knowledge by law enforcement ofpossible contact offending by the target resulted in the discovery that the target had committed ahands-on offense against a child.Report to LEPSG [Law Enforcement Products Subgroup] on the “Global Symposium forExamining the Relationship Between Online and Offline Offenses and Preventing theSexual Exploitation of Children,” May 2009http://www.governo.it/GovernoInforma/Dossier/G8_interno_giustizia/LEPSG_Child_Exploitation_Symposium.pdfThis report provides a synopsis of what transpired at the G8 sponsored “Global Symposium forExamining the Relationship Between Online and Offline Offenses and Preventing the SexualExploitation of Children.” The symposium took place between April 5-7, 2009, at the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States. As described in further detail below, thesymposium originated from a project proposal to the Law Enforcement Projects Subgroup fromthe U.S. delegation, specifically Andrew Oosterbaan, Section Chief of the U.S. Department ofJustice, Criminal Division, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, together with AnithaIbrahim.Thriving Market Promotes Fresh Abusep. 7“The greater availability of child sexual exploitation materials has stimulated the demand andproduction of even more extreme, sadistic, and violent images of children and infants.”Wolak, J., Finkelhor, D., and Mitchell, K.J., Child Pornography Possessors Arrested inInternet-Related Crimes: Findings from the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study,.(2005).“It is likely that most CP [child pornography] possessors never come to the attention of lawenforcement, because the Internet allows them to commit their crimes privately andanonymously.”C-9