The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

FBI and CEOS, in conjunction with NCMEC, operate the Endangered Child Alert Program(ECAP). In this program, FBI investigators select images of child pornography in which theperpetrator is at least partially visible. If all investigative efforts to identify the abuser have beenexhausted, the FBI agents will then turn to the media and other public means to try to locate theindividual. Working with CEOS trial attorneys, agents will obtain a “John Doe” or “Jane Doe”indictment against the offender. Once that is accomplished, the defendant’s image will bedisplayed on the FBI website. If, after two weeks, the offender still has not been identified, thecase will be featured on America’s Most Wanted, the O’Reilly Factor, the Oprah Winfrey Show,and AOL. As of April 2010, this program has led to the recovery of over 31 victims of childsexual abuse and the location of 10 defendants. In a sister initiative, Operation Rescue Me, FBI,CEOS, and NCMEC work to identify child victims in series of child pornography images whohave not been rescued. NCMEC provides FBI with the series, and the agents and analystsreview the series for clues that will lead to the location of the child victims. As of April 2010,the initiative has identified seven child victims in four series of child pornography images.b. FBI Crimes Against Children UnitIn June 2003, the FBI’s Crimes Against Children Unit, in conjunction with the Department’sChild Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the National Center for Missing & ExploitedChildren, launched the Innocence Lost National Initiative. Their combined efforts were aimed ataddressing the growing problem of domestic sex trafficking of children in the United States. Inthe six years since its inception, the Initiative has resulted in the development of 38 dedicatedtask forces and working groups throughout the U.S. involving federal, state and local lawenforcement agencies working in tandem with U.S. Attorney's Offices. These task forces andworking groups have recovered 918 children and obtained state and federal convictions against554 pimps, madams, and their associates who exploit children through forced prostitution.On June 16, 2008, the FBI’s Crimes Against Children Unit deployed the Innocence LostDatabase (ILD) to users in all FBI Field Offices, Innocence Lost Task Forces, and local lawenforcement agencies. The ILD was developed to assist law enforcement to identify domesticchild victims of prostitution; collect and track intelligence regarding suspected pimps; and buildintelligence driven enterprise level investigations. The ILD currently maintains over 20,000entries from agencies such as the Las Vegas Metropolitan PD, Boston PD, Dallas PD, OaklandPD, Los Angeles PD, Toledo PD, FBI, and NCMEC. Over the course of a year, these recordsnow number 25% more than the initial 16,000 records entered into the system. Currently, over2,100 entries pertain to identified child victims of prostitution.Criminal organizations are fluid and traffic victims interstate, i.e., to profitable locations, makingit difficult to address the crime problem by local law enforcement alone. The focus of the FBI isto offer a task force approach employing the enterprise theory of investigation. The ILD offers acentralized, comprehensive electronic file, accessible to law enforcement 24/7. The ILD is anintelligence driven database that houses information on suspected pimps, child victims and adultprostitutes in an effort to connect enterprises and share intelligence. The ILD is hosted on theLaw Enforcement On-line (LEO) Network and accessible through the Innocence Lost SpecialInterest Group.44