New Tools Rescuing
Children from Molesters:
Essential, Life Changing Knowledge for Professionals
By Heather
Steele, President & CEO, The Innocent Justice Foundation
Even experienced professionals often mistakenly equate viewing
child pornography with viewing adult pornography - that is - as
a “victimless” act of viewing late teens engaging in
“consensual” sex or naked young children playing in the tub.
Nothing could be further from
the truth.
In fact, the United States is believed to be the #1 producer of
violent and sadistic child sexual abuse crime scene photos in
the world. These images are created by individuals in American
homes with digital cameras and video recorders and then
broadcast over high-speed Internet connections. Tens or
hundreds of thousands of new photos, which fuel more abuse, are
being produced and distributed every month. In the last three
years alone 6.5 million new photos and 570,000 American
perpetrators have been identified. Government research shows
that possessors are far more dangerous than anyone until now has
imagined. In fact, those federally incarcerated for possessing
child pornography have over three times the number of victims
(30.5) of those incarcerated for child molestation (9.5).
These crime scene photos are currently being used not only to
arrest perpetrators, but also to rescue hundreds of children in
the United States from homes where incest victims have no other
means of escape and trusted adults prey on pre-verbal children.
Understanding the connection between child pornography usage and
child molestation is crucial to reducing the epidemic of child
sexual abuse in the US. Using child pornography as a tool to
incarcerate child molesters eliminates the need to pit a child
against an adult in court, and has a 93-95% conviction/plea
rate. With increased understanding and resources devoted to
this area, it will be possible, for the first time in the
history of mankind, to devastate and even decimate the
ever-increasingly powerful pedophile population.
Bio:
Heather Steele earned her MBA
from the University of Chicago and is a passionate advocate for
children in the fight to prevent child sexual abuse and provide
justice for child victims. Through her education, research, and
field experience she came to understand that child pornography
and child molestation are inextricably linked and growing. In
addition to this profoundly miserable fact, she discovered that
child pornography, by leaving a digital trail, is also the best
way to catch child molesters mankind has ever had. She has
brought her strong marketing and managerial corporate background
to bear in the founding of the non-profit Innocent Justice
Foundation, which works to support law enforcement efforts to
investigate and prosecute child pornography crimes through
providing material support to law enforcement agencies,
education to the media and policymakers, and legislative
advocacy at the local, state and federal level to significantly
increase law enforcement funding in this area.
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