Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

On Friday, August 28; CNN broadcast an interview with Phillip Garrido, the man who admitted to abducting young Jaycee Dugard 18 years ago and holding her captive in the backyard of his residence in Antioch, California.   The registered sex offender and kidnapper called it a “powerful, heartwarming story.”

Jaycee Lee Dugard was just 11 years old when she was kidnapped on her way to school in South Lake Tahoe. Her stepfather, Carl Probyn, witnessed the abduction by a man and a woman in a gray Ford and pursued the vehicle on his mountain bike, but was unable to catch up. He asked a neighbor to call 911, but the kidnappers had a two minute head start. For years Probyn has been a suspect in the disappearance of his stepdaughter, the veil of suspicion unfairly dogging his life

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Air France currently shows this video on their flights.

• About 2 million children worldwide are under 18 and enslaved in the sex trade. 
• Child prostitution is a crime. 
• Support businesses fighting child sex tourism.

Visit www.thecode.org to learn more.

Hotel chains like Carlson (owner of Radisson) and Accor (owner of Sofitel, Novitel, Motel 6 etc), European airlines like Air France, and travel agencies all over the world have signed on to a 6 point plan to fight child prostitution.

There are many myths: that sex tourists are helping the children earn money, that it is legal and acceptable in other countries, and that children are less likely to have HIV.

ALL are myths.

Child prostitution is illegal, prosecutable (and they are prosecuting) no matter where you commit this crime, and it is a physically and mentally torturous life for the child.

When you travel, please patronize companies who are helping to fight this sick and brutal crime.

There is a list of companies at www.thecode.org.

By David Fisher

Our state services fail to protect some of New Zealand’s most severely abused children and allow them to be “revictimised”, according to research published in an international medical journal.

It says the child protection system could be seen as a “poorly controlled experiment” through the inability of government agencies to work together on cases of child abuse.

It follows two cases of alleged child abuse last week in Northland, one of which ended in the death of a 2-year-old. The child in the other case – a 17-month-old – was severely injured.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett met the families of the two children on Friday. “Protecting our most vulnerable children is of the highest priority to this Government,” she said afterwards.

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Posted by Elias Aleman on August 12, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Children are using the Internet to watch YouTube videos, connect with friends on social network sites and look up “sex” and “porn,” according to a study of the top Web searches by youngsters.

Symantec Corp identified the top 100 searches conducted between February and July through its family safety service OnlineFamily.Norton, which monitors children’s and teenager’s Internet use. It found the most popular search term was for YouTube, the video sharing website owned by Google, with Internet star, Fred Figglehorn, a fictional character whose YouTube videos are popular with children, coming ninth in the top searches….    Children use web to watch videos, look up sex: study| U.S.| Reuters

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BERLIN, Germany (CNN) — A suspected pedophile surrendered to police after German law enforcement published clips from videos of child pornography allegedly showing the man.

The German Federal Criminal Investigations Office also posted several photos and audio samples of the man’s voice as they reached out to the public for clues leading to his arrest.

Along with the videos, the agency also posted screen grabs from the videos showing the details of the apartment where the films were shot.

The suspect turned himself in but refused to give any further details of his identity, investigators said in a news release.

Police said they found about 42 videos in which the suspected pedophile abused children, believed to be between the ages of 5 and 7 at the time.

Police think the videos were filmed in 2006 and that the victims would now be between 8 and 10 years old. The Investigator’s Office said the man used violence against the children in some of the clips.

The German Federal Criminal Investigations Office has been using technology to combat child pornography for several years.

In 2008 the agency unscrambled photos of suspected Canadian pedophile Christopher Paul Neil which later led to his arrest in Thailand

MacRae was traced after an FBI investigation

BBC News. A British man who used an internet chatroom to incite a paedophile to sexually abuse an eight-year-old girl in the United States has been jailed.

Ronald MacRae, 51, of Duncan Street, Pallion, Sunderland, sent messages to the offender on his home computer and watched the abuse filmed on a webcam.

He was traced after the FBI tipped off UK police, a court heard.MacRae, who pleaded guilty to eight charges relating to the 2004 abuse, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Det Sgt Eric Myers, of Northumbria Police, speaking after the hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, said: “The sentence reflects the horrific nature of the crimes he was involved in.

“MacRae instigated these offences against an innocent girl for his own twisted gratification. ” The court heard that MacRae was tracked down after a two-year investigation involving the FBI and the UK based Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Ruth Allen, head of intelligence at CEOP, said: “MacRae believed that because he was thousands of miles away from his victim law enforcement would be unable to connect him with these horrific offences. He was wrong.”

MacRae was put on to the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.