Child Sexual Abuse Images Are Flooding the Internet and (Almost) No One is Fighting Back
Child sexual abuse images, often referred to colloquially as “child pornography,” are illegal. The distribution of adult obscene pornography—including online—is illegal. The exploitation of child sexual abuse images and the porn industry are demonstrably and inextricably intertwined. Yet, even as NGOs and law enforcement continually report how badly the fight is being lost in the…
The Research-backed Links Between Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse
Child sexual abuse is an atrocity that goes against the very nature of human dignity. While this appears to be widely known and agreed upon, something that many around the world don’t know is the role pornography plays in fueling child sexual abuse. Yet, when taking into account the common themes of mainstream pornography, which…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Death is an Injustice to Survivors that Cannot Be Ignored
Jeffrey Epstein is dead. We long for the justice that will roll down like waters for survivors of the crimes—the atrocities—committed by Jeffrey Epstein. Until then, though, the delay of justice that is Jeffrey Epstein’s death by apparent suicide is yet another bitter injustice for survivors. In life—and, tragically, again now in death—Jeffrey Epstein carved…
How Instagram Can Stop Sexual Grooming, Abuse, and Trafficking On Its App
On behalf of our 300+-member Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation and the tens of thousands of concerned citizens who serve as our supporters, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation thanks Instagram for its efforts to promote digital wellbeing and online safety. However, despite these efforts, there is still rampant grooming for sexual abuse, sex trafficking,…
Register Today For “Out of the Shadows: Confronting the Rise of Child-On-Child Sexual Behavior”!
The tragedy of child sexual abuse is unfortunately a story many have heard or experienced. Often we hear about cases where adults are the perpetrators, abusing their positions of trust and power to sexually exploit. However, a large percentage of these cases are not receiving the same level of public attention: child-on-child sexual abuse. Parents,…
Youtube’s “Fix” to Pedo Rings on Its Platform Is Not Enough To Protect Kids
According to news reports, YouTube has blocked comments on most videos featuring minors to combat child exploitation, following the unveiling of pedophilia rings on its platform. “To the cynical eye, it appears that YouTube could be trying to retain the ability to monetize videos of children with hundreds of thousands, and millions, of viewers who…
Google Allegedly Monetizing the Eroticization of Children on YouTube
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation is calling on YouTube to remove all pornography from its platform, following yet another disturbing account of apparently monetized images of children intended to sexually incite on YouTube. This is one of the reasons Google has been placed on NCOSE’s 2019 Dirty Dozen List which names 12 mainstream facilitators of sexual…
Google Allegedly Monetizing Child Erotica on YouTube
Washington, DC – The National Center on Sexual Exploitation is calling on YouTube to remove all pornography from its platform, following yet another disturbing account of apparently monetized child erotica on YouTube. This is one of the reasons Google has been placed on NCOSE’s 2019 Dirty Dozen List which names 12 mainstream facilitators of sexual…
NCOSE trains military personnel, educators on child-on-child sexual abuse
Sometimes things don’t go according to plan. Unfortunately, due to disruptions at the university where the event was to be held, we decided to postpone our national symposium on the topic of child-on-child harmful sexual behavior. It will be rescheduled, most likely for March. This was a difficult and unexpected problem to navigate. But thankfully, sometimes plans that…
Townhall: When Churches Become Scenes of Sexual Abuse
Haley Halverson, Vice President of Advocacy and Outreach, at NCOSE wrote an op-ed for Townhall.com about sexual abuse in churches. Below are excerpts of the op-ed, along with curated resources. This week a grand jury reported on documents from six Catholic Church dioceses in Pennsylvania that revealed 300 “predator priests” have been accused of sexually abusing…