D.3: Sexual Exploitation
Identify and neutralize online predators or groups that sexually exploit and endanger children for personal or financial gain. Other Information:
Multi-jurisdictional, and often international, sexual exploitation of children strikes at the heart of the country’s most
valuable and vulnerable asset — its youth. One in five Internet users in the United States is sexually solicited, usually
at home. By 2005, 14 million child Internet users will be solicited, 2.3 million of those aggressively. The FBI will prioritize
investigations involving organizations, e-groups or enterprises exploiting children for profit, and identify and neutralize
the most significant online child sexual predators by expanding the Innocent Images database. The FBI will also target “travelers”
meeting children they have lured online, and those producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography. Priority Actions:
Further develop international partnerships to address online child sexual exploitation crimes. Expand efforts to educate children
and parents about Internet dangers. Increase the breadth and depth of human source coverage of computer-based sexual exploitation
of children.
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