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handles leads from individuals reporting the sexual exploitation of
children.
Please contact us if you have information that will help
in our fight against child sexual exploitation. Your information will
be forwarded to law enforcement for investigation and review, and, when
appropriate, to the ISP. The U.S. Congress has funded these initiatives
for reporting child sexual exploitation.
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CyberTipline Success
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If you know about a child
who is in immediate risk or danger, call your local police.
If you have any information on a missing child,
call 1-800-THE-LOST.
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Types of Child Sexual Exploitation
| NCMEC, in partnership with the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, Bureau of Customs Immigration Enforcement, U.S. Secret
Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and state and local law enforcement
in Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces, serves as the national
CyberTipline and as the national Child
Pornography Tipline 1-800-843-5678. |
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Important Links
Other Tiplines
Europe www.inhope.org
Canada www.cybertip.ca
Adult Obscenity
www.obscenitycrimes.org
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| The
Possession, Manufacture, and Distribution of Child Pornography |
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Child pornography has been defined under federal statute as a visual
depiction of a minor (child younger than 18) engaged in sexually explicit
conduct ( 18 U.S.C. 2256).
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| The
Online Enticement of Children For Sexual Acts |
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Use of the Internet to entice, invite, or persuade a child to meet for
sexual acts, or to help arrange such a meeting, is a serious offense (18
U.S.C. 2425).
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| Child
Prostitution |
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Prostitution is generally defined as performing, offering, or agreeing
to perform a sexual act for any money, property, token, object, article
or anything of value (18 U.S.C. 2431, 2423(a).
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| Child-Sex Tourism |
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It is against the law for any United States citizen to travel abroad
to engage in sexual activity with any child under the age of eighteen
(18 U.S.C. 2423b). Individuals who partake in this illegal activity are
subject to prosecution in the United States even if they committed the
crime on foreign soil.
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| Child Sexual
Molestation (not in the family) |
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Child sexual exploitation (not in the family), also known as extra-familial
child sexual abuse, includes all sexual exploitation of a child by someone
other than a family member.
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| Unsolicited
Obscene Material Sent to a Child |
| It is an unfortunate reality of the Internet that children
will encounter obscene material online. Many times, this material is attached
as an image(s) or hyperlink(s) sent to a child in an unsolicited email or
"spam".
To combat this problem, NCMEC takes reports on unsolicited obscene material
sent to a child. It is a violation of criminal law for any person to knowingly
or attempt to send or transfer obscene material to another individual
who has not attained the age of 16 years (18 USCA 1470).
Please report any incidents where a child may have received visual depictions
of persons engaging in sexually explicit conduct that is obscene.
If you are an adult who is concerned about adult obscenity not involving
children on the Internet, please make a report to www.obscenitycrimes.org.
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