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Child Exploitation Campaign Information PROTECT testifies before U.S. Senate, April 16, 2008PROTECT Executive Director Grier Weeks testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Crime today on the issue of child exploitation. A copy of PROTECT's testimony, together with a formal statement by the Surviving Parents Coalition, can be found here. The hearing is at 2:00 p.m. EST and can be viewed online live here. Campaign Overview PROTECT is fighting in Congress to win desperately-needed funding for law enforcement. The U.S. Department of Justice now knows how to locate and stop hundreds of thousands of child sexual predators... and how to rescue their victims. But less than two percent of these known crimes are being investigated, due to lack of resources. "We are... drowning in a tidal wave of tragedy," says Wyoming Special Agent Flint Waters, "and we don't have what we need to save these children. Watch the new video from Promise to Protect: The Child Exploitation Crisis (3 Minutes)PROTECT Our Children Act of 2007 (Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Rep. Joe Barton) Link to House Bill 3845 Link to news release, videos and more information List of HR 3845 Bill Sponsors End Child Exploitation Act of 2007 (Senator Joe Biden) Link to Senate Bill 1738 Q&A for ICACs and Other Law Enforcement Congressional Pledges for a War on Child Predators 36 Members of Congress Pledging Action PROTECT's Original War on Child Predators Plan Other Information Surviving Parents Coalition The Surviving Parents Coalition is an original driving force behind this landmark legislation. Video of Congressional Testimony, October 2007 Testimony of Alicia Kozakiewicz (Video) Alicia Kozakiewicz, 19, testifies before Congress on Oct. 17, 2007 about her horrific ordeal as a victim of an Internet sexual predator, her rescue by anti-child exploitation agents and her campaign to demand that Congress take action to save other children. Testimony of Wyoming Special Agent Flint Waters (Video) Flint Waters, the foremost law enforcement authority in the United States on the nature and magnitude of child pornography trafficking, testifies before Congress on Oct. 17, 2007. "We are drowning in a tidal wave of tragedy," says Waters, "and we don't have what we need to save these children. Waters' testimony is profoundly important to anyone seeking to understand the magnitude of child exploitation in the U.S. Warning: testimony is graphic. Written Testimony of Wyoming Special Agent Flint Waters, 10-17-07 Testimony of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Video) If Congress had more people like Debbie Wasserman Schultz in it, America would be a different place. She's the tough mom and politician who--in a single hearing--can cry and make government officials want to cry. Hear Wasserman Schultz talk about the crisis facing America's children, meeting the Surviving Parents Coalition and her legislation, the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2007. Testimony of PROTECT Executive Director, Grier Weeks (Video) Grier Weeks, Executive Director of the National Association to Protect Children, testifies before Congress on Oct. 17, 2007. Weeks discusses the U.S. government's failure to act on information that could interdict hundreds of thousands of sexual predators and rescue hundreds of thousands of children. "Now, the 110th Congress has the opportunity to do what the 109th, and this administration, did not: Fight back. Pay what it costs. Disrupt this market. Go get these children."
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