Child Rescue: Foster child protected

Tuesday, 18 November 2008 03:35

Connecticut police following the trail of online evidence in a child pornography investigation were led to the home of a suspect who admitted sexually assaulting a 10-year old foster child, reports the Hartford Courant. The paper reports that the suspect also produced and distributed child pornography of the child, and is believed to have broadcast the sexual assaults live online. The Courant reports the suspect, who was a foster parent for seven years, "claimed he asked the state Department of Children and Families to place only young boys in his home because 'I was afraid that I could not control myself with young girls.'"

Law enforcement across the nation now has evidence that could lead them to the door of hundreds of thousands of child pornography traffickers, conservatively rescuing tens of thousands of other child victims like the Connecticut foster child. The vast majority of these children will not be protected, however, due to a severe lack of resources... largely the result of a national political addiction to rhetoric over action. (See PROTECT's Child Rescue Campaign for more information.)

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