Child sex abuse sting underscores global dimensions of problem
Readers of our child advocacy legal blog at the Los Angeles law firm of Taylor & Ring know that, unfortunately, child sex abuse is not a narrowly confined and limited issue (and even if it were, of course, that would hardly make it any less tragic).
Sadly, and as we have necessarily noted in prior select posts, the pernicious evil of sexual acts perpetrated against children is a global concern of the highest order. Those who prey upon society’s most vulnerable population are not limited by nationality or any specific geographic area.
A CNN media report spotlights Scotland as a locale where criminal law authorities have recently focused efforts on child sex abusers. Police there have arrested scores of people in a massive undercover operation that has so far resulted in the filing of nearly 400 criminal charges.
Chillingly, those charges include rape, the viewing and sharing of computer images showing children being sexually abused, and a host of other criminal acts.
As turns out to be the case with many such stings, their magnitude is tellingly large and, accordingly, depressing.
In the Scotland matter, termed Operation Lattise, more than 130 separate investigations were coordinated, leading to home searches of many people and the seizure of hundreds of computers.
What those computers revealed was dismal yet unsurprising to agents who work to identify perpetrators and put them behind bars.
More than 10 million unlawful images were reportedly discovered on a single computer seized in the enforcement effort.
One police official tied to the Scotland operation stated what every right-minded person in the world certainly hopes will become a reality without exception.
“[Y]ou engage in this type of activity, you will be caught” he said following public disclosure of the sting.
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