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Child Rescue Coalition joins a group of over 50 child protection organizations to support proposed regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse.

In 2021 the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received almost 85 million files containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).  In 2020 that number was 65 million. 

EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson emphasizes that there has been a 6000% increase in reports of child sexual abuse online in the EU in the last ten years alone.

A ‘village’ simply isn’t enough anymore.  With the growth of the internet, child abuse and exploitation has become a pandemic.  We need to stop the facilitation and stop the transmission.  We must hinder and disrupt how these perpetrators carry out these crimes, thinking that they are hidden in the darkness.

Child Rescue Coalition continues to provide law enforcement technology for free, enabling them to track, apprehend and prosecute predators.  For nine years, we have trained and provided our technology to officers in all 50 US states and 97 countries around the globe.  While we continue to offer our technology there are only so many law enforcement officers in each country dedicated to this heinous crime type.

Our data can also be used by companies to protect their platforms from child predators and to protect the users of their services, including children, from sexual abuse. 

Moving forward we need to work together, as a collective we can make the change.  The proposed regulation is not just looking at the problem there is now, but at the future.  A future where children will be safe online to explore and to learn.  Once in place, this EU regulation will have a huge impact not only in Europe.  The core of the proposals will be felt globally and have the potential to help advance stronger regulations around the world, both online and offline.

These 50+ organizations will each add their expertise to ensure for a robust regulation to take us into the future and bring these perpetrators into the light.