Karen supervises a team of agents who review and catalog thousands of images of child sexual abuse material in order to identify both national and international offenders. By looking at the images, they can gather clues such as items in the background to give them a time frame for the abuse.
Karen supervises a team of agents who review thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The job requires a large amount of emotional resilience and support due to the nature of the material being reviewed.
The FBI's Endangered Child Alert Program (ECAP) seeks to identify child predators by releasing images of perpetrators who have committed sexual crimes against minors. The ECAP webpage displays these images publicly to seek assistance in identifying these predators, leading to their apprehension and rescuing their victims.
The investigation of child sexual abuse materials involves analyzing images and looking for clues such as time frames, coding, and details in the background to narrow down the location of the offender. The offenders' socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicities, and genders vary widely.