During the investigation, entire Facebook predator communities were easily spotted. Child pornographers use groups as meet-up points to find others with similar interests. Many of the offenders would list similar interests on their profile pages, including terms such as “Thirteen,” “Lolita,” “Justin Bieber,” “incest” and “PTHC (preteen hard-core pornography).” Their activities might include “Receiving nude pics,” and they subscribe to explicit Facebook fan pages posted in plain sight.
In most cases, child-pornography traders and pedophiles have two kinds of friends: 1) sexual deviants who have similar interests and 2) unsuspecting children they’ve found and “friended” on Facebook. Many predators will establish a virtual relationship with a child, convince him or her to send provocative photos and even persuade the child to meet with them in person.
This specific exposé looks at graphic photos of children, including infants and toddlers. As you can see in the screenshot above, a Facebook user by the name of “Kidsex Young” had a slew of approved friend requests with users whom he or she allegedly traded abuse photos and videos. Here are the titles of discovered Facebook Groups, Facebook Pages, and Facebook profiles:
- Kidsex Young.
- Preteen Lesbians.
- 10-17 Teen Bisexual.
- Incest (2,119 Likes on April 19, 2012).
- PTHC (preteen hard-core pornography).
- 12 to 13 Boy Sex.
- Young Gay Pics and Movie Trade.
- Gangbanging.
- Hot and Teen Lesbians.
- Bl-wjob Fan Page (1,662 Likes on April 20, 2012, mostly girls, some young-looking teens).
- Young Lesbians.
- Teen Sex.
- Love Little Kids.
- I.ncest Forever.
- Menfor Babygirls.
- Sex Little Girls.
- Nude Teens.
- F–k Young Girls.
- F–k Young Boys.
Most of the content is shared to earn bragging rights from thousands of others interested in exchanging content of molested boys and girls, typically taken on the spot by perpetrators with cell phones. There are entire albums dedicated to showing children forced into acts by pedophiles, including children told to show their genitals to the camera, raped by adults, and even forced to perform sexual acts on each other.
This disturbing problem is not a new one for Facebook. Until last year, the company mainly relied on reports from its users about illegal activity. In March 2011, however, Facebook adopted Microsoft’s PhotoDNA technology to help fight child pornography.
More:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/child-porn-photos-traded-on-facebook-in-plain-sight-report/12632
