Operation Phobos

An annual conference designed to help train members of law enforcement on combating child exploitation was cancelled this year as part of the Trump administration’s massive spending cuts to the Justice Department, leaving several prosecutors and law enforcement officers fuming, 

High-ranking Russian officers are running military training programs for Ukrainian children from occupied territories and overseeing a system of youth militarization, an investigation by the Kyiv Indepndent has found.

The programs are organized by the Warrior Center for Military and Patriotic Education — a network created in 2022 by direct order of Vladimir Putin.

Edwin Bernard has been sentenced to life in prison on multiple counts related to child exploitation. Based on Bernard’s criminal history and conviction of abusing minors, the FBI believes he may have additional victims who have not yet been identified. His photo is, therefore, being released and anyone who believes they were victimized or who has information about a victim, is urged to contact the FBI. The FBI can be reached at 1 800 CALL-FBI.

A Western Cape man has been sentenced to 195 years for horrific crimes against his children, including trafficking and child pornography.

Leaders at Donald Trump’s Department of Justice and FBI are hailing the arrests of two leaders of 764, a cult-like terror group that promotes child sexual abuse, after a concerted effort by federal investigators to dismantle the network that goes back to the previous administration.

Malaysian authorities have brought charges against 22 members of an Islamic business group that runs welfare homes. Hundreds of children at the firm's facilities were rescued from alleged abuse and exploitation.

Matthew Vereen, 28, had child sexual abuse material, which investigators found on his laptop and social media, according to the S.C. Attorney General's Office.

The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigation Unit exposes Russia’s vast system that indoctrinates Ukrainian children, using education and leisure programs in occupied territories to build Russia’s future army. The documentary follows the victims of Russian occupation as they recount the coercion, threats, and lies told by the occupying authorities that endangered their and their children’s lives.

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Sasha Sheree Abshire, 36, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography and was sentenced to 360 months by U.S. District Judge Michael Truncale on June 24.

A school employee in DC has been arrested on disturbing child exploitation charges — and the FBI says there may be more victims.

A former Killen, Alabama, Police Department (KPD) officer, Jarrod Gailen Webster, was sentenced today in the Northern District of Alabama to 15 years in

Kentucky State Police arrested a man for child sexual abuse material on April 29.

U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Brett Marrapese, 32, of Irondequoit, NY, who was convicted of distribution and receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 210 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.

A Cartersville man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for child exploitation charges after the discovery of child pornography.

A federal jury convicted six leaders in a quasi-religious group in a scheme that convinced parents to send their children to Kansas City, Kansas, for schooling but instead forced them to work long hours without pay and subjected them to beatings and other abuse.