Sex-abuse video victimizes child long after abuser is gone

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “That’s what makes the whole crime type so abhorrent,” said Simon Peterson, the New Zealand customs agent who discovered the Adams video, during an interview with the AP. Victims of online child pornography, he said, “have to wake up every morning knowing that there’s imagery of those terrible times in their lives still out there, and that people are accessing it for their own gratification.” The Adams case has also highlighted a glaring loophole in state child sex abuse reporting laws. “And by the end of the morning we’d arrested him, interviewed him and charged him for exporting and possessing child sexual abuse material.” Peterson found the Adams video among the farmers videos. “We don’t get success often.” In the six years following the discovery of the nine-minute Adams video, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. have seized thousands of images of MJ’s abuse and have referred the material to NCMEC for positive identification.