Europol, Stop Child Abuse Trace an Object - help ID victims.
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Press Release
Six children victim of sexual abuse removed from harm as a result of Europol’s Victim Identification Taskforce
''Between 14 and 25 June 2021, 41 victim identification specialists from across the world joined forces to identify as many victims of child sexual abuse as possible.
Europol is managing more than 59 million unique images and video files in its dedicated repository. To prepare for the action, Europol specialists selected footage of victims whose location and identity had not yet been established.
The participants combined their efforts to assess over 300 series. For 47 of these, the likely country of production was identified. The concerned EU Member States were immediately notified so that they could launch their own investigation at the national level. Europol is now providing support to these countries to help safeguard the children as quickly as possible and apprehend the offenders.
The following countries and agencies took part in this edition of the Victim Identification Taskforce: Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, INTERPOL, Latvia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, US ICE and US FBI.''
''In June 2017, Europol launched its crowdsourcing Stop Child Abuse - Trace An Object initiative, which stemmed from the work of this Taskforce.
As part of this initiative, non-confrontational details of images extracted from child sexual abuse cold cases are regularly made public in the hope that someone might recognise a detail which could help narrow down the location of the victim.
So far, this initiative has yielded the following results:
Please have a look and see if you can help us identify a detail which could lead investigators to a child victim of abuse.''
Press Release
Six children victim of sexual abuse removed from harm as a result of Europol’s Victim Identification Taskforce
''Between 14 and 25 June 2021, 41 victim identification specialists from across the world joined forces to identify as many victims of child sexual abuse as possible.
Europol is managing more than 59 million unique images and video files in its dedicated repository. To prepare for the action, Europol specialists selected footage of victims whose location and identity had not yet been established.
The participants combined their efforts to assess over 300 series. For 47 of these, the likely country of production was identified. The concerned EU Member States were immediately notified so that they could launch their own investigation at the national level. Europol is now providing support to these countries to help safeguard the children as quickly as possible and apprehend the offenders.
The following countries and agencies took part in this edition of the Victim Identification Taskforce: Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, INTERPOL, Latvia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, US ICE and US FBI.''
''In June 2017, Europol launched its crowdsourcing Stop Child Abuse - Trace An Object initiative, which stemmed from the work of this Taskforce.
As part of this initiative, non-confrontational details of images extracted from child sexual abuse cold cases are regularly made public in the hope that someone might recognise a detail which could help narrow down the location of the victim.
So far, this initiative has yielded the following results:
- Over 26 800 tips have been sent in via the general public;
- Investigators were able to narrow down a country in 105 instances;
- 12 children victim of child sexual abuse have been identified and removed from harm;
- 4 offenders have been identified and prosecuted.
Please have a look and see if you can help us identify a detail which could lead investigators to a child victim of abuse.''
Trace An Object is a tool for members of the public to help combat online child sexual abuse by seeing if they can identify objects in child sexual abuse images. Trace An Object does not show the actual images of child sexual abuse. What it does do is show objects that were shown in the background of the images - such as a television cabinet, a hat, etc. - for members of the public to see if they can identify them so that the victims can be rescued and the perpetrators brought to justice.
Stop Child Abuse - Trace an Object | ACCCE
Stop Child Abuse - Trace an Object | ACCCE
Noting this is a new Australian version, possibly with different posting
guidelines than Europol, but inspired by them, imo.
Four new images released for Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object | ACCCE
''Wed 01-09-2021 12:30 pm AEST
TRIGGER WARNING: The following contains content that people may find distressing.''
“We are hoping spectators at these games may be among the community detectives who help us crack these cases,” Commander Sirec said. The fight is not over and we still need your help, we encourage you to spread the word, view and share these images within the community. The smallest clue may help save a child and remove them from a lifetime of abuse. ''
''Introduced by EuropolOpens Europol website in a new tab in 2017, Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object has already led to the removal of 10 children being removed from harm and the arrest of three offenders. Over 26,000 tips have been submitted by the public, investigators were able to narrow down a country in 105 instances, 12 children victim of child sexual abuse have been identified and removed from harm and 4 offenders have been identified and prosecuted.''
Stop Child Abuse - Trace an Object | ACCCE
guidelines than Europol, but inspired by them, imo.
Four new images released for Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object | ACCCE
''Wed 01-09-2021 12:30 pm AEST
TRIGGER WARNING: The following contains content that people may find distressing.''
“We are hoping spectators at these games may be among the community detectives who help us crack these cases,” Commander Sirec said. The fight is not over and we still need your help, we encourage you to spread the word, view and share these images within the community. The smallest clue may help save a child and remove them from a lifetime of abuse. ''
''Introduced by EuropolOpens Europol website in a new tab in 2017, Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object has already led to the removal of 10 children being removed from harm and the arrest of three offenders. Over 26,000 tips have been submitted by the public, investigators were able to narrow down a country in 105 instances, 12 children victim of child sexual abuse have been identified and removed from harm and 4 offenders have been identified and prosecuted.''
Stop Child Abuse - Trace an Object | ACCCE
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Operation H, Global Child Sexual Abuse Investigation - Bing images
March 2 2022
Toronto Police Service :: News Release #52281
''In September 2019, a service provider who uncovered child sexual abuse material on their servers alerted the Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand to distribution activity. Over a 24-month period DIA’s Digital Child Exploitation Team investigators co-ordinated an international team who identified users globally.''
ttps://www.dia.govt.nz/press.nsf/d77da9b523f12931cc256ac5000d19b6/23d4c3f76035199dcc2587f80075cf5c!OpenDocument
2 March 2022
''An international operation led by Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has identified more than 90,000 online accounts that have possessed or traded child sexual abuse material.
Operation H was launched in October 2019 by DIA’s Digital Child Exploitation Team following an alert from an Electronic Service Provider who had found tens of thousands of offenders using the platform to share some of the most horrific and devastating child sexual abuse material online.
This has been the largest and most challenging online child exploitation operation led out of New Zealand.
To carry out this Operation, DIA brought together international law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Australian Federal Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the National Crime Agency in the UK, Europol and INTERPOL, as well as NZ Police and New Zealand Customs Service to establish a co-ordinated approach to identifying and investigating individuals tied to these accounts.
What followed was hundreds of investigations, commenced across the world.
From February 2020 onwards DIA and NZ Police, along with intelligence assistance from New Zealand Customs Service, undertook warrants and prosecutions into the New Zealand based offenders.
To date 125 New Zealand based accounts have been identified as part of the investigation. Due to the number of user accounts identified and the extreme egregious nature of the child sexual abuse material involved, this is the most significant joint child sexual exploitation operation conducted within New Zealand.
Tim Houston, Manager Digital Child Exploitation Team, and lead for Operation H highlighted how this operation and the prosecutions that will follow represent a major success in international efforts to undermine and disestablish the environments and networks that seek to exploit children.
“I commend the ongoing support of our law enforcement partners domestically and across the world for their dedication and hard-work. This operation will have an impact on the global networks that deal in the most horrific and damaging material, and we are extraordinarily proud of the effect it will have on children’s lives around the world.”
He also noted the real-world consequences of this sort of offending.
“Many people who view material of this kind will go on to physically offend against children, it is imperative that we are able to bring them to justice before they are able to do more damage. This is not a victimless crime, every time this material is viewed, that child is revictimized.”
Houston went on to highlight the importance of collaboration in an operation like this.
“This is one of the largest investigations of online child sexual abuse conducted in the Department’s history. I applaud the great work of our partner agencies in NZ Police and New Zealand Customs Service for their continued support. This is yet another excellent example of cross agency collaboration in Aotearoa. I cannot express the importance that the joint agency cooperation had on an operation of this scale.”
As part of this operation the Digital Child Exploitation Team seized and examined hundreds of thousands of child abuse material files. The child sexual abuse material at the core of this investigation is some of the most egregious investigators have been exposed to. Many of the children featured in the images and videos were just infants who were exposed to obvious and intentional pain and suffering.
The two-year long operation has also produced the following results:
March 2 2022
Toronto Police Service :: News Release #52281
''In September 2019, a service provider who uncovered child sexual abuse material on their servers alerted the Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand to distribution activity. Over a 24-month period DIA’s Digital Child Exploitation Team investigators co-ordinated an international team who identified users globally.''
ttps://www.dia.govt.nz/press.nsf/d77da9b523f12931cc256ac5000d19b6/23d4c3f76035199dcc2587f80075cf5c!OpenDocument
2 March 2022
''An international operation led by Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has identified more than 90,000 online accounts that have possessed or traded child sexual abuse material.
Operation H was launched in October 2019 by DIA’s Digital Child Exploitation Team following an alert from an Electronic Service Provider who had found tens of thousands of offenders using the platform to share some of the most horrific and devastating child sexual abuse material online.
This has been the largest and most challenging online child exploitation operation led out of New Zealand.
To carry out this Operation, DIA brought together international law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Australian Federal Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the National Crime Agency in the UK, Europol and INTERPOL, as well as NZ Police and New Zealand Customs Service to establish a co-ordinated approach to identifying and investigating individuals tied to these accounts.
What followed was hundreds of investigations, commenced across the world.
From February 2020 onwards DIA and NZ Police, along with intelligence assistance from New Zealand Customs Service, undertook warrants and prosecutions into the New Zealand based offenders.
To date 125 New Zealand based accounts have been identified as part of the investigation. Due to the number of user accounts identified and the extreme egregious nature of the child sexual abuse material involved, this is the most significant joint child sexual exploitation operation conducted within New Zealand.
Tim Houston, Manager Digital Child Exploitation Team, and lead for Operation H highlighted how this operation and the prosecutions that will follow represent a major success in international efforts to undermine and disestablish the environments and networks that seek to exploit children.
“I commend the ongoing support of our law enforcement partners domestically and across the world for their dedication and hard-work. This operation will have an impact on the global networks that deal in the most horrific and damaging material, and we are extraordinarily proud of the effect it will have on children’s lives around the world.”
He also noted the real-world consequences of this sort of offending.
“Many people who view material of this kind will go on to physically offend against children, it is imperative that we are able to bring them to justice before they are able to do more damage. This is not a victimless crime, every time this material is viewed, that child is revictimized.”
Houston went on to highlight the importance of collaboration in an operation like this.
“This is one of the largest investigations of online child sexual abuse conducted in the Department’s history. I applaud the great work of our partner agencies in NZ Police and New Zealand Customs Service for their continued support. This is yet another excellent example of cross agency collaboration in Aotearoa. I cannot express the importance that the joint agency cooperation had on an operation of this scale.”
As part of this operation the Digital Child Exploitation Team seized and examined hundreds of thousands of child abuse material files. The child sexual abuse material at the core of this investigation is some of the most egregious investigators have been exposed to. Many of the children featured in the images and videos were just infants who were exposed to obvious and intentional pain and suffering.
The two-year long operation has also produced the following results:
- 46 New Zealand based individuals arrested
- 836 cases investigated internationally
- 146 children safeguarded internationally''
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Nationwide Operation Molto closes with the removal of 51 children from harm in Australia
More than 100 Australians have been charged with over 1000 child abuse-related offences under a global operation, which has now been finalised.
Operation Molto, coordinated by the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), working together with police from every state and territory in Australia, removed 51 children from harm after identifying alleged offenders across the country.
The operation started in 2019, when the ACCCE received intelligence from New Zealand Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) showing thousands of offenders were using a cloud storage platform to share abhorrent child material abuse online.
Known globally as Operation H, the multinational law enforcement effort has resulted in 153 children being removed from harm, including; 79 in the United Kingdom, 51 children in Australia, 12 in Canada, six in New Zealand, four in the United States and one child in Europe. Operation H has now been finalised.
In Australia, some of the alleged offenders, who are also accused of producing their own child abuse material online, were in possession of material that was produced by a man arrested by the AFP in 2015 under Operation Niro, which resulted in the dismantling of an international organised pedophile syndicate. The material was classified as the most abhorrent produced.
The alleged Australian offenders are aged between 18 and 61 years old. Breakdown by state:
Nationwide Operation Molto closes with the removal of 51 children from harm in Australia
More than 100 Australians have been charged with over 1000 child abuse-related offences under a global operation, which has now been finalised.
Operation Molto, coordinated by the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), working together with police from every state and territory in Australia, removed 51 children from harm after identifying alleged offenders across the country.
The operation started in 2019, when the ACCCE received intelligence from New Zealand Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) showing thousands of offenders were using a cloud storage platform to share abhorrent child material abuse online.
Known globally as Operation H, the multinational law enforcement effort has resulted in 153 children being removed from harm, including; 79 in the United Kingdom, 51 children in Australia, 12 in Canada, six in New Zealand, four in the United States and one child in Europe. Operation H has now been finalised.
In Australia, some of the alleged offenders, who are also accused of producing their own child abuse material online, were in possession of material that was produced by a man arrested by the AFP in 2015 under Operation Niro, which resulted in the dismantling of an international organised pedophile syndicate. The material was classified as the most abhorrent produced.
The alleged Australian offenders are aged between 18 and 61 years old. Breakdown by state:
- Queensland - 58 alleged offenders facing 423 charges. 23 children have been removed from harm in that state.
- Victoria - 18 alleged offenders facing 370 charges. Eight children have been removed from harm in that state.
- New South Wales - 17 alleged offenders facing 96 offences. Three children have been removed from harm in that state.
- South Australia - 12 alleged offenders facing 232 charges. Ten children have been removed from harm in that state.
- Western Australia - eight alleged offenders facing nine charges, with no children having to be removed from harm in that state.
- Tasmania - three alleged offenders in facing 54 charges. Two children have been removed from harm in that state.
- Northern Territory - two alleged offenders facing 16 charges, with no children having to be removed from harm in that jurisdiction.
- ACT - Three alleged offenders facing 48 charges, with five children removed from harm in that jurisdiction.
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Europol have released new images on their website that they are hoping to identify.
Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object | Europol (europa.eu)
- Update date:25 Nov 2021
DO YOU RECOGNISE THIS WRISTBAND?C50022021
IS THIS LOGO FAMILIAR TO YOU?C49022021
DO YOU KNOW IF THIS CLOTHING ITEM IS/HAS BEEN COMMERCIALISED IN A SPECIFIC COUNTRY/REGION?C40022021
IS THIS SCHOOL UNIFORM FAMILIAR TO YOU? C12022021
THIS ITEM APPEARS TO BE A PILLOW COVER. HAVE YOU SEEN IT PREVIOUSLY?C11022021- https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse/5124
- [URL='https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse']Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object | Europol (europa.eu)
THIS PRODUCT IS LIKELY FROM A CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY. ARE YOU ABLE TO LINK IT TO A SPECIFIC COUNTRY/REGION? C6022021[/URL] 
DO YOU RECOGNISE THIS PIECE OF CLOTHING? C4022021
IS THIS T-SHIRT FAMILIAR TO YOU?
THIS ITEM WAS LOCATED IN A BATHROOM, DO YOU RECOGNISE IT?
THIS COULD POTENTIALLY BE PART OF A CALENDAR FROM THE YEAR 2007. IS IT FAMILIAR TO YOU?
- https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse/5040
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I’m almost certain the T-shirt with the word Support on it is from Ireland / related to Irish GAA team / club - it’s old Irish font.
Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object | Europol
The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case. The objects are all taken from the background of an image with sexually explicit material involving minors. For all images below, every other investigative avenue has already been examined. Therefore we are requesting your assistance in...
- Update date:07 Jun 2022
DO YOU RECOGNISE THIS WRISTBAND?C50022021
DO YOU KNOW IF THIS CLOTHING ITEM IS/HAS BEEN COMMERCIALISED IN A SPECIFIC COUNTRY/REGION?C40022021
IS THIS SCHOOL UNIFORM FAMILIAR TO YOU? C120220
THIS ITEM APPEARS TO BE A PILLOW COVER. HAVE YOU SEEN IT PREVIOUSLY?C11022021
THIS PRODUCT IS LIKELY FROM A CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY. ARE YOU ABLE TO LINK IT TO A SPECIFIC COUNTRY/REGION? C6022021
- STOP CHILD ABUSE – TRACE AN OBJECT | Europol
The green bottle looks vaguely pharmacy related given the writing style and possible safety cap.
For reference, Mexico and other Latin countries can feature large numbers of small pharmacies selling a dazzling variety of name brand medications, counterfeit medication, knock offs, and either "made in house" or small brand concoctions for colds, stomach aches, male uhmm..... "endurance" issues, hair growth, skin treatments etc. etc. .
Since some concoctions are in house or micro brand, producers order base chemicals from large chemical supply houses, then cut and mix as needed. Such chemicals may come in bottles with out brand names, locking caps and various warnings.
For reference, Mexico and other Latin countries can feature large numbers of small pharmacies selling a dazzling variety of name brand medications, counterfeit medication, knock offs, and either "made in house" or small brand concoctions for colds, stomach aches, male uhmm..... "endurance" issues, hair growth, skin treatments etc. etc. .
Since some concoctions are in house or micro brand, producers order base chemicals from large chemical supply houses, then cut and mix as needed. Such chemicals may come in bottles with out brand names, locking caps and various warnings.
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This thread has photos and audio for a specific case. Please join if you are so inclined, thank you.
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FBI: Seeking identification of Jane Doe 46 - poss has info identifying child victim in sexual exploitation, 13 July 2022
The FBI is asking the public for information that could lead to the identification of a person known as “Jane Doe 46.” The agency said in a release that it “is believed that this individual may have critical information pertaining to the identity of a child victim in a sexual exploitation...
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Hey everyone,
This thread is dedicated to trying to trace objects. Please stay on topic without introducing a lot of other chit chat or discussing other specific cases.
Thank you.
This thread is dedicated to trying to trace objects. Please stay on topic without introducing a lot of other chit chat or discussing other specific cases.
Thank you.
Yes, that's it . Did you submit?
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her name is Suzanne Marie Sevakis
There are some new items up.
www.europol.europa.eu
Perhaps if you have some spare time @dotr (or whoever is willing/able) you could make posts for them? I swear that someday I will learn how to do it correctly!
Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object | Europol
The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case. The objects are all taken from the background of an image with sexually explicit material involving minors. For all images below, every other investigative avenue has already been examined. Therefore we are requesting your assistance in...
Perhaps if you have some spare time @dotr (or whoever is willing/able) you could make posts for them? I swear that someday I will learn how to do it correctly!
Thanks for the fresh link!There are some new items up.
Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object | Europol
The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case. The objects are all taken from the background of an image with sexually explicit material involving minors. For all images below, every other investigative avenue has already been examined. Therefore we are requesting your assistance in...
Perhaps if you have some spare time @dotr (or whoever is willing/able) you could make posts for them? I swear that someday I will learn how to do it correctly!
''You can help us to trace an object and stop child abuse
Update date:01 Feb 2023''
- ''Over 27 300 tips have been sent in via the general public;
- Investigators were able to narrow down a country in 115 instances;
- 23 children victim of child sexual abuse have been identified and removed from harm;
- 5 offenders have been identified and prosecuted.''
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Stop Child Abuse – Trace an Object | Europol
The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case. The objects are all taken from the background of an image with sexually explicit material involving minors. For all images below, every other investigative avenue has already been examined. Therefore we are requesting your assistance in...
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