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by Bluestrike2 3274 days ago
I read an article a few years ago about some of the people who work to identify child pornography victims. One of the quotes stuck with me when one of the investigators talked about some of their worst cases where they've literally watched these children grow over the course of years through the images of them that's shared online. People talk about maintaining your distance, but I don't know if that's even possible in that kind of situation. The idea of going into work everyday, knowing that there's even the slightest possibility that you'll find new images of a child you haven't been able to identify or save for the bulk of their childhood, is a mental challenge I can't even begin to comprehend.