How DHS is Stopping Child Exploitation and Abuse Identifying and Rescuing Victims Trained more than 950 law enforcement officials and child advocacy personnel throughout the country to enhance their counter-child exploitation tactics through the USSS.Conducted polygraph exams of online offenders (often in possession of child sexual abuse material) by USSS personnel, uncovering 90 victims of sexual abuse, 1,415 unique sexual assaults, and 2,024 instances of child sexual abuse material exchanged among adults.Project iGuardian educates kids, teens, parents, and teachers throughout the country about online safety and how to stay safe from sexual predators. Provided educational presentations and resources to 189,000 children and adults through HSI’s Project iGuardian, an initiative led by HSI in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Internet Crime Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces.Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS). Provided long-term immigration protections to child victims of human trafficking, abuse, and neglect, including Special Immigration Juvenile (SIJ) classification, T visa, U visa, and VAWA protection through U.S.Arrested more than 4,400 individuals as part of HSI’s Operation Predator, which targets child sexual predators, including producers, distributors, and receivers, of child sexual abuse material on both the clear web and dark web.In the same time period, HSI arrested 4,459 individuals for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children and helped to secure more than 2,147 convictions. ![]() Identified and/or rescued 1,170 child victims through investigations supported by the HSI Child Exploitation Investigations Unit (CEIU).From the DHS Child Exploitation Investigations Unit (CEIU), part of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Cyber Crimes Center (C3), to the United States Secret Service (USSS), to the DHS Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), DHS is dedicated to battling child exploitation and abuse from every angle: identifying and rescuing victims, protecting and supporting victims and survivors, locating and apprehending perpetrators, and raising awareness through public education and outreach. Every day, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leads the fight against child exploitation and abuse.
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