- Child Sexual Abuse Imagery on YouTube. A large volume of child erotica is being monetized on YouTube [1]. The YouTube algorithm unwittingly works to favor child sexual abuse imagery. Disney, AT&T, Hasbro, Nestle, and McDonald’s have pulled advertising over the fact their ads are running on videos of young girls which pedophiles have sexualized. YouTube is blocking predatory comments, but not taking down these videos though social media is often used to facilitate grooming.
- Violation by Labor Secretary of Crime Victims’ Rights Act. Judge Kenneth Marra has ruled that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act when he arranged a plea deal for multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein without informing victims [2]. Despite having engaged in human trafficking and the abuse of more than 80 underage victims, Epstein was sentenced to a mere 13 months in a private wing of the Palm Beach county jail. Acosta, then the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, not only failed to prosecute Epstein under federal sex trafficking laws, but denied victims their opportunity to oppose the plea deal in open court or appeal it. Moreover, the secret plea deal shut down an ongoing FBI investigation, guaranteeing Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from further prosecution.
ANNA WALDHERR A Voice Reclaimed, Surviving Child Abuse 