Child Exploitation

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The paper defines child exploitation as any active mistreatment or intentional neglect of a child that results in harm or injury and which cannot be reasonably explained as inadvertent. The paper maintains that more needs to be done by governments, law enforcement agencies, social workers and the general public if child exploitation is to be reduced and ultimately eliminated.

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"Child exploitation is a form of abuse generally defined as any active mistreatment or intentional neglect of a child that results in harm or injury, and which cannot be reasonably explained as inadvertent. Child exploitation primarily involves overt abuse such as physical harm or maltreatment related to sexual abuse or labor exploitation, and inevitably inflicts severe emotional and psychological damage, as well as physical suffering."
"Drew Oosterbaan, the head of the United States Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, warns "that children are in more danger than ever before from child exploitation. We see child pornography escalating, not just in terms of numbers, not just in the amount or frequency of distribution of child pornography we see, but most especially in the nature of the child pornography we see," (Bansal) which is increasingly featuring pornographic Internet images of children being violently raped and abused."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bansal, Monisha. ""Child Exploitation Escalating, Says Justice Department." The Nation, August 9, 2006.
• "Child Exploitation." ARI. Online. Available: http://www.usps.com/postalin spectors/ar02/ar02_06.htm. 15 August 2006.
• Ferraro, Monique. Investigating Child Exploitation and Pornography: The Internet, Law, and Forensic Science. New York: Academic Press, 2004.

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