Essay On The Federal Bureau Of Investigations: Violent Crimes Against Children

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The Federal Bureau of Investigations: Violent Crimes Against Children Division - Child Pornography, Human Trafficking, and Sex Crimes

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal agency that is home based in Washington D.C., and has 53 field offices located in major cities across the United States, and around 360 smaller agencies in the more residential areas. The FBI also has over 60 locations across the globe in the United States embassies called legal attachés. This bureau focuses on so many different areas, but they are a threat-focused national security organization who deals with both law enforcement and intelligence responsibilities. With nearly 35,000 people employed, the FBI has duties from preventing terrorist attacks to supporting state, local, and federal partners (“Quick Facts,” 2010). …show more content…

Earlier in 1993 FBI special agents from the Baltimore Field Office were investigating the disappearance of a child when they identified two suspects who had sexually exploited many juveniles over a 25-year period; this is where they found that these two suspects and many others were using computers to transmit sexually explicit images to minors and lure children in illegal sexual activity. At this time computer telecommunication and the internet had started to grow rapidly and it had become the most predominant technique in which some sex offenders engaged children in sexual relationships and shared child pornography (Overview and History 2010). The Violent Crimes Against Children (VCAC) program was created in 2012 as a part of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division and works along side with state, local, and international