2317: Identifying Victims in Online Child Pornography – NCMEC

Wednesday, June 23, 2004
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Presenter: Michelle Collins

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

This seminar will explain the resources NCMEC can provide to law enforcement agencies & prosecution teams working child pornography cases. There will be several illustrations of how child victims depicted in online child pornography have been identified all over the world. In addition, various investigative strategies will be presented to aide in the identification of unknown child victims.

PRESENTER BIO

Michelle Collins is the Program Manager for the Exploited Child Unit (ECU) at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). She oversees the operation of the Cyber Tipline as well as the Child Victim Identification Project. Michelle has been with the ECU for six years and during that time has seen a 75% increase in reports on child sexual exploitation. In 2002, Michelle met with programmers to create NCMEC’s Child Recognition and Identification System (CRIS). The goal of CRIS is to aid child pornography prosecutions as well as identify the unknown children featured in these sexually abusive images.

Michelle has provided extensive technical assistance to law enforcement during Operation Hamlet and coordinated the international scope of Operation Web Sweep. Ms. Collins received a Bachelor or Arts in Psychology from George Mason University and a Master of Arts in Criminology from the University of Maryland.

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