Handrahan - Epidemic: Americas trade in child rape

Epidemic: Americas Trade in Child Rape

Copyright 2017/2018 Lori Handrahan, PhD

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Disclaimer: The position/job title and place of employment at the time of the arrest have been cited throughout this book. Upon arrest employers may or may not terminate the defendant. Some people remained in their position, on paid or unpaid leave, while charges were pending with cases taking one-two years or more to move through the system. Other times people have been allowed to quietly retired, some were forced to resign and some people were terminated immediately. Because the arrests represent a snap-shot in time, information regarding the cases included in this book may have changed. The title/employer cited is not necessarily still current it was only current at the time of arrest.

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Handrahan, Lori

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1. Child Abuse, Sexual -- epidemiology. 2. Child sexual abuse -- Investigation -- United States. 3. Child sexual abuse -- United States -- Statistics. 4. Child pornography. 5. Child sexual abuse -- Prevention. 6. Children -- Social conditions. I. Handrahan, Lori. II. Title

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Let unwelcome truths be told.

Paul Farmer, M.D, Pathologies of Power

Dedicated to my daughter Mila

R esearching these crimes against our children, I have been fortunate to receive support from courageous friends who held me up and pushed me to keep researching, writing and publishing. So America would know. So our children could be protected. This book would not exist without the people who have sustained me and this research. You know who you are. Thank you.

One of the most persistent champions has been Gary Heidt of Signature Literary Agency. Gary pitched this book to publishers over several years. Many publishers rejected the book explaining the subject was too horrific; Americans did not want to read about this crime. No one would buy the book because it was too disturbing. Publishers said, we cannot make a profit. Sorry.

When my research on professors and staff arrested for trading in child rape went viral, Gary decided to pitch the book one more time. Trine Day immediately responded. I am grateful to Kris Millegan of Trine Day for believing in this book and offering a contract just when hope was dissipating.

Gratitude is also due to the Justice Departments public affairs officers who answered my questions and provided court documents. Likewise, I am grateful to court clerks, law enforcement officers and prosecutors across the country who took time to speak with me and send public documents.

I owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who clicked and shared the research I have so painstakingly and stubbornly been gathering. This book found a publisher because thousands of people, expressing outrage at what pedophiles are doing to our children and indignation at mainstream medias refusal to report on the epidemic of child sex abuse, shared my research.

Thank you.

Table of Contents

T he rape and torture of thousands of children in America is shared every day in videos, photos and live-streams. Men, and some women, are raping children, including infants and toddlers, and distributing evidence of the crime on the Internet in epidemic numbers. These offenses against our children are flourishing, in part, because we refuse to move beyond our collective denial that this criminality, often called child pornography, has reached catastrophic levels in America.

We are sustaining crisis-level numbers of seemingly normal, often powerful and successful men involved in Americas illegal child sex-abuse industry. It does not matter if the perpetrator is on the demand-side, with an incessant appetite for brutal child rape to achieve sexual gratification, or the supply-side of raping children, often their own or those of friends and relatives, and trading this abuse online. Both supply and demand of child pornography, which almost always intertwine, have reached epidemic proportions and too few are talking about it.

The current child rape crisis is also a serious community and national security concern, given how many government employees at the local, state and federal levels, including in the military, law enforcement, judicial and education sectors, are being arrested on child exploitation charges.

The problem of child sex abuse and its cover-up is real. A generation of American children are being destroyed. If you think this happens to someone elses children and your children are safe, you are mistaken. Your children might be enduring sexual abuse right now while you remain dangerously ignorant. Americas appetite for child pornography puts all our children at risk.

Your children and mine. Whether you acknowledge it or not.

This book is a wake-up call about a subject too few people want to discuss. That is, while no one was watching, America has become a child-pornography nation.

Lori Handrahan, Ph.D.

Washington DC

July 2017

The incidence of child sexual exploitation has reached staggering proportions.

US Department of Homeland Securitys Special Agent John Reynolds
Los Angeles Times 21 June 2016

T his book is the result of a difficult journey. It is not research I wanted to do. It is research I have been compelled to do. I have learned more than I ever wanted to know about how pedophiles destroy our children, families and communities. This knowledge has altered how I view the world and changed how the world regards me. It has cost me a great deal. I have lost friends. My career has been targeted. My ability to earn a living has been restricted. I have persisted because this is a labor of love for children and adult survivors harmed by this crime and for dedicated investigators and prosecutors working to achieve justice.

Researching child pornography is difficult both because there is a data problem and because the subject is overwhelmingly painful. While so many journalists and academics, earning full salaries and benefiting from institutional support, are apparently unable or unwilling to report or research Americas child pornography epidemic, the research in this book has been eked out, literally, with blood, sweat and tears. Sweat from working as a gardener. Tears over the harm being done to our children. Blood when, overwhelmed by the magnitude, I sometimes tug unconsciously at my cuticles as I type.