{"id":17942,"date":"2024-12-07T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17942"},"modified":"2024-12-07T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:23:33","slug":"on-these-apps-the-dark-promise-of-mothers-sexually-abusing-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17942","title":{"rendered":"On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing Children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch \u2014 and direct \u2014 criminal behavior.<\/p>\n

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The promotional photo showed a mother affectionately hugging and kissing her daughter. The girl, around 8 years old, smiled into the camera.<\/p>\n

With a few swipes on their phones, men entered a livestream where they paid $150 to watch the mother sexually abuse the girl for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

The horrendous activity wasn\u2019t hidden on some dark corner of the internet. It was available for anyone with an iPhone or Android to download from the Apple or Google app store.<\/p>\n

The woman, who lives in Southeast Asia, promoted her livestream on Bigo Live, a video chat app where The New York Times viewed a screenshot of her profile early this year. When she was later contacted online by an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security \u2014 posing as a man interested in young girls \u2014 she directed him to another livestreaming app, where her pay-per-view sexual abuse had moved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since last year, The Times has been investigating the world of parents who run accounts on Instagram and elsewhere for their underage daughters and who post or sell racy photos of the girls, in some cases earning large sums of money<\/a>. The Times reported in February<\/a> that many of the so-called mom-run social media accounts with the biggest reach were overwhelmingly followed by adult men, including pedophiles.<\/p>\n

The livestream apps downloaded from Apple and Google illustrate an even darker aspect of the social media technology boom, particularly for children living in poverty in developing countries. There, with the ease of a smartphone, parents and other adults can connect with pedophiles in the United States and elsewhere who pay to watch \u2014 and direct \u2014 criminal behavior.<\/p>\n

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Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch \u2014 and direct \u2014 criminal behavior.The promotional photo showed a mother affectionately hugging and kissing her daughter. The girl, around 8 years old, smiled into the camera.With a few swipes on their phones, men entered a livestream where they paid $150 to watch the mother sexually abuse the girl for 10 minutes.The horrendous activity wasn\u2019t hidden on some dark corner of the internet. It was available for anyone with an iPhone or Android to download from the Apple or Google app store.The woman, who lives in Southeast Asia, promoted her livestream on Bigo Live, a video chat app where The New York Times viewed a screenshot of her profile early this year. When she was later contacted online by an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security \u2014 posing as a man interested in young girls \u2014 she directed him to another livestreaming app, where her pay-per-view sexual abuse had moved.Since last year, The Times has been investigating the world of parents who run accounts on Instagram and elsewhere for their underage daughters and who post or sell racy photos of the girls, in some cases earning large sums of money. The Times reported in February that many of the so-called mom-run social media accounts with the biggest reach were overwhelmingly followed by adult men, including pedophiles.The livestream apps downloaded from Apple and Google illustrate an even darker aspect of the social media technology boom, particularly for children living in poverty in developing countries. There, with the ease of a smartphone, parents and other adults can connect with pedophiles in the United States and elsewhere who pay to watch \u2014 and direct \u2014 criminal behavior.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17944,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17945,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions\/17945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}