The Children in the Pictures | Ep 8 | The Hope and the Good
4/22/202631 min
With the crisis of child exploitation gripping Australia, for the next few weeks, Secrets we Keep feed brings you the LiSTNR award-winning series, Children in the Pictures, an investigative podcast about the global fight against online child exploitation, following Australian investigators as they track offenders hiding in plain sight across the internet.
The series exposes the scale of abuse, the emotional toll on those working to stop it, and the disturbing ways technology is being used to harm children worldwide.
In episode eight, The Love Zone is gone for good, but the threat remains. Akhim Dev hears from experts and investigators about the next frontier of child exploitation, which is leaving kids vulnerable to grooming, blackmail and extortion— and starting earlier than parents would ever suspect.
Dev realises he must move from documentary observer, to messenger for children’s rights. As he is given access to global halls of power, Dev explores how we can help victim-survivors, and how parents like himself can educate their kids to keep them from harm.
Content Warning: This series delves with sexual abuse against children. Listener discretion is advised.
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First 90 secondsJoey Watson0:00
[intro music] A listener production. Joey Watson here. With the crisis of child exploitation gripping Australia, for the next few weeks, The Secrets We Keep feed brings you the listener award-winning series, Children in the Pictures, an investigative podcast about the global fight against online child exploitation, following Australian investigators as they track offenders hiding in plain sight across the internet. The series exposes the scale of abuse, the emotional toll on those working to stop it, and the disturbing way technology is being used to harm children worldwide. Before we start, a warning, what you're about to hear involves sexual abuse against children. Listener discretion is advised. Some details have been changed to protect the identities of victim survivors. Police have also obscured some methodologies used to catch child abuse perpetrators so as to not compromise ongoing investigations.
Akhim Dev· Host1:04
The Love Zone is gone for good. But just as Taskforce Argos shuts down one child exploitation site, a bigger one emerges to take its place. Like their namesake, the Greek myth of Argos