The Darkest Web: 3. The hidden child
3/2/202626 min
US Special Agents Greg and Pete are desperate. Somewhere in America a twelve year old girl, who they have called Lucy, is being sexually abused. Her abuser has been sharing images of his abuse for six years on the dark web. They have to find her - and save her.
They were convinced that Facebook would be able to help them using its facial recognition technology, but the tech giant is unable to help. So they go back to the start, examining every single thing they can see in the room she is being abused in: the...
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First 90 secondsSam Paranti· Host0:00
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Sam Paranti· Host0:34
[instrumental music] Hi, it's Sam. Just a warning before we start, this episode contains references to child sexual abuse and some strong language. [instrumental music] It's 2015. For almost a year, Special Agents Greg Squire and Pete Manning have been trying everything to find a young girl being sexually abused somewhere in America. They had named her Lucy. Since that first call from Denmark from a colleague who had found Lucy's photos on the hard drive of a notorious pedophile, Pete and Greg have thought of little else. First they tried tech, examining the metadata of the images.
Greg Squire· Guest1:25
So for Pete, looking at the EXIF data, he was just curious if we could find