A Utah man told The New York Times he paid $550 to watch two mothers sexually abuse their daughters (one 8, the other 3 or 4), and later reported the women to Canadian authorities and to the streaming platform that hosted the content.
“The No. 1 customer base paying for this abuse is in the United States,” an investigating agent said.The promotional photo showed a mother affectionately hugging and kissing her daughter. The girl, around 8 years old, smiled into the camera.
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 apps had not been a focus of the agency’s work, the agent said, but the criminal activity mirrored that on dating websites he had investigated. There, men search for women, typically in Southeast Asia, who charge to sexually abuse children on camera. Others are geared toward men looking for sexual encounters, and users can pay by the minute for private video chats. Although Apple and Google ban pornography from their stores, the Times found apps that showed nude adults in sexual poses. Some apps had names such as “18+ Live & Video Chat,” “Adult Live Chat” and “Adult Calls, Love Chat.”
Asked about the Times’ sample of offending apps, Sainz said a majority had been detected during the company’s standard review process, with an additional 20 taken down after an internal investigation in response to the Times’ findings. One profile identified by the Times showed a woman in Vietnam offering “HOT VIDEO” and listed possible participants as two young sisters, a little girl, three little boys and a dog.
In October, a woman in South Dakota, Krystal Kay Bulin, was sentenced to eight years in prison after she moderated a chat room during sexually explicit livestreams involving a 16-year-old girl. Bulin, the girl’s temporary guardian, facilitated the livestreams on an app called BuzzCast to help pay for a speeding ticket, according to court records.
“It’s a very difficult crime to investigate,” he said. “No one knows that it happened, except the poor kid that was raped, the mother that did it and the guy who paid for it.” She faulted the two companies for allowing the livestreaming, and for facilitating and profiting from the payments. A PayPal spokesperson said the company worked with law enforcement around the world to help stop child exploitation.
BuzzCast and Superlive did not respond to requests for comment. Representatives for Gaze and Tango said their companies had no tolerance for child sexual abuse material and pointed to multiple moderation systems they used to enforce their standards. They said that they took user reviews seriously, and also that the negative reviews were unrepresentative and may have been written by competitors.
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