Live streamed and victim-generated abuse imagery was already on the rise before the pandemic and has exploded in the last couple of years. Unless someone made the overt choice to memorialize it, the content is gone once the stream is turned off. Scores of apps have a live streaming component, even those that aren’t marketed as live streaming. Children can video chat with people worldwide and be groomed and coerced to produce CSAM. Often the offender isn’t in the room with the victim.

This episode’s guest, Austin Berrier, is a Special Agent at Homeland Security Investigations in the Cyber Crimes Division. The conversation covers his expertise in investigating human trafficking and the live streaming of sexual abuse of children. Austin also shares insight into the legal aspects of live streaming abuse investigations and some of the technical aspects of investigating this crime.