AIBU to ask people to just spend 2 minutes looking at these pictures? *MNHQ warning for images containing items relating to Child Sexual Abuse*

[KitKat1985]

Europol are once again asking members of the public for help with solving child sex abuse cases. In many explicit photos of children there are clues in the backgrounds (objects / scenery) that can help Europol identify the locations the images were taken, and help therefore identify where the exploited children have come from and find the perpetrators. Europol are therefore asking for the public to help identify objects / scenery from the backgrounds of some explicit photos taken of children. All explicit material / images of children have been removed from the pictures before being posted by Europol. I figure Mumsnet with a large international readership may well have at least one member who can identify an item / location from one of the images posted, so if we can all spend 2 minutes viewing the images it may well help Europol with their investigations.

www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse

Very chilling :( hope this can help some of the poor children to protection.

It's great that so many people are looking at these pictures and hopefully will provide valuable assistance to Europol. Just to say it is probably best not to discuss specific items and where you think they might be from on social media because you could skew the reporting to Europol. If you think you recognise something just report it directly to Europol.

If you think you recognise something just report it directly to Europol.

People are doing that.

These photos have been cirulating a while. It's great to include MNers in this campaign. And this should absolutely become a regular for us! We are a huge forum and look, within this one small thread, at how much has been identified. I was right about a landscape one and the swingset. You'd be amazed by how thorough people are.

You can see what amazing sleuths there are here: www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/01/04/stop-child-abuse-campaign-3rd-update/

This campaign should be a regular here on MN. I can't emphasize this enough. Why? Because I am not on twitter or reddit. So may of us are not. KitKat's brought this to our attention. How many of us even knew of this campaign before KitKat posted it? I didn't. Not at all.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be on Mumsnet just don't discuss what you recognise specifically on Mumsnet! Fine to say you've recognised something and reported it but just don't say what you thought it was or where it was from because if lots of people copy your post and report it as the same thing off the back of your post Europol won't be able to analyse accurately the strength of the information, ie they might think 200 people independently recognised that place or object and said it was X town when in fact that doesn't reflect the true picture

Nothing familiar to me. Bumping to keep the attention up.

I'll be able li e to take a look later, but bumping for now.

Looked but don’t recognise anything.

For those saying tshirt was from Asda, hat is x country etc .... I’m not sure this is what they mean by information? The site says theyve exhausted all investigave avenues, so presumably they know baseball team logos, flags of countries on hats, what chain manufactured a tshirt etc....

Don’t mean to be negative but surely it’s best to contact with direct definite information? Otherwise they’ll be inundated with hundreds/thousands of basic information that they already know, taking away valuable resources in the meantime?

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Frazzledbutcalm good point however I'm sure they're used to reading many duplicates of the same ideas. And who knows, maybe the team have no idea which chains sell a particular sweatshirt?

Also, bump, and I'm so pleased some on here were able to identify a couple of things. Those poor babies

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Didn’t recognise anything .
Hope someone does

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Could MNHQ reword the bit they've added to the title? 'images related to child abuse' sounds like really horrible content which could put people off reading the thread. I only clicked on it because I guessed it was Europol, but a lot of people who could help might be scrolling past.

Agree totally Saskia

I've looked earlier in the thread before the warning was added but if I only saw this today for the first time I would be unlikely to click on it. There are better ways to word this.

Don't recognise anything but amazing that some Mumsnetters have, so bumping

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I agree as well Saskia. I was a bit annoyed by the change to the thread title (which I was never asked about), and it sounds now like the thread contains really graphic child abuse images which is really off-putting.

I don't personally think the thread needed a trigger warning, as I think I explained clearly in my OP what the link I posted was about, and obviously those posters who would be upset by such images could choose not to click it. And I actually think "images relating to child sexual abuse" is no less triggering or upsetting than anything I have written in my OP anyway.

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