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Josh Hawley: “There are 338,000 dots of known instances where a predator…”

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Senator Hawley's Floor Speech on Provision Included in Reconciliation Bill to Rescue Trafficked Kids

Published | Video Starts at 02:03

This is the United States, and this is. These red dots represent the IP addresses of individuals who have shared child rape images in just the last six months. There are 338,000 dots of known instances where a predator has shared posted to the Internet. Images of child rape, child abuse, child sexual exploitation. The number of child exploitation reports last year increased to 20.5 million in this country. 20 million reports of child exploitation, the vast majority of those tied to online child exploitation. (02:03–02:19)

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