National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) leads the fight to protect children by creating vital services for them and the people who keep them safe. Every child deserves a safe childhood. Since 1984, NCMEC has served as the national clearinghouse and resource center for families, victims, private organizations, law enforcement and the public on issues relating to missing and sexually exploited children.www.ncmec.org
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Sep 11, 2026
Dane PetraliHOST
Pittson has since made it abundantly clear that he believed that his son is still very much alive and in August of 2018, the since canceled law enforcement TV show Live PD showed their viewers some digitally generated age progression images showing what Timothy might look like at age 13.
Dane PetraliHOST
The guest on that episode of the show was Angeline Hartman of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who urged members of the public to come forward with any and all information that might help police locate Timothy.
Dane PetraliHOST
But none of the calls that were made as a result came to anything at all.
Dane PetraliHOST
However, less than a year later, calls were made to police in northern Kentucky that brought a phenomenal amount of hope to those who wished for Timothy's return, but also revealed an unfathomable mystery and an unimaginable evil.
Edmond TranGUEST
Well, I'll give you, I'll give you this stat.
Edmond TranGUEST
Uh, so in the, in the US in tw- in 2024, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the US reported 24 cases [laughs] of child safety, um, issues in Roblox, and that's just in the US.
Edmond TranGUEST
So a, a problem with Roblox is it, it is of course very accessible.
Edmond TranGUEST
It's free.
Aaron LeylandHOST
It gets content taken down without the child having to speak to the police first.
Aaron LeylandHOST
Brilliant service, right? In the US, it's NCMEX.
Aaron LeylandHOST
Just Google it.
Aaron LeylandHOST
Take it down.ncmec.org. For over 18s, there's different... go to the link, do the research, report it.
Aaron LeylandHOST
It gets content taken down without the child having to speak to the police first.
Aaron LeylandHOST
Brilliant service, right? In the US, it's NCMEX.
Aaron LeylandHOST
Just Google it.
Aaron LeylandHOST
Take it down.ncmec.org. For over 18s, there's different...
NicHOST
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this week's beer fund, and of course, thank you all for listening and subscribing to True Crime Garage.
NicHOST
And because all of you out there helping us out this week, we were able to send a nice donation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and also to our friends over at the Charlie Project.
The CaptainHOST
Thank you so much for trying to make a difference in this world, and making a difference in our world by listening to True Crime Garage, B-double E-double R-U-N.
The CaptainHOST
Colonel, that's enough of the biz, man.
Tim TebowGUEST
Let them bring in so they can have an investigation and be able to dive into it.
Tim TebowGUEST
And then I'd also encourage them if the, uh, the images do get sent to other website or around their schools, which is happening all the time, to, to go to NCMEC, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and go under Take It Down, and they will help take down those images that are, you know, exploding all around in their communities.
Tim TebowGUEST
And then if they are con- um, considering self-harm, because out of those that get, um, sextorted, one in seven are committing self-harm.
Tim TebowGUEST
And if you are committing, or thinking, considering committing self-harm, uh, Thorn has created a, a helpline, and all you gotta do is call or text 741741, and there are people that want to help them, uh, in their time of need.
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Tim TebowGUEST
Like, there, uh, it, there is such a problem right now with...
Tim TebowGUEST
So big tech have to be able to send, um, trafficking or exploitation if they get alerts of it or they, they see this or their programs detect it.
Tim TebowGUEST
They gotta send it to NCMEC, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Tim TebowGUEST
But what happens very often right now is they don't send all of the metadata with it, which all of the metadata is locations and i- information and everything that law enforcement needs-
Chris HansenGUEST
We have in this country a system where all the platforms, all the social media providers, they have mandatory reporting.
Chris HansenGUEST
If they detect an inappropriate contact between an adult and a child, they are mandated by law to report that to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Chris HansenGUEST
Great organization.
Chris HansenGUEST
Phenomenal job they do.
Eric MinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm Eric Miner.
Eric MinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Court documents say troopers served a search warrant Friday at a home on Ridgetop Drive after receiving nearly 50 cyber tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children concerning 20-year-old Garrett Highlander.
Eric MinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
During their investigation, state police say they learned Highlander was sending child porn to users on Discord on several occasions.
Eric MinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Troopers say Highlander would also use Discord's AI feature to search for sexually explicit images of infants and also ask other people on the site if they were interested in trading child pornography.
Jason AtenHOST
They're just comparing hashes to a known database of things.
Jason AtenHOST
But what was happening is if the hash matched, they had the ability to then send that photo to NCMEC to actually have a human reviewer, which is not the way people expect their photo library to work.
Jason AtenHOST
Right.
Jason AtenHOST
And so I think that the way we expect conversations with other humans to work is not this, even if they're doing it in the best possible way.
Rabia ChaudryHOST
And that is that in 2024, what happened was Meta Platform reported that somebody had been transmitting potential CSAM, which is child sexual abuse material.
Rabia ChaudryHOST
And they reported this to the cyber tip line of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Rabia ChaudryHOST
Apparently an Instagram user sent a direct message to another Instagram user And in that message, there were AI generated images depicting CSAM.
Rabia ChaudryHOST
OK, now the person that they sent it to, the account they sent it to belong to a minor.
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