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Executive Producer of ‘Sound of Freedom’ helps catch child traffickers including one that eluded FBI for 10 years

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Important Takeaways:

  • Child predators are on high alert as organizations around the globe have begun rolling out artificial intelligence (AI) tools to bring sex traffickers to justice and rescue young victims, according to “Sound of Freedom” executive producer Paul Hutchinson.
  • Hutchinson, who has led 70 undercover rescue missions across 15 countries, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that he has worked with “black hat” hackers to help identify child predators and bring them to justice.
  • Through this relationship, the hackers were able to develop a piece of AI software to identify potential instances of child pornography on the dark web and other less-trodden corridors of the internet—where criminals believe they are truly anonymous.
  • “This one piece of software in one month in the United States identified 800,000 unique individuals who downloaded one or more child rape videos. That’s a huge number. And that’s just what this thing caught,” Hutchinson told Fox News Digital.
  • The “Sound of Freedom” producer noted that this number represents a “big problem” in society, wherein people fall into an “addictive cycle” after consuming large quantities of pornography.
  • Pretty soon, these individuals are musing about something they wouldn’t have even thought was attractive five years ago, leading them to act out these horrific fantasies, according to Hutchinson.
  • In 2024, a U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report revealed an increase in both victim identification and convictions versus 2022, with 133,948 victims identified and 7,115 convictions in 2023.
  • A total of 1,912 persons were referred to U.S. attorneys for human trafficking offenses in fiscal year 2022, a 26% increase from the 1,519 persons referred in 2012, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
  • One black hat hacker who worked with his team was tasked with finding a man who U.S. federal agencies had chased over the course of a decade. The individual in question reportedly had abused well over one hundred children.

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