The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Gov. Brian Kemp lauded the agency’s child pornography investigators for their difficult line of work. | Pixabay/geralt
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Gov. Brian Kemp lauded the agency’s child pornography investigators for their difficult line of work. | Pixabay/geralt
Vic Reynolds, the head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, lauded the agency’s child pornography investigators for what he considers a unique line of work.
“Not everybody can do that kind of work,” Reynolds told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They do some unbelievable work, and it never, ever stops. It’s sad, but it’s true.”
Gov. Brian Kemp shared Reynolds’s sentiment in a Twitter post.
“@GAFirstLady, the girls and I are grateful for the critically important efforts of the @GBI_GA’s GBI’s Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit to protect our state’s most vulnerable,” Kemp said..
The investigators work for the GBI’s Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes unit, which receives thousands of tips annually.
The unit collected more than 11,000 tips in 2020, with the figure likely to be surpassed this year, a spokesperson told AJC.
Four years ago, the publication reported, the CEACC participated in an investigation into inappropriate photographs of children the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had pinpointed to a man in North Georgia, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for possession of the images.
While child pornography is the most common term used for the offenses they investigate, CEACC investigate admit to hating it.
Assistant Special Agent Lindsay Marchant suggested the crimes be known as something else.
“Let’s call it the rape of a child, or child sexual abuse material is the prettiest way we can put it,” Marchant told AJC.
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