THE BOY IN THE GREEN SHIRT (continued), written by an O.U.R. Operator: “The Boy in the Green Shirt” investigation didn’t end with the arrest of “Simon’s” offender at that Burger King. That arrest activated a digital forensic victim identification team who would rotate shifts and take turns staring at computer monitors for the next 10 months. Ever since that arrest, multiple teams have been combing through hundreds of thousands of CSAM files, each file representing a real survivor. From the onset, a single boy wearing a green shirt was the focus. One single survivor mobilized an entire team. But what nobody knew is that this single survivor would represent so much more. Evidence gathered from “The Boy in the Green Shirt” investigation eventually led police to a 2-story house in a quiet neighborhood. To the very room where the little boy was exploited and abused. It led them to the desk he was sitting at in those first photos seized by police. It also led them to a clothes rack tucked neatly in a quiet corner of a small room. A neatly organized clothes rack of matching children’s shirts, all freshly washed and ironed. Just plain shirts, all matching in color and shape hanging neatly in an endless row. Nobody at the scene knew how important that clothes rack would be to this investigation. Nobody had any idea that each of those tiny shirts would come to represent more survivors. A case that started almost a year ago with art lessons and a casual conversation between 2 people sitting on the floor in a small house in Asia, turned into a task-force of police investigators, civilian investigators, digital forensic analysts, social workers, medical professionals, and volunteers from around the world. The saddest part, the most alarming thing about this case isn’t the number of victims or the network that was set up to find them, groom them, isolate and abuse them. The saddest part about this case is that it’s not unique. It’s not an anomaly. It’s commonplace. And it’s happening everywhere, all over the world. (See the "SIMON" highlight on our profile to read the full story of "The Boy in the Green Shirt".)
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