Child sexual exploitation has turned children into sexual commodities, their innocence bought, sold, and traded online, re-victimizing children every day for the rest of their lives (see “About the Crimes Covered on this Site“). We found that Minnesota appears to have the weakest response to trafficking in child abuse material (crime scene images, or “child pornography”) in the nation. Here’s how Minnesota counties compare.

*Crimes include: Production, dissemination, and possession of child abuse imagery (“child pornography”) and sexual solicitation of a child.