Would you be willing to view images of child sexual abuse?

If I was on a jury and it was required that I view such things in order to convict a monster, yes. I would likely not get over it.

Yep, I parrot @canidmajor

I wouldn;t want to, and am sure I can imagine the horrors of what I ight see, but if I had to, to catch a predator, I would.

I knew a woman that transcribed court documents on a horrible case of child abuse resulting in death. She couldn’t talk about it and got teary eyed if anyone brought it up.

Apparently one of the worst jobs at Google is screening out child porn, bestiality, terrorist beheadings etc. from searches. Viewing 15,000 to 20,000 images a day (ie 15 to 20 times as many images a day as the four officers here would have to view) after 12 months they are let go and often need therapy.

Nope. Not unless it was part of my job and, if I had a choice, I don’t think I would take a job that required that. I worked very hard to be useful in medicine and learned early that I could handle just about anything but pediatrics—which includes victims of this kind of abuse.

No unless it was required to put some monster away for a very long time, and viewing them would make me sick.

Only if it meant identifying other perpetrators in all the images whom we would then efficiently go track down and remove from access to victims forever.

Nope I couldn’t. I’ve seen enough bad stuff online.

If some good could come from me viewing it then I would.

I had a job where I had to extract that stuff from files provided by an ISP for court cases.

When the attorney was first explaining what he needed, the look on my face made him stop and say, “Whoa, sorry, you do NOT have to see any of the pictures. Get the files into a usable format and give me a disk.”

I was greatly relieved. But yeah, other people had to look at all the pics. I hope they got combat pay.

I would not be a good candidate to have to look at those pictures. I think it would mess me up for life.

I’m already pretty fucked up, and I understand shitty things happen to people and that sometimes those things need to be documented. I could probably disconnect emotionally from the task and be fine.

Ultimately the people who have to view these images are contributing to a net reduction of such things occurring. At least, that’s the goal, right?

If I found myself on a jury.

I wouldn’t want to do it but I think I could as long as I was able to say at any time ‘OK, that’s it I’ve seen enough it’s someone else’s turn’.

No way. I am survivor of child abuse myself. I’d go off the deep end.

I would like to see people being punished committing such heinous crime.

I worked in a photolab for Kodak. I was the digital person and if people wanted their photos on a CD I would be sent the film where I would scan it and then it would show up on the computer screen and then I would try to get the photos upright and then burn them to a CD.

I had a number of cop on the wall that was primarily tasked to this stuff. I had to call that cop a lot more times than I wanted to.

This was back in 2001 so digital cameras were expensive and cameras on your phone weren’t a thing.

It was not a pleasant job. We also got film from police departments every-night and the crime scene photos were horrible.

There would have to be a good reason. Like those above mentioning jury duty. But I never plan to be a juror, so maybe I should say No….

Probably could not handle that.

I could not see children get tortured and I could not see animals getting tortured. I’d be traumatized.

I couldn’t do it. I could not look at pictures of child sex abuse for minutes on end, much less hours, days, weeks and months. Best case scenario, I would suffer some emotional scarring. Worst case, I would become inured to the scenes of abuse.

Now, here is a job that needs to be computer automated. I read recently where there is a movement for people to send in snaps of their hotel room, and there is a program that can ‘fingerprint’ the room. For cases involving things like child sexual abuse. Surely a program could be written so that the detectives didn’t have to view the most graphic aspects of the abuse photos unless 100% necessary.

@ibstubro :: Microsft has been working on this for a while.

Very cool, @johnpowell. I never heard of it, but I thought something must surely exist.