(The) ABCs of Children's Autopsies: A Medical Examiner's Perspective
Chester Gwin
In this workshop, participants will gain an understanding of autopsy investigation of infant/child deaths. This potpourri presentation will discuss approaches a medical examiner takes in both traumatic and non-traumatic child death, and the integral role other investigating agencies can provide.
Adobe Photoshop for Law Enforcement (Part 1 & 2)
John Penn
This session will include a presentation on the state-of-the-art in digital imaging and digital image verification. It will provide law enforcement with a balanced understanding of the benefits and costs of digital evidence in their cases. Techniques that can be used by criminals to protect themselves from law enforcement will be addressed.
Adolescent Sex Offenders
Anna Salter
Adolescent sex offenders commit anywhere from one-third to one-half of all child sexual offenses. This workshop will begin with a discussion of normal and abnormal adolescent sexual behavior. It will include a typology of adolescent sex offenders which includes both those who are juvenile delinquents and those with pedophilic inclinations. The workshop will address the assessment and treatment of adolescent sex offenders including treatment for those who are juvenile delinquents in general. Finally, interventions and treatments which are effective for adolescent sex offenders will be summarized.
After the First 48: From Indictment to Trial
Rachel Clark, Sherre Sweet
This workshop is for prosecutors and other child abuse professionals. Attendees will gain a better understanding of what it takes to prepare a sexual abuse case beginning with the indictment and ending in trial with a verdict of guilty. The presenters will also explore common problems and challenges encountered in child sex abuse prosecutions as well as discuss strategies for overcoming them.
Alcohol Facilitated Sexual Assault
Christopher Mallios, John Wilkinson
Alcohol-facilitated sexual assault (AFSA) cases present unique challenges for investigators, prosecutors, and other allied professionals. This presentation will explore common issues and challenges related to the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases where alcohol is present. The presenter will discuss societal attitudes about alcohol, basic toxicology, victim credibility, and collaboration between allied professionals. In addition, this presentation will promote a victim-centered response that incorporates offender-focused strategies for effective investigation and prosecution of AFSA cases.
And Then There Were Three: Gang Rape, Witnessed Rape and Other Complex Cases
Christopher Mallios, John Wilkinson
This presentation focuses on issues commonly present in multiple defendant sexual assault cases. It will help prosecutors and allied professionals identify and anticipate challenges related to issues such as severance, immunity, principals and accessories and admissibility of evidence in multiple defendant trials. It also examines common defenses raised in these difficult cases while maintaining a victim-centered, offender-focused approach.
(The) Art of the Knock and Talk
D. Todd Zerfoss
This workshop will take a look at the art of the knock and talk (non-custodial interview) and how it is an essential tool for the child exploitation investigator. A few of the issues to be discussed will be when is a knock and talk appropriate and the legality of an admission made during a knock and talk.
backpage.com: Working with Law Enforcement
Carl Ferrer, Don Bennett Moon
In this workshop a presenter from backpage will discuss some of the challenges it faces in operating a popular classified site and a series of enhancements the site implemented to better improve user safety, security and privacy. He will also share detailed information on how backpage reports possible child exploitation to NCMEC and how to interpret the records provided with a subpoena. Finally, backpage will describe how they can assist law enforcement in its ongoing investigations.
Battered or Brittle: Evaluating Fractures in Infants
Matthew Cox
This lecture will review the types of fractures, the possible mechanism of injury, and the medical diseases that can predispose a child to fractures. The case based discussion will include diseases such as osteogenesis imperfecta, osteopenia of prematurity, rickets and other “metabolic bone diseases.”
(The) Best Kept Secret: Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse
Julie Brand
Because our culture denies that mothers perpetrate sexual abuse, maternal incest frequently goes undetected. This unique workshop explains the complex mother-daughter incestuous relationship, identifies therapeutic issues critical to victim recovery and offers strategies for prevention and intervention. The presenter is both an experienced counselor and a resilient survivor of maternal abuse. For more information on Julie, please go to Caper Consulting.
Best Practices in Sex Offender Management
Greg Brown
This workshop will focus on the best practices in sex offender management from the perspective of risk assessment, containment and best practices.
Breaking Their Will: Investigating Cases of Religious Child Maltreatment
Janet Heimlich
Religious beliefs and customs can sometimes lead adults to abuse and neglect children. This workshop looks at the challenges law enforcement officers, social workers, and others face when investigating such cases, as well as solutions to help overcome those challenges. Includes a case study of a child sexual abuse investigation of an Amish community.
Caring for Our Families: For Individuals Exposed to Child Sexual Abuse Images
Jane Stevenson
Working on an ICAC taskforce or other unit dealing with child pornography will have an impact on your family. Understanding how this will affect your home life and managing it correctly is one of the best things you can do to take care of yourself. This seminar will address ways of talking to spouses and children about the work you do and assuring your work does not have a negative impact on your family.
Child Abductions and the U.S. - Mexican Border
Ron Laney, Jim Walters
This workshop will discuss the issues surrounding cross border abductions, exploitation and sex tourism on the U.S.-Mexican border. The discussion will focus on trends, analysis and case studies, as well as the latest efforts to address these problems.
Child Abduction Response Team (CART)
Ron Laney, Floy Turner
CARTs are a multi-agency, often multi-jurisdictional, composition of law enforcement and community professionals, who are trained and prepared to respond in the search and recovery of an abducted/endangered child. The fundamental strategy behind the formation of these teams is to ensure a rapid and organized response to child abductions and other incidents where response is often linked to the safe recovery of a child. This presentation is designed to provide attendees a better understanding of the investigative strategies utilized during an abducted or endangered missing child case. Participants will develop an understanding of following an organized response plan for case management and investigation that utilizes the resource multiplier of a multi-discipline Child Abduction Response Team program.
Child Abduction Tools and Tactics (Part 1 & 2)
Michael J. Conrad
The FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment (CARD) Team is a national quick-reaction unit that responds to missing and abducted child investigations, working in partnership with local law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. This class will provide you with the lessons learned from those deployments, including both immediate priorities for first responders, as well as long-term investigative, analytical, and case-management strategies. Through case studies, you will see how those best practices have resulted in arrests, convictions, resolutions, and recoveries and you will learn how to “beat the clock” and become proactive in a reactive crisis response.
Child Homicide Investigations
Brian Killacky, Ron Laney
This workshop will discuss the development of a professional and comprehensive law enforcement response into the death of a child which may be non-accidental in nature. Understanding the investigative protocol and working with the medical and CPS agencies is emphasized.
Child Pornography: The Ultimate Tool to Rescue Children from Sexual Abuse
Heather Steele
Using traditional, reactive lines of investigation in child sexual abuse cases has led to frustratingly low conviction rates of sex offenders. Since the explosion of child pornography, however, a new tool is at hand to help rescue children who have no other means of hope. Maximizing proactive child pornography investigations could reduce child sexual abuse. Child pornography evidence is among the most powerful tools against child predation ever discovered. Come learn what every law enforcement agent, probation and parole officer, prosecutor, social worker, therapist, and child advocate needs to know to understand how child pornography evidence revolutionizes the fight to keep children safe from child molesters.
Child Prostitution Investigations: Case Initiation to Trial (Part 1 & 2)
Daniel A. Garrabrant
This workshop is geared toward law enforcement officials and caseworkers that may have contact with prostituted youth. The following topics will be covered; identifying prostituted youth; conducting interviews with victim/witness; initiating a criminal enterprise investigation; utilizing task forces and working groups to facilitate cases, witness maintenance; charging; preparing for trial and post trial issues. Numerous case examples will be utilized.
Child Sex Tourism Case Studies
James Holdman
This lecture will cover a variety of child sex tourism cases worked by DHS/ICE agents. The cases include the use of undercover email accounts, undercover social networks, and undercover meets. The cases were worked out of various cities within Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica. Common problems and solutions in working these types of cases will be discussed.
Child Sex Tourism Investigations and Prosecutions
Matthew Dunn, Steve Grocki
Child Sex Tourism is a pervasive problem throughout the world. U.S. persons often travel outside of the U.S. to engage in this activity due to the perceived anonymity, lack of law enforcement resources, and availability of minors. This lecture will highlight investigative and prosecutorial considerations for CST investigations.
Children with Disabilities and Child Sexual Abuse
Karla Vierthaler
People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of crime and those under 18 are more likely to be victims of sexual assault than adults. Adding to the problem is that these individuals are not given information about sexual health or sexuality, a consequence of our ablest culture. Sexuality training is an effective prevention strategy to reduce sexual abuse and increase reporting. This workshop will highlight information on the link between sexual violence and children with disabilities.
Compromised Wireless: Tracking Child Pornography through a Wireless Network (Exhibitor Workshop)
Carolyn Carter
You’ve done everything right. You obtained the subscriber data through legal process. You did surveillance and confirmed that name on the subscriber information resides at the residence. You did a search for OPEN WIRELESS and identified several in the area, but you still have to start where the legal process tells you to start. Your team hits the door and secures the location so the interview can begin. In a very short period of time you realize the wireless router is unsecured and the person you are interviewing is not the offender. Someone makes the comment, “we hit the wrong house.” However, the fact is you have hit the right house. You could not have started any place else. You have to start at the location identified as the subscriber. In this workshop you will learn how to quickly determine if the wireless network located in a specific residence is open (running no security) or secured (running WEP or WPA) without entering the building. In addition, you will learn how to quickly locate the suspect access point and any wireless device(s) associated with it. This workshop will provide an overview of the technology used in this procedure and demonstrate the procedure using the Fluke Networks AirCheck Wi-Fi Tester. This lab would be beneficial to investigators and prosecutors as it will deal with the identification of a compromised wireless router and the legality of the wireless technology being used.
Conducting Peer Review With an Eye Toward Corroborating Evidence (Part 1 & 2)
Victor Vieth, Mike Johnson
This workshop will instruct MDTs to use the peer review process to evaluate how well the forensic interviewer did in asking questions that will elicit details or investigative leads that can be corroborated. Peer review can also serve as a teaching tool for investigators as to whether or not investigative leads from the forensic interview were appropriately followed up on. Students will watch portions of a forensic interview and participate in a critique of the interview based solely on the issue of eliciting and following up on information from the child that will lead to corroborating evidence.
Conducting Wi-Fi Investigations
Michael Duffey
This workshop will discuss best practices for dealing with Wi-Fi both prior to arrival and while on-scene along with suggestions and best practices of dealing with Wi-Fi in your cases. In today's high tech world it's not always the computer we are after; Wi-Fi is all over and days of just pulling the power are gone.
Corroborating the Trafficking Investigation (Part 1 & 2)
Byron Fassett
Participants will learn how trafficking investigations and their intervention differ from traditional child sexual abuse investigation. How to identify investigative challenges/issues related to these cases, and overcome these challenges through non-traditional proactive investigative techniques will be discussed. This training module will provide law enforcement officers and service providers with information on how technology (cells phones, phone chat lines, social networking sites, Internet ads) are used to sell, lure, and control child victims of trafficking. Case examples will be utilized to illustrate where mistakes were made and successful investigative techniques worked.
Countering Annonymization and Other Techniques Used to Conceal True Identities in Online Investigations
Brian Bone, James Fottrell, Steve Grocki
This training block will center on ways that offenders are able to hide their identities online using proxies, TOR, and wireless systems, and how law enforcement can counter these methods. The block will provide successful case examples that will provide a framework for discussion of different investigative strategies when dealing with more sophisticated offenders who increasingly employ annonymization techniques. It will discuss the full complement of tools and techniques available to law enforcement when an online offender cannot simply be identified through his or her IP address.
County and State Prosecutor Forum
Eren Price, Reynie Tinajero, Carmen White
Meet your fellow prosecutors from around the country and bring your questions to a fun and informative question and answer forum. A group-facilitated discussion will provide you with options and potential solutions to resolve your most problematic issues. Learning from others in the field and utilizing the experience of fellow prosecutors can often bring about a new perspective.
CP Club: Targeting Dangerous Online Group Offenders
Matt Dunn, James Fottrell, Steven Grocki
This training block will provide a valuable introduction into the online technologies, focusing primarily on web-based forums and social networking sites, and means employed by sophisticated online offenders groups who utilize the Internet to meet like-minded offenders, validate their common sexualized interest in children, and trade or discuss child sex abuse and the images that capture that abuse. The block will stress why these technologies and the offenders who utilize them must be part of any workable targeting strategy to combat online child exploitation. It will provide examples of a typical group’s organizational structure, exhibited dangerousness, complexity, and technical sophistication. Further, the presentation will address the common difficulties law enforcement and prosecutors face when conducting proactive investigations into these groups, how to identify the groups, develop an investigative strategy, and deal with their international scope.
Craigslist UC Operations
Wayne Nichols
With the success of traditional chat cases experiencing a decline in recent years, Detective Nichols has focused efforts on Craigslist. The Craigslist initiative has been very successful and since 2009, the Henderson (Nevada) Police Department has made over 30 enticement arrests, all of which resulted from proactive efforts. This lecture will provide attendees with information on where to find suspicious ads on Craigslist. Detective Nichols will also share his preferred methods and tools for logging the communication, utilizing undercover regressed photos, and incorporating Google Voice (a phenomenal new tool for law enforcement). Detective Nichols will also show how information easily obtained from Craigslist can eliminate the need for using decoys. Additionally, the lecture will cover the exciting initiative that the Henderson Police Department has begun, using Craigslist for proactive investigations.
Detecting Deception
Jim Tanner
Improve your interview skills. Learn how to tell when someone is editing something out of a written or verbal statement. This session will provide an overview of the basics of Discourse Analysis, a lexical and syntactical approach to analyzing statements. Using clear examples, Dr. Tanner will explain how a respondent's shifts in words and grammar can point interviewers to "hot spots" in a statement that need to be probed. After attending this session you will never listen to a conversation or interview the same way again.
Digital Pitfalls Encounterd By Youth
Sarah Migas
This workshop will examine some of the most common pitfalls youth encounter while using ditigal technology. The following topics will specifically be addressed: cyberbullying, cyberstalking, sexting, digital citizenship, and online "branding." This workshop will also highlight teacher training modules that were created by the Office of the Illinois Attorney General that can be used in the classroom to facilitate digital safety lessons with students.
Digital Sexual Behaviors as Indicators of Risk
Tom Pals, Jim Tanner
Technology is advancing faster than the justice system's ability to understand it. Standard sex offender risk assessments do not adequately include digital behavior in the risk assessment. Based on Dr. Tanner's "14 Factors" paper (available on the Conference Resource CD), this session provides information revealed during a research study at the Denver treatment agency Redirecting Sexual Aggression. The session will provide valuable information on how to include and interpret digital behaviors when assessing risk. Investigators, prosecutors, probation/parole officers and evaluation/treatment staff will gain a fuller understanding of digital behavior and risk.
(The) Emule Network
Robert Erdely
This workshop will provide instruction of the EDonkey2k/Emule File Sharing Protocol. This lecture will describe this network and outline the way investigators may locate individuals sharing child pornography via this network.
Engaging Fathers In the Child Welfare System
Kenneth D. Thompson, Sr.
Historically, the child welfare system has directed more attention and resources to working with and providing services to mothers than fathers. However, the absence of fathers in CPS cases has created significant challenges for CPS and families. While the evidence about involving fathers in child welfare cases shows positive outcomes for children who have been removed from their homes, the attitudes and behaviors of mothers, CPS staff, service providers and communities may play a role in sustaining a differential focus on mothers. This workshop will explore the dynamics of engaging and connecting the value of fathers to the family and community.
Evidence Based Practices in Offender Rehabilitation
Greg Brown
This workshop will focus on the evidence based practices in assessing, targeting services and managing sex offenders. There is strong research supporting the importance of assessment, treatment and management of sex offenders. This workshop will highlight the research and focus on best practices for a multidisciplinary team approach.
Evidence Doesn't Lie! Collecting and Preserving Truth
Carrie Sutherland, David Sylvester
Based on the NIJ-sponsored Essentials of Crime Scene Investigation training program delivered by the National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC) in 2010, this presentation will include an overview of the 13-module online training program, The Essentials of Crime Scene Investigation. Emphasis will be placed on the first two modules of the course regarding effective use of tools in a basic evidence collection kit and a crime scene processing overview. The presenter will focus on the knowledge, skills and techniques required to recognize, document, collect, preserve and transmit a variety of physical evidence for analysis according to guidelines recommended by the Technical Working Group on Crime Scene Investigation (TWGCSI).
Facebook: Working with Law Enforcement
Mat Henley, Alex Vichinsky
In this workshop, the presenters will present the challenges Facebook faces in operating the world's largest social networking site. They will discuss the latest safety and privacy controls available to prevent and reduce risks for users of the site. Lastly they will detail how Facebook can assist law enforcement in ongoing investigations.
False Allegation of Child Abduction
Mark A Hilts
In missing/abducted child investigations, it can often be difficult for investigators to determine whether a child has actually been abducted, or has instead become the victim of a homicide by someone close to them. This workshop will provide attendees with the results of a recently completed FBI research project on false allegations of child abduction, as well as some case examples.
FBI’s Innocent Safeguard Shield: Safeguarding Personnel Exposed to CEM
Nicole Cruz
This workshop will explore and clarify issues pertaining to the psychological impact of exposure to child exploitation or material. Resiliency and coping styles will be discussed. The audience will receive guidance to aid in better understanding their personal ability to respond to, process and compartmentalize child pornography.
Five B’s of Child Physical Abuse: Bruises, Burns, Bones, Bellies and Brains
Matthew Cox
This talk will review the variety of injuries seen in cases of possible child abuse. The discussion will be case-based and include examples of abusive and non-abusive injuries. The lecture will be geared for CPS workers, law enforcement investigators and attorneys to learn the basic aspects of child physical abuse.
Forensic Interviewer Forum
Julie Kenniston
This forum will offer time for interviewers to discuss current issues in forensic interviewing and provide an opportunity to problem solve specific questions with peers.
From the First 48 to Reality: A 360° Look at Criminal Interrogation (Part 1 & 2)
Scott Donovan, Kevin Navarro
In 2010, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's (FLETC) Behavioral Science Division (BSD), the Dallas Police Department (DPD), and the FLETC Media Support Division (MSD) initiated a joint project exploring interrogation methods from a 360-degree perspective. Videotaped interrogations of homicide suspects conducted by DPD Homicide Detectives were analyzed. Videotaped interviews of the detectives and now-incarcerated suspects were then conducted. Those interviews explored the philosophy and methodology of the homicide detectives as well as the opinions of the suspects. A video-intensive training tool was developed and fielded by the FLETC/BSD and the DPD. This presentation is based on that project. It focuses on principles of interpersonal dynamics, rapport building, methods by which a confession is elicited, and interrogation philosophy. Key segments of video from the interrogation are presented. These segments are combined with videotaped perspective on these aspects of the interrogation from the investigator and the now-incarcerated suspect, providing a 360-degree look at critical steps and principles associated with a criminal interrogation.
Gang-Related Violence Against Women and Girls
Christopher Mallios, John Wilkinson
This presentation will examine gang-related domestic violence among teens and young adults, gang culture, and the gang member as an abuser. The session will also review abduction, recruitment, and the violence involved in the sexual exploitation of young women. Participants will learn about the violence, tactics, and recruitment methods utilized by gangs and will receive recommendations of appropriate victim-centered criminal justice responses to address gang-related violence against women.
Getting Mom OUT of a Domestic Violence Situation
Kristen Howell
Advocates, investigators and prosecutors are routinely frustrated by a battered woman's difficulty terminating her abusive relationship. This class will look at ways to get her from 'going to gone.' Participants will examine ways to facilitate and prepare a woman for a safe outcome and ultimately end the abuse.
GoDaddy.com: Unlocking the Information Available through Registrars
Ben Butler
This workshop will provide a look at the information available to investigators through the world’s largest Domain Name Registrar and hosting provider; What to expect when dealing with Registrars; as well as an overview of recent child protection and online pharmacy legislation.
Gnutella Basics
Robert Erdely
This workshop will provide instruction of the Gnutella File Sharing Protocol. It is recommended that this lecture be attended prior to participating in the RoundUp Labs that will be offered on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Grooming Tactics Used by Child Molesters
Cory Jewell Jensen
Participants will examine (via videotaped interviews with various types of sex offenders) some of the specific strategies used to target, seduce and exploit children, and adults. Information was collected from approximately 1,400 sex offenders who were involved in long term, court mandated sex offender treatment. Topics include offender descriptions of “grooming” tactics, ie., how and why they target certain children, families, and youth serving agencies, how they seduce child victims and adult caretakers, and how they inhibit disclosure, detection and reporting. The speaker will also address the possible number of undetected offenders and sexual crimes occurring in our communities, “cross over” sexual crime behavior, recidivism rates, treatment outcomes, and the increasing trend in sexually deviant behavior associated with the Internet.
(A) Guide to Working with Non-Offending Parents
Dan Powers
This workshop will review types of non-offending parents and will suggest a consistent approach in dealing with them from investigation through on-going treatment. It will focus on the multi-disciplinary team approach used in the Children’s Advocacy Center settings. This workshop is intended for interviewers, police officers, CPS workers, medical personnel, therapists and anyone else dealing with abused children and their non-offending parents.
Hope and Healing for Drug Endangered Children
Vanessa Sanford
This presentation will discuss the impact, risk, and harm children suffer when they are exposed to volatile drug environments. Information will also include understanding addiction, family dynamics, the recovery process from the children's and parents' points of view, and how to support resiliency.
Human Trafficking of Adolescents at Truck Stops
Krista Hoffman
Truck stops are often utilized by traffickers to meet the demand for commercial sexual exploitation. This workshop will discuss commercial sexual exploitation at Pennsylvania truck stops, witnessed accounts from those in the trucking industry, and the techniques law enforcement, prosecutors and advocates have developed to counter crimes occurring in these venues.
Human Trafficking Investigative Strategies
Ron Laney, Floy Turner
In this workshop participants will receive an orientation of the issues of human trafficking of children. The presentation will focus on various investigative strategies that are common to this type of investigation. The discussion will make the nexus between the use of these strategies and best practices in human trafficking investigation. Use of resources and the power of pre-planning with prosecutors and NGOs will be highlighted. The challenges of dealing with human trafficking victims, interviews, gathering evidence and the complicated dynamics of working human trafficking cases will be covered.
ICACCOPS for Investigators
Robert Erdely
This lecture will teach investigators how to locate offenders in their jurisdiction and how this data can be used with other tools including RoundUP, CPS, and e-phex. ICACCOPS also identifies TOR exit nodes and identifies high volume child pornography offenders.
(The) Impact of Sexual Abuse on Victims (Part 1 & 2)
Anna Salter
Child and adult victims of sexual abuse may suffer a variety of symptoms that cut across cognitive, affective and physiological domains. Those victims who have long-term relationships with their offenders, for example incest victims, often internalize the thinking errors of the offenders. In addition, victims of severe abuse sometimes develop a trauma-based world view characterized by a sense of hopelessness, pessimism about the future, and a belief in a shortened life span. Such victims do not share the positive illusions that characterize non-traumatized victims. In addition, abuse survivors often have affective flashbacks which are triggered by reminders of the abuse. Finally, many of the commonly cited sequelae to sexual abuse – e.g., revictimization, drug and alcohol addiction, and self-mutilation – can better be described as home-grown solutions to chronic pain. This workshop will address these and other sequelae to sexual assault in adults and children.
Incest Offenders
Anna Salter
This workshop will focus on the dynamics of incest. In particular, it will focus on interactions between offenders and their victims along with discussion of the role of the non-offending spouse. Mothers have often been routinely blamed for father/daughter incest; although there is little empirical foundation for the belief that mother “always” know and approve of the incest. This workshop will discuss the range of behaviors actually found in mothers from those who do encourage and even participate in incest to those who are unaware and protect when they discover it. It will discuss a number of dynamics found in incestuous situations including different types of denial.
Interdiction for the Protection of Children
Cody Mitchell, Derek Prestridge
This workshop will educate law enforcement officers in the skill of using interdiction techniques while conducting traffic stops to identify abducted and exploited children or suspects that may be a high risk threat to children. Students will gain an awareness of resources, the need for training, and interdiction techniques that will allow them to make a confident decision to begin an investigation or begin collecting information. Lastly, the presenters will share actual examples of cases involving runaways, child pornography and human trafficking that were discovered using these interdiction techniques.
International Parental Child Abductions (IPCA)
Janelle Guest, Cathy Moffitt
Law Enforcement, Investigators, Uniformed Patrol Officers, Police Supervisors, and Case Managers come and learn how the Department of State deals with international parental child abduction issues. Abduction Officers from the Office of Children’s Issues will discuss strategies and how-to’s for assisting children and parents victimized by international parental child abduction. The Office of Children’s Issues serves as the U.S. Central Authority (USCA) for the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects on International Child Abduction. Presenters will share real case scenarios, explain tools used to prevent child abduction and discuss how we work to locate abducted children.
Interview Techniques for Child Sexual Exploitation Suspects
James Cole, Josh Findley
This class will expose students to several themes, methodologies and approaches unique to the child sexual exploitation suspect. Learn how to get confessions from the most difficult of offenders. In addition, learn how to obtain evidence and confessions during the conduct of child sexual exploitation knock and talks. The instructors will share real life experiences and cases to demonstrate the skills and techniques they have found successful in this unique area of law enforcement.
Interviewing Adolescents
Julie Kenniston
Adolescents present their own challenges in interviews given their access to media and other influences. This presentation will delve into the cultural context that impacts teens as well as how development and emotional intelligence play a role. Interview strategies will be discussed.
Interviewing Compliant Victims
Amy Allen, Ale Levi, Diane Siegel
This workshop will focus on the importance of conducting forensic interviews with compliant victims. Those who attend will gain a better understanding of the characteristics of these victims, including cognitive and emotional development, and why it is so important for them to receive forensic interviews. This workshop will include lecture, case examples and forensic interviewer experience.
Interviewing Techniques for Asset Forfeiture in Child Abuse Cases
Julie Kenniston, Chris Kolcharno
Forensic interviewers have an opportunity to ask questions that assist law enforcement officers with not only corroboration, but also asset forfeiture. By understanding child molester behavior and formulating good questions, consequent search warrants can result in forfeiture used to further fund investigation and prosecution of child abuse.
Interviewing Suspects in Online Child Exploitation Investigations
Todd Hiles
This workshop will assist investigators in interviewing suspects in online child exploitation investigations. Methods, tools and skills necessary to interview will be discussed. Case examples will be used to demonstrate how previously identified suspects were interviewed.
Into the Cloud: Obtaining Incriminating Electronic Data from Online Providers in Child Exploitation Cases
James Fottrell, Steven Grocki
This training block will focus on the challenges faced by law enforcement in an increasingly sophisticated online environment to obtain stored, incriminating information. Utilizing notable case examples, it will introduce attendees to how “server-side” data is obtained from web hosting companies and ISPs, and what advantages and disadvantages the technology utilized means to the investigation. The training will provide examples of the importance of obtaining this information and how it provides a wealth of information about the offender’s pattern of criminal conduct.
Introduction to CrossFit
Robert "Bodie" Sartin
Are you interested in getting in shape? Losing Weight? Improving your sport? Whatever your goal is, you need to attend this workshop and learn about CrossFit training. CrossFit is a core strength and conditioning program that was developed to enhance and individual's competency in all physical tasks. This workshop will be held in the hotel's fitness center on the 4th floor and participants should wear comfortable clothes and be ready to have a fun workout.
Introduction to Internet Relay Chat and the Undercover Persona
Kevin Laws
This lecture will include a basic overview of IRC to include navigation and the logging function of the IRC client (mIRC). The presenter will also discuss building your IRC undercover persona and introduction to the various chat rooms dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children. Lastly, the presenter will present tips about chatting and building your investigation based on experience. Court presentation, including presenting your evidence and jury considerations, will also be discussed.
Intro to VizX: Automating Image/Video Forensics (Exhibitor Workshop)
James Krainock
James Krainock will introduce VizX, the digital forensics software suite for image/video analysis in child abuse investigations. Now available in the U.S., but originating in the Netherlands and developed in part by the Dutch Police, VizX boasts advanced features such as nude detection, face detection, TwinMatch, logo detection, and central database sharing. Preview 2 hours of video in 2 minutes with VizX.
Investigating and Prosecuting Online Enticement Cases
Lisa Miller, Camille Sparks
Each year an increasing number of sexual predators solicit children for sexual contact through the Internet. To combat this growing trend, undercover operations take place in efforts to capture those who use the Internet to prey on children. Appropriate for both state and federal investigators, this lecture will outline the federal enticement statute and its alternatives as well as practical “do's and don’ts” through case studies for the investigation and prosecution of predators who meet children online.
Investigating Long Term Missing Child Cases
Robert Hoever, Robert Lowery
This workshop will discuss various strategies to investigate long term missing child cases. The presentation will discuss search and rescue, landfill searches, technical, analytical, case management, and work load support for a comprehensive response.
Investigating Physical Abuse and Neglect: Reconstruction Techniques (Part 1 & 2)
Robert Farley
This workshop will focus on non-accidental injuries on children and will emphasize the specific techniques that can be used by the investigator in the assessment, investigation and reconstruction of cases involving soft tissue injuries such as bruises, lacerations and burns. In addition, the various weapons utilized by the offender in child abuse situations will also be identified and discussed. The seminar will also address the circumstances and evaluation of deprived and neglected children. Lastly, the presentation will include case illustrations that encourage hands-on participation by the student.
(The) Investigative Response to Child Abduction Investigations
Ron Laney, Mark Simpson
This workshop examines a variety of child abduction cases and the various investigative strategies and techniques most commonly used in the response to these crimes. Particular importance will be placed on multi-agency and multi-disciplinary cooperation and collaboration, the importance of Child Abduction Response Teams and the effect of these strategies. Case Management, Search and Rescue, Short and Long Term Investigative Initiatives, and Forensics will be examined. This review will demonstrate the importance of conducting comprehensive investigations across tribal and international borders. It is designed for new investigators.
Jury Selection in Cases of Child Abuse
Stephanie Smith
Jury selection is one of the most stressful and crucial phases of trial week. This presentation will discuss what current research says about the perceptions potential jurors bring with them and how to get them talking about these perceptions during voir dire. Suggestions for engaging prospective jurors in an active dialogue and tips for "must cover" topics will be presented.
Jury Selection in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
Sherre Sweet
This workshop will discuss issues and challenges facing the prosecutor in selecting a jury in child sexual abuse trials. This session will include topics such as the recanting child victim, the young child witness, the lack of medical and physical evidence, and punishment issues.
Keeping Children Safe by Addressing Domestic Violence
Kristen Howell
Learn the complexities of domestic violence and ways you can protect children by enhancing mom's ability to get safe. This workshop is designed to help you move beyond a simple understanding of domestic violence; instead you will walk away with the skills to identify domestic violence, facilitate change in the home, and create lasting safety.
Law Enforcement Forum
Robert Farley, Brenda Nichols
Meet your fellow law enforcement officers from around the country and participate in a forum to discuss the topic of Critical Issues in Conducting Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Child Abuse Investigations. Among the items to be discussed are: the proper role of the MDT; Investigative problems and jurisdictional issues encountered; and how MDTs operate where there is no children’s advocacy center. This high-energy, group led discussion will provide you with an opportunity to both learn from others and share your experiences with them.
Law Enforcement’s Role In Prevention – Beyond Safety Education
Cordelia Anderson
This workshop takes a broader look at prevention including, but also moving beyond, educating children on how to protect themselves, with specific attention to ways law enforcement is, and can be involved in, countering demand and making broad-based social change.
Living with the Memories
Jim Tanner
People working crimes against women and children see and hear many things they would rather not. These memories can have a disturbing effect on professionals and their families. Based on more than 40 years experience working in criminal justice, Dr. Tanner explains what's behind the secondary trauma of working these cases and provides simple but effective steps we can take to help us live with these memories and images once we have seen and heard them. This is not an "eat right and exercise" session. Participants will gain valuable insight to secondary trauma and how to minimize it. You owe it to yourself and your family to attend this session.
Locating Noncompliant Sex Offenders
Michael Bourke, John Feeney, Richard Kelly
This workshop will address how the United States Marshals Service (USMS) works with state and local investigators to help identify, locate, and apprehend noncompliant sex offenders. The presentation will include a description of the resources available from the National Sex Offender Targeting Center and how to access them. The presenters also will explain how USMS Sex Offender Investigation Coordinators work with state, local, and tribal officials to create safer communities.
Long Term Missing and Cold Case Investigation
Brian Killacky, Ron Laney
This investigative block was developed to introduce investigators into the systems necessary to establish an operational cold case investigative system into crimes against children. The types of units or assignments as well as an explaination into issues associated into approaching cases that have been labeled cold, suspended or forgotten.
Managing Your Unit within a Healthy Environment: A Seminar for Supervisors of Individuals Exposed to Child Sexual Abuse Images
Jane Stevenson
Managing the emotional and mental health needs of professionals exposed to child pornography requires special skills and tools. This seminar will introduce supervisors to effective management techniques to assure healthy longevity of exposed personnel. This seminar is relevant to managers in any profession which is exposed to child pornography including prosecutors, probation/parole, and law enforcement.
Mapquest Your Way to Missing and Exploited Children
Don Colcolough
More and more often, both child predators and their victims are using mapping websites like Mapquest.com to locate each other and/or arrange meeting locations. Investigators and prosecutors should explore, comprehend, and integrate this valuable forensic evidence, which may be located on computers and/or networks. This workshop will illustrate how this data can be used to determine both the location of victims and/or the perpetrators who search for these victims online.
Medical Assessment and Intervention for Child Trafficking and Torture
Amy Barton
Child trafficking victims are subjected to a multitude of physical injuries, diseases, and psychological trauma. These children require extensive medical evaluation for their own health and from a public health perspective. Learn about the necessary medical evaluation, the urgency of the timing of the evaluation, and long term outcomes via cases.
Mobile/Cellular Devices and the Secrets They Hold
Amber Schroader
Mobile/Cellular devices are the largest key to evidence in any suspect or victim’s actions and behaviors. In this workshop you will learn what secrets these devices are hiding from you and how you can best get this information. The basics of mobile forensics will be discussed as well as analysis of the data, and what to look for. You will learn how to profile your suspect simply based on what mobile/cellular phone they use.
NCMEC and USMS Sex Offender Tracking Resources
Kristen Anderson, Michael Troyanski
This workshop will provide an overview of two great resources for law enforcement officers related to apprehending sex offenders. The presenters will discuss NCMEC’s Sex Offender Tracking Team and the United States Marshal Office’s (USMS) resources including representative samples of success stories highlighting the combined efforts to track, locate, and apprehend sex offenders.
(The) National Missing and Unidentified Person System (NamUs)
Carrie Sutherland, Billy Young
This workshop will provide an overview of the NamUs program: How it works, how it can help you, and how it has helped others. It will discuss the development and implementation of the NamUs system, provide details of resolved cases via NamUs cross-matching, as well as discuss the many free services provided by NamUs to state and local agencies.
New Generation Triage Tool for Forensic Examiners and Investigators (Exhibitor Workshop)
Dan O'Fallon
In this exhibitor supported workshop the presenter will demonstrate the new ADF triage tools and address the requirements set out by the forensic community examiners to 1) eliminate incoming computers with the highest higher degree of confidence, 2) easily allow non-technical investigators to triage suspect computers to have access to conclusive evidence immediately, and avoid collecting unnecessary computers in the field. The demo will walk you through the 1, 2, 3 step process of preparing a triage key with a search profile, scanning a suspect PC, and viewing the results.
Non-Impact Findings of Abusive Head Trauma
Cathleen Lang
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the medical findings and injuries associated with abusive head trauma without signs of impact. It will focus on the possible etiologies, current theories, and areas for further research regarding hypoxic brain injury, cervical spine injuries, and intracranial bleeding.
Online Anonymization/E-Mail Aggregation
Don Colcolough
In the fast paced Internet industry, there are emerging technologies being adopted by child predators and child pornographers in order to avoid detection and identification. Online Anonymization and E-mail Aggregation are two emerging technologies that law enforcement investigators and prosecutors should comprehend to continue to further their investigations and cases. There are new tools and techniques that are available to provide valuable identification and locations of those who seek to avoid this detection. This lecture attends to the ongoing issues of Anonymization and E-mail Aggregation that is now part of a growing amount of child pornography and child solicitation investigations.
Online Child Exploitation Hypothetical - What Would You Do?
Jon Berroya, Michelle Collins, Matt Dunn, Steve Grocki, Colleen Holt, Mike Jedrey, Eric Kuijl, Michael Moran, Camille Sparks
Using a panel of specialists in this crime type ranging from local law enforcement to Industry specialists, a scenario will be given and each person asked to explain what they would do in this case. The audience will also be encouraged to get engaged. This type of workshop allows an exploration of the issues and can be very enlightening even to those already working in this area or to those who always wondered how this type of investigation works.
Online Content Offenders: The Need to Up Our Game
Michael Moran
This session will introduce a four level typology of online content offenders and explain the characteristics of each level based on the technology used and the online security employed. Using this typology, current law enforcement engagement will be examined and suggestions will be given on ways to "up our game."
Opening Statements and Closing Arguments in Cases of Child Abuse
Victor Vieth
Students will learn the art of developing effective themes and theories to present to jurors in cases of child abuse. Particular emphasis will be placed on cases in which the outcome largely relies on the assessment of the child’s credibility versus the credibility of the accused.
Overcoming Difficult Situations in Forensic Interviews…What Questions Do I Ask Next?
Rita Johnson
This training provides both lecture and group discussion. Participants will learn how to overcome difficult situations during forensic interviews and handling those tough questions. Upon entering the workshop, participants will have a chance to write down difficult situations they have encountered and the presenter and participants will work to find solutions and practical tools that can be used in the future.
Overcoming the Consent Defense: Prosecuting Cases Involving Victims Used in Prostitution
Christopher Mallios, John Wilkinson
This presentation will help prosecutors and allied professionals understand, identify, and respond to violence against sexually exploited adolescents, i.e., adolescents used in prostitution. It will discuss the dynamics of sexual exploitation, including the frequency and type of violence sexually exploited adolescents experience. It will also explore issues, strategies, and defenses relevant to the prosecution of violence against sexually exploited adolescents. The presenter will review current criminal justice responses to violence against sexually exploited adolescents and sexually exploited adolescents who present as defendants charged with prostitution crimes.
Play-Based Trauma Interventions for Sexual Abuse Treatment (Part 1-4, All Day)
Sueann G. Kenney-Noziska
This workshop will emphasize play-based trauma interventions for clinical practice with children and adolescents who have experienced sexual abuse. Lecture, case examples, and experiential activities will be utilized to create a comprehensive learning experience. An emphasis will be placed on ensuring participants receive play therapy interventions they can readily incorporate into their practice. See this link. Sueann Kenney-Noziska
Pornography and Its Impact on Children, Youth and Society
Cordelia Anderson
While law enforcement work focuses on investigation of child pornography, the effects of pornography in general are relevant to consider. This workshop presents several studies and examples of how pornography is affecting the attitudes and behaviors of children and adults in ways that cross over into cases.
PowerPoint for Public Safety Professionals (Part 1 & 2)
Thomas M. Manson
Conference version of the national course, PowerPoint® for Public Safety™ is designed to assist public safety personnel to become more efficient and proficient with PowerPoint®. Topics will include: Fast development, Best Practices, Audio and Video, Non-Linear Timelines and Splash Screens, and Custom Animation. Case examples will include: Infanticide, Instruction and Public Presentations of Law Enforcement sensitive material. For more information, go to Police Technical.
PowerPoint for Prosecutors (Part 1 & 2)
Thomas M. Manson
Conference version of the national course, PowerPoint® for Prosecution™ is designed to assist the development, management and prosecution of criminal cases through a more efficient and proficient application of PowerPoint®. Any persons active in law enforcement and prosecution are welcome to attend. Topics will include: Fast development, Best Practices, Audio and Video, Non-Linear Timelines and Splash Screens, and Custom Animation. Case examples will include: Infanticide, Case Management and Prosecution. For more information, go to Police Technical.
Preparing a Child Witness for Court
Amy Derrick, Carmen White
This workshop focuses on issues and challenges that prosecutors face when preparing a child to testify. The workshop will discuss procedures and programs to prepare children for court - including a Kids In Court program- and how to effectively present a child's testimony in court. The discussion will also include working with children who may be very young, severely traumatized, have disabilities and who possess behavioral or mental health issues.
Preparing Children to Testify in Court
Stephanie Smith
The demands of the legal process create special challenges for the children who must present testimony in court. The discussion will consider these challenges from the child’s perspective and provide tips for practitioners on how to help anticipate the particular stressors in each case and what to do to help the child deal with these factors so that she/he can focus. Attention will also be given to helping the child “debrief” after trial testimony and prepare for the sentencing hearing.
Preparing For and Testifying In Court – Learning to Love Being a Witness
Stephanie Smith
This workshop will cover the up-front preparation necessary to effectively testify in child maltreatment cases. The discussion will include suggestions for establishing your expertise to a jury and how to respond to cross-examination. Although intended for those with limited courtroom testimony experience or those who are still very nervous about presenting testimony in court, tips on documentation of the witness’ experience will be helpful for all involved in testifying in these cases.
Presenting Evidence in the Forensic Interview: The Prepare and Predict Model
Amy Allen, Ale Levi, Diane Siegel
This workshop will focus on presenting evidence during the forensic interview using the Prepare and Predict Method. This method is a non-leading, legally defensible method that is used to assist forensic interviewers in obtaining accurate and detailed statements from victims. Participants will be provided guidance on why, when and how to present evidence and the different types of cases that can benefit from the use of this methodology. This workshop will include a combination of lecture, case examples and forensic interviewer experience.
Preventing Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Cordelia Anderson
This workshop will discuss how the expertise of law enforcement in investigating these cases and working with high risk victims can aid the efforts underway to counter demand and change other factors that play into making the exploitation of children by commercial sexual exploitation more likely.
Protecting Self and Family in a Digital World
Jim Tanner
Web enabled devices are part of the modern world. For most of us, we know enough about technology to get things done. But there is a "dark side" of technology. Join a cyber crime analyst as he talks in plain English about the technical problems and risks everyone faces each time they log into their computer or use a credit card in public. Regardless of your technical expertise (or lack thereof), you will walk away from this session understanding cyber-stalking, identify theft, ATM skimming, cross-site scripting, spyware, and malware. More importantly, you will know what to do to protect yourself and your family from these threats.
Reducing Computer Forensic Backlog by 50% - a True Life Experience (Exhibitor Workshop)
Harry Parsonage
This presentation is an explanation of the steps taken to reduce a computer forensic backlog in a law enforcement digital forensic unit. It uses real examples that have been applied in practice and were very successful. It also looks at recent developments whereby investigators, under the guidance of forensic practitioners, can use triage software to collect data at an early stage of an investigation in order to progress that investigation whilst waiting for a full forensic examination.
Resiliency 101: From Victim to Survivor
Julie Brand
Some victims of abuse perpetuate the cycle; others become safe, healthy adults. Can we influence which path they choose? This workshop identifies key steps to overcoming trauma and to developing a “survivor’s perspective.” Attendees will learn how to use the “language of resiliency” to identify and reinforce victims’ strengths. The presenter is an experienced counselor and a resilient survivor of maternal sexual abuse.
Reunification and the Juvenile Sex Offender
Terri Bauer, Dan Powers
Many juvenile sex offenders will return home after treatment. Reunification with their family poses many clinical issues for the offender, family and victim. Treatment providers for the offender and victim must work together to make this transition safe and successful. This workshop will focus on family reunification when the victim is a family member.
RISS Services and How They Can Help You
Dale Stanley
This presentation will demonstrate the wealth of resources available to you and your agency from Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS). During this workshop you will learn how RISS can provide assistance from day one of an investigation through prosecution. A mock investigation will be used to illustrate available RISS services, including but not limited to, information about RISS' Criminal Intelligence and Technical Services Unit, as well as the Analytical and Publications Department.
(THE) Role of INTERPOL in Child Exploitation Investigations (Part 1 & 2)
Shawn Bray, George Guzman, Uri Sadeh
This presentation will explore how INTERPOL assists law enforcement agencies in child exploitation matters with an international nexus. This assistance generally involves the location and arrest of known criminals and fugitives; location and return of missing or abducted children; criminal history information and records checks from member countries; requests to obtain evidence or conduct interviews for a judicial or law enforcement purpose and preparation and issuance of INTERPOL Notices. During this session, participants will be introduced to the value of INTERPOL Notices. The participants will be exposed to the INTERPOL Notice application and distribution process. In addition, this presentation will focus on the International Child Exploitation Image Database (ICSE DB). The ICSE database is a powerful intelligence and investigative tool, that affords specialized investigators worldwide instant access to data and tools for upload and analysis of seized material. *** The material in both sessions is complementary of the other and therefore, it is not required for participants to attend both sessions.***
Safeguarding: Increasing Investigators’ Psychological Resiliency
Michael Bourke
This presentation addresses the psychological safeguarding of law enforcement personnel. This introductory overview is designed for prosecutors, law enforcement personnel, child protective services staff, and mental health professionals.
Scalds, Scorches and Splashes: Burns in Children
Matthew Cox
This lecture will review the medical aspects of pediatric burn injuries including the classic forced immersion burns, accidental spills, and unusual burn injuries. The lecture will be given from the perspective of a child abuse pediatrician.
Seattle's Juvenile Prostitution Problem: Recovering the City's Youth
Steve Vienneau
The Puget Sound area around Seattle has emerged as a region plagued by juvenile prostitution. For the past two years, it has led the nation in the number of juvenile victims recovered during the FBI’s Operation Cross-Country. As a result of this notoriety, the Seattle Innocence Lost Task Force has developed strategies and tactics to build stronger cases, and foster better relationships with prosecutors, advocacy groups, lawmakers, and the media to help the community combat this terrible problem.
Sentencing Strategies for Child Pornography Cases
Lisa Miller, Camille Sparks
After the publication of the "Stabenow" article, prosecutors have struggled to attain guideline sentences in child pornography cases. This presentation will aid law enforcement and prosecutors to make the most effective argument possible to the court. The presentation will begin with strategies when the investigation begins through argument at sentencing.
Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth (Part 1 & 2)
Autumn Mason, Morgan Perry
Sex + Money is a documentary about domestic minor sex trafficking and the modern-day abolitionist movement fighting to stop it. Since September 2009, the crew has traveled to over 30 states and conducted more than 75 interviews with federal agents, victims, politicians, activists, psychologists, porn-stars, among others. During this workshop the Executive Producer of the film will screen the documentary and then moderate a panel discussion followed by a time for questions and feedback from the audience.
Sex Offender Re-Entry
Greg Brown
Across the country, communities are struggling with safe and effective sex offender reentry issues. This workshop will discuss the challenges with sex offender reentry, how to focus limited resources and how to partner on sex offender reentry with law enforcement, victim services, probation and parole and the community.
Sexual Abuse Investigations: What Every Detective Needs to Know (Part 1 & 2)
Michael Holley, Eren Price, James Sears
Arresting a sex offender is easy; convicting one is the hard part. This session will include identification and analysis of the difficulties faced by both prosecutors and investigators when handling child sexual abuse cases. Using the forensic interview as a starting point to develop further corroboration and evidence for trial is essential. Presentation from prosecutorial and law enforcement perspectives will highlight trial and investigative techniques to improve the likelihood of success in court.
SHIFT: Supporting Heroes in Foundational Mental Health Training (Part 1 & 2)
Jane Stevenson, Michael Sullivan
Team taught by a mental health professional and a law enforcement officer, this 3-hour course offers professionals who are exposed to child sexual abuse images at work and who may interact often with child sex offenders (e.g., law enforcement officers, forensic analysts, prosecutors, etc.), the opportunity to learn about the causes and symptoms of the negative effects that may occur as a result of their duties and ways to mitigate them. Mental health professionals learn about the challenges faced by professionals exposed to child pornography and other operations involving child sex offenders. The course also will provide mental health professionals with tools to help exposed individuals. See this link Shift Wellness.
(A) Snapshot of Online Victimization of Children
Cristina Fernandez
This session will provide a snapshot of recent patterns and trends of online victimization mined from NCMEC data as well as intriguing law enforcement investigations. Topics will include the vulnerabilities of children using current technology such as smart phones and social networking. In addition, this session will explore the difficult issue of “self-exploitation” that is increasing in prevalence across the country. Various industry efforts to reduce online child victimization will be presented such as PhotoDNA.
Somebody's Daughter: Innovative Ways to Fight Child Prostitution
Julian Sher
A special youth court in Las Vegas helps more than 400 young girls arrested for prostitution. A sting operation in Missouri gets the nation's first ever convictions against "johns" under federal trafficking statutes. But how do we fight the “pimp culture” that blames the victims and turns the human traffickers into pop icons? This workshop will share the lessons and insights from the new book by award-winning author Julian Sher, "Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America’s Prostituted Children."
Somebody’s Daughter: Lessons from the Dallas High Risk Victim Model of Fighting Child Trafficking (Part 1 & 2)
Byron Fassett, Julian Sher
The Dallas High Risk Victims Model within the Dallas Police Department is a nationally recognized program which has been featured in a National Geographic Documentary, “Sex Worker or Victim” and a December 2009 series in the New York Times. This training will demonstrate the correlation between the chronic runaway and children victimized through organized, pimp controlled prostitution. Additionally, this training will enhance and develop the multidisciplinary response for high risk victims through an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and team members, from identifying and locating, victim recovery, recovery interview, placement and therapy, successful completion of the investigation and aggressive prosecution of any identified offenders. Case studies will be used to demonstrate the success of the model from identifying/locating through placement and successful prosecution of pimps.
Stand By Me: Turning Bystanders into Upstanders
Christine Cohen, Max Gauben, Alice Murray
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is offering school districts an effective solution with a program called Stand By Me: Turning Bystanders into Upstanders. In this compelling presentation, you’ll hear not only the facts about bullying in schools, but how the practice - as experienced by one Holocaust survivor - can corrupt individuals and communities who stand by and do nothing. You’ll take away lessons you can use in your job and at home during this presentation, and you’ll see hope in action supported by empirical data.
Stopping Bullying: Through the Eyes of a Child
Stephen Daley
In this session we will discuss a revolutionary and common sense approach that is an effective way to help prevent and break the cycle of bullying and predatory violence in our children's lives. When shared within an educational setting this approach has been able to help create safer schools and a positive school climate through empowering the children, faculty and entire school with a "Zero-Victimization" policy and practice. This successful policy is having revolutionary results in comparison to the failing "Zero-Tolerance" system which has sadly helped fuel a pandemic of bullying violence and victimization in our schools today.
Stopping Violence: Education is the Answer but How is the Question
Stephen Daley
Violence and victimization in our children's lives has reached pandemic levels in our world today. Whether it be bullying, child abuse or sexual assault, the time has come for a new strategy. In this presentation, we will share that education is the answer, but how we do it may be the real question. We will review the current practices in education while introducing a revolutionary new approach on personal safety education that not only teaches children safety, but develops life skills and a foundational understanding of self-value and self-worth. This approach creates real change in the potential cycle of violence in our children’s lives.
Substance Abuse and Child Sexual Abuse
Karla Vierthaler
The links between sexual violence and substance abuse are undeniable, yet rarely discussed. When talking about children, substances may be used in the house and thus place children at risk. Substances can be used to facilitate sexual violence; and often children who experience sexual violence go on to abuse substances as a coping mechanism. This workshop will highlight information on the link between addiction, sexual violence and trauma, and offer resources for intervention.
Talking with Teens: Is that in My Job Description?
Rita Johnson
This workshop discusses the unique challenges facing forensic interviewers and investigators when working with adolescent or teenage victims of child maltreatment, and offers concrete suggestions for working with this population including a primer on understanding the world of today’s teens.
Team Approach to Adolescent Sex Offenders
Dan Powers
Juvenile sex offenders pose an interesting challenge to the multi-disciplinary team. This workshop will explore the dynamics and challenges juvenile sex offenders bring to your caseload. We will review types of juvenile sex offenders and will suggest a consistent approach in dealing with them from investigation through on-going treatment. It will emphasize the multi-disciplinary team approach as a solution to solving the unique problems these cases bring to the system. This workshop is intended for interviewers, police officers, CPS workers, medical personnel, family court workers, attorneys, judges, social workers, therapists and anyone else dealing with juvenile sex offenders.
Technology and Sexually Compulsive Offenders: Breaking the Barriers to Change
Tom Pals
With technology based offending rapidly increasing, utilizing every new technological advance to exploit the vulnerability of prepubescent and pubescent minors for technological social interaction, standardized sex offender treatment strategies are being tested. Based on the results of a two–year pilot program for Internet-initiated sexual offenders, this session will present the results of current research regarding treatment efficacy as well as program design. Additionally, the session will present program tools and concepts utilized in a 10-year program of treatment involving hundreds of sexually compulsive offenders at RSA, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. The session will extensively utilize examples of the tools and concepts produced by the clients involved. Treatment providers and probation/parole officers will gain a fuller understanding of the inner workings of technology-based and compulsive sex offenders.
Technology, Oppressive Behaviors, and the Normalization of Victimization
Krista Hoffman
Technology is often the scapegoat when stories emerge of people using technology to victimize. However, the behaviors that drive victimization and oppression of others are not new. This presentation will focus on the behaviors of those who are oppressive and how they utilize technology in non-criminal ways to perpetuate victimizing messaging such as sexism, racism, and other intolerant ideals. It will also use case studies to demonstrate the importance of using correct language in identifying criminal online behavior for what it is instead of adopting terms, such as “sexting”, to normalize victimizing behaviors. The presentation will provide an understanding of the importance of technology for our youth and the positive role it plays in socializing and education; while providing realistic techniques in talking to children and adolescents before exposure to online materials in forms such as video, blogs, and online gaming that may be oppressive and attempt to normalize victimization.
Therapeutic Interventions for Trauma Survivors
Vanessa Sanford
This presentation will offer professionals tools and techniques specifically designed for working with trauma survivors. Topics will include, but not be limited to, dealing with PTSD and flashbacks, nightmares, court preparation, prevention and re-victimization safety. Information on how abuse and addiction impact, not only the survivors, but also their support system. Their reactions will be discussed. There will be several visual aids to offer the attendees a more experiential training.
Therapeutic Interventions in the Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse (Part 1 & 2)
Gerardo Blanco, Kathy Dumond, Julie Espey, Amanda Mlinarich
This workshop will provide an overview of abuse-focused activities and therapeutic techniques that therapists have found effective in the assessment and treatment of sexually abused children, including expressive techniques, therapeutic games, art therapy and other activities. Participants will be provided with case examples and resources that they can utilize in their work with sexual abuse victims and their families.
Triage Digital Forensics - Learn the Basics from Any Digital Device
Amber Schroader
Digital forensics is a growing concern for many investigators, and there are not enough geeks to go around. In this workshop you will learn what you can do in the field to triage your investigations and do the basics of digital forensics to gather intelligence for your investigation.
Undercover Chat Investigations
Michael Duffey
This workshop is intended for those agencies interested in using a decoy location to conduct an undercover operation targeting suspects predisposed to sexual exploitation crimes on the Internet. Best practices for conducting these investigations including timing and location selection will be discussed.
(The) Undercover Investigation of Human Trafficking
Chad Opitz
This workshop will discuss the undercover investigation operations used during prostitution/human trafficking investigations, such as Operation Cross Country. The presenter will detail setting up the operation properly, the operation itself, and what prosecutors will need after the operation is complete so that the case can be successfully prosecuted. The main focus of the lecture will be both officer safety and how to properly obtain the evidence needed for the prosecution.
Understanding Bikers Against Child Abuse
Gregory Preston
Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) uses the term empowerment to describe its goal for the abused children affiliated with this international non-profit organization. Members rely on trust, honor, and respect to help abused children regain control of their personal lives and to learn it is possible to trust adults. The program will outline membership screening and requirements, the methods used to assist the victims, ways to refer families to BACA, and some examples of outcomes of the program.
Understanding the Dynamics of Child Sexual Abuse for Non-Mental Health Professionals
Wynne Shaw
This workshop will give non-mental health professionals such as police, prosecutors and victim advocates a basic understanding of the dynamics of victimization in child sexual abuse cases. The discussion will include the cycle of abuse in families and how the parents can really not know about the abuse. The session will provide suggestions on how to effectively work with victims and their families to maximize cooperation and prosecution. Resources and information on how to identify and meet victims' and families' basic needs will also be provided.
Understanding How CPS Works for Non-CPS Professionals
Gwen Gray, Marsha Stone
Have you ever wondered what all of those funny acronyms that CPS workers use mean? Or what exactly is a Parental Child Safety Placement and what do Child Safety Specialists do? Or why does CPS remove some children and not others? This session will help you learn some of the intricacies of CPS and help provide you with options and potential understanding as to why we make some of the decisions that we make. Bring your questions for an informal discussion of these and other issues and leave this forum with an understanding of how CPS functions.
Understanding Sex Offenders (Part 1 & 2)
Jim Tanner
This session focuses professionals on the cognitive set of the common sex offender and expands and clarifies the goals of investigation, prosecution and effective containment. We will discuss sex offenders' perceptions, ideation, grooming strategies and cognitive processes. The Internet's effect on this cognitive set will also be explored. Investigators, prosecutors and supervising agents will leave this session with a new understanding of the sex offender.
(The) Use of Evidence in the Forensic Interview
Amy Russell
One of the challenges facing forensic interviewers is when, if ever, to show a child evidence during an investigative interview. This evidence may include chat logs, child pornography, or other evidence collected from a crime scene or from an additional source. This workshop outlines the advantages and disadvantages of using evidence during the forensic interview and offers guidelines and suggestions for interviewers.
Using Data Analytics in Missing and Exploited Children Cases
Mike Geraghty, Ted Mabrey
In the information age investigators are overwhelmed with data that needs to be processed as part of missing and exploited children cases. This data lives in different formats and databases that make it difficult to draw connections and understand how to find the most relevant information. Separating relevant data from non-relevant data is a key to any investigation's successful outcome. This workshop will present a case study in how the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) integrated multiple disparate data sources using Palantir Technologies data analytics platform, thereby allowing NCMEC analysts to easily visualize and make sense of a plethora of seemingly unrelated information. By using Palantir's platform, structured, unstructured, relational, temporal and geospatial data from virtually any source can be integrated and analyzed resulting in the revelation of previously undetected links and leads. Palantir's platform provides NCMEC with the ability to quickly and easily process, visualize and share critical missing and exploited children case information.
USMS Criminal Enforcement of the Walsh Act: Legal and Practical Issues
Kevin Forder
This presentation is an overview of the criminal failure to register as a sex offender provisions of the Walsh Act and the practical and legal issues faced by USMS criminal investigators enforcing the Act.
Very Young Girls: Child Victims in the Commercial Sex Industry (Part 1 & 2)
Rachel Lloyd
This two-part workshop will screen the acclaimed documentary Very Young Girls for the first 90 minutes followed by a 90-minute interactive workshop. The session will focus on the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST), providing a basic overview of CSEC/DMST, risk factors, victim impact and the identification and engagement of exploited youth. See this link. Very Young Girls
Victim Identification Image/Video Analysis and Adobe Photoshop (Part 1 & 2)
James Cole, John Penn II
This session will discuss and demonstrate the analysis of child sexual exploitation images and videos with Adobe Photoshop for Law Enforcement. Learn how to see beyond the victim and identify the clues that can focus the investigation and lead to the rescue of child victims. See state-of-the-art techniques using Adobe Photoshop to enhance images and dig deeper into the materials. See how Adobe Photoshop can be used to conduct the analysis and enhancement of images and videos. This presentation will use actual cases to highlight the skill set including the image/video analysis conducted to help identify the victim of the "Vicky" series. It will also provide law enforcement with a balanced understanding of the benefits and costs of digital image evidence in their cases.
Wellness/Survival and Doing This for a Living
Dan Powers
This motivational talk is meant to provide you with the insight and knowledge to help survive in a job no one else really understands. Others “outside the business” don’t want to hear about this stuff! You can clear a restaurant with a discussion of what you did that day. We see and hear things on a daily basis our mom and dad never told you existed in this world. Participants will learn how dynamic determination and working as a member of THE TEAM will help you survive in “our world”. Participants will be encouraged to look at themselves, why they do “this” for a living and most of all learn to laugh at it all.
What Child Abuse Personnel Must Know About Domestic Violence
Jan Langbein
A growing body of research points to a definite link between adult domestic violence and child abuse. These are not isolated crimes. Whether the child is the unintended victim, the accidental victim or the deliberate target, the severity and manner of child abuse bears a strong resemblance to the type of maltreatment experienced by their mothers. The two populations share several similarities as well as some important differences. Understanding the impact of domestic violence on children can increase appropriate response and decrease the risk of child victims of abuse to experience and perpetrate abuse in adulthood. By knowing the dynamics and effects of family violence, law enforcement/CPS intervention and prevention can reduce crimes of tomorrow as they make children safer today.
What Sex Offenders Can Teach Us About Interviewing
Cory Jewell Jensen
This presentation will review several studies that examined sex offender characteristics and the effectiveness of investigator interview style on confession rates. Studies examined the impact of offender age, personality, offense history, and experience with the criminal justice system as they relate to admissions. Studies also examined the impact of victim attributes, relationship between the victim and offender, specific sex acts performed, and the impact of investigator demeanor and interview style. Studies confirm previously suspected notions about the thoughts and concerns offenders have during police interviews, and the reasons offenders decline to be interviewed, confess, or lie. Offender quotes and video clips will be used to illustrate the various findings. The presentation also includes anecdotal comments from 121 adult male sex offenders, and 26 veteran child abuse detectives from 10 law enforcement agencies in Oregon.
When Faith Hurts: Overcoming Spirituality Based Blocks and Problems Before, During and After the Forensic Interview
Victor Vieth
Students will receive an overview of research documenting the impact of child abuse, particularly child sexual abuse, on a child’s sense of spirituality. Students will learn of the various blocks to disclosure this may cause. Students will receive concrete suggestions for addressing these blocks before, during and after a forensic interview.
When is a Forensic Interview Unconstitutional? Child Abuse Investigations after Greene v. Camreta
Amy Russell
The United States Supreme Court is considering a case from the 9th circuit, which found that a schoolhouse forensic interview and subsequent medical examination were unconstitutional. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court should be handed down by the time of this presentation and its implications for forensic interviewers and MDTs will be thoroughly analyzed.
When the Smoke Clears: Cross-Examining the Defense Expert’s Attack on a Forensic Interview
Victor Vieth
This workshop explores emerging attacks from defense “experts” called to critique a forensic interview. More importantly, this workshop offers concrete tips for prosecutors or child protection attorneys who must cross-examine these “experts.” The information will also assist forensic interviewers in responding to defense challenges to their interviews.
Who Are The Children? NCMEC's Child Victim Identification Program
Michelle Collins
This session will focus on child victims and the offenders who produce child pornography. Based on data from NCMEC’s Child Victim Identification Program, information including the relationship of child to abuser, gender and age will be discussed. This session will illustrate various ways children seen in sexually exploitative images have been identified and rescued by law enforcement. Actual case examples will demonstrate how every professional investigating child pornography crimes can play a key role in locating the victims. Participants will learn about the many investigative and prosecutorial resources available, including NCMEC's Law Enforcement Services Portal.
Wi-Fi Challenges for Law Enforcement Investigations (Exhibitor Workshop)
Vince Costagliola, Ty Brevard
This presentation will review the threats, the exploits, and the defenses of Wi-Fi and the real-world investigative techniques available to law enforcement. The presenters will discuss Wi-Fi threats through the eyes of an attacker. They will show techniques attackers use to exploit Wi-Fi devices, what information they can get and how this can be used. Wi-Fi devices utilized for hidden communication and storage purposes will be illustrated. The presentation will review the capability of hidden devices in structures, peer-to-peer hidden communication through use of common devices such as PSP, Nintendo DS, iPhones and geolocation of those Wi-Fi devices. There will also be a review of real-world circumstances of Wi-Fi being involved in child pornography, terrorism, and child exploitation cases.
Women Who Molest Children: Offender Typologies
Bill Carson
This workshop begins with findings that were learned from in-depth interviews with eighteen women who had been convicted of molesting children, but goes well beyond that to include cases from across the nation as well as data from other recently published material on this topic. Captain Carson will discuss past and current offender typologies for female child molesters, including his five distinct typologies that were first published in 2006.
Working with Crimes Victims and Their Families
Ed Smart, Patty Wetterling
In this workshop attendees will learn how to improve their interaction and communication with victims of crime and their families. The presenters will relate their personal experience in dealing with the criminal justice system; what was done right and what should have been done differently. Patty’s son Jacob was abducted at age 11 and is still missing. Ed’s daughter was abducted at age 14 and was recovered nine months later. The presenters will also conduct a Q & A session at the end of this workshop.
Working with Resistive Clients
Jim Tanner
This session provides supervising and treatment agency staff with tools to understand and work with the resistance encountered with some justice system clients. The session covers client resistive sets, motivations, techniques to overcome resistance, and indices of change in resistance. Blending his own work with a brief overview of Stages of Change, MI and Ambivalence, Dr. Tanner provides a framework to help understand and deal with resistance. Even seasoned staff will walk away with new ideas and approaches.
Working with Yahoo! in Law Enforcement Investigations
Jon Berroya
This presentation will describe Yahoo!'s products and services, the data available to law enforcement pursuant to the Electronic Communications Act, and how Yahoo! works to detect and deter apparent images of child pornography on its network.