Zora, a victim of childhood sexual abuse living in the United States, continues to have images and videos of her abuse circulated and sold online. The content originally existed on the dark web and has appeared in large caches being offered for sale on X accounts. Contact through Telegram linked a seller to a bank account connected to a person in Jakarta. Childlight estimates the global trade in child sexual-abuse material to be worth billions of dollars. X asserts zero tolerance and prioritizes tackling child sexual-abuse material. Victims feel re-victimized and call distributors complicit perpetrators.
The BBC found images of Zora while investigating the global trade of child sex abuse material, estimated to be worth billions of dollars by Childlight, the Global Child Safety Institute. The material was among a cache of thousands of similar photos and videos being offered for sale on an X account. We got in contact with the trader through the messaging app Telegram, and this led us to a bank account linked to a person in Jakarta, Indonesia.
A collection of images of her abuse have become infamous among paedophiles who collect and trade such content. Many other victims face the same situation, as images of abuse continue to circulate today. Zora is angered the trade continues to this day. "My body is not a commodity. It never has been, and it never will be," she says. "Those who distribute this material are not passive bystanders, they are complicit perpetrators."
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