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Acknowledgments
This publication would not have been possible without the support and diligent assistance of
many members of the American Bar Association (ABA) Center on Children and the Law
staff. Special thanks goes to Katy Gallagher, Tamara Sanders, Lisa Waxler, and Karen Hart
for their resourceful research and citation checking and Howard Davidson for his review and
comments.
The comments of many outside reviewers, who graciously gave of their limited time to
share their expertise and provide invaluable suggestions for revisions, strengthened the information
found in this monograph. Ann Burgess, DNSc., of the Boston College School of
Nursing; Sharon Cooper, MD, of Developmental & Forensic Pediatrics, P. A., in Fayetteville,
North Carolina; Kenneth V. Lanning, retired 30-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI); Kathy McClure of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, United
States (US) Department of Justice; Assistant US Attorney James Peters, District of Idaho;
Lieutenant Bill Walsh of the Dallas (Texas) Police Department; and Debra Whitcomb formerly
with the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts, contributed
tremendously to this effort.
Special thanks go to Michael Heimbach, Unit Chief, Crimes Against Children Unit at the
FBI; Linda Krieg, Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI; Irma Jauregui of SEARCH Training
Services; Supervisory Senior Special Agent Kevin A. Delli-Colli, Executive Director, US
Customs CyberSmuggling Center, Office of Investigations; Supervisory Senior Special Agent
James M. Gibbons, Director, Child Exploitation Unit, US Customs CyberSmuggling Center;
Senior Intelligence Research Specialist DeAnna A. Edge, US Customs Service
CyberSmuggling Center and US Customs Representative at the National Center for Missing
& Exploited Children; and Colonel Paul Black of the US Department of Defense.
The substantive assistance and support offered by John Rabun, Daniel Armagh, Terri
Delaney, Nancy Hammer, and Ruben Rodriguez of the National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children (NCMEC) are gratefully acknowledged along with the editing assistance
offered by NCMEC staff member Kay Larson and volunteers Sue Carruthers, Catherine
Delaney, Sheila Chapman-Panizza, and Suzanne Lappin.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is the national clearinghouse and resource
center funded under Cooperative Agreement 98-MC-CX-K002 from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice.
Points of view or opinions in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the
official position of the US Department of Justice nor the US Department of Treasury.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® is a registered service mark of the National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children.
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