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Non-secure collec<strong>to</strong>r: This person purchases, <strong>download</strong>s or exchanges child pornographyfrom openly available sources on <strong>the</strong> Internet or <strong>in</strong> chatrooms that do not imposesecurity barriers, such as passwords, encryption or <strong>the</strong> requirement <strong>to</strong> trade a m<strong>in</strong>imumnumber of images. This is also associated with a higher degree of network<strong>in</strong>g activity.Secure collec<strong>to</strong>r: This person collects images with<strong>in</strong> a more secure framework, which may<strong>in</strong>clude <strong>the</strong> trad<strong>in</strong>g of images <strong>in</strong> order <strong>to</strong> jo<strong>in</strong> a network. Krone (2004) suggests thatwhat might motivate such an offender is <strong>the</strong> desire <strong>to</strong> collect a large number of images,and gives an example of a UK offender, Andrew Tatum, who “was jailed for five years forpossess<strong>in</strong>g 495,000 <strong>in</strong>decent images of children. An <strong>in</strong>dication of <strong>the</strong> obsessive natureof his collect<strong>in</strong>g is that <strong>the</strong> images upon which his conviction was based counted foronly about five per cent of his personal collection of more than 10 million pornographicimages (The Age 2004)”.Onl<strong>in</strong>e groomer: This is someone who has <strong>in</strong>itiated onl<strong>in</strong>e contact with a child with <strong>the</strong><strong>in</strong>tention of establish<strong>in</strong>g a sexual relationship <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g cyber sex or physical sex. In thiscase, images are often used <strong>to</strong> desensitize <strong>the</strong> child <strong>to</strong> sexual activity – ‘groom’ <strong>the</strong> child–- it is shown <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> child <strong>to</strong> lower that child’s <strong>in</strong>hibitions concern<strong>in</strong>g sexual activities.Physical abuser: Physical abusers are actively <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> commission of contac<strong>to</strong>ffences aga<strong>in</strong>st children and use images <strong>to</strong> enhance or supplement <strong>the</strong>ir sexual needs.Krone (2004) suggests that <strong>the</strong> physical abuse may be recorded for <strong>the</strong> personal use of<strong>the</strong> abuser but is not <strong>in</strong>tended <strong>to</strong> be fur<strong>the</strong>r distributed.Producer: A producer is <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> physical abuse of children and records that abuse<strong>to</strong> distribute <strong>to</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs.Distribu<strong>to</strong>r: The distribu<strong>to</strong>r of abusive images may or may not have a sexual <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong>children and may be motivated by <strong>the</strong> desire <strong>to</strong> sell it <strong>to</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs.<strong>Child</strong> Pornography and Sexual Exploitation of <strong>Child</strong>ren Onl<strong>in</strong>e |25

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