Sessions
The Link between Child Pornography and Child Abuse
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Tue
Technology Facilitated Crimes Against Children
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Wed
Detective Jeff Rich has been assigned to the Plano (Texas) Police Department’s Family Violence Unit which is housed at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County (Texas), as a child abuse and violent crimes investigator, since 2000. As a member of the multidisciplinary team, Jeff has investigated more than 4,500 child abuse and child exploitation cases. Additionally, Jeff investigates internet crimes against children and conducts online child exploitation investigations as a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal assigned to the FBI’s Violent Crimes Against Children (VCAC) Task Force. In this capacity, Detective Rich also serves on the Technical Development Team of the FBI’s VCAC and the ICAC to aid in the development and implementation of the tools used worldwide to investigate these offenses.