Crime scenes associated with sexual exploitation and child trafficking in child pornography was limited to physical locations such as school playgrounds, church hall, trusted neighbors 'homes', camping trips and seedy back room turned grim adult bookstore. This work fills this void, providing police, prosecutors and forensic examiners with the historical background, legal, technical, and social laws prohibiting child exploitation, in particular, child pornography. This book gives the history of child exploitation cases and studies, outlining the role of technology in this type of crime and the evidence they can contain, and documenting new research conducted by the authors. The core of this work is part of the law, details of all legal issues that arise in cases of Internet child exploitation. Forensic examination section presents evidentiary issues from a technical perspective and explain how to conduct forensic examination of digital evidence gathered in the investigation phase and the validity of child exploitation cases. Citations to related documents are provided for readers who want to learn more about certain issues. Actual case examples from computer assisted child exploitation cases are explored, at all times to protect the privacy of the victims while providing enough detail to educate readers. In addition to providing guidance on technical and legal aspects of child exploitation investigations, this work identifies and analyzes trends in this type of crime and helps readers understand the similarities and differences between child predators who take to the Internet and predators who do not.