I personally delivered evidence of CP to a local FBI office once. I will never waste my time like that again!

After checking in and waiting nearly an hour, I presented a neat little case to a pair of agents that not only did not look at the images I placed on the desk, but I noticed they did not even pick it up off the desk when we wrapped up. They appeared to not want to look at it and gave me the "Don't call us, we'll call you" routine. I never heard from anyone about it after that.


I have also had the opportunity to discuss CP investigations with agents at Innocent Images, the FBI task force in Washington DC whose purpose is to investigate CP. They are a very dedicated group and they believe in what they are doing, but they don't have time for 17 years and 330 days old child porn. They don't have time for isolated incidents or small time collectors. They are equipped to investigate serious CP offenders and the smaller stuff is really left to the state police or sheriff's offices-- the local FBI offices have priorities other than CP so it gets passed by at the local offices.

It is a very sad state of affairs, but federally only the really bad offenders will be investigated.