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The internet has helped make child abuse terrifyingly common - it is the newace of crime in the 21st century. There are tens, probably hundreds ofhousands of children whose sexual abuse has been electronically recorded andistributed on the Internet. "One Child At A Time" goes behind the headlineso show how law officers are fighting back against this tide of abuse, fromaring rescues in homes and monitoring chatrooms to the seizures of millionsf dollars in the offshore bank accounts of the porn merchants. In rivetingetail, Julian Sher shows how clue by clue, and image by image, internationalnvestigators are using modern techniques and old-fashioned police-work toatch the perpetrators and rescue the victims - children whose images canross the world in seconds and be duplicated in moments.