AG candidate Eric Toney, Justice Department clash over claims about internet child sex crimes - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Republican Attorney General campaigner Eric Toney is accusing the Department of Justice of having a backlog of much than 1,000 cases of net crimes against children, a contention the section disputes.

Toney, the Fond du Lac County territory lawyer who is challenging Attorney General Josh Kaul successful the November election, produced nary grounds for his assertion and said helium has filed an unfastened records petition to find retired much information.

"It's unconscionable we would spot this backlog successful the Department of Justice," Toney said Wednesday during a property league successful Madison. "I asked the Attorney General this question and helium didn't fuss to refute it oregon support it."

Wisconsin's Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program has seen a 400% summation successful tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children since 2013, according to the DOJ.

DOJ spokeswoman Gillian Drummond said the agents astatine the Division of Criminal Investigation enactment diligently to guarantee each extremity received by the National Center for Missing and Endangered Children is reviewed.

"Tips wherever a kid is perchance successful imminent information are acted connected wrong hours — astatine immoderate clip of time oregon night,” Drummond said.

In 2021, determination were 4,534 tips sent to ICAC Task Force, but not each of the tips turned retired to beryllium real, according to DOJ.

That aforesaid year, the task unit made 468 arrests and the caller ICAC Victim Services programme provided services to 136 victims and families impacted by online kid exploitation of children successful 2021, 49 of those were children, according to DOJ

The summation successful tips is due, successful part, to net platforms similar Google and Microsoft getting amended astatine detecting and reporting kid intersexual maltreatment material.

Tips to the task unit see possessing kid pornography; and coercion of children for enactment crimes.

Kaul requested 2 further ICAC positions to code the summation successful tips, but the authorities Legislature lone approved 1 position. In the latest fund request, Kaul has asked for 19 further positions.