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Sex-abuse video victimizes child long after abuser is gone

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Crawford County Sheriff shows Mykaela Kristine Patterson, 25. She was a substitute teacher in rural Robinson, Ill', and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Prosecutors said a search of her electronic devices revealed more than 3,000 videos and images, including several dozen depicting infants. She was arrested February 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Crawford County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Wake County City-County Bureau of Identification shows Brett Andrew Locklear, 50. Locklear was a former admissions director at North Carolina State University and worked to advance achievement for Native American students, according to his online resume. He pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges in October. He was arrested in March 2022 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification via AP)

This 2017 photo made available by the U.S. Air Force shows Jared Faircloth, 24. The U.S. Air Force senior airman was arrested in Cream Ridge and charged with downloading more than 2,800 child sex abuse images through the BitTorent Network, a peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet program. He was arrested in October 2021 and is awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Nueces County Sheriff shows Michael Aaron Galvan, 42. The Corpus Christi man worked for a car dealership and pleaded guilty after he was caught at the U.S.-Mexico border with a cell phone containing child pornography. Prosecutors said he saved hundreds of incriminating images and videos. He was arrested November 2021, and sentenced to 17 years in federal prison. (Nueces County Sheriff via AP)

This undated photo made available by the California Sex Offender Registry shows Ryan Alexander Boele, 40. A former aviation mechanic and lance corporal with the U.S. Marine Corps who won awards for his military service in Afghanistan and Iraq, Boele pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography from his San Diego home. He was arrested in July 2021 and awaiting sentencing as of December 2022. (California Sex Offender Registry via AP)

This undated photo made available by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department shows Kailon Vontez Lewis, 23. Lewis pleaded guilty and admitted to producing child pornography video clips, selling four of them for $40 each, and pocketing a total of about $11,000. He was arrested May 2021 and sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. (St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Lake Region Law Enforcement Center shows Johnson Shae Tollefson, 29. The Spirit Lake, N.D., man pleaded guilty to producing child pornography in Minnesota and distributing the material in North Dakota, after Tumblr reported it had been uploaded through its blogging platform. He was arrested June 2020 and sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. (Lake Region Law Enforcement Center via AP)

This undated photo made available by the Pulaski County Sheriff shows Harold "HL" Moody Jr., 39. The former communications director for the Democratic Party of Arkansas, the Little Rock resident was charged with distributing child pornography in online chatrooms. He was arrested November 2018 and pleaded guilty. (Pulaski County Sheriff via AP)

FILE - Republican Rep. Merrill Nelson speaks during a special session at the Utah State Capitol Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Paul Adams, a member of the Mormon church, confessed he was abusing his daughter to his bishop, John Herrod, in 2010. In Arizona, clergy are among the professionals required to report child sexual abuse to police or child welfare officials. But when the bishop called the church’s “help line” for advice, Nelson, a lawyer representing the church, directed him to withhold the information from police and child welfare officials. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

FILE - MJ and her adoptive mother sit for an interview in Sierra Vista, Ariz., Oct. 27, 2021. State authorities placed MJ in foster care after learning that her father, the late Paul Adams, sexually assaulted her and posted video of the assaults on the Internet. A 9-minute video of Adams raping his ten-year-old daughter triggered a global search for the little girl in 2016. Months later, her father was arrested and the child was rescued from the abuse. Yet the videos live on in 2022, downloaded and uploaded by child pornographers across globe as police, prosecutors, and internet companies chase behind in a futile effort to remove the images. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

FILE - A "playground ahead" warning stands by the side of a road on the outskirts of Bisbee, Ariz., Oct. 26, 2021. Bisbee was home to Paul and Leizza Adams, and their six children, before Paul and Leizza were charged with child sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Sex-abuse video victimizes child long after abuser is gone