Ashton Saves Kids

Ashton Kutcher‘s nonprofit organization helped identify nearly 6,000 child victims of sex trafficking last year alone, People reports.

The 40-year-old’s nonprofit Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, assisted authorities in ID’ing 5,894 victims and rescued 103 kids “situations where their sexual abuse was recorded and distributed” last year, Thorn reported. He and his ex-wife Demi Moore co-founded Thorn in 2009.

• The organization also offers a sexual abuse deterrence program. Of the approximately 2.6 million visitors to the site, 140,000 reportedly went on to seek help for their behavior. Thorn uses technology to identify and recover victims of sex abuse and is now used by 5,000 officers in North America.
• Kutcher spoke out about his work in February of 2017 during a hearing at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
• “I’ve seen video content of a child that’s the same age as mine being raped by an American man who was a sex tourist in Cambodia, and this child was so conditioned by her environment that she thought she was engaging in play,” he said.
• “I’ve been on the other end of a phone call from my team, asking for my help because we had received a call from the Department of Homeland Security, telling us that a 7-year-old girl was being sexually abused and that content was being spread around the dark web and she had been being abused and they’d watched her for three years, and they could not find the perpetrator, asking us for help.”