Right before our eyes

How pedo-criminals operate on the Internet - and how we protect children from them

  • Investigative insights into the networks of the pedo-criminal scene
  • An alarming book that simultaneously shows parents options for action
  • Daniel Moßbrucker is one of the leading experts in the German-speaking world for research on the Darknet

How parents can protect their children from sexualized violence on the Internet


Hardly any other topic shocks people as much as sexualized violence against children - and hardly any other topic is so often suppressed. Yet the UN estimated as early as 2009 that 750,000 pedo-criminals are online every second worldwide, and the number is rising. With his book, investigative journalist Daniel Moßbrucker presents systematic and data-based analyses of pedo-criminal circles in the Darknet for the first time in the German-speaking world. He explains how pedo criminals operate and how parents can best protect their children with this knowledge. At the same time, his book is an alarming appeal to politicians and society to finally give the topic the attention and urgency it deserves.

"We are all called upon to free ourselves from the shock of individual cases in order to finally deal with the structures of this pedo-criminal net culture." Daniel Moßbrucker

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  • Publisher: Droemer HC
  • Release: 01.09.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-27905-2
  • 304 Pages
  • Author: Daniel Moßbrucker
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Daniel Moßbrucker

Daniel Moßbrucker, geb. 1990, arbeitet als Journalist zu den Themen Überwachung, Datenschutz und Internetregulierung. Seine Beiträge werden regelmäßig von überregionalen Medien und TV-Politikmagazinen veröffentlicht. Für die Recherchen und die Datenaufbereitung zum Thema Kindesmissbrauch erhielt er 2022 mit einem Team von NDR und DER SPIEGEL den Otto-Brenner-Preis für kritischen Journalismus. Daniel Moßbrucker lebt in Berlin.