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Federal agents combating child exploitation must also grapple with public reluctance to talk about crisis

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FBI data shows number of child sex exploitation cases has quintupled since 2019 .

"People feel like they'll get 'cooties' if they simply talk about it," mother says.

Child safety experts and federal investigators say silence and a dearth of news coverage of the crisis may hamper efforts to warn families, combat the problem.

FBI official says agency is seeing an upward trend in risks to children, in part because of advances in artificial intelligence technology, pervasiveness of certainand criminal organizations that target children for extortion money.

"We need to reduce the stigma in the discussion, as we did in the past with AIDS and cancer," expert says.

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