This type of abuse is incredibly difficult to detect, due to its real-time nature and the lack of digital evidence left behind following the crime. In these instances individuals pay to watch the live abuse of a child via a video streaming service. More recently, live-streaming sexual abuse has begun to surface. These images and videos that involve the documentation of an actual crime scene are then circulated for personal consumption. Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor. Retrieved June 19, 2014.Child sexual abuse material (legally known as child pornography) refers to any content that depicts sexually explicit activities involving a child. "A Jailbait Loving Perv Destroyed Amanda Todd's Life".
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Jailbait images have been defended on the grounds of free speech, and have also been defended on the grounds they are similar to mainstream sexualised images of minors, such as those in the music video for ". The term is also blocked on Google Instant. Jailbait is amongst the list of banned hashtags at the photo-sharing website Instagram, and the social networking website Tumblr. While the images may be legal, they are often considered to be in poor taste. When questioned regarding their legality, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin stated he thought it was not illegal, though legal expert Sunny Hostin was more skeptical, describing jailbait images as "borderline" child pornography which may be illegal. The legal status of jailbait images is controversial.