“Unless you get help through all of this ... basically from looking at what you’ve had, how your past has been and everything else ... you can’t do it on your own. And I feel like that ... the app is a part of the ... structure you put in place to enable you to stop offending and to basically become a better person…” – Protech pilot participant.

This episode discusses the pivotal pilot stage of the Protech project, about how it was rolled out in three sites across Europe, and about who the volunteers were who took part and tested innovative technology aimed at preventing the viewing of child sexual abuse images and videos.

We hear from Larissa Van Puyvelde, a criminologist and junior researcher at the University Forensic Centre at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Chris Pummell, a child sexual abuse prevention manager at the Lucy Faithfull Foundation in the UK, both of whom are involved in the Protech project.

Crucially, we also get a first-person perspective from an anonymous participant who gives his thoughts on the project and the impact it has had.

This podcast speaks openly about child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.