Employees of porn site Motherless upload child sex abuse videos themselves
Employees of the notorious porn site Motherless frequently posted videos on the site themselves in recent years, including footage of child sexual abuse, NOS discovered in research conducted with Offlimits. The Dutch-hosted porn site recently made headlines due to videos of men raping drugged and unconscious women.
NOS and Offlimits, a reporting center that specializes in analyzing child sex abuse footage, identified thousands of videos uploaded by Motherless employees between 2100 and 2025, including one employee who uploaded no less than 110,000 videos. 23 of the videos uploaded by Motherless employees contained images of child sex abuse.
This is noteworthy because sites like these often hide behind the fact that they are only platforms and not responsible for what their users post. The videos containing images of children being sexually abused were still online on Thursday evening, according to NOS. Motherless did not respond to requests for comment.
“Every image is one too many,” Offlimits director Robbert Hoving said. “I hope this will prompt further investigation into the site.” Hoving wants the site taken offline.
The Authority for Online Terrorist and Child Pornographic Material (ATKM) called it “shocking” that the administrators of the site uploaded child sex abuse images themselves. “Unfortunately, there is no obligation for these types of websites to do everything in their power to prevent dissemination,” ATKM director Arda Gerkens told NOS. “Otherwise, there would be sanctions for that as well.”
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is already investigating Motherless and would not comment substantively on the broadcaster’s findings. “Sharing child sexual abuse images is always a punishable offense,” the OM said in a general comment.
Last month, the OM took the site offline, but it came back online less than two weeks later, still hosted in the Netherlands by the same provider - Nforce from Steenbergen. Nforce told NOS that it received permission to resume the service.
When the site came back online, the administrators said that they had rules against abuse and that a “small number of uploaders” were taking advantage of them. “With tens of thousands of uploads per day, every violation is like finding a needle in a haystack,” they said. “All content on this site is 100 percent user-uploaded.”
