Due to the widespread sharing of the videos, the victim’s trauma continues despite the fact the sexual abuse ended years ago.

“I live every day with the horrible knowledge that many people somewhere are watching the most terrifying moments of my life and taking grotesque pleasure in them,” the victim wrote in a statement to the court.

Her exploitation is “never ending” and frequently causes her to get “stuck,” she wrote.

“When this happens, I sit in the same spot motionless for a long time,” she wrote. “My mind will come back at some point later in the day, maybe 30 minutes later or maybe six hours later.”

She said she is “hurt every time I hear about another criminal case that involves my images. With each additional case that I hear about, I know that many more copies of my images are spread around the internet; I know that there is a lesser and lesser chance that the horror I feel about people seeing me in this way will ever end.”

The victim’s mother wrote: “These viewers made the choice to descend to the lowest degree and rape her with their eyes, and with their minds, as she was being robbed of her innocence at 9 years old.”