Inside Compassion International’s headquarters in Colorado Springs, photos of smiling children dominate lobby walls and hallways. A volunteer tour guide points out their names: Violeta. Fellow. Maureen.

Children’s photos also fill Compassion’s website: Jitharsan. Geraldo. Leilany.

But all a predator needs to download one of those photos is a device. And in minutes, he could turn a photo of a 5-year-old girl from Indonesia into child sex abuse material, despite current attempts to deter photo manipulation.

This is what Andrew Vezey, Compassion’s former senior business intelligence analyst, described to several key Compassion leaders last May in a report.

Vezey said the report was one of many attempts to convince leaders of the urgent need to end Compassion’s policy of posting pictures online. Yet, months later, Compassion’s response remained the same: sharing photos of children is crucial to the child/sponsor relationship, so the policy will remain.

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Compassion, founded in 1952, is one of the world’s largest Christian child sponsorship organizations. Vezey, who has worked at Compassion for the past 10 years, spoke exclusively to Roys Report (RR) about his many...

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