From their website:

Thirty-two years ago, police could enter information about stolen cars, stolen guns, even stolen horses into the FBI's crime database – but not stolen children. Several tragic cases began to awaken the nation to the problem that there was no coordinated national system for addressing missing children cases.

http://www.missingkids.com/History

If the FBI can track guns, cars and horses, why did the Federal Government chose NOT to track missing kids or child pornography crimes? Why leave that up to a private organization that has no requirement by law to be transparent with regards to who its donors are or the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)

I know many are suspicious of NCMEC. Honeybee has done serious research, and this previous voat post has a good summary of the reasons for such suspicion. https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1723445

So, I had to ask myself if the FBI can track cars, guns and horses, why would they chose NOT to track missing kids? Why would the federal government, which wants to control everything from healthcare to education to the internet, chose NOT to control the center for missing children and the collection of child pornography evidence? Why is that the one service they enacted a law to privatize? And how can a private organization be allowed to do something illegal like store child pornography?

No wonder why Trump said that human trafficking is worse than it has ever been in history. Most likely our federal government had a hand in sanctioning it.