Actor Ashton Kutcher has declared that he has helped save 6,000 victims of child sex abuse. The 39-year-old actor, who is quite famous for his good looks, pranks, and wit, co-founded the nonprofit project Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children in 2009, with actress and ex-wife Demi Moore. Thorn uses technology and software to remove child sex abuse and aids the police in discovering and locating abusers. At a committee hearing, Ashton Kutcher insisted US lawmakers to support efforts to help bring an end to child sexual abuse. He stated that it was time for “society and government” to protect those in danger, adding up that he has seen things “no person should ever see”. This week at the Dreamforce technology meeting held in San Francisco, Kutcher took the platform to speak about how his company, Thorn, is using software to help identify victims and abusers of sexual abuse on the internet. He said, “We’ve identified 6,000 children that are being abused.We’ve identified 12,000 adults that are also being abused.” Thorn originally started its research by collecting statistics about incidents of sexual abuse to find patterns that might help in finding solution. Thorn partners with including corporate giants, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, and Snapchat, all of them have promised to help find technological solutions that protect helpless people from being sexually abused on the internet. In the organisation’s 2016 impact statement, it is said, “We refuse to live in a world where abused children remain in their situation because the technology needed to find them and stop their abuse exists, but simply isn’t being used”.