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Yes, the host may by policy want to remove such when notified, but yes, doing so tips off those who put the images there in the first place that someone has sent up the red flag about their content.

Your best bet is to notify law enforcement at both the county level (sheriff's office) as well as the online report noted above, and let them investigate in ways that don't keep the image-holders a step ahead.
Oh yeah I understand that, the reasoning of the host was that I shouldn't have even sent it to them despite the content being hosted on their servers.

I realize hosts don't want to have to deal with it because then the FBI has to confiscate the servers, usually it's wise to just make a mirror backup of the drive and give the original to investigators although I've never had to deal with the content before being a webhost.

I'm just curious how Yahoo, imageshack and photobucket deal with this kinda stuff, I would have thought I did the right thing, but yeah I reported it to that missing childs site as well as ASACP (Association Of Sites Against Child Pornography).