I found explicit child pornography on my boyfriend’s phone

Throwaway because I’m still processing this and I don’t want my loved ones to know my account name.<br><br>My (24f) boyfriend (26m) of 10 months was out with friends until 3am. He’s usually super paranoid about turning off his phone before he passes out to avoid it getting lost, stolen, or tampered with. So I knew it wasn’t like him to be so careless.<br><br>I woke up in the middle of the night and saw that his phone was face up on the bed with a text from one of his friends that said “it’s time to end it all” with a very disturbing link. My heart sank.<br><br>I’m not sure what compelled me to do it, but my hand instinctively hovered over the link and I felt a burning sensation in my heart. When I clicked on the link, I saw the most horrific thing - a naked photo of a little girl. She couldn’t have been older than 8 years old.<br><br>I didn’t know what to do. A part of me felt like destroying his phone and pretending I never saw it. But a bigger part of me (my instincts) told me to do the right thing and contact the authorities. I took a screenshot of the image, GPS location, my boyfriend’s face, and the chat. I sent all of that info to the national center for missing and exploited children (cybertip).<br><br>It’s been ~20 hours since then. I haven’t slept since because I keep replaying all of our memories in my head and wondering if my boyfriend is capable of doing something so evil.<br><br>It’s currently 9:20 am and I haven’t heard from my boyfriend yet. I’m terrified of his reaction. I don’t know what to do. I feel betrayed. A part of me wants to just end it all and never look back.