INTERNATIONAL Online Child Predators: The Lost Boy Bulletin Board (Part 5)

Jeffrey Greenwell

At the sheriff's office in Union, the Franklin County seat, Chuck Subke opens a red binder on a conference-room table. On the front it reads: "Sensitive information enclosed. Not for public release. Law-enforcement eyes only."

Inside is a 175-page document, entitled, "How to practice child love. Child love explained by professionals." Subke and the St. Louis FBI agent say the guidebook is much like the one on the Lost Boy forum, explaining everything from "risks involved" and "when to start/what age" up to "exploring the child's genitals" and "making love for the first time." This specific version incorporates a section called "Our Latest Project: How to kidnap children." It seems basically like a Wikipedia for predators.

One section points out a particular relevance to the Greenwell case. Its title: "Single parents and moms with kids.". The chapter begins with: "Unfortunately not all of us are blessed with children in our lives, as in having our own children, or children in the family," and "But do not worry, that is not a show stopper."

The handbook suggests advertising for dates on websites and in newspapers and limiting one's search to single mothers looking for long-term relationships. It states:

"The usual guy does not really like single moms with a lot of kids running around,". "So these moms are therefore suffering from the lack of men, love and self-confidence." 

Readers are encouraged to emphasize a mom's "inner values" during the romance.

The writer warns:

"We want to apologize in advance for this statement," & "The uglier and fatter the moms, the easier it will be for you to get into that family."

Brian Mize notes, that pedophiles are connecting more and more with their young victims via interest-specific websites, such as a youth soccer team's home page. Mize also says, that predators fine-tune their Facebook profiles, to match the interests of the kid they're targeting. The omnipresent smartphones these days, facilitates communication out of range of parents' prying eyes and ensures that video capability is just a click away.

FBI investigators say Jeffrey Greenwell relied on a consistent method to seduce boys: In nearly every instance, he sought out single mothers on online dating websites. He would romance a woman and spoil her son, frittering the boy with attention and gifts. After a while he would push the relationship to a more intimate level, taking the boy on trips to Six Flags or babysitting him and, finally, sexually molesting him.

Six Flags New England

"You're talking about "the best" predators ever," the federal agent from St. Louis stated.  

"Greenwell was very smooth-talking. He dressed normally. He wooed the heck out of the mothers. This wasn't 'the guy in the ice cream truck.'"

The agent points to a flow chart the investigators created to diagram Greenwell's various connections to molestation victims and their parents, as well as two suspected fellow pedophiles. He gestures to photos of four mothers and ticks off Greenwell's tie to each: "boyfriend, boyfriend, babysitter, coworker."

Subke and his partner from the FBI questioned their objective at the sheriff's office on the evening of Greenwells arrest.

Subke began, by offering Greenwell, age 37 at the time, a soda. After reading him his rights, the investigators explained that there had been some allegations made against him. At first the conversation was heading toward small talk.

Investigator: "Mr. Greenwell, what kinds of hobbies are you into?" 

Greenwell: "Scooby Doo, SpongeBob and playing Xbox."

Investigator: "What's your type, Mr. Greenwell? Guys or girls?"

Greenwell: "Guys. Young males, specifically - around eight to twelve years old. But I don't like hardcore sex images, as Society doesn't look too kindly upon adult males who like young boys."

Investigator: "Let's talk about child porn,".

Greenwell: "They're boring," 

His computer skills, Greenwell added in response to another question, were "beginner to low-intermediate." He said he had encrypted the contents of his hard drive "because of personal information."

The Federal agent asked about a framed picture of a boy he had seen on a wall in Greenwell's home: It appeared to be a formal school portrait. Greenwell explained that it was an old photo of a boy he'd been a father figure to.

After a while the investigators brought up the fourth grader who had described how Greenwell had sexually molested him. Eventually Greenwell admitted that he had fondled the boy's penis and photographed the experience.

But Greenwell didn't stop there.

Aware of Greenwell's affinity for Scooby-Doo, the investigators brought up the topic in the hope that he might be familiar with the "Scooby-Doo Productions" material that LA investigators had uncovered on Lost Boy. But instead of referencing those videos, Greenwell described a pornographic video a friend had sent to him - and also a non-pornographic video he had made, which featured the son of a coworker playing in a park.

"We didn't know what the hell he was talking about," said the Federal Agent. "So we played off of it."

"Yeah, tell us about those other videos," the agent prompted. At that point Greenwell abruptly opened up.

He admitted incorporating Scooby-Doo imagery into the home movie he'd shot in the park, featuring a boy he knew. He began spouting "computer lingo," as the agent puts it - saying he had used the Sony Vegas software to tag three other videos with his "Scooby-Doo Productions" .

He hadn't shot those videos, he said; they'd been sent to him by acquaintances. He said he'd obscured background details so as not to reveal where the videos had been made.

"Everyone knew him as 'the computer guy,'" the federal agent noted in afterthoughts. "If there was something in the background that identified someone, he would take care of it."

The detectives asked Greenwell who'd sent him the videos. One man was from New Hampshire, he said; another, who went by the screen name "SpongeBob," was from Utah. The investigators could hardly believe what they were hearing.

"LA was hot after 'SpongeBob,'" the FBI agent explains. When Greenwell offered up the man's name, Antonio Cardenas, "We immediately called LA, and Salt Lake started their investigation full-bore."

And Greenwell kept talking and admitting.

He also admitted that the framed photo on his wall was of a boy he had molested, and he told Subke and the agent where the boy's mother lived. He admitted that he was "Muddyfeet." He admitted to operating a child-porn message board of his own, called "aLL bois." He identified by name all of the boys in photos that had been sent from Los Angeles. He came up with the screen names of ten additional fellow porn traders.

After three and a half hours of questioning, minus a few breaks for cigarettes, Greenwell finally broke down.

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INTERNATIONAL Online Child Predators: The Lost Boy Bulletin Board (Part 4)

Saint Louis Downtown

As the assigned FBI Agent from St. Louis watched a live video stream in a nearby room, Connell sat down in a face-to-face encounter with the fourth grader they were able to identify. As soon as the young boy told her that Jeffrey Greenwell had groped his genitals and photographed the act, the FBI agent called Subke. The agent recalls saying: "I said, 'I got it, Chuck, let's go,'"

Eventually, Subke was prepared for this probability. After providing a search warrant, Subke embarked with his team into the woods of Missouri. The FBI agent as well alerted Brian Mize, asking for the decryption specialist, to come down from Clayton to provide his expertise in collecting evidence.

Jeffrey Greenwell

Less than a day after the school principal pointed out the fourth grader, the Federal Agents and Franklin County Detectives arrived together at Miramiguoa Park. They waited until Greenwell exited his house and drove off. At that particular moment the search team went in.

Purely a preview of what they would discover inside the house, was the Scooby-Doo sticker on the Front door.

Mize descibed it as follows: "The whole place was littered with Scooby-Doo,"  and goes on: "A Scooby-Doo bedspread, a life-size Scooby-Doo blowup doll and numerous Scooby-Doo figurines.".  

 "There was also a small dog in a crate in the living room, happily wagging its tail. The dog's name was 'Scrappy'" Subke recalls.

Scooby-Doo Blowup Doll

Brian Mize's appearance practically screams "Cop" all over the place, face, partly because of his square-edged chin and the short close-cropped haircut. The computer forensics whiz-kid is a Detective on the Chesterfield police force in the second-ring western suburb of St. Louis. When Brian talks about crime-scene analysis, he sounds more like a doctor, which is what he aims laying back in time when he majored in biology. Then his passion fell into Law Enforcement. "We are crime-scene technicians, and our magnifying glass is software, which lets us look for clues,"  Mize sums up.

Mize belongs to the Regional Computer Crimes Education and Enforcement Group (RCCEEG), a task force, launched in 2002 in order to team up the FBI's area cybercrime squad with its counterparts from the U.S. Secret Service and other local law-enforcement agencies. Working as a unit, the group provides technical forensic support to fight computer crimes throughout Missouri and the nation, including those related to child abuse, which is definitely more than just a simple crime !

The FBI seized two PCs from Greenwell's residence, along with numerous external storage devices, two digital cameras and a Sony Handycam video camera, as well as a nest full of DVDs and CDs (these were found by agents in a locked safe). Greenwell's Property Owner later found a third digital camera, wrapped in clothing, while getting rid of his former pedophile occupant's belongings.

A SONY Handycam found with Greenwells belongings

Mize quickly found out that Greenwell had encrypted the hard drive on his main Computer. After working his way past the suspect's safety shields, Mize found around 15.000 still images of child pornography and molestation. Some of the photos included Greenwell and/or other men engaged in sex with those young boys, children.

Greenwell Photoshopped

Many of the pictures were photoshopped in a manner not to reveal the faces of those pedophiles involved in these atrocious acts. In order to identify the victims, Mize had to search for reappearing details, like f.ex. a specific pair of pajamas, birthmarks or scars. The painstaking process of sorting and grouping these images has just begun. If Brian noticed a discarded article of children's clothing in the background of one photo and then spotted it being worn by a boy in another, he'd group the photos together, each in a single category.

With this technique, Mize was able to create a file for each suspected victim. He named these "Series 1" "Series 2" and so forth.

For each series then, he created a "sterilized" non-pornographic image that showed the victims face and any peculiar physical feature that might aid on the road of identification. This workprocess took weeks. After the accomplished Forensic ID-Mission, Mize believed he had identified at least five victims who were raped by Greenwell, and possibly as many as 10.

Investigators finally were able to determine that Greenwell had been molesting and photographing his victims since at least 2003. Most of the pictures were taken in whatever home Greenwell was renting at the time. Other were taken during trips to other towns or tourist attractions.

Meanwhile Investigators in California found out, that some specific area in the Lost Boy forum was assumed, as a work in progress, an on and ongrowing guidebook of suggesting tips, on how to repress boys into a trusting liaison, a process often referred to as "educating" or "grooming".

From every Lost Boy forum member, it was expected to share tips to the handbook, which contained suggestions like, "targeting children from broken homes" or "poverty-stricken conditions" and "going after sons of drug addicts". A member reported that "introverted boys from Latin America's poor broken homes (street kids) are the easiest to handle and for cost per boy ratio they are the cheapest."

The "guidebook" advised "manipulating boys with drugs, alcohol and sleeping pills"

Elsewhere the "guidebook" advised "manipulating boys with drugs, alcohol and sleeping pills"  in order "to lower their self-consciousness" and suggested "molesting them while they're unconscious". Another section on the Bulletin Board offered advice "on ways to move on from victims who have outgrew their charm".

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INTERNATIONAL Online Child Predators: The Lost Boy Bulletin Board (Part 3)

Jeffrey Greenwell

The biggest Question remained: Who was producing this material ? Who were those men captured in the photos and the videos, carrying out acts of molestation over and over and over again ? Who and where ARE those children ?

Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse

The office of U.S. Attorney Carrie Costantin on the 21st floor of the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse faces north, is giving the federal prosecutor an privileged view of the downtown St. Louis' Gateway Mall. The veteran assistant U.S. attorney, who grew up in University City and studied law at the University of Chicago, is blessed with a streak of spontaneous humor that is contradictious to compare it with the dark nature of her specialization.

Over a decade, trying cases for the Eastern District of Missouri, Costantin has prosecuted uncountable cases of child molesters. In 2006 she was lifted to the regional coordinator for the U.S. Department of Justice's new Project Safe Childhood program. (She stepped down a few years ago, in order to assume a new role as the supervisor of White Collar Crime Unit in Washington D.C.) It's not unthinkable that Costantin may tried more child-pornography cases than anyone else in the nation.

St. Louis' Gateway Mall

In 2010, the Eastern District of Missouri took on 84 child-exploitation cases. (More than any other judicial district in the United States. In each of the two years preceding, the office ranked second.)

In September 2009 Costantin received a call from federal Officers in St. Louis, indicating that a Los Angeles investigation into an Web-based network of child-porn devotees had turned up a possible connection to the Greater St. Louis.

A pedophile living overseas, had told the Los Angeles LE investigators that a man who went by the screen name "Muddyfeet" was producing extensive amounts of child pornography in Missouri. The name "Muddyfeet" also came up during the questioning of a Lost Boy suspect who attributed a large set of pornographic stills of young boys, to a photographer who operated under that alias. The third chase for Mister "Muddyfeet" was an archived chat-room exchange between a Lost Boy member and an outside acquaintance who went by the screen name Muddyfeet that was found on a computer, that the Los Angeles squad seized as evidence, brought the picture into a better focus. A specific file included an e-mail address, which was traced back to Franklin County, Missouri. The e-mail adress belonged to Jeffrey Greenwell.

Although the information outcome was enticing, it would be difficult, to secure a search warrant, prosecute anybody, with nothing more to go on but a"possible" name, an Internet screen name (Muddyfeet), two addresses and a handful of pictures of nameless boys being raped. In order to obtain a search warrant, at least ONE of those childs on those photos had to be positively identified.

At the same time, Costantin was fully judicious of the impact of urgency the case had. Her Los Angeles associates meanwhile were pursuing an ongoing child-porn enterprise and had good reason to presume that some of the men involved were actively molesting children.

Michael Osborn (left)

As Michael Osborn, the FBI agent who heads up the SAFE task force in Los Angeles, stated:  

"We knew there were hands-on victims out there that we had to ID as quickly as possible. We didn't have a six-month luxury. Every day counted."

The FBI assigned a St. Louis agent to investigate, based on the lead they had. For local assistance, the bureau received help from the Franklin County Sheriff's Department.

Lieutenant Chuck Subke, who runs the county sheriff's detective division, began by visiting the two addresses linked to Greenwell. One was a vacant lot. The other, about the size of a single-wide mobile home, was wrapped at the back end of Meramec State Park, only a few hundred yards from the river.

The size of a single-wide mobile home. Residence of
Jeffrey Greenwell

Subke traced the license plates on the two cars that were parked in front of the cottage. Both were registered to Greenwell's name. From observating it, it seemed he was living there on his own.

The next investigating step was that Subke along with the assigned FBI agent visited several Franklin County elementary schools, where they asked each principal to go through the halfdozen of pictures of fully clothed boys (they had received those photos from their colleagues in Los Angeles) to look for eventually familiar faces. On October 22nd, 2009, two weeks into the so far unsuccessful mission, they got their first hit, when a principal pointed out one of the boys in his school's hallway: a fourth grader.

Catherine Connell

Law enforcement then contacted the boy's mother. Later they flew in FBI investigator Catherine S. Connell from Detroit. She is specialized in questioning children and/or adolescents. Connell, had spent that past year flying around the country, interviewing the majority of the victims who had emerged from the Lost Boy investigation.

Speaking with children about molestation is complex, as demonstated in the McMartin preschool trial in California during the 1980s. That embarrassing debacle, which costed the U.S. taxpayer over 15 million USD, and jailed an innocent man for five years. The whole case was set up by false testimonies, spiffed up to the point of absurdity, that a therapist extracted hundreds of children into satanical rituals. After six years of criminal trials, no convictions were obtained, and all charges were dropped in 1990.

"You don't set out to upset the children you interview,", Connell says, "but you don't want them to suppress memories that by their nature are upsetting. Nor do you want to put words in their mouths." She continues "You talk about the truth, and you test whether they can tell the difference between a truth and a lie."

Connell says "When broaching potentially traumatizing subjects with kids, you need to be careful to both: reassuring but skeptical."

This is the “secret tunnel” described in the McMartin case as a place where “crimes were committed”

"I try to reduce suggestibility and authority," she says, describing a technique based on guidelines adopted by the state of Michigan designed to prevent kids from fabricating stories. "The difference between what we do and what other investigators do is that we go in unbiased, seeking to test the hypothesis rather than confirm it. We use phrases like, 'If you don't know the answer, then tell me you don't know it.'"

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INTERNATIONAL Online Child Predators: The Lost Boy Bulletin Board (Part 2)

Jeffrey Greenwell

Although the investigators scanned the World Wide Web on a regularly basis, for clues or links that might lead to active child-porn message boards and Pedophiles, this was the very first time they had heard of the group with the Pseudonym "Lost Boy".

At this moment, this unexpected curve came for the investigating crew as a discerning eye. As Woodrow Tracy, one of the confessors, provided to LE his screen name and password, and under the guise of their informant, the investigators builded a profile of the pedophile-network members.

About thirty-six (36) members, on four continents. Online they identified themselves with Screenames like "Bobo," "Undy12" or "Harry Potter" and branded themselves as "boylovers", relating to a Club that Anthony Jasso was a member of

Note, that Justin Lee is (was) a Phoenix-based pediatric anesthesiologist

In the Court documents, is a 45-page federal grand jury indictment included, wich was filed in September 2009 as well as a 41-page sworn affidavit from an Ohio FBI agent. These records list a vast lineup of pornographic images involving young boys, and is described with numbing impersonal details, like:

"One image depicts a nude, prepubescent boy kneeling on a bed with his buttocks in the air exposing his anus, scrotum, and penis. There is semen on his buttocks."

Another image:

"depicts the face of a prepubescent boy bent over a bed and facing down. Behind him, a post-pubescent male appears to be engaging in anal sex with the boy, while holding a revolver pointed at the boy's buttocks."

In a series of seven images:

"depict a minor boy, approximately 12 to 13 years old, with a baseball bat inserted in the boy's anus. Two of the images depict what appears to be the same boy, with a Crayola marker inserted in his anus. In the message, [Lost Boy member] mr bean wrote 'almost baseball season...'."

Most of the boys in the photos were between seven and twelve years old. One even had the Down syndrome.

Among those videos that the Los Angeles Task Force seized, were several that featured an identical opening sequence: an image twirling into focus to reveal the iconic cartoon Great Dane Scooby-Doo, followed by the slogan "Scooby-Doo Productions"

The LE Agents would soon learn that those Scooby-Doos had cropped up in child-porn videos nationwide, but no one was able to trace the videos back to their sources.

In its efforts to evade detection, the group simulated an country club for only selected members. A new Lost Boy Prospect could only join, if proposed by another Forum member. In the order to remain in good standing, all members were enforced to upload new images and videos or post links to them in regular intervals. A extended span of inactivity was taken as a sign that authorities may have blown up a member's account.

Court documents indicate that members believed they were immune to detection. One wrote:

"Some Latin boys for your enjoyment,".

Another one posted: "Have fun and watch out for sticky keyboards, lol,".

In another posting, a member expressed his displeasure for "Asian boys or darker," and "If I had one in my arms, they would just be like tissue paper. Use em and then throw away."

Some other member commented on that "Throw-away"-Post, as followed:

"yeesh why throw them away when you know that me and "flipper," (a Lost Boy member) will gladly take em? (emoticon)" 

Some other member stated on the same thread:

"hey! I am attracted to tissue paper so i don't appreciate your comments. I like the rolled up kind that most people call toilet paper. I saw a roll at the grocery store the other day that looked good to me. It was 100% recycled roll so it wasx (sic) slightly darker than the rest. That turned me on. It was really soft and smooth and had a good personality. I paid a man so I could take it home with me. We played, Xbox, watched some Adam Sandler movies, and then had sweaty sex on the floor. The next day we went into town and i bought it a skateboard."

The 2009 Los Angeles indictment named twelve alleged Lost Boy members (see box above) and charged them with operating a child-exploitation enterprise; conspiracy to advertise, transport, receive, distribute, solicit, and posses child pornography; and interstate transportation of child pornography.

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AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE

Steven Martinez, assistant director in charge of the FBI in Los Angeles said something very important to the LOST BOY CASE, so public should be aware what is happening every day around us (IN PLAIN SIGHT):

"The Lost Boy case represents a global subculture that exists for the purpose of trading of child pornography and other tools used to sexually exploit children. The FBI and our partners in Los Angeles and globally will continue to work together to identify these networks and to pursue charges against those who abuse children."

INTERNATIONAL Online Child Predators: The Lost Boy Bulletin Board (Part 1)

Jeffrey Greenwell

Wraped like a virtue inside a bend of the Meramec River at Miramiguoa Park is a remarkably secluded piece of real estate. Surrounded on three sides by the river, the sparsely populated 200 Acre village with 120 residents, guards its upcountry flank with the completeness of the Meramec State Park, whose borders stretch south and west through the Franklin County Ozarks.

The Meramec River, Missouri

To get to Miramiguoa Park you must stay on Interstate 44 all the way to Sullivan, then exit and circle through several miles of deep Missouris forestterrain.

Around this beautyful landscape, in 2009, a little house in Miramiguoa Park was getting on the focus by Law Enforcement. By then, on the front door of that tiny house there has been a sticky sticker of the well known cartoon hero Scooby-Doo. From here on "Scooby-Doo" would play a major role in one of the most significant busts of an international acting Pedophile-Ring:
The Lost Boy Bulletin Board.

Greenwells house, the start of a falling Pedophile-Ring

The man who rented that house was almost unknown to neighbors in the area. No one took much notice of him (nor of the young boy who showed up every now and then).

On October 23rd, 2009, a breezy afternoon, a team of five state and federal law-enforcement agents drove to Miramiguoa Park and took up positions to offer them a plain sight to that unimpressive cottage. Two additional officers stationed themselves up the access road, just outside the village. The weeks before, Missouri Law enforcement, local and federal, had been investigating tips comming from the FBI Los Angeles Field Division, concerning the man who rented this specific cottage.

Then they waited for the man inside the house, to show up, to come out.

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AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE

Steven Martinez, assistant director in charge of the FBI in Los Angeles said something very important to the LOST BOY CASE, so public should be aware what is happening every day around us (IN PLAIN SIGHT):

"The Lost Boy case represents a global subculture that exists for the purpose of trading of child pornography and other tools used to sexually exploit children. The FBI and our partners in Los Angeles and globally will continue to work together to identify these networks and to pursue charges against those who abuse children."

Brian Mize is a genuine, approved computer geek. A computer forensic investigator from St.Louis, who is assigned as a Special Federal Agent with the FBI Cyber Division. Mize also teached different Internet-investigation techniques at the St. Louis County Police Academy . He also attended local and national hacker conferences in undercover. Mize is as well a member of RCCEEG.

Brian Mize (left)

One of Mize's investigative "specialties" is child pornography above child exploitation. His capabilities resume back to the decade of Video Home System (VHS). He participated then, in the infamous Michael Devlin case, where Devlin, a Imo's Pizza Pizza-manager, kidnapped 13-year-old William Benjamin Ownby, whom he kept hostage and molested for four years.

The nightmare ended on January 12th, 2007, when LE Officers found another missing teenage boy, Shawn Hornbeck at Devlins Place. Hornbeck had disappeared on October 6th, 2002, at the age of eleven, while riding his bike to a friend's house in Richwoods, Missouri. No one had heard from Hornbeck ever again, until he was discovered in Devlin's apartment back that day. Devlin is currently serving 74 life sentences for these crimes.

Devlin after his arrest in 2007

Mize often educates parents and teachers about how much easier child molestation has become in the digital era, when so many youngsters are outfitted with smartphones and tablets.

The nonprofit Organisation National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reported in 2009, that it received over 17 million pornographic images and videos through its Victim Identification Program (VIP), twice as much as in 2008.

"It's no longer a five-foot cord attached to the wall. Bad guys have unprecedented access to communication with kids, and it's made things more dangerous", Mize stated.

Beneath Mize's desk sits a enormous Computer that would overpower any ordinary CPU-workstation. Known as FRED (Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device) the PC-facility is designed to create Bit-for-Bit replicas of each piece of electronic evidence investigators seize in a case, and to simplify the process of decrypting data that has been rendered unreadable and password-protected.

A "FRED" Tower

In the fall of 2009, FRED's capabilities were put to the test, after a fellow FBI teammate called to summon him to a small house in the southern Franklin County Outback.

A year earlier, in October 2008, FBI agents in Los Angeles got some information (Two men, a Danish and an Italian national contacted the FBI Bureau in Copenhagen to give the tip), from the bureau's legal attaché in Copenhagen, Denmark, indicating that two men, Harout Hagop Sarafian (Inmate of FCI Lompoc) of North Hollywood and Woodrow Tracy (Inmate of FCI Coleman Low, Florida) of Sun Valley, had traveled to Romania the previous year in order to have sex with young boys.

After obtaining federal warrants, the Los Angeles Sexual Assault and Felony Enforcement Team (S.A.F.E.), a task force comprising federal prosecutors and law-enforcement officers at local, state and federal level, arrested both men and seized computer equipment that turned out to contain a bounty of child pornography.

Both Sarafian and Tracy, confessed to investigators that they belonged to a group that called itself "Lost Boy", an international network of pedophiles, who exchanged extensive amounts of child pornography, including pictures and videos depicting men sexually molesting young boys.

"Lost Boy" operated a password-protected, online forum (the forum was registered in 2007), that allowed members to post digital images and discuss each other's contributions and experiences. The Network also made use of a popular file-sharing site, notifying fellow members, by posting samples on the Lost Boy forum along with links to downloadable files.

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