Washington State ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2011: Leif O’Neil Christensen Sentenced to 13 Years in Federal Prison For Child Pornography And Gun Possession

Defendant Had 2006 State Convictions for Possession of Child Pornography

A Skagit County felon was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 13 years in prison for possession of child pornography and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Leif O’Neil Christensen, 32, of Anacortes, Washington, had been convicted in 2006 in Snohomish County of possession of child pornography. Due to that conviction, Christensen faced a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence and was prohibited from possessing a firearm. U.S. District Judge James L. Robart imposed 20 years of supervised release following the prison term.

Jenny A. Durkan

Christensen came to the attention of law enforcement in February 2010 when an FBI agent working online in an undercover capacity identified an Internet protocol (IP) address that was using peer-to-peer file sharing software to distribute child pornography. The IP address was linked to Christensen. As officers were preparing search warrants, Christensen was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender.

In December 2010, a second investigation led to a different IP address associated with Christensen in Anacortes, Washington. In March 2011, law enforcement searched that home and found both child pornography and a Ruger firearm in Christensen’s living space. Christensen was arrested. He was indicted in October 2011 and pleaded guilty in January 2012.

In asking for a 15-year sentence, prosecutors wrote to the court that Christensen’s criminal history “reveals a combustible mix of sexual deviancy, violence, poor impulse control, and drug abuse and addiction. He has admitted to molesting three boys when he was in his late teens and early 20s.

The abuse he suffered as a child undoubtedly affected him and most likely contributed to his current criminal history and the instant offense. Understanding his background may help explain his situation somewhat, but it does not mitigate the danger that he poses now, to the community at large, and to young children that he might meet. The overriding concern is that the defendant be prevented from molesting another boy.”

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Florida ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2011: Joshua Jay Williamson (24) from Jacksonville sentenced to 5 ½ years in federal prison for extorting dozens of women on Facebook and possession child porn

24-year-old Joshua Jay Williamson received the sentence on the 29th of November, 2012, in Jacksonville. Court documents say Williamson "hacked" in to the email and social networking site on FB of dozens of women between February 2011 and June 2011. Using the personal information he gathered, along with suggestive photos he would find online, and would then further demand the women to send him full nude and sexually explicit photos. He told them that if they did not comply, he would send provocative pictures to their email and Facebook contacts.

On May 19th, 2011 alone Williamson sent extortionate emails to about 75 women.

He attempted to hide his ID by using several IP Adresses and an anonymizer tool (like i.ex. Ghostsurf) but the Smartass should have known that he can be tracked down by authorities anyway.

Files with photos of personal information for more than 150 women were found on Williamson’s computer; 23 images and 31 videos of child pornography were also uncovered.

Williamson will spend 66 months in federal prison and further will serve 10 years of supervised release. He also has been registered as a sex offender and his CPU-Hardware were forfeited as well.

Many agencies, including the FBI, the FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) and the JSO (Jacksonville Sheriff's Office) were involved in the investigation.

SOURCE: http://www.wokv.com/

Reminder of FEDERAL ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2011/12: Former U.S. Department of Education educator Joseph Butler, 66, of Clarkston and Navy seaman Spencer Duncan, 23, from Lawrenceville sentenced for Involvement with Child Pornography

One was a career employee with the U.S. Department of Education and the other, a sailor with the U.S. Navy. But federal prosecutors said while these men were serving their country, they were involved in the collection and distribution of child sexual abuse images.

On Wednesday, the former educator Mr. Joseph Butler, 66, of Clarkston, and the former seaman Mr. Spencer Duncan, 23, of Lawrenceville, were sentenced for their involvement in child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In March 2012, Mr. Butler was sentenced to 10 years for collecting child pornography while using his government computer and Mr. Butler was sentenced to six years and six months for distributing child pornography.

“These two cases illustrate the important point that consumers and purveyors of child pornography can be found everywhere,” Mrs. Yates said. “Both defendants had worked in service to our country and yet were collecting or distributing photographs of children being sexually abused.”

Federal investigators said Mr. Butler used his work computer to download child pornography from the internet onto CD-ROMs, which he then took home.

In July 2011, federal agents executed a search warrant at Mr. Butler’s home where they found the CD-ROMs of child pornography along with boxes full of children’s clothes and toys, Mrs. Yates said. They also found a collection of self-authored stories that described in graphic detail young children having sex with adults and animals.

Mr. Duncan was caught when an undercover FBI agent was able to download sexually explicit images of minors from the former seaman’s computer, Mrs. Yates said.

Mr. Duncan had created an account on a peer-to-peer file sharing network and made his collection of child pornography available to others, she said.

“The FBI found thousands of such images and dozens of videos on Duncan’s computer when they executed a search warrant at his house,” Mrs. Yates said.

Both Mr. Butler and Mr. Duncan pleaded guilty to the crime in December 2011. Once released, they will be required to register as sex offenders and Mr. Butler will have to undergo five years of supervised release and Mr. Duncan faces 10 years of supervised release.

SOURCE: examiner.com

Wisconsin ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2012: David Whitworth, 40, of Monroe, arrested and charged with production and receipt of child pornography via Internet

U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced on March 15th 2012 that David Whitworth, 40, of Monroe, Wisconsin, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production and receipt of child pornography. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison, a fine of 250.000 USD or both.

U.S. Att. William Hochul

Assistant U.S. Attorney Maura K. O’Donnell, who was handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, the defendant posed as a modeling agent online to induce minors in the Western District of New York and elsewhere to produce pornographic images of themselves, which they then forwarded to Whitworth via the Internet.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

The charges are the culmination of an investigation on the part of special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Christopher M. Piehota; Officers from the Lancaster Police Department, under the direction of Chief Gerald J. Gill, Jr.; and Officers from the Cheektowaga Police Department, under the direction of Chief David Zack.

The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

Source: http://www.justice.gov/

California ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2010: Pete Andre Flores, 24, of Thornton, Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Child Pornography Charges

On March 15th, 2012, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Pete Andre Flores, 24, of Thornton, was sentenced by United States District Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. to six years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography.

US Att. Ben Wagner

According to court documents, on February 6th, 2010, an undercover LE Officer from New Hampshire was invited by Flores to use a peer-to-peer file-sharing program. The officer downloaded approximately 200 files depicting child pornography directly from Flores. On February 16th, 2010, a Sacramento FBI agent downloaded 20 files from Flores that depicted child pornography.
  
On February 18th, 2010, a federal search warrant was executed at Flores’s residence, and more than 27.300 images of child pornography were found on a Acer laptop computer belonging to Flores.

USDJ Morrison England

This case was the result of an investigation by the FBI, Sacramento Division, Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force on Internet Crimes Against Children, and the Keene Police Department in New Hampshire. Assistant United States Attorneys Michelle Prince and Ellen Endrizzi prosecuted the case.

Connecticut ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2012: Arthur Galloway, 38, of Shelton Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison for Trading Child Pornography on the Internet

Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Arthur Galloway, 38, of Shelton, was sentenced on June 27th, 2013, by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for trading child pornography on the Internet.

According to court documents and statement made in court, on March 14, 2012, the Connecticut State Police Computer Crimes Unit, Shelton Police Department, and Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a court-authorized search of Galloway’s residence and seized a laptop computer, an external hard drive, and other items. Investigators determined that Galloway used the Internet to trade numerous images and video of child pornography, and he was arrested at that time.

Subsequent forensic analysis of the seized items revealed that Galloway possessed 11 printed photographs, 913 images, and 45 videos of children engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Some of the videos exceeded 20 minutes in length.

On January 11, 2013, Galloway pleaded guilty to one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography.

The Connecticut Child Exploitation Task Force, which is housed at the main FBI field office in New Haven, investigates crimes against children occurring over the Internet and provides computer forensic review services for participating agencies.

ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2011: Justin M. Bowman, age 26, of Glen Burnie, MARYLAND (Child Porn Producer)

According to a plea agreement and statements in court, on June 21 and 22, 2011, Bowman used the computer at the gas station convenience store where he worked to view and download child pornography to the computer’s hard drive and to a thumb drive. After a store employee discovered Bowman’s activities on the computer, the Anne Arundel County Police began an investigation. On July 14, 2011, law enforcement executed search warrants and seized the computer from the store where Bowman worked, as well as Bowman’s home computer, netbook computer, and thumb drive from his residence.

All of the items seized contained images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The images found included those produced by Bowman at his home between September 8, 2010, and July 12, 2011 of three minor victims. Bowman admitted that he took sexually explicit photos of the victims - an 11-year-old boy and two toddlers, a boy and a girl. In addition to the images of child pornography that Bowman produced, there were more than 100 images of child pornography located on the seized items.

As part of his plea agreement, Bowman must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

Source: 
http://www.justice.gov/usao/md/news/2012/AnneArundelCountyManAdmitsSexualAbuseofChildrenafterCaughtDownloadingChildPornographyatWork.html

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.

Part 1:   

• http://stayaway2.blogspot.com/2014/01/international-online-child-predators.html

Part 3:   

• http://stayaway2.blogspot.com/2014/01/international-online-child-predators_11.html

Part 4:   

• http://stayaway2.blogspot.com/2014/01/international-online-child-predators_16.html 

Part 5:   

• http://stayaway2.blogspot.com/2014/01/international-online-child-predators_25.html

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.

Part 2:   

• http://stayaway2.blogspot.com/2014/01/international-online-child-predators.html

Part 3:   

• http://stayaway2.blogspot.com/2014/01/international-online-child-predators_11.html

Part 4:   

• http://stayaway2.blogspot.com/2014/01/international-online-child-predators_16.html

Part 5:   

• http://stayaway2.blogspot.com/2014/01/international-online-child-predators_25.html

Online Child Predator: Bruce Austin Watkins, 43, Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Offense

Bruce Austin Watkins, 43, of Westwood, California, pleaded guilty on Tuesday November 3rd 2013, to receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

According to court documents, law enforcement executed a search at Watkins’s residence on
May 6th, 2013. Two laptops and an external hard drive seized from Watkins contained 500 videos and 220 images of child pornography that had been collected by Watkins between January 21st, 2007 and April 29th, 2013. Among the files collected by Watkins were images showing the violent sexual molestation of children as young as toddlers !

At the time of the search, Watkins told law enforcement that he had been looking at child pornography online for 15 to 20 years.

Watkins is currently incarcerated at the Sacramento County Jail.

Judge Lawrence K. Karlton

Watkins is scheduled to be sentenced by United States District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton on February 25th, 2014. Watkins faces a maximum statutory penalty of not less than five years and up to 20 years in prison, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.

SOURCE: United States Attorneys Office for the Eastern District Of California

November 26th 2013: One of the Longest Child Pornography Sentences in Colorado History goes to Richard Franklin (a.k.a “westfaliaimplant”)

Denver Man Sentenced to 100 Years in Federal Prison for Advertising Child Pornography and Other Child Pornography-Related Crimes

Judge Wiley Y. Daniel

Richard Franklin, a.k.a “westfaliaimplant”, age 45 of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve 1200 months (100 years) in federal prison for:

• advertising child pornography, 
• receipt of child pornography, 
• two counts of distribution of child pornography, 
• and possession of child pornography.  

Today’s sentence, one of the longest child pornography sentences in Colorado history, essentially means the defendant will spend the rest of his life in prison. Judge Daniel also ordered Franklin to serve a lifetime of supervised release. The defendant, who appeared at the hearing in custody, was remanded. 

Franklin was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on June 8th, 2011. He was found guilty on August 27th 2013, following a seven-day jury trial. He was sentenced today, November 26th, 2013. 

According to court documents, as well as facts presented at trial, from May 11th 2009 and January 5th 2011, Franklin knowingly made, printed or published any notice or advertisement offering to receive, exchange or distribute child pornography to anyone who was a member of his Online Trading Circle. Further, the defendant knowingly received and distributed child pornography using the Internet.

Lastly, Franklin knowingly possessed images of child pornography.

For example: Filesharing Software

In total, the defendant possessed multiple hard drives containing over 200,000 images of child pornography. Franklin used a file trading software to allow others to preview and browse his collection and to chat with fellow child pornography traders. Part of the trading of images was to encourage purveyors to produce new child pornography videos. As a result of this investigation, two young children, both under 12 years old, were rescued from their abusers.When imposing the sentence, the Court stated that the crimes of the defendant were:

“pernicious and evil” and “must be dealt with in the most severe way.”

U.S. Attorney John Walsh said:

“The Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood continues to work aggressively to protect children from those who would exploit them. In cases such as this, we work diligently to punish those who provide these horrible images, with the goal of reducing both the availability and demand.”

FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle said:

Thomas Ravenelle

“The FBI will continue to aggressively pursue those who prey on children, especially those who advertise, trade and/or produce child pornography. Crimes of this nature threatened to destroy our most precious resource, offend every sensibility, and cannot be tolerated. The FBI and our partners will spare no expense or resource to bring them to justice.”

This case was investigate by the Denver and Phoenix Field Offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Additional Information about the Judge Wiley Y. Daniel can be found here.

Google & Microsoft announce to combat together against Online Child Porn

Google and Microsoft announced today (November 18th 2013) that they will introduce new software controls aimed at reducing the distribution of child pornography online. Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, announced today that the Multi-Business-Concern Google in Cooperation with MS will roll out new Control(ed)-Software designed to curb child porn searches on the Google Searchengine(s).

 

In a joint announcement, both Companies have introduced on the British summit on Internet safety 2013, a software that makes it harder for Pedophiles, Sadists and wannabe`s to search for child abuse material online.

Writing ahead of that British summit on Internet safety, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt said his company has fine-tuned Google Search to clean up results for over 100.000 search terms in connection to child porn. When users (Pedophiles) type in queries that may be related to child sexual abuse, they will find no results that link to illegal content.

(My opinion: If this would be possible (and not only a trying promise), this would be one of the biggest breakthrough(s) in this disturbing and growing Internetcrime(s), that "kills" Children emotionally, for the rest of their lives, if they come away without killing after an sexual raping act).

Schmidt wrote in the Daily Mail newspaper: "We will soon roll out these changes in more than 150 languages, so the impact will be truly global". Globalization ?

The restrictions are being launched in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries first and similar changes are being brought out on Microsoft's Bing search engine (Where is YAHOO ?). The two companies are sharing picture detection technology to identify child abuse photographs whenever they appear on their systems, and Google is also testing technology to identify and remove illegal videos.

Other measures include warnings shown at the top of Google search for more than 13.000 queries to make it clear that child abuse is not only illegal but a crime indescribable. Schmidt acknowledged that no algorithm is perfect and Google cannot prevent pedophiles adding new images to the web. Maybe someday they will be able, on the long run. Campaigners welcomed the move but doubted how much impact the changes would bring. Pedophiles tend to share images away from the public search engines, they say...

Jim Gamble, the former chief of Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center said: "They don't go on to Google to search for images, they go on to the dark corners of the Internet on peer-to-peer websites."

Jim Gamble


According to a briefing issued by Mr. Cameron's office, changes to be introduced by the search engines include, but not limited :


- The introduction of new algorithms that will block child abuse images, videos and pathways that lead to illegal content, covering 100.000 unique searches on Google (Worldwide).

- Stopping auto-complete features from offering people (...with Pedophilia disorder...), child abuse search terms.

- Google as well as Microsoft will now work with the National Crime Agency and the Internet Watch Foundation to bring forward a plan to tackle peer to peer networks featuring child abuse images.

- Google will bring forward new technology that will put a unique identification mark on illegal child abuse videos, which will mean all copies are removed from the web once a single copy is identified or uploaded.

OTHER LINKS TO THIS TOPIC:
-  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10457458/Google-New-technology-to-identify-child-abuse.html
- http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/parent-guide
- https://www.gov.uk/government/news/internet-safety-summit-at-downing-street-communique
- http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/18/uk-us-dark-web-online-child-abuse-internet