Tennessee ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2011: George Stephen Russell (67) Sentenced to 97 Months in Prison for Possession of Child Pornography

Russell’s possession of an extensive collection of child pornography, which he made accessible via the Internet to others who wished to trade child pornography with him, was discovered through an online undercover investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

George Stephen Russell

The FBI executed a federal search warrant at Russell’s residence in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and seized his computers. Forensic examination of the seized computers revealed that he had possessed 3.841 images and 33 videos of suspected child pornography.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children identified 48 known victims of child pornography among the images and videos that Russell had possessed.

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http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-tned-3_11-cr-00079/pdf/USCOURTS-tned-3_11-cr-00079-0.pdf

New Jerseys ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2011: Ronald Oshrin, 50, of Budd Lake, New Jersey Sentenced to 15 years Federal Prison for recording children with Hidden Cameras

Ronald Oshrin

A computer consultant from Budd Lake has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for installing hidden cameras in his Morris County home and then using the cameras to secretly record young girls who were nude or undressing. While admitting to his crime in December 2011, Ronald Oshrin, 50, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez to production of child pornography. Judge Rodriguez imposed the sentence in federal court in Camden.

Joseph H. Rodriguez

At the time the initial charges were brought in April 2012 against Oshrin – who is married with children – his lawyer said his client had 23 years of experience as a computer consultant with "the veteran's administration." Oshrin has admitted, according to authorities, that between 2007 and April 2012, he installed hidden cameras in a bedroom and a bathroom of his home in order to record nine young girls in various states of undress.

He's also admitted to editing the videos to produce still photographs, authorities say, as well as to distributing videos and the still photographs of the girls over the internet.

In addition, authorities said, Oshrin admitted to having sexual contact with certain minors.

According to an FBI-signed complaint made public in April 2012, agents spoke with Oshrin and he allegedly told them that he "regularly downloads child pornography from various websites on the internet.”


The complaint can be found here (.pdf):
http://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/Press/files/pdffiles/2012/Oshrin,%20Ronald%20Complaint.pdf

In addition, the complaint alleged that “he also regularly distributed child pornography through various methods including direct e-mail and posting on known child pornography sites and file sharing sites.”

The complaint also alleged that "when pre-pubescent girls were in the bathroom or bedroom, (Oshrin) would monitor the cameras and make video recordings of the girls ... disrobing, using the shower or using the toilet.

"Because he installed multiple cameras ... it allowed video production from various angles and allowed him to focus on specific areas of interest," the complaint said.

SOURCE: http://www.nj.com

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• http://www.fbi.gov/newark/press-releases/2012/man-who-allegedly-recorded-girls-with-hidden-camera-faces-federal-child-pornography-charge
• http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/morris_county_man_accused_of_u.html

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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District of Columbia ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2011: Richard Evans, 25, Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography Search of Defendant’s Residence Yields Hundreds of Images of Child Pornography

Richard Evans, 25, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to nine years in prison on a federal charge of distributing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr..

US Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr.

Evans pled guilty to the charge in March 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was sentenced by the Honorable Gladys Kessler.

Following completion of his prison term, Evans will be placed on a 10 year supervised release, with numerous conditions. Among other things, Evans must restrict his use of the Internet, undergo sex offender treatment, register as a sex offender for 25 years, and refrain from contact with children.

Gladys Kessler

According to a factual proffer of evidence presented during the court proceedings, on November 15, 2011, Evans contacted an undercover agent with the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force on a social network site.

Over those next two weeks, EVANS engaged in multiple online conversations with the undercover officer, during which he expressed an interest in meeting an underaged girl and engaging in sexual contact with her.

Evans also sent the undercover officer multiple images of child pornography and acknowledged that he actively traded child pornography with other individuals online. In the course of the online communications, Evans further expressed interest in watching the undercover performing sexual acts with the under-aged girl via web camera over the Internet and in having the undercover send him a video of the underaged girl engaged in sexual acts.

Law enforcement obtained an arrest warrant for Evans and a search warrant for his residence in Washington, D.C. On November 30, 2011, Evans was arrested. A forensic analysis of computer equipment inside Evans’ residence confirmed that he possessed approximately 560 images and 102 videos of child pornography, which were organized into various subfolders according to the category of sexual genre, fetish, and/or sexual acts.

New Mexico ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2010: Adam Goodsell, 29, of Albuquerque sentenced to 10 Years Federal Prison

A U.S. child porn distributor collared by the efforts of Winnipeg police and a local civilian tipster has been handed a 10-year prison term.

Adam Pedophile

Adam Goodsell, 29, was sentenced to the lengthy term in a New Mexico federal court, according to the Associated Press. Goodsell was charged in the U.S. after a Winnipeg woman complained about being sent sick images depicting child abuse or exploitation after striking up an online relationship with Goodsell. She reported the incident to Cybertip.ca in August 2010.

That tip was passed off to the Winnipeg Police Service's Internet Child Exploitation unit and she assisted detectives in the investigation. A Winnipeg undercover Agent managed to access Goodsell's computer through a file-sharing program and found more than 80.000 child-porn files available for distribution to others.

Investigators with the Albuquerque Police Department obtained a warrant to search the man's house. They seized and searched computer equipment, finding a number of illegal images.

"Goodsell admitted that while the search warrant was being executed he participated in a recorded interview during which he admitted having more than 1,000 child pornography files 'from babies on up' on his computers," the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement announcing his plea to a distribution charge last October.

Illinois ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2009/2012: Eight Self-Identified ‘Boy Lovers’ Sentenced to Federal Prison for Sexual Exploitation Crimes

Three years after several self-identified “boylovers,” who met in person and online to discuss their sexual interest in children and trade child pornography, were arrested in an FBI sting during or soon after a purported party at a hotel in suburban Skokie, a total of eight defendants have been convicted and sentenced to federal prison terms as a result of the investigation. The sentences ranged from nine years for a suburban Crest Hill man sentenced last week in Chicago to 120 years for a Missouri man sentenced last year in St. Louis.

Six of the eight defendants pleaded guilty and three of them cooperated against others, while the Crest Hill man and a Missouri defendant were convicted after separate trials. All were prosecuted as part of an investigation by the Chicago FBI’s Innocent Images Task Force, which culminated with the undercover sting in September 2009.

“The sentences in these cases reflect the stark reality that defendants who prey upon children by sexually exploiting or abusing them will be punished severely,” said Gary S. Shapiro, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. He announced the sentences together with William C. Monroe, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mark McGill, 27, of Crest Hill, was sentenced to nine years in prison, followed by 20 years’ supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall on October 9th, 2012. McGill was convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography after a trial in March 2012. Evidence at McGill’s trial showed that he had attended at least one party with other “boylovers.”

In August 2009, McGill gave a cooperating defendant a thumb drive containing approximately 3.500 images and nearly 60 videos containing child pornography.

Jose Garcia, 25, of Schererville, Indiana, was sentenced to 33 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve on July 23. Garcia, who cooperated, pleaded guilty to producing, possessing, and distributing child pornography.

Jacob Elliott, 32, of Matteson, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by 10 years’ supervised release, by U.S. District Judge John Grady on July 18. Elliott, who cooperated, pleaded guilty to producing and possessing child pornography.

Corey Stinefast, 30, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, sentenced to 18 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, by Judge St. Eve on June 13. Stinefast pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography, and he was found to have amassed a collection of more than 191.000 images of child pornography.

Neal Maschke, 42, of West Chicago, was sentenced to nine years in prison, followed by five years’ supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan in October 2010. Maschke pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.

McGill, Maschke, Garcia, Stinefast

Donald Peppers, 38, of Hoffman Estates, sentenced to 27 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, by the late U.S. District Judge William Hibbler in December 2010. Peppers, who cooperated, pleaded guilty to producing, transporting, and possessing child pornography, including an admission that he had produced a video of himself sexually molesting a 1-year-old child. Peppers’ arrest and subsequent cooperation touched off the investigation that resulted in the other prosecutions.

Garcia and Maschke were arrested when they showed up for what they believed was going to be a “boylovers” party at the Skokie hotel in September 2009. McGill and Stinefast were arrested a short time later. Two other defendants, Michael Martin and Matthew Klopfenstine, were convicted in federal courts in St. Louis and Kansas City, respectively, based on evidence gathered during this investigation. Martin was sentenced last year to 120 years in prison for producing child pornography, and Klopfenstine was sentenced recently to 15 years and eight months for producing child pornography.

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/

Marylands ONLINE CHILD PREDATORS 2011/2012: Roger Allen Repp, III, age 45, Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Sexually Exploiting a Minor to Produce Child Pornography

U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Roger Allen Repp, III, age 45, formerly of Hagerstown, Maryland, on September 6th, 2012, to 25 years in prison, followed by supervised release for life, for sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography. Judge Blake also ordered that upon Repp’s release from prison he 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).

Roger Allen Repp

The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Acting Special Agent in Charge Timothy P. Groh of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Colonel Marcus L. Brown, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police; and Washington County State’s Attorney Charles P. Strong, Jr.

According to Repp’s plea agreement, Repp produced sexually explicit and lascivious photographs of a teenage girl under the age of 16 via a pinhole camera he set up in the girl’s bedroom and bathroom, without her knowledge. Repp admitted that he distributed those images to other pedophiles via a file sharing program over the Internet, in return for other child pornography being sent to him. Repp’s conduct was discovered during an undercover investigation of file sharing activities on the Internet, when on March 11th and March 16th, 2011, respectively, two separate undercover investigators downloaded images and videos of child pornography from Repp’s collection via a file sharing program.

Judge Blake

As a result of the undercover investigation, a search warrant was executed at Repp’s residence on April 22nd, 2011, by members of the Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit. Law enforcement seized two laptop computers, an external hard drive, and digital media. A subsequent forensic examination of the external hard drive revealed numerous files of child pornography, including 125 video files depicting the victim that were surreptitiously filmed by Repp. There were also several chat logs between Repp and others where he offered to share files of the victim and chats where Repp is looking for other individuals to share files with him.

SOURCE: http://www.examiner.com

CHILD MOLESTERs MUGSHOTs NOT FORGOTTEN: Marcelo Alejo Desautu (MAD) Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking of a Minor

“Mr. Desautu gave drugs and alcohol to a 12-year-old girl and then prostituted her to adult men,” 

“He will now, appropriately, spend the next 17 years of his life paying for his horrific crimes. While no prison sentence can repair the harm caused by such appalling conduct, today’s sentence sends a strong message that we will pursue child sex traffickers to the fullest extent of the law.” 

Marcelo Alejo Desautu

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/March/12-crm-354.html

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