EAST ST. LOUIS - The U.S. District Court - Southern District of Illinois - on Wednesday announced a federal criminal complaint was filed late on Friday
A Philippine court has sentenced an American to life in prison on charges of sexually exploiting Filipino children using webcams to sell videos, photos and livestreams to buyers abroad, an official said Wednesday.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
I despise the predators who won't leave little kids be. Let's lock 'em up for life, then throw away the keys.
Number of web pages featuring abuse being removed has plummeted during pandemic
Anonymous Hades's insight:
"In 2019, 89% of URLs known to contain child sexual abuse material were hosted in Europe, compared with 79% in 2018.
Of all the content found by the IWF, 71% – the equivalent of 93,962 URLs – was hosted in the Netherlands. This was an increase from 2018, when the Netherlands was found to be hosting 47% of all known child sexual abuse material.
The Netherlands has become a target for hosting child sexual abuse material due to its strong internet infrastructure, which makes it an easy place for any internet company to operate, offering low-cost hosting services, the IWF said.
North America hosted 9% of all known child sexual abuse URLs in 2019, a fall from 18% in 2018, the report says." - Jamie Grierson | The Guardian
Authorities are urging anyone whose children have had contact with a Pensacola nanny and foster parent who was also allegedly a pornography actress to contact the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
"Deputies on Monday arrested Nicole Lynn Walter, 27, on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, possession of child pornography, aggravated assault and resisting arrest. She was booked into the Escambia County Jail without bond.
Walter was a nanny and a licensed foster parent, and authorities asked that anyone whose children have had previous contact with Walter to contact ECSO investigator Jeremy Horn at 850-436-9586 or jahorn@escambiaso.com. Walter has also used the names Nicole Steff and Nicole Stearns." - Colin Warren-Hicks | Pensacola News Journal.
A Florida man who was caught downloading thousands of images that contained either child pornography or child erotica said he viewed the graphic content as a “boredom killer” even though he knew it was wrong and he hated himself for it, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
If you're bored, do yourself a favor and find something constructive to do with your time. Otherwise, you may end up like this guy. The moral of this story: jail is the ultimate "boredom killer."
Larry Deutsch, 54, appeared with his attorney, Gregory Wittner, Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Shirley Padmore Mensah wearing an orange prison sweatshirt and pants with his legs and hands shackled.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
"St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar charged Deutsch with child pornography on Feb. 21. St. Charles County police described Deutsch as a bishop of a Mormon church in the Lake St. Louis area in court documents.
Police also said they had reason to believe Deutsch might have other victims because he had unsupervised contact with children as a part of his leadership and service activities at various churches throughout St. Charles County and Troy, Missouri." - Christine Byers (KSDK)
Scotland Yard has more than doubled the number of officers tackling online child sex abuse following a huge increase in offences.On average 182 crimes of possessing, making or distributing indecent images and videos were recorded by the Met each month last year, compared with 79 a month in 2016.
A Leesburg man will spend the next 40 years in federal prison for producing and sharing child pornography, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida announced Thursday.Thomas Edward Abney Jr. was already a registered sex offender after a 2005 conviction for possession of child pornography and using a computer to solicit or obtain sex with minors, according to Florida Department of Law Enforcement records.Abney pleaded guilty to the latest charges in September.
Christian Brückner, 43, assaulted the youngster in a public park in Braunschweig, northern Germany in 2013 and took graphic photos at the scene, officials told the Mail on Sunday.
Richard Swinnerton, 30, deputy head teacher at St Clare's Catholic Primary School in Middlesbrough, has been charged with possessing online images of child abuse and has resigned from his job.
Authorities have arrested a dark web child abuser known for uploading highly graphic content on several marketplaces and online forums.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
"It all started when the Queensland Police tipped Europol via its secure communication channel about the activities of a pedophile on the dark web who exploited an underage boy and made explicit videos, which were uploaded on the dark web and social media platforms." - Deeba Ahmed | Hack Read
Australia's Westpac Banking Corp said it expects a A$900 million ($578 million) fine over accusations it enabled millions of illegal payments including...
Anonymous Hades's insight:
"Last November, the regulator AUSTRAC filed a civil lawsuit accusing the Sydney-based bank of presiding over 23 million payments that violated anti-money laundering protocols, including payments by Australians to child pornography purveyors in the Philippines." - Byron Kaye | InsuranceJournal.com
The charges include child pornography, the sexual exploitation of children and conspiracy to defraud the US government.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
"The government plans to file new charges in the coming weeks, adding another accuser, prosecutor Angel Krull said during the hearing.
She did not elaborate except to say agents recently seized more than 100 electronic devices, including hard drives, in the case." - Michael Tarm | Associated Press
Gerald Nicolas is believed to have run into the path of a semi five days after being freed on bond after he was allegedly caught with child sex abuse images...
Tuesday, a Bay County jury convicted Scott E. Allen of one count of sexual battery on a child less than 12 years of age, two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation, one count of video voyeurism on certain minors, one count of video voyeurism, seven counts of producing child pornography, and 115 counts of possessing child pornography.
A man indicted for child porn in Pennsylvania has ties to the Ozarks and Springfield police are asking you come forward if you’ve had contact with the man who posed as a child photographer.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
If you have any information pertaining to this case, please contact the pertaining to this case, please contact the authorities immediately. Thank you.
UPDATED: Upper Moreland, Hatboro men arrested on child pornography charges Montgomery Newspapers Gharald Lynch Jr., 62, of the 2000 block of Acorn Place, was arrested and charged with 20 counts of distribution of child pornography, 20 counts of...
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