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NY Child Pornography Case Underscores Wi-Fi Privacy Dangers
By not in system - AOL NewsBUFFALO, N.Y. -- Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents. That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought. "We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen ...
Maine Mother of 2-Year-Old Gets 20 Years in Child Pornography Case
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA Maine mother was sentenced to 20 years in prison for producing child pornography after admitting that she performed sex acts on her 2-year-old daughter while a man in England watched on a Web camera. Julie M. Carr, 33, pleaded guilty in February 2010, admitting that she transmitted four live videos of herself performing sex acts on her youngest daughter, the Bangor Daily News reports. "What you have done, Ms. Carr, is violate the most basic bond of society -- the bond between a mother and her child, the bond between a mother and her daughter," U.S. District Judge John Woodcock told her in ...
Report: Pentagon Didn't Fully Investigate Child Porn Allegations
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsThe Pentagon is facing criticism after admitting that it failed to thoroughly investigate allegations that employees were viewing child pornography. "These cases were not considered a priority by the Defense Department in the first place, and they should have been,'' Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told The Boston Globe this week. In 2006, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency came up with a list of more than 5,000 Pentagon employees suspected of viewing child pornography. The Pentagon was asked to review the list, but only checked about two-thirds of the names. Pentagon ...
Will 'Porn Lock' in UK and France Lead to Internet Censorship?
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsJust days after France passed legislation requiring Internet service providers to block child-pornography websites, British officials said they want to block all porn on the Web. Critics of both "porn lock" initiatives say they may be the first steps in controlling the Internet in those countries. Ed Vaizey, Britain's communications minister, told the Sunday Times the government is considering a plan to restrict pornography websites to protect children from seeing them. "This is a very serious matter. I think it is very important that it's the ISPs that some up with solutions to protect ...
Pediatrician in Child Porn Case Flees House Arrest
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- An Arizona pediatrician indicted on federal child pornography charges has fled house arrest and is on the run. Dr. Emilio Luna, 40, is accused of sharing sexually explicit images of children on the Internet. He was arrested Sept. 7 and placed under house arrest. However, he was allowed to attend church services Sunday near his home while wearing a court-ordered electronic monitoring device. Police found that device -- along with bolt cutters -- on Sept. 13, inside Luna's car, parked outside the Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in Glendale, Ariz., according to The Arizona ...
Cat Cleared: Man Who Blamed Kitty for Kiddie Porn Sentenced to 12.5 Years
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- You can't blame a kitty for kiddie porn. A judge issued a 12½-year prison sentence to a Florida man who initially blamed his cat for downloading child pornography. Keith Griffin was arrested last year after investigators from the Martin County Sheriff's Office found more than 1,000 illegal images on his computer. The 49-year-old said his pet cat was responsible for the explicit downloads, telling officials that when he was out of the house the feline must have stepped on his computer keyboard and surfed the 'Net until it found the child pornography. ...
Report: Pentagon Declined to Probe Hundreds of Child Porn Purchases
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Defense Department investigated only a small percentage out of hundreds of alleged cases of Pentagon employees using government computers to purchase child pornography, according to a Yahoo! News investigation published Friday. The cases came to light during a 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement probe, called Project Flicker, into the use of credit cards and PayPal to buy sexual images of children online. The investigation turned up the names of more than 5,000 individuals who made the porn purchases -- some of whom were civilian and military employees of the Defense Department, ...
Fark Weird News Quiz (Pie and Coffee Edition)
By Tony Deconinck - AOL News(July 30) -- Editor's note: How well do you follow weird news? Find out with this strange-news quiz from our obsessive friends at Fark.com. Test your knowledge, and check your answers below. 1. The leading candidate for the most bizarre religious news this week goes to: a) The Southside Bay Christian Church, which performed an exorcism rite on a motorcycle b) St. Peter's Anglican Church, which gave communion to a dog c) Blessed Sacrament's Catholic diocese, which voted for "the Holy Ghost" to fill a vacant council chair 2. Emergency responders arriving at the scene of a one-car accident at ...
Report: Pentagon Officials Tied to Child Pornography
By John O. Membrino - AOL News(July 23) -- Several Pentagon officials and defense contractors, including some with high-level security clearance, are under investigation for possessing child pornography, The Boston Globe reported today. Employees of the National Security Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, are among the alleged offenders, according to the Globe, and in a number of instances, government computers were used to obtain the material. Charles Dharapak, AP A major federal investigation has identified dozens of members of the military and defense contractors, ...
Boy Scout Leader in Mich. Faces Child Porn Charges
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(July 22) -- If the office voice mail recording is any indication, damage control was in full swing this week at the Gerber Boy Scout Camp near Muskegon, Mich., where the director is behind bars, charged with possessing and distributing child pornography -- including locker-room videotapes of boys at the YMCA where he worked as a pool safety instructor. "I'm so very grateful for our great Scout leaders who are stepping up and letting folks know that the Boy Scouts of America is still a great organization doing great things for kids," said the voice mail of Mike Sulgrove, Scout executive for ...
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