The arrests were made in the state of Miranda and Aragua. He explained that the deputy director of the CICPC, Albis Pinto, research was initiated by the Spanish Civil Guard and the Autonomous D ‘Esquadra de Catalunya, who recently made several arrests in various parts of the country.

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On Thursday, officials from the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC) captured two people in Miranda and Aragua states involved in the pedophile community protegenos.com.

This was announced on Thursday the deputy director of the CICPC, Albis Pinto, during a press conference at the headquarters of that police force to announce the annual balance sheet.

He noted that the first, identified as Roy Jose Escobar Castillo, 33 years old, was captured on Liberty Street, Valle Verde area, house No. 52, Guatire, Miranda state.

Pinto Escobar Castillo explained that sex tourism services offered to girls aged between 5 and 15 years.

Recently contacted by a forum page protegenos.com.a some citizens of Spanish nationality who are offered at low cost in foreign currency (euros) a package tour, which included a look at the airport, accommodation and also the meeting with the girls , for the purpose of sexually abusing these and disseminate child pornography videos on social networks.

He said this man, who has no police record, was ordered custodial sentence by the court 1, control circuit criminal court in Miranda state, under Article 14 of the law against organized crime, being admitted to the Judicial Center El Rodeo I.

Also, the second person was identified as Fernando De Abreu Correia (21 years), and captured in the Aragua State.

He added that this subject has no police record. The deputy director of CICPC reported that this investigation was initiated by the Spanish Civil Guard and the Autonomous D ‘Esquadra de Catalunya, who recently made several arrests in different locations. Among the arrests highlighted the primary administrator of the website www.protegenos.com, who used the pseudonym Anonymous 02.

This person frequently changed the IP address of your computer in order to not be tracked by authorities.

He stressed that mastery of this page was hosted in the city of Arizona, United States, in order to distract or deceive the authorities involved in the fight against child pornography.

Pinto said that the European authorities provided information to Venezuela, specifically officials of the Computer Crimes Division of the CICPC, through a community network called Cyberpolicías, where more than 40 countries have participated since 2003 and keep an eye on cyberdelincuentes in the world.

The Deputy Director of CICPC indicated that there were over 500 users in protegenos.com category forumers who interacted provide videos, photos and stories different sexual violence against children.

In addition, they offered manuals and instructions to capture victims for the purpose of sexually abusing these and disseminate child pornography videos on social networks.

The forum members of European origin interact via the Internet from Madrid, Catalonia, Galicia, Andalusia, Valencia and Aragon.

Venezuela users interact via the Internet from Caracas, Maracay (Aragua) and Guatire (Miranda).

Currently the authorities have alerted law enforcement agencies in Mexico, Peru and the United States to achieve dismantle this network.

Cybercrime experts continue to analyze the traces of the site to determine the involvement of other individuals involved in this dangerous network.

ATLATNA (MYFOX ATLANTA) – Federal agents said Wednesday that they broke up an international child pornography ring and a large part of it was being run out of Metro Atlanta. Two men were placed in federal custody and two more were faced with local charges.

Two men went before a federal magistrate judge Wednesday on a variety of child pornography charges.

Court documents state the men helped to send graphic images of young boys all over the world.

According to court documents, Joseph Gittings helped run an international child pornography ring from a home in Cummings.

The affidavit says he was an administrator of a website called boylover.net, which has since been shut down. Investigators said the site circulated graphic images of young boys.

According to the search warrant federal agents enlisted the help of a confidential source who knew Gittings. Investigators said Gittings copied a variety of pornographic images of children onto a DVD for that source.

Dale Hodges was arrested at a home in Roswell. Hodges has also charged in the porn ring.

Court papers said dale Hodges was employed by an Alpharetta learning center as a tutor and worked one on one with young children.

A man who lived with Gittings was also arrested by Forsyth County Sheriff’s Deputies when Gittings was taken into custody. Hodges’ next door neighbor was arrested by Roswell police on child molestation and pornography charges too.

Giddings and Hodges are due back before a federal judge Monday.

MacRae was traced after an FBI investigation

BBC News. A British man who used an internet chatroom to incite a paedophile to sexually abuse an eight-year-old girl in the United States has been jailed.

Ronald MacRae, 51, of Duncan Street, Pallion, Sunderland, sent messages to the offender on his home computer and watched the abuse filmed on a webcam.

He was traced after the FBI tipped off UK police, a court heard.MacRae, who pleaded guilty to eight charges relating to the 2004 abuse, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Det Sgt Eric Myers, of Northumbria Police, speaking after the hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, said: “The sentence reflects the horrific nature of the crimes he was involved in.

“MacRae instigated these offences against an innocent girl for his own twisted gratification. ” The court heard that MacRae was tracked down after a two-year investigation involving the FBI and the UK based Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Ruth Allen, head of intelligence at CEOP, said: “MacRae believed that because he was thousands of miles away from his victim law enforcement would be unable to connect him with these horrific offences. He was wrong.”

MacRae was put on to the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.

Several investigations have revealed that behind the production of these pornographic videos with children are adults who profit from their sale. The most shocking factor is that some of the blue videos are recording by minors using the cameras of their cellular phones. The authorities confirmed that many of these videos were recorded in schools and asked teachers and parents to control the use of cellular phones.

According to the DIJ report, what is more worrying is that this child pornography is finding its way on the Internet, which constitutes a more serious crime.
In November 2007, the daily El Siglo reported that a net of pornographers were selling DVDs of minors performing lurid acts in David, Chiriqui province. The video was filmed in a local school.
This is an ongoing problems that the authorities trying to contain, but due to the financial rewards and the secrecy surrounding crimes involving minors it is difficult to detect and arrest the culprits.
Child pornographers face a sentence of between seven to ten years.

A children’s charity says a huge shortfall in counselling is leaving thousands of sexually abused young people struggling to recover.The NSPCC says many services are so overstretched that they are being forced to close their books.

It found fewer than one support programme per 10,000 children in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

MP George Galloway has revealed he was abused as a child, as he backed new checks for adults working in schools.

The NSPCC said there were up to 88,500 sex abuse victims across the UK.

The charity’s report found that when therapy was available to young victims, there could be a delay of up to a year on waiting lists.

Sexual abuse can have devastating consequences for a child but it remains a low priority Debbie Allnock NSPCC

And teenagers were particularly likely to miss out on counselling because they were considered too old for a child protection plan but too young for adult services.

Often therapy was offered too late, when a child was already showing the effects of the abuse, and a gap was identified in provision to deal with rape and sexual abuse.

The NSPCC’s Debbie Allnock, who led the research, said there was a need for “huge investment” into therapeutic services for children.

“Sexual abuse can have devastating consequences for a child but it remains a low priority within mainstream mental health services and among local authorities,” she said.

She said the abuse often led to “severe long-term behavioural, criminal and addiction problems”.

“It takes bravery for a young person to tell someone about their sexual abuse and ask for help.

“But their suffering may only get noticed when they show significant signs of distress, anguish or damaging behaviours. They may then have a long wait for the support they desperately need.”

‘Ashamed’

George Galloway revealed he was abused when he was 11, as he backed a scheme to vet everyone who works with children which comes into effect in October.

It has been opposed by leading authors who go into schools, including Philip Pullman, who said the idea was “ludicrous and insulting”.

However, writing in the Daily Record, Mr Galloway said the checks would be worth it if they spared a child the “horrors” of sexual abuse.

Referring to child killer Ian Huntley and the Dunblane Primary massacre, he wrote: “Every time a Soham murderer or a Dunblane Thomas Hamilton emerges, I die a little inside as I remember that dirty old man driven by the same perverted interest in sexually attacking kids.”

Mr Galloway said he had not even revealed the abuse to his wives.

“All I feel is ashamed, though I was the child victim and he the aggressive predator.”

In response to the NSPCC report, a Department of Health spokesman said it had commissioned a report into youth mental health services.

“There have been considerable recent improvements in the delivery and quality of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) due to a 62% increase in spending since 2003-04 and a year-on-year reduction in waiting times,” he added.

Source: BBC UK

“What is novel about this study is that it seeks to understand these children from multiple perspectives – neurocognitive, neuroendocrine, and neurophysiological as well as psychological,” said Center Research Director Fred Rogosch. “We will obtain very diverse assessments on the same child, providing a holistic view of the multiple ways in which child maltreatment affects development,” Rogosch said.

“Our focus on what factors support resilience is equally important,” Rogosch added. “Many abused children go on to lead productive, well-adjusted lives. Identifying these pathways to success is vital because it says to children and adults that ‘they are not doomed’ by an abusive childhood.”

Rogosch and Dante Cicchetti, McKnight Presidential Chair and Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota and the former director of the Mt. Hope Family Center from 1984 to 2005, are principal investigators of the study.

Research and popular understanding of child abuse have traditionally looked at the psychological and behavioral consequences of maltreatment. For example, the links between early trauma and depression, suicide, substance abuse, and aggression are well documented.

But more recent studies show that early trauma often also affects basic biological systems. Abuse during critical developmental years of life can alter gene expression, disrupt normal hormonal responses to stress, and affect brain development. To date, however, studies of these biological consequences have been limited to small groups of abused children, primarily those hospitalized with mental illnesses.

This new study involves a large group of 500 children, aged 8 to 10, half of whom have a history of abuse or neglect and all of whom come from low-income backgrounds. Rogosch explained that by selecting participants with similar environments, researchers will be able to differentiate the effects of maltreatment from the general stress of poverty.

Participants will attend a weeklong recreational day camp conducted by the center. “The camp setting provides an excellent opportunity to learn from these children,” Rogosch explained. The program offers a nurturing environment while at the same time giving staff extended opportunities to get to know the children’s personalities, to evaluate their relationships with peers and parents, and to measure the extent of any mental health symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or disruptive disorders. In terms of biological consequences, researchers will track a variety of physiological responses including brain activity and the regulation of cortisol, a hormone associated with stress. The study also will investigate whether specific gene variations are protective against trauma-related psychopathology.

Ultimately, these multiple approaches will be integrated into a more holistic understanding of how child abuse affects both physical and mental health. That understanding, according the investigators, can inform prevention and intervention initiatives to improve the lives of traumatized children and impede the development of mental illness later in life.

Established in 1979, the Mt. Hope Family Center is recognized internationally for integrating scientific research with evidence-based intervention and prevention services for at-risk children and families. The Center helps Rochester area children and families cope with exposure to violence, trauma, mental illness and maltreatment while at the same time improving treatments for families around the world.

Source:
Susan Hagen
University of Rochester

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EL NACIONAL -, March 2009

JAVIER IGNACIO Mayorca
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