Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

Experts Lisa Paul, deputy prosecuting attorney at the Dawson Place Child Advocacy Center, and Dusty Olson, an advocate of Providence’s Intervention Center for Assault and Abuse and co-founder of the Snohomish County Sexual Exploitation and Intervention Network, discuss the problem of sex trafficking of children in Snohomish County.

When many think of sex trafficking, they think of prostitutes in Southeast Asia, Nepal, Bangladesh or another faraway country – anywhere but here in the United States, and especially not of our own kids in our own communities.

But it is happening here. (more…)

Forest Grove police say a 19-year-old man accused of rape and sex abuse has been indicted on more sex crime charges.

, who uses middle names of both Joseph and James, was indicted Tuesday on two counts of attempted first-degree sex abuse and one count each of second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy, first-degree sex abuse, attempted first-degree rape, attempted first-degree sodomy and third-degree sex abuse, said Capt. Aaron Ashbaugh, Forest Grove police spokesman. He’s being held in the Washington County Jail.

Ashbaugh said the new charges stem from tips detectives investigated after police initially arrested Matthews in February on accusations that he raped a 16-year-old girl at a Forest Grove residence in September. A Washington County grand jury on Feb. 22 indicted him on one count of first-degree rape, one count of second-degree sex abuse and one count of furnishing liquor to a minor in connection with that case, court records show. (more…)

Source: CNN

BUFFALO, 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 name, “Doldrum.”

“No, I didn’t,” he insisted. “Somebody else could have but I didn’t do anything like that.”

“You’re a creep … just admit it,” they said. (more…)

An NBC 10 I-Team investigation shows that hundreds of Rhode Island men are online, nearly every minute of every day, either looking at or distributing child pornography. And law enforcement authorities say dozens of these men, are sexual predators.

The I-Team was granted unprecedented access to the Rhode Island State Police’s secret Cyber Crimes Unit. Using highly sophisticated computer software, 17 highly trained police officers and civilian employees track the child pornography trade in Rhode Island. (more…)

SALAMANCA, N.Y. (WIVB) – A southern tier man, who exploited children for pornography, will spend the rest of his days behind bars.

On Monday, 38-year-old Shawn Snyder of Salamanca received a sentence of 75 years in prison. Prosecutors say he used five children for pornographic films. While Snyder’s attorney claims his client is mentally disabled, the prosecution says he remains a threat to society.

>> A mom of one of the children spoke out about the incident

Snyder pleaded guilty earlier this year to five counts of producing child pornography.

Source: WIVB

CALGARY - It’s impossible to imagine a more helpless victim, or a more sickening crime.

A teenage quadriplegic, brain-injured and confined to a wheelchair, repeatedly molested by his own perverted caregiver.

The disgusting deed was caught on surveillance video, and police in two countries are now trying to catch the creep convicted of the crime – a former Calgarian believed to be hiding in Canada.

“He’s wanted for several counts of sexual misconduct with a minor,” said Deputy Jason Ogan of the Pima County, Arizona Sheriff’s Department.

George Ross Wilcox vanished before a Pima County Superior Court could sentence him for the crime after he was found guilty of four counts of sexual conduct with a minor under 15.

It was June 9, 2009, when Wilcox fled Arizona and a seemingly certain jail sentence after the court found him guilty – in part based on the video which documented the pedophile attacks on the child.

So keen are police to catch and jail 53-year-old Wilcox, who was born and raised in Calgary, that the case was given top billing on America’s Most Wanted, a website and TV show dedicated to catching fugitive criminals.

“Before Wilcox was sentenced, he took off. He is a Canadian citizen and police believe he may have fled the states – hiding out in Calgary or Vancouver, Canada,” reads the Most Wanted description.

From a family with nine brothers and sisters, Wilcox still has strong family connections to Calgary, including his mother, father and many of his siblings. (more…)

The Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit arrested a Washington County, Md. man on the morning of April 22 in connection with the distribution and possession of child pornography. The accused is identified as Roger A. Repp III, 45, of the 600-block of Westwood Street, Hagerstown, Md.  He is charged with two counts each of distribution and possession of child pornography.  If convicted, Repp could be sentenced to up to 50 years in prison.

The Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Section began this investigation in March of this year after receiving information from a police detective in Canada.  The detective had located a computer on the Internet openly distributing child pornography.

A Maryland state trooper assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was assigned the investigation and was able to trace the computer back to Repp’s residence.  On April 22, State Police investigators executed a search warrant at Repp’s home and recovered evidence that led to the charges being filed. (more…)