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CENTURY, Fla. — Not today. Maybe tomorrow.
For months, the man behind the computer had grown used to uttering those words to himself, mostly to fend off the increasing fear that somebody, maybe even the FBI, was watching his every prohibited keystroke.
Though there was indeed grave reason to worry, he could not — would not — stop. The 52-year-old retired Navy communications specialist had transformed his desktop computer, laptop, electronic notebook and multiple external hard drives into vast reservoirs of illicit images featuring sexually compromised children, some as young as 1.
Many days, his computer never stopped humming as thousands of new photographs and videos of abused toddlers and preteens poured into Apartment 108 on Wild Harbor Lane near Orlando as if flowing from an open spigot of evil. Among the most horrific: the image of a girl no more than 7 with the words "cut me'' and "hurt me'' scrawled in red on her naked body, as a knife is brandished in the child's direction.
That shocking photograph would be seized in the spring of 2013 as part of what state investigators described then as the single-largest cache of child pornography — up to 1 million images — recovered in Florida history and one of the largest recent seizures in the nation.
"It was mind-boggling,'' said Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Steve Brenton, the lead investigator in the case.
State and federal authorities said such vast repositories of images are becoming increasingly common in exploitation cases across the U.S. Once celebrated as important law enforcement victories, the large seizures and the labor-intensive analysis required of each photograph and video are now complicating the search for victims pictured in the images and others who may have been physically abused by suspects.
In an estimated 75% of child pornography cases, actual physical abuse by the suspects is likely going undetected, said Michael Bourke, chief psychologist in the U.S. Marshals Service's Behavioral Analysis Unit. In a 2014 study of 127 child-pornography suspects with no known history of "hands-on'' sexual abuse, 5% admitted during traditional questioning to the sexual abuse of at least one child. Yet when investigators introduced tactical polygraph examinations to assist interrogations, another 53% of suspects admitted that they engaged in physical sexual abuse of children, according to the study co-authored by Bourke.
(Read more and watch the video)
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story...hild-exploitation-dark-web-prisoner/22100993/
For months, the man behind the computer had grown used to uttering those words to himself, mostly to fend off the increasing fear that somebody, maybe even the FBI, was watching his every prohibited keystroke.
Though there was indeed grave reason to worry, he could not — would not — stop. The 52-year-old retired Navy communications specialist had transformed his desktop computer, laptop, electronic notebook and multiple external hard drives into vast reservoirs of illicit images featuring sexually compromised children, some as young as 1.
Many days, his computer never stopped humming as thousands of new photographs and videos of abused toddlers and preteens poured into Apartment 108 on Wild Harbor Lane near Orlando as if flowing from an open spigot of evil. Among the most horrific: the image of a girl no more than 7 with the words "cut me'' and "hurt me'' scrawled in red on her naked body, as a knife is brandished in the child's direction.
That shocking photograph would be seized in the spring of 2013 as part of what state investigators described then as the single-largest cache of child pornography — up to 1 million images — recovered in Florida history and one of the largest recent seizures in the nation.
"It was mind-boggling,'' said Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Steve Brenton, the lead investigator in the case.
State and federal authorities said such vast repositories of images are becoming increasingly common in exploitation cases across the U.S. Once celebrated as important law enforcement victories, the large seizures and the labor-intensive analysis required of each photograph and video are now complicating the search for victims pictured in the images and others who may have been physically abused by suspects.
In an estimated 75% of child pornography cases, actual physical abuse by the suspects is likely going undetected, said Michael Bourke, chief psychologist in the U.S. Marshals Service's Behavioral Analysis Unit. In a 2014 study of 127 child-pornography suspects with no known history of "hands-on'' sexual abuse, 5% admitted during traditional questioning to the sexual abuse of at least one child. Yet when investigators introduced tactical polygraph examinations to assist interrogations, another 53% of suspects admitted that they engaged in physical sexual abuse of children, according to the study co-authored by Bourke.
(Read more and watch the video)
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story...hild-exploitation-dark-web-prisoner/22100993/
