Man's life Over, Cops Decide He Watched Child Porn in First Class

The fact that you are trying to turn legitimate public concern over pedophilia into some sort of joke is very telling. That says volumes about you.

Your posts are now bordering on the bizarre.

Child porn crackdown unveiled
Mar. 2, 2012

A statewide law enforcement initiative targeting child pornography was announced Friday by U.S. Attorney Tristram Coffin, who said nine individuals have been arrested in the last week and that undercover investigations are continuing.

Speaking at a news conference in Burlington, Coffin was flanked by representatives of state police, local police departments, and Homeland Security Investigations, a federal agency that has helped coordinate the effort, dubbed Operation Greenwave. Attorney General William Sorrell also attended and promised more arrests.

Coffin’s message for child pornography traffickers in Vermont: “Their days are numbered.”

“These are serious offenses,” he said. “We’re going to be using our resources to go after them in a serious way.” He called the scale of the enforcement action, and the nine initial arrests, “unprecedented” in child-pornography prosecution in Vermont.

Child pornography “is not a victimless crime,” said Matthew Etre, deputy special agent in charge at Homeland Security Investigations’ Boston office, who said the collaborative statewide effort is among the first in New England. “We will use every tool at our disposal” to track down child predators, he said.

“I want Vermonters to understand that this is quite simply the tip of the iceberg,” Sorrell said of the investigation’s first phase. “I’m not exaggerating when I say that.”

He said Gov. Peter Shumlin’s budget proposal includes an extra $200,000 to fight the problem.

“We’re concerned about the correlation between the possession and sharing of child pornography and the very real possibility of hands-on abuse,” Sorrell said. He said he hoped news coverage of Operation Greenwave would raise public awareness.

Etre said data-gathering investigations had involved collaboration of about 30 law enforcement agencies. Among those attending the news conference were South Burlington police chief Trevor Whipple and Lt. Kris Carlson of the Burlington Police Department, a specialist in internet crime.

Several of the nine arrests have already been reported. Coffin said the arrestees come from all walks of life and include a lawyer, a photographer and a voice coach. He declined to discuss details of the cases...
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20120303/NEWS02/120302029/Child-pornography?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

"[Child pornography is] the most gross debasement and the vilest violation imaginable," said Tris Coffin, the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont...

Police and prosecutors would not say much about how they tracked the suspects or what their evidence is, but they suggested investigators found images depicting pre-pubescent children.

Operation Greenwave is being called an unprecedented sting in Vermont, and one of the first of its kind in New England. "This investigation should be a wake-up call to would-be child predators who think they can trade in child pornography and commit acts against innocent children while hiding behind pseudonyms and other technological tricks," said Matthew Etre, the agent in charge of the case from the ICE Homeland Security Investigations division.

Officials expect more arrests to come from the ongoing investigation. They noted that cyber-crime units are always getting more and more technologically advanced. Their message was clear: if you victimize children, you will get caught.
http://www.necn.com/03/02/12/Sweep-nets-9-child-porn-suspects-in-Verm/landing_newengland.html?blockID=662186&feedID=4206

Investigators say these men were charged with the possession and distribution of pornographic material of prepubescent children. Although authorities would not say if any of the victims are Vermont kids, court papers show an investigator recognized one female child as a Vermonter. Authorities warn that there is a very real correlation between looking at kiddie porn and the possibility of hands-on abuse.

"This week we stopped the predators in their tracks and the security of Vermont's children is better off for it," Etre said.

"I want Vermonters to understand that this is quite simply the tip of the iceberg," said Bill Sorrell, D-Vt. Attorney General.

Authorities say the internet and file sharing has made it easier for sexual predators to exploit children. And although they called the problem "prevalent" in Vermont, they would not say how many more cases may be out there. They're also aware that publicizing this issue may force some of the predators into hiding. It's a risk they're willing to take.

"If it causes some people to get rid of what they have available for sharing than that's a good day at the office," Sorrell said.
http://www.wcax.com/story/17068303/9-vt-men-arrested-in-a-child-porn-crackdown

A problem would be telling the pedophilia joke in the wrong place and/or at the wrong time.

Cartagena had bound and gagged one of the victims, the 6-year-old son of a friend, before raping him.

That you think there is a right time to joke about the issue says volumes about you.

Cartagena had bound and gagged one of the victims, the 6-year-old son of a friend, before raping him.

I repeat...
You and BillRM are the reason this thread is tagged "perverts" and "creeps". Your reputations are well deserved.

This man both downloaded child pornography, made some of his own, and sexually abused children as young as 2.
Contrary to what BillRM is saying, about strangers being a minimal threat to children, he found 2 of his victims in a toy store.

Quote:

March 1, 2012 12:00 pm
Flushing pedophile receives 30 years
by Paula Neudorf, Associate Editor
Queens Chronicle

Flushing resident Felix Cartagena, 27, was sentenced on Saturday to 30 years in prison after being convicted of producing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced the same day.

Cartagena pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child — sodomizing a 2-year-old boy — for the purpose of producing child pornography, and one count of distribution of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In addition to the 2-year-old, Cartagena abused at least seven other boys between the ages of 2 and 12, according to published reports and Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Of the eight children, two were his nephews, according to a letter from U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to the trial’s judge, dated Dec. 9, 2011.

Cartagena was arrested on Sept. 2, 2010 by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. At the time, he admitted to downloading child pornography and to producing his own porn by “photographing and recording his own sexual assaults of children,” Lynch wrote in the letter.

Cartagena’s 30-year sentence is 20 years less than Lynch requested. “The defendant’s history supports the need for a maximum sentence of 50 years,” she wrote.

“He stands before this court having pleaded guilty to one count of child exploitation and one count of distribution of child pornography, but as discussed above, he also committed additional acts of sexual abuse against other victims,” she continued.

Lynch concluded the letter noting that “the likelihood that Cartagena will continue to sexually and physically abuse children should he ever be released from prison is not only possible but probable.”

In detailed descriptions of Cartagena’s crimes, Lynch said Cartagena had bound and gagged one of the victims, the 6-year-old son of a friend, before raping him. He met two of his other victims at a toy store.

Cartagena is being held in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. Nardoza declined to comment on why Cartagena had only been convicted of producing child pornography, despite his guilty plea in one instance of sexual exploitation, and the other crimes outlined by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
http://www.qchron.com/editions/north/flushing-pedophile-receives-years/article_24b31876-9cb5-5c20-a9e5-21c46bf411ae.html

Yes Firefly you and Rush are cut out of the same cloth with Rush calling the woman below a slut and you calling me a drunk who also happen to be a pedophile and a CP trader.

You must be all so proud to be in such lock step with such a great American as Rush.

The way I look at it, the offender shud be KILLED for forcible sodomy,
but his fotografy shud be ignored.

You and BillRM are the reason this thread is tagged "perverts" and "cree

He said Gov. Peter Shumlin’s budget proposal includes an extra $200,000 to fight the problem.

On the chopping block: The Vermont Department of Education is aiming to slash 2 percent from its overall budget—about $23 million. A $19 million influx from the federal government could help stave off some, though not all, teacher layoffs. “There are not really many more places to cut without gutting programs,” said superintendent Ron Stahley. “We have to balance these targeted reductions with maintaining viable programs."

Photographing an act of abuse continues that abuse,

the abuser knows images of themselves are being accessed by perverts.

There is also the profit motive,
images of abuse can be traded quite lucratively.

As for Dillinger, people aren't going to get off on pictures of bank robbers,

and demand more and more images of bank robberies.

A photograph details actual events, writing can be fictional.

The way I look at it, the offender shud be KILLED for forcible sodomy,
but his fotografy shud be ignored.

Sorry DAVID but not under the SC who had already rule
that the death penalty can not be used for sexual crimes.