Sex offender faces child porn charges:
Carl Courtright of Granite City, Illinois was one of those registered sex offenders that had a profile on MySpace when he shouldn’t have. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan used that to obtain a search warrant to Courtright’s home.
Police searched the house on the morning of Aug. 9 and seized several computers, hard drives, and computer equipment.
One DVD, listed in the search warrant return, is titled “Dateline NBC to Catch a Predator.”
Investigators with Madigan’s High Tech Crimes Bureau used IP address information obtained from MySpace to learn that Courtright had been actively trading pornographic images over the Internet.
“Child predators who think they are safe hiding behind a computer screen are no longer anonymous,” Madigan said in a written release. “We have the technology and we are committed to using all of our resources to seek them out and hold them accountable for their crimes.”
It’s nice to see that a state attorney general is using the information to go after criminals and not just MySpace.
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