TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: CSAM

  • New Jersey calls out the usual suspects

    Keep kids’ photos off Web sites, state attorney general warns:

    The New Jersey State Attorney General thinks pictures are the problem…

    The playground isn’t the only place parents should watch over their children, state Attorney General Stuart Rabner says.

    Rabner said Web sites that let users put their picture online are unsafe and the owners of those sites should adopt a policy to make it easier for people to report harassment and crime online. He said he is mainly concerned with social networking sites, sites made up of picture profiles and descriptions of children and adult users who befriend each other and comment on each other’s pages.

    Rabner asked the chief financial officers of 10 social networking Web sites, such as Myspace, Xanga and Facebook, to consider installing a link that would appear on every page of their site, on which users could click if they felt bothered by another person.

    This link would alert not only site officials but also law enforcement officers in order to catch criminal activity, such as sexual harassment, he said.

    In a Nov. 16 letter to Web site owners, Raber expressed the need for such a policy.

    “The use of your service for illegal activity, and as a medium through which child predators identify, learn about and contact potential victims, poses a serious threat to the public safety of some of our most vulnerable citizens and creates significant risks for the positive reputation and continued operations of your business,” Rabner said.

    “I believe these goals can best be accomplished by making it easier for users to identify and report suspicious activity and illegal content, such as child pornography.”

    Yeah, that won’t cause a plethora of false alarms.

    I noticed that nowhere in his letter did Attorney General Rabner call for better parenting.

  • Man forces teen to expose herself with threats of violence

    Cops: Teen coerced to expose herself over Web:

    BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – A 25-year-old man faces federal charges after police said he threatened a young teenage girl and coerced her into using a Web camera to take explicit images that he later posted on the online social network Myspace.com.

    Shaun Brown was arrested and arraigned Monday in federal court on charges that he coerced a minor to engage in a sexual act and that he coerced a minor over the Internet.

    Brown met the 13-year-old girl, who lives in Ohio, in an online chat room for cheerleaders, according to court documents.

    Police said he pursued her with sexually explicit instant messages and threatened to harm her and her family if she didn’t expose herself via the Web cam.

    The girl complied and didn’t tell her parents until after she found the images on Myspace.com. Brown opened an account on the social networking site in the teenager’s name and posted an image of the girl exposing herself and included her name and address, according to court documents.

    What a sick son of a bitch.

    I was unable to find a MySpace for Brown.

    Thanks to Mandy for the tip.

  • Mountie busted for luring kids online

    Trial date set for cop:

    A two-day trial has been set for the former Langley RCMP officer accused in attempting to lure children through the popular teen website, Nexopia.

    Adam Johnathon Clarke will stand trial on two counts of child luring on June 21 and 22, 2007.

    The 23-year-old former officer, who now lives in Newfoundland, was charged on May 19, 2006 after a three-month investigation.

    Clarke had allegedly been using one of the Langley Community Police Office’s computers to access the Internet and browse the site.

    The Integrated Internet Child Exploitation Unit (IICE) conducted the investigation in relation to viewing and possession of child pornography, and arrested him on June 5.

    According to Cpl. Diane Blain, it is believed that there are two victims involved.

    I guess in this case RCMP stands for Really Creepy Mangy Pedophile.

    No disrespect intended to the real men and woman of the RMCP.

  • Jonathan Allen Miller

    MySpace sex leads to charges:

    A Portage man has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor and child exploitation after he met a 15-year-old girl through MySpace and engaged in sexual activity that he videotaped, police said.

    Jonathan Allen Miller, 18, of the 6500 block of Kandi Avenue, is accused of videotaping and taking digital photographs of sexual acts with the 15-year-old girl on March 3 or 4 in Hobart and Portage.

    In the Hobart case, the girl, a former Hobart resident, met Miller through a MySpace profile page. They began instant messaging in February and eventually agreed to meet at a Portage school parking lot late on March 3 or early on March 4.

    They drove around looking for a secluded spot and ended up in the Barrington Ridge subdivision near St. Mary Medical Center in Hobart, where they engaged in sexual activity until another car arrived and they left. Afterward, they drove to a site in Portage and engaged in sexual activity.

    The girl’s mother learned of the alleged incident in June after discovering printed instant messages in the garbage in which her daughter was asking a man to return a tape of them having sexual contact. The girl then told her mother what happened, and the mother recovered a severely damaged VHS tape from Miller. She gave the tape to Portage police.

    A member of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force was able to recover a portion of the tape depicting Miller and the girl having sexual contact.

    The class C felony charges carry a sentence range of two to eight years in prison.

    Yes, we do have Miller’s MySpace.

    For those of you who think an 18-year-old boy having sex with a 15-year-old girl is no big deal get back to me when you have a 15-year-old daughter who is banging an 18-year-old and tell me how ok you are with it.

  • Nathan John Contos

    I did an entry about Nathan John Contos here. He’s the paramedic from Santa Cruz who allegedly molested a 14-year-old girl he met on MySpace. His MySpace has not been found as of yet but a reader named Rebecca found Contos’ Yahoo Profile.

    Looks like a winner.

    UPDATE: A commenter named Doug believes that this is Contos’ MySpace. Doug found it by using Contos’ AOL handle of Nateiskiller.

  • The Paramedic Predator

    Man pleads no contest in MySpace sex case:

    SANTA CRUZ — A former paramedic faces a maximum sentence of three years, eight months in state prison for having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl he lured to his house after meeting her on the Internet.

    Nathan John Contos, 27, pleaded no contest in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Thursday to two counts of child molesting and a misdemeanor count of possessing child pornography. He likely will have to register as a sex offender, attorneys said.

    Contos, of Santa Cruz, conversed with the girl in an AOL chat room and through the popular MySpace.com for about a month before meeting and engaging in what investigators have called “inappropriate sexual contact.” He also asked the girl to send him nude photos of her, which she did.

    Sheriff’s deputies arrested him in February.

    “He’s an adult who intentionally went onto the Internet, targeted a child and molested her,” prosecutor Jeff Rosell said. “He’s a predator.”

    The no-contest plea means Contos does not dispute the charges against him and is considered by the court as equal to a guilty plea.

    “Today he accepted responsibility for the mistake he made,” lead defense attorney George Gigarjian said Thursday.

    His attorneys said they will ask that Contos be sentenced to probation and that it’s unlikely a judge would mete out the maximum sentence. Contos has no criminal history, his attorneys said.

    “We think Nathan is a good young man,” said Gigarjian, who added that about two dozen people attended Thursday’s court proceedings to support his client.

    Good young men don’t molest 14-year-old girls and possess child porn.

    And I’m on a slump. I haven’t been able to find any MySpaces in a while. So if you know where Contos’ MySpace is please let me know.

  • Neil Jaramillo a.k.a. Schnail

    MySpace used to `lure’ girl, 13:

    This one was all Mr. A…

    He advertised himself on MySpace.com as a “gay Toronto boy” who is a “sweet person” and easy to talk to, but police allege “Schnail” was an online sexual predator who traded child porn and convinced a 13-year-old small-town Ontario girl to perform sex acts on her webcam.

    After laying four charges last week against the 23-year-old man, police added four more yesterday, including Internet luring and making child pornography. It appears to be the first case in Canada involving MySpace and an alleged sexual predator.

    The short, heavy-set man who police allege is “Schnail” appeared for a bail hearing yesterday at the Old City Hall courthouse. He was granted release if his bail conditions are met and he is to return to court July 20.

    Police say they tracked the man down on MySpace, a free website that allows users to customize their own Web pages, with pictures and a “friends list,” links to their profiles and other personal information they wish to post.

    In the Toronto case, police allege “Schnail” set up a profile on MySpace and exchanged information with dozens of other users. The 13-year-old girl from southwestern Ontario first made contact with him through a friend, who had the profile on MySpace.

    The friend listened to, and liked, some of his musical postings. On his profile, “Schnail” says he plays guitar and loves Nirvana. In the “detail” section of his profile, he says he is “here for dating, serious relationships, friends,” of which he counted 27, according to his online links.

    The path that led police to “Schnail” is a confusing and complicated web of make-believe identities and other falsehoods, and is a lesson not just to the young people who use the Internet but also to those who assume their misdeeds will go undetected in cyberspace.

    It began after a 45-year-old Montana man named Jimmy Dean Carpenter was sentenced earlier this year to life in prison for sexually abusing three girls, ages 7, 13 and 14.

    He also documented his sick exploits, capturing pornographic images and distributing them online.

    Police allege one recipient was “Schnail,” who believed he was communicating with a 13-year-old girl when it was actually Carpenter, who sent several images of himself with the 13-year-old in December 2003. In two of the images, she was holding a sign stating: “This is for Schnail,” police say.

    Using the email address taken from Carpenter’s computer, investigators with the Toronto sex crimes unit then posed as two adolescent girls, one 12, the other 13, to make contact with “Schnail.”

    Police allege he then sent one officer five child pornographic images, that of the Ontario girl, who is now 15, unaware that “Schnail,” who claimed to be 20, was saving the images, said Det. Const. Chris Purchas of the unit’s child exploitation section.

    Police allege “Schnail” sent the pictures to coax the officer into posing on a webcam, to show “we should do this … (it’s) normal. Here’s proof.”

    Claiming to be gay is another ruse commonly used, Purchas said, since it suggests he is a “safe” contact.

    Purchas said the girl’s mother was devastated to find out her daughter had been talked into posing for pictures on her webcam. He said he worries parents don’t fully realize the dangers that exist on the Internet.

    Neil David Jaramillo, 23, was arrested last Wednesday at his parents’ home in Toronto.

    He was initially charged with luring a child under 14, invitation to sexual touching, possession of child pornography and distributing child pornography. Yesterday he was charged with four additional child-porn offences.

    In Mr. A’s own words here is the “gay” Neil Jaramillo, and here is the “straight” Neil Jaramillo.

  • Mr. A Reports III

    Mr. A brings us another report from the darkest depths of the internet. This time about a child porn ring that was broken up in Massachusetts. The crimes themselves did not take place on MySpace but on P2P networks. However, Mr. A brings us the MySpace profiles of two of the suspects. Michael Curley who was arrested in February and Joseph Jaena who was arrested on 4/5. Welcome to the Rogues Gallery boys.

    Mr. A, the scourge of the internet underworld, strikes again.

  • Indiana sex crime charges over Xanga

    Local man charged with Web sex crimes:

    I’m not just picking on MySpace, I’m picking on Xanga too…

    MUNCIE — A Muncie man used his computer to lure a 15-year-old North Dakota girl into posing nude for him and then published the photos on the Internet, according to police.

    Police this week arrested Ronald R. Karas, 34, and found computer discs in his car that contained nude images of the teenager, according to the probable cause affidavit for his arrest.

    Karas admitted to learning in December that the victim was 15, the document said.

    He also allegedly admitted — during interrogations by Muncie police — to publishing nude photos of the girl on the Internet and directing her over the Internet to perform sexual acts.

    Karas had been under investigation by Fargo, N.D., authorities since Dec. 22, and is charged in that state with using a minor in a sexual performance and luring minors by computer.

    Karas met the 15-year-old on a weblog known as www.xanga.com, according to Fargo police records.

    The two apparently e-mailed each other and talked by phone but never met in person.

    Again I ask, do you know what your kids are up to on the internet?