TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: CSAM

  • Joshua Innes

    Man guilty of luring teens over Internet:

    25-year-old Joshua Innes of Montreal pleaded guilty to charges of luring a child under 18 on the Internet, extortion, and distributing child pornography.

    Court heard in an agreed statement of facts that Innes posed as a 16-year-old girl named Nicky from Calgary on the popular social networking site Nexopia.

    Innes began exchanging messages with the Edmonton girl, complimenting her and eventually turned the topic toward sex.

    He sent her a video that showed a teenage girl performing a sex act which the victim believed was Nicky.

    After persistent coaxing, the girl took off her clothes and performed sexual acts in front of her web camera, which Innes recorded in Montreal on his computer.

    About a week later, “Nicky” asked the girl what was the worst thing she’s ever done. She said she once talked about a friend behind her back and asked Nicky the same question. He replied, “I pretended to be a 16-year-old girl on the Internet.”

    Innes then demanded she perform more sex acts for the webcam or he would upload the video on the web and send it to people listed as friends on her Nexopia profile.

    The victim told a friend who alerted her parents, who called police.

    When an Edmonton police officer, Det. Randy Wickens, posed online as the victim, Innes aggressively demanded the girl perform again or he would send out the video.

    Innes was arrested in his home where he lived with his parents.

    Sentencing will take place in August.

  • 15 will get you 20

    Teen charged with taping sex act with minor, posting it online:

    Thanks to Jessica we have this story out of Kentucky about one 18-year-old Jeurne Sterling Walton. He was arrested for recording a sexual encounter between himself and a 15-year-old girl on his cell phone then posting the video to MySpace.

    The victim said she had oral sex with Walton in April, according to court records.

    “She did not know that the suspect was using his cell phone to record the act because he told her that he was only text messaging a friend and was not recording,” records said.

    As word of its existence spread on or around April 27, the video was passed from student to student at Bryan Station through iPods, cell phones and other electronic devices.

    “We picked up the talk among students,” district spokeswoman Lisa Deffendall said.

    Walton pleaded not guilty to various charges involving sex with a minor. Wait, what? Not guilty when there’s video proof? I’d love to hear the defense on this one.

    Anyway, I could not find his MySpace however Jessica was kind enough to provide his mugshot.

  • Ex-Mountie gets one day in jail

    Former Mountie cops plea One day in jail for trying to lure underage girls using Internet:

    A while ago I posted about former Canadian Mountie Adam Jonathan Clarke. He was arrested for trying to lure teen girls for sex over Nexopia. Last week he pleaded guilty to two counts of communicating to lure a child under age 18. What sentence did he receive? A day in jail.

    I guess the Mounties always get their man but the courts set them free.

  • It’s not illegal if I don’t meet them in person

    It’s not illegal if I don’t meet them in person

    Man Arrested For Nude Pics Of Girls On MySpace:

    Another creep arrested for MySpace misdeeds. The subject in question is one Kevin Dale Pierce from the City of Angels. The 33-year-old Pierce was arrested for convincing teenage girls to send him nude pictures of themselves. Several external hard drives were found when police searched his house. How many girls did he contact top have that many hard drives? Pierce claimed to be a 19-year-old art student from UCLA.

    The investigation started in January, when a Temecula resident reported that her 14-year-old daughter was swapping notes with someone who claimed to be a 19-year-old art student at UCLA, DeLuna said.

    The two started an online relationship last November and, after several weeks, established a bond of trust, according to the sergeant. The suspect persuaded the girl to send photos of herself in various stages of undress, purportedly for an art project, DeLuna said.

    The girl’s mother noticed her daughter’s computer screen and read messages from the suspect asking for additional pictures in varied poses, DeLuna said.

    The woman told a deputy that the e-mail she spotted was from someone who called himself “kev pie” and thanked the girl for pictures she had sent him, according to an affidavit for a search warrant.

    The e-mailer then requested that the girl send some more snapshots and wrote, “Is there any way you can also take the exact same angles, straight from behind and from the 45 degree side … but on the floor instead of standing? so I can draw the legs and the body bent in shape,” the affidavit states.

    The mother did not know what the e-mail referred to and asked her daughter about it.

    The girl later told investigators that she informed the person she was corresponding with that she was 14 years old. She told detectives that she and the suspect began chatting on “I Chat” after meeting on MySpace.com, according to the affidavit.

    Investigators tracked down Pierce’s ISP address, accessed his MySpace account and determined he was actually 33 and that he had been communicating with at least 10 other girls, persuading them to send nude photos of themselves, police allege.

    The best part is Pierce’s explanation.

    “He seemed pretty eager to try to clear his name,” DeLuna said, adding that Pierce told them he did not believe he was breaking the law as long as he did not meet the girls in person.

    I would love to have seen the cops’ faces when he told them that.

    I could not find a definitive MySpace for Pierce.

  • New Jersey calls out the usual suspects

    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

    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

    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 women of the RMCP.

  • Suburban craigslist pimp on the run

    Suburban craigslist pimp on the run

    I-TEAM: Police search for suspect in Craigslist prostitution ring:

    BOULDER – Jeffrey Bagnall had a plan, detectives say: to run the most successful prostitution ring in the country.

    It’s always nice to have goals.

    Toward that end, the 35-year-old Bagnall carefully logged expenses such as cell phones and room rentals, brainstormed marketing ideas on how to lure older male clients and consulted industry advice from books, such as, “Pimp Game, The Instructional Guide.”

    For more than a year, Bagnall was on his way, police said, advertising for free on Craigslist and pocketing about $2,000 a month from his 30 percent cut from the prostitutes who worked for him.

    According to police, that’s when Bagnall moved his base of operations into a quiet, close-knit East Boulder cul-de-sac – and his plan collapsed.

    Now, Boulder police have issued a warrant for Bagnall’s arrest on charges that include pimping and keeping a place of prostitution.

    While authorities search for Bagnall, who has apparently skipped town, they are quick to credit the townhome’s residents for their part in bringing down his business.

    On Aug. 24, undercover detectives obtained a search warrant for Bagnall’s home, finding cash, empty condom boxes, child pornography,, notes documenting his business plan and ledgers of his clients’ names and phone numbers, police said.

    This week, a judge issued a warrant for Bagnall’s arrest. His former neighbors said they couldn’t be happier.

    Anyone with information on Jeffrey Bagnall is encouraged to call the Boulder Police Department at 303-441-3333.

    Don’t ever try bringing that stuff into suburbia. Short of pitchforks and torches, the neighbors will run you out.

     

  • Jonathan Allen Miller

    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

    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.