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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Feds Arrest 100 people for Child Pornography | ||||
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| Cluster F | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 10:56 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | I dont think anyone posted this so i will. Just thought i would warn everyone about this development. Un-subscribe to these sites until this dies down. Feds Arrest 100 for Child Porn By KAREN GULLO, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - One hundred subscribers to child pornography Web sites have been arrested in an undercover investigation into what authorities say is the largest commercial child porn business ever uncovered in the United States. The 2-year-old ``Operation Avalanche'' investigation led by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service began with Landslide Productions Inc., a Fort Worth, Texas, Internet company that provided users who paid a monthly fee with links to child pornography Web sites with names like ``Cyber Lolita'' and ``Child Rape.'' Subscribers also could place or respond to classified and personal ads for child pornography. They were caught by federal undercover agents who had taken over the Landslide Web site and contacted its users. When subscribers ordered child pornography delivered to their homes, agents moved in with search warrants. Announcing the results of the investigation Wednesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) said the arrests will help ensure ``that cyberspace does not become a free-fire zone to target children.'' Hundreds of children were used in the operation; most have not been identified. The Internet site had around 250,000 subscribers, many from overseas. Because they don't have the resources to go after all of them, authorities said they focused on the most egregious offenders here in the United States. Some of those arrested were child molesters, authorities said. Among the subscribers arrested since May 2000 include: - A 36-year-old computer consultant from North Carolina accused of producing videos depicting abuse of young girls, including a 4-year-old, and recording his activities on a hidden camera that was connected to a VCR and a computer. - A 39-year-old West Virginia man who worked at a psychiatric hospital for sexually abused children and was alleged to have a large collection of child pornography. - The former fire chief of Sweetwater, Tenn., who was accused of using a city-owned computer to download and store child pornography images. Investigators conducted 144 searches in 37 states, including 18 in Texas, 11 in New York, nine in California and eight in Pennsylvania. The names of those arrested were not released. Police said one subscriber who was arrested has committed suicide. Arrests were made as recently as last week, and authorities are continuing to pursue subscribers, officials said. Authorities say a key to clamping down on child molesters is tracking down people who collect child pornography. Kenneth Weaver, chief of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, said about 36 percent of those investigated for possession or trafficking of child pornography turn out to be child molesters. Landslide's owners, Thomas and Janice Reedy of Fort Worth, charged customers about $29.95 a month to access child porn sites operated primarily by overseas webmasters, authorities said. Landslide grossed as much as $1.4 million a month. The Reedys lived in a mansion and drove fancy cars. Last year, they were charged in an 89-count federal indictment with conspiracy to distribute and possession of child pornography. A federal judge on Monday sentenced Thomas Reedy to 1,335 years in prison and Janice Reedy to 14 years. The bulk of the pornographic material available through Landslide came from overseas, including from Russia and Indonesia. Authorities said some of the children involved were American. An 8-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother, both from England, are among the few youngsters depicted in the materials who have been identified. Law enforcement officials hope that some of those arrested will help identify child victims in exchange for leniency. Five international webmasters have been indicted; none has been arrested, authorities said. Landslide provided a credit card verification service that admitted customers into Web sites containing graphic pictures and videos of children engaging in sex acts with adults and with each other, the government charged. Operation Avalanche was conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Dallas Police Department and state and local law enforcement groups. | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:10 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | That's why Norton wasn't in studio today! The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney | ||||
| Austin The Dark Enforcer/Angry Stoned Pimp G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. New World Order Secret Police Chief Proud Inventor of the "Cream Cheese, Peanut Butter and Jelly" sandwich | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:15 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | I guess O and A will be in best of mode tommorrow.... Skin to skin and blood and bone You're all by yourself but you're not alone You wanted in and, now you're here Driven by hate, consumed by fear Thx to FN Moron for the sig. | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:16 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | I am not even gonna bother  If I could capture the rage of today's youth and bottle it Crush the glass from my bare hands and swallow it Then spit it back in the faces of you racists and hypocrites who think the same shit but don't say shit You Liberace's, Versace's, and you nazis Watch me, cause you thinkin you got me in this hot seat You motherfuckers wanna JUDGE me cause you're NOT me She-Mail Me Here | ||||
I Need An Old Priest And A Young Priest | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:18 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: I was wonder if I was going to see you online tonight.  opieanthony.com; Like a retarded yoyo, you will keep coming back. | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:26 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | quote: Tax payers money going to waste not only do they have TV here but computers. Tough typing standing up though damn is my ass killing me. If I could capture the rage of today's youth and bottle it Crush the glass from my bare hands and swallow it Then spit it back in the faces of you racists and hypocrites who think the same shit but don't say shit You Liberace's, Versace's, and you nazis Watch me, cause you thinkin you got me in this hot seat You motherfuckers wanna JUDGE me cause you're NOT me She-Mail Me Here | ||||
| BaLLooN NoT | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:31 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | did they get stinky's roommate???? E-Mail Me METS will go ALL THE WAY THIS YEAR !!!!!!!!!!! (ok maybe not this year but i aint chainging this) Yankees & the Braves SUCK !!!!!!!!  Resident Strip Club PimpVery Proud Member of the OA.com Stalker Society | ||||
| Cluster F | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:33 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: Answer to that question from the article: quote: | ||||
| IAmMighty | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:42 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Gonzo what's your bail set at??? :-) "Red Rocket! Red Rocket!" | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 08-08-2001 @ 11:59 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | quote: Riiiiiiiiight like any of you fuckers would actually bail me out. If I could capture the rage of today's youth and bottle it Crush the glass from my bare hands and swallow it Then spit it back in the faces of you racists and hypocrites who think the same shit but don't say shit You Liberace's, Versace's, and you nazis Watch me, cause you thinkin you got me in this hot seat You motherfuckers wanna JUDGE me cause you're NOT me She-Mail Me Here | ||||
| FeelMyFunBags | posted on 08-09-2001 @ 12:05 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | 2 words...flight risk ;) why do I say I'm fine when it's obvious I'm not? why's it so hard to tell you what I want? why can't you just read my mind? | ||||
| Rookie Stature of an Oompa Loompa! | posted on 08-09-2001 @ 12:06 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Gonzo, you better come pick this shit up. I don't want to hold it for you anymore... Back from the dead... | ||||
| Nana's Precious | posted on 08-09-2001 @ 9:06 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | gonzo, comment? "what, I thought we were all just having fun..." guardian of f_tarded | ||||
| Lent Black Rock Coalition Do you have a basketball in your car? | posted on 08-09-2001 @ 9:10 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: May. 00 | Maybe mollierama.com will be shut down too. (Hopefully! Even if it appears legal, it's fucking disturbing to charge access to see an 11 year old girl in a bikini.) --Lent, the poster formerly known as Rowelentless-- The virus has returned to bahston!. | ||||
| Raven Portugal | posted on 08-09-2001 @ 5:06 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 01 | Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew -- got away on this one --- GS you want your hard-drive back from where we hid them? if need E-Mail Me I have always been on the outside looking in and I have always prevailed. I will wage a war that will leave men broken and battered. Many perceive me as having no hope my victory will be an upset. But hope and perception have never ruled my life. Quote the Raven, nevermore." | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 08-09-2001 @ 5:31 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | I have to ask- who's in your sig pic Feel? The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney | ||||
| Kingpin KEEPER OF THE FLAME. I have a little Wick. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. | posted on 08-09-2001 @ 8:10 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Shit I hope they didn't get CBH, he always seems to be one step ahead of the law. LOOKING FOR PINKY, HAVE YOU SEEN HIM????? Adopted TonySoprano, if he disrespects you, let me know, I'll find a nice place for him to sleep with the fishes. E-Mail Me | ||||
| Tequila Fez claims this land in the name of Portugal! Why worry about the train if it never makes it around the tracks?? IrishAlkey wuz here!!! | posted on 08-09-2001 @ 9:21 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: Hey man thats not right, You know I would send my kids to bail you out  AOL/AIM - oanda1027fm | ||||
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