Sunday, December 24, 2006

Porn victims getting younger

Porn victims getting younger
By ERIC HARTLEY, Staff Writer

2 county men plead guilty in cases involving toddlers

In the past two weeks, two men - one from Crofton, one from Arnold - have admitted in court to using the Internet to trade pictures of infants or toddlers engaged in sex acts.
The convictions reflect a disturbing trend of very young children being victimized, an expert said.

"It just kind of gets younger and younger," said Jennifer Lee of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "A lot of people think of child pornography as either adults that dress to look like children or they think of the 16-, 17-year-olds. But in reality, that's not the case."
Ms. Lee said she's seen a change just in her five years with the center's

Exploited Child Unit.

On Friday, Kent Martin Rose, 37, of Crofton pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography and three counts of possession of illegal images.

On Dec. 15, 51-year-old Robert John Tunnicliff of Arnold pleaded guilty to three counts, one for distributing obscene material involving minors and two for possessing child pornography.

Both men will be sentenced Jan. 18 and face a maximum of 10 years in prison on the top counts, though state guidelines will be lower.

State police investigated the two men, who both were members of America Online, after getting "Cyber Tips" from the missing children's center.

Congress passed a law in 1996 requiring Internet service providers to report child pornography to the missing children's center, which tracks known victims and reports cases to police.

During Friday's court hearing, Assistant State's Attorney Michael Dunty said Rose downloaded or sent out pictures of underage girls, including one of an infant having sex with a man and pictures of children and animals together.

When police raided his home, Rose told them he collects adult pornography, but might have accidentally forwarded some pictures of children.

But Mr. Dunty said experts who searched his hard drives found hundreds of illegal pictures and scores of movie clips of children, along with an "eraser" program that can wipe evidence of images from a hard drive.

Rose, who has worked as a graphic artist, also "morphed" pictures, putting an underage relative's picture on sexually explicit pictures of adults and his wife's face on bondage scenes, Mr. Dunty said.

Tunnicliff had more than 1,000 illegal images on his computers, along with 78 videos, state police said. At least one video and three pictures were of children who appeared to be younger than 5.

Police said he admitted the pictures and videos were his and told them his AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail screen names.

Ms. Lee said the Internet has made the trade of such images far easier.

"Before the Internet, these guys would have to order magazines from Amsterdam or some place and wait three weeks," she said. "There's a high risk because these magazines come straight to their house. Now we have the Internet - there's perceived anonymity."

Anyone who wants to report suspected child pornography can visit www.cybertipline.com. Ms. Lee said the Exploited Child Unit averages 1,800 to 2,000 reports a week.


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Published December 24, 2006, The Capital, Annapolis, Md.
Copyright © 2006 The Capital, Annapolis, Md.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Missing and Exploited Children Newsletter from BellaOnline.com

Here's the latest article from the Missing and Exploited Children site at
BellaOnline.com.

Designer Thrills - Teen Prostitution Among Middle and Upper Class
Teenagers
Designer sex is the term given to teen prostitution or teen prostitutes
that have sex for thrills or the money to buy designer items they want but
not necessarily anything they need to survive.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art33890.asp/zzz

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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Victims of Child Welfare Memorial Day

http://suncanaa.com/in_memory_

Government agencies, Social workers, judges they all make decisions on what is in the BEST interest of Children ... decisions which often determine their destiny.
Sadly, when the wrong decisions are made - Children are murdered!
They are beaten, tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered.

Who is responsible ?
The One making the decisions!
WE are asking for justice ... for Help!


Help never came for Angellika Nicole Arndt , Isaac Lethbridge,Daniel Jack Matthews, Ricky Holland, Christopher Michael, Sirita Sotelo, Nicholas Contreras, Sarah Angelina Chavez, Martin Lee Anderson,Ebony Smith,Kayla Allen,Candice Raynor...... and sadly many, many more but perhaps one day justice will come for them all. For these children, it's too late to turn back the hands of time. May the spirits of those lost rest in peace and may we never forget or ignore what happened to them. http://suncanaa.com/in_memory_

In The Name of Those Children
We are asking For:
-Victims of Child Welfare Memorial Day-
to remember those who have died as a result of Child Welfare in their lives. -

Take Action Send Citizen Request To: The White House
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/986173347

"When will justice come? When those who are not injured become as indignant as those who are." -Leon Tolstoy

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Saturday, December 16, 2006

What you don't know about the most violent Pedophiles

There are no laws that exist today to arrest and convict the most dangerous CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS and our children are at grave risk. More importantly there are NO new Bills we have found that will correct this problem. The reasons can be found after first understanding about the levels of CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS;


1. The first CHILD SEXUAL PREDATOR level places the least amount of damage to their victim children. These criminals are less violent though still may cause long term effects. Typically their crimes are less traumatic on children and can be classified as inappropriate touching and alike. These are the bus drivers and school teachers we most often hear about. More often this CHILD SEXUAL PREDATOR causes less trauma on the child making it much easier to disclose information to caring family members and school authorities. These are the ones we catch today. Laws in place seem to do fairly well here, though there is still room for improvement.

2. Second are the violent CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS, the most vicious, who cause life long damage to children well into their very late adulthood. These are the CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS capable of causing accidental or intentional death to a child. More often we only hear about these when investigating a child's death. The effects on the child are so traumatic that parts of the mind shuts itself down almost permanently. Yes, well deep into adulthood. These victims are unable to come forward until 30 + years following the abuse leaving the criminal so much time to harm so many more children. The effects of these violent child rapists includes;

a. Missing children under the age of 13 who have been missing for over 3 months statistically have died at the hands of these predators. A story from CBS

b. Those victims who have committed suicide as a result of their inability to deal with the trauma of this abuse. Reducing Suicides.

c. Victims who lead lives of complete chaos, living their lives never enjoying a happy and stable life. For these it is if waking up in their 40's, 50's and 60's and realizing their tormented life. This victim now has to deal with a completely missed life from the day of the abuses, i.e. age 8 through their late adulthood. This is now another horribly traumatic experience to deal with most could not imagine. Understanding Child Sexual Abuse

d. Many victims lived their lives in lawlessness constantly committing crimes and not knowing why. Much later in life they realize their trauma, at which time all is lost for them and it is society who has paid the price. Criminal behaviors and victims of abuse.

e. Eighteen percent, 18%, of those abused will identify with their abusers and become CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS themselves. (Each one made this decision to harm children and should be held accountable) Understanding pedophilia.

Today's population confuses these two groups by placing them all into a single one and because of this we tend to lose sight of the most violent. The fact is, violent child rapists are the worst offenders. These offenders severely traumatized children resulting in not only chaos to the victims but to society as well. They are on a constant quest to victimize children and this is never ending , it is a life long obsession. Some psychotherapists indicate that even though these CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS seem to care for children, in reality many emotionally "HATE" children and steal lives. We can now imagine just how cruel their torture can be.

Understanding the severity of a traumatized victim will help you realize there is almost no protection for our children. If a law passed today completely removing the Statutes of Limitations and an 8 year old child is raped the next day, it is unlikely the child will come forward before their mid 30's and more often into their 50's. The impact of the trauma caused by the CHILD SEXUAL PREDATOR will alter the child's brain development to the point where realism begins to vanish and chaos sets in. This is a real effect as described in How Childhood Trauma Influences Brain Development. Unlike other trauma induced events, this one lasts for a period of time before it is over. As if this weren't enough, this child is then invoked with another trauma by being threatened from telling anyone. Many times, threats not only include consequences of injury and death to the child, but their parents and siblings too. This child now has to carry this secret alone and go through life as if nothing was wrong. Many young children, i.e. 8, 9 and 10 years old, become some of the greatest actors and actresses in an attempt to protect their families. The lifelong effects lead to a disruptive life, lost childhood and an adulthood of complete chaos.

Meanwhile these violent child rapists have 20 to 30 years of raping more children without worry of being caught. Most rapists know the more violent they are with the victim, the longer it takes into adulthood before they come forward. These are the most damaging criminals to society, yet are protected the most by our laws. These rapists average 80 victims.

Even more about the rapists: Most professionals are just realizing today that somehow these child rapists find each other. The longer they are free, the more expert they become. No matter how old the child rapists, they network with one another identifying opportunities. Catching one now means catching others.
The belief that today's technology with capabilities of DNA databases to collect information will solve this problem and help prove crimes is remarkably inaccurate. Keeping in mind the child raped was also traumatized and most likely will not come forward until 20 or 30+ years into the future, would mean the child would have to collect evidence and hold it for so many years. This is most ridiculous, so we now have a DNA database with nothing to compare DNA to. DNA databases are good, however their effects on convicting the most vicious CHILD SEXUAL PREDATOR becomes quite unrealistic.

Thousands of these most violent serial child rapists can be identified and their crimes proven, but unfortunately, laws protect them. Let's not wait 20 or 30 years to arrest and convict. We need to move now before these child rapists propagate further. Remember, 18% of their victims will identify with them, thus becoming abusers too; that is 14 new CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS for each one and this multiplies quickly. Imagine arresting and convicting these criminals? Today they have no fear.


This is what needs to be done


A bill "Terrorism on Society and Children" must be written and passed as law stating the following;

1. The crime of raping children is the most horrendous crime ever imaginable. It's life long effects on the victim make it nearly impossible to convict the most serious offenders. This crime is in a category by itself and has NEVER had any statutes of limitations defined and NEVER will. Not only do victims pay, society does too.

2. Those organizations and individuals that have shown to cover-up and protect the exposure of this crime are legally responsible for their acts.
This law enables our justice system to arrest the many 1000's of violent child molesters we know of and have proof of their crimes. Arresting them means we get information on others too. No statutes.

Note: Today's laws are ineffective against the most violent CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS and all other changes in the law can only cause change 20 to 30 years later. Only by effecting a law as described here can we start change now. Don't the families of the missing deserve this? What about victims? More importantly what about protecting our kids today. Remember, we can tell our children to tell us everything but if they don't come home they can tell us nothing.

These violent CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS work hard at figuring the right moment to attack a child. This is their #1 goal in life. We all pay and the CHILD SEXUAL PREDATORS are free.



Proving the crime
Passing a bill as stated above now means we would enable our juries to hear these cases that would have otherwise been disregarded due to SOL. Also keep in mind that these criminals average 80 victims. A case where only one victim is known, without witnesses, most likely will not make it to court. Those criminals with multiple victims, serial child rapists, stand the risk of prosecution. Proving the most violent crimes becomes an easier task.


Who wins? Our children today. These violent serial rapists will now talk about other rapists as they are caught. Just maybe some of the families whose children are missing will finally get resolution. Victims whose lives have been lost will finally find justice.

Remember, the children did nothing to deserve what happened. Why should anyone want to protect violent serial child rapists? There exists no logic whatsoever to counter an argument against changing the laws as defined.

We can tell our children to tell us everything, but if they never come home they can tell us nothing.

In God We Trust
Protect our children now

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December 16, 2006 at 08:47:15

What you don't know about the most violent Pedophiles

http://www.ricoforkids.org/carrythelink.htm

Friday, December 08, 2006

Online-child-protection law proposed

Online-child-protection law proposed
There is logic to this legislation, announced by Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) yesterday (12/6). Among other measures that strengthen anti-child-exploitation law, it requires sex offenders to register their online contact info too - "their email addresses, as well as their instant messaging and chat room handles and any other online identifiers they use," says Senator McCain's press release about the Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act. The law would also require social-networking sites as well as ISPs to report child pornography, and would more clearly define what should be reported, create stiffer penalties, make failure-to-report a crime, increase recommended sentences for sex offenders, and require Net companies to preserve data 180 days in case it's needed as evidence. If the bill passes, MySpace will be able to include the required online identifiers in the national sex-offender database it's building (see this 12/5 item), and sites that use the database (which I imagine MySpace will make available to them) will be able to check it for the email addresses and screennames people use to establish accounts - another tool for keeping pedophiles off social sites. The two senators said they will introduce the bill at the beginning of the 110th Congress in January.


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