The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction
The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction
APPENDIX BTHREAT ASSESSMENT: FEDERAL PROSECUTIONS National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) Analysis of “Overnight” Case SummariesNDIC intelligence analysts reviewed 1,663 case summaries provided by individual U.S. Attorneyoffices to the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) between 2005 and 2009.A child pornography offense was at least one of the charges in 495 case summaries. Ofthose 495 case summaries:• 186 (38%) indicated the defendant had previously been convicted of or admittedto a prior sexual offense against a child.• 301 (61%) indicated the defendant was discovered to have child pornographyafter being caught for contact offenses; this group includes online enticementcases. Often, the defendant started chatting with the child, turning theconversation to sex, and then started using child pornography to entice the childinto to meeting him or sending him nude photos. The defendant’s ultimate goal inmost of the online enticement cases was contact offenses, not necessarily childpornography.• 145 (29%) indicated that, as a result of the particular investigation, the defendantwas initially discovered with child pornography but was found to have priorconvictions for contact offenses, admitted to contact offenses, or contact offenseswere discovered when law enforcement officers found child pornography imagesinvolving the defendant and one or more victims. Thus, 78 percent (145 of 186)of the child pornography offenders that were also known contact offenders werediscovered as such as a result of these investigations.• 49 were inconclusive regarding whether the defendant was first caught for childpornography offenses or contact offenses.• 73 explicitly stated that the defendant used child pornography to entice children(online or in real life) to pose for photos or engage in sexual activity.U.S. v. Crow164 F.3d 229 (5 th Cir. 1999)http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F3/164/229/488707/In 1996, a Florida law enforcement officer logged into a “preteen” chat room using the screenname “StephieFL” with a profile that revealed his assumed identity as “Stephanie, a singlefemale from Clearwater, Florida, born on January 26, 1983.” (The birth date he listed indicated a13-year-old girl.) The officer encountered the defendant, William Crow, whose profile read“seeking young slender amateur women interested in making very explicit adult videos!” In thecourse of chatting with StephieFL, Crow discussed how he paid girls $300 to “pose, masturbateand talk really nasty to him” and subsequently invited StephieFL to pose for photographs andvideos for him.“In response to StephieFL’s question on how he wanted her to pose, Crow sent StephieFL aphotograph of a prepubescent girl lying on her back spreading her labia, exposing her genitalia.”B-1
Over the course of their communication, Crow sent StephieFL numerous images of prepubescentchildren engaged in sexually explicit conduct, attempted to overcome StephieFL’s statedreservations about being photographed, and instructed StephieFL on how to encrypt and retrievefiles.Ultimately, StephieFL secured a mailing address from Crow and informed him that she had senthim a video of herself posing as he had directed. Crow was arrested as he left the post office withthe videotape he believed contained this footage. Crow was subsequently convicted by a jury onall six counts charged in the indictment, including attempted sexual exploitation of a minor inviolation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251(a) and (d).Note: Subsection (d) was subsequently recodified as subsection (e) on April 30, 2003. SeePROTECT Act of 2003, Public Law No. 108-21.On appeal, the Fifth Circuit rejected Crow’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, statingthat the facts and information presented to the jury clearly supported his conviction.U.S. v. CulverICE press release: Georgia woman admits producing child pornography, April 2, 2009,http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0904/090402newhaven2.htmAs a result of ICE’s Operation Predator, law enforcement arrested Laura Culver, 53, of GrayGeorgia, on October 3, 2008. In 2001 and 2002, while residing in Connecticut, Culvervideotaped an eight-year-old female engaging in sexual acts with Culver and Edgardo Sensi.Culver was found guilty of production of child pornography and faces a maximum sentence of20 years in prison.U.S. v. CurryICE press release: Houston man sentenced to 5 years in prison for possessing childpornography: He fantasized about abducting a young girl, August 19, 2008,http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0808/080819houston.htmLaw enforcement executed a search warrant at the house of the defendant based on probablecause to believe he was trading images of child pornography. In addition to finding childpornography images, officers discovered a handwritten list containing the following items:“rope, strong fishing wire, duct tape, camera battery, very large garbage bags, two stun guns."Curry eventually admitted to fantasizing about abducting a young girl, disabling her with thestun guns, tying her up, and photographing her. According to Curry’s admission, he had beenaccessing child pornography over the Internet for approximately 3 years.U.S. v. DicksonICE press release: North Texas man convicted of producing, possessing child pornography:Defendant babysat for toddler boy in his pornographic images, June 8, 2009,http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0906/090608ftworth.htmB-2
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Over the course of their communication, Crow sent StephieFL numerous images of prepubescentchildren engaged in sexually explicit conduct, attempted to overcome StephieFL’s statedreservations about being photographed, <strong>and</strong> instructed StephieFL on how to encrypt <strong>and</strong> retrievefiles.Ultimately, StephieFL secured a mailing address from Crow <strong>and</strong> in<strong>for</strong>med him that she had senthim a video of herself posing as he had directed. Crow was arrested as he left the post office withthe videotape he believed contained this footage. Crow was subsequently convicted by a jury onall six counts charged in the indictment, including attempted sexual exploitation of a minor inviolation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251(a) <strong>and</strong> (d).Note: Subsection (d) was subsequently recodified as subsection (e) on April 30, 2003. SeePROTECT Act of 2003, Public Law No. 108-21.On appeal, the Fifth Circuit rejected Crow’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, statingthat the facts <strong>and</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation presented to the jury clearly supported his conviction.U.S. v. CulverICE press release: Georgia woman admits producing child pornography, April 2, 2009,http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0904/090402newhaven2.htmAs a result of ICE’s Operation Predator, law en<strong>for</strong>cement arrested Laura Culver, 53, of GrayGeorgia, on October 3, 2008. In 2001 <strong>and</strong> 2002, while residing in Connecticut, Culvervideotaped an eight-year-old female engaging in sexual acts with Culver <strong>and</strong> Edgardo Sensi.Culver was found guilty of production of child pornography <strong>and</strong> faces a maximum sentence of20 years in prison.U.S. v. CurryICE press release: Houston man sentenced to 5 years in prison <strong>for</strong> possessing childpornography: He fantasized about abducting a young girl, August 19, 2008,http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0808/080819houston.htmLaw en<strong>for</strong>cement executed a search warrant at the house of the defendant based on probablecause to believe he was trading images of child pornography. In addition to finding childpornography images, officers discovered a h<strong>and</strong>written list containing the following items:“rope, strong fishing wire, duct tape, camera battery, very large garbage bags, two stun guns."Curry eventually admitted to fantasizing about abducting a young girl, disabling her with thestun guns, tying her up, <strong>and</strong> photographing her. According to Curry’s admission, he had beenaccessing child pornography over the Internet <strong>for</strong> approximately 3 years.U.S. v. DicksonICE press release: North Texas man convicted of producing, possessing child pornography:Defendant babysat <strong>for</strong> toddler boy in his pornographic images, June 8, 2009,http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0906/090608ftworth.htmB-2
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