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
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U.S. v. RichardsonICE PRESS RELEASE: FORMER PASTOR SENTENCED TO 17 YEARS IN PRISONON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CONVICTIONS: DEFENDANT WAS PASTOR AT FIRSTUNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN ROYSE CITY, TEXAS, JUNE 30, 2009,HTTP://WWW.ICE.GOV/PI/NR/0906/090630DALLAS1.HTMThrough ICE’s Operation Predator, a <strong>for</strong>mer pastor in Royse City, Texas, was arrested on childpornography charges on September 24, 2008. Steve Richardson, 36, traded child pornographythrough Google Hello, a type of peer-to-peer software. He admitted to possessing over 600 childpornography images, including sadistic, masochistic, <strong>and</strong> other violent images on his homecomputer, an external hard drive, <strong>and</strong> his computer at the church. He pled guilty to one count oftransporting <strong>and</strong> shipping child pornography, <strong>and</strong> one count of possessing child pornography.Richardson was sentenced to 17 years in prison, a lifetime of supervised release, <strong>and</strong> mustregister as a sex offender.U.S. v. Rust-TierneyU.S. Attorney Eastern District of Virginia, press release: Arlington Youth Sports CoachPleads Guilty to Receipt of <strong>Child</strong> Pornography, June 1, 2007,http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ceos/Press%20Releases/EDVA%20RustTierney%20plea%20PR_060107.pdfCharles Rust-Tierney, a 53-year-old resident of Arlington, Virginia, was arrested as a result of anICE investigation. Rust Tierney, a coach <strong>for</strong> various youth sports teams in Arlington County,admitted to purchasing Internet access to commercial child pornography websites on fiveoccasions between March 2005 <strong>and</strong> October 2006. During a two-week time span in January2006, Rust-Tierney accessed over 850 child pornography images <strong>and</strong> videos on one of thosewebsites. He downloaded approximately 560 images <strong>and</strong> 135 videos onto his computers <strong>and</strong>various digital media. Most of the images <strong>and</strong> videos depict children under 12 years old being<strong>for</strong>ced to engage in sexual acts with adult males.Rust-Tierney was charged with receiving child pornography. He faces a m<strong>and</strong>atory minimumsentence of five years in prison <strong>and</strong> a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison. Rust-Tierneyalso faces a term of supervised release following his prison sentence of five years to life.U.S. v. StubblefieldICE press release: Oregon Woman Sentenced in <strong>Child</strong> Pornography: Traded Images OnlineUsing a Commercial Search Engine "Hello" photo-sharing program, April 3, 2009,http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0904/090403seattle.htmThrough ICE’s Operation Predator, a Springfield, Oregon, woman was arrested on childpornography charges. Rebecca Stubblefield, 22, was living with her boyfriend in Issaquah,Washington, when he became the subject of an ICE child pornography investigation in 2007.Agents seized a computer that the two shared <strong>and</strong> found child pornography images in theboyfriend’s files <strong>and</strong> in a file named “Becca’s Stuff/Puppies.” Stubblefield had downloaded over600 child pornography images to that file. She had used Google Hello, a type of peer-to-peerB-6
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