A 21-year-old New York college
student who wanted to be a kindergarten teacher was arrested
following a sting operation targeting child pornography on the
Internet. The man used a service provider to transmit three dozen
sexually explicit photos of children. The college student was
actually sending the photographs to an undercover police officer.
A 37-year-old man who claimed he was a child psychologist arranged
to meet a 13-year-old boy in Florida for a sexual liaison after
the two met in an online chat room. But the "boy" was
a woman who helped the FBI set up a sting that led to the man's
arrest. The man was arrested by FBI Agents upon arriving in Miami.
A man serving time for molesting four children was indicted on
charges of peddling child pornography on the Internet using a
prison computer. The 57-year-old man was using the prison computer
to obtain and distribute child pornography on the Internet.
FBI Agents in Newark, New Jersey arrested a man after he allegedly
enticed a 13-year-old girl to mail him videos of herself without
ever leaving his home. The girl was 12 when the man first made
contact, posing as a 15-year-old pen pal, and exchanging e-mail
on an online service. The girl sent him four video tapes. The
man was arrested after the girl's mother became suspicious of
the girl's activities and called the police.
As reported in The Washington Post on August 7th, 1997:
Internet Sting Nets Sex Suspect
A Crofton man was arrested yesterday on charges he arranged a
sexual encounter through the Internet with an agent posing as
a 13-year-old girl, FBI officials said. The man was arrested
in Northwest Washington by members of a regional task force investigating
child exploitation and pornography on the Internet. The man,
described as a systems engineer, was charged with traveling across
state lines to engage in a sexual relationship with a minor.
Officials said the man was the 122nd person arrested by the task
force since the "Innocent Images" investigation began
in May 1993.
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