Child Pornography

Friday, August 28, 2009

I know we usually talk about online predators, monitoring our kids online, and using McGruff Safeguard to help in bridge a gap when communicating…after all, teenagers CAN be from a different planet at times. For this blog, I wanted to dive into another subject which is a cause for concern. There could be a slippery slope when it comes to predators acting out. Here is an article from 2006 where a hearing wanted to establish the links between child pornography and child sex abuse.

The reason I wanted to bring this up is because this just came in from our friends in Florida, Protect Our Youth From Online Predators: Attorney General CyberSafety .

Marion County Man Arrested for Possession of Child PornographyTALLAHASSEE,
FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Marion County man has been taken into custody on charges of child pornography possession. Rodney
Tundidor was arrested by law enforcement officers with the Attorney General’s
CyberCrime Unit, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the Citrus County
Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and
the Ocala Police Department.

Members of the Attorney General’s Tampa CyberCrime Task Force located
numerous videos and images of child pornography online during a routine
investigation and traced the images back to Tundidor’s computer. A search
warrant was executed at his Dunnellon residence and two computers, an external
hard drive, and numerous CDs were seized, which will undergo additional forensic
analysis to locate any additional images of child pornography.

An initial review at Tundidor’s residence confirmed the videos and images
located by investigators were on his computer, several of which were part of an
identified series of child pornography and others of children appearing no more
than six years old. Tundidor admitted to downloading and possessing the images
and videos. He was taken to the Marion County Jail and will be charged with 14
counts of possession of child pornography, which will be enhanced to
second-degree felony charges under the CyberCrimes Against Children Act, and two
counts of promotion of child pornography, also a second-degree felony.

This kind of thing happens daily. We are fighting it, states are fighting it, people all over the world are fighting it. Let’s all work together in taking these predators down. The first step is awareness.

Labels: Attorney General Cybersafe, child pornography, children safety, Florida