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A law enforcement sweep this week is targeting 20 suspects in the Silicon Valley for trafficking in video of children being raped and abused. Sweeps like these could be repeated weekly or monthly in larger jurisdictions, but are infrequent due to the severe strain they put on understaffed law enforcement. We hope authorities are also putting maximum resources into searching for possible child victims. http://bit.ly/OCpRbB

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Penn State Tragedy Inspires Law Targeting PA’s Attorney General

By Tara Murtha
Posted Dec. 27, 2011

The introduction of the Pennsylvania Attorney General Mandated Reporter Law by Rep. Dan Deasy (D-Allegheny) on the steps of the Allegheny county courthouse in early December didn’t make much of a splash here, but the implications of the legislation are explosive: Supporters allege that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office is sitting on thousands of leads on child sex abusers, collecting the data on their possible whereabouts but not trying to find them.

“The facts are that there are 22,000 graphic child pornographers in Pennsylvania, thousands of them are likely to be committing child abuse right now, and if we’re not giving out that information to local law enforcement, which is the case … we are not doing our job as best we could,” says former U.S. Representative Patrick Murphy, currently campaigning to become the first Democrat elected as Pennsylvania Attorney General next year.

The bill’s supporters want the Attorney General’s office to share leads generated in RoundUp, a sophisticated forensic tool that scours peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like Gnutella and BitTorrent and pinpoints IP addresses of computers sharing graphic child pornography.

Murphy sees the new law as a stateside extension of the federal PROTECT Our Children Act in 2008. During Congressional testimony for that legislation, the FBI and Department of Justice estimated less than 1 percent of all leads are investigated.

Material includes graphic videos of child rape and ‘grooming materials’—videos designed to teach children it’s normal for adults to touch them sexually.

Supporters of the bill include Murphy, Deasy, Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny), Rep. Michael Sturla (D-Lancaster), national nonprofit PROTECT and high-profile advocate Alicia Kozakiewicz. They say they want the attorney general’s office to “push out” the leads to each of the 67 county district attorneys every 24 hours, and have each instance count as a new investigation into a possible—or statistically speaking, probable—child abuser.

They say where there’s smoke there’s fire, and research backs them up. Though estimates range widely on the percentage of overlap, studies and arrest data confirm the modern phenomenon of “dual offenders,” people whose crimes involve both possession of child pornography and child sex abuse.

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Kozakiewicz says that since the Penn State scandal broke, it’s more important to her than ever to make some progress in her home state.

“The Penn State tragedy is horrible, and really shocked the world into something that, while it may have been a secret, (is) nothing new,” says Kozakiewicz. She sees Attorney General Linda Kelly’s comments on Penn State hypocritical. “(Kelly) pointed her finger (at) Penn State and has been accusing them (of withholding information) while she herself could also be accused (of the same thing),” says Kozakiewicz.

“If inaction is a crime, on the part of Penn State officials, then certainly Tom Corbett and Linda Kelly are guilty of the same crime,” says Camille Cooper, who helped draft this bill as legislative director of PROTECT. “That’s why Pennsylvania, and that’s why now.”

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http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/07/former_penn_state_president_gr.html

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier, accused of covering up sexual abuse allegations in Jerry Sandusky case, lands security job with federal government

Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 5:04 PM Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 5:14 PM


In yet another shocking development in the Penn State story, ousted president Graham Spanier will soon begin working with the federal government on projects related to national security, The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., first reported.

In an email written to the paper, Spanier said: “For the next several months, as I transition to my post-presidential plans, I will be working on a special project for the U.S. government relating (to) national security. This builds on my prior positions working with federal agencies to foster improved cooperation between our nation’s national security agencies and other entities.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/graham-spaniers-gig-as-a-federal-worker-is-a-mystery/2012/07/26/gJQAbAx5BX_blog.htm

Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 07/27/2012

Graham Spanier’s gig as a federal worker is a mystery

By Emily Heil

Graham Spanier might have been ousted from his post at the helm of Penn State over the sex-abuse scandal that engulfed the university, but it seems he’s found a backup employer: the American taxpayer.

Only a disgraced public figure would consider joining the much-maligned ranks of the federal workforce as a step up, reputation-wise. We can assume there were no openings for a used-car salesman.

Spanier was faulted in an internal Penn State report after the conviction on child-molestation charges of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The report said he, head coach Joe Paterno and others helped cover up Sandusky’s abuse.

His lawyer confirms to the Loop that Spanier is working on a part-time consulting basis for a “top-secret” agency on national security issues. But the gig is so hush-hush, he couldn’t even tell his attorneys the name of the agency. In April — months after his ouster as president but before the release of the internal report — he told the Patriot-News of central Pennsylvania that he was working on a “special project for the U.S. government relating national security.”

But who’s he working for? The CIA? Homeland Security? Or maybe just a dull consulting firm with a government contract?

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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/post_340.html

Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier to begin new job for federal government

Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 7:48 PM Updated: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 2:35 PM
By SARA GANIM, The Patriot-News

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Looks as though Child Protection Act of 2012 will pass with strong bipartisan support. Vote delayed now for lack of quorum, though.
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Incredibly eloquent statement by @DWStweets on behalf of HR 6063. "I have learned far too much about the world of child pornography."
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House debate on Child Protection Act of 2012 next up on C-SPAN.
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Tell Congress children R important to you & ask your Rep. to vote "YES" on our Child Protection Act of 2012 (H.R. 6063) http://bit.ly/PksKe0
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The Boston Globe has published an excellent, lengthy article reporting Homeland Security's operations to locate and rescue children from a global network of predators. This is the greatest form of "homeland security" there is. PROTECT is in the middle of a campaign now to get Congress to increase funding for these operations. This is why we fight. Warning: disturbing details. http://bo.st/Qq3WIs

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2012/07/29/led_by_an_innocent_into_a_web_of_evil/?page=1

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We're thinking today of the men and women on the front lines fighting child pornography. They go home every night with sights and sounds in their heads that could destroy the mental health of most people. They are truly our eyes and ears in hell, and the lifeline for untold thousands of children. Please thank them every chance you get... and demand our government support them.



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The Boston Globe has published an excellent, lengthy article reporting Homeland Security's operations to locate and rescue children from a global network of predators. This is the greatest form of "homeland security" there is. PROTECT is in the middle of a campaign now to get Congress to increase funding for these operations. This is why we fight. Warning: disturbing details. http://bo.st/Qq3WIs

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Child protection is crime control.
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Child abuse is a bipartisan issue. Both parties ignore it.
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Including the Child Protection Act of 2012! RT @flooraction House approves slew of suspension bills in late debate http://bit.ly/Ra6lS4
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CBS has gotten the leak we've been waiting for. "A source has been told that child pornography was found in at least one of Sandusky's computers." It's a loose thread that could unravel evidence of other suspects and lead to a much larger story. CBS says the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is now investigating this evidence: http://cbsn.ws/MIKAXL And the New York Post says one of Sandusky's associates could be "a prominent athletic booster for the school." http://nyp.st/RzFnGB

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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/08/spanier_says_it_was_his_choice.html

Ex-Penn State president Graham Spanier says it was his choice to resign, not the board of trustees

Published: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 4:07 PM     Updated: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 4:30 PM
By SARA GANIM, The Patriot-News