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Ex-cybersecurity chief sentenced to 25 years on child porn charges (fixed)
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Alissa Skelton
An Omaha judge sentenced a former federal Health and Human Services cybersecurity chief who viewed a secret child pornography website to 25 years in federal prison on Monday.
Timothy DeFoggi, 56, used the deep web to join a secret child pornography website that was started by Aaron McGrath of Omaha.
A massive federal investigation into child pornography on Tor, an open-source software that lets people browse the Internet anonymously, led FBI agents to at least 20 people, including DeFoggi, who were using at least one of McGrath’s child porn websites.
FULL breaking short story at link.
Read more: http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/ex-cybersecurity-chief-sentenced-to-years-on-child-porn-charges/article_0e5a15fc-9523-11e4-b00b-6bced96c11d4.html
Health and Human Services is supposed to be trusted personnel because of children's info at their finger tips.
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http://www.protect.org/articles/fund-child-rescue-homeland
Fund Child Rescue at Homeland Security!
Texas Congressman John Carter, who chairs the powerful Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, is calling for $20 million for federal law enforcement to hunt down child pornography traffickers and rescue their victims. His unlikely partner: Democratic party leader Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Their amendment would provide funding to train, equip and hire wounded warriors through the H.E.R.O. Child-Rescue Corps program. Despite the great bipartisanship effort, this campaign is a long, uphill fight, because the U.S. Senate wants to fund the the measure at just $1 million. You might think everyone's for fighting child predators, but getting Congress to fund it is another story.
What Can You Do?
There is no active action alert at this time. However, if you would like to write Rep. Carter, please see our Take Action page.
More Information:
Fund Child Rescue at Homeland Security!
Texas Congressman John Carter, who chairs the powerful Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, is calling for $20 million for federal law enforcement to hunt down child pornography traffickers and rescue their victims. His unlikely partner: Democratic party leader Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Their amendment would provide funding to train, equip and hire wounded warriors through the H.E.R.O. Child-Rescue Corps program. Despite the great bipartisanship effort, this campaign is a long, uphill fight, because the U.S. Senate wants to fund the the measure at just $1 million. You might think everyone's for fighting child predators, but getting Congress to fund it is another story.
What Can You Do?
There is no active action alert at this time. However, if you would like to write Rep. Carter, please see our Take Action page.
More Information:
Related Article: "Real Homeland Security": http://www.protect.org/oped/real-homeland-security
HERO Child-Rescue Corps: http://www.herocorps.net
http://www.protect.org/oped/real-homeland-security
Real Homeland Security
by Grier Weeks
Originally published in The Hill
December 10, 2014
A federal effort being championed by Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) of Round Rock is a reminder about what really matters the most to Americans when it comes to homeland security: protecting our children.
Carter’s plan would add $20 million to Homeland Security’s budget to beef up the fight against child sexual exploitation. His plan targets global criminal networks that use children here in the U.S. as sexual commodities for an exploding child pornography market.
Yes, just as foreign criminals target our banks, power grids or industrial secrets, you should know that they also target our children.
Carter wants to send not only federal agents after these child predators, but an elite new group of hunters called the H.E.R.O. Child-Rescue Corps. The HERO Corps is a joint program of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the National Association to Protect Children (PROTECT) and the U.S. Special Operations Command. It recruits elite wounded warriors, trains them as human exploitation rescue operatives (HEROs) and embeds them with law enforcement.
Already, three HEROs are at work in Homeland Security Investigations offices in Texas. More will be on the way, if Carter wins his fight.
While the House has backed Carter’s $20 million proposal, the Senate would fund Carter's plan at only $1 million. As the two bodies negotiate a Homeland Security spending bill, it is critical that John Carter wins.
If the threat against U.S. children by global child exploitation networks is news to you, here’s how it works.
The Internet has facilitated a flourishing trade in child pornography, bringing together millions of producers, distributors and collectors. Every image and video of child pornography is actually a crime scene recording, showing the rape, sexual abuse and often torture of a child. These are no “baby in the bathtub” photos. They’re not really even “pornography” in the normal sense at all.
Child abuse material depicts the most horrific and brutal moments in a child’s life. Law enforcement reports the victims are typically very young, often infants and toddlers. U.S. law enforcement has identified over 300,000 suspects in the U.S. alone trafficking in images of children being bound, gagged, raped and horribly abused.
The insatiable appetite for these videos and photos can only be supplied one way: through the rape and torture of more children.
Much of the global apparatus behind this marketplace lies overseas. But an estimated 50 percent or more of the victims are here in the U.S. That means that every day, criminals in the U.S. and abroad are commissioning the rape and torture of more American children. The incidence of these offenses dwarfs other types of cross-border crimes that get more news media coverage.
The good news is that law enforcement knows where these predators are. They can, and do, track them in cyberspace, logging and mapping their locations. Using counter-child-exploitation technology, law enforcement can then go “back through the Internet,” right to the door of children waiting for rescue.
Those children include not only victims of child pornography production, but other children as well, children who are being abused by parents and caretakers who happen to be accessing child pornography online. In other words, for the first time in history, we have the ability to detect and stop child sexual abusers on a massive scale, by monitoring their online crimes and taking action.
Yet, most of the children who could be saved will not be, due to sheer lack of law enforcement resources.
That’s the national shame that Carter has put in his sights.
If Congress can agree on anything at all, it should be deploying our wounded warriors to hunt sexual predators and rescue children. Yet, the House and Senate are far apart, and it’s not clear child safety will win.
One thing is certain. The dollars we don’t spend are the children we don’t protect.
Godspeed, Congressman Carter.
Weeks is executive director of PROTECT. Learn more about the HERO Corps at http://www.herocorps.net
Real Homeland Security
by Grier Weeks
Originally published in The Hill
December 10, 2014
A federal effort being championed by Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) of Round Rock is a reminder about what really matters the most to Americans when it comes to homeland security: protecting our children.
Carter’s plan would add $20 million to Homeland Security’s budget to beef up the fight against child sexual exploitation. His plan targets global criminal networks that use children here in the U.S. as sexual commodities for an exploding child pornography market.
Yes, just as foreign criminals target our banks, power grids or industrial secrets, you should know that they also target our children.
Carter wants to send not only federal agents after these child predators, but an elite new group of hunters called the H.E.R.O. Child-Rescue Corps. The HERO Corps is a joint program of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the National Association to Protect Children (PROTECT) and the U.S. Special Operations Command. It recruits elite wounded warriors, trains them as human exploitation rescue operatives (HEROs) and embeds them with law enforcement.
Already, three HEROs are at work in Homeland Security Investigations offices in Texas. More will be on the way, if Carter wins his fight.
While the House has backed Carter’s $20 million proposal, the Senate would fund Carter's plan at only $1 million. As the two bodies negotiate a Homeland Security spending bill, it is critical that John Carter wins.
If the threat against U.S. children by global child exploitation networks is news to you, here’s how it works.
The Internet has facilitated a flourishing trade in child pornography, bringing together millions of producers, distributors and collectors. Every image and video of child pornography is actually a crime scene recording, showing the rape, sexual abuse and often torture of a child. These are no “baby in the bathtub” photos. They’re not really even “pornography” in the normal sense at all.
Child abuse material depicts the most horrific and brutal moments in a child’s life. Law enforcement reports the victims are typically very young, often infants and toddlers. U.S. law enforcement has identified over 300,000 suspects in the U.S. alone trafficking in images of children being bound, gagged, raped and horribly abused.
The insatiable appetite for these videos and photos can only be supplied one way: through the rape and torture of more children.
Much of the global apparatus behind this marketplace lies overseas. But an estimated 50 percent or more of the victims are here in the U.S. That means that every day, criminals in the U.S. and abroad are commissioning the rape and torture of more American children. The incidence of these offenses dwarfs other types of cross-border crimes that get more news media coverage.
The good news is that law enforcement knows where these predators are. They can, and do, track them in cyberspace, logging and mapping their locations. Using counter-child-exploitation technology, law enforcement can then go “back through the Internet,” right to the door of children waiting for rescue.
Those children include not only victims of child pornography production, but other children as well, children who are being abused by parents and caretakers who happen to be accessing child pornography online. In other words, for the first time in history, we have the ability to detect and stop child sexual abusers on a massive scale, by monitoring their online crimes and taking action.
Yet, most of the children who could be saved will not be, due to sheer lack of law enforcement resources.
That’s the national shame that Carter has put in his sights.
If Congress can agree on anything at all, it should be deploying our wounded warriors to hunt sexual predators and rescue children. Yet, the House and Senate are far apart, and it’s not clear child safety will win.
One thing is certain. The dollars we don’t spend are the children we don’t protect.
Godspeed, Congressman Carter.
Weeks is executive director of PROTECT. Learn more about the HERO Corps at http://www.herocorps.net
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