Civilian Army leader led child porn ring, risked US security

[Jilly_in_VA]

David Frodsham was a top civilian commander at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan when he “jokingly” asked an IT technician for access to YouPorn, the video-sharing pornographic website.

During his time in the war zone, Frodsham told one woman that he hired her because he “wanted to be surrounded by pretty women,” and routinely called others “honey,” “babe,” and “cougar” before he was ordered home after the military verified multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

“I would not recommend placing him back into a position of authority but rather pursuing disciplinary actions at his home station,” wrote one commanding officer when recommending that the Army order Frodsham to leave his post at Bagram Airfield and return to Fort Huachuca, a major Army installation in Arizona, according to a U.S. Army investigative file obtained by The Associated Press.

But when Frodsham returned to his home station in fall 2015, he rejoined the Network Enterprise Technology Command, the Army’s information technology service provider, where he had served as director of personnel for a global command of 15,000 soldiers and civilians, according to his Army resume.

By spring of the following year, he was arrested in Arizona for leading a child sex abuse ring that included an Army sergeant who was posting child pornography to the internet. Among the victims was one of Frodsham’s adopted sons

Frodsham pleaded guilty to sex abuse charges in 2016 and is serving a 17-year sentence. But records reviewed by the AP show that the U.S. Army and the state of Arizona missed or ignored multiple red flags over more than a decade, which allowed Frodsham to allegedly abuse his adopted son and other children for years, all the while putting national security at risk.


https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-business-arizona-army-sierra-vista-2dd2790f0b68117f561a46a47442135
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But wait, there's more! Read the article. It gets worse.

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1. Dead link

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2. cbs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-frodsham-civilian-army-leader-child-porn-ring-risked-us-security/

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3. From WIKI: It's GQP ground zero

Politics
Cochise County leans strongly towards the Republican Party in presidential elections. Although Bill Clinton carried the county narrowly in 1992, it has supported the Republican nominee by large margins in every other election since 1968, except for 1996 and 1976 when Clinton and Jimmy Carter each lost only narrowly. Although the county includes the relatively liberal town of Bisbee, as well as the city of Douglas, which has a large Latino population, this is outweighed by the heavily Republican tilt of the more populous Sierra Vista, which is adjacent to Fort Huachuca and thus has a heavy military presence.

Projection, anyone?

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8. Until this year, Cochise County was in district 2 and our Representative is Anne Kirkpatrick. (D)

We also had Gabrielle Giffords. District 2 went Democratic because it extended into South Tucson, Pima County,
a blue area. The district has changed boundaries this year and will probably go red.

[Scrivener7]

4. Link isn't working for me. Here's another for the story:

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-03-29/civilian-army-leader-led-child-porn-ring-risked-us-security

The Frodsham child sex abuse ring is part of a cluster of sex abuse cases that have come to light in Cochise County, Arizona, over the last several years, including several involving U.S. Border Patrol agents, two of whom worked at the Naco, Arizona, Border Crossing. Among them:

— John Daly III. A year ago, authorities arrested the recently retired Border Patrol agent after DNA evidence led them to suspect him in at least eight rapes, and to consider whether he is the so-called East Valley rapist, who terrorized women outside Phoenix throughout the 1990s. Prosecutors in Maricopa and Cochise counties have charged him with multiple counts of sexual assault and kidnapping. Daly, who is being held without bail, has pleaded not guilty.

— Dana Thornhill. A year ago, Thornhill was sentenced to a 40-year prison term after pleading guilty to years of sexually abusing his two children. Thornhill was charged following a stand-off with police in which he holed up in a local church. At the time, Thornhill was the chaplain at the Naco Border Crossing.

— Paul Adams. In 2017, Adams was charged with raping his two daughters, one of whom was just 6 weeks old; taking videos of the sexual assaults; and posting them on the Internet. Adams, who took his own life before standing trial, was also stationed at the Naco Border Crossing.

This is horrifying. And consider: Border Patrol was in charge of all those kids that were separated from their parents and held in horrible facilities.

[wnylib]

9. Makes you wonder what happened to

the kids still not reunited with family.

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10. "one of whom was just 6 weeks old"

Yeah.

That's enough internet for today.

[Scrivener7]

12. Yeah.

[MLAA]

5. I certainly hope the children prevail in court and the Pinos (Parents In Name Only) get all

the punishment they so richly deserve.

[inthewind21]

6. No surprising

[niyad]

7. So, looking at the base's website today, that NETC got a new commander this

week.

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11. I would change the statement, "national security at risk".

It should read, "forfeited national security". Anyone hanging out there, that exposed, is compromised, either immediately or eventually. He probably held his position as long as he did because his handlers protected him and when caught, remained in place to camouflage the discovery.

How do I know that? You ask. Murphy's law, which supersedes all other paradigms, including evidentiary and logical parameters.