New York Police Chief and Rabbi Among Those Busted in Child Porn Roundup

[rpannier]

A New York City area police chief, a rabbi and a Boy Scout leader are among the 70 people arrested today on charges of swapping child pornography. Federal officials are calling the bust one of the largest in the New York City metro area. Those picked up in the roundup included a woman who involved her child in the making and distribution of child pornography, a man who used hidden cameras to secretly spy on his children’s friends, and still another with previous convictions for sexually abusing a child.

The arrests came following a five-week investigation by federal authorities. Seized in the sweep were 600 computers, tablets and smartphones. A total of 175 terabytes of storage was represented by the devices collected. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators, some of the individuals arrested in the New York City case had libraries with thousands of images and videos of children.

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This particular case started with a police chief and a rabbi who had been utilizing peer-to-peer file sharing methods and programs to share and trade the images. In January, law enforcement officers arrested Brian Fanelli, former police chief of Mount Pleasant, NY. He pled not guilty to federal charges of receiving and distribution of child porn.

link:
http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/new-york-police-chief-and-rabbi-among-those-busted-in-child-porn-roundup/

[MADem]

1. Digusting little shits, but what a BS headline that news organization came up with!

It's clickbait without the "New York Police Chief" in there. I'll bet I wasn't the only one who initially thought "WTF--NYPD chief of police????"

I guess "Former Mount Pleasant, NY Police Chief" doesn't have the drama, all it has is accuracy.

Personally, I think a police chief from Podunk or Anytown engaging in that behavior should be locked up.

[malaise]

2. Damn this planet has sick people

Throw away the keys

[Dorian Gray]

3. I'm really happy that they got those guys

but I'm really sad that this happened in the first place. And that women who used her own child to make and distribute child porn? Incomprehensible!

[Whisp]

4. I just don't understand this.

How do these people get to this place? Do you just one day wake up and decide to go looking for child porn? Do you happen to meet up with someone who enlists you to do that? Are these people involved in physical molestation and rape of kids too? Or does viewing child porn keep them away from doing that. I know some people think that adult hardcore porn saves some women from being raped but I don't believe that for a minute.

Sick, crazy people. This is one thing that makes me scoff at the idea of heaven and hell and religion. How can anything be more hellish than an example of this sort in the OP, right here on earth. There is a part of some, too many, that is the deepest darkest evil imaginable and someone is going to try to convince me there is even a worse place? ha!

[Whisp]

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