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David Vaksdale, 30, was indicted late Wednesday by a Will County grand jury on nine counts of child pornography.  Federal and Will County authorities allege he is part of an international child pornography ring that operates on the Internet.  If Vaksdal is convicted, he faces 4 to 15

years in prison.  Three of the charges are that Vaksdal allegedly videotaped two young girls depicted in poses involving lewd exhibition of naked body parts.  The other charges are that Vaksdal allegedly possessed with the intent to disseminate photos or other visual

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Mark Schmitz, 28, is accused of having sex with a 13 year old girl he met on the Internet. Hetold the girl he had a modeling agency and lured her to his house for sex. He has been charged withstatutory rape and statutory sodomy and is being held in St. Charles County Jail in lieu of $20,000bail.

According to the Asahi News Service, although Asian nations such as Thailand and the Philippines have enacted domestic laws to punish adults who sexually exploit children, the measures cannot eradicate all the problems because many crimes are committed by foreign tourists, ECPAT (End Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Asia) reports.  ECPAT is a coalition of agencies and individuals seeking to prevent the global sexual exploitation of children.  Sexual exploitation of children is a form of slavery and the gravest infringement of a child’s rights.  More than 1 million children enter

Nicholas Oslander, 49, and Seth Kosofsky, 23, were arrested and appeared in federal court in connection with charges arising from an investigation of a worldwide child pornography trading ring.  They were charged in separate criminal complaints with possession of child

pornography.  If convicted, they both face maximum sentences of five years in prison, and fines of $250,000.  They also face the forfeiture of their computer systems, which were seized.

The Bangor Daily News

Robert Seger, 38, is a convicted sex offender who shocked the city when he was arrested lastsummer and charged with numerous counts alleging sexual impropriety with minors. A federal grandjury indicted him and charged him with coercing three minors to perform sex acts that allegedlywere recorded and sent over the Internet. He has also been charged with possessing and receivingchild pornography. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on each of three counts alleging thecoercion and then taping the incidents for purposes of creating a

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

James Edward Henkle, II, 46, has been arrested and charged with various offenses relating toengaging in sexual activities with a minor child. He chatted online with a 13-year-old girl whoclaimed to be a virgin and attracted to older men with not-so-innocent interests. Turns out thegirl really is a 22-year-old woman who works for the investigative news section of Fox Television.Her job has been to pose as a 13-year-old girl in Internet chat rooms to see which adult men takethe bait. Henle was arrested at a Dallas/Fort Worth