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Albert L. Boudreau, 59, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to reduced charges of possessing and smuggling child pornography.  The former Vermilion Parish prosecutor handled juvenile cases as assistant district attorney in Abbeville between 1979 and 1991.  He entered a plea

after working out a deal with federal prosecutors in which he pleaded to only two of the original 13 counts in the indictment to which he had pleaded innocent last November.  Originally he faced a conspiracy to sexually exploit children charge.  He faces five years in prison on each

Robert Wallace Hudson, 48, was sentenced to 45 years in prison on 328 charges of possession and distribution of child pornography.  Before being sentenced he told a judge he was caught up in something but has learned his lesson.   The Sheriff’s Office calls this conviction Polk

County’s biggest online child-porn case.  According to the Ledger, Assistant State Attorney Brad Copley told Circuit Judge Donald Jacobsen that Hudson deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.  I had the experience of watching his jury’s reaction when they saw the

According to the Detroit News, in Michigan the state’s new attorney general will name a team of investigators to handle Internet crimes, two state senators are proposing laws targeting adults who solicit children online and some counties, including Wayne and Oakland, have started special squads to surf the Web for sex criminals.  This is Michigan’s promise to get tough on criminals using the Internet to prey on children.  A bill has been introduced by State Senator Michael Rogers, who is a father and a former FBI agent, that will increase

Police arrested a 14-year-old Tenafly teenager last week on charges that he distributed pornography on the Internet.  Juveniles trading obscene pictures through cyberspace are a growing problem.  Authorities said that the boy is the first juvenile in Bergen County accused of moving child pornography on the Internet.  He emailed pornographic material to an undercover detective and was arrested Wednesday.  The detective is working with the Northeast Regional Child Exploitation Task Force.  The task force consists of detectives from Bergen, Middlesex, and Somerset Counties and FBI agents.  They began looking for

Paul Keith Perry, a 25-year-old auto parts store clerk, was arrested Thursday on four felony charges: solicitation of a child by computer, second-degree kidnapping, statutory sex offenses and taking indecent liberties with a child.  Through online conversations, the law was broken by Perry.  He enticed a 14-year-old girl to submit to secret sexual encounters with him.  A confidential informant tipped police to the illicit relationship.  Investigators met with the girl and her parents, who were shocked to learn of their daughter’s computer-arranged liaisons with the Hertford County man.  Her parents

Following a six-week undercover investigation by Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies, Clair Berry, 50, an unemployed handyman was arrested.  Berry was arraigned on two counts of distributing child pornography, he was jailed on a $500,000 bond Friday.  His computer name was Mr.Pleasure. He did not know that the 14 year old girl named Jenna he was exchanging email with and eventually photographs showing children engaging in sex acts, was actually a sergeant from the sheriff’s department posing as the girl.  He faces a February 19th preliminary hearing on the counts, which