Category Archive for : ‘CHILD PORNOGRAPHY’

A new effort to disseminate photographs of unidentified child pornographers on television and the Internet in hopes they will be recognized was announced by the FBI yesterday.  They will also post images on it Web site and possibly through other TV and print media.  The initiative is part of the FBI’s Innocent Images program, based in the Baltimore FBI office, intended to combat sexual exploitation of children on the Internet.

The first two such suspects handled this way were identified and arrested after their photos aired recently on Fox TV’s

Newsday/Matt Burke

Eric Sesack, a 31 year old Syosset man, who was arrested last year for promoting sexualperformance by a child and served 6 months in jail has been arrested again on similar charges.Sesack, of 73 Circle Drive, was arrested February 3 after detectives discovered well over 100images on his computer of children under the age of 16 performing sex acts. Sesack sentpornographic images to an Internet chat room user who was an undercover detective in Keene, NewHampshire and an investigation began January 9. The detective notified Nassau police and afterobtaining

New York Post/Joe McGurk and Adam Miller

Federal agents rounded up 29 aliens convicted of sex crimes in a sweep across Westchester Countyyesterday. Most of the convictions were for sex crimes against kids. The arrests occurred inBedford Hills, Post Chester, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Ossining, Mount Vernon, White Plains,Yonkers, New Rochelle and Peekskill. Martin Ficke, special agent in charge of Immigration andCustoms Enforcement in New York said, We knocked on their doors at about 5 a.m. and surprised themin their beds. All the suspects are resident aliens or illegal aliens who had

An Italian children’s-rights association said yesterday that the number of reported pedophilia Web sites shot up by 70 percent in 2003, with the United States accounting for more than half.  The Rome-based non-profit Rainbow Phone said 17,016 Web sites featuring explicit child pornography were reported last year to international and national police groups including the FBI and Interpol.

(Rome, Italy)

New York Post/Neil Graves and Andy Geller

Fifteen New Jersey residents, including a 70 year old retired Presbyterian minister, were bustedyesterday as the feds smashed an international kiddie-porn ring based in Belarus.

The 15, who were charged with downloading child pornography, also included a doctor, threepreviously convicted sex offenders, a teacher, a former campus minister, a bank employee and an 85year old retired engineer. The suspects used credit cards to buy subscriptions to porn Web sitesfrom Regpay, a Belarus company that sold memberships in 50 sites, including four it operated. The15 New

Rock legend Peter Townshend, 58, was cleared on May 7th of possessing pornographic images of children but still was placed on a national register of sex offenders.  He was

implicated in a widening Internet child porn crackdown, but has won the support of music-industry colleagues thanks to his forthrightness and history as a child advocate and because his life before now has been free of the taint of scandal. Scotland Yard announced that he was arrested on suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children and of incitement to