Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

Jason Graff did not appear to look at the screen even once as images and videos from his computer were played for the jury Tuesday during the first day of testimony in the child pornography case against him.  The 17 computer-generated videos and at least two dozen still images were presented as evidence taken from a computer in the master bedroom of Graff’s house on August 11, 2006.  About half the images depict sexual acts with pre-school age girls.  Graff is charged with possession of five and dissemination of two

Vincent Alvarez, a 32-year-old New York City detective was arrested yesterday and charged with illegally possessing child pornography.  He ordered the pornography from a bogus company that was part of a police and Postal Service sting last May when an investigator mailed him a list of videotapes and an order form, and the detective ordered three child-pornography tapes from the list.  It is not known why the detective was singled out and the criminal complaint does not give the reason,  Alvarez was arrested yesterday and suspended from the police ford,

Joseph Crosier, 31, of East Meadow, was arrested and charged with seven counts of first-degree promoting a sexual performance of a child and seven counts of possession of child pornography.  He allegedly transmitted photographs of young girls being sexually exploited and seemingly raped by men.  Crosier allegedly transmitted these images to more than 60 fellow AOL subscribers.  If convicted, he could face as much as 7 years in prison on each count of promoting and 3 years on each count of possession and be required to register his address as

Joseph Martin, a 27-year-old married father of two from Sound Beach told his wife, Jennifer that he was taking a troubled young girl into their home.  He was arrested Friday at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, where he had gone to pick up a 12 year old girl, known only as Jane Doe of Columbus, Ohio.  Martin was remanded to Columbus, Ohio, yesterday to face federal charges that he used the Internet to try to lure the girl to him home for sex.  He sent the girl $81

German police are developing an Internet search engine that will hone in on illegal activity on the Web, including pedophile networks and neo-Nazi propaganda, and lead detectives to those who publish or even view such sites.  

(Bonn, Germany)

The Hartford Courant

An agent visiting Connecticut this week demonstrated the dangers of online chat rooms. He posedas a 14-year-old boy and within minutes received sexually suggestive responses. Many of the 12million children who go online regularly are doing so after school while their parents

are at work. According to customs agents whose job it is to keep track of potentially dangerousencounters, this creates a breeding ground for online stalkers waiting to take advantage ofchildren. They disguise their identities and engage children in keyboard conversations and findout

a child’s identity and location. Meanwhile,