Convicted Killer Sentenced on Child Sexual Abuse Images
October 30, 2009William Smithson, 44, of Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania has had 24 months added on to his life sentence for possessing child sexual assault images. He was already in jail for killing Jason Shephard, 23, who came to work as an intern for Daktronics, where Smithson was a supervisor.
The illusion that child pornography posssessors are not harmful to society is a dangerous and delusional one. Not only does the Butner Redux Study point to a one-to-one correlation between posssessing child sexual assault images and being a child molester, but tracking the digital trail of child sexual assault images can be incredibly useful for finding killers and capturing them before they strike. Unfortunately, as in the case of David Westerfield,
who had a large collection of child sexual assualt images, and consequently kidnapped, raped, and killed Daniel VanDamm, police did not have enough resources to hunt and capture a killer like Smithson before he struck.
There are probably hundreds or thousands more killers out there who have large collections of child sexual assault and torture image collections in their possession. We have the technology but not the resources to capture them.
We need your help to get law enforcement officers the resources they need so they can keep us and our children safe. Please choose a team in need and help them with any size donation so that they can get the job done.
