According to authorities, Federal agents seized what may be the largest collection of child sexual abuse images and videos in the U.S. in Southern California, outside of Los Angeles. The collection included over 500,000 images and 7,500 videos of children in ages ranging from 18-months old to 17 years old being sexually abused.
According to authorities, Robert Burke, a former elementary-school principal at Sageville Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and after admitting he secretly set up a video camera in the boys’ bathroom in his school to produce child pornography. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $25,000 and will serve 20 years of probation upon release from prison.
Court documents showed that authorities were able to identify 59 boys who were video taped while standing at a urinal in the public bathroom at the elementary school; numerous other victims could not be identified.
An undercover child pornography investigation conducted by the FBI traced authorities to Burke’s home computer, which led to a raid of his home where agents found 32,000 images and over 12,000 videos of child sexual abuse of prepubescent boys Burke had downlaoded from the
“As an elementary school principal, Burke was in a position of trust and authority over his students,” US Attorney Stephanie Rose said in a statement. “He took advantage of that trust, and he used his position of authority to exploit the children he was supposed to
protect.”
The Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, whose jurisdiction covers Napa, Sonoma, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties, launched a child pornography sweep yesterday that has led to four arrests already.
“Each arrestee was in possession of multiple images or videos of pornography involving prepubescent children,” said San Jose police officer Jose Garcia. “The actual number of images will not be known until a full forensic examination is completed.”
Authorities said the arrest operation was still under way, and at that time sheriff’s officials said they were going through all of the evidence seized.
According to officials, Joshua Horton, 22, of Marina, Hector Martinez, 24, of Salina, and Trevor Fay, 21, of Salinas were booked into Monterey County Jail and bail was set at $15,000 for each; a 31-year-old Seaside man was also arrested.
Monterey County sheriff’s investigators said anyone with information can call the tip line at 888-833-4847.
According to authorities, Robert Michael Broadfoot, 29, was arrested this week by the Sacramento Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force for possession of child pornography. During search of his residence and computer, authorities found hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse, some with girls as young as eight years old.
Authorities also discovered that Broadfoot had provided private music instruction to children in their homes in the Sacramento area. They are asking anyone with information in regard to Broadfoot to contact the Internet Crimes Against Children task force at 916-874-3000.
The Internet Crimes Against Children task force is comprised of federal, state and local law enforcement investigators and managed by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.
Nicholas James Ferguson was sentenced this week in federal court in San Diego to serve 130 months in federal prison to be followed by 10 years of supervision upon release for pleading guilty to receipt of child pornography, according to United States Attorney Laura Duffy.
Ferguson had previously been convicted of a sex offense involving a 9-year-old child and was a registered sex offender during the time in which he knowingly received child sexual abuse images over the Internet, according to court documents.
An investigation by the San Diego Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) brought this case forward whose members include local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. For additional information regarding ICAC, please visit www.sdicac.org
“This sentence sends a message that recidivist child sex offenders, including those who continue to sexually exploit children through child pornography, will not be tolerated in this community,” stated United States Attorney Duffy.
Recently, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reported receiving a complaint through their CyberTipline from concerned citizen who noticed an adult user on a popular file hosting website soliciting sex from young girls. The concerned citizen reported the suspect’s email address and analysts from NCMEC were able to located the suspect’s online postings, in which he wanted to look at young girls in public places and was trying to recruit parents with similar interests to contact him to arrange a time and place to meet their daughters.
The analyst was able to determine that the postings were in the San Francisco area and immediately notified the San Jose Police Department and Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.
From there, the ICAC team luanched an undercover operation by assuming the identity of a single parent with the a 13-year-old girl. The conversations quickly turned sexual in nature and the suspect made plans to meet the undercover investigator with the intention of having sex with his “daughter.”
Given this information, the ICAC team was able to obtain search warrants for the suspect’s email accounts and discovered that he had both received and distributed multiple child sexual abuse images. When authorities executed a search warrant on the suspects home, they found additional evidence, although no suspect; he was later found at a local hospital where his wife was giving birth to their daughter.
According to authorities, the suspect is currently facing charges of soliciting a minor child for sex, arranging with a minor child for sex, grooming a minor child for sex, and possession of child pornography.
Gary Delaney Phillips, 54, a sixth grade teacher at Clear View Elementary School in Chula Vista, was arrested last Friday morning on suspicion of possessing child sexual abuse images, according to FBI records.
According to authorities, emails by Phillips expressing his sexual interest in children and indicating that he owned child pornography were discovered by an FBI agent conducting child pornography investigations.
Upon conducting a search warrant at his home, investigators seized images depicting children engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
According to school district spokesman, Phillips has taught in the Chula Vista Elementary School District for more than 20 years on at least three campuses and has been placed on paid administrative leave.
“We have been informed that the charges he is facing relate to conduct outside the workplace,” said Millican. “We have no reports of anything remotely like this at any point during his tenure in CVESD.”
According to authorities, a 19-year old and a juvenile accomplice broke in to Kraig Stockard’s barn in Dehli, CA, stealing 50 blank CD-R’s, but when they got home and tried to burn music to what they thought were blank discs, they discovered that 30 of them contained child pornography. Family members urged the two to report the discs to police, which they did. Ironically, a few days later Stockard reported the theft to the police.
“I’m kind of surprised that he wanted to draw attention to himself, knowing what was taken,” reported Deputy Tom McKenzie of the Merced County Sheriff’s Department.
Investigators served a search warrant on Stockard’s property and found three desktop computers and three laptops; authorities believe Stockard has been downloading child sexual abuse images and movies since 2004.
Stockard was arrested for possession of child pornography, and the two people who found and reported the child pornography were not arrested for burglary.
According to authorities, Daniel Scalf, 32, a registered sex offender from St. Louis, will spend over 19 years in prison for child sexual abuse images discovered on his cell phone when he was being arrested for shoplifting girls’ underwear at a local Walmart.
Authorities also say Scalf has a long history of sex-related arrests, including sexually assualting a mentally disabled person in 1998. Scalf has been ordered to spend the rest of his life on post-prison supervision.
According to authorities, convicted sex offender Agustin Figueroa, Jr., of Angleton, TX, 52, will be returning to prison after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child pornography in May, 2011.
In a plea agreement, Figueroa admitted that he possessed nearly 21,000 images of child sexual abuse, including both stills and video. The images portrayed children engaging in sexual acts with animals, children in acts of bondage, children under the age of 12 engaged in sexual acts with adults and images of children 1 to 3 years of age, according to authorities.
Additionally, during a search of Figueroa’s home involving the United States Secret Service and the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, agents found ”ebooks” discussing incest and bestiality.
Figueroa was previously convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child in 1996.
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