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A long article but. . my son is treated like a monster as well. I'm just posting part and then a link to the whole article.
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NEWARK — Tim Ryan climbed from his FBI-issued van and started toward the beige-brick building that holds roomfuls of forensic evidence from across the state: blood samples, human skeletal fragments, markings from tools used in crimes, ballistics results.
He swiped his security card and passed through several doors. Then he walked through long corridors before stepping inside the forensic computer lab.
On a table in front of him sat a DVD. It had two simple words scrawled across it in black.
Baby Pics.
"God, please get me through this," the FBI agent prayed silently.
As he lifted the DVD and carried it toward an open computer tray, grim memories trudged through his mind. Ryan knew that in his job, DVDs crammed with thousands of images of young children’s bodies usually depicted a choreography of vile and depraved crime scenes. And little else.
"I don’t know if I can do (review) a whole DVD disk, 4.67 gigabytes of a baby being raped," Ryan said to himself.
This scene — and others that follow — are taken from a long series of interviews with Ryan and other FBI agents. The incident happened in 2008, early in Ryan’s career as a child pornography investigator, but it’s a day he said he remembers because he was still learning the horrors of his assignment.
He and other agents agreed to talk about the bureau’s specialized team of child pornography and sexual abuse crime fighters in New Jersey — providing a rare glimpse into a world the public never sees and detailing the stress it exacts on the agents.
Like colleagues across the country, these agents spend days and nights immersed in a depraved, internet-based society that encourages and trades on the monstrous abuse of children.
To do their jobs, they are forced to struggle and adjust, hopefully creating an island of calm and normalcy in their own minds, even as they are surrounded by depictions of evil.
Ryan left the FBI five months ago, but said his struggles changed him, as a man and a father. He admitted watching over his own children much more carefully and scrutinizing men who drift through public spaces. Are there any child predators among them, he will ask himself.
The moment from early in his career also represents, he said, the kind of psychological battles waged deep within many men and women who staff the FBI’s euphemistically named "Innocent Images" unit. Ryan left the FBI after four years of supervising the "Innocent Images" team in New Jersey. But he will look people in the eye as he describes the never-ending battle between the abusers and the agents who go after them and try to save the children.
"Like pedophiles have a nose for vulnerable kids, we have a nose for pedophiles," he said. "So … they can smell a child they’re going to be able to groom. Well, we can smell a pedophile."
PREPUBESCENT CHILDREN
To grasp how explosively images of child porn and sexual abuse are proliferating across the internet, consider: In 2010, law enforcement officers across the country sent nearly 14.2 million images and videos of child pornography to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a congressionally authorized clearinghouse for child porn that assists criminal investigators.
In 2011, that number jumped to more than 22 million.
The 55 percent increase, said Michelle Collins, a vice president at the center, is one example of what investigators know already: Internet-traded child pornography has multiplied exponentially over the past decade, as hoarders of often violent material use increased access to high-speed internet and the vastly increased digital storage of computers to their advantage.
Even as inventions such as smart phones, thumb drives and cloud computing have also made it easier for these offenders to round up child pornography, Collins said, other tools such as anonymizers and encryption have enhanced their ability to stay hidden.
The pornography itself focuses mostly on prepubescent children, experts and investigators said. Collins reports that of the identified victims her clearinghouse sees again and again in images and videos, 76 percent are preteen or young teenagers who have yet to show physical signs of sexual maturation.
Among that 76 percent, one in 10 is an infant or toddler.
Meanwhile, the abuse seems to know no bounds.
"You are seeing babies having their diapers removed so they can be assaulted," said Joshua Wilson, an FBI agent based in New Jersey who has spent nearly five years working full time on child pornography.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/12/a_depraved_world_fbi_agents_wa.html
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NEWARK — Tim Ryan climbed from his FBI-issued van and started toward the beige-brick building that holds roomfuls of forensic evidence from across the state: blood samples, human skeletal fragments, markings from tools used in crimes, ballistics results.
He swiped his security card and passed through several doors. Then he walked through long corridors before stepping inside the forensic computer lab.
On a table in front of him sat a DVD. It had two simple words scrawled across it in black.
Baby Pics.
"God, please get me through this," the FBI agent prayed silently.
As he lifted the DVD and carried it toward an open computer tray, grim memories trudged through his mind. Ryan knew that in his job, DVDs crammed with thousands of images of young children’s bodies usually depicted a choreography of vile and depraved crime scenes. And little else.
"I don’t know if I can do (review) a whole DVD disk, 4.67 gigabytes of a baby being raped," Ryan said to himself.
This scene — and others that follow — are taken from a long series of interviews with Ryan and other FBI agents. The incident happened in 2008, early in Ryan’s career as a child pornography investigator, but it’s a day he said he remembers because he was still learning the horrors of his assignment.
He and other agents agreed to talk about the bureau’s specialized team of child pornography and sexual abuse crime fighters in New Jersey — providing a rare glimpse into a world the public never sees and detailing the stress it exacts on the agents.
Like colleagues across the country, these agents spend days and nights immersed in a depraved, internet-based society that encourages and trades on the monstrous abuse of children.
To do their jobs, they are forced to struggle and adjust, hopefully creating an island of calm and normalcy in their own minds, even as they are surrounded by depictions of evil.
Ryan left the FBI five months ago, but said his struggles changed him, as a man and a father. He admitted watching over his own children much more carefully and scrutinizing men who drift through public spaces. Are there any child predators among them, he will ask himself.
The moment from early in his career also represents, he said, the kind of psychological battles waged deep within many men and women who staff the FBI’s euphemistically named "Innocent Images" unit. Ryan left the FBI after four years of supervising the "Innocent Images" team in New Jersey. But he will look people in the eye as he describes the never-ending battle between the abusers and the agents who go after them and try to save the children.
"Like pedophiles have a nose for vulnerable kids, we have a nose for pedophiles," he said. "So … they can smell a child they’re going to be able to groom. Well, we can smell a pedophile."
PREPUBESCENT CHILDREN
To grasp how explosively images of child porn and sexual abuse are proliferating across the internet, consider: In 2010, law enforcement officers across the country sent nearly 14.2 million images and videos of child pornography to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a congressionally authorized clearinghouse for child porn that assists criminal investigators.
In 2011, that number jumped to more than 22 million.
The 55 percent increase, said Michelle Collins, a vice president at the center, is one example of what investigators know already: Internet-traded child pornography has multiplied exponentially over the past decade, as hoarders of often violent material use increased access to high-speed internet and the vastly increased digital storage of computers to their advantage.
Even as inventions such as smart phones, thumb drives and cloud computing have also made it easier for these offenders to round up child pornography, Collins said, other tools such as anonymizers and encryption have enhanced their ability to stay hidden.
The pornography itself focuses mostly on prepubescent children, experts and investigators said. Collins reports that of the identified victims her clearinghouse sees again and again in images and videos, 76 percent are preteen or young teenagers who have yet to show physical signs of sexual maturation.
Among that 76 percent, one in 10 is an infant or toddler.
Meanwhile, the abuse seems to know no bounds.
"You are seeing babies having their diapers removed so they can be assaulted," said Joshua Wilson, an FBI agent based in New Jersey who has spent nearly five years working full time on child pornography.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/12/a_depraved_world_fbi_agents_wa.html
"IEWING, PARTICIPATING
According to a study conducted by Michael Bourke, a leading sex-offender treatment specialist and chief psychologist for the U.S. Marshals Service, 85 percent of men arrested for the possession and/or distribution of child pornography have also committed a hands-on offense against a child.
computer-porn-charges.JPGAP PhotoIn 2010, law enforcement officers across the country sent nearly 14.2 million images and videos of child pornography to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a congressionally authorized clearinghouse for child porn that assists criminal investigators. In 2011, that number jumped to more than 22 million.
The researcher, who said he has interviewed more than 1,000 pedophiles, also noted that, on average, the abusers in his 2009 study admitted to having violated between nine and 13 children each..."
Because the National Sentencing board painted a much different picture last year and I do not believe that 85 percent have also molested a child - I guarantee it is bogus science. But now it is out there and nothing can be down about it arrrrgggghhh
But none the less it was published and the findings are quoted all over the place and taken for fact - anyone that read this and then meets my son or yours Nako will assume they have molested about 13 children on average - also what the article does not mention is that not all child porn is kiddie porn! In my sons case the were all post pubescent girls
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/12/child-abuse.aspx
Nakohichi, you SEEM to be a very angry, bitter person. You have your son out of prison, for a lot of people that will never happen. You seem to be able to give him support, a job, and be helping him with attorneys. Again, most people never will experience the opportunities you are in a position to give, and that's commendable for you and your son.
But I've also noticed a distancing of yourself to the board. Yeah, you come here for support, ask questions, give updates about your son. But I see a decoupling with you when anyone else shares their stories, and perhaps a judgmental attitude. You seem caught in the middle, between having to deal with judges, prison, and parole for your son, which you do hate, along with a superior attitude of your son being blameless and not guilty. Well, like it was explained, in the real world, as far as the authorities are concerned, he is. On paper and record, he's already been signed, sealed and delivered.
On the other hand, you're not entirely comfortable dealing with those of us who do have a family member in the system, or have gone through it ourselves. I think in your mind we are 'unclean', we, and our situations are beneath you . You come here for support, but then you give back hit piece for the opposition articles which are pretty pro police, which give out bad figures. I'm trying to figure out why?
The truly dangerous, violent, repeat offenders are a minuscule, population of the people on the registry. Along with the family members having to deal with their loved ones being listed. The 'system' is rigged, you of all people should see that by now.
Dave in the Philippines
Contact can be the college guy coming out of a bar drunk and patting a fanny decades ago or a young college guy kissing a younger gal decades ago. It can also be a serious offender who has changed and desires to live a better life and not wanting to return to crime and becoming a better human being. This is called rehabilitation and it's a good thing that a civilized society should embrace and support.
The junk science advocate speaks of is 100% real and true! Much of society will hear the CP charge and believe you have dozens of real victims and just have not been caught just like the junk science that says ALL RSO's have hundreds of victims and just got away with it and a contact RSO is moments away from snatching a child and killing.
I don't believe a real reform movement will happen until it can connect with the majority of people affected by these laws by providing a sense of security from not being judged and giving support and comfort to those suffering from these cruel and inhumane laws. A real sense of compassion and caring must be felt.
I remember speaking to the late Mary Duvall and I was amazed that such a poor lady that was blind, suffering and had the weight of the world always had love and compassion to give me. Often that was just enough to keep me from giving up in my first years of becoming a RSO.
With compassion comes understanding and the fear subsides. Without fear people can speak out and extend themselves to others. Fear makes people hide and so does pain. Humiliation is a powerful weapon our government has mastered. I hope the large reform groups embrace the support side because it silences people.
Dave in the Philippines
No I'm not. Maybe you are and so your thoughts reflect that. I just posted an article that I found on the internet.
In my opinion it's the 'other side' and these people are the sickos.
They approached my son, who accidentally downloaded 3 cp from 2335 other music videos thru LimeWire.. as if he were one of these pedos. That's where their heads are at. I don't see why information about them proves that I'm a 'Very Angry and Bitter person'.
You don't know me.
Really? I distance myself? I thought others would want to know what goes on, as information is important.
Just because I don't pray for others situations that doesn't mean I'm judgemental. I'm an atheist... I don't pray for people. But I am supportive.
You see what is in your head, not what is in my heart.
I'll distance myself if others feel I shouldn't post what happens with my son, I just won't post anymore. This was a place for me to vent my frustrations and give info.. but I don't need to be here.
Sorry... my son isn't in prison for life, but he had 30 months in Federal and is looking at a lifetime of SO bullshit for doing nothing..
I'll go hang out somewhere else.
Your both way off. And I'm done here
I have better things to do.
Ill pray for you .
I'm angry because the government (the U.S. Army) was only interested in prosecuting my guy's case, not looking for the truth. I'm angry because some teenaged twit was allowed and encouraged to make a false accusation that resulted in a 23-year sentence for something that my guy didn't do. And I'm angry because the USDB (the military prison at Fort Leavenworth) hands over their "excess" prisoners so readily to the feds (due to overcrowding they say), who have a different way of calculating release dates, when my guy could have been released in 2012 and we could have been married and starting our new life already.
I read the posted article with interest because it explains things I didn't already know. The piece about the babies was disturbing, but the article as a whole was informative.
I have also distanced myself because I've felt slapped in the face on this forum when a simple statement of disagreement or explanation would have sufficed. I keep coming back - if only as a reader - because I'm learning so much valuable information that I can't find anywhere else.