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Gay Pedophiles Used ‘Multiple Fake Female Personas’ in Child Porn Ring

Posted on | March 18, 2014 | 66 Comments

Shocking report from the Department of Homeland Security:

Fourteen men operating a child pornography website on the Darknet’s Onion Router, also known as Tor, have been arrested and charged as part of a conspiracy to operate a child exploitation enterprise, following an extensive international investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and USPIS. Eleven have been federally charged in the Eastern District of Louisiana and three in other districts. All are in federal custody. . . .
So far, investigators have identified 251 minor victims in 39 states and five foreign countries: 228 in the United States and 23 in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Belgium. Eight of the victims were female and 243 were male. The majority of victims, 159, were 13 to 15 years old. Fifty nine victims were 16 and 17; 26 victims were 10 to 12; four victims were 7 to 9; one victim was 4 to 6; and two victims were 3 years old or younger. . . .
The website’s primary administrator, Jonathan Johnson, 27, of Abita Springs, La., has been charged with operating a child exploitation enterprise. He admitted to creating multiple fake female personas on popular social networks to target and sexually exploit children and to coaching other child predators in his inner circle to do the same. Jonathan Johnson has been in federal custody since his arrest June 13, 2013, and faces 20 years to life in prison. . . .
The underground website was a hidden service board on the Tor network and operated from about June 2012 until June 2013, at which time the site contained more than 2,000 videos and had more than 27,000 members. The website shared webcam-captured videos of mostly juvenile boys enticed by the operators of the site to produce sexually explicit material. . . .
The investigation was dubbed ‘Operation Round Table’ and began with the arrest of Jonathan Johnson by USPIS and HSI. Further computer forensic analysis by HSI revealed Jonathan Johnson to be the creator and administrator of the underground website.  Ten additional individuals have been arrested and charged in the Eastern District of Louisiana as the primary operators, contributors and producers of material for the child exploitation enterprise:

  • Daniel Nolan Devor, 39, of Brunswick, Ga., charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography, distribution of child pornography and receipt of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors
  • John C. Foster, 44 of Tipp City, Ohio, charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography, distribution of child pornography, and receipt of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors
  • Aung Gaw aka Michael Gaw, 25, of Fremont, Calif.,  charged with receipt of child pornography
  • Vittorio Francesco Gonzalez-Castillo, 26, of Tucson, Ariz., charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography
  • Sean Jabbar, 32, of Minneapolis, Minn.,  charged with receipt of child pornography
  • Christopher Jamieson, 30, of Douglassville, Ga., charged with receipt of child pornography
  • Andrew Korpal, 29, of Granger, Ind., charged with receipt of child pornography
  • Nicholas Saine, 27, of Seattle, Wash., charged with receipt of child pornography
  • Christopher Schwab, 25 of New Orleans, charged with production of child pornography, distribution of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography
  • Stanley Zdon, III, 27, of Tuckerton, N.J., charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography

Roy Naim, 30, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was charged in the Eastern District of New York with conspiracy to produce child pornography, attempted sexual exploitation of a child, receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. Minh Vi Thong, 30, of Denver, Colo., was charged in the District of Colorado with production of child pornography, distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. Michael Eales, 24, of Westby, Wis., was charged in the Western District of Wisconsin with production of child pornography. He was sentenced Oct. 29, 2013, to serve two concurrent 30-year terms in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for manufacturing child pornography.

(Hat-tip: Sara Morrison at TheWire.com.)

UPDATE: My keen-eyed older brother called to tell me that DHS misspelled Douglasville, Ga., less than 10 miles west of where we grew up in Lithia Springs, Ga. The child pornography suspect there, Christopher Jamieson, was arrested in November:

The Department of Homeland Security assisted federal investigators on a raid of a residence in the Hunter’s Ridge subdivision on Douglasville’s north side Tuesday. At the time, authorities were unable to release any details. Residents say that the roads were filled with vehicles, most of which were unmarked and some were used to block the entry to the neighborhood’s main road for a short time.
Local law enforcement was not part of the operation and few were aware what actually happened in the raid. The raid began just before 7 a.m. and all signs of the operation were gone before 8:30 a.m.

And unless I am badly mistaken, this is Christopher Jamieson’s Facebook page, which lists him as a “Model Scout at Blue Media.”

 

Comments

66 Responses to “Gay Pedophiles Used ‘Multiple Fake Female Personas’ in Child Porn Ring”

  1. Zohydro
    March 18th, 2014 @ 10:16 pm

    I assume neither Larry “White-Dick-Rules” Brinkin nor his “husband” could be reached for comment…

  2. M. Thompson
    March 18th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm

    Just sickening.

  3. ZZZZZZZZ
    March 18th, 2014 @ 10:54 pm

    ‘Multiple Fake Female Personas”? Might one of them used the name “Anamika”?

  4. CrustyB
    March 18th, 2014 @ 10:55 pm

    Gay pedophiles. But I repeat myself.

  5. Wraith
    March 18th, 2014 @ 11:18 pm

    Y’know, when gays insist that there’s no correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia, I really try to give them the benefit of the doubt…

    …but then we see this: Eight of the victims were female and 243 were male.
    Yyyyeah. Seems like a very interesting statistical anomaly there.

  6. M. Thompson
    March 18th, 2014 @ 11:40 pm

    Later thought: the kids who were abused, what happended to them is just sickening. I hope the existience of the perps in the future is appropriate to their crimes.

    Under 3’s? That’s horrifying.

  7. Kirby McCain
    March 18th, 2014 @ 11:42 pm

    The way the fake female personas were used is particularly insidious. This guy, Jonathan Johnson, sets up a website with the fake personas. Teenage boys cruising the web come up on it and the fake females ask for nude pictures and videos. This is what I was able to piece together of the scheme.

  8. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    We are made up of many different faces; Joseph Campbell “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”

    One caveat is if the practice is employed in order to do harm or to be vindictively manipulative, get revenge, etc. then that’s not very ‘kosher’.

  9. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 12:16 am

    Btw you use multiple personas/ids here at ToM, sometimes simultaneously. It isn’t an issue to me at all. It makes things kind of interesting, actually.

  10. NeoWayland
    March 19th, 2014 @ 1:24 am

    Depends on where you look.

    Your “anomaly” tells us about that specific group, not the general case.

    Law abiding citizens don’t usually make headlines.

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  12. concern00
    March 19th, 2014 @ 2:31 am

    For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

    Mark 5:8-9

  13. concern00
    March 19th, 2014 @ 2:32 am

    Surely, oh surely you meant to say homosexual pedophiles. They seriously don’t seem too gay to me.

  14. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 2:55 am

    From BBC:
    The Tor network is set up to conceal a user’s location, allowing him or her to maintain online anonymity.

    But the porn ring was broken when an item was sent through the US Postal Service to a child, Ice Cyber Crime Centre Programme Manager James Kilpatrick told Reuters. That development led the authorities to Mr Johnson.

    If not for that mistake, the authorities would have been helpless and mere spectators to the crime. Shudder to think how many such child porn rings might still be in business…

  15. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 3:01 am

    Easy gay meat:
    18 March 2014 – A gay bank worker who wanted to hide his sexuality strangled his wife and burnt her body months after marrying her…
    “His ultimate intention, the Crown suggests, was to play the role of victim, safe in the knowledge that he could rely upon his married status as a permanent excuse for never having to have another relationship with a woman.”
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-26632165

  16. DaTechGuy on DaRadio
    March 19th, 2014 @ 4:34 am

    none of them were catholic priests? nothing to see here, move along…

  17. Zohydro
    March 19th, 2014 @ 6:10 am

    Not that we ever will, but it would be illuminating to know if these boys were turned out by their parents… And we shouldn’t be surprised if at least some of these children “self-identified” as “gay” or homosexual already!

    It’s also very important that we teach our young men what a “catamite” is—specifically, they should be taught to realise that if someone online wants them to show “something” that it is very likely a homosexual seeking to exploit, corrupt, and recruit them! These types can be very clever and manipulative…

  18. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2014 @ 6:19 am

    Hater didn’t you know children are different sex than adults ask ask homosexual apologist

  19. Dana
    March 19th, 2014 @ 6:44 am

    Thing is, pedophiles, unless they never act on their impulses — which at least a few manage to avoid — are, by definition, not law abiding citizens.

  20. Dana
    March 19th, 2014 @ 6:46 am

    It seems that they knew their customer base.

  21. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 7:36 am

    Take that from a homophobia apologist…

  22. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2014 @ 7:41 am

    Homophobia a word invented to use as shutupppery when anyone tells the TRUTH about the perversion lobby

  23. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 7:42 am

    As per the report there were 27,000 members in the underground child porn network. The authorities don’t know all the identities. So who knows how many of them were Christian, Conservative, Straight, Gay, Male, Female etc.

  24. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 7:51 am

    You don’t speak TRUTH about homosexuals. You just spread falsehoods, biases and hate.

  25. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2014 @ 7:57 am

    Ha! I cleaned your clock with FACTS the last time we tangled. Go away you disgusting pervert apologist.

  26. Mm
    March 19th, 2014 @ 7:59 am

    So sayeth the voice of experience.

  27. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:00 am

    I find it interesting the pervert apologist posting here is also anonymous

  28. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:00 am

    I find it interesting the pervert apologist posting here is also anonymous

  29. Mm
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:02 am

    Yes, he was clearly mentally ill and should have received treatment long ago. Surprised he didn’t get it under the vaunted NHS.

  30. Dana
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:06 am

    Well, with the huge disparity in the sexes of the victims, it would seem that relatively few of the 27,000 consumers were heterosexual, unless they were female. 63% of the victims were between 13 and 15, just the ages at which they are in the latter stages of puberty, developing their sexual characteristics.

    Let’s be honest with ourselves here: the majority, the vast majority of the customers were interested in adolescent boys, and were very probably male themselves; they were homosexuals.

  31. NeoWayland
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:10 am

    That I agree with.

    But I’ve yet to see anyone successfully make the case that all or most “homosexuals are pedophiles.” Although there are those who have bent themselves into pretzels trying.

  32. Ivory
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:15 am

    I remember all the #FreeKate freaks telling us pedophiles don’t target teens, only younger children. Seems mostly teens targeted in these cases.
    I hope they throw all these deviants in jail never to see the light of day again. Ever.

  33. Dana
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:21 am

    No one is trying to make the case that “all or most homosexuals are pedophiles.” I have stated that hebephilia — the sexual attraction to children entering puberty — is more common in homosexual males than males in general, and that the evidence is the statistics concerning sexual abuse victims.

  34. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:32 am

    I see you also have rosy retrospection and selective amnesia to go with your phobia(s).

  35. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 8:44 am

    Again, it comes down to access. Its easier for criminals(in this case) to get 13+ year old male children to voluntarily share their pics with anonymous females over the internet than get pics of say a 10 year old.

  36. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:00 am

    He was not mentally ill. I have no pity for him. I feel sorry for the victim.

  37. Dana
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:00 am

    You’ve managed to find the target, and then miss it once again. The 27,000 customers all had access to the internet, and could find whatever they wanted . . . and chose a site that featured 243 mostly adolescent boys, and 8 girls. That tells you in what the customers were interested.

    You might be able to make a case that the disparity in the victims was partially due to who responded to the chat room ploy, but that ploy had the criminals posing as girls, to attract pubescent boys to send in heir pictures. They knew what bait to use to catch the fish they wanted.

    However, I see a potential legal problem here. The child pornography laws are based on the idea that an adult must have harmed a child to create the images. If these were all images sent in voluntarily by the boys, without those adults ever having been present, then the reason behind the law fails.

  38. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:02 am

    Anamika agenda’s is perfectly clear she want to spread the lie the buggering is normal and homosexuals do not present a clear danger to boys. Sadly the stats disagree with her propaganda

  39. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:07 am

    ” The 27,000 customers all had access to the internet, and could
    find whatever they wanted
    . . . and chose a site that featured 243
    mostly adolescent boys, and 8 girls. That tells you in what the
    customers were interested.”

    This is an underground anonymous Tor network. These days the options of child pornography is limited, the pedophiles take whatever they get, its not like they have a vast number of choices to pick from.

  40. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:14 am

    You are wrong about stats about homosexuals & pedophiles. But do you know that most child sex abuse cases are a product of incest where the perpetrators in most cases are either father or mother? I guess by your logic, traditional marriages must present a clear danger to both boys and girls.

  41. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:41 am

    This hair-raising article on “Child Molestation and the
    Homosexual Movement,” by Steve Baldwin, former California legislator and
    now executive director of the Council for National Policy, will cure
    anyone of the notion that homosexual liberation is not a grave threat to
    society. It’s available here http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/lawreview/articles/14_2Baldwin.doc or here http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/lawreview/articles/14_2baldwin.PDF

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  43. Rob Crawford
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:44 am

    Not mentally ill? In your world sane people strangle each other with vacuum cleaners?

  44. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:48 am

    ‘Dark Net’ Kiddie Porn Website Stymies FBI Investigation
    http://gawker.com/5916994/dark-net-kiddie-porn-website-stymies-fbi-investigation

    FBI was utterly helpless (in 2011), but thank god hacktivists took action. FBI got a break in the present case only because a porn ring organizer sent a parcel through USPS to a victim….but it doesn’t mean the life of illegal sex content producers gets any easier on the dark net. They have to get their material totally online (avoid all real life contacts), and the modus operandi of choosing female personas to attract teenage boys is not a choice but a limitation.

  45. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:58 am

    He planned his murder thoroughly, it was not an insane act. In your world, all gays must be mentally ill, but I’m not going to get into that argument.

  46. Guest
    March 19th, 2014 @ 10:05 am

    That article was published in 2002 when homophobia was perhaps at its peak. The world has moved on since. Open your eyes, gays are being accepted more and more in the society. This must be very frightening for you. You might also change your opinions/get used to it, don’t worry.

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  48. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 10:06 am

    That article was published in 2002 when homophobia was perhaps at its peak. The world has moved on since. Open your eyes, gays are being accepted more and more in the society. This must be very frightening for you. You might also change your opinions/get used to it, don’t worry…

  49. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2014 @ 10:12 am

    Just as I figured no FACT as a rebut just hysteria.

  50. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 10:23 am

    Earlier you were outraged that I posted an article on gay myths by an openly gay person and now you expect me to accept the anti-gay agenda of an openly heterosexual deeply religious person…LOL

    I certainly considered it, but as I said, my primary concern is that it was dated. Its tough to find something relevant, unbiased and current, no?