A depraved world: FBI agents wage a stressful battle against child pornography

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64. Here's a second unsupported sentence.

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POST 28. The FBI is not the least bit interested in "the children" since they never actually take down a distribution site or go after the Catholic Church.

Easy counterexamples.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-03/justice/us.child.porn.ring_1_sexual-abuse-bulletin-board-images-and-videos?_s=PM:CRIME

August 03, 2011|By Terry Frieden, CNN Justice Producer

More than 50 members of a child pornography ring who engaged in what authorities describe as "horrific" and "unspeakable" crimes have been arrested for sexually exploiting children from 12 years old to as young as infants.

Top federal law enforcement officials say agents busted the global online pornography ring following an intense international investigation that began in 2009. The ring, based in the United States, reached across five continents and 14 countries.

Seventy-two members of the online site called Dreamboard have been charged in the United States. Officials said 52 of them have been arrested in the U.S. and abroad. The identities of the remaining 20 are unknown at this time.

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said, "To give you an example of the scope of this forum, the capture and analysis of the forum revealed that the board may have been the vehicle for the distribution of up to 123 terabytes of child pornography, which is roughly equivalent to nearly 16,000 DVDs. ... Additional media recovered from the targets arrested in the United States alone has been found to contain over one million images of child pornography."

http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2010-11/drnl-jpo112910.php

Jaguar pounces on child predators

Oak Ridge supercomputer will help identify producers of child pornography

Consumers of child pornography break the law when they download photos and videos from file-sharing networks. But police are more concerned with the porn producers uploading the files. Every new posting means a child is in harm's way. To accelerate the acquisition of information needed to arrest child predators, law enforcement officers have teamed with data analytics experts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for a project that will use Jaguar, one of the world's fastest supercomputers, to speedily analyze the activities on file-sharing networks that pinpoint porn producers.

"A consumer can be put in jail, but we'd rather go after the producer because there's a child we can rescue," said ORNL principal investigator Robert Patton, who develops algorithms to search, count, and characterize data files so similar information can be clustered for faster processing. Patton works with Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces from local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to find new files entering file-sharing networks. "There is a likelihood new material was just generated," Patton said. "We want to know who put it out there."

Patton's project uses clustering algorithms that speed the search for a needle in a haystack of data. Clustering algorithms are employed in diverse applications, from finding flaws in the electronic controls of nuclear power plants to tracking suspected terrorists.

Patton has received funding from an industry sponsor, which applies the algorithm for cybersecurity, and an allocation during a 1-year period spanning 2010 and 2011 of 1 million processor hours on Jaguar, a Department of Energy Office of Science supercomputer housed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. Jaguar is mainly used by scientists and engineers requiring maximal computing power to solve large scientific simulation problems in the shortest times possible. Patton has used part of the allocation for initial runs to test some clustering algorithms and later will use the remainder for further development and testing using data provided by law enforcement.

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Why civil rather than criminal cases are pursued against individuals in the Catholc Church? Don't know, maybe related to this?

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31253.pdf

Statutes of Limitation in Federal Criminal Cases: An Overview
Charles Doyle
Senior Specialist in American Public Law
October 1, 2012