Twitter
One of the wonderful things about the internet is that you can find
just about anything if you know where to look. This can also be one of
the worst things about it. When I'm on Twitter, I have pleasant,
interesting conversations with pleasant, interesting people – but the
misogyny, homophobia, transphobia and racism of some of the "trending
topics" make me despair. I get around this by very rarely looking at
trending topics.
So, when it emerged that Twitter accounts
were being used to share images of child sexual abuse, I wasn't
surprised or shocked – other than that one of the accounts was wide
open, with its images for all to see. The account's address was
retweeted by a deeply upset friend, with a request to report the
offending account to Twitter. I don't support campaigns blindly, so I
clicked on the link. I saw a picture of a young boy being raped. I
closed the page.
Unfortunately, on Twitter, the only
immediate built-in option is to report spam. After a bit of digging, I
found that there is a specific email address for reporting this kind of
content. I reported the account at 2.54am BST on Thursday morning and
received an auto-reply immediately. I posted a tweet asking my followers
to trust me on the nature of the content and to report the account to
the relevant address. I assumed simply that the more complaints it
received, the quicker Twitter would look at the account and act. I added
that if it was still there in the morning when I woke up, I would take
my account offline.
Houston, TX
A man has been accused of pawning a cellphone that contained almost 1,000 images of child pornography.
Deny Palencia, 32, has been charged with three counts of possession of child pornography.
Houston police said Palencia sold a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone at the Cash America in the 3800 block of Broadway Street.
As employees were cleaning the phone to resell it, they found inappropriate images and then called police, investigators said.
Detectives
said they found 966 images of child pornography on the phone. The
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children identified 173 of
those images of known, identified child pornography.
Boise, ID
Joel J. Jobes II is being held in the Ada County Jail on
five counts of possession of sexually exploitative material after police
say they found images of child pornography on a computer in his West
Boise home on Saturday.
Boise police officials said Monday they
are still trying to figure out who the children in the images are and if
there is any local connection.
Boise police were first contacted
about the case earlier this month by a third party. Boise police
compiled enough evidence, with the help of the multi-agency Idaho Crimes
Against Childrern Task Force, to serve a warrant Saturday morning at
Jobes’ home in the 8800 block of West Stynbrook Drive, located in the
Maple Grove/Goddard roads neighborhood.
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