Crimes against Children 8-4-12

San Luis Obispo, CA

Police are looking for a 28-year-old San Luis Obispo man who is a registered sex offender after child pornography was allegedly found on his computer.

About 9 p.m., Tuesday, San Luis Obispo police served a search warrant at the home of Jason Lytle, on the 1200 block of Murray Street, after receiving a tip that Lytle had downloaded child pornography onto his computer.

Police removed multiple electronic devices from Lytle’s residence. Forensic examination of the devices revealed a substantial amount of child pornography, police said in a news release.

Bullhead City, AZ
Child pornography charges were added to others filed against an Arizona man who flew to Tampa to have sex with a teenage girl, deputies said.

Jonathan Lane, 33, was carrying a laptop computer when he was detained July 15 by Tampa International Airport police, investigators said.

The computer had 12 images depicting children ages 3 to 12 engaged in various sexual activities, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.

The computer also had online chat logs of a conversation with a 14-year-old Tampa girl in which a meeting for sex was arranged, deputies said.

Last month, the sheriff's office said Lane sent numerous lewd email and cellphone messages and pictures to the victim since June 2011. Deputies said Lane had full knowledge of the victim's age and physical condition as she uses a wheelchair.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL
A registered sex offender found Friday with disturbing images of child pornography on his home computer was arrested in Oakland Park, according to police.

Authorities said John J. Brittle, Jr. was taken into custody Friday after police executed a search warrant at his home in the 2400 block of NW 33rd Street in Oakland Park.

While conducting an undercover operation, authorities with the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force discovered an IP address that was sharing child pornography, stated police. The IP address was traced back to Brittle’s home and that’s where police said they found his computer which contained more than 200 videos of children being sexually abused by adults.

Many of the children in the videos were as young as 2 years old.

Cincinnati, OH
A former day care owner was sentenced Thursday to additional prison time on child pornography charges.

Federal authorities said 37-year-old John Foster, of Maineville, collected more than 6,700 images and more than 360 videos of child pornography between 2004 and 2007.

Foster owned the Primrose School day care in Maineville at the time, authorities said.

Clover, SC

A man with child pornography on his home computer in Clover was arrested Friday by the York County Sheriff’s Office.

Hugh Douglas Butler, 53, is charged with 16 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor- 3rd degree, according to a sheriff’s office release.

Butler admitted to police Thursday that he “might have images on his computer” of child pornography, according to a sheriff’s office police report.

Two detectives went to Butler’s house in Clover Thursday morning after receiving a tip that he may have sexual pictures of children and was possibly distributing them, the report states. They searched his external hard drive, flash drive and two computers and found dozens pornographic images of children as young as 6- to 9-years-old engaging in sex acts, according to the report and arrest warrants.

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Moreno Valley, CA

Police say the victim of a laptop theft turned out to be a child pornography suspect.

 

Lawrence Tibbals Beal, 63, of Moreno Valley, was arrested Tuesday during a traffic stop after investigators served search warrants at two locations, including Beal’s residence. Both warrants yielded evidence linking Beal to child pornography, police said.

A burglary investigation on Sunday led detectives to Beal. During that investigation, one of the three suspects who had been caught admitted to taking the laptop. When the suspects found the child porn on the computer, they tried to extort money from Beal, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

Spokane, WA
A man who once licensed foster care homes for the state pleaded guilty today to two federal counts of distribution of child pornography.

Darrell J. Rogers, who was 51 when he was arrested earlier this year, was indicted following an April search of his home in the 7100 block of North Westgate Place in the Indian Trail neighborhood of Spokane.

His wife, Kim Rogers, also works as a social worker for the state Department of Social and Health Services. She specializes in finding homes for children who are wards of the state. The investigation did not implicate her in any way.

Darrell Rogers admitted using Internet file sharing programs to obtain the pornography, including images of children as young as months old, and denied that he ever inappropriately touched children.

Tampa Bay, FL
A children's puppeteer arrested on child pornography charges in Largo was one of 43 arrests made over the past two years in a horrific, far-flung child porn network, authorities said.

The men came from different walks of life on two continents: a hotel manager in Massachusetts, an emergency medical technician in Kansas, a day care worker in the Netherlands.

The network unraveled like a sweater with a single loose thread: a stuffed toy bunny.

The bunny, seen in a photo of a half-naked, distraught 18-month-old boy, was used to painstakingly trace a molester to Amsterdam. From there, investigators made one arrest after another of men accused of sexually abusing children, exchanging explicit photos of the attacks and even chatting online about abducting, cooking and eating youngsters.

Authorities have identified more than 140 young victims so far and say there is no end in sight as they pore through hundreds of thousands of images found on the suspects' computers. They are also trying to determine whether the men who talked about murder and cannibalism actually committed such acts or were just sharing twisted fantasies.