A former top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in South Florida has pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge.
Anthony Mangione entered the plea Friday in a West Palm Beach courtroom. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison after admitting he used his home computer to receive and transmit images of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
Washington, DC
Anthony Mangione, 51, of Parkland, Florida, pleaded guilty today to one count of transportation of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Acting Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey C. Mazanec of the FBI’s Miami Field Office; and Sheriff Al Lamberti of the Broward County, Florida Sheriff’s Office.
Mangione pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge James M. Hopkins in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was taken into custody pending sentencing.
According to court documents, between March 2010 and September 2010, Mangione transported visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
Mangione faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Mangione also faces a term of supervised release of five years to life following his prison sentence and will be required to register as a sex offender in any jurisdiction in which he lives, works or attends school. Sentencing has been scheduled for October 5, 2012.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Allentown, PA
Allentown police arrested a 31-year-old man and charged him with downloading several images of child pornography, according to court documents.
Alexander M. Lopez, of 819 Chew St., was charged Thursday afternoon by Senior Judge Carl Balliet with possession of child pornography, dissemination of child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility. He was released on $50,000 unsecured bail.
Los Angeles Times
Nestle took down the inaugural
Instagram photo from its Kit Kat Facebook page on Thursday because it
featured a person dressed as a bear -- which it soon learned resembled
an Internet meme associated with child pornography.
The
photograph was supposed to launch Kit Kat’s Instagram page, but users
quickly drew a connection between the costumed drummer and the meme
known as Pedobear.
Pedobear,
depicted on the Internet as a brown cartoon bear striding forward with a
goofy grin, became popular in the U.S. on the forum website 4chan
around 2005, said Brad Jim, editor of the blog Know Your Meme.
The
forum had high-speed traffic and a hard-to-control user base, so
posting a drawing of Pedobear on a disturbing thread “began to serve as
an early warning sign of child pornography,” Jim said.
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