Posted on 04/28/2005 12:15:58 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber
TORONTO — She is perhaps 12 now, her hair still light blond, but she doesn't smile anymore. Over the last three years, she has appeared in 200 explicit photos that have become highly coveted collectibles for pedophiles trolling the Internet. They have watched her grow up online — the hair getting longer, the look in her eyes growing more distant.
"She's a collector's item," says Det. Sgt. Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit. "I know somebody out there could lead us to her. But right now, the only ones who can see her face are the wrong ones."
To his shame and frustration, all he could do was watch as the photos kept appearing and the usual tricks to trace her failed. So he decided to try something different. A computer expert digitally erased the girl from the photos, and in February, Gillespie asked the public to help identify the locations: a hotel room, a fountain, an elevator and a video arcade.
Moments after the pictures appeared on a Toronto television station, the tips began to come, and caller after caller identified a Disney World hotel in Florida. A scan of hotel records gave the police a few clues. They believe some of the pictures were taken by a relative on a family vacation and the rest were taken at a residence.
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I hope so. God help this poor child, and others like her. If there is anything more evil than corrupting a child like this, I don't want to know what it is.
Finding the slime responsible for this is the first step; devising an appropriate punishment is the second. My concpets of just punishment for paedophiles would be judged hars or inhumane by many, but I do not see them (vile, filthy paedophiles) as human anyway.
What a sad time this is pathetic men and sometimes women have to get their kicks out of looking at a child and using them for porno..when are we going to get tough and say enough is enough.Keep these filthy people locked up when they are caught.
"On one wall is a "Star Trek" poster with investigators' faces substituted for the Starship Enterprise crew. But even that alludes to a dark fact of their work: All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie."
Which just makes my disdain for star trek grow even larger.
Oh, what I wouldn't do to the people who do this AND the people who create a market for this depravity.
What a horrific article. I have 3 kids and cant imagine anything like this happening..
The motel room looks so generic. Reminds me of the two rooms I stayed in 2004 when traveling through Charlotte, NC and SC/GA border (SC side).
Appropriate punishment for pedophiles is meted out by the other inmates. They are the lowest of the low in prison.
Too sharp and clean, IMHO.
Ummm... what is "blue language" exactly??
Amen.
Swearing.
Sailor's mouth. A speaker of improper French.
I cannot fathom, empathize, understand the evil in some people's hearts. The poor babies...
Too tame for these slime. I am thinking of literally medieval punishments. Dull, rusty knives and nails dipped in lye for starters. Every ounce of torture and pain that they have coused should be returned to them many fold.
William Shatner's skit on SNL was on target, then.
Father God I pray that You save and protect these little children. I pray that You save and change the people abusing them and make them to turn themselves in. Father, if they do not choose to be saved and turn themselves in I pray that You kill them before they hurt anyone else. I ask this in Jesus name. Amen.
Crap. That's depressing.
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