Posted on 02/05/2018 10:55:40 AM PST by Red Badger
WINTER HAVEN (FOX 13) - The FBI and local enforcement agencies across the country have issued warnings about a disturbing video circulating on Facebook and other social media networks. The bottom line: sharing the video, and even viewing, is a crime.
The video, according to law enforcement officials, shows an adult male sexually abusing a young child. Facebook users have encouraged others to share the video to try to help catch the people involved in exploiting the child, but law enforcement agencies, including the Polk County Sheriff's Office, say sharing the video is actually a felony.
"PLEASE DO NOT SHARE those images or video," the Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a message posted to their Facebook page Sunday. "Images and video depicting the sexual abuse of a child are pornography. Sharing them, even if your intent is to help, is a crime and continues to victimize the child."
The Polk County Sheriff's Office says people have been flooding their inboxes for weeks now with a video they say is too disturbing to even describe. While they're encouraged many are trying to do the right thing and report the person, they've posted a PSA to their Facebook page to make sure people are aware of the right way to report child pornography and sexual abuse.
FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating the video that's currently making its rounds on Facebook. While no arrests have been made, the Polk County Sheriff's Office says the victim at least is safe.
"It is our understanding that Alabama law enforcement authorities, including their Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, have identified the suspect and victim and that the victim is safe."
Suspicious content should be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The agency has a secure cyber tip line of you can call 1-800-843-5678. It will alert the right people while ensuring a tipster stays on the right side of the law and is not unwittingly re-victimizing the child by spreading images of their abuse.
The FBI has also issued these tips:
- Never click on or open unsolicited emails or messages from unknown contacts. - Report inappropriate activity or content to the website immediately upon receipt. Include the sender's screen name, but do not forward the content to others, including website administrators or law enforcement, as it could be considered distribution. - Immediately delete the file and all record of the communication. - Notify law enforcement using the Cyber Tip Line operated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in partnership with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. Reports may be made 24-hours a day, 7 days a week online at www.cybertipline.org or call 1-800-843-5678. - Check privacy settings and account security.
They’ll get him...................
One of the POdestas?
HA HA! yup !
I will not watch the video nor do I want to have its viewing logged on my computer.
Got this long time back and keep it just in case.
If you get spammed by someone with what you think is Kiddie Porn:
WHAT TO DO IF IT HAPPENS TO YOU: If you receive such an email, try to get the files checked out by a security expert before you open them. In any case, you MUST make a report to the police or FBI, because there is child porn involved. It is illegal to view, possess, or pass child porn. The criminal penalties are extreme and include forfeiture of assets, including homes, cash, and personal belongings. Therefore, even the computer security person has to file a report.
By law, you are required to make the report to a law enforcement agency promptly, and to either destroy the images or make the images available to law enforcement. I’d say wait and see if they want the images before you destroy them. Also, don’t delete the email until you file your report, because the routing information on the email may be helpful to police. Also, you need to alert the person whose name was put on the email as the sender. You need to let that person make a police report, too. They have been as victimized as you have, if not moreso.
If you receive such an email and open the files, you are likely to be shocked, or to feel shame, fear, or a desire to push this away and pretend it did not happen. You can’t do that because you need to report it so you don’t risk being caught up in child porn charges, even years down the line. If you need to go to therapy or seek other help to work out your shock over seeing the images and being set up, you should do that, but promptly make the police report. Keep in mind that someone is, in fact, targeting you specifically and trying to harm you terribly. Therefore, it may be wise to take extra safety precautions for yourself and your family.
WARNING SIGNS THAT AN EMAIL MAY CONTAIN CHILD PORN:
1) Use of tormail account or other untraceable email account.
2) Uses the name of someone you know, but from an email account you don’t recognize.
3) Has jpegs or pdf files attached.
4) Has an email message that DOES NOT HINT at the files containing child porn, but encourages you to open the files and spread them to all your friends/ compatriots.
5) The email may have veiled threats against you or your group.
WHAT TO DO:
1) Don’t open the files. Try to get help from a computer security expert.
2) If there is child porn, REPORT THE SITUATION TO THE POLICE OR FBI.
3) Share what happened to warn others.
4) Take care of yourself. Talk to a friend, get counseling if needed, take safety precautions for yourself and your family, etc.
PLEASE REMEMBER: A child porn image means a child has been victimized. A person who emails such images is participating in victimizing children, and is also trying to victimize you and/ or your associates. This is the sickest, most deranged sort of person. You need to stand up to this, report it, and try to help stop these crimes.
Grady will get them!
he should get 50 years in the slammer.
= = =
Then be sent to jail.
That works only for Hilliary...................
he is referring to cnn, probably, who warned watchers that reading wikileaks releases was against the law, i think this was during the election campaign
I’m fine with that too.
To those of us who have vowed to completely abstain from Facebook or social media, this is just another day.
1: Good suggestion, but realistically you'd never ever open anything that interested you, if you adopted this policy. It's simply not a realistic suggestion. Get a good product that checks your eMail upon receipt.
2: Reporting anything these days gets a big fat "ho hum" from those you contact. I've contacted the FBI regarding issues and they couldn't be less interested.
3: Providing information is a joke, because the calls I've made were so insulting, they didn't even bother to take information. Believe me, I wouldn't call unless it was something very over the top. They didn't care.
4: Notice here they didn't provide an alternative idea that would feed into identifying the perp quickly? Don't capture a still frame only showing the face of the perp. I recognize the idea that viewing the material would be bad, but how do you identify this person rapidly without flooding the internet with this person's photo, so a person could recognize him/her and tell the authorities, who once again would just as likely yawn your ear off as not, when you call in?
Remember here: The quicker he/she is identified, the sooner the abuse ends. DUH!
5: Once again, I don't think these agencies have the slightest clue what the public faces when they call in. I've called in twice, and the persons taking the calls couldn't have been less interested. They took no information. They couldn't have cared less. It was infuriating.
The impression those calls left with me, was that I was a nobody, and they didn't need any help from nobodies. Never-mind the serious nature of what I was reporting.
6: See five
7: See five
If these agencies want help, they damn well need to clean up their act.
Whaaaaat????
I can’t recall ever receiving a photo from a law enforcement agency asking if I had seen a certain individual.
Not once.
I’m not sure what process they use to find people, but it doesn’t make sense to me, if a broad segment of the public isn’t involved.
In the old days, they’d distribute photos of suspected/known criminals. Why don’t they use eMails to do that now?
or Adam Schiff???? /h
Imagine people on FB passing on a picture to all their friends. “This guy is a child rapist. Do you recognize him?”
It would be like swatting. Good way to destroy someone.
Yeah, just ask Comey..................
I would agree with that, unless the person’s photo had been taken from something showing him doing something very bad.
Perhaps the best way would be to explain that this person was wanted for questioning by police officials, and needed to be found right away.
You wouldn’t have to be specific.
BTW: Anyone shown to be swatting someone in this manner, should face a severe penalty on the order of a decade or two behind bars.
“Some people just need killin’........Slingblade................”
From what I read here every day is isn’t “some people,” its’ “a lot of people!”
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