Posted on 02/09/2017 9:03:18 AM PST by Perseverando
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 7, 2017
A member of a highly sophisticated, global child exploitation enterprise dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children was sentenced to prison today.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina; Special Agent in Charge John A. Strong of the FBI’s Charlotte, North Carolina, Division; Special Agent in Charge Amy Hess of the FBI’s Louisville, Kentucky, Division made the announcement.
David Lynn Browning, 47, of Wooton, Kentucky, was sentenced to 240 months in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, along with a lifetime term of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees of the Western District of North Carolina imposed the sentence. Browning pleaded guilty on Dec. 18, 2015, and has remained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest on July 29, 2015.
According to admissions made in connection with the plea, Browning acted as the global moderator of a highly-sophisticated global enterprise dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children, organized via a members-only website that operated on the Tor anonymity network, through which he and more than 150,000 other members authored and viewed tens of thousands of postings relating to sexual abuse of children as young as infants and toddlers. According to admissions, Browning was heavily involved in the day-to-day operations of the website – including managing membership, developing and enforcing strict rules and deleting website content that did not depict or discuss child pornography. Browning also admitted to spending hundreds of hours logged in to the website – authoring more than 1,000 postings, and designing the website logo. In addition, Browning admitted that website members employed advanced technological means in order to undermine law enforcement’s attempts to identify them, including the use of a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network and elaborate file encryption.
On Sept. 16, 2016, a federal jury convicted co-defendant and lead administrator of the site, Steven W. Chase, 57, of Naples, Florida, of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and related charges. A sentencing date for Chase has not yet been set. On Jan. 12, 2017, co-defendant and co-administrator of the site, Michael Fluckiger, 46, of Portland, Indiana, was sentenced to 240 months in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, along with lifetime supervised release.
As a result of the ongoing investigation, at least 51 alleged hands-on abusers have been prosecuted and 55 American children who were subjected to sexual abuse have been successfully identified or rescued.
The FBI’s Violent Crimes Against Children Section, Major Case Coordination Unit and Digital Analysis and Research Center investigated the case with assistance from the FBI’s Charlotte, Louisville, Tampa and Boston, Field Offices. Trial Attorney Reginald E. Jones of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Cortney Randall of the Western District of North Carolina prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
17-156 Criminal Division Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section
USAO - North Carolina, Western Topic: Project Safe Childhood Updated February 7, 2017
He won’t last long..................six months, tops............
Show names, pictures, addresses. Disgusting perverts.
Just in the past few DAYS:
42 in Memphis, 474 in LA——
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-human-trafficking-sweep-arrests-20170202-story.html
So you operate a pedo website designed to fly under the radar and you only get 20 years?
I say hang him so he slowly suffocates.
In public.
On national television.
MAKE A DAMNED EXAMPLE!
Lol yeah you got me, and wouldn't you know it, I noticed it as soon as my post went thru. Oh well. Maybe we'll get some more good news, the day is yet young.
Great news! So many evil people out there and the people covering up and trying to convince people it’s not going on are just as evil!
Amen!
Less than 10% of our population is homosexual. Now is there a coloration here? Maybe, but what about the over whelming number of abused boys that are not practicing homosexual behavior?
Here’s a few of them: https://www.justice.gov/psc
Justice News
February 8, 2017
Press Release
Former Catholic Priest Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Production and Distribution of Child Pornography
February 8, 2017
Press Release
Easthampton Man Agrees to Plead Guilty to Distributing Child Pornography
February 8, 2017
Press Release
Louisville Felon Convicted Of Engaging In Sexually Explicit Conduct With A Minor And Producing Images
February 8, 2017
Press Release
New York Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy and Sex Trafficking of a Minor
February 8, 2017
Press Release
Mansfield couple indicted for sexual exploitation of a child
Thanks....man, that is in the sticks!
Was he part of the Jeffrey Epstein Comet Ping Ball fan club? Sick guy...(150,000 members..? Sick...)
Not all abused boys become homosexual, but almost all homosexuals were abused as boys.
Rope
Millstone
Boat
Deep water
Called for in the Bible.
Poor guys. Had they been sentenced a month ago zer0 would have happliy pardoned these fine gentlemen so they could be free to rape more of our children
The National Education Association?
150,000 members? That’s a lot of pervs out there.
The fact remains that homosexual men self-report being molested/raped by an older boy or man at a far higher rate than heterosexual males report being molested or raped by an older boy or man.
By far.
Surprised you did not know this.
Name them? Arrest them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.