In August 2010 the international investigation Operation Delego, operating under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security, shut down the international pedophile ring Dreamboard. The "botnet" of infected computers included PCs inside more than half of the Fortune 1000 companies and more than 40 major banks, according to investigators. More than 500 other members of Dreamboard are under investigation around the world, prosecutors said.īesides Casey, the Southern California defendants are Stephen Fairbanks, 35, of LaVerne Jason Simon, 42, of Glendale Stephen Perez, 23, of Santa Ana Jerry Wright, 55, of Santa Ana and Larry Ridley, 32, of Associated Press contributed to this article.On 2 March 2010, Spanish investigators busted multple infections in over 13 million computers around the world.
Thirteen people already have pleaded guilty, authorities said.
Children had to obviously be in “distress, and/or crying,” officials said. Photographs were organized into various categories including “Super Hardcore.” “Super Hardcore” required posts to show adults having violent sexual intercourse with “very young kids” subjected to both physical and sexual abuse. Super VIPs produced child pornography and were considered trusted members who were able to access more porn than other members, the indictment said.įederal officials said the bulletin board, printed in English, Russian, Japanese and Spanish, required members to upload material depicting children under the age of 12 engaged in sexually explicit activity.īesides using screen names, members accessed the bulletin board via proxy servers, with Internet traffic routed through other computers to disguise a user’s location and to thwart law enforcement, court papers said. Participants were divided into groups: “Member,” “VIP,” and “Super VIP.” Salty,” “milkduds,” and “urinalcake” to participate in the site. Napolitano said the amount of child porn swapped in the network amounted to the equivalent of 16,000 DVDs.Īn indictment unsealed Wednesday in Lafayette, La., charged Casey and other men with conspiracy to advertise child pornography and conspiracy to distribute child pornography.Īccording to the indictment, Casey used the screen names “Mr.
In many cases, children in videos were crying, in obvious and intentional pain. Casey’s wife also did not respond to a message at her home.Īttorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that “Operation Delego” targeted more than 600 Dreamboard members for allegedly participating in the private, members-only Internet club, which was created to promote pedophilia.Īt a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Holder called the criminal activity a “nightmare” for the children, some who were infants. Kevin Richard Casey, 38, who lives around the corner from Montemalaga Elementary School, was among 72 people charged nationwide as part of a 20-month worldwide investigation into the “Dreamboard” website.Ĭasey’s attorneys, Ryan Okabe and Brian Newman, did not return calls Wednesday afternoon. A Palos Verdes Estates man has been charged with participating in a website that distributed child pornography and encouraged its members to post sexual images of children in distress, federal officials announced Wednesday.
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