Posted on 07/01/2004 10:59:04 AM PDT by Tank-FL
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An Orange County man was arrested Wednesday on charges of possessing child pornography. Thomas Allen Bispo confessed to looking at the porn on his work laptop.
Orange County detectives think Bispo was probably away on business when he was looking at child porn on a laptop. But he was using his company-issued computer and he thought he had deleted the porn.
Deputies arrested 61-year-old Thomas Allen Bispo after finding 27 pornographic images of young children on his laptop.
Detectives were actually tipped off. Bispo worked at Sypris, Inc., an engineering testing firm in Orange County. He gave his company-issued laptop to technicians for repairs after having trouble with pop-up ads on the screen.
"While they were trying to correct it, they discovered images on there that might be illegal," says Sgt Kevin Stenger, Computer Crimes Investigator.
Bispo's employer called the sheriff's office. Deputies later questioned Bispo and he confessed to viewing child porn.
"He stated that he would not keep it for any length of time, downloaded it, looked at it, and then deleted it," says Sgt. Stenger.
But the pictures still appeared on the hard drive. By law, you are only legally required to report child abuse when found, but detectives believe pornography involving kids is a form of child abuse. With no prior history of crimes like this, Bispo will bond out of jail but his bosses have already fired him.
If convicted, Thomas Bispo could be classified as a sexual offender, although he likely won't get any jail time. Still, his picture will appear on the FDLE website, it could affect his contact with children, and this could limit where he's allowed to live.
Detectives also want people to know that if they do find someone viewing or passing along child porn, the suspect in question cannot sue them. Those who report the crimes are legally protected under the law.
Would your folks in IT do this?
I would - No Questions - No Worries ..
sure, but the problem is that with all this spam and pop ups and spyware - people can have images in their browser cache that they don't even know about, and did not willfully download. not this guy apparently, but it can happen.
One of the funniest stories on this happened in 2000.
A very vile hater of GW apparently was posting his hatred of GW to websites on company time.
Somehow, his place of posting was identified and copies of his vile hate posts of GW were forwarded to the CEO of the medium size company.
The companies IT manager investigated his computer and found that he was the author under several phoney names of hundreds of hate posts re GW. Then they found that he was running a child porn deal using the house computer during the daytime.
He is now in jail and will be for awhile.
So you're saying its GW's fault, right ;)
Apparently, that was part of the weak defense, this clymer tried to use.
The Internet has a way of drawing out one's "true colors."
"The Internet has a way of drawing out one's "true colors."
Yes, it does!
What makes you say that?--you steaming pile of vile refuse!
Yep. I did a ContentWatch search and found cookies for all sorts of crazy places I've never been to like pussy.com and such.
yeah. i remember a local news story/editorial a couple years ago about a woman divorcing her husband because she had discovered hundreds of "cookie hits" to a some site called sextracker (or something like that). she was convinced he was some freaky porn addict and left him, he claimed it was all a misconception and he wasn't into porn.
so i, being a techie, did some research, which i do a lot of, and found that the site that she based her claim on was something that would get hits from any web pages that advertise links to porn sites. i found quite a few hits on my own computer at the time even though i am not a purveyour of porn.
if you go to certain home pages, or off-color humor pages, certain blogs, or even some technology pages, etc. and there are advertisements to sites that you wouldn't approve of, and refrain from visiting, you'll still have cookies on your computer as if you had visited the site itself.
so be warned, you can get "associated" with sites that you never visit.
(i know it has nothing to do with deleted file but it is enough to make one put a tin-foil hat on once in a while, i.e. using a secure file eraser even though you have nothing to hide - but then having secure file erase could probably be used against you too!)
Hey, watch it! Or I'll start pinging you to low-carb posts again.
I don't remember your doing that. I wouldn't mind. I believe in low-carb!
Sure, we believe you.
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