Posted on 10/24/2014 7:28:19 AM PDT by redreno
A 12-year Metro officer was arrested Thursday on charges linked to child pornography after a tip from Google led to a three-month investigation, Las Vegas police.
Officer James Henry, 37, faces 10 counts each of possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography, Metro said.
Google notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that someone had uploaded an image of child pornography in June, according to Henry’s arrest report. That tip was forwarded to Metro on July 22.
Investigators tracked the IP address linked to the image back to Henry’s home, the report said.
A search of Henry’s email account turned up several more depictions of child pornography, police said.
On Oct. 2, Metro detectives interviewed Henry at his substation near the Strip. During the interview, the report said, Henry admitted to uploading the images of boys and girls and called them “captivating and titillating.”
An arrest warrant was issued for Henry on Wednesday, court records show.
He surrendered at the Clark County Detention Center about 7 a.m. Thursday, police said.
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Few things have disgusted me as much as the child porn cases I helped prosecute.
I don't want the leftists at GOOGLE to be my police.
I wouldn't have anything GOOGLE related anywhere near my computer.
However,Nothing on the net is private. Nothing.
Write, surf, research, download as if Obama his self is standing behind you.
Finally we see the true face of Big Brother: Google.
At what point, since they know what is going on, do they become an accomplice?
Uh huh. And what about Google making it available and the persons posting it?
I don’t want the leftists at GOOGLE to be my police.
I wouldn’t have anything GOOGLE related anywhere near my computer.
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That’s your option, but he was doing something illegal using resources owned by Google.
A cop who collects kiddy porn will be very sought after in prison. Hope he spends his life wondering when the next beat down occurs.
At what point, since they know what is going on, do they become an accomplice?
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That’s probably spelled out in the law. My guess is Google is using software to detect possible illegal images, and then having a human review the ones that are flagged.
For those of us who have no comprehension of why some do this, is it mental illness or something else-if you have any ideas on the subject?
I was going to ask the EXACT same question! Plus, how on earth can such pics exist on the internet (for more than a week)? I would imagine a swift and easy beatdown or, at least, injunction on the server.
It’s too bad he’s not an actor. He’d walk.
They are in possession of it
"Few things have disgusted me as much as the child porn cases I helped prosecute."
I do not approve of or in anyway condone the activity the officer is accused of but the DETAILS of the case in question highlighted above in CAPS raises some genuine legal and privacy concerns:
1) Citizens of the USA are supposed to be "innocent until PROVEN guilty".
2) The alphabet agencies (CIA, NSA, FBI, etc...) have demanded that internet providers give them the password and account log-on information for all of their customers computers and e-mail accounts "for national security reasons" in order that these agencies can have access to that information under threats of prosecution and more should the internet providers decline their "request". Consequently, the internet providers have routinely acquiesced and given them that information and it is a fact that these agencies are screening and storing everything the citizens of the United States e-mail or view.
3)This then begs THE question:
Since, these alphabet agencies now have direct access to our computers, and our e-mails; is it not possible if they do not like your politics, your faith, your... "fill in the blank" because you pose a direct or indirect threat to them, their boss, or to their policies, for any one of them to have one of their highly proficient agency computer people clandestinely, "back-door" hack your computer without your knowing it and set up a secret folder that you don't even know about and download child pornography or anything that would destroy your reputation, your life, your job and end up getting you thrown into prison, into it; and then have a company like Google or other internet provider contact the authorities and alert them to the "fact" of what you have been downloading? Or the police in your area could receive an anonymous call from a "concerned citizen" alerting them to the "fact" that they had seen child porn or "fill in the blank" on your computer and that they should investigate you? Ultimately leading to the police or FBI etc swarming your home and confiscating your computers, notebooks, hard drives, smartphones, etc containing damnable "evidence" (totally unbeknownst to you) which will ultimately result in your arrest, trial, conviction and imprisonment? The answer it a resounding "yes"!
You could say "I didn't do this", you could make all kinds of assertions that you would NEVER download child pornography, plans on how to make a bomb or whatever you have been charged with which will destroy you and end up landing you in prison. You could say there has been a "mistake", all to no avail because at trial the prosecuting attorney will ask you: "Is this your computer (notebook, or smartphone)?" And the only answer you can give, on pain of perjury, is to answer "yes". Then he will proceed to ask you "did you download this material?" You can say "no I didn't" until you are blue in the face because the prosecuting attorney will simply turn to the jury and calmly assert: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the witness has admitted that this is his computer (notebook or smartphone)"; "in spite of his protestations to the contrary the court has proven that he was at home on the day this material was downloaded and the court has also proven that this reprehensible material was found on his computer's hard drive (in a "secret file" hidden behind a firewall) and accessed by the defendant. Here are the terrible pictures of what he downloaded for all of you to see."
"Seeing is believing and here is the proof of his crime!" "Members of the jury; the facts are evident and there is only one verdict that you can render and that is 'guilty as charged'."
The jury will examine the "evidence", see the photos and come to the verdict that you are "guilty as charged". The court will then proceed to sentence you for your "crimes" and the authorities will then cart you off to prison for a very long time.
Given everything we have learned about our own government and what the alphabet agencies have been, and are up to concerning access to our computers, our e-mail accounts and what these agencies are clearly capable of I only have one question:
Is the above scenario possible and could it happen to ANYONE living in America who has access to the internet and uses a computer, notebook or "smartphone" that someone, anyone in "authority" has a problem with? We all know the answer to that question and sadly that answer is a resounding "yes".
“A cop who collects kiddy porn will be very
sought after in prison. Hope he spends
his life wondering when the next beat
down occurs.”
He better hope a beat down is all that happens.
It's quite possible that he was doing something illegal, but let's give him his day in court anyway just for old time's sake.
There has to be more to this story. He’s a cop, he can’t be guilty. /sarc
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