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Subscribe to RSSPORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon couple were arrested and their two children were rescued after a nationwide search for a "Jane Doe" suspected of child pornography, federal and state officials said Wednesday.
The couple surrendered to Salem police after learning that an acquaintance had identified the wife in "Jane Doe" photos provided to the media by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and shared by the public on social media sites, officials said.
The couple made their initial appearance in federal court Wednesday afternoon on federal child exploitation charges, officials said. NBC News is not naming them to avoid identifying the children.
According to a federal criminal complaint, the couple are accused of producing videos featuring them engaging in sexual contact with two victims who are both under the age of 10 and trading the material for other child pornography.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations
A photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in seeking the public's help to identify a suspected child pornography producer.
ICE issued the public appeal on Aug. 8.
"When leads turned cold in this case, HSI special agents asked for the public's help," ICE Director John Morton said in a statement. "Thanks to that help, two child victims have been rescued and their accused abusers are in custody. Children have the right to be safe from predators. There is no higher work and we will continue to investigate these crimes with our law enforcement partners."
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The images of the child victims were first discovered by HSI Los Angeles in June 2011 during a computer forensics examination of material in a separate child pornography probe, ICE officials said. The material was submitted to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's Child Victim Identification Program, they said. The center determined that the child victims had not been identified.
In June, FBI special agents in Denver were conducting an unrelated investigation and found more photos showing the same victims with the woman who was arrested. The center has cataloged more than 200 unique images and two videos depicting the victims.
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Just sick....I hope these sick people rot in jail also people who hurt children do not fair well in jail usually. Poor babies. I hope the children get the help they need and they can eventually lead normal lives...if thats possible now.
Yeah, even our most hardened criminals know its wrong to hurt or abuse children. They will probably end up in a protected and isolated area.
with all the arrests for this behavior happening every day one might think this behavior is a loosing proposition. I am now leaning towards some sort of flawed human instinct. I have found in several studies that this behavior can be relearned so that sexual urges are no longer deviant but proper for consenting adults. I am alarmed that some therapy doctors are allowing pedophiles to watch and look at cartoons of pedophilia. I feel this is wrong as it is just too close to the real rape and abuse. I will say that looking at past evil behaviors you will see where bootleggers were throne in jail for 10-life. Drug dealers /pushers were thrown in jail for 1-life and now we have sex crimes that get them 1-life. The prisons are now filling up with sex crime individuals. there will come a day when the prisons will start to release these people to for over crowding and a sudden belief that their programs do work with most offenders. Its sad we as a free society ,pick certain people to abuse and ignore yet cry "see they did it again" when those people trying to change and asking for help don't get it. At some point scare tactic's will no longer work and then maybe some of you will take some time to study just how few sex offenders who have passed the program(s) re offend.
The problem is that this type of crime is self propagating. If one is tortured and used in that way as a child, one becomes damaged emotionally and mentally; then perpetrates the crime on other children. I think it is the only crime that creates more monsters. I am not excusing the behavior; they know what they are doing is wrong. I only hope that someday ALL the children used in that way get prompt and complete therapy and we can break the cycle forever. I am glad they caught them but wish they could catch pedophiles and simply euthanize them. It would save alot of heartache and money.
First hand proof,I was.I don't think of children that way.Never have never will. Yes i am damaged, I chose not to have children due to all this hog wash that was put out. I then was forced to help raise a nephew, i never had any kind of thought like that towards him. He is a brilliant teenager,15 and will graduate high school,at 16,then college at 19.
I too understand your concern, I am damaged as well. Currently in therapy for a few years. I was afraid to have children too, however I had 4 daughters and now 5 grandchildren. Never have I ever had a desire to hurt them. I just don't understand that behavior. I educate myself to have a better understanding. The abuse has haunted me since it happened. I hope these children get now they may need life long.
Hopefully the other inmates will see to it that we dont have to pay for them to stay in jail for too long if you catch my drift ;)
People like this need sodomized with their own arm.
Now that's kinky! How do you know they wouldn't like it?
These sick freaks probably would.
Just release them into the general population then turn your back. The phsychologist/psychiatrists have become to lackadaisical and controlling that the bad behavior is caused by? They give no thought to the victims' horror and lifelong terrors. The planning, manuevering, interaction by collective pedophiles, to my mind, would preclude any plea for instability. It is just beyond human comprehension why infants, toddlers, young children are subjected to the horrors and tortures by the things, to refer them as members of the human race is beyond normal. Recidivism is the highest rate for any criminal class, most admit they are beyond any redemption but play the game.
"Children have the right to be safe from predators." I whole heartedly agree to this as the article states.
However I also agree that unborn children have the right to be protected from murderers in the case of abortions. This is a constitutional right. I do know that in the case of animals, pups are protected better than children by law & animal advocates.