Man gets arrested after 10TB of child porn is found on cpu

[King Ghidorah]

www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/justice/florida-child-pornography/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

(CNN) -- A 51-year-old man had between 500,000 and 1 million full-length child pornography videos and images inside his central Florida apartment, said authorities, who accused him of downloading and sharing the illicit materials.
John Edward Shearen of Leesburg, Florida, was arrested Thursday on 15 counts of possession of child pornography and 15 counts of distribution of child pornography, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced.

He was later booked, without bond, into Lake County Jail.
His arrest came after FDLE agents executed a search warrant at his residence in Leesburg's Lakeside Pointe apartment complex, about 45 miles northwest of Orlando. They found the illicit videos and images on computers and "mass media storage devices," the state agency said.
Steve Arthur, an FDLE spokesman, said pieces of children's clothing were also found inside the apartment.
Asked what Shearen would have done with the clothes, FDLE Special Agent Jeff Duncan told CNN affiliate WFTV, "He (told us) that he utilizes them himself, but it's virtually impossible."

According to Arthur, more videos and images were found in Thursday's raid than in any other in state history.
Donna Rice-Hughes, an Internet safety advocate, said it's hard to tell definitively how the Leesburg discovery compares to others around Florida, the United States and the world, noting that child porn is alarmingly and sometimes easily viewed and shared online.

Every time an image or video is seen, the child featured in it is victimized once again, she stressed. On the other side, a law enforcement initiative like Thursday's in Florida gives authorities more clues to track down those who produce the videos and images.
"Pedophiles trade porn for other child porn. They often times barter or sell it," said Rice-Hughes, president of the advocacy group Enough is Enough.
"Taking someone out of the market is important, because it's another person who may be a former or current predator."

[Krazee]

nasty

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

I always wondered how they are able to track these people down. I assume monitored sites or something like that.

[MasonK565]

Sigh.

[Cela]

Where the hell is all this coming from? And why do people require Millions of hours of it?

[A Platypus Rave]

"He utilizes it himself"... all 10 TBs of it... Seriously, 10 terabytes?

10240 gigabytes worth of data... that's over 4 months worth of HD footage... yeah... I believe that...

*Sighs*

At least this guy and his stash are off the street.

Also finding it on the CPU is pretty impressive... as processing units usually don't have any storage capability

[Deleted]

Pedophiles are dedicated, I'll give them that much.

Hope prison doesn't treat him kindly.

[Mozenrath]

Apr 5, 2013 16:39:15 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

"He utilizes it himself"... all 10 TBs of it... Seriously, 10 terabytes?

10240 gigabytes worth of data... that's over 4 months worth of HD footage... yeah... I believe that...

*Sighs*

At least this guy and his stash are off the street.

Also finding it on the CPU is pretty impressive... as processing units usually don't have any storage capability

They meant he was claiming he used the clothes himself, which is obviously bullshit.

This level of collection, he was almost certainly a distributor, whether he was paid for it or not, so it may have come to pass that he was caught after another creep was caught who had him in his contact list or something.

I am glad he was caught and hopefully, many more will be caught due to it.

[CM Dazz]

Apr 5, 2013 17:57:10 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Apr 5, 2013 16:39:15 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

"He utilizes it himself"... all 10 TBs of it... Seriously, 10 terabytes?

10240 gigabytes worth of data... that's over 4 months worth of HD footage... yeah... I believe that...

*Sighs*

At least this guy and his stash are off the street.

Also finding it on the CPU is pretty impressive... as processing units usually don't have any storage capability

They meant he was claiming he used the clothes himself, which is obviously bullshit.

This level of collection, he was almost certainly a distributor, whether he was paid for it or not, so it may have come to pass that he was caught after another creep was caught who had him in his contact list or something.

I am glad he was caught and hopefully, many more will be caught due to it.

Also, it says they found the illicit videos and images on his computer and "mass media storage devices"

[Legion]

Obviously this guy is a massive scum bag and deserves everything that prison will bring to him, but these sorts of stories cannot help but make me think, what is a paedophile meant to do?

Obviously, and perhaps rightly so, paedophilia is treated as one of the worst things in the world, and despite it's historical acceptance, to us in the modern world, has very few equals in terms of being held against.

But if one was to find oneself attracted to children, what exactly is that person meant to do? Laws dont protect them from seeking any sort of treatment and the general consensus is that that someone who has those specific predilections is far from the most honourable or nice of people. Yet I find it hard to believe that every paedophile is naturally a creep or a fiend or evil or whatever - they are, like anyone, surely stuck in a situation but are very unlikely to find a way out of it.

If the paedophile wishes to seek help to avoid ever doing anything with a child, they are legally caught in a scenario where they are going to be arrested and possibly made to sign up to things to avoid them ever doing something, something they were trying to seek help to avoid ever doing, but have now had their life destroyed regardless of ever doing anything?

By stigmatising even those trying to avoid doing these horrid thing, do we not breed a scenario where by they may as well do something, because they are going to get the hate regardless?

Paedophilia is something that is clearly not acceptable as an action, but we really need to look in to how we help those who want to be helped in this situation before we just stone them all.

Granted this case is relatively open and shut, but as I say, if there was more support, rather than blind hate, available, could this have been avoided all together?

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

Holy shit 10 terabytes. I have maybe 300 gigs of porn so I would be very impressed by him if it wasn't for the purpose of kiddy diddling.

Apr 5, 2013 18:28:55 GMT -5 Legion said:

Obviously this guy is a massive scum bag and deserves everything that prison will bring to him, but these sorts of stories cannot help but make me think, what is a paedophile meant to do?

Obviously, and perhaps rightly so, paedophilia is treated as one of the worst things in the world, and despite it's historical acceptance, to us in the modern world, has very few equals in terms of being held against.

But if one was to find oneself attracted to children, what exactly is that person meant to do? Laws dont protect them from seeking any sort of treatment and the general consensus is that that someone who has those specific predilections is far from the most honourable or nice of people. Yet I find it hard to believe that every paedophile is naturally a creep or a fiend or evil or whatever - they are, like anyone, surely stuck in a situation but are very unlikely to find a way out of it.

If the paedophile wishes to seek help to avoid ever doing anything with a child, they are legally caught in a scenario where they are going to be arrested and possibly made to sign up to things to avoid them ever doing something, something they were trying to seek help to avoid ever doing, but have now had their life destroyed regardless of ever doing anything?

You go get psychiatric help if you feel the need to rub one out to a kid. That's the course of action.

[Legion]

But that's the point, if a paedophile reports themselves as such to a psychiatrist, in the same vain that they are obliged to report murders and such, they have to report that to the police and the person is treated as a criminal despite not doing anything and actively seeking help.

The point isn't that they paedophile isn't in need of treatment or help or, in the case of an active one, punishment, simply that for anyone who wants to work past it or learn to live it or whatever they have to do...there isn't support or help that doesn't automatically demonise them

[A Platypus Rave]

Apr 5, 2013 18:04:53 GMT -5 CM Dazz said:

Apr 5, 2013 17:57:10 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

They meant he was claiming he used the clothes himself, which is obviously bullshit.

This level of collection, he was almost certainly a distributor, whether he was paid for it or not, so it may have come to pass that he was caught after another creep was caught who had him in his contact list or something.

I am glad he was caught and hopefully, many more will be caught due to it.

Also, it says they found the illicit videos and images on his computer and "mass media storage devices"

My CPU joke was in mention to the thread topic which is Man gets arrested after 10tb of child porn is found on CPU

[CM Dazz]

Apr 5, 2013 19:12:55 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Apr 5, 2013 18:04:53 GMT -5 CM Dazz said:

Also, it says they found the illicit videos and images on his computer and "mass media storage devices"

My CPU joke was in mention to the thread topic which is Man gets arrested after 10tb of child porn is found on CPU

Ugh.... Soooo slow on my part... Man.... Sorry

[Big Bad Brad]

That is sick glad the guy got caught.