WHAT A HEEL: State Department Employee In Child Porn Sting
James Cafferty, 45, a State Department security officer stationed at the U.S. Embassy in London visited a Website that offered free child porn videos. What he did not know was the site was created and operated by the FBI to capture IP address and other identifying information of anyone who clicks the download buttons offering samples of illegal clips, The Smoking Gun reports:
Cafferty first came to the attention of federal agents in the course of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement probe of a “criminal organization” that operated 18 separate web sites selling access to child pornography. The probe revealed that Cafferty … had used his PayPal account to pay for access to five of those web sites. …
Since Cafferty had “previously demonstrated an interest in obtaining child pornographic materials online,” he was tabbed to receive an unsolicited e-mail from an agent touting the undercover FBI web site. …
Cafferty allegedly logged into the undercover web site from an IP address in London and selected to download a video purporting to depict “a 9-10 y.o. girl and man” engaged in a variety of sexual activity.
During a search last month at his Florida home, Cafferty reportedly confessed to using his PayPal account to purchase subscriptions to about 10 child porn web sites. He also admitted to “having approximately 10,000 to 15,000 files of child pornography” and accessing the FBI undercover web site … Cafferty, a federal investigator noted, “provided a hand written confession to agents wherein he admitted to having child pornography on the computer media seized from his residence that he had transported home from London.”
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