It has helped me alot browsing the forum to see people working safely to eradicate it best they can and passing on info to help combat this s**t.
It also allowed me to find links to sites that you can report it to.
Here is a couple-
http://www.ic3.gov/
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), combating child abuse images and criminal material online

ok so he was downlaoding regular porn and a child porn image opened and he deleted it instantly and did not think much of it because he deleted it quickly. His computer then broke so he brought it in to be serviced and the image was discovered and reported to the police. Then 6 months later he started getting calls from a police detective...he travels for work so he was not always home. He was asked to come in and talk to them and then it all got rally scarry. We got a lawyer and when he went in they arrested him and held him for the night. The whole thing was out of control....his case was in the same court as real violent offenders...cold blooded murderers. It was a hellish experience for him and as we found out later his face was even on the news...all for an accidental download of one stupid image!!!! My advice to you is to destroy the computer if it breaks rather than have it serviced. I do not wish the experiences of my brother and family on anyone. Also many judges and lawyers are of an older generation (as are potential jurors) and are unfamiliar with the idea of file sharing and do not understand it. there was a computer forensics specialist involved but the image hung around in the hard drive despite the fact that it was deleted. this was all in the state of Illinois.
So now my brother is a convisted felon, on probation and a registered sex offender. He has a curfew and receives visits from the police at all hours of the night and weekly meeting with other sex offenders which he is finding to be traumatic more than anything.
He had not previus criminal history and had an impressive background and now his life may never be the same again. I hope I am able to help you in any way and answer your questions.

hello,
i am a amateur photographer, I sometimes photoshoot girls, in various ages.
But i found on the internet these model sites, downloadable on the pirate bay, but i think these are a little too much aimed at sexy.
My opion is that it is possible that child porn is accidently dowloaded, i heared about it. And some people want to see where everybody is talking about. When they have seen it, they are shocked.
We all agree that this is very bad.
But because of the fabrication of these CP and so on, sometimes i am beeing looked at if i am a pedophile, because i made a photoshoot of a girl at the age of 14. (permission granted by parents) She was in clothes, and i dont touch a model. So these **** ruins my work!!!!!!!!!!! All because of this !

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I understand your frustration. I often walk my dog who looks just like the movie dog Benji but I don't stop at kiddy playgrounds because I'm afraid someone will point a finger or worse the police. It's not worth the embarassment.

Some mothers will allow the kid to run over if I'm nearby and pet the dog so some have had a chance to meet Benji in person.

This sounds just a little bit too convenient. Since when does a computer repair shop suddenly
become a computer forensics lab? You are implying they routinely undelete and snoop through
everything they can, which is as likely as police going into a tizzy over a single deleted image.

Case file number, please.

In response to this post....the computer shop reported the image to the police, it was my brothers lawyers who hired the forensic computer experts and yes the police were in a tizzy over a single image!!! Yes as unbelievable as the situation seems it is all completely true and my reason for posting is to find others in a similar situation because I am sure there are more stories like this out there. Unfortunatley my brother was so naive that he did not realize that opening a file with CP was illegal when it was not marked as such and when he had no intention of viewing it intentionally or distributing it. CP is out there and it is wrong but something is wrong when my brother sits in his group meeting of sex offenders and he is now a felon for viewing an image and there are men sitting next to him with lesser misdeameanor sentences for violent **** and molestation. This is the honest truth as confusing and backwards as it may seem.

hey thanks for using this quote stickers, I obviously didn't notice it. I happen to know quite a few techs who do take the time to be nosy and look for files on a HDD while its in their shop...amazing what is sometimes found....and as far as I know it is the law in many places that a tech report such stuff.

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I don't know why mis-spelling your nick would be an insult but its not intentional. I mis-spell a lot of words and nicks are easy because some of them are just a jumble of letters - at least to me.



What little teenbopper porn I've downloaded was instantly shredded. With so many 18 year olds to watch why bother with a 16 year bopper and get ten years?

I did discover a trick to preview a file, perhaps its old hat to you guys. I wait until about 1% of the file is downloaded and go to my Incomplete folder. Usually I can play the file from there and interrupt the download if needed. Seems alot easier than asking LW to create a preview.

could have been real CP, or the law...as long as you don't go back or make a habit of doing such searches as visiting such sites I'm sure you're fine.

its really not a big issue to 'undelete' files...and view it like this...you get a machine in the shop, turn it on to even start to see what's up, and after it passes that test you run a file recovery program and proceed to work on another computer...then when the recovery program is done you see what's been found....there's really not issue with time as it were as you are working on another machine and getting work done...the most that's lost is initiating the program and then viewing what's been found...

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Well Aaron

I don't know about the US but here in the UK if a repair shop looks at your hard drive you would never know unless they found something, after all that is how Gary Glitter got caught (a pop star that had a thing for underage girls).

Mr Glitter's computer broke down and he took it into a repair shop to get it fixed, the repair shop scanned his hard drive, found illegal images and then called the police. The rest of this "Gary Glitter" story is now in the public domain, the BBC has 30 pages starting here:

BBC - Search results for gary glitter

As for kileyg story, I sympathise but his brother ran the risk when he downloaded pornography because some scumbag was bound to rename CP as ordinary porn and catch someone out. Just like they rename children films as CP and we end with "computer novice parents" accusing us (forum members), the LW app, and the LW Org of all manners of evil.

I take it that kileyg brother was not that knowledgable about computers because most of us know that when a file is deleted from a hard drive it does not go immediately, it takes time before the space the file occupies is completely overwritten.

As far as kileyg brothers concerned I think the only thing available to him is the appeal system.

Good Luck.



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