These young victims are left with permanent psychological, physical and emotional scars. Experts estimate that one-in-five girls and one-in-10 boys in the United States will be sexually exploited before they reach adulthood. Under Operation Predator, the agency's flagship initiative targeting child sex predators, ICE has made more than 8,000 criminal arrests since 2003.Įach year, millions of children fall prey to sexual predators. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) places a high priority on enforcing laws that combat the sexual exploitation of children. Read the indictment and you'll agree that these scumbags deserve more than the wood chipper.U.S. Westfield resident Rush Frank Blankenship among suspects charged in international child pornography ring | WARNING: Contains graphic sexual language.īlankenship is one of 21 suspects listed in federal indictments filed on June 15 in Shreveport, La. Participants were required to continually upload images of child sexual abuse to maintain their membership.ĭocument: Indictment of Rush F. To conceal their conduct, members used screen names rather than actual names and accessed the bulletin board via proxy servers, with Internet traffic routed through other computers to disguise a user's location, according to the court papers. Numerous participants in the network sexually abused children ages 12 and under, produced images and video of the abuse and then shared it with other club members, according to court papers released in the case. attorney general Eric Holder and Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano announced on Wednesday that a 20-month law enforcement effort, called Operation Delego, targeted more than 600 Dreamboard members around the world for allegedly participating in the private, members-only Internet club created to promote pedophilia. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator website, which lists Blankenship's age as 26, stated Thursday that he is currently "in transit." The document, labeled "Minute Entry" and filed July 8, 2011, reads, "At the request of counsel, this matter is hereby set for entry of guilty plea on Septemat 2:00 p.m." District Court in Shreveport, Louisiana, according to a court document.
To date, 52 of the 72 charged defendants have been arrested in the United States and abroad.īlankenship is scheduled to plead guilty to federal child pornography charges on Sept. Prosecutors say those charged used an online bulletin board called "Dreamboard" to trade violent sexual images. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, according to a press release issued by the agency.Īddresses for the three were not immediately available from federal authorities. Rush Frank Blankenship, 26, of Westfield, David Whitten, of Lynn, and Daniel Deschenes, of Terryville, Conn., were among those arrested by special agents with U.S. WESTFIELD - A city man is among 72 suspects charged with participating in an international online child pornography ring whose members traded tens of thousands of images and videos of sexually abused children ages 12 and under, federal authorities say.
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