Military adviser Adam Cobb arrested in US on child pornography
Source: AAP
Military adviser Adam Cobb arrested in US on child pornography
AAP |
April 06, 2015 3:39PM
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Military adviser Dr Adam Cobb faces child pornography charges in the US. Source: News Corp Australia
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A leading Australian military adviser who worked for the federal government, the RAAF and Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove in East Timor has been arrested in the US on child pornography charges.
Dr Adam Cobb was in the US working as a research professor and director at the prestigious US Naval War College in Rhode Island. The 45-year-old was taken into custody on Friday in Portsmouth on a US federal warrant for receipt and distribution of child pornography.
Cobb allegedly uploaded images of child pornography to the social networking site, Tumblr. If convicted he faces 20 years jail in the US.
Cobb took up the position at the US Naval War College in June last year after holding senior military and government roles in Australia and the US, including a recent strategic policy and planning position at US Special Operations Command in Tampa, Florida.
Read more: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/military-adviser-adam-cobb-arrested-in-us-on-child-pornography/story-e6frg6nf-1227293195488
davepc
(3,936 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)MIC's sandbox.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Child abuse material depicts the most horrific and brutal moments in a childs life. Law enforcement reports the victims are typically very young, often infants and toddlers. U.S. law enforcement has identified over 300,000 suspects in the U.S. alone trafficking in images of children being bound, gagged, raped and horribly abused.
The insatiable appetite for these videos and photos can only be supplied one way: through the rape and torture of more children.
Much of the global apparatus behind this marketplace lies overseas. But an estimated 50 percent or more of the victims are here in the U.S. That means that every day, criminals in the U.S. and abroad are commissioning the rape and torture of more American children. The incidence of these offenses dwarfs other types of cross-border crimes that get more news media coverage...
More links and the article at the DU link here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=981138
These laws are the only way to punish these criminals since most of their victims are too young or disabled to speak for themselves in court. Many are deranged for life and cannot live without trained care. Their future and freedom and who they could have been, has been stolen from them. The videos are the only way to convict the perps as they put them online to share with their friends and child pornography consumers.
happyslug
(14,779 posts)What is illegal is the possession and distribution of actual films of such child abuse. If you view a cartoon of it, a CGI video of sex with children, or anything else that does NOT include the use of actual children, such material is legal. Given modern technology there is NO REASON AT ALL TO SEE SEX WITH CHILDREN UNDER 18.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)And Bob's your uncle......
K&R
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)Seems an odd place for a Pedo to be uploading Child Porn to. Thought they were supposedly using servers in places with no extradition to the western powers?
valerief
(53,235 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Juveniles to get therapy for child porn Instagram account
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (AP) - Prosecutors say three South Florida teens accused of creating an Instagram account to solicit and post explicit photos of other minors will participate in therapy and community service rather than face criminal charges.
The Broward State Attorney's Office reported Wednesday that the 13-year-olds - two boys and one girl - will undergo a juvenile diversion program that usually takes three to six months to complete.
Pembroke Pines police arrested the teens last month after a 10-week investigation. Police say the social media account encouraged its 500 followers to post nude and sexually explicit photos of minors to "expose" them.
Maria Schneider - head of the juvenile unit in the Broward State Attorney's Office - told the South Florida Sun Sentinel (http://goo.gl/Jzz45Z) that no potential victims have come forward or want to be involved in prosecution.
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/28623990/juveniles-to-get-therapy-for-child-porn-instagram-account
yurbud
(39,405 posts)mopinko
(70,275 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)the cartel has to be stopped - every last one of them. an insidious darkness infesting humanity that must be stopped. thank you, judi lynn & freshwest, for your posts & links.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)20 years in prison for uploading images.
That's the maximum sentence for murder in many civilized countries.
On edit: Or getting caught with a joint twice in Louisiana.
Sgt Preston
(133 posts)In Europe, time served is about half what it is in North America.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Might as well have sent it to the FBI with his return address on it.