Teen arrested for child porn, one video involving a TWO year old

[tricky_ab]

TAMPA — Patrick Melton meant to type "hot rods."

Instead, he typed "hot bods," a detective said in court.

Melton was 9 years old when his search results introduced him to online pornography, he told Hillsborough sheriff's Detective Phil Dubord.

Now 16, Melton stood before a judge Thursday and pleaded not guilty to 50 counts of possession of child pornography. The State Attorney's Office has charged him as an adult. Prosecutors say they may file additional charges, including one against Melton for sharing the illegal images online.

Dubord, who investigated child porn cases for more than a decade with an FBI task force, said he first encountered Melton's illegal activity in December. By March, Dubord had obtained enough information to secure a warrant to search the home that Melton shared with his father on Riverhills Drive in Tampa.

Authorities confronted the boy at Tampa Bay Tech, where Dubord said Melton admitted he had downloaded the images. He told detectives about half of the porn on his computer contained images of children.

Dubord said one of the videos was of a 2-year-old being molested by an adult male.

Prosecutors said an analysis by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed the computer contained more than 200 images and videos of child porn.

"I asked him if we did not discover you doing this, would you have eventually acted out on a child?" Dubord told the judge. "And he said maybe."

At Thursday's hearing, Melton's father, James Melton, spoke on his son's behalf. The teen is a good student who does well in math and science, though he struggles with English and reading, his father said.

Patrick Melton's pastor, a retired sheriff's deputy, also told the judge that Melton was "a good kid."

Assistant Public Defender Robert Mactavish appealed to Hills borough Circuit Judge Wayne Timmerman to reduce Melton's $100,000 bail. The attorney said lower bail could include electronic monitoring.

Assistant State Attorney Rita Peters objected to the bail reduction based on the detective's testimony. She called the teen a danger to the community.

"He has the drive to act out some of the things he sees in the videos," Peters said.

Timmerman wasn't swayed by a defense argument that Melton had done well at home and committed no other offenses between the time he was arrested as a juvenile and released, then rearrested this week on adult charges.

His bail remains at $100,000.
Hillsborough detective testifies teen's interest in child pornography started with typo - St. Petersburg Times (http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/article1020998.ece)

I don't buy the defense. If I accidentally stumbled across child porn, I wouldn't somehow download, store and share it...thats just a sickness, and this kid has it.

And no google search on Hot Bods will ever return pedo-porn.

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc45/snesfreak/neogaf/997d6a2dfb33b69bc6c71fae6c5d5848eef.gif

[peetiewonder]

amen to that. that is disgusting.

[HyperTek]

how do they find out, or who snitched on him? he was obiously a lil kid when it happened.. all i can think of is the government doin is hosting the vid and doin a i.p. trace on who dl it.

They should concentrate on the people who made it instead of this kid.. like prostitution, they still do setup stings to pick up guys who pick them up.. when really they are just feeding teh streets.

[tricky_ab]

how do they find out, or who snitched on him? he was obiously a lil kid when it happened.. all i can think of is the government doin is hosting the vid and doin a i.p. trace on who dl it.

They should concentrate on the people who made it instead of this kid.. like prostitution, they still do setup stings to pick up guys who pick them up.. when really they are just feeding teh streets.

Did you not read the article?

Dubord, who investigated child porn cases for more than a decade with an FBI task force, said he first encountered Melton's illegal activity in December. By March, Dubord had obtained enough information to secure a warrant to search the home that Melton shared with his father on Riverhills Drive in Tampa.

Authorities confronted the boy at Tampa Bay Tech, where Dubord said Melton admitted he had downloaded the images. He told detectives about half of the porn on his computer contained images of children.

I would imagine that he had shared various videos and pictures with the officer on the case.

[jamg]

I bet the FBI has a lot more pedo's than in real world.

[HyperTek]

ic ic.. so what lead them to investigate him? the fbi is watching!! like i said why dont they go stop those sites, instead of feeding them for setting people up?

[TheWolf]

as sick and twisted as it was.. before torrents.. before download sites.. back in irc/usenet days.. with private ratio warez ftp's.. porn was the currency for trading.. and kiddie porn was like gold deblooms... 100 megs of kpron was worth like 10:1.. you could write your own ticket.. oh the dark days of the interweb before Chris Hanson

[keistyle]

Terrible story. Sucks that he got into that sort of thing. One thing that sucks aside from being 'caught', is that he; himself, is a minor. I would imagine that would lessen the severity. I'm sure the sharing was fault of the peer2 peer sharing system, I'm sure this too served as his source.

Gl with that.


DAMN. but 2 year old??? how on earth could that possibly be arousing? Thats just SICK. (sick in the most negative meaning)

[aznpoopy]

Did you not read the article?



I would imagine that he had shared various videos and pictures with the officer on the case.

actually hypertek is right

the FBI infiltrates child porno swap sites and baits people with fake hyperlinks. when you click, your IP is logged. they subpoena your info from the ISP and then get a warrant to raid your house.

FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects | Politics and Law - CNET News (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html)

which is absolutely fine by me.

[Antihero983]

Sheesh, between the 8 year old getting raped, and this....shit's getting crazy...

[I LUV MY S13]

fuckin disturbing....a 2yr old?? ..........wow

[mrflip69]

Terrible story. Sucks that he got into that sort of thing. One thing that sucks aside from being 'caught', is that he; himself, is a minor. I would imagine that would lessen the severity. I'm sure the sharing was fault of the peer2 peer sharing system, I'm sure this too served as his source.


"The State Attorney's Office has charged him as an adult."

[exitspeed]

This makes me sick.

[Wake]

The thing is that we dont know any of the times or dates of when the content is question was made, I mean it could be years old and the subject in the video could be grown by now so it could be kinda hard to trace the prticipants. But they should still be going after the people that are uploading as much as the downloaders.

[Matej]

Haha, blaming it on his discovery of porn when he was 9. That is a terrible defense.

[!Zar!]

The thing is that we dont know any of the times or dates of when the content is question was made, I mean it could be years old and the subject in the video could be grown by now so it could be kinda hard to trace the prticipants. But they should still be going after the people that are uploading as much as the downloaders.

Are you trying to defend child porn?

[exitspeed]

Are you trying to defend child porn?

That's how I was taking it too.

[murda-c]

I think he was just trying to say it's hard to prosecute the people making the porn because it's hard to find them, which is why they go after the people who download it or share it.

[SimpleSexy180]

where in his statement did you see he was defending cp?

[ESmorz]

where in his statement did you see he was defending cp?

:werd:


http://williamlobdell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/angry-mob.bmp

[keistyle]

"The State Attorney's Office has charged him as an adult."


I'm aware that he is being charged as an adult, what i was trying to say was that it sucks that he was not being tried as a minor.

[tricky_ab]

I'm aware that he is being charged as an adult, what i was trying to say was that it sucks that he was not being tried as a minor.


Downloading and distributing kiddie porn = Adult consenquences

I think it's fair...

[!Zar!]

where in his statement did you see he was defending cp?

:werd:

Re read it.

The whole statement is pretty much talking about how there could be a lack of evidence and if they go after the downloaders then they should go after the uploaders too; making it sound like it isn't fair to only target downloaders.

[DALAZ_68]

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc45/snesfreak/neogaf/997d6a2dfb33b69bc6c71fae6c5d5848eef.gif

LOL omfg jesus that awesome

[Matej]

Those gosh darn jailbait 2-year olds.

[tricky_ab]

Child porn is an underground culture, everything is hidden away so it's virtually impossible to just stumble into it. Even typing child porn search terms (whatever they may be) into Google won't give you anything.

And if the FBI were building a case against him it's because he's been trading stuff with other known pedos on forums they have infiltrated or given his credit card details to some pedo site that offerings such stuff.

The most terrifying aspect of such a case is that pedophiles are organised and in contact with one another.

That's how this kid got caught

LOL omfg jesus that awesome

I aim to please...

[SimpleSexy180]

But they should still be going after the people that are uploading as much as the downloaders.


sounds fine to me.

[Future240]

as sick and twisted as it was.. before torrents.. before download sites.. back in irc/usenet days.. with private ratio warez ftp's.. porn was the currency for trading.. and kiddie porn was like gold deblooms... 100 megs of kpron was worth like 10:1.. you could write your own ticket.. oh the dark days of the interweb before Chris Hanson

How and why do you know this?

Re read it.

The whole statement is pretty much talking about how there could be a lack of evidence and if they go after the downloaders then they should go after the uploaders too; making it sound like it isn't fair to only target downloaders.

I read it twice, sounds like to me he is thinking on the line that every time you hear about child porn it is a downloader being caught and that they should go after the up-loaders too.

[silviaguy240]

Are you trying to defend child porn?

no as others have stated. he is saying that finding CP "stars" and or directors could probably be difficult if the kid was 8 yo in the movie and is now 15-16. so it seems they just go after the downloaders since it is much easier to do than go after the makers. but they should be putting just as much or more effort into catching the CP makers.

[Otto347]

Why not find this guy that molested the 2 year old, dump some gas on him and burn him alive?

Also like florida is the only place child porn takes place :rolleyes:

[ESmorz]

Re read it.

Looks the same to me.

God forbid we try and go for the head of the snake. (I know they do)

[ixfxi]

as sick and twisted as it was.. before torrents.. before download sites.. back in irc/usenet days.. with private ratio warez ftp's.. porn was the currency for trading.. and kiddie porn was like gold deblooms... 100 megs of kpron was worth like 10:1.. you could write your own ticket.. oh the dark days of the interweb before Chris Hanson

hmmmmm... i dunno WHAT to say about this kid


i mean, hes just a kid....


but when i was a kid, and back in the days we used to BBS (pre internet) you used to stumble into all kinds of crap.

but that low, i dunno... i would've deleted it. kid has some problems and needs help. shouldnt be tried as an adult though, ide say he needs therapy if anything

[rokmplutonium]

So if this kid is convicted, will he have to register has a pedophile/sex offender?

[doogstein]

So if this kid is convicted, will he have to register has a pedophile/sex offender?

No question bout it. He's being charged as an adult which means when he's finally out of prison he'll have no choice but to be a registered sex offender. This really is fuckin sick that someone can be sexually excited from a video involving children. Even more disturbing that it involves a 2 year old. Some people walkin this Earth deserve to die a slow and painful death.

[don_bagz]

Are you trying to defend child porn?

Re read it.

The whole statement is pretty much talking about how there could be a lack of evidence and if they go after the downloaders then they should go after the uploaders too; making it sound like it isn't fair to only target downloaders.

I think what the guy was saying is to cut the tree not the fruit.

[Matej]

If there is a demand for something, there will always be a supply. Same reason why the 'war on drugs' has shifted mainly on punishing users.

[FRpilot]

can't really stop the trade of illegal porn.. it's like drugs or prostitution, there will always be drug traffickers, dope dealers, and pimps. FBI should really set up a sting with the aid of other countries, since most of this stuff is made at international soils where it is out of our jurisdiction.

this kid obviously has huge connections in the underground world of kiddie porn trading, maybe he can work out a deal like Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) in American Gangster, where he gives up a list of his connections and crooked agents to helps authorize nab these guys in exchange for a shorter sentence. it would help more than arresting this kid.

[!Zar!]

I wonder if those kiddy porn forums are like here with how they cry and bitch about the government saying it isn't fair and that the laws should be changed.

[Future240]

I wonder if those kiddy porn forums are like here with how they cry and bitch about the government saying it isn't fair and that the laws should be changed.

The answer to that lies in the website of NAMBLA.

[Wake]

The answer to that lies in the website of NAMBLA.

exactly the letters I was about to say, and I have said in other similar threads here on Zilvia.

and Im sorry but I dont see how I was unclear at all with my previous statement.

and if you assume that I am stupid and sick enough to publicly defend child porn on a forum that I have been a member of for years then you are extremely confused.

numerous people have restated my sentiments so I dont see the need to explain myself any further.

[FrankDukes]

The answer to that lies in the website of NAMBLA.


What does this have to do with the National Association of Marlin Brando Look Alike?

:whip:

[FrankDukes]

And no google search on Hot Bods will ever return pedo-porn.




I googled Hot Bods just right now, my picture came up. :snoop:

[Slammed180]

How do they the know the participant in the video is 2?
They must have found out who made/participated in that video in order to confirm it.

I would hope the cops that found him, stabbed him in the balls.

[!Zar!]

Well, I'd imagine one that is skilled in identifacation could figure out someones age with some logic and deductive reasoning.

[Drift N Dragg]

PEDO/Watcher/Downloader = Castration .. and for the PPL making that NASTY Preverted [email protected] = Death! PERIOD! . I mean think what it does to the little kid.. He is going to grow up with massive issues.. I know if someone touched my Son in the wrong way, they would not be breathing for very long! Thats just My Opinion ...

[Ace Callaway]

Child porn is an underground culture, everything is hidden away so it's virtually impossible to just stumble into it. Even typing child porn search terms (whatever they may be) into Google won't give you anything.

I aim to please...

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Member has been pinked due to this post.

[zenki.life]

......

wtf? how did you even stumble on something like that???

[Future240]

wtf? how did you even stumble on something like that???

Probably searching for pictures of a motorola flip phone.

If ANYONE actually tries it, you are a pedo, plain and fucking simple.

[!Zar!]

This thread is now showing people how to be pedos.

Wonderful.

[ThatGuy]

This thread is over, and the "How-To" has been deleted.

Ace Callaway, you are completely disgusting and disrespectful. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're too stupid to realize what you were posting. So, for now, you are not banned. However, you will be Pinked.

:lockd: