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- 5. During June, 2006, representatives from the Queensland Police
- Service, Brisbane, Australia, informed members of the Innocent Images
- Unit of the FBI of an international child pornography investigation
- regarding numerous subjects residing in various countries. Investigation
- to date suggests that the leader of this group, along with several
- members of the group, may be located in the United States. The
- investigation involves a sophisticated and extremely organized group of
- Internet Usenet1 newsgroup users involved in the prolific
- trade/distribution of child pornography. The group employs highly
- technical and advanced security measures to avoid law enforcement
- detection. Such techniques include, but are not limited to, password
- protection to the group's pre-designated newsgroup where they conduct
- text postings (i.e. chat) with each other, PGP encryption of text and
- binary files, and the swapping of file extensions which subsequently
- must be re-swapped in order to successfully download a particular
- picture or movie file.
- 6. This investigation is predicated on information obtained from an
- individual who has been charged criminally in an unrelated child
- pornography investigation. This individual informed law enforcement that
- he/she was a member of this subject group. This individual identified a
- newsgroup titled "alt.anonymous.message" as the location where members
- of the group conduct/upload text postings to communicate with each
- other. At this same newsgroup location, members inform each other as to
- the location of where they have uploaded child pornography for members
- to go to download for their own personal collection. The child
- pornography binary files, either still pictures or video files, are
- never uploaded to the newsgroup reserved for text communications between
- members. The child pornography is uploaded to other innocuous newsgroup
- locations were members can go to download.
- 7. The subject of the aforementioned investigation provided
- investigators with his/her PGP encryption keys which have allowed law
- enforcement to access, decrypt and monitor all activity/postings
- associated with the group. To date, investigators have collected
- extremely valuable and incriminating evidence from various members of
- the group.
- 8. The group currently consists of approximately 48 members. There is a
- defined hierarchy or structure to the group and all members must abide
- by strictly enforced written security measures and standard operating
- procedures in order to retain their membership status. To become a
- member of the group, one must be invited in by an existing member, and
- must pass a timed written test to determine their knowledge of child
- pornography material (e.g. knowledge of the names of various child
- pornography series; must be able to describe a particular series in
- question, etc.). The test also serves as an measure to assess whether
- the interested party could be a law enforcement officer attempting to
- infiltrate the group. Members of the group are told to never provide
- their true identities to another member of the group. They are never to
- communicate with one and other using traditional email, chat, Yahoo!,
- ICQ, or telephone. For the security of the group as a whole, their
- relationship with other members of the group is strictly cyber in
- nature. This way, if one of the members of the group is ever arrested by
- law enforcement, they cannot provide any identifying information to law
- enforcement on other members of the group.
- 9. In recent months the group has developed outside contacts in the
- child pornography industry whereby they make specific requests for the
- production of new child pornography material. In several instances, it
- appears the group has been able to order new (unreleased) child
- pornography movies produced solely for the benefit of the group (i.e.
- material which has never distributed to the public in other child
- pornography forums). In addition, the group has recently established an
- E-gold account, funded by the members of the group, in order to purchase
- newly released child pornography material from various international
- producers.
- 10. Within the Usenet group, the "Tara series" has been transmitted
- within the enterprise. This series was first seen by law enforcement
- approximately 2 years ago. The child in the series has been abused for
- several years, and appears in various photos and videos between the ages
- of 5 and 9 years old. The most recent images were transmitted to the
- enterprise during November 2007. The images have become increasingly
- violent, with the latest images showing the subject wielding a large
- knife toward the victim. The knife is shown as being pressed against the
- victim's genitals as well as the victim's face and neck. The victim's
- composure in the images appears progressively more distressed as well.
- In various still photos and videos, the child is seen being anally raped
- with an extremely large sex toy, being forced to perform oral sex on an
- adult male, and being vaginally raped by an adult male. She is also seen
- in various locations, including a home bedroom, a hotel room and two
- different cars.
- Background on Attempts to Identify the Victim
- 11. In January 2008, pictures of "Tara" inside the interior of an
- automobile were shown to a representative from Dominion
- Chevrolet-Buick-Pontiac-GMC in Richmond, Virginia. The representative
- from Dominion believed that the pictures were taken inside a vehicle
- consistent with a 2003-2005 Pontiac Aztek with exterior paint color
- Sunburst Orange Metallic. An offline search was conducted for all
- registered users of 2003-2005 Pontiak Azteks in Georgia.
- 12. On June 13, 2007, an analysis was made on a unique painting titled
- "Inspired Hillsides" that was visible in an image of child pornography
- with "Tara". A spreadsheet with all sales of the paintings was
- developed. Some of the paintings were sold to Jameson Inn in Carrolton,
- Georgia.
- 13. An analysis of the child pornography videos, including the painting
- and various fabrics visible therein, indicated that one of the videos,
- titled "2007 Tara 8yo - gets [assaulted with a sexual device] - July 21,
- 2007" was filmed in a Jameson Inn in either Carrolton, Georgia or
- Lagrange, Georgia. A hotel manager at Jameson Inn in Carrolton, Georgia
- confirmed that James Bartholomew Huskey, born September 13, 1969 was
- registered in the hotel on July 21, 2007. Huskey drove a 2000 White van.
- A check of the last name indicated a 2005 Pontiac Aztek was registered
- to Sherri Ann Huskey, with an address of 23272 Highway 193, LaFayette,
- Georgia 30728.
- 14. An analysis was conducted cross-checking all white males over 200
- pounds2 who owned a White Chevy Van. James Bartholomew Huskey was one
- who owned a 200 White Chevy van.
- 15. A Driver's License photograph showed James Bartholomew Huskey as
- having a close resemblance to the pixilated pictures of the offender in
- the "Tara" series images.
- 16. An analysis of a bed spread viewed in some of the child pornography
- images of the "Tara" series indicated that the bedspread is a product of
- FingerHut Corporation, an online shopping company. FingerHut Corporation
- confirmed that products were sent to the address listed for James and
- Sherri Ann Huskey of 23272 Highway 193, LaFayette, Georgia 30728.
- 17. An internet check of the names of James Bartholomew Huskey and
- Sherri Ann Huskey show that Sherri Ann Huskey has a MySpace account.
- Background interior images on Sherri Ann Huskey's MySpace account match
- background interior images on the "Tara" series images.
- Interview of the Subject
- 18. On June 16, 2008, agents with the FBI went to the residence of James
- Bartholomew Huskey. Huskey was placed under arrest and read his Miranda
- Rights and agreed to waive his rights and answer questions. Huskey also
- gave consent to search the residence of 23272 Hwy 193, LaFayette,
- Georgia 30728. Huskey admitted to sexually molesting a 9 year old child,
- --, since she was approximately 6 years old and posting images and
- videos of her sexual molestation on the internet. Huskey stated that he
- had several thousand images of --'s molestation and several hundred
- videos of sexual molestation on an external hard drive connected to his
- desktop computer. A view of the interior of the house indicated several
- matches to the background interior images found on the "Tara" series
- images. Huskey admitted that a red digital camera, found in his bedroom,
- was used to record the sexual abuse of the child.
- 19. Pursuant to the consent of Huskey, various computer media were seized.
- 20. On June 17, 2008, -- was interviewed. She disclosed that Huskey had
- been sexually abusing her for several years, and had anally raped her
- within the last day. She described that he recorded her abuse using a
- red digital camera.
- 21. For the reasons stated above, I believe JAMES BARTHOLOMEW HUSKEY,
- has committed a felony offense, in particular that he has violated Title
- 18, United States Code, Section 2251(a), using a minor to engage in
- sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions
- of such abuse, and knowing such depictions would be transported in
- interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer.
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