This was news down here in Florida and in Canada. Pornographic photos of a young girl were found in Canada, and authorities were able to determine by the background that the photos were taken at the Port Orleans hotel and resort at Disney World. They did this by releasing the photos with the girl blacked out or removed from the pictures.
Recently, they released a photo of this girl, who was not abused but may have been a witness, and asked for help in identifying her. They were trying to track down the guests at the Port Orleans hotel in hopes of finding the victim.
Now, breaking news (no link yet) they’ve found the young victim. Last I heard they had received enough valid tips to head to North Carolina.
Sorry…I need some CSI actors to breathe life into this one.
Last week on CSI: SASKATCHEWAN
Louis: We found these pictures of a naked girl next to a case of Dixie beer, eh.
Pierre: Dixie Beer! Bleah! Must be associated with Yankees in the deep south, eh?
Louis: Oui, that’s what I was thinking too, eh? Say, isn’t that a giant mouse in the background? Don’t those people have a thing for giant mice and amusement parks?
I hope that the police get to the pornographers very soon. And I hope that they are found guilty and have to spend the rest of their sick excuse of a life in the most foul prison on earth (maybe Devils Island can be reopened).
Prison isn’t good enough, IMHO. Have you ever met someone who was molested and abused as a child? They are fucked up BAD and for life. They suffer tremendously. In my opinion, child molesters are barely-human trash that should be treated like trash and shot into the sun or something. They destroy lives, and their punishment should fit the crime.
(Can you tell I’m for the death penalty?)
I hope that girl gets a much better life, complete with counseling for life paid for by the people who profited from her exploitation. My heart goes out to her.
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Actually, I have heard that prisoners convicted of child molestation have a particularly hellish time in prison, so maybe life in prison would be the best idea.
That is a good point you’ve got there. I’m still inclined to say hang 'em high, though.
Lute, its great that your roommate is doing OK. I’ve known two victims who have lived their lives without therapy, and the results are not pretty in either case.
One of these days, I’ll get her to post on the SDMB. As long as everyone promises to go easy on her spelling and grammar; she never graduated high school.
Oddly, there was an article today in one of the UK papers - the Sun, I think - about a pervert who had been caught by a detective looking at the non-obvious contents of the kiddie-porn pictures that said pervert had published. He found that the pictures had been taken with a particular camera, one of a set of about 4500; and a box in the background was identifiable, one of a set of about 5000. Said sets had two people in common…
The person who took the photos has already been found and is serving his first year (of fifteen) in prison. I guess the photos have been floating around for a while.
Being a modern person, I feel that the punishment should serve society. And, this being an industrialized, technological world, what better way to serve society than to serve science?
To that end, I’d suggest we take the pedophiles, strap them to a table, open up their skulls, and we methodically disassemble their brains to see if we can find a physical cause for their perversion.
Best case, we find a cause, and perhaps a way to prevent it, or even cure it, in other people before they can become a threat. Worse case, we simply prove that pedophilia is psychologically based, not neurological. (Hey, like Edison said, “I didn’t make two thousand failed attempts to build a light bulb; I just discovered two thousand ways not to build one.”)
The ABC affiliate in Orlando was reporting an interesting twist, although they don’t link to it on their website. The girl’s been in foster care for about two years, so she wasn’t really “lost.” The reporter hinted that the investigation was a waste of time, and that if there’d been some sort of national data base for rescued victims the authorities in Pennsylvania could have saved them a lot of effort.
It wasn’t that bad. On the first page of Google™ I got six hits toward this news story (including the two first hits) and four hits I’d rather not remember.
