The local non-profit works hand in hand with law enforcement, giving them free technology to help track and prosecute child predators across the globe.
Since January of 2021, NBC 6 has reported on two Broward doctors arrested on charges related to child pornography.
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Parkland pediatrician Michael Mizrachy was arrested on January 13th and just a few days later, gastroenterologist Stewart Bitman of Coral Springs was also taken into custody on allegations of crimes against children.
“It might seem like it s more prevalent right now but I think the reality is that cops in the local area are doing a great job to proactively investigate these crimes, Pounder said. I think people should feel reassured really that there’s been this many cases recently and that cops are being proactive to investigate these crimes.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Two FBI agents were shot and killed in a Sunrise, Florida, neighborhood attempting to serve a warrant on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/TNS)
2 FBI agents fatally shot, 3 wounded while serving warrant in Florida. Gunman is dead
SUNRISE, Fla. – Two agents were shot and killed and three wounded while serving a warrant at a Sunrise home Tuesday morning, the FBI confirmed Tuesday morning. After barricading himself in the home for several hours, the suspected gunman is believed to have shot and killed himself, one law-enforcement source said.
Sunrise police said the suspect, a man suspected of child pornography possession, had holed up in his home at an apartment complex at 10100 Reflections Blvd. West. Nob Hill Road is closed in both directions from Northwest 44th Street to Oakland Park Boulevard.
FRANKLINTON, N.C. (WTVD) A suspect was shot and killed by a North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation agent after an 18-hour standoff in Franklinton Wednesday.
Around 5 p.m. on Tuesday, special agents from SBI s Computer Crimes Unit and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force along with deputies from the Granville County Sheriff s Office, attempted to serve an arrest warrant and search warrant at a home on Canady Mill Road.
The arrest warrant was for first degree statutory sex offense, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor and disseminating obscenities to a minor.
When officers arrived, the SBI says the suspect named in the warrant, who was armed, went back into the home.
Mom Doubles as Internet Child Crime Investigator for Santa Ana Police
In Santa Ana, California, Police Investigative Specialist Kerry Torres spends hours each day on the computer, scouring the darkest corners of the internet for traces of child pornography.
Then she goes home to her family. But every photo or video she has seen tells a story of abuse and exploitation; and they haunt her long after she clocks out.
“To come home and to be a mom, and not bring it home and not let it affect me, that’s always a challenge,” Torres told The Epoch Times. “Because sometimes I don’t want to turn off my computer, sometimes I don’t want it to be end of day because there’s one thing more I could be doing.”
Lexington County man arrested on several sexual exploitation of a minor charges
Lexington County man arrested on several sexual exploitation of a minor charges By WIS News 10 Staff | February 1, 2021 at 3:22 PM EST - Updated February 1 at 5:48 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Attorney Generals Office has announced the arrest of a Lexington County man on several sexual exploitations of a minor charges.
Damon C. Dorman, 22, has been charged with two counts of 2nd-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and three counts of 3rd-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Officials received a CyberTipline report that led them to Dorman.