No Surprise: Nearly 90% Of Those Convicted Of Wider Child Abuse Offences And On The Sex Offenders Register Are White Conservative Men

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Pedophile profile: Young, white, wealthy
Four-year FBI investigation shows that vast majority of online child porn
arrests involve people in high places.
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Associates of an Infoseek exec arrested for using chat to solicit a minor
may have been shocked and surprised, but not the FBI.

As it turns out, a corner office at a high-profile, high-tech company
isn't such an unlikely place to find an online pedophile -- not according
to records being yielded from a three-year-old Federal Bureau of
Investigation crackdown on Internet pornography.

Of the 413 people arrested as part of the agency's "Innocent Images"
investigation since 1995, "only a handful have not been upper-middle-
class, educated white men," said Special Agent Pete Gulotta who serves as
the investigation's chief spokesman. "They're almost all white males
between the ages of 25 and 45."

"We've had military officers with high clearances, pediatricians, lawyers,
school principals, and tech executives," Gulotta said of those arrested
under Innocent Images.

Pre-emptive strikes
Of those arrested, 337 have been convicted of online child pornography
trafficking or using the Internet to solicit children for sex, Gulotta
said. The investigation actually began in 1994, but was not publicly
disclosed by the agency until the following year.

The Innocent Images operation is aimed at "taking these people out before
they strike," which is why agents frequently pose as youngsters in chat
rooms, acting as bait for would-be child abusers, Gulotta said.

The Innocent Images project was sparked by the disappearance, in 1993, of
a 10-year-old boy from Brantwood, Md., Gulotta said. While the boy, George
Burdinski, was never found, the FBI obtained information linking his
disappearance to a network of online child pornography traffickers, he
said.

Gulotta objected strongly to claims that suspects are being "entrapped" by
agents posing as minors. Agents most often enter chat rooms after getting
tips that men seeking young sexual partners are frequenting the chat
rooms, though in some cases they investigate chat sites simply because
they have names that suggests pedophile activity occurs there, he said.

"We are very careful in these investigations to make sure that the subject
initiates the contact," Gulotta said. "And all these conversations are
documented. It's very clear what's happening."

Not entrapment
Tod Burke, an associate professor of criminal justice at Radford
University in Radford, Va., also defended the legality of FBI undercover
tactics, such as those used in the arrest of Infoseek exec Patrick
Naughton. In Naughton's case, an FBI agent encountered Naughton in an
Internet chat room, while the agent was posing as a 13-year-old girl,
according to an affidavit filed in the case.

"The investigators are not forcing people to commit criminal acts simply
by being present in the chat room," he said. "These individuals are
predisposed to commit these crimes." The criminal charges would be the
same if the suspect originally contacted the potential victim by letter or
by telephone, Burke added. (No laws specifically outlaw child pornography
and pedophile activity on the Internet, since they are already illegal in
the offline world.)

"This is nothing new," Burke said. "Using a computer to go undercover is
somewhat new, but for decades before that it was pen pal services" where
law enforcement officials sought pedophiles, he said.

[Ubiquitous]

A former New Hampshire state representative and the nation’s first
transgender-identifying state lawmaker was arrested by police this week and
charged for allegedly distributing child pornography.

Stacie Marie Laughton, a Democrat who previously resigned twice from the New
Hampshire state house, is now facing four counts of distributing sexually
explicit images of children. Laughton was born Barry Charles Laughton, Jr.

Nashua Police Department public information officer Sgt. John Cinelli said
that police were called to respond to a juvenile incident on Tuesday and were
then told that the former lawmaker had been distributing explicit images. On
Thursday, police searched Laughton’s house and arrested him.

Former state Rep. Stacie Marie Laughton of Derry, the first openly
transgender person elected to the N.H. House of Representatives, was
arrested Thursday by Nashua police on charges alleging distribution
of child sexual abuse images, officials said. https://t.co/PvICV9bGnm

— UnionLeader.com (@UnionLeader) June 23, 2023

“They spoke with reporting parties that indicated Laughton distributed
sexually explicit images of children,” Cinelli said, according to Patch.
“Detectives from the special investigations division were assigned to further
the investigation. They applied for and were granted a warrant for Laughton’s
arrest.”

Laughton is slated to be arraigned on Friday at the Hillsborough County
Superior Court-South.

The 39-year-old has been plagued by repeated legal troubles in the past. In
2008, he was convicted of credit card felony, according to the New Hampshire
Union-Leader. In 2012, Laughton became the first transgender-identifying
person elected as a state lawmaker, thrilling LGBT activists.

“I believe that at this point, the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)
community will hopefully be inspired,” Laughton said at the time. “My hope is
that now maybe we’ll see more people in the community running, maybe for
alderman. Maybe in the next election, we’ll have a senator.”

Shortly after the election, Laughton stepped down after the credit card fraud
allegations came to light. Laughton was later sentenced to six months in jail
after reporting a bomb threat to a hospital in 2015. In July 2021, Laughton
was arrested for giving police false information.

Laughton won election to the state house again in November 2022, only to step
down in December after accusations of stalking. Laughton had been arrested on
stalking charges twice in 2022, including an incident in September just
months before the election.

“I’m alive, I’m safe, I’m well,” Laughton said in a Facebook video at the
time, announcing he was leaving politics. “I’m not suicidal, and just trying
to get by every day with what I’ve been dealt. I don’t know what the future
holds but I do know this — there’s a lot of good opportunities out there for
me to serve, and a lot of good opportunities for me to still stay connected
with everyone and I plan to do that.”

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