Toronto — In the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina is a little girl who owes her life -- perhaps literally -- to seven Toronto police officers.
They are members of the child exploitation branch of the force's sex crimes unit, and last December, they managed to extract information enough from a collection of searing child-porn images posted on an international police website to identify the six-year-old's school.
By zeroing in on a wristband the child wore in some of the pictures, a badge on her girl scout uniform and a deliberately blurred-out logo on a T-shirt she wore under a school jumper, the Toronto squad was able to narrow the search first to the Raleigh-Durham area, and ultimately, by cross-checking with school uniform manufacturers in the area, to direct officers from the local Federal Bureau of Investigation office to the right address.
This week, in Raleigh, acting United States Attorney George Holding announced that Brian Tod Schellenberger, 41, of Cary, N.C., has been indicted by a grand jury.
He faces four counts of child exploitation and one of possession of child pornography in connection with his alleged coercion into the child-porn business of not one, but two, underage children.
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