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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
(coughing up furballs) As long as willing sellers and buyers are among us, and the planet is so large, what is this discussion accomplishing except upsetting the powerless verbose? Does anybody have any thoughts about what can be done beyond decrying?
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Here is an article about someone who saw something and reported it:
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'Sex tourist' gets 20 years for child porn
Round Rock man had 150 videotapes of child lewdness.
By Isadora Vail
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Saturday, March 24, 2007
A 46-year-old Austin man who authorities say traveled the world to film children performing sex acts was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday on two counts of possessing child pornography.
In February 2006, Brian Raymond Gibson's housekeeper noticed videotapes in his bedroom with covers depicting children engaged in sex acts, Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley said. At the time, Gibson lived in Round Rock.
The housekeeper notified police, and investigators seized 150 tapes as well as DVDs, magazines, photographs and two computers, Bradley said.
Investigators found more than 8,500 images of child pornography on Gibson's computer, he said. None of the images or tapes appeared to depict local children, he said.
Some videos depicted European boys in hotel rooms who called the cameraman "Brian," Bradley said. Some photos depicted Asian boys engaged in lewd acts, officials said.
"This defendant appears to have been a sex tourist, traveling the world to take advantage of children," Bradley said. "We are grateful that a citizen took the time to report his crimes."
Investigators said Gibson's passport revealed a trip to the Czech Republic in 1996 and other trips to Russia, Cuba, the Netherlands and Thailand.
"It was sad, what he had accumulated over a number of years," Gibson's attorney Roy Minton said. "I don't understand why he had this interest. I consider it an illness."
Minton said that Gibson was a regional manager for Starbucks when the pornography was found.
Gibson didn't distribute any of the material over the Internet nor did he participate in any of the videos, Minton said.
Minton disagreed with Bradley that Gibson personally filmed the videos.
"He bought all this stuff in parts of the world where it is perfectly legal," Minton said.
Two other men were convicted this week for crimes against children in Central Texas through Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's Cyber Crimes Unit:
•Jonathan Ward Brooke, 54, was convicted Wednesday in Kerr County of one count of solicitation of a minor online and was sentenced to five years in prison.
•Grant Matthew Peanick, 21, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Bastrop to one count of criminal solicitation of a minor. He was sentenced to five years' probation and must register as a sex offender.
ivail@statesman.com; 246-0053
Find this article at:
http://www.statesman.com/news/conten...extourist.html
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"He bought all this stuff in parts of the world where it is perfectly legal," Minton said. And that is the reason why it will be hard to ever really stem the tide. There will always be someplace that turns a blind eye to this kind of thing in some capacity.
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