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Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/201...

I'm not sure that's what you meant to link to. The description there is beyond lurid, and that guy only ended up on a registry after a lot of shenanigans.

> he was convicted in 2015 of two counts of open and gross lewdness for displaying his genitals to a neighbor through the window of his home

So he was naked in his own home?

#Land of the free

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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So, I had a friend. Had because he's dead. He did this work for a decade and a half and then couldn't deal with it anymore. In that time he put countless assholes behind bars. At some point he stopped responding to my emails so I called the unit and they were absolutely devastated, this guy was the backbone of their operation, the one with by far the most computer experience of all of them. RIP Ronald. It is very har…

That last bit is not really how it works. I've been in a small company that law enforcement would routinely reach out to for help with solving crimes because they thought we'd have relevant data. 99% of requests are wild goose chases based on nothing. Like literally dumb requests that are not only irrelevant, the request wouldn't even get past that cops boss, much less a judge. But a cop can just ask whatever they wa…

FB is more than large enough to have dedicated liasons to make sure that there is a difference between 'dumb requests that are irrelevant' get separated out from the ones that matter.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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How many of these sex offenders bought this couch and live close to this brick factory in homes built in that time period?

I think what is confusing is likely that the investigators/detectives were probably trying to make sure that the girl was actually in the house where the sex offender was registered or technically living, and not maybe kept somewhere else. A lot of detective work is building the case, but also confirming what you believe is actually true and you need the evidence to also request the warrant on factual grounds. They c…

Why just the mother? What about her absentee father?

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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post #82

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Sounds a bit more productive than Wordle. How can we get involved?

https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse

This seems like the perfect job/challenge for those GeoGuesser pros

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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post #165

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That last bit is not really how it works. I've been in a small company that law enforcement would routinely reach out to for help with solving crimes because they thought we'd have relevant data. 99% of requests are wild goose chases based on nothing. Like literally dumb requests that are not only irrelevant, the request wouldn't even get past that cops boss, much less a judge. But a cop can just ask whatever they wa…

FB is more than large enough to have dedicated liasons to make sure that there is a difference between 'dumb requests that are irrelevant' get separated out from the ones that matter.

I don't think you understood, we weren't understaffed, that's besides the point as it's not hard to reply to an email. The main aspect is you should demand a warrant because you as someone that works for a private company shouldn't be the arbitrar of if a cop has enough or not (plus the cop will obviously not give you any details besides ongoing investigation in most cases). There's a job for that which is a judge. In my opinion even internal lawyers should not judge that outside of the legality of the request. In many jurisdictions you can get in trouble for doing that.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Am I reading this correctly that the address where they found the child was where her mother’s boyfriend was living? > "So we narrowed it down to [this] one address… and started the process of confirming who was living there through state records, driver's licence… information on schools," says Squire. > The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother's boyfriend - a convicted sex offender. There’s a…

There are a lot of women out there drawn to criminals of every kind. The primary demographic of true crime shows are women for a reason, not to mention the letters murderers and such receive. I would be curious to know why this is, and if it happens in other cultures too.

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Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Am I reading this correctly that the address where they found the child was where her mother’s boyfriend was living? > "So we narrowed it down to [this] one address… and started the process of confirming who was living there through state records, driver's licence… information on schools," says Squire. > The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother's boyfriend - a convicted sex offender. There’s a…

> the strangest part about this story was that the child’s mother was dating a convicted sex offender 70.6% of beaten children are beaten at the mother’s custody. Most often it turns out the choice of companion of the mother is inappropriate. While many see that as blaming the mother and it is a huge taboo in our society, it is such a huge humanitarian problem that it’s worth educating women better over that specific…

A lot of evils cannot be eradicated with just more education. Sunshine I we as a society have to put our foot down.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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You are right, the article is about: > She said at the point Homeland Security ended her abuse she had been "praying actively for it to end". You can provide your plausible suggestions as to what the family relationship looked like that the girl could neither ask her own mother for help nor was her father there for her.

My heart breaks for parents who learn that their children found themselves unable to confide in them about rape.

I doubt the mother didn't know.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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So, I had a friend. Had because he's dead. He did this work for a decade and a half and then couldn't deal with it anymore. In that time he put countless assholes behind bars. At some point he stopped responding to my emails so I called the unit and they were absolutely devastated, this guy was the backbone of their operation, the one with by far the most computer experience of all of them. RIP Ronald. It is very har…

So why wouldn't the investigators follow the appropriate legal process? Now, I'm sure that everything present in this article is true . But I'm worried that the reason we get this article now (apparently the things the article describes happened 10-15 years ago) is because it's part of someone's job to build support for warrantless driftnet surveillance, mandatory real-ID systems etc. So I think it's fair to ask: why…

Note how they didn't say that the legal process wasn't followed just that they didn't want to use their fancy face recognition for a good cause in one very particular instance.

> https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1r6wluq/departmen...

Let's see them stand tall then, now that the department of HS is going to make the request, no doubt through the appropriately bought and paid for channels.

Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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On the one hand, this is a beautiful (but depressing) story about humans standing up for each other. On the other hand, this is clearly propaganda from the BBC to push police state functionality on the UK population by pre-justifying it. "See what happens? Never mind the part about it taking six years. Let us see everything in your fucking lives, you twats."

I have literally no idea how you've ended up at that conclusion from the article!
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