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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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Post by amatecha »

rootusrootus wrote: post #52
doodlebugging wrote: post #43

This is an old story about an old investigation. It is old news dredged up to try to win sympathy for DHS/ICE. It is propaganda resurrected to make DHS look useful. They cherry-picked a story that they knew would win public sympathy since no one wants a child molester to run free. Lets show a time when an agent solved a case for an excellent outcome. Pick a DHS/ICE story from this year and see what kind of dystopic s…

Propaganda made by the BBC to make DHS look good? You are awfully cynical.

What better way to bolster your reputation than to get your buddies to prop you up with fluff pieces? Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

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

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Post by morkalork »

refulgentis wrote: post #47
doodlebugging wrote: post #43

This is an old story about an old investigation. It is old news dredged up to try to win sympathy for DHS/ICE. It is propaganda resurrected to make DHS look useful. They cherry-picked a story that they knew would win public sympathy since no one wants a child molester to run free. Lets show a time when an agent solved a case for an excellent outcome. Pick a DHS/ICE story from this year and see what kind of dystopic s…

Submitter is Canadian and re: America, posted "I read recently that Patrimonialism is a good way of describing the current regime" about 10 months ago. Doesn't sound like paid DHS/ICE psyopper. Any reason to think it is? EDIT: Got the "you're posting too fast", so in reply to OP below: > Submitter's nationality has nothing to do with it nor does his post history. WTF Well, yes it does, its exculpatory evidence for a…

From the fine article itself:

>Within hours, local Homeland Security agents had arrested the offender, who had been raping Lucy for six years.

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

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Post by normie3000 »

ggm wrote: post #28

periodically the various forces tackling CSAM release images which are ENTIRELY SFW, and are purely of a jersey, a backpack, a location, a tea setting, and ask people to tell them things: Was this available in Belgium? Did you ever see this in a second hand shop? Do you recognise the logo on this bag? Information inside images is useful for this kind of struggle to identify victims of crime.

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

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

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Post by [deleted] »

refulgentis wrote: post #47
doodlebugging wrote: post #43

This is an old story about an old investigation. It is old news dredged up to try to win sympathy for DHS/ICE. It is propaganda resurrected to make DHS look useful. They cherry-picked a story that they knew would win public sympathy since no one wants a child molester to run free. Lets show a time when an agent solved a case for an excellent outcome. Pick a DHS/ICE story from this year and see what kind of dystopic s…

Submitter is Canadian and re: America, posted "I read recently that Patrimonialism is a good way of describing the current regime" about 10 months ago. Doesn't sound like paid DHS/ICE psyopper. Any reason to think it is? EDIT: Got the "you're posting too fast", so in reply to OP below: > Submitter's nationality has nothing to do with it nor does his post history. WTF Well, yes it does, its exculpatory evidence for a…

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

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Post by jiqiren »

phire wrote: post #49
Aurornis wrote: post #30

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…

Sex offender registries are just registries. They only work if someone decides to actually do a query. It might prevent them from getting a childcare job, but it doesn't really prevent them from accessing children at all. The registers are also massively bloated, some people get put on them for nothing more than public urination. The only sex offenders who actually get regular checks that might identify this type of…

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

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

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Post by garbawarb »

defrost wrote: post #23
garbawarb wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> From that list of 40 or 50 people, it was easy to find and trawl their social media. And that is when they found a photo of Lucy on Facebook with an adult who looked as though she was close to the girl - possibly a relative. It sounds like Facebook was a huge boost to the investigation despite that.

Facebook did nothing to assist in narrowing a search area. What Facebook actually did was host images .. so that after the team narrowed a list down to under 100 people they could look through profiles by hand. It may as well have been searching Flickr, Instagram, Etsy, etc. profiles by hand.

Yes, and if Facebook didn't exist, presumably these images connecting the abuser to the victim wouldn't have been available anywhere for the investigators to find.
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