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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 doodlebugging »

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 nebezb »

normie3000 wrote: post #66
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?

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

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

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Post by doodlebugging »

theonething wrote: post #78
doodlebugging wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>You are awfully cynical. A cynic is simply a realist who has seen too much shit. I am a firm realist. I see the world as it is and hope that others will come along to help make it better but I don't naively hold my breath. DHS needs a win in the public's eyes. BBC has the air of a trusted platform. It is no big stretch to make the connection that dredging up an old story about tracking down and capturing a pedo usin…

> the reader has no way to know that this went down years ago Not so. > Last summer Greg met Lucy, now in her 20s, for the first time. > Lucy (left), now an adult...

You are correct. Thank you.

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

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Post by rootusrootus »

doodlebugging wrote: post #73
rootusrootus wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

>You are awfully cynical. A cynic is simply a realist who has seen too much shit. I am a firm realist. I see the world as it is and hope that others will come along to help make it better but I don't naively hold my breath. DHS needs a win in the public's eyes. BBC has the air of a trusted platform. It is no big stretch to make the connection that dredging up an old story about tracking down and capturing a pedo usin…

It’s a story taken from a documentary airing tonight. Unless it’s entirely AI slop, it probably predates the current DHS mess.

Edit: seven years in the making, so entirely coincidental

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

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Post by rootusrootus »

amatecha wrote: post #63
rootusrootus wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Are the Europeans suddenly willing to kiss the ring? They don’t otherwise seem to be buddies right now.

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

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Post by rectang »

eastbound wrote: post #80
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…

> 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…

> While many see that as blaming the mother

Yes, that's how I see it.

> it is such a huge humanitarian problem that it’s worth educating women better over that specific problem, and taking sanctions if necessary.

"Sanctions"? This is an article about successful digital sleuthing, but your takeaway is that we need to punish the mother?

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

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Post by itishappy »

nebezb wrote: post #20

I’ve spent just a teeny bit of time helping international ICE investigators (not that one; internet child exploitation) postpone PTSD with technology. It seems like after two years of their job, they’re going to have a mental break. So postponing is all you can really do. It’s disheartening how underfunded these agencies are compared to, what feels like at least, the severity of the crimes they’re up against. These f…

Another comment mentioned ICE as well, so I've been looking into it, and imagine my surprise to learn that ICE (yes that one) has been working in this space since since the Obama admin. Huh.

https://www.ice.gov/careers/hero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_for_Victims_of_Traffic...

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

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Post by pgalvin »

doodlebugging wrote: post #81
refulgentis wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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You are wrong, this same story was not reported more than ten years ago. The article is not a report of a man being arrested, tried, and sentenced (doubtless the extent of reporting in local news when it happened). This article is about the wider background of one story, of many, from a behind-the-scenes documentary that has been filmed over the last five years and just released.

Did Britain's public broadcaster decide, half a decade ago, to begin making this documentary so that they could secretly and nefariously support a US government agency long before it was embroiled in its current controversies?

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

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Post by phire »

jiqiren wrote: post #68
phire wrote: post #49

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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?

About 0.3% of the adult population is on registries in the US.

With 40,000 couch sales, there would be roughly 120 sex offenders would have bought that couch. You can see what I mean about the registries being bloated.

Doesn't really narrow things down until you add the brick factory, but then they already had it down to 40 houses.

But it's a mistake to even assume the couch was bought by the same house as the offender. The offender could just be visiting, or the couch could have been moved to a different house since purchase (sold second hand, or the owner moved). And you are assuming the offender had been caught before, or was even on the sex offender registry for abusing children.

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