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Seven Indicted For Child Porn Found At Sex Offender Treatment Center

By Corey Rayburnyung

Seven residents at a Washington sex offender treatment center have been indicted on child pornography charges after allegedly obtaining the unlawful images at the center. From the Associated Press:In unsealing the indictments Thursday, federal prosecutors said they didn't know how the defendants, who are prohibited from using the Internet, obtained the pornography, which allegedly was stored on their computers at the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island. Among the possibilities: via the mail, or from a visitor or staff member."We cannot allow these sex offenders to be part of the market for horrific pictures of child sexual abuse," U.S. Attorney Jeffrey C. Sullivan said in a news release. "With these indictments we are putting the residents at the SCC, and anyone who is assisting them in obtaining child pornography, on notice that they will be prosecuted...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on September 19, 2009 (boomark / email).