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(Memphis 11/20/09) Customs and Border Patrol agents along the Mexican border captured a wanted Tennessee man, charged with having child pornography.
58-year-old John Christopher Hargrove was arrested Friday morning, when he came back into the country from Mexico, after fleeing from his 2006 child porn arrest. Hargrove will be extradicted to Memphis after having already pleaded guilty to having and emailing child porn. Authorities had been tracking him online for months. He's just one of thousands of online predators cops keep a close eye on. With new technology, authorities can watch predators like him, regardless where they hide.
According to court documents, under the screenname "SIR4LADYTN", Hargrove scoured the AOL chatroom "gave it up early". During chat sessions, he told an FBI agent from New York, that he was looking for a mother and daughter to move in with him, and he preferred the child to be 10 years old. Like many offenders, Hargrove continued emailing graphic pictures until authorities finally pounced. When they analyzed his computers, they found roughly 1,000 images and videos of children being sexually abused.
Across the country, law enforcement attacks the high-tech problem with high tech advances of their own. In a recent Times-Picayune article, Louisiana authorities were cited as using new computer software to pinpoint exactly where and when someone downloads child porn.
"It kinda gives you a representation of the problem we have here in louisiana and throughout the nation of the people who are really downloading images of child pornography," Det. Chad Grimillion with the Louisiana State Police told the newspaper.
Using the technology, authorities can pinpoint certain files to determine who on the images might be doing the actual molestation.
As for Hargrove, he said "he never hurt anyone, that he only had traded pictures, and that everything was just a fantasy for him."
Prosecutors don't agree. Scott Augenbaum with the Cyber Crime Squad told us this year, "A lot of people would say well, it's just pictures. Well, it's a picture of a child's worst day on this planet."
- John Christopher Hargrove, 58, arrested in Texas while entering country from Mexico
- Hargrove chatted online with FBI agent
- Hargrove pleaded guilty to possessing, distributing child porn
(Memphis 11/20/09) Customs and Border Patrol agents along the Mexican border captured a wanted Tennessee man, charged with having child pornography.
58-year-old John Christopher Hargrove was arrested Friday morning, when he came back into the country from Mexico, after fleeing from his 2006 child porn arrest. Hargrove will be extradicted to Memphis after having already pleaded guilty to having and emailing child porn. Authorities had been tracking him online for months. He's just one of thousands of online predators cops keep a close eye on. With new technology, authorities can watch predators like him, regardless where they hide.
According to court documents, under the screenname "SIR4LADYTN", Hargrove scoured the AOL chatroom "gave it up early". During chat sessions, he told an FBI agent from New York, that he was looking for a mother and daughter to move in with him, and he preferred the child to be 10 years old. Like many offenders, Hargrove continued emailing graphic pictures until authorities finally pounced. When they analyzed his computers, they found roughly 1,000 images and videos of children being sexually abused.
Across the country, law enforcement attacks the high-tech problem with high tech advances of their own. In a recent Times-Picayune article, Louisiana authorities were cited as using new computer software to pinpoint exactly where and when someone downloads child porn.
"It kinda gives you a representation of the problem we have here in louisiana and throughout the nation of the people who are really downloading images of child pornography," Det. Chad Grimillion with the Louisiana State Police told the newspaper.
Using the technology, authorities can pinpoint certain files to determine who on the images might be doing the actual molestation.
As for Hargrove, he said "he never hurt anyone, that he only had traded pictures, and that everything was just a fantasy for him."
Prosecutors don't agree. Scott Augenbaum with the Cyber Crime Squad told us this year, "A lot of people would say well, it's just pictures. Well, it's a picture of a child's worst day on this planet."
