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Recap on Previous Parts
Parts 1, 4-10: Madeleine McCann Case / Podesta / Pedophilia Connections
Part 2, 3: ACORN Controversy
Part 7: Conspiracy Advice for Online Researchers.
Part 11: National Pizza Day Strange Coincidences
Part 12: FBI Document on Pedophilia Symbols and Logos
Part 13: Mindset of Pedophiles
ALL Parts: Media Cover-Up and/or Silence
#PizzaGate Part 14
Topics to Cover:
- PizzaGate Updates and Search Trends
- New York Times 2005 Pedophilia Investigation: Justin Berry
- Mainstream Media Coverage
PizzaGate Updates
YouTube Demonetizationā¦
YouTube demonetizes videos deemed "not advertiser-friendly" so I have to be careful about the wording/images I use in my videos.
This is in fact nothing more than censorship, as I explain in my earlier video.
22 December 2016 by Math Easy Solutions (i.e. me)
YouTube Demonetization: "Controversial" News
I break down how YouTube's demonetization policy has nothing to do with "advertisers".
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David Icke, the famous "Reptilian" conspiracy theorist, was proven right about UK Pedophilia??!! UNBELIEVABLEā¦
https://www.davidicke.com/article/118319/31148-paedophilia-and-satanism-the-fabric-of-the-web
2 March 2010 by David Icke
Paedophilia And Satanism ... The Fabric Of The Web
I have been naming the former British Prime Minister, the now late Ted Heath, since 1998 to be a child-killing paedophile Satanist and, in terms of his āhigh-officeā, he is far from a rarity (see article below this one). I know others, including one who spent a long time in that position.
These networks control governments, national and local, ālawā offices, police, courts, coronersā offices, crematoria, social services, law firms and so on, and they have their own doctors and pathologists to ensure when necessary that they can cover up how people have truly met their fate.
Every time I have investigated, or read about the investigations of others, the same blueprint is there to see. Children are supplied for prominent members of āsocietyā through childrenās homes and other sources and should they and their families seek to expose what has happened they are met with a wall of resistance from police, social services and the court system. [i.e. like the McCann caseā¦]
17 January 2013 by David Icke
Michael Shrimpton Exposes Ted Heath (and others)
Great insight by former UK Politician, Michael Shrimpton, on pedophilia in the super elite circles, which draw many parallels to #PizzaGate today, this is a MUST WATCH!
15 December 2012 by David Icke
I have had so much ridicule over the years for saying that Father George Bush is a paedophile and Satanist - the same with British Prime Minister Ted Heath and members of the Royal Family: but the fact is - it's TRUE
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4238188/Sir-Edward-Heath-paedophile-says-police-chief.html
18 February 2017 by Simon Walters
Sir Edward Heath WAS a paedophile, says police chief: Astonishing claim is made that the former PM is guilty of vile crimes 'covered up by the Establishment'
ā More than 30 people have come forward with claims about the former PM
ā And they are said to have given 'strikingly similar' accounts to Wiltshire Police
ā The county's chief constable has said that the allegations are 'totally convincing'
ā Pictures have emerged of Heath driving - despite it being claimed he didn't have a car
The police chief investigating claims that Sir Edward Heath was a paedophile is convinced the allegations are ā120 per centā genuine, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
19 February 2017 by Nicola Harley
Claims that Sir Edward Heath was a paedophile are '120 per cent genuine', police chief claims
The police chief investigating allegations that Sir Edward Heath was a paedophile believes the accounts are "120 per cent genuine".
Wiltshire Police has been carrying out a large-scale investigation into claims made about the late former prime minister and has identified more than 30 alleged victims.
A report, which is expected to be published in June, will allegedly detail how the claims are "totally convincing" and will vindicate Chief Constable Mike Veale's decision to persist with the Ā£700,000 investigation.
20 February 2017 by Rebecca Camber
Group of women who say they were abused by Sir Edward Heath also claim their parents ran a satanic sex cult that was involved in SIXTEEN child murders
Ā· They say that the cult regularly slaughtered children as ritual sacrifices in church
Ā· The woman claim that the former prime minister was part of a paedophile ring
Ā· If the allegations are true it would make the cult the worst child murderers in British historyā¦
They say that the cult regularly slaughtered children as ritual sacrifices in churches and forests around southern England and also participated in similar ceremonies in Africa.
They claim their mother and father ā who is said to have known the former Conservative leader ā were responsible for slaughtering children ranging from babies to teenagers ā yet they evaded justice.
The paedophile ring ā which they say Sir Edward was part of ā stabbed, tortured and maimed youngsters in churches and burnt babies in satanic orgies before men, women and children gorged themselves on blood and body parts, police have been told.
20 February 2017 by David Icke
Keep saying it for two decades, take the ridicule, dismissal and abuse, and eventually the truth will come out - 'Heath was in child-sacrificing ring'
Eventually the mainstream media is going to have to have a grown-up adult conversation with me about how the world is really controlled and by whom. It may not be soon, but it canāt be avoided.
Mainstream Media Insider Warned of Major MSM Attack on Milo a Day Before
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/113460155
19 February 2017 by Anonymous (ID: UQ3+mU2r)
Operation Destroy Milo Begins Monday
FYI the MSM has a huge fucking media onslaught that is set to go live Monday to scorch earth Milo and destroy him via the pedophile label.
I'm part of a mailing list (not giving my real name or the name of the list for the sake of protecting my ass from retaliation) but they have been sitting on the story for a while, because they thought Milo was small fries and wanted to wait until he got big enough a thread to go nuclear on.
The journalists are pissed the fuck off Maher put him on the air and more so, pissed off his book deal had not been revoked (and some are pissed that Milo got a book deal from the same publisher who dropped Zoe Quinn's book, along with a larger signing bonus than most of the publisher's social justice authors).
There are also those who want to hurt him simply as a proxy to hurt Steve Bannon/Breitbart. since their attempts to attack Bannon have largely failed. Not to mention people on the left being pissed off that most people sided with Milo over the rioters. Rioters, that were paid for by Soros through a variety of fronts and laundered through companies that can't be traced back to him.
Expect a steady drumbeat of "Milo is a pedophile" and "Milo must be dropped from CPAC". The later is especially important, in terms of the divide and conquer long game the press is playing: the press wants a civil war with the McCain/Graham wing of the GOP and the Trump/Ryan wing so as to weaken the Republicans in 2018. The overall plan is to make the Republicans fear social shaming from the media and the left more than they do their actual constituents who love Trump, in hopes of regaining the House and enough Senate seats to pull off an impeachment of Trump.
Archive Link: http://archive.is/shNS9
Retrieved: 21 February 2017
Google Search: "milo"
The onslaught stems from this video, taken out of context, posted on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/833405993006616576
- ReaganBattalion
The smear campaign is purely political, as similar instances of left-wing celebrities "advocating" pedophilia are ignored, such as George Takei, and even ignoring to investigate #PizzaGate.
20 February 2017 by The Fluest
Does Taco Bell Spokesman George Takei Advocate Pedophilia?
George Takei talks about his first sexual experience, at a summer camp when he was 13 years old, by his Camp Counselor, and argues (unconvincingly in my opinion) that he "consented"ā¦
Milo has apologized for his remarks and denounces any claims that he condones pedophilia, and admits to being a victim of pedophilia.
https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/851263248344905
20 February 2017 by Milo Yiannopoulos (Note: Date is changed to UTC: http://archive.is/7XaP0)
Facebook Post
A note for idiots (UPDATED):
I do not support pedophilia. Period. It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst. There are selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject.
If it somehow comes across (through my own sloppy phrasing or through deceptive editing) that I meant any of the ugly things alleged, let me set the record straight: I am completely disgusted by the abuse of children.
Some facts to consider:
- I have outed THREE pedophiles in my career as a journalist. That's three more than any of my critics and a peculiar strategy for a supposed pedophile apologist.
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https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/851826321621931
20 February 2017 by Milo Yiannopoulos
Facebook Post
I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim.
I would like to restate my utter disgust at adults who sexually abuse minors. I am horrified by pedophilia and I have devoted large portions of my career as a journalist to exposing child abusers. I've outed three of them, in fact -- three more than most of my critics. And I've repeatedly expressed disgust at pedophilia in my feature and opinion writing. My professional record is very clear.
But I do understand that these videos, even though some of them are edited deceptively, paint a different picture.
I'm partly to blame. My own experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous. But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, "advocacy." I deeply regret that. People deal with things from their past in different ways.
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My opinion is that both George and Milo, are trying to rationalize being abused at a very young age by saying they were actually "consenting" (i.e. Stockholm Syndrome).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Retrieved: 20 February 2017
Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm syndrome is a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity.[1] These feelings, resulting from a bond formed between captor and captives during intimate time spent together, are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims.
Milo was sexually assaulted when he was 13/14 years old by a Catholic Priest.
George Takei was sexually assaulted when he was 13 years old by a Camp Counselor.
Both of them try to rationalize their situations and say that they were actually mature enough to "consent" and they "enjoyed" being assaulted.
Only Milo gets ridiculed on Mainstream Media and has his book deal canceled, his big CPAC speech canceled, and pressured to resign from Breitbartā¦
INTERESTING NOTE: The media has gone after Michael Flynn Jr., Michael Flynn Sr., and Milo the hardest, and just so happens that they brought up concerns over #PizzaGateā¦ Keep that in mindā¦
Salon promptly removed their articles promoting pedophiliaā¦
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/im_a_pedophile_but_not_a_monster/
Luckily it was archived: https://archive.is/8iWGj
Luckily they forgot to delete their Pro-Pedo tweetsā¦
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5vbcje/salon_have_forgotten_to_delete_their_twitter/
21 February by MilkManMikey
Salon have forgotten to delete their twitter regarding the pedophile shit.
Some tweets include:
https://twitter.com/Salon/status/649536498627399680
- Salon
PizzaGate Google Search Trends (As of 21 February 2017)
https://trends.google.ca/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=pizzagate,fake%20news
https://trends.google.ca/trends/explore?date=today%2012-m&q=pizzagate,fake%20news,spirit%20cooking
My Prediction for # Vault7 is still in playā¦ ;)
https://twitter.com/MathEasySolns/status/834164635569774592
- MathEasySolns
New York Times 2005 Pedophilia Investigation: Justin Berry
Like in Part 13, I wasn't planning on going over Kurt Eichenwald's pedophilia investigation in great detail, but he provides such incredible insight into the hidden and destructive world of pedophilia, that I feel that everyone, especially parents in general, need to know this when investigating into #PizzaGate.
In Part 13, the NY Times investigation looked at the twisted mindset of Pedophiles.
The article that I am now going to cover will illustrate how the online world has presented pedophiles with the ability to bribe teenagers with money and gifts to manipulate and sexually exploit, both in the online and offline worldā¦
This is a fascinating article, albeit extremely disturbing, so don't tell me I didn't warn youā¦
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/us/through-his-webcam-a-boy-joins-a-sordid-online-world.html
19 December 2005 by Kurt Eichenwald
Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World
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Weeks before, Justin had hooked up a Web camera to his computer, hoping to use it to meet other teenagers online. Instead, he heard only from men who chatted with him by instant message as they watched his image on the Internet. To Justin, they seemed just like friends, ready with compliments and always offering gifts.
Now, on an afternoon in 2000, one member of his audience sent a proposal: he would pay Justin $50 to sit bare-chested in front of his Webcam for three minutes. The man explained that Justin could receive the money instantly and helped him open an account on PayPal.com, an online payment system.
"I figured, I took off my shirt at the pool for nothing," he said recently. "So, I was kind of like, what's the difference?"
Justin removed his T-shirt. The men watching him oozed compliments.
So began the secret life of a teenager who was lured into selling images of his body on the Internet over the course of five years. From the seduction that began that day, this soccer-playing honor roll student was drawn into performing in front of the Webcam -- undressing, showering, masturbating and even having sex -- for an audience of more than 1,500 people who paid him, over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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A six-month investigation by The New York Times into this corner of the Internet found that such sites had emerged largely without attracting the attention of law enforcement or youth protection organizations. While experts with these groups said they had witnessed a recent deluge of illicit, self-generated Webcam images, they had not known of the evolution of sites where minors sold images of themselves for money.
"We've been aware of the use of the Webcam and its potential use by exploiters," said Ernest E. Allen, chief executive of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a private group. "But this is a variation on a theme that we haven't seen. It's unbelievable."
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In this virtual universe, adults hunt for minors on legitimate sites used by Webcam owners who post contact information in hopes of attracting friends. If children respond to messages, adults spend time "grooming" them -- with praise, attention and gifts -- before seeking to persuade them to film themselves pornographically.
The lure is the prospect of easy money. Many teenagers solicit "donations," request gifts through sites like Amazon.com or negotiate payments, while a smaller number charge monthly fees.
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Not all victims profit, with some children ending up as pornographic commodities inadvertently, even unknowingly. Adolescents have appeared naked on their Webcams as a joke, or as presents for boyfriends or girlfriends, only to have their images posted on for-pay pornography sites. One Web site proclaims that it features 140,000 images of "adolescents in cute panties exposing themselves on their teen Webcams."
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The Times inquiry has already resulted in a large-scale criminal investigation. In June, The Times located Justin Berry, then 18. In interviews, Justin revealed the existence of a group of more than 1,500 men who paid for his online images, as well as evidence that other identifiable children as young as 13 were being actively exploited.
In a series of meetings, The Times persuaded Justin to abandon his business and, to protect other children at risk, assisted him in contacting the Justice Department. Arrests and indictments of adults he identified as pornography producers and traffickers began in September.
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"I didn't want these people to hurt any more kids," Justin said recently of his decision to become a federal witness. "I didn't want anyone else to live the life I lived."
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Justin remembers his earliest communications with these men as nonthreatening, pleasant encounters. There were some oddities -- men who pretended to be teenage girls, only to slip up and reveal the truth later -- but Justin enjoyed his online community.
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The men also filled an emotional void in Justin's life. His relationship with his father, Knute Berry, was troubled. His parents divorced when he was young; afterward, police records show, there were instances of reported abuse. On one occasion Mr. Berry was arrested and charged with slamming Justin's head into a wall, causing an injury that required seven staples in his scalp. Although Justin testified against him, Mr. Berry said the injury was an accident and was acquitted. He declined to comment in a telephone interview.
The emotional turmoil left Justin longing for paternal affection, family members said. And the adult males he met online offered just that. "They complimented me all the time," Justin said. "They told me I was smart, they told me I was handsome."
In that, experts said, the eighth-grade boy's experience reflected the standard methods used by predatory adults to insinuate themselves into the lives of minors they meet online.
"In these cases, there are problems in their own lives that make them predisposed to" manipulation by adults, Lawrence Likar, a former F.B.I. supervisor, said of children persuaded to pose for pornography. "The predators know that and are able to tap into these problems and offer what appear to be solutions."
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It was as if the news shot around the Web. By appearing on camera bare-chested, Justin sent an important message: here was a boy who would do things for money.
Gradually the requests became bolder, the cash offers larger: More than $100 for Justin to pose in his underwear. Even more if the boxers came down. The latest request was always just slightly beyond the last, so that each new step never struck him as considerably different. How could adults be so organized at manipulating young people with Webcams?
Unknown to Justin, they honed their persuasive skills by discussing strategy online, sharing advice on how to induce their young targets to go further at each stage.
Moreover, these adults are often people adept at manipulating teenagers. In its investigation, The Times obtained the names and credit card information for the 1,500 people who paid Justin to perform on camera, and analyzed the backgrounds of 300 of them nationwide. A majority of the sample consisted of doctors and lawyers, businessmen and teachers, many of whom work with children on a daily basis.
Not long ago, adults sexually attracted to children were largely isolated from one another. But the Internet has created a virtual community where they can readily communicate and reinforce their feelings, experts said. Indeed, the messages they send among themselves provide not only self-justification, but also often blame minors with Webcam sites for offering temptation.
"These kids are the ones being manipulative," wrote an adult who called himself Upandc in a posting this year to a bulletin board for adults attracted to children.
Or, as an adult who called himself DLW wrote: "Did a sexual predator MAKE them make a site? No. Did they decide to do it for themselves? Yes."
Tempting as it may be for some in society to hold the adolescent Webcam operators responsible, experts in the field say that is misguided, because it fails to recognize the control that adults exercise over highly impressionable minors.
"The world will want to blame the kids, but the reality is, they are victims here," said Mr. Allen of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. [Just like Miloā¦]
But there is no doubt that the minors cash in on their own exploitation. With Justin, for example, the road to cyberporn stardom was paved with cool new equipment. When his growing legion of fans complained about the quality of his Webcam, he put top-rated cameras and computer gear on his Amazon wish list, and his fans rushed to buy him all of it.
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Justin's desk became a high-tech playhouse. To avoid suspicions, he hid the Webcams behind his desk until nighttime. Whenever his mother asked about his new technology and money, Justin told her they were fruits of his Web site development business. In a way, it was true; with one fan's help, he had by then opened his own pornographic Web site, called justinscam.com.
His mother saw little evidence of a boy in trouble. Justin's grades stayed good -- mostly A's and B's, although his school attendance declined as he faked illness to spend time with his Webcam.
As he grew familiar with the online underground, Justin learned he was not alone in the business. Other teenagers were doing the same things, taking advantage of an Internet infrastructure of support that was perfectly suited to illicit business.
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Justin chatted with the boys online, and sometimes persuaded the girls to masturbate on camera while he did the same.ā¦
It was not only the minors operating Webcam sites for pay who faced frightening adults. Earlier this year, a teenage girl in Alabama posed seminude on her Webcam in a sexually charged conversation with someone she thought was another teenage girl. But her new confidant, it turned out, was an adult named Julio Bardales from Napa, Calif., law enforcement officials said. And when the girl stopped complying, she received an e-mail message from Mr. Bardales containing a montage of her images. Across them was a threat in red letters that the images would be revealed unless she showed a frontal nude shot over the Webcam. Mr. Bardales was subsequently arrested. The police said he possessed images of more under-age girls on Webcams, including other montages with the same threat.Justin says that he did not fully understand the dangers his fans posed, and before he turned 14, he was first lured from the relative safety of his home. A man he met online hosted Justin's Web site from Ann Arbor, Mich., and invited him there to attend a computer camp. Justin's mother allowed him to go, thinking the camp sounded worthwhile.
Another time, the man enticed Justin to Michigan by promising to arrange for him to have sex with a girl. Both times, Justin said, the man molested him. Transcripts of their subsequent conversations online support the accusations, and a video viewed by The Times shows that the man, who appears for a short time in the recording, also taped pornography of Justin.
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As his obsession with the business grew, Justin became a ferocious competitor. When another under-age site operator called Strider ranked higher on a popular portal, Justin sent him anonymous e-mail messages, threatening to pass along images from Strider's site to the boy's father. The site disappeared.
"I was vicious," Justin said. "But I guess I really did Strider a favor. Looking back, I wish someone had done that to me."
By then, fans had begun offering Justin cash to meet. Gilo Tunno, a former Intel employee, gave him thousands of dollars to visit him in a Las Vegas hotel, according to financial records and other documents. There, Justin said, Mr. Tunno began a series of molestings. At least one assault was videotaped and the recording e-mailed to Justin, who has since turned it over to the F.B.I.
Mr. Tunno played another critical role in Justin's business, the records show. When he was 15, Justin worried that his mother might discover what he was doing. So he asked Mr. Tunno to sign an apartment lease for him and pay rent. Justin promised to raise money to pay a share. "I'll whore," he explained in a message to Mr. Tunno.
Mr. Tunno agreed, signing a lease for $410 a month for an apartment just down the street from Justin's house. From then on, Justin would tell his mother he was visiting friends, then head to the apartment for his next performance. Mr. Tunno, who remains under investigation in the case, is serving an eight-year federal sentence on an unrelated sexual abuse charge involving a child and could not be reached for comment.
The rental symbolized a problem that Justin had not foreseen: his adult fans would do almost anything to ensure that his performances continued. At its worst, they would stand between him and the people in his offline life whom they saw as a threat to his Webcam appearances.
For example, when a girlfriend of Justin's tried to convince him to shut down his site in December 2002, a customer heaped scorn on her.
"She actually gets mad at you for buying her things with the money you make from the cam?" messaged the customer, a man using the nickname Angelaa. "Just try and remember, Justin, that she may not love you, but most of us in your chat room, your friends, love you very much."
A Life Falls Apart
In early 2003, Justin's offline life began to unravel. A former classmate found pornographic videos on the Internet from Justin's Web site, made copies and handed them out around town, including to students at his school. Justin was taunted and beaten.
Feeling embarrassed and unable to continue at school, Justin begged his mother to allow him to be home-schooled through an online program. Knowing he was having trouble with classmates, but in the dark about the reasons why, she agreed.
Then, in February, came another traumatic event. Justin had begun speaking with his father, hoping to repair their relationship. But that month, Mr. Berry, who had been charged with insurance fraud related to massage clinics he ran, disappeared without a word.
Despairing, Justin turned to his online fans. "My dad left. I guess he doesn't love me," he wrote. "Why did I let him back in my life? Let me die, just let me die."
His father did not disappear for long. Soon, Mr. Berry called his son from MazatlƔn, Mexico; Justin begged to join him, and his father agreed.
In Mexico, Justin freely spent his cash, leading his father to ask where the money had come from. Justin said that he confessed the details of his lucrative Webcam business, and that the reunion soon became a collaboration. Justin created a new Web site, calling it mexicofriends, his most ambitious ever. It featured Justin having live sex with prostitutes. During some of Justin's sexual encounters, a traffic tracker on his site showed hundreds watching. It rapidly became a wildly popular Webcam pornography site, making Justin one of the Internet's most sought after under-age pornography stars.
For this site, Justin, then 16, used a pricing model favored by legitimate businesses. For standard subscribers, the cost was $35, billed monthly. But discounts were available for three-month, six-month and annual memberships. Justin used the cash to support a growing cocaine and marijuana habit.
Money from the business, Justin said, was shared with his father, an accusation supported by transcripts of their later instant message conversations. In exchange, Justin told prosecutors and The Times, his father helped procure prostitutes. One video obtained by the F.B.I. shows Mr. Berry sitting with Justin as the camera is turned on, then making the bed before a prostitute arrives to engage in intercourse with his teenage son. Asked about Justin's accusations, Mr. Berry said, "Obviously, I am not going to comment on anything."
In the fall of 2003, Justin's life took a new turn when a subscriber named Greg Mitchel, a 36-year-old fast food restaurant manager from Dublin, Va., struck up an online friendship with the boy and soon asked to visit him. Seeing a chance to generate cash, Justin agreed.
Mr. Mitchel arrived that October, and while in Mexico, molested Justin for what would be the first of many times, according to transcripts of their conversations and other evidence. Mr. Mitchel, who is in jail awaiting trial on six child pornography charges stemming from this case, could not be reached for comment.
Over the following year, Justin tried repeatedly to break free of this life. He roamed the United States. He contemplated suicide. For a time he sought solace in a return to his boyhood Christianity. At one point he dismantled his site, loading it instead with Biblical teachings -- and taking delight in knowing the surprise his subscribers would experience when they logged on to watch him have sex.
But his drug craving, and the need for money to satisfy it, was always there. Soon, Mr. Mitchel beckoned, urging Justin to return to pornography and offering to be his business partner. With Mr. Mitchel, records and interviews show, Justin created a new Web site, justinsfriends.com, featuring performances by him and other boys he helped recruit. But as videos featuring other minors appeared on his site, Justin felt torn, knowing that these adolescents were on the path that had hurt him so badly.
Justin was now 18, a legal adult. He had crossed the line from under-age victim to adult perpetrator.
Look Behind the Secrecy
In June, Justin began communicating online with someone who had never messaged him before. The conversations involved many questions, and Justin feared his new contact might be an F.B.I. agent. Still, when a meeting was suggested, Justin agreed. He says part of him hoped he would be arrested, putting an end to the life he was leading.
They met in Los Angeles, and Justin learned that the man was this reporter, who wanted to discuss the world of Webcam pornography with him. After some hesitation, Justin agreed. At one point, asked what he wanted to accomplish in his life, Justin pondered for a moment and replied that he wanted to make his mother and grandmother proud of him.
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In the days that followed, Justin agreed in discussions with this reporter to abandon the drugs and his pornography business. He cut himself off from his illicit life. He destroyed his cellphone, stopped using his online screen name and fled to a part of the country where no one would find him.
As he sobered up, Justin disclosed more of what he knew about the Webcam world; within a week, he revealed the names and locations of children who were being actively molested or exploited by adults with Webcam sites. After confirming his revelations, The Times urged him to give his information to prosecutors, and he agreed.
Justin contacted Steven M. Ryan, a former federal prosecutor and partner with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Washington. Mr. Ryan had learned of Justin's story during an interview with The Times about a related legal question, and offered to represent him.
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Finally, in late July, Justin met in Washington with the F.B.I. and prosecutors. He identified children who he believed were in the hands of adult predators. He listed the marketers, credit card processors and others who supported Webcam child pornography. He also described the voluminous documentary evidence he had retained on his hard drives: financial information, conversation transcripts with his members, and other records.
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The meeting ended, followed by weeks of silence. Word came back that prosecutors were wrestling with Justin's dual role as a victim and a perpetrator. Justin told associates that he was willing to plead guilty if the government would save the children he had identified; Mr. Ryan dissuaded him.
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Prodded by the F.B.I. and others in the Justice Department, on Sept. 7, prosecutors informed Mr. Ryan that his client would be granted immunity. A little more than four weeks after his 19th birthday, Justin became a federal witness.
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Mr. Mitchel pleaded with Justin to come out of hiding, inviting the teenager on an all-expense-paid trip to Las Vegas with him and a 15-year-old boy also involved in Webcam pornography. But Justin demurred.
"You act like you're in witness protection," Mr. Mitchel typed. "Are you?"
"Haha," Justin replied. Did Mr. Mitchel think he would be on the Internet if he was a federal witness? he asked. Justin changed the subject, later asking the whereabouts of others who lived with Mr. Mitchel, including two adolescents; Mr. Mitchel replied that everyone was home that night.
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In a location in the Southwest, Justin glanced from his computer screen to a speakerphone. On the line was a team of F.B.I. agents who at that moment were pulling several cars into Mr. Mitchel's driveway, preparing to arrest him.
"The kids are in the house!" Justin shouted into the phone, answering a question posed by one of the agents.
As agents approached the house, Justin knew he had little time left. He decided to confront the man who had hurt him for so long.
"Do you even remember how many times you stuck your hand down my pants?" he typed.
Mr. Mitchel responded that many bad things had happened, but he wanted to regain Justin's trust.
"You molested me," Justin replied. "Don't apologize for what you can't admit."
There was no response. "Peekaboo?" Justin typed.
On the screen, a message appeared that Mr. Mitchel had signed off. The arrest was over.
Justin thrust his hands into the air. "Yes!" he shouted.
In the weeks since the first arrest, F.B.I. agents and prosecutors have focused on numerous other potential defendants. For example, Tim Richards, identified by Justin as a marketer and principal of justinsfriends.com, was arrested in Nashville last month and arraigned on child pornography charges. According to law enforcement officials, Mr. Richards was stopped in a moving van in his driveway, accompanied by a young teenage boy featured by Mr. Richards on his own Webcam site. Mr. Richards has pleaded not guilty.
Hundreds of thousands of computer files, including e-mail containing a vast array of illegal images sent among adults, have been seized from around the country. Information about Justin's members has been downloaded by the F.B.I. from Neova.net, the company that processed the credit cards; Neova and its owner, Aaron Brown, are targets of the investigation, according to court records and government officials. And Justin has begun assisting agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who hope to use his evidence to bring new charges against an imprisoned child rapist.
Justin himself has found a measure of control over his life. He revealed the details of his secret life to his family, telling them of all the times in the past that he had lied to them. He has sought counseling, kept off drugs, resumed his connection with his church and plans to attend college beginning in January.
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Reporting about child pornography on the Internet presents complicated journalistic and legal issues, both in gathering the information and in doing so while not violating laws against possession of such images.
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To verify information received from minors and found online, The Times obtained an array of documents, including copies of online conversations and e-mail messages between minors and adult admirers; records of payments to minors; membership lists from Webcam sites that charge fees; and information about companies that facilitate their operation. The Times also examined sites maintained by children and adults, and defunct sites stored in online archives.
To confirm Justin Berry's story, The Times reviewed and obtained access to thousands of pages of evidence, including files he retained on his computer over several years, original documents, financial records, credit card processing data and other information. The paper also interviewed members of his family and people he knew at various stages of his life.
Decisions in the reporting were reviewed with Times lawyers to ensure legal compliance. While it was occasionally necessary to review offensive images, The Times avoided downloading child pornography or independently subscribing to sites containing such material. In each instance that The Times located illegal images on the Internet, information about them was provided to law enforcement officials.
Summary and Conclusions
Once again, I wasn't planning on covering in detail Kurt Eichenwald's investigative work, but after going through the article, I found it very valuable to understand the vulnerability of young children and teenagers, especially in the online world.
The rule of law and social stigma towards pedophilia have pushed pedophiles to utilize extremely organized, well-coordinated, and manipulative tactics to gradually lure kids into a lifestyle of sexual exploitation online and offline.
The tactics involve the following:
- Befriending the kids online, even pretending to be a kid as well
- Showering kids with compliments, money, and gifts
- Providing emotional support which many of the kids involved, lack at home
- Gradually provide more financial resources, including paying for rent, to kids while gradually increasing expecting more in sexual demands and favors
- Building trust of the child to allow for meeting in person, often to molest the kids
- Exploiting kids through spreading explicit images and videos online, usually for money
- Presenting themselves as the victim, and the child as the predatorā¦
- Threatening the kids with blackmail, i.e. sending explicit images to parents
- Introducing drugs to get kids addicted, and dependent on this type of lifestyle
These tactics are important for everyone, especially parents, to know about in order to be able to spot possible child abuse / exploitation.
Also, a key takeaway is that children NEED the love and support from family and friends, and are even willing to lean towards twisted pedophiles in order to obtain itā¦ # ThinkOfTheChildren
While the article is very informative, Kurt Eichenwald's investigative work raises concerns about his "methodology"ā¦
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/19/kurt-eichenwalds-sad-stor_n_69191.html
25 May 2011 by Rachel Sklar
Kurt Eichenwaldās Sad Story Gets That Much Sadder
NPRās David Folkenflik advances the sad Kurt Eichenwald story today with the revelation that the former New York Times award-winning investigative reporter suffered āsevere memory disruptionsā from epilepsy ā which made him forget paying child-pornography story source, minor Justin Berry, over three thousand dollars via Berryās internet pornography site.
Stay tuned for #PizzaGate Part 15ā¦
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