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CHILD PORN VICTIM
IDENTIFICATION A CHALLENGE
SGT.WADE WILLIAMS IS SUPERVISOR OF THE COLLIER utilized for the purpose of distributing, downloading and sharing child pornography. He
COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE’S EXPLOITATION SECTION, also admitted that he searched for terms such as “child pornography” and saws video file
WHICH IS MADE UP OF DETECTIVES WHO SPECIALIZE IN names that included “8YO and 9YO” or “2YO or 3YO.” He admitted that he selected
THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF these files and then gave the computer a command to download the files. He then viewed
CHILDREN THROUGH THE USE OF THE INTERNET AND these files.
COMPUTERS. Photo by Cpl. Efrain Hernandez/CCSO He also told detectives that he began viewing pornography on his computer more
than a year before his arrest and that he believed the children in the videos to be around
T he images were disturbing: children 11 years old or 13 years old. Beauchamps, 62, is currently serving a 32 month state prison
who appeared to be as young as 6 sentence after he pleaded guilty to child pornography charges December 11, 2015. He is
and as old as 15 engaged in sex with also a registered sex offender.
each other and adults.
In many child pornography cases, the focus is on the perpetrator. But, what about the
Detectives with the Collier County children whose photos or videos Beauchamps had in his possession? What circumstances
Sheriff ’s Office’s Exploitation Section found occurred whereby they were used for pornography? Who did this to them? Who is
the images on an East Naples man’s personal trying to help these children? In these types of cases, the detectives with the Exploitation
computer in April 2015. Section will analyze the videos and other materials, looking at furniture, clothing or
other items in photos to try to identify where the images were taken, and ultimately try
Luis Anibal Beauchamps was arrested to pinpoint details about the children so they may be rescued.
and taken into custody after detectives
executed a search warrant on his Dixie Drive The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) serves as a
residence following a more than yearlong central repository for information regarding images of sexually exploited children.
undercover investigation into the distribution Detectives will send digital images and other materials to NCMEC’s Child Victim
and sharing of child pornography on the Identification Program (CVIP), where analysts working from a national database try
Internet. identify if any of the images were of previously identified victims of sexual abuse.
Detectives first found Beauchamps online “The images in this (the Beauchamps) case are known child pornography to law
in October 2014 when he was offering to enforcement,” said Exploitation Section Sgt. Wade Williams, who investigated the
distribute child porn on a peer-to-peer Beauchamps case.
network. Detectives determined he had been
on the network since January 2014. “What ultimately becomes of child victims isn’t generally available to law enforcement
because that information is protected due to the broad range of services provided such as
When detectives later executed the medical and mental health, among other things,” said Sgt. Williams.
warrant on his home, they found five video
files containing child pornography. In Collier County, once a victim is identified intervention occurs, Sgt. Williams
said. Generally speaking, a victim is interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center of
In an interview with detectives, Collier County, where they are also provided services, including medical exams and
Beauchamps admitted that he downloaded counseling. The state Department of Children and Families places them in a proper
two different programs that are frequently home away from the abuse. Sgt. Williams is currently the Collier County supervisor
of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which is a network of more than
60 coordinated task forces representing more than 3,000 federal state and local law
enforcement and prosecutorial agencies. Internet child pornography is unlike most
crimes investigated by law enforcement, Sgt. Williams said. Local residents may access
child pornography images that were produced and/or stored in another city or another
country. Alternatively, they may produce or distribute images that are downloaded by
people thousands of miles away. An investigation that begins in one law enforcement
jurisdiction could cross jurisdictional boundaries.
Sgt. Williams noted that detectives in the Exploitation Section are currently working
on a suspected sex tourism case involving a suspect who had sexually exploitative images
of a child they believe lives in Peru.
“We’re working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to identify that
victim,” he said.
The Exploitation Section investigated 70 cases of child pornography and made
eight arrests in 2015. Sgt. Williams also is currently the Collier County supervisor of
the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which is a network of more than
60 coordinated task forces representing more than 3,000 federal state and local law
enforcement and prosecutorial agencies.
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