Grand Junction Man Accused In Child Porn Case
FBI's Innocent Images Unit Leads Investigation
POSTED: 7:59 am MST December 14,
2006
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- A Grand Junction man faces charges stemming from 160 images of child pornography allegedly found on his laptop computer. Authorities said a year-long investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation led to Tuesday's arrest of Christopher Robin Gensler, 20. He's been arrested on suspicion of just seven counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
According to Gensler’s arrest affidavit obtained by the Grand Junction Sentinel, his downloads were first flagged during May 2005 by the FBI’s Innocent Images Unit, which tracks the traffic in child pornography over peer-to-peer networks. The FBI said that some videos on the computer showed adults engaging in sex acts with children as young as 1 year old.Gensler told agents he found the images by searching for “under age” in the Limewire software, according to the arrest affidavit. Gensler is not accused of abusing any of the children himself. He is due back in court on Dec. 19.The Innocent Images Unit recently expanded to include investigations involving all areas of the Internet and online services, including:Internet Web sites that post child pornography Internet news groups Internet relay chat (IRC) Channels File servers (“FServes”) Online groups and organizations (eGroups) Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs Bulletin board systems (BBSs)
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