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Massive Child Abuse File Sharing Case Linked To Eastern PA Man: Police Massive Child Abuse File Sharing Case Linked To Eastern PA Man: Police
Massive Child Abuse File Sharing Case Linked To Eastern PA Man: Police A Bucks County man is facing child pornography charges after police uncovered over 400 explicit files during an intensive online sting, Warrington Township police announced on Thursday, Feb. 13. David Joseph Godfrey, 40, was charged with two counts of sexual abuse of children and one count of criminal use of a communication facility following a search at his Warrington home, police reported. The digital trail began on Aug. 8, 2024, when police detected a computer using BitTorrent to share child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Investigators connected with the suspect’s device multiple times be…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Explicit Files Found On Lancaster Man's BitTorrent Sharing: Manheim Twp. Police Explicit Files Found On Lancaster Man's BitTorrent Sharing: Manheim Twp. Police
Explicit Files Found On Lancaster Man's BitTorrent Sharing: Manheim Twp. Police A Lancaster man is accused of possessing child pornography following an online investigation on the BitTorrent network, Manheim Township police announced on Thursday, Feb. 13. James Vincent Cosentino, 44, was charged with two counts of sexual abuse of children and three counts of criminal use of a communication facility after an investigation at his home on the 100 block of Knollwood Drive, police said. The investigation began on June 8, 2024, when a detective was conducting an online probe on the BitTorrent network related to the sharing of child pornography. The detective downloaded files…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Federal Parolee, Sex Offender Busted Downloading Child Porn At PA Auto Repair Shop: DA Federal Parolee, Sex Offender Busted Downloading Child Porn At PA Auto Repair Shop: DA
Federal Parolee, Sex Offender Busted Downloading Child Porn At PA Auto Repair Shop: DA A convicted sex offender and federal parolee from Bucks and Montgomery counties has been arrested on accusations he downloaded child pornography at the auto repair shop where he worked, police paperwork shows. A Bensalem police detective was running an undercover computer program trying to identify devices within the county that were using the BitTorrent Peer2Peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol to download and share child porn, when he connected with a device at 749 Butler Ave., in New Britain on June 20, according to a criminal complaint filed within the Bucks County DA's office. Dozens of fi…

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by Jillian Pikora & Cecilia Levine