This just backs up what we and many others have said for years. If a person is intent on committing a crime online, looking for child porn or social networks, they will. Violating someone's constitutional right of privacy for false security, is always bad, and unconstitutional also, if the Constitution was worth anything still.
08/18/2011
By Alex Tiegen
A registered sex offender living in Land O’ Lakes remained behind bars Thursday on charges related to email addresses that he is accused of creating and using to access child pornography.
The man, 38, was arrested Wednesday on 17 charges of failure to register as a sex offender, according to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office detective.
The man failed to register 17 email addresses to law enforcement but it is unknown how many were being used to watch and download child pornography, according to Kevin Doll, spokesman for Sheriff's Office. Registering email addresses is requirement in Florida for sex offenders. The pornography accusations are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The man’s classification as a sex offender stems from a conviction of a lewd and lascivious act charge in Hillsborough County in 2000. He most recently signed a notice of his responsibilities as a sex offender May 10, 2011. It was his 10th, according to the detective’s report.
Detectives discovered the IP addresses of the man’s registered email address matched the IP of his unregistered e-mail address. The man told detectives during a non-custodial interview that he created and used the unregistered e-mail addresses.
- Well this was just a lucky break, because many ISP's rotate IP addresses, and that means not everyone gets and keeps the same address. I am sure they had no clue what his IP address was, based on an email address, unless the ISP he uses assigns IP addresses and never changes them, which I doubt.
Arrested Wednesday was [name withheld], who lives on Saint Lukes Road in Land O’ Lakes. He is in Land O’ Lakes Jail pending $170,000 bail.
