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Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Yahoo
Davenport man faces 23 charges of child pornography
A 20-year-old Davenport man faces child-pornography charges after he was arrested on a warrant, according to Scott County Court arrest affidavits and Scott County Jail records. Tyler Rupe faces 23 felony charges of purchase/possess depiction of a minor in a sex act – first offense, according to Scott County arrest affidavits and Scott County Jail records. On Sept. 28, 2023, arrest affidavits say Davenport Police detectives were assigned a CyberTip investigation from the Iowa Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, which is centered on identifying and prosecuting people who engage in the sexual exploitation of minors through the use of the Internet. Scott County Court arrest affidavits say that three separate reports (two from Microsoft and one from Kik, which is a messaging app that allows users to send messages, photos, videos, GIFs, and even sketches, and supports group chats,) had been made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) ranging in date from July 31, 2021-July 25, 2023, regarding child pornography. 'These reports were found to be linked by a shared IP address,' affidavits show. 'Several search warrants were executed on various ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and social media companies as a part of this investigation,' according to arrest affidavits. Rupe's Dropbox account was seized by law enforcement on or about Oct. 16, 2023, say affidavits, which show 'The account was found to contain 34 videos depicting prepubescent and/or pubescent minor females and/or males in various states of full or partial nudity,' Rupe's cell phone was seized on Jan. 8, 2024, in Davenport, and was found to contain about 190 images depicting prepubescent and/or pubescent children in various states of full or partial nudity, according to affidavits, which say 'Several of these images depict children as young as approximately 4-7 years old. Five of the images were identified by Project Vic as previously identified CSAM (Child Sex Abuse Material).' The phone was found to contain about 75 videos depicting pre-pubescent and/or pubescent children in various states of full or partial nudity, show affidavits, which say 'Several of these videos depict children as young as approximately 4-7 years old. Five of the videos depict minor children engaged in sex acts with animals (bestiality).' After he was read his Miranda Rights, Rupe admitted 'to requesting, receiving and sending child pornography with other users online,' arrest affidavits show, and he 'admitted to having previously viewed child pornography involving a child under the age of 5 years old.' Rupe was being held on a $75,000 bond Saturday in Scott County Jail. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Age
28-04-2025
- Politics
- The Age
Liberal MP jokes that Advance Australia Fair is the ‘best Welcome to Country'
McKenzie gave an impromptu vote of thanks to all speakers and loosed off a glib comment as she praised Gulinello's singing of the national anthem. 'Rebecca, thank you for the best Welcome to Country that I am sure has been delivered,' McKenzie said, to laughter. While the aside landed successfully on the night, such gags may not travel as well beyond Portsea. When contacted afterwards, McKenzie told CBD she would not comment. 'It was a private event.' But not when CBD is in da house, Zoe! McKenzie, a former industrial lawyer and Australia Council for the Arts board member, is facing a stiff challenge from local teal independent Ben Smith, who is swamping the area with volunteers and corflutes, forcing the Liberal Party to spend big, while Dutton's unfavourability is rising in the state. One McKenzie supporter at the garden event told CBD. 'I think Zoe has a fight on her hands.' And the controversy over the fringe literary salon continues. One of the other garden party speakers, sculptor Lisa Roet, got in touch to say she did not know that McKenzie would be speaking. 'It was touted to me as a casual drink and chat in celebration of the writers festival. I am apolitical,' she told CBD. Roet said that she had no idea the garden event was being perceived as an anti-festival or a Liberal Party event, and she remained a 'staunch supporter' of the official festival. She added: 'I am an avid supporter of Indigenous rights and have always supported Welcome to Country ceremony. I believe it is an important part of our reconciliation process as a nation.' Down Sorrento way, emotions are running hot. Front row plus one Governor-General Sam Mostyn 's barrister husband, Simeon Beckett, SC, has impeccable progressive credentials, with a specialisation in human rights and anti-discrimination law, and having served as a counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse. So Beckett might be horrified to discover that he's ended up on Donald Trump 's Truth Social, the media platform created by the US president back before big tech decided to bend the knee last November. Beckett appears in a video of Trump attending Pope Francis ' funeral in the Vatican City at the weekend, seen in the background whipping out his phone to take a video of the passing commander-in-chief like an enthusiastic fan boy. Although to be fair, we'd probably have done the same. We asked Government House for some more details, but didn't hear back. Beckett attended the Pope's funeral along with Mostyn, who represented Australia at an event thrumming with world leaders and swiftly overshadowed, in geopolitical terms, by a brief meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, their first since that heated exchange in the White House earlier this year. Pre-polling day SPOTTED: At the pre-polling station on High Street, Kew, on Saturday, early voters ran the gauntlet of volunteers to enter the empty shopfront which used to be an Australia Post office. Loading Aspiring Kooyong candidate Amelia Hamer stood yarning with state Hawthorn MP John Pesutto, the former state Liberal leader facing potential bankruptcy after losing the Moira Deeming defamation case, which would oust him from parliament. Reportedly, Liberal powerbrokers are lining up to replace Pesutto with Hamer if she fails to take Kooyong from teal independent Monique Ryan. Hamer recently told The Age she regarded Pesutto as a great local member. One can only wonder what the two discussed on a dark and damp Saturday afternoon. Presumably, it's a tad too early for handover notes.
Yahoo
28-01-2025
- Yahoo
Former Pennsylvania school music instructor sentenced for child pornography
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – A former Pennsylvania school music instructor has been sentenced for possessing thousands of child pornography images and videos. The Bucks County District Attorney's office says Christopher Bygott, a former Pennsbury School District music instructor, was sentenced to three years of probation. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Bygott had pled guilty to possession of child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility in September. Bygott was also ordered to undergo sex offender treatment, have no unsupervised contact with minors, and register as a sex offender for at least 15 years. The investigation began in 2023 when two CyberTips were submitted for photos uploaded into an Amazon Photos account. The investigation tied the account to Bygott and linked an IP address to the Pennsbury School District. A forensic examination of his cellphone led to the discovery of 2,000 images and videos of Child Sex Abuse Materials that depicted sexual acts with children of various ages. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
