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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Jail time in porn case
A Tavernier man convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography was sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison Monday.
Michael Maran, of 88976 Overseas Hwy., was arrested in May after a computer sting operation that started in Fort Myers.
U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King sentenced Maran to a total of 293 months in prison on both felony counts.
According to court documents, Maran sent emails that contained images of underage girls having sex with adult men. He sent the images to a computer owned by another child pornography suspect known as "J.H." in Fort Myers, who consented to an FBI search of his email accounts, according to court documents.
Agents found that J.H. received emails from someone under the alias "Jack Frost" using the email address workingthenightshift@live.com. The two allegedly had been exchanging emails after finding each other on a website known as "JBHC," which the agent stated is an Internet acronym for "jailbait hardcore," according to court records.
Maran allegedly sent J.H. images of child pornography on Oct. 14, and four days later sent him 22 images of young girls, some of which agents determined to be pornographic, records state.
In February, the computer company Microsoft provided agents with the IP address assigned to the user of the email account workingthenightshift@live.com, which led them to the Comcast cable TV and Internet provider, which in turn told agents the email address was used at 88976 Overseas Hwy,, court records say.
Agents then raided that residence, where Maran allegedly admitted to using the alias Jack Frost, records state. Agents showed Maran child pornography images that were sent to J.H.'s computer on Oct. 18 and he allegedly admitted sending the pictures, records state.
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It was the distribution that got him.
Submitted on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 6:20am by KeyWestDan
Downloading it is bad enough. Paying for it is worse as it creates a market and motivation for the real sickos who actually exploit children. What did him in was distributing it further. Of course, for two counts, the sentence was excessive as reported. We don't know of course what his criminal history and background was, which is in a sealed presentence report. Most of the time this is a probation offense.
I see cases regularly where there is actual sex and the sentence is much lighter. There are also big differences between being charged by the feds and the state. The real problem is that the feds make an example of people downloading this trash because they are pretty much unable to do much about the producers. Sure there are preverts here making that stuff but much of it comes from Russia and Eastern Europe. Sometimes there are big announcements of arrests, but that is just scratching the surface. Perhaps he got so much time for just being a total moron, but lucky for the law-abiding public, most criminals are morons. Innocent people do get caught up in the system but that was not the case here.
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Sure the Fed can do something
Submitted on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 9:05am by Key West Ugly
about the producers, deny them influential access to the American market they are attempting to convert into acceptance. Create a blacklist, create a browser plugin, allow three reportings of illegal sites per user IP address per year and circulate the blacklist to the ISP's to enforce. Quit mentioning illegal sites in the press, it's advertising.
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Pedobear has got you now...
Submitted on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 1:56pm by Key West Ugly
...enjoy your 24 years of living hell sicko.
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Time for a new plan!!!
Submitted on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 12:49pm by FedUp
We cannot afford to continue locking up for 10, 20, 30 years the 10's of 1000's of people with child porn on their PCs at a cost of $1,000,000 plus each. Maybe it's time to set up work camps so they can at least contribute something instead of milking society. Now if you catch those exploiting these kids... Throw away the key!!!
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The Fed sure can
Submitted on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 8:46am by Key West Ugly
After all they printed up 7.5 trillion dollars to pay for the economic disaster caused by previous Congress buying worthless subprime loans from banks forced through the altered CRI to accept. Convicted sex criminals are the lowest form of life in prison, they will be put to work all right, doing the most disgusting and revolting jobs no other inmate will do. Many inmates lives have been seriously messed up by child molesters, many of the guards and inmates have children, so they don't like pedophiles. The Fed could do a better job of policing the Internet with a robust website block list at the ISP level and the press could do a better job of not mentioning jailbait sites to avoid creating new pedophiles.
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And if he had $$
Submitted on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 11:05am by loaded
He could simply buy his way out of it with the good old american justice system like michael jackson.
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what?
Submitted on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 5:46pm by got beer?
as disgusting as this is, 26 years on the tax payers dime is excessive.
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