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Girl's apparent abuser in prison
Friday, May 13, 2005 Posted: 6:18 PM EDT (2218 GMT)

(CNN) -- The apparent abuser of a young girl seen on child pornography Web sites is already in a federal prison, an FBI spokesman told CNN Friday.

The spokesman said the man is serving the first year of a 15-year prison term, and that the girl has been located and is safe.

The spokesman wouldn't give further details, citing the open case. Investigators in Toronto and elsewhere were being notified of the latest development, he added.

The plight of the girl, believed to live in the northeastern United States or southeastern Canada, was brought to the attention of Toronto Detective Sgt. Paul Gillespie in 2003 by European authorities. Gillespie heads the child exploitation team of Toronto's Sex Crimes Unit.

Toronto authorities believe the blonde girl was 9 or 10 years old at the time the photos were taken and may now be in her teens.

In some of the estimated 200 pictures she is featured in, she is sitting on a motorcycle.

Gillespie said he believed the girl grew up with abuse -- and that her alleged abuser is someone close to her, like a father or uncle.

Frustrated in their efforts to find her, he and his colleagues devised in February an innovative technique to elicit tips from the public.

Since showing the face of an underage victim of child pornography is illegal, detectives used computer software to erase the girl from a photograph, leaving only her outline and the crime scene.

That generated a lead. Someone recognized the bedspread on which the girl was posing as belonging to Walt Disney's Port Orleans Resort French Quarter in Orlando, Florida.

But the information was of little help, Gillespie said, because of the hundreds of guests who stay at the hotel and the lack of an exact time frame. Police believe the room photo was two or three years old.

Photo of a possible witness
As part of the investigation shifted to Florida, state and Canadian law enforcement officials decided to try another way of getting information.

On April 27 they publicized the picture of a dark-haired young girl, reclining on a couch, whom authorities described as a possible witness.

Investigators believe the couch on which she is sitting is the same used in photos -- albeit in another location -- of the blonde girl posing sexually. Investigators said they did not know where the photo of the dark-haired girl was taken, whether she witnessed any acts of abuse or was a victim herself.

Authorities said they also found the image of the dark-haired girl on child pornography Web sites, but she was not photographed inappropriately. They did not say specifically what the girl may know. She appears to be about 11.

Officials said they decided to release the picture of the possible witness because they felt she may yield information on the sex-abuse victim, who was believed to be in "severe danger."

It is not clear whether this picture yielded enough clues to lead authorities to the alleged sex-abuse victim's suspected abuser.

According to Gillespie, of the estimated 50,000 children seen daily on online pornography, police worldwide have identified fewer than 500 -- or just 1 percent.

CNN's David Mattingly contributed to this report.

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Pictures of adopted Russian girl showed up on porn sites
Wednesday, June 1, 2005 Posted: 10:58 PM EDT (0258 GMT)

(CNN) -- An adoptive father serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for producing Internet pornography depicting his preteen daughter now faces 11 state charges, the district attorney's office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said Wednesday.

Conviction on all counts could result in a life sentence, said the Allegheny County District Attorney's office.

The man's name is being withheld to protect the girl's identity. The Pittsburgh engineer was convicted in 2003 on federal charges of producing and possessing child pornography involving the girl.

The Russian-born, blond-haired child was 5 when he adopted her as a single parent. He was 45.

Now about 11, she was adopted by a family in another state and is living under a new name, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan for the Western District of Pennsylvania told reporters last month.

The girl was the focus of an intense search by Canadian police beginning in 2003.

It ended a few weeks ago when word came that the girl had been rescued by federal agents in the United States and that her father was in prison.

Police have said more than 200 sexually explicit photos of the girl remain on the Web and are traded by pedophiles.

The 11 new charges the man faces are: child rape, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, sex abuse of a child, sex abuse photography, unlawful restraint, incest, obscenity, corruption of a minor, and indecent assault

He is to be arraigned June 23, said the district attorney's office in Pittsburgh.

Police in Orlando, Florida, became involved in late April when their counterparts in Toronto, Ontario, tipped off by European authorities, released a photo of a room where the girl was allegedly abused.

Because the Toronto authorities were unable to show the underage victim, they digitally removed her from the photos, but left intact the rooms and other surroundings for public scrutiny,

Someone recognized the bedspread in a photo as one used in Walt Disney's Port Orleans Resort French Quarter in Orlando.

Investigators believe the photos indicate the father took the girl to Orlando in June 2001.

Buchanan, the U.S. attorney, said FBI agents were carrying out a search warrant for child pornography on the man's Pittsburgh home in 2003 when they discovered the child.

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