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Joshua S. Billingsley, 18, of Write City MO. was charged Tuesday with sexual assault on a minor.
Police say Billingsley, of the first block of Fir Tree Lane in Wright City, admitted to having sex with a teenager three times in the past month. He was held Tuesday at the Warren County Jail in lieu of $9,000 cash-only bail.
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Rafael Puente, 22, of St. Charles, pleaded guilty Monday of statutory rape and furnishing pornography to a minor. He was sentenced to one year in the St. Charles County Jail.
Puente, of the 5200 block of Independence Road, was accused of having sex with a St. Peters girl, 16, on April 20 2008.
Police also stated that Puente also sent the girl nude photos of himself via his cell phone.
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A new technology know as “SImPLE” is being compared to a “random breath test” for computers and laptops searches for illicit or pornographic images or video has captured the interest of law enforcement agencies nationally, including the Australian Federal Police.
This new software tool was developed at Perth’s Edith Cowan University in partnership with Western Australia Police, which is now in the early stages of beta-testing the new technology.
The system enables officers on the front line - regardless of computer competency or level of training - to know on the immeatelty if a computer contains illicit images or video.
The systems main purpose is to apprehend the users of child pornography. Collectors of child porn often migrate into abusers at some point. Often it’s not a case of “if” but rather “when.”
The new tool, which received additional input from the AFP, is planned for release in early 2009.
Known as Simple Image Preview Live Environment (SImPLE), the tool is heralded as the new frontier fighting cybercrime – especially child pornography.
The SImPLE system uses a cut-down version of a Linux kernel and may be installed on almost any standard operating system.
Washtington Police computer crime squad Detective, Senior Sergeant Tim Thomas states that the tool will enable investigators to more quickly access information relevant to cases where children are in danger.
“Assuming that SImPLE goes the way we hope, we would plan for a very wide deployment in the agency,” says Thomas.
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