I have taken a plea deal of 10 years probation which from what I gather the first year is heck and then after that things start to look up. 10 years for csam, one photo, one singular picture was downloaded in file off of groomercord from a scam.
This photo I downloaded I obviously did not know the poor victims involved, but the photo had names, ages and different sexual words attached to it inside the main file. The image depicted multiple children of all ages committing "acts". The multiple ages was named on the photo itself not the folder but the image, which included multiple ages had the ages listed under it which under sora in nys counts against me. My attorney told me today even though the image was deleted and reported they can still prove possession no matter how long you had possession of it.
The police investigators said it was a scam, the DA said it was scam, my own lawyers said it was a scam one freaking photo. Happened a little more then a year ago, it was downloaded off of groomercord.
Once downloaded I opened it released this is crazy deleted it and reported the server to groomercord because I couldn't not find the original link, and reported the media file link to Google. Thought that was all I had to do.
According to two lawyers the one I paid to talk to and my public defender all they need to do is show you had it on your device, even if you didn't open it they can run checks on your hard drive to see it deleted and that's cause for possession. No mal intent is needed for cause of possession, because I did download it and it was opened even if for a seconds.
Turns out my Google drive was set to save all my downloaded files so I wouldn't lose things I had previously downloaded. Automatically backing up to Google drive it was reported and thus began heck.
Woke up and saw my entire Google account was suspended because of child endangerment. Made my case to Google twice they didn't have any of it. Thought that when it was reported ncmac or whatever it's called would see that happened. They didn't seem to care.
Fast forward to two days before Christmas I'm worn up out of bed to banging on my door, full on nysp task force and homeland security just walked right in, no warrant papers and I was tired. They took everything and brought me to the station, nothing but very loose pj's bottoms and t shirt in below zero weather. I was at the sp station for around 5-6 hours I explained the entire situation. Which I now know I should've kept my mouth shut.
they charged me for possession under 16 because the file was downloaded and opened, they could see it was deleted and reported. But I still opened the file, downloaded it and it was saved to my drive.
I was 21 at the time, my job at the hospital was good but not good enough for a real attorney so I got stuck with a public defender.
Fast forward to last June my public defender contacted me, and said a plea was made I was looking at a 4/5 split 4 years in county 5 years probation. I basically broke down crying again. I begged my public defender to work out where I wouldn't have to go to prison. She heard back from the da later that day and said 10 years probation 20 years registered. She said I had to respond that day with an answer or the DA would push for federal prison. She told me, my only option would be this plea.
I've pleaded my innocence and it seems people were hearing me, but no one in the court was listening. My public defender doesn't even listen to me.
I would never hurt a child, take a child's innocence, I would never want to watch children in that way. I saw that photo and immediately deleted and reported it. Even during the interview with the probation office they pulled and could see it all, even with all of that I'm not going to be labeled a monster.
Thank God I have family, friends and even past co workers who I've talked to about this and they couldn't believe. These are people who I have baby sat for, I've watched their kids over night. I even watched my little cousin for a week while his parents were out. Nothing happened, I had a greater career starting at the hospital and I won't be able to go back.
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My computer was hand built by me for gaming. Great components, ran VR on Elite Dangerous perfectly, everything was great until November of '18. Then it started stuttering, turning itself back on after I shut it down, internet connection was going to crap. I looked into it a little but I was working a lot of overtime so I didn't really dig deeply enough to figure out what was going on. I'll admit I had a porn addiction to legal stuff. Long story short, bad day, had a bit of a meltdown and just sat at my computer clicking links and didn't really pay attention. That's when I saw the illegal pic. As mentioned, after that day it seems was when my computer started acting screwy. I surmised I had some type of malware on my computer. Attorney says to write up a detailed letter about everything. I do so, several pages worth of info about me, my career, volunteer work, family, etc, as well as the issues with my computer that is now in state custody and my theory on what happened. I never received a reply, but all of a sudden I'm told all but the one count will be dropped if I take the minimum mandatory 5 years. All the time I'm in jail people are saying if you go to trial they will max you out. 5 years vs 25 years, what would you choose? I'd never been in jail before and didn't know how the system worked. So I take the plea.
The only time I lied under oath was when the judge asked me if I was threatened or intimidated into taking the deal. Honestly, yes, I was, but I did not say so. I've since served my time and was released back in May. I'm now in a different state living with family. I was convicted of possession, and I learned that the act of possession is satisfied if an image is present on a monitor. It didn't matter that I didn't save, print, share, or do anything but delete the image. Intent doesn't mean a thing, no matter what the law may state.
I wonder if my conviction was political in nature? I was arrested by a task force that was ongoing. I was caught in a wide net set by the attorney general who promptly held a press conference about all the dangerous predators he took off the street. He's since run for governor on a tough on crime platform and was elected. But now he's butting heads with the ethics board, gave himself more control over them, removed transparency protections in state government and got a justice reform package pushed through that eliminated parole for most offenders. The DA that got the credit for my conviction is now trying to defend himself against a former death row inmate for fabricating evidence and tampering with a witness in order to secure a conviction. That poor ex inmate got his case overturned in the US Supreme Court. The DA has been trying to use a qualified immunity defense, but the judge hearing his case isn't having it.
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Some people are able to display their intelligence by going on at length on a subject and never actually saying anything. This ability is most common in trades such as politics, public relations, and law. You have impressed me by being able to best them all, while still coming off as an absolute idiot.
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I stopped downloading big torrents of lots of stuff because I saw stories like this. They're probably bogus, but that's what I would think right? What kind of people risk hearing a convicted p-do out? Cops are always above board and not lazy, right?
Better safe than sorry.
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