{"id":16022,"date":"2015-09-29T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=16022"},"modified":"2015-09-29T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:58:23","slug":"catfish-gets-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-promoting-child-pornography-on-international-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=16022","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Catfish&#8221; Sentenced to Life in Prison for Promoting Child Pornography on International Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOUISIANA<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/U.S.-Western-District-Court-Louisiana.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16026 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/U.S.-Western-District-Court-Louisiana.gif\" alt=\"U.S. Western District Court Louisiana\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>A federal judge sentenced a Kenyan child pornography producer to life in prison on Monday for participating in Dreamboat, a child sexual exploitation website, officials announced today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Musomba Maweu<\/strong>, 52, who was extradited from Kenya to the United States in September 2014, plead guilty in April before <strong>U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr<\/strong>. of Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said\u00a0Maweu was considered a<strong> \u201cSuper VIP\u201d<\/strong> member of Dreamboard, a designation that was given to members who were prominent on the site and produced their own child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted to one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise.\u00a0 In addition to serving the prison term, Maweu will be required to register as a sex offender, the judge ordered.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his guilty plea,\u00a0Maweu admitted that, using the online alias \u201cCatfish,\u201d he posted 121 messages on the Dreamboard website \u2013 a private, members-only online bulletin board.<\/p>\n<p>The board promoted pedophilia and encouraged the sexual abuse and exploitation of very young children in an environment designed to avoid detection by law enforcement \u2013 including 34 posts containing child pornography that he produced.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the prosecution of Maweu was the result of <strong>Operation Delego<\/strong>, an investigation launched in December 2009 that targeted individuals around the world for their participation in Dreamboard.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 72 individuals, including Maweu, were charged as a result of Operation Delego, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 57 of those defendants have been arrested either in the United States or abroad, and 49 have either pleaded guilty or been convicted after trial.\u00a0 Sentences have ranged between five years to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations or ICE, the Child Exploitation Section of ICE\u2019s Cyber Crime Center, the Criminal Division\u2019s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, CEOS\u2019 High Technology Investigative Unit, and 35 ICE offices in the United States and 11 ICE attaches offices in 13 countries around the world, with assistance provided by numerous local and international law enforcement agencies across the United States and throughout the world, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>This case was brought as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Project-Child-Save.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2457 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Project-Child-Save-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Project Child Save\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Project-Child-Save-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Project-Child-Save-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Project-Child-Save.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>,<strong>Project Safe Childhood,\u00a0<\/strong>a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISIANA A federal judge sentenced a Kenyan child pornography producer to life in prison on Monday for participating in Dreamboat, a child sexual exploitation website, officials announced today. 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