"Keep the girls under 13, in fact I really need to see 12 and younger to know your (sic) a brother," the rules stated, according to court documents. In order to apply for membership to Dreamboard, applicants were required to upload child pornography featuring victims under 12 years old. The rules for Dreamboard were printed in English, Russian, Japanese and Spanish. Operation Delego was launched by the Justice Department in 2009 to investigate Dreamboard. Lindsay was allegedly a member of the Dreamboard online messageboard, which federal investigators described as a "private, members-only, online bulletin board that was created and operated to promote pedophilia and encourage the sexual abuse of very young children, in an environment designed to avoid law enforcement detection." "He'd say, 'I was just coming to the pool to get a tan.' And I said, 'No, you're not. Rather, Lindsay would carry his entire hard drive with him everywhere he went.Ī teen girl who was also one of Lindsay's neighbors said she was always "creeped" out by him when he was at the pool with children around. "Every time he left his apartment and every time he came back." They came out with boxes of stuff."īyington wasn't surprised to hear that law enforcers were looking at Lindsay for possible child porn. But a large group of agents "went through (the apartment) for hours," Byington said. "The police kicked down the door," she said. Nicole Byington, one of Lindsay's neighbors, said she remembers the day federal agents came to his apartment. Two of those people, Lindsay, 31, and Shane Turner, 30, were from Utah. The details of what the defendants were required to do to keep their membership within the group are disturbing.Ī total of 72 people around the world were charged in three indictments and one complaint that were unsealed. The case is being called the largest prosecution in the United States of an international criminal network organized to sexually exploit children.
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