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A Mountain View man was arrested Thursday morning after police found he was allegedly connected to social media accounts used to share hundreds of images and videos of children as young as six months old being sexually abused by adults.
The arrest, which took place at the 31-year-old suspect’s place of work in San Jose around 7 a.m. on Dec. 20, caps off a monthslong investigation into accounts on Tumblr as well as Dropbox containing the illicit images and videos that began in August, according to a statement by the Mountain View Police Department.
“This case is heartbreaking,” Mountain View police Lt. Mike Canfield said in the statement. “It’s unconscionable that any child anywhere is victimized and we will do all we can to ensure that justice is served.”
The department’s cyber crime unit was first alerted to the pornographic images by the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children, which had found the Tumblr account used to share the images. From there, detectives were able to find a Dropbox account associated with those images that contained 300 videos of children being abused, some of whom were six months old, police said.
Detectives used a series of search warrants to link the accounts and associated email addresses to the suspect, identified by police as Marco Cordoba Alfaro. Mountain View police arrested Alfaro without incident, with help from the San Jose Police Department and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.
During a search of Alfaro’s home, police also allegedly found he was in possession of additional child pornography images, police said.
Alfaro was arrested on suspicion of possession as well as distribution of child pornography. He was booked into Santa Clara County jail with a bail set at $25,000, according to the Santa Clara County website.
@Sad. Was that supposed to be satire?
The best way to protect children is to lock these creeps up and see how tolerant the other inmates are of creeps like this. How’s that for a deterrent?
@Sad – No, wanting to rape children and sharing images of children being raped means you should die or rot in jail, not get “support” and “help”. If you were repeatedly raped as a child, as many of us were, you would have NO SYMPATHY at all for someone that completely unhinged and ruined the one life you get. The fact that you have sympathy for them is insulting and disgusting. You are very lucky no one close to you has been hurt like this, because you would never have such a isolated perception on the situation. You live in a lucky little bubble, do not speak on the situation.
THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN? They are RAPING CHILDREN and you think it’s “no fault of their own” and they need support and advice. Wow.
It is shocking that these type of people exist. Equally disturbing is how these under regulated social media sites allow their platforms for such atrocities. It is long overdue to hold these businesses accountable that essentially promote such behavior.
The operative word is “HAD”. If this monster HAD a place to go BEFORE he became a monster, get it? Don’t go judging each other, please.
* if there are spelling/grammar mistakes it is because the font size in this comment box is about 2. Go figure, in the heart of Silicon Vallley.
I highly recommend y’all educate your children if you are shocked about this. 90% of those who are abused are abuse by someone they they.
Also:
1 in 4 females, 1 in 6 males in their lifetimes are sexually abused. Sobering.
Start here for info:
https://laurenskids.org/education/curriculum/
P.s. I was abused my entire childhood.
Just to be clear, this person is not accused of ever touching any children. He’s accused of having and sharing digital files.
I bet that for every actual pedophile (who should be in jail), there must be thousands of people with a sick fetish to see images of children being sexually abused. To be clear, I am not IN ANY WAY defending the existence of such images but I do think it is valuable to make a distinction between someone who gets off on such imagery and those who perpetrate actual sexual violence against children. This suspect is accused only of being the former, a person who had and shared (admittedly repugnant) digital files.
I wish this man had a place to go for counseling, support, and help. These individuals need a place to turn where they can work through their desires without hurting children. Sadly, our society and our medical establishments have turned a blind eye to them.
We must protect children, and the best way to do that is to provide supportive help to those who struggle — through no fault of their own — with the desire to hurt children.