MO - Authorities raid man's home, find 66 child porn videos, St Louis

[Jacie Estes]

A St. Louis man faces child pornography charges after authorities raided his home, and found 66 videos containing suspected child pornography.

Justin Allen, 34, has been charged with two counts of possession of child pornography. Authorities said he is not in custody, and police do not have a photo of him on record.


IMPORTANT: Approximately 11 of the video files seized had victims that have been previously identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/Police-Man-256790261.html

 

[blue22]

Holy cow, this is terrifying. Videos of missing children? Oh my...

 

[Jacie Estes]

Holy cow, this is terrifying. Videos of missing children? Oh my...

Hopefully this break will help to locate these children.

 

[Starry Night]

Wow! It's about time some of these victims are found-in the worst way. I hope to God this branches out and more perps and victims are discovered.

 

[Starry Night]

So-why can't they find him I wonder. Did he have prior knowledge of a raid or warrant?

 

[Starry Night]

Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II please bring a miracle to the families of the victims. Amen

 

[Marie]

Holy cow, this is terrifying. Videos of missing children? Oh my...

No, not missing children. Exploited children. Videos of exploited children... ones who have already been identified from previous cases.

 

[Starry Night]

I am rather shocked there is not much attention to this thread-as it contains definitive evidence of persons missing and/or exploited associated with a fugitive (?).
IMO this is a great breakthrough after 3 years of investigation.

 

[Jacie Estes]

No, not missing children. Exploited children. Videos of exploited children... ones who have already been identified from previous cases.

The fact that they have found so many in this man's house is interesting. Out of 66 videos, there were 11 identified children. Perhaps he is a key person in the making of kiddie porn and, by searching his computers they will find many more children, as well as those who buy/share the porn from him.

 

[Hejlena]

Seems to me it's critical for LE to find a photo of him and publish it ASAP.

 

[chaotic_idealism]

They must have checked to see if there was a driver's license associated with the address... that'd be the easiest way to get a photo, right?

 

[Jacie Estes]

His home was raided 3 years ago, a laptop and SD card were seized then but he was just charged this week. as per this video: http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/Police-Man-256790261.html

 

[blue22]

No, not missing children. Exploited children. Videos of exploited children... ones who have already been identified from previous cases.

Thank you for clarifying. I was so shocked by the first post, I commented before I read the article.

Either way it's terrifying and tragic, but relieved the children are not missing.

 

[fred&edna]

Am I reading this correctly... he's NOT in custody and they have no photo of him?!? And, it's been THREE YEARS since his home was initially raided?! IMO, a three year covert operation on child pornography seems quite a long time.

 

[Jacie Estes]

I have been doing on line searches for over an hour. The story is only on the kmov-tv link right now. People searches found 2 Justin Allen's in the St. L. area but, until there is more info, I won't post any of that.

I'm wondering if it took 3 years to connect him to the porn and when they came to get him he was no longer there. The neighbor in the news video gave no info about his present location.

 

[jggordo]

I believe that the investigation has been a three year long investigation. But the actual search of the property is recent. In other words they just now got the probable cause to search. JMO's

 

[fred&edna]

I believe that the investigation has been a three year long investigation. But the actual search of the property is recent. In other words they just now got the probable cause to search. JMO's

That makes more sense to me... thank you!

 

[Jacie Estes]

I believe that the investigation has been a three year long investigation. But the actual search of the property is recent. In other words they just now got the probable cause to search. JMO's

Starting at 1:05 on this news video, they say they raided the home 3 years ago. http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/Police-Man-256790261.html

 

[Jacie Estes]

Reverse search on address yielded name and phone number. I'll keep searching for more news on this.

 

[fred&edna]

At the end of the video the reporter states, "Police say Allen admitted to the crimes but he's at large."

Sooooo, why is he "at large"?? Who released him and why? Are there public court records?