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In early July, U.K. police contacted the DHS Homeland Security Investigations unit about a sexually explicit video involving a man and an infant that the British investigators believed was made in America. In an effort to identify both the adult and the child, HSI ran the pair’s faces through an undisclosed facial recognition tool that scanned a mass database of images scraped from the web and social media. It found a match: Scott Barker, a college sports coordinator in Ashland, Missouri, according to a search warrant reviewed by Forbes.
Investigators reviewed Barker’s Facebook profile and found photos that further corroborated the facial recognition match as well as what appeared to be photos of the child in the video, according to the warrant. Two weeks later, Barker was arrested and charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a child. An indictment is yet to be filed and Barker has not yet filed a plea as a result, his lawyer, federal defender Troy Stabenow, told Forbes.
The Baker investigation provides a rare insight into how HSI is using facial recognition tools like Clearview AI to quickly chase down new child exploitation leads. But HSI is also using this type of technology in an unprecedented three-week operation to solve years-old crimes that’s led to hundreds of identifications of children and abusers, according to Jim Cole, who spent over two decades on fighting crimes against minors for the HSI and who pushed the initiative before retiring earlier this year. Cole told Forbes the previously unreported task force started operating out of the HSI Cyber Crime Center in mid-July and ended on August 4.
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Scott Alan Barker, 31, is accused of creating and featuring himself in a video showing child
. The case was file in the Western District of Missouri and was charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a child. A detention hearing is set for Thursday.
On Tuesday, July 11, Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Louis information about a child sex abuse video recovered by United Kingdom law enforcement from a device of a suspect in their own investigation from 2022, according to court documents.
Investigators reviewed Barker’s Facebook profile and found photos that further corroborated the facial recognition match as well as what appeared to be photos of the child in the video, according to the warrant. Two weeks later, Barker was arrested and charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a child. An indictment is yet to be filed and Barker has not yet filed a plea as a result, his lawyer, federal defender Troy Stabenow, told Forbes.
The Baker investigation provides a rare insight into how HSI is using facial recognition tools like Clearview AI to quickly chase down new child exploitation leads. But HSI is also using this type of technology in an unprecedented three-week operation to solve years-old crimes that’s led to hundreds of identifications of children and abusers, according to Jim Cole, who spent over two decades on fighting crimes against minors for the HSI and who pushed the initiative before retiring earlier this year. Cole told Forbes the previously unreported task force started operating out of the HSI Cyber Crime Center in mid-July and ended on August 4.
Exclusive: DHS Used Clearview AI Facial Recognition In Thousands Of Child Exploitation Cold Cases
DHS is using facial recognition and AI to find child abusers and rescue victims in a major new operation underway to solve thousands of cold cases.
www.forbes.com
Scott Alan Barker, 31, is accused of creating and featuring himself in a video showing child
. The case was file in the Western District of Missouri and was charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a child. A detention hearing is set for Thursday.On Tuesday, July 11, Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Louis information about a child sex abuse video recovered by United Kingdom law enforcement from a device of a suspect in their own investigation from 2022, according to court documents.
https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2023/07/17/ashland-man-arrested-for-federal-child-🤬🤬🤬🤬-charge/
the other person interviewed is probably that infant's mother. I can't imagine her shock and revulsion.
