Thief tips off police after finding child porn during break-in
Monday, November 27th, 2006 - 11:53pm
I have a pretty low opinion of anyone who would be scummy enough to try to break into my home, but it's great to see that some burglars detest child pornography enough to do something about it.
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RED DEER, Alta. (CP) "” A Red Deer man has been jailed after an outraged burglar spotted massive amounts of child pornography on his computer and called police.William Mitchell, who pleaded guilty earlier this year in Red Deer provincial court, was charged in October 2005 after RCMP, acting on an anonymous tip, searched his home. An agreed statement says that someone had broken into Mitchell's residence and taken a video camera. The camera, the tipster said, had images of child pornography and would be left on the steps of a church.
Police retrieved the camera and soon realized the burglar had videotaped a computer monitor displaying images of child pornography.
Following the address printed on the burglar's note, police seized computer equipment containing 13,315 pornographic images.
Mitchell will remain in jail until he is sentenced on Dec. 1.
Cpl. Greg Brown of Red Deer City RCMP said outside the court that the burglary remains unsolved.
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I found it pretty funny this happened in Canada, cause this is something I think could only happen here. Someone breaks the law but still finds time to report a crime.
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I wonder what the initial motive for the break in was. Was it to pilfer electronics or collect vigilante evidence to put away a suspected child porn dealer? Seems odd that the only item taken was used for that end and returned. I'm not saying that would be right, just wondering.
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I'm guessing this guy's a Chaotic Good, at least?
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Good job. Those guys deserve lifelong jail time and a swift kick in the nuts every morning, midday, evening and night.
But it's indeed a good question to ask what the real motive was for this burglary.
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On the point of the burglar's intent, the way the article is worded, I'm not sure whether the camera is the only thing that was taken or whether it was merely the only item interesting for the story.
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So the guy stole something, noticed porn on it, returned it, and then reported it to the cops? In the US, that would present a HUGE chain of custody issue.
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He wasn't outgoing about it by any means. He waited until after he'd been busted and then he tried to use the kiddie porn as a get out of jail free card.
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What article did you read?
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I'm with Paleo... the article also stated that the camera was used to tape the amount of pron on the PC as well (correct me if I'm wrong, too lazy to check). Problem here is, how do the police prove that the thief didn't put the pron on there himself? His lawyers should have an easy time with this one.
The idea of a vigilante doling out justice sounds funny, as long as he doesn't end up spoiling legit investigations.
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Thats awesome. Ironic, but awesome.
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What's weird about it is that the way the story makes it sound, the thief breaks into the house, takes the video camera, then sits down at the computer and boots it up so he can examine the hard drive, then spends a while video-taping the images. That doesn't sound like the actions of a burglar worried about getting caught.
Computer forensics. Once they have reasonable cause they can get a warrant and look into his Internet habits and investigate his computer.
Although I hear that Canadian justice is just a group of people in flannel saying, "He looks guilty, eh?" "Ya, sure." Then they feed him to polar bears.
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The files should be timestamped by the operating system, showing what time/date they were copied onto the HDD, or last modified. As long as the files weren't all copied on the HDD during the time frame of the robbery, the prosecution should be able to shoot down that defense quite easily.
I agree, but then again, if he/she was staking out the house, the robber might have known that the owner would have been gone for a while. This could have easily happened while the person was at work, and the robber knew they had 8 hours to finish up.
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I'm no expert (although I'm an IT auditor and working on eventually calling myself an expert), but computer forensics and timestamping (which is the easiest "control" to falsify in the book) is all fine when there was an investigation against this person, a warrent is obtained fairly, and the police seized the material directly from the perp/perv, but since another criminal with very unusual interest in documenting evidence against his own victim, has had time with the guys camera and PC before the police got a hold of it, and seizure of evidence was based on a tip from a criminal in the commission of another crime... should put plenty of reasonable doubt into the equation. As I said, the lawyers should have no problem getting this thrown out or pleaded out low (unless he is actually in the videos).
Again, the story sound funny unless this actually spoils the case against him.
Or I should stop watching Law and Order.
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Sorry, my bad. I saw the old date and thought they were just repeating the same story from last year where that was the case. In my attempts to find the original story I've found that the situation isn't that rare.
http://www.litwc.com/2006/05/08/thief-risking-a-life-term-to-protect-a-c...
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You left out the part about them all clinking their Molson bottles together and saying, "Case closed, eh!"
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