CANANDAGUIA N.Y. – Internet crimes against children are on the rise both locally and nationally. News10NBC recently reported on the arrest of 74 year-old Peter Tonery of Hamlin. State Police say they found more than 820,0000 files of child pornography on his devices.
New York State Police have teams who track down those who target children. Troop E, which covers most of the Rochester and Finger Lakes region, has 7 dedicated investigators who handle hundreds of cases of suspected child porn every year.
Many of those cases are funneled to investigators through the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, internet service providers and/or online sites like Google, Facebook and Twitter. The sheer volume of cases is of concern. “It increases every year, we get more cyber tips every year and basically we’re just trying to manage going and doing the cases and being able to collect the data and try to focus our efforts on specific situations,” explains Sr. Investigator Derek Merritt, who leads the Troop E Computer Crimes Unit.
Priority goes to those tips where there could be a local child victim. “Someone that might be in the house, or someone the person has access to, that’s a little different, that’s… basically, when we get that information it’s all hands on and we try to take care of that right away,” says Investigator Merritt.
But with smart phones, computers, tablets– it can take time to even download possible evidence. “I can remember doing flip phones and opening them up and being able to examine them and they would take maybe 10-15 minutes to do a download on them,” explains Investigator Merritt, “now, you’re talking about terabytes of data where someone’s life is on the phone and you have to be able to extract all that information and that takes a while.”
And then, the team has to go through each and every image, “they (investigators) are all burdened with having to go through all of the information on these devices, they have to look at the images, sometimes we have to describe them in court.” It is a difficult task emotionally, as many of the team members are parents themselves but they do it with one purpose in mind, “in our unit, basically… you’re saving kids. It doesn’t matter if it’s one kid, it doesn’t matter if it’s 20 kids, the one kid that you saved, they’re not getting abused tomorrow,” says Sr. Investigator Merritt.
The NYSP Troop E computer crimes unit has already investigated more than 200 cybercrime tips this year alone.
Peter Tonery, the 74-year-old Hamlin man recently arrested and accused of having more than 800,000 images of child porn, is due back in Hamlin town court on October 28. He is not currently in custody.
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