Cyber Division Strategic Outreach & Initiatives Section

1. Cyber DivisionStrategic Outreach & Initiatives Section Innocent Images National Initiative UnitandInnocent Images Operations Unit

2. The Innocent Images National Initiative (IINI), a component of FBI’s Cyber Division, is a cyber-focused, intelligence-driven, proactive, multi-agency investigative program to combat the proliferation of child pornography and other types of child sexual exploitation crimes facilitated by child predators.

3. How did Innocent Images begin? • Launched with a missing child investigation in Maryland • Subjects identified using chat rooms to exchange child exploitation material • 1995: FBI Baltimore initiated the first UCO • 1997: Congress began funding Innocent Images

4. Innocent Images Priority Classifications • 305A: Electronic Groups/Organizations/Enterprises for Profit • 305C: Producers/Manufacturers/Traders of Child Pornography

5. Innocent Images Statistics • 237 Agents dedicated in the field • 5,952 Open Investigations • 38 Group II Undercover Operations (UCO) • 1 Group I UCO at FBIHQ • 473 Arrests FY09 • 45 Information & Indictments FY09 • 552 Convictions FY09

6. Innocent Images National Initiative Unit • Program management for National Initiative • Oversees all Undercover Group II Operations • Develops policy • Conducts liaison with federal partners • Training for all Innocent Images online covert employees • Domestic and International training for our law enforcement partners • Research and Development

8. IINI Forensic Laboratory • Established in Linthicum, MD • Comprised of ten Cyber Forensic Examiners (CART Certified) • The Lab assists with: • Complex forensic IINI examinations; • The IINI forensic backlog; • Research and development of high-tech tools for IINI investigations

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10. Innocent Images Operations Unit • Conducts complex national and international investigations • Innocent Images International Task Force • Group I Undercover Operation

11. Innocent Images International Task Force • Created in 2004 • Comprised of child sexual exploitation officers from across the world • Fosters real-time exchange of child pornography and intelligence globally • Virtual Special Interest Group on www.LEO.gov for current and former International Task Force Officers

12. Innocent Images International Task Force Canada Dominican Republic Greece Italy Japan Mexico Spain Spring 2009 Task Force

13. Innocent Images International Task Force Statistics To Date: • 3,000 leads forwarded domestically • 1,000 leads disseminated internationally • 67 countries have received IIITF leads

14. Innocent Images Case Study #1:Subject Ivory Dickerson • Consensual monitoring by Cyber Agents showed intrusion utilizing the Bifrost Trojan • IINI Agents identified 20+ hacker tool applications • Subject utilized IP Addresses in North Carolina, Saudi Arabia and Thailand to conduct intrusions into “child-victims” computers • Evidence found indicates as many as 3,000 victims • 12/10/2007: Subject sentenced to 110 years in federal prison

15. Innocent Images Case Study #2:Subject James Huskey • 2006: Australian police contacted IINI about international ring of CP collectors with U.S. ties • Clues included: shots of a Pontiac Aztec registered in GA; Mary Kay cosmetics; mother’s MySpace page with family photos; a unique bedspread; a hotel room in GA • FBI RH set leads to FBI AT • 06/2008: Huskey arrested – married father of two, preacher’s son and youth tennis instructor • 03/2009: Huskey sentenced to 70 years for production, receipt and distribution of CP

16. Innocent Images Case Study #2:Subject James Huskey FBI Richmond worked with local law enforcement to locate the victim and subject.

17. Innocent Images Case Study #2:Subject James Huskey

18. Innocent Images Case Study #2:Subject James Huskey’s Confession

19. Innocent Images Case Study #2:“Tori” Series • Plate indicates a date of birth of July 21, 1995 • Child’s name is Victoria • FBI subpoena of Social Security Administration yields 49 potential leads

20. Innocent Images Case Study: “Tori” Series • NH Division worked with RH Division to perform surveillance on subject’s home • 03/30/2009: Child interviewed in Greenwich, CT, and disclosed abuse • 04/2009: Subject Bill Ohene, former boyfriend of Tori’s mother, arrested for child pornography production

21. IINI Image Catalog • Created in collaboration with NCMEC • Serves as a single repository for images/videos of child sexual abuse • Central location of comparison for law enforcement • Vehicle to determine distribution of images

22. Cyber TipLine and Innocent Images • Review all CyberTips where subject jurisdiction cannot be determined • Triage 125+ per day • 2500+ per month • Issue administrative subpoenas to ISPs • Set leads and provide case packets to the Field and Legats

23. CyberTip Case Study: #437956Subject Eric Lacey • Yahoo! Reported CP was uploaded to Flickr account • 02/2007: IINI sent investigative packet to FBI MP • 03/2007: Indicted and became a fugitive • 04/2008: Photo featured on AMW and arrested one day later • Pled guilty to possession and sentenced to 5 years

24. Cyber TipLine and Innocent Images Statistics

25. Cyber TipLine and Innocent Images Statistics

26. QUESTIONS? SSA Jacqueline Dougher Innocent Images National Initiative Jackie.dougher@ic.fbi.gov