https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-state-department-employee-pleads-guilty-to-production-of-child-pornography/2018/07/02/de87ebee-7e29-11e8-be66-97f22a9419d1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eef1c066b262
July 2, 2018
A former State Department employee pleaded guilty Monday to the production of child pornography, prosecutors said.
Skydance MacMahon, 44, of Alexandria was a digital media administrator at the Foreign Services Institute of the U.S. Department of State in Arlington when he conspired to create more than 1,000 sexually explicit images of minor children, United States attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement.
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More: https://nworeport.me/2018/07/09/former-hillary-clinton-state-dept-employee-pleads-guilty-to-child-rape/
A mother from Halifax, Canada has also been charged in connection with the child sex case. According to investigators, the mother, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child victims, was working with MacMahon as part of an elite pedophile ring that was trafficking children across borders to be sold into sex slavery and child porn.
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26 YEAR SENTENCE:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/former-state-department-employee-sentenced-producing-child-pornography
According to court documents, over at least a two year period, Skydance MacMahon, 45, conspired with an adult in Canada to produce over a thousand sexually explicit images and videos of minor children in Canada. These images and videos were produced at the direction of MacMahon using Skype and hidden cameras as well as overt recording. MacMahon distributed these image and video files to other users and consumers of child pornography by providing access to the files on his cloud storage services and also by directly sending the files to other users. In addition to the child pornography images and videos MacMahon himself created, he also received and possessed thousands of images and videos of child pornography.
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think- ago
'MacMahon had the woman set up a clock with a hidden camera in her bathroom. While he was at work at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia, he streamed live video from that camera of the woman and her 9-year-old daughter.
Prosecutors say MacMahon, 44, produced more than 1,000 sexually explicit images of children in Canada, and had thousands of other images and videos in his possession.
Investigators caught MacMahon by following a digital trail, using information from Dropbox, Comcast, Facebook and the app
Federal government agencies are combatting voluminous and criminal pornography viewing by employees, an investigation by the News4 I-Team found.
First, a sex offender in Hamilton Township, Ohio, admitted to sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl. He told police in November 2017 that he used Kik to trade images of the abuse for other child pornography.
He gave his phone to police, and they found Dropbox folders containing child porn. Many of the images and videos showed a woman and a girl. The folders also included two non-pornographic photos of a man.
Investigators subpoenaed Dropbox for account information, including the users' IP addresses. One account was linked to an IP address at the Foreign Service Institute and a second IP address elsewhere. Law enforcement subpoenaed Comcast to learn the second location. It was the Alexandria home of a woman called J.M. in court documents.
Then, public Facebook pages helped investigators.
Authorities found J.M.'s Facebook page and saw photos of the man they saw in the Dropbox folder. It was MacMahon. On his Facebook page, officials saw a comment from a woman. Her page showed that she and her daughter were the woman and child in the child pornography in the Dropbox folder. They lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the woman's page said.
On March 15, Canadian police arrested the woman, called K.C. in court documents. She told police she had known MacMahon for about 12 years. She said that for about a year, she had sexually assaulted her daughter and made photos and videos for MacMahon.
K.C. told police MacMahon sent her the clock with the hidden camera and told her how to set it up.
On March 16, law enforcement interviewed MacMahon. He admitted to using the hidden camera to watch K.C. and her child. He said he used Kik and Dropbox on his work iPhone and had child pornography in his office at the Foreign Service Institute.
"Skydance MacMahon admitted that the investigators would find and view child pornography in his Dropbox account that remained on his personal laptop currently in his office," court documents say.
MacMahon, who is married with at least one child, told investigators he never touched a child sexually.'
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Federal-Employee-Used-His-Work-Phone-to-Make-Child-Pornography-487160371.html
Truthseeker3000 ago
Absolutely revolting. What sick pieces of shit. That poor girl having her own mother sexually abuse her among many others. I hope she will be placed in good therapy in a loving environment to heal as much as she can from this. And ‘Skydance’ what the hell kind of name is that? Sounds like a real stand up guy. Wonder who’s got the IP list now???
think- ago
I guess it's in the trash bin. /s They made a plea agreement with him. So he only pleaded guilty to selling cp to one customer.