"These (girl-model) sites may be their way of getting around the law. "It's getting harder for pedophiles to function on the Internet," said Julie Posey, the director of Pedowatch. Groups such as Cyberangels and Pedowatch have picked up the slack by enlisting thousands of volunteers across the globe to scan the Internet for lurid images of children. The number of cases opened by the agency's Innocent Images National Initiative jumped 1,264 percent between 19, according to the FBI's website. The FBI, which declined to be interviewed for this story, is having a hard time keeping tabs on all the could-be child porn that is distributed over the Internet. "The girls model for each other, do each other's hair. Consider Tiffany Teen Model, where for $75, customers can purchase a this video of the 13-year-old and a friend cavorting in thong underwear. Some of the Webe Web images certainly push the arousal envelope, Aftab said. "Whatever any of these websites original intent might have been, it is pretty clear that they have been (put) up for an audience with pedophilic leanings," Sturges wrote.
Sturges, reached by e-mail at a photo shoot in France, looked over the Webe Web sites and concluded that their purpose was less than innocent. Meanwhile, controversial photographer Jock Sturges continues to sell photographs of nude children despite an FBI raid, pickets by angry mobs and a grand jury investigation. It was the first such conviction dealing with this issue in which the genitals were not exposed. In a landmark 1995 case, a Pennsylvania man was sentenced to jail for possessing videotapes of young girls posing provocatively in skimpy clothing. While the law explicitly prohibits images of minors engaged in real or simulated sex, it also forbids depictions of children designed to elicit sexual arousal.
"This is utterly and absolutely distasteful, and I think it would invoke child abuse, but it's probably not illegal," said Aftab. She’d be 24 now, but it’s not clear where her modeling career has taken her.The images on sites such as Lil' Amber fall into a murky legal area, said Parry Aftab, a lawyer and the director of Cyberangels, an Internet safety and education group. The 13-year-old model that was a favorite of both photographers lived in a small town in Polk County back in 2006. Meanwhile, Grady shutdown his True Teen Babes subscription website years ago and moved out of state. “The bottom line is it took them years, but now he’s going to go to jail.” “It’s a shame that it took ten years before he has been arrested,” Fasano said. Unfortunately, according to an FBI indictment, Hardman moved into child pornography, which has always been illegal. It could still be going on today,” Fasano told 8 on Your Side.įasano left the legislature years ago for his new role as Pasco Tax Collector, but he still takes pride in knowing that his legislation helped drive True Teen Babes and David Hardman out of business. “If it wasn’t for you and your station and the investigation that you performed, no one would have known about this. He passed legislation in 2008 that essentially now bans the creation or distribution of sexualized nude photography of underage models that is “harmful to minors.” You would never think someone would exploit a child of that age,” Fasano said. That revelation in our reports provoked outrage by then State Senator Mike Fasano. They both claimed it was perfectly legal, and at the time in Florida, they were right. Hardman featured the same girl in his own sexually suggestive video and photo shoots under the assumed name of “Heather.” In both cases, the photographers characterized their modeling sessions as “glamour photography.” At one point, she embraced Grady in a playful hug. In 2006, our 8 on Your Side investigation exposed a similar teen modeling site called True Teen Babes, operated by James Grady in Clearwater, that featured a 13-year-old model that was also a favorite of Hardman.ĭuring our surveillance, our camera rolled as the 13-year-old girl posed outside of the photographer’s studio while wearing spike heel shoes and little else. When FBI agents arrested David Hardman August 17 in his Brevard County home, they found him crouched in a bathroom trying to load a 9 mm automatic pistol that he later said he was going to use to shoot them. (WFLA) – A Brevard County photographer who was engaged in a teenage sexploitation trade 8 on Your Side helped put out of business eleven years ago is now looking at the possibility of spending 30 years in prison for child pornography and assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon.
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