“The state of Florida has a broken juvenile justice system. The Sheriff’s Office news release said that when the teen was brought to the Department of Juvenile Justice in Daytona Beach, the facility “refused to accept him' and the teen was released to his guardians. Staly said what happened after the teen’s arrest didn’t surprise him, but it did disappoint him. “He did look and distribute some made by others, but he also made some of his own with children significantly younger,” Staly said. The arrest report lists five descriptions of graphic material located on the teen’s phone, including images and videos of children between the ages of 2 and 9 being photographed nude and during abuse. According to the report, the owners of the two homes had a child in common - the 15-year-old boy.Īt the Bunnell-area home, where the 15-year-old lived with his mother and stepfather, according to the arrest report, investigators searched the teen’s computer and found an email that the teen admitted to using for “trading, sharing and selling child images.” The report said investigators also found the PayPal account, which the teen stated that “he received funds for selling child images.” Investigators said they were able to trace the IP addresses to a home in Jacksonville and in the Bunnell area. Evidence showed the images were taken on a Motorola Moto E5 Play.

The report stated the cybertips revealed a name, phone number, date of birth and Gmail account for uploading child abuse images. “To find the first one to be a child himself, creating this child pornography and then selling it on the internet, is really shocking.'Īccording to an arrest report, the Sheriff’s Office cybercrimes unit received cybertips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. When I started this unit a couple of months ago, I assumed that we would have our adults trying to be predators on our children, which is what we want to focus on,” Staly said. “It was astonishing to me was that the suspect was 15-years-old.

The teen, who News4Jax has chosen not to identify, is charged with five counts of possession of child pornography and one count of manufacturing child pornography, according to a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office news release.įlagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said it was the first case that resulted in an arrest since his agency launched its cybercrimes units. – Detectives on Tuesday arrested a 15-year-old boy accused of recording and selling images of child sex abuse.

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