Two arrested for child porn in two days

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA - Two men get arrested for child porn in two days and another man gets sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Many law enforcement groups now have cyber crime divisions, but tips leading to arrests often come from outside the department.

One of these arrests came about after a woman received a used remote technical support services . Another came from a remote computer help repair company.

"My reaction was I was sick to my stomach. It is just a horrible thing to see to even contemplate," Jon Levin, owner of remote computer help Help USA said.

It's only happened once in the ten-year history of his company.

"My technician, Mike, comes into my office and says, 'Jon, come here. You've got to see this,' and as we're watching this thing scroll through we're seeing all kinds of names that we know just are not right."

A routine virus scan turned up 194 pornographic images and videos of children between the ages of four and 14 on a remote computer help owned by Scott Ward, 27, of Golden Gate Estates.

Ward received a 40 year prison sentence this week.

"I have children of my own. I mean, granted, they're older, but at one time they were little kids and the thought of anybody doing to my children would provoke a violent reaction in me," Levin said.

Investigators say people who get caught with child pornography are usually one step away from acting out against a child.

"That's why we're actively trying to do this stuff. We don't want them to take that next step," Scott Rapisarda, with the Collier County Sheriff's Office, said.

And that's why investigator enlist help from everyone to pursue these predators.

"remote computer repair places, we still get those consistently because they have access to the whole hard drive," Rapisarda said.

"There is a paper trail, a digital paper trail on this," Levin said.

remote computer help USA has a strict privacy policy against going though a client's personal files, but the routine virus scan found the porn. Now a days there is also remote computer help at hand for pensioners

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