{"id":15388,"date":"2021-09-30T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=15388"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:30:21","slug":"polk-sheriff-grady-judd-briefed-media-on-child-pornography-sting-that-located-3-victims-resulted-in-16-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/09\/30\/polk-sheriff-grady-judd-briefed-media-on-child-pornography-sting-that-located-3-victims-resulted-in-16-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk Sheriff Grady Judd Briefed Media On Child Pornography Sting That Located 3 Victims &#038; Resulted In 16 Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheriff Grady Judd will brief the media this morning, Thursday, September 30, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., at the Sheriff\u2019s Operations Center (1891 Jim Keene Blvd., Winter Haven) about \u201cOperation Guardians of Innocence VII,\u201d an investigation by the PCSO Computer Crimes Unit which focused on identifying those who possess and distribute child pornography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live: Sheriff Grady Judd announces 16 arrests after child porn sting\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kaZoBOF1TXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation resulted in the location of at least three victims, as well as the arrests of 16 men who are facing more than 2,770 felony charges. Child pornography included thousands of photos and videos depicting babies, toddlers, and children being sexually battered and forced to engage in sex acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the vilest crimes is the sexual abuse of children. Those arrested in this operation not only create a market for the sexual abuse and rape of babies and children worldwide, every time these images and videos are uploaded and shared, these innocent children are victimized over and over again. As you know, this is only the beginning \u2013 once we serve search warrants and seize these suspect&#8217;s devices, forensic analysis will be conducted, and we will, in all likelihood, be adding more child pornography charges. This is also an example of why it is so important for parents and guardians to ensure parental controls are enabled on all of your child\u2019s devices.\u201d \u2013 Grady Judd, Sheriff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=922726951929075&amp;set=pcb.895719554387156&amp;__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXNt4wZ9DcIk4T5ZzIG-bwEX_jdv9n7yJzJ-EIGIfGqU29clcj3-GZOqtbQgs5l4yFU8GfxK_iDm4ncJwjD-18_OFY324qi5vRJZEAtXe1pne55H0VMsIL2ehvKK3u3emRQq4aEVttzVHtA1f65Pys0CZ3oK6ckNODaf5p1Ai8s7YWzWjgfWPlj7A0E8zpQWxM&amp;__tn__=*bH-R\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=922726951929075&amp;set=pcb.895719554387156&amp;__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXNt4wZ9DcIk4T5ZzIG-bwEX_jdv9n7yJzJ-EIGIfGqU29clcj3-GZOqtbQgs5l4yFU8GfxK_iDm4ncJwjD-18_OFY324qi5vRJZEAtXe1pne55H0VMsIL2ehvKK3u3emRQq4aEVttzVHtA1f65Pys0CZ3oK6ckNODaf5p1Ai8s7YWzWjgfWPlj7A0E8zpQWxM&amp;__tn__=*bH-R\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff Grady Judd will brief the media this morning, Thursday, September 30, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., at the Sheriff\u2019s Operations Center (1891 Jim Keene Blvd., Winter Haven) about \u201cOperation Guardians&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[1299],"class_list":["post-15388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner","tag-3-victims-resulted-in-16-arrests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}