March 14th, 2009
PlayStation-based kiddie porn. What next?
It makes sense when you think about it, but I never did. Seems we have our first case of a PlayStation child predator. The Houston Chronicle reports that 24-year-old Anthony Scott O’Shea was arrested on charges of online solicitation, promotion of kiddie porn and sexual performance of a child.
O’Shea and an 11-year-old Texas girl were playing Warhawk on PS3s when O’Shea convinced the girl to take nude photos of herself and send them to him. The seamy details:
According to court documents, the girl “performed” for the man using a Web camera. She said she met O’Shea playing the game Warhawk and that he had used the screen name “Thunder-kid.”
During interviews with investigators, the girl said that the man “kept pressuring her for more pictures and wanted to set up a meeting with her in order to engage in sexual activity,” the court record states. The girl told the man that she was only 11, according to records.
O’Shea admitted contacting and receiving photos of the girl, so it seems like a pretty open-and-shut case. And it gets worse:
Authorities said they also discovered that O’Shea had distributed the girl’s photos to other people.
