Original story on Springstead Virginia Beach man convicted of child pornography and obscenity charges

Here is the original story on Mr. disgusting depraved Robert Springstead. The previous article didn't go into the fact that this pedophile predator was exchanging his disgusting child sexual abuse media (commonly knows as child pornography) with other pedophile predators. This makes me very concerned that these children are still being abused. How can people feel that there are not sophisticated networks of pedophile predators who get access to each others child sexual abuse media? There has to be a network of pedophiles. How else would they be able to share there depraved media? How else would they be able to get the media? How come they all haven't been caught if there isn't a network of pedophile predators?

I honestly don't see how taking pictures of children having sex with animals, being harmed by sadomasochism, having adults in their lives that are willing to exploit them is any different then ritual abuse. Why is it so hard to believe that there are adults who will use ritualistic abuse as a way to get their own demented sexual pleasure? I am only sorry that this man didn't get the original 340 years he could have gotten. 17 years for destroying the souls of children isn't anything. I wish there were a way to make these pedophile predators feel the way they make the children that they abuse feel. That my friend would be justice in my opinion. Furious, Rosie

5:19 p.m. EDT, October 21, 2011

NORFOLK, Va. – 28-year-old Robert Springstead was convicted yesterday by a Norfolk federal court on charges of receipt, possession and distribution of images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and receipt and possession of the obscene visual representations of sexual abuse of children. 

 

Springstead faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on January 23.

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Springstead was charged with 11 counts of distribution of child pornography, three counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography, two counts of receipt of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children, and one count of possession of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.

According to court records and evidence at trial, Springstead was identified as trading child pornography on a sophisticated Peer-to-Peer network on the Internet and distributed these images to undercover agents in both Delaware and Texas.

Springstead was also found to be in possession of over 1500 of images and movies of child pornography as well as thousands of images of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.

The case against Springstead was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.