POLK COUNTY, Fla. – Officials with the Polk County Sheriff's Office said they arrested 11 people and filed 660 felony charges during an operation targeted at identifying those who download and distribute child pornography.
Deputies said Operation Guardians of Innocence II was conducted during the month of May.
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"As you know, this is just the beginning -- once we serve search warrants and seize the devices that these suspects are using to download and distribute pornography, we will do a complete forensic analysis, and in all likelihood we will be adding on more charges related to the felony possession and distribution of images and videos of children being sexually battered," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
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No local victims have been identified, according to Judd.
Among those arrested include a 16-year-old Kissimmee boy accused of using Dropbox to download child pornography files showing infant victims and a 48-year-old Davenport man who told detectives that he is a bartender in Orlando and serves as a parent helper and driver for his son's Boy Scouts troop, a news release said.
Roger Catey, who told deputies he works as a Walt Disney World project manager in the costumes department, was charged with 24 counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of promotion of a sexual performance of a child, Judd said.
A Disney spokesperson said Catey "no longer works here."
"[Child predators] go to where the children are – Disney, the theme parks, playgrounds, schools,” Judd said.
Judd also said that Andres Estrada, a child porn suspect who was fatally shot by a deputy after he attacked a detective while being arrested, was part of Operation Guardians of Innocence II.
"He would have been on this board today,” Judd said, pointing to a poster with the suspects' mugshots.
While Judd said the arrests will help them crack down on the distribution of child porn, he cautions that there are more predators out there and parents need to monitor what their children do online.
"Parents: You've got to know where your children are going online because wherever your children are, [child predators] are and they're looking for your children and they're trying to talk them into nude photographs or they're making children pornography from the little tykes and they're possessing it," Judd said.
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