Predators are reaching children through apps, social media and now, video games

Children are being sexually exploited by predators lurking on the internet, social media apps, and now gaming platforms. It’s happening in small towns and big cities across the country, including Ohio.

"The monsters that we are chasing are now coming into your home with some device,” said Kirtland Police Chief Jamey Fisher.

Kirtland Police Detective Jake Scott is on a mission to stop it.

“I will pursue these relentlessly,” said Scott.

Two years ago, Kirtland Police signed an agreement with the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to investigate these types of crimes in their community. Case referrals began landing on Scott's desk.

"Anywhere on the internet where there are children, there’s going to be adults who have a proclivity for sexual abuse of children trying to speak with those kids, groom those kids and foster relationships," Scott said.

His first case involved 45-year-old Todd Oravecz, a Kirtland man who was arrested, indicted, and pleaded guilty to several charges, including receipt, distribution and transportation of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Agents found more than 100 child sexual abuse material images and videos on his electronic devices that included children under 12 years old.

social media and now, video games

Children are being sexually exploited by predators lurking on the internet, social media apps, and now gaming platforms.

By: Tracy Carloss

Posted 9:42 AM, May 05, 2026

CLEVELAND — Children are being sexually exploited by predators lurking on the internet, social media apps, and now gaming platforms. It’s happening in small towns and big cities across the country, including Ohio.

"The monsters that we are chasing are now coming into your home with some device,” said Kirtland Police Chief Jamey Fisher.

Kirtland Police Detective Jake Scott is on a mission to stop it.

“I will pursue these relentlessly,” said Scott.

Two years ago, Kirtland Police signed an agreement with the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to investigate these types of crimes in their community. Case referrals began landing on Scott's desk.

"Anywhere on the internet where there are children, there’s going to be adults who have a proclivity for sexual abuse of children trying to speak with those kids, groom those kids and foster relationships," Scott said.

His first case involved 45-year-old Todd Oravecz, a Kirtland man who was arrested, indicted, and pleaded guilty to several charges, including receipt, distribution and transportation of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Agents found more than 100 child sexual abuse material images and videos on his electronic devices that included children under 12 years old.

"He was using a messaging application to send child sex abuse material to other individuals on the application," Scott said.

Oravecz was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

"He was using a messaging application to send child sex abuse material to other individuals on that application,” said Scott.

Ohio receives roughly 30,000 case referrals a year from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; Kirtland received 10 of those cases.

But these crimes aren’t just happening in Kirtland and Lake County.

"Everywhere, if your child has access to the internet,” said Fisher.

"Child sexual exploitation is becoming an increasingly prevalent problem, we see all across our district,” said David Toepfer, U.S Attorney Northern District of Ohio.

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-lake/predators-are-reaching-children-through-apps-social-media-and-now-video-games

In four months, border agents arrest 1,000 child sex offenders in Tampa area

The 1,000th arrest was a Trinidad national who was in the U.S. illegally on an expired visa and attempted to evade prosecution on child sex offense charges

Border Patrol agents working in Tampa, Florida, have arrested their 1,000th child sex offender in just four months. The 1,000th arrest was of a Trinidadian man convicted of five felony child sex offenses in Hillsborough County with a lengthy criminal record.

They’re working out of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Miami Sector’s Tampa Station, one of the oldest Border Patrol stations in the country.

The Tampa Station first opened in 1925 to respond to large smuggling rings entering Florida using Cuban fishing boats. It is the only station on Florida’s west coast.

Its area of responsibility covers 12 counties in central and western Florida, spanning 190 miles long and 125 miles wide. It also includes three seaports. From the Gulf, it stretches east to Lake, Osceola, Highland and Glades counties. It stretches north to Levy and Marion counties and south to Lee County.

The 1,000th arrest and “significant milestone is further proof that Border Patrol agents remain committed to making our communities safer by apprehending and removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens,” Acting Chief Patrol Agent Samuel Briggs II, Miami Border Patrol Sector, said. “

The 1,000th arrest was a Trinidad national, Troy Antonio Baldeo, who was in the U.S. illegally on an expired visa. His criminal history in the U.S. dates to 2015, when he attempted to evade prosecution on the child sex offense charges. CBP officers arrested him in December 2015 at JFK International Airport in New York as he attempted to board a flight to Trinidad and Tobago. He was extradited to Hillsborough County and convicted in 2016, the same year his nonimmigrant visa expired.

After he was released from prison last December, he wasn’t deported. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland, then returned to Florida where he was arrested this month, CBP said. He remains in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and is being processed for removal.

Other recent notable Tampa Station Border Patrol child sex offender arrests include a Mexican national and confirmed Sureños 13 gang member and a Venezuelan national and confirmed South American Theft Group member. The Venezuelan was convicted of grand theft and three counts of larceny - grand yheft, CBP said. Florida law enforcement officers have been arresting SATG members statewide, including those who are targeting minority small business owners, The Center Square reported.

Other notable child sex offender arrests include a Micronesia national convicted of charges for “Use of Computer Services for Lewd and Lascivious and Out of State Transmission of Harmful Material to a Minor” and a fugitive wanted by Venezuelan officials for financial crimes.

The station’s arrest milestone puts them “well ahead of their 2025 pace for apprehending criminal aliens,” Briggs said. Last year, they recorded their 1,000th child sex offender apprehension last August. They also finished the year with 1,229 apprehensions of child sex offenders, he said.

The Miami Sector is one of the busiest in the country. It covers four southeastern states, not just south Florida, including all of Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina.

Border Patrol agents in the Miami Sector are well known for apprehending foreign nationals attempting illegal entry by sea and made a record number of arrests off Florida’s coast during the Biden administration, The Center Square reported.

As of April 30, agents from the sector apprehended more than 6,600 illegal foreign nationals and criminals, already surpassing last fiscal year’s total of 6,475, according to CBP data.

Miami Sector Border Patrol is also encouraging members of the public to report border security concerns in Florida by calling 1-877-772-8146.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/four-months-border-agents-arrest-1000-child-sex-offenders-tampa-area

Peace is our only choice- Iran Lego

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Elites And Their Contempt

Last week, I was unexpectedly hit with a post-lockdown trauma response.

While driving to a baseball game days before the NFL Draft came to Pittsburgh, I passed a digital highway sign instructing me to avoid nonessential travel.

Suddenly, memories of empty highways with signs instructing drivers to “Stay Safe and Stay Home” came flooding back to me.

As the week developed, it began to occur to me that the parallels were deeper than my subjective emotional response.

Road closures intensified, rendering my beloved city of Pittsburgh less and less functional.

Even sidewalks were closed.

Entire parking garages were emptied and abandoned.

Pittsburgh’s “most visited museum,” the Kamin Science Center, has been closed to the public for weeks because it was within the footprint of the upcoming event.

For the actual days of the draft, Pittsburgh Public Schools were shuttered as if a blizzard had rendered travel impossible.

How do I walk to PNC Park?

The attempt by local officials to trigger hysteria in the populace worked, maybe too well. People traveling to Pittsburgh for the event heeded the instructions to use the special free public transit to make their way in. Parking operators, expecting a huge windfall, saw themselves lower their exorbitant prices midday. For example, the Rivers Casino quickly abandoned their plan to charge $250 per day, lowering their rate to $100 for the first day of the draft and then abandoning charging altogether for subsequent days.

Local businesses outside the official footprint of the event were told to prepare for heavy crowds, but instead experienced a weekend worse than anything they had seen since the Covid hysteria. Those who didn’t want to go to the draft were terrified to go anywhere near the city.

In summary, children were deprived of education, small business owners were drastically harmed, public spaces which exist for the common good were shuttered, and normal life ceased for those who actually live in the City of Pittsburgh. While all of this was happening, local politicians were patting themselves on the back for how well everything was pulled off, taking pride that this draft broke attendance records for the NFL and that their plans of getting people in and out of the city were effective. It was our own personal Operation Warp Speed.

I think there’s a lesson here that applies not merely to Pittsburgh politics but also to the wider dysfunction we see in elected officials throughout what used to be Western Civilization.

Our political leaders view their own constituents with a sort of boredom or indifference. In the leadup to the draft, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania engaged in a number of public works projects designed to improve the area in preparation for the draft.

Suddenly, our governments remembered that potholes aren’t supposed to be allowed to exist and that crime isn’t supposed to be allowed to happen. For three days, Pittsburgh had a heavily subsidized and highly functional public transit system, something that hasn’t existed the entirety of my lifetime.

Any one of these projects could have been accomplished at any time, but the actual people who live there provided insufficient motivation for our leaders. Rather, what really mattered to them was looking good in front of millionaires, soon-to-be millionaires, and the powerful elites who would gather to party the night away with Nelly, Steve Aoki, and 2 Chainz.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/elites-and-their-contempt

Wow Watch

Christopher Hitchens warning in 2009

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