A man from the United States has been sentenced to 105 years in prison and USD 31,104 for producing and distributing child pornography. The 36-year-old used to dress up as Spider-Man and wash windows at a children's hospital. Turner offered to babysit children with young families and took sexually explicit images of videos of them. The pornographic content includes images and videos of a toddler girl and an infant boy.
The photos and videos taken on multiple occasions between October 2014 and May 2015 show Turner molesting two children aged between 12 years and 31 months old. Turner then took to the internet to share the pornographic videos. To avoid trouble from law enforcement, he only used public Wi-Fi networks to spread the content.
Reportedly, Turner emailed two images to an undercover police officer in Australia which allowed US Department of Homeland Security officials to track the IP address of the sender to Sip Cafe on Gallatin Pike in Nashville.
Investigators with the help of the cafe's manager found out that he used their internet every day. He was soon identified and arrested. Turner had also made headlines in 2013 and 2014 when he dressed in Spider-Man costumes and film kids while washing windows at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. The court said that Turner often tried to 'access other vulnerable children,' by dressing as Spider-Man while washing windows at a Tennessee children's hospital.
Daily Mail quoted assistant special agent in charge Robert Hammer, who oversees Homeland Security Investigation's operations in Tennessee as saying, "Children of this community are a little safer with this sexual predator behind bars. The fact he would film, and then upload to the internet, videos of himself molesting an infant and toddler, then take elaborate steps to conceal his activities, represents the extreme danger he posed to the community."
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