Waitress shocked by porn

[Praxius]

http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1062964.html

BRIDGEWATER — Jennifer Beeswanger said she couldn’t believe what she was seeing on the computer screen at the Internet coffee shop where she worked. The images of child pornography, some involving babies, just wouldn’t go away.

"It was unending," she told Judge Jim Burrill in Bridgewater provincial court Wednesday. She clicked on the "x" in the top right corner of the graphic photographs to get rid of them "but they just kept popping up and popping up," she said. "The whole screen was covered. Every time I closed out a picture, there was a new one right behind it."

Ms. Beeswanger was testifying at the trial of Blake David Conrad, 49, of Bridgewater, who faces two counts each of accessing and possessing child pornography in May 2005. It is alleged he downloaded pornographic images at the Chataway Cafe on King Street in Bridgewater and on the computer he used to prepare and file tax returns as a seasonal employee of the local H&R Block office.

In all, police seized five computers from H&R Block, Mr. Conrad’s home computer, seven computer discs that were tucked in his inside jacket pocket when he was arrested, 77 other computer discs, two packages of slides, eight CDs and a black file folder.

The cover of the file folder said Atlantic Tourism and Hospitality Institute, but Const.
Scott Feener of Bridgewater police said it contained 39 pages of child pornography images that had been printed off.

Ms. Beeswanger testified she sold Mr. Conrad 30 minutes of Internet time on May 3, 2005, at the Chataway Cafe where she worked as a waitress.

She said she went to use the computer after Mr. Conrad’s time was up and was flooded with images of naked girls and even babies in sexual positions. She told her boss, Barbara Conrad, who told her to contact her if the man came in again.

He did come back a couple of days later, this time wearing a straw hat and plaid pants. Ms. Beeswanger said after his half-hour on the computer was up, she checked the screen and there were porn sites on it again.

"Regular porn, gay porn and some child porn," she said. "There were a number of images with little girls and babies."

Ms. Conrad called Bridgewater police, who arrested Mr. Conrad outside Bridgewater Elementary School, which he passed on his walk home.

Ms. Conrad said she saw the images and they involved children as young as six in sexual acts.

Brenda Ernst, who worked with Mr. Conrad at H&R Block, said he told her he was being charged with possessing child porn so she checked the computer he used during tax season and it had a photograph of a young girl wearing only panties.

She and a co-worker checked the history on the computer and it showed the user had been to pornographic sites specifically mentioning young girls and babies.

Bridgewater Sgt. John Collyer said he saw the images on the cafe computer and they were pictures of boys and girls obviously under 16 engaged in sexual activities.

Const. Feener said four of the seven computer discs in Mr. Conrad’s jacket pocket contained child porn.

A 13-year-old boy testified that when he was seven, Mr. Conrad showed him pornographic movies on his computer involving children engaged in sex acts and adults "doing sexual things" with animals. He said Mr. Conrad also took or simulated taking pictures of him naked on a bed, although he said Mr. Conrad told him there was no film in the camera.

Two officers from the RCMP’s technical crime lab in Halifax will testify when the trial resumes July 16.

Yeah.... not only is that pretty sick, but what kind of a friggin moron do you have to be to do that in a way you would easily be caught? I'm pretty sure he'll get his in jail, that's for sure.

 

[Risus]

Yes, child porn is something I can't tolerate.

Inmates sort of take a disliking to these guys, don't they!

 

[shadowshiv]

Inmates sort of take a disliking to these guys, don't they!

Yes, they will kill them if they can. Usually it is someone in for life with no chance of parole that will do it as they have nothing to lose.

We can be thankful that he was so stupid. One less piece of crap roaming the streets. At least, until his entirely way-too-lenient sentence is up.

 

[karrie]

um... why couldn't she close the windows? I don't know of any picture viewer program that would behave in that manner. If suddenly a comp I was using started flashing kiddie porn, opening window after window after window of the stuff in a viral manner, I sure as hell hope no one would think it was me that did it, because chances are higher than I got hit with a virus.

If it was found he put those pics there, then fine. I get it. But, that opening bit seems hinky.

 

[mabudon]

it's crap like this that makes it harder and harder to be a legitimate pornographer.

the whole idea of actual child porn (which is IMO a tad different than "adult" porn made with talent that has misrepresented their age, which also constitutes "child porn" albeit a completely different deal than the "real deal" involving little kids) is simply horrific- and I actually MAKE porn, which is saying something

Yes, a lifer will probably pronounce the REAL sentence on him, tho the slime can probably get solitary due to a REAL danger to his person


EDIT yeah the testimony does seem a tad off too- "hinkey" would be a good description, nice choice

 

[lone wolf]

Sounds lile a lot of open windows. Some sites are just gateways. I can't imagine those ones wouldn't be the worst of offenders.

 

[shadowshiv]

um... why couldn't she close the windows? I don't know of any picture viewer program that would behave in that manner. If suddenly a comp I was using started flashing kiddie porn, opening window after window after window of the stuff in a viral manner, I sure as hell hope no one would think it was me that did it, because chances are higher than I got hit with a virus.

If it was found he put those pics there, then fine. I get it. But, that opening bit seems hinky.

Maybe she was just computer-illiterate? Also, I have had pop-ups before that would not close, usually a stupid ad for anti-viruses stating "Your computer is at risk! Click here to download 'such and such' AV program!". You have to CTRL-ALT-DELETE to bring up the Task Manager to get rid of it.

Either way, I think they were able to find enough evidence that he indeed was the culprit.

 

[Praxius]

um... why couldn't she close the windows? I don't know of any picture viewer program that would behave in that manner. If suddenly a comp I was using started flashing kiddie porn, opening window after window after window of the stuff in a viral manner, I sure as hell hope no one would think it was me that did it, because chances are higher than I got hit with a virus.

If it was found he put those pics there, then fine. I get it. But, that opening bit seems hinky.

Nope, I've had what happened to her happen to me a few years back.... wasn't kiddie porn, but it was just about as bad (Just about) It's not a viewing program per-say doing that, it'd be your web browser doing that along with a spyware/virus.

I ended up having to reformat my system due to it, but what occured what I logged on my computer and when I clicked on my I-Explorer, my default home page was changed to some spam porn site, and as soon as it opened, it directed several pop-up explorer windows which in turn opened up several more from each of those..... all relating to porn.... it will continue to pop up explorer windows until your RAM and system is completely clogged and locks your system up.

The only way to stop this from happening before it toasts your system is to Ctrl+Alt+Del into Task Manager, goto Processes, look for iexplorer.exe in the list and end it's process.... that will shut all the windows down all at once and stop them from popping up again (Until you open internet explorer again) So you must find the virus doing this and remove it before you can acess i-Explorer again.

The only thing I could figure out that caused this from happening to my system was one of my ex-room mates...... as I'm not stupid enough to venture onto those types of sites. (I have a decently secure selection for myself to avoid those things )

But if this occurs on your system, and you don't know how to properly shut down the pages, it will act just the way she described..... window apon window opening up and no matter how fast you are with trying to shut them all down, more will continue to pop up in their place.

It's really annoying..... esspecially when it's some sick ass stuff popping up on your system.

 

[lone wolf]

I've used the emergency brake ... pull the damned plug!

 

[shadowshiv]

Nope, I've had what happened to her happen to me a few years back.... wasn't kiddie porn, but it was just about as bad (Just about) It's not a viewing program per-say doing that, it'd be your web browser doing that along with a spyware/virus.

I ended up having to reformat my system due to it, but what occured what I logged on my computer and when I clicked on my I-Explorer, my default home page was changed to some spam porn site, and as soon as it opened, it directed several pop-up explorer windows which in turn opened up several more from each of those..... all relating to porn.... it will continue to pop up explorer windows until your RAM and system is completely clogged and locks your system up.

The only way to stop this from happening before it toasts your system is to Ctrl+Alt+Del into Task Manager, goto Processes, look for iexplorer.exe in the list and end it's process.... that will shut all the windows down all at once and stop them from popping up again (Until you open internet explorer again) So you must find the virus doing this and remove it before you can acess i-Explorer again.

The only thing I could figure out that caused this from happening to my system was one of my ex-room mates...... as I'm not stupid enough to venture onto those types of sites. (I have a decently secure selection for myself to avoid those things )

But if this occurs on your system, and you don't know how to properly shut down the pages, it will act just the way she described..... window apon window opening up and no matter how fast you are with trying to shut them all down, more will continue to pop up in their place.

It's really annoying..... esspecially when it's some sick ass stuff popping up on your system.

There is also that prank that people do sometimes, where they link to this site that creates pop-up after pop-up and says "You're an idiot!"(sung to a song, perhaps?). It is not a virus per-se and will not cause any damage to your computer. However, the only way to close it is to CTRL ALT DELETE.

I believe eh1eh has perpetrated that trick before.;-):lol: