Turd Fergusen
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A US Navy information systems technician who posted an explicit Craigslist ad looking for sex with a “young” girl has been busted for child porn, according to a report.
Petty Officer 1st Class Robert Houston Birchett, of Portsmouth, Virginia, appeared in court Thursday after being charged earlier in January with one count of possession of child pornography, the Virginian-Pilot reports.
“The defendant is not just someone who sat behind a computer and looked at child porn,” Special Assistant US Attorney Matthew Heck told a judge. “He actively solicited sex with minors.”
Birchett, 31, was first interviewed by investigators in November 2018 while he was assigned to US Fleet Cyber Command in Suffolk. He admitted posting candid ads on Craigslist earlier that year before the website removed its personal listings, but denied trying to have sex with a child, the newspaper reports.
“Please be young or willing to play with young,” one post read. “Be real and willing to please.”
The ads had been flagged as suspicious and agents from Homeland Security Investigating ultimately traced them back to an IP address linked to Birchett’s former home, court documents show.
Full Story:
https://nypost.com/2020/01/31/craigslist-ad-leads-officials-to-navy-technicians-stash-of-child-porn/
