Credit Card Investigation Deals Blow to Child Pornography; Web Sites' Records Lead to Arrests, Convictions in State in Far- Reaching Case
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › November 24, 2006
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By his own admission, retired police officer Newton Tench secretly "enjoyed" child pornography for 25 years, amassing a collection with an estimated 1 million images behind a padlocked door in the basement of his Pleasant Prairie home.
No one but Tench knew the combination to the padlock, and no one suspected that the 63-year-old grandfather who worked part time at a parochial school and talked about going into the ministry had a dark side.See the full content of this document
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Credit Card Investigation Deals Blow to Child Pornography; Web Sites' Records Lead to Arrests, Convictions in State in Far- Reaching Case
That was before investigators effectively unlocked the padlocked room with credit card data, nabbing Tench in the same way more than 100 Wisconsin residents have been exposed in an investigation that is still producing arrests after more than two years.
The investigation that sent Tench to prison for three years last week is being touted as the most successful and far-reaching concerning child pornography in state history, and it relied almost exclusively on records of cre...See the full content of this document
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