DREAMBOARD ARRESTS TRIAL

Operation Delego represents the largest prosecution to date in the United States of individuals who participated in an online bulletin board that was conceived and operated for the sole purpose of promoting child sexual abuse, disseminating child pornography, and evading law enforcement.Īccording to court documents and information presented at trial, Wyss and other Dreamboard members traded graphic images and videos of adults molesting children 12-years-old and under, often violently. Efforts to identify and apprehend these individuals continue. Thirteen of the 72 charged individuals remain at large and are known only by their online identities. Wyss is the third defendant to receive a life sentence. Forty of the 43 individuals who have pleaded guilty for their roles in the conspiracy have received prison sentences ranging between 15 years and life in prison. Forty-three individuals have pleaded guilty, and Wyss was convicted after a four-day jury trial. To date, 56 of the 72 charged defendants have been arrested in the United States and abroad. Dreamboard was a private, members-only, online bulletin board that was created and operated to promote pedophilia and encourage the sexual abuse of very young children, in an environment designed to avoid law enforcement detection.Ī total of 72 individuals, including Wyss, have been charged as a result of Operation Delego. The charges against Wyss resulted from Operation Delego, an ongoing investigation that was launched in December 2009 that targeted individuals around the world for their participation in Dreamboard. Wyss was charged in an indictment unsealed Aug. In one of his videos, adult males were engaged in having sex with prepubescent girls. Since January 2008, Wyss had made numerous postings revealing that he had produced child pornography by capturing images of minors engaging in sexually explicit activity via webcam.

Dreamboard was an online child pornography bulletin board dedicated to sexually abusing children, and creating and disseminating graphic images and videos of child sexual abuse throughout the world.

DREAMBOARD ARRESTS TRIAL

On May 17, Wyss was found guilty on three counts after trial, including: one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, one count of conspiracy to advertise child pornography, and one count of conspiracy to distribute child pornography.Įvidence presented at trial revealed that Wyss had been an active member of Dreamboard. District Judge Maurice Hicks in the Western District of Louisiana. John Wyss, aka 'Bones,' 55, of Monroe, Wis., was sentenced by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) John Morton. Attorney Stephanie Finley of the Western District of Louisiana, and Director of U.S. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. This sentence was jointly announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. WASHINGTON – A Wisconsin man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for participating in an international criminal network for sexually abusing children, known as Dreamboard.

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