This looks very real to me. Check out the links for the photo and all. What a shame. I've met Brian a number of times and he's the sweetest most unassuming person. This is just tragic.

Ray

>X-Originating-IP: [128.192.1.103] >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.cc.uga.edu id > i2SLWYa32290 >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l >Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:32:34 -0500 >Reply-To: Jason Elliott <thabo91@YAHOO.COM> >Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> >From: Jason Elliott <thabo91@YAHOO.COM> >Subject: OT: SAS programmer/child pornographer >To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > >http://www.wral.com/news/2953749/detail.html > > >Authorities Arrest Cary Man In Child Pornography Case >Investigators From Canada, U.S. Help Crack Case > >POSTED: 6:05 pm EST March 26, 2004 >UPDATED: 6:53 pm EST March 26, 2004 > >CARY, N.C. -- Investigators from Canada and the United States said a 6- >year-old girl was sexually abused, menaced with knives and confined to a >dog cage. Authorities were able to track and arrest a suspect in Cary. > > > > >FBI officials arrested 41-year-old Brian Schellenberger for sexually >exploiting children. He was taken into custody back in December, but this >week, police in Toronto released more details about how the case unfolded. > >"Last December, we received a series of roughly 450 images of child >pornography," said Inspector Bruce Smollett, of the Toronto Sex Crimes >Unit. > >Authorities said the images all depicted the same 6-year-old girl being >sexually abused. > >"One of the images of the 6-year-old girl from North Carolina had showed >her with writings on her body that said, 'Kill me, I'm a slut,'" Smollett >said. > > >From the images, Toronto police were able to identify an amusement park >wristband and the child's school uniform even though the logo had been >blurred out. From there, they said the FBI in Raleigh handled the bulk of >the case. > >Melissa Caporale, who lives next door to Schellenberger's home, said no >one knew why he was arrested until now. > >"One day the police just showed up and arrested our neighbor and that was >it," she said. "It's very disturbing. It's very upsetting." > >Caporale said she remembers Schellenberger sitting outside working on his >laptop. She said the windows on his garage were always covered. Shortly >after the arrest, Caporale said Schellenberger's wife and three children >moved out and put the house up for sale. > >Police in Toronto, Canada say the FBI rescued the young girl. > >Officials said the case apparently led to arrests in South Carolina and >Texas. Schellenberger is scheduled for arraignment Monday morning. The FBI >is expected to talk Monday afternoon. > >Schellenberger was an employee at SAS in Cary, but was fired after the >arrest. > > > > >http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37778 > >CRIMENETDAILY >Web sleuths save U.S. girl from porn ring >Toronto officers ID 6-year-old who was beaten, sodomized > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- >Posted: March 27, 2004 >1:00 a.m. Eastern > > > >© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com > >A little girl in North Carolina victimized by child pornographers owes her >life to seven Toronto police officers who used the Internet to solve her >case. > >The officers used clues in photographs posted on an international police >website to narrow the 6-year-old's location to Raleigh and ultimately, >through FBI cross-checking, to her school and address, reported the >Toronto Globe and Mail. > >A federal grand jury this week indicted Brian Tod Schellenberger, 41, of >Cary, N.C., on four counts of child exploitation. He allegedly belonged to >a small group producing and viewing "hurt-core porn," which involves >children under 13 who are being physically battered. > >Schellenberger allegedly had several hundred thousand child porn images on >his computer when arrested, according to the Globe. > >The Canadian officers, members of the child exploitation branch of the >force's sex crimes unit, zeroed in on a wristband the girl wore in some of >the pictures, a badge on her girl scout uniform and a blurred-out logo on >a T-shirt, the paper said. > >The Globe said the rare success saw grown men and women in Toronto Det. >Sgt. Paul Gillespie's office break down in tears. > >U.S. authorities, according to Gillespie, are pursuing reports >Schellenberger may have tried to hire someone to kill the little girl and >her mother. > >The mother apparently was unaware of the abuse. > >Of the estimated 50,000 to 100,000 victims of child pornography known >worldwide, only fewer than 300 children have been identified, according to >Gillespie. > >He said when his team received the call informing them the girl had been >saved, "It was the best Christmas present ever." > >"I mean, we knew we had the right school, but we really couldn't believe >it. Two or three of my people broke down," he said. > >Gillespie, as he began to choke up, added, "I've given a couple of >presentations to select groups of officers about this case, and I've yet >to be able to get through it without breaking down myself." > >The officer said the rescued girl was seen being beaten, urinated and >defecated on, sodomized, forced into oral sex, degraded by having such >slogans as "Kill me I'm a slut" written on her body and kept in a dog >cage. > >"It was the dog cage that really got me," he told the Globe. "She was >obviously in pain, those poor brown eyes looking up at you." > >He ordered his squad to devote all its attention to the case and spent the >next 36 hours using clues on the images to narrow down the search. > >"It was such a motivator," he said to the paper. "We all thought, maybe we >are making a difference: We saved a little girl's life in North Carolina. >Somebody upstairs was directing us. Maybe when she's the president of the >United States, we'll know why we were able to rescue her." > >Yesterday, ABC News reported federal agents in the largest investigation >ever into Internet child pornography discovered a vast underground market >that included many people with access to children, such as a campus >minister, a seventh-grade teacher, a Boy Scout volunteer, a substitute >teacher, a Catholic priest and a Mormon camp counselor. > >Agents arrested a Chicago pediatrician who allegedly had 3,000 images of >child pornography stored on his computer.

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