Man Charged With Using Xbox To Solicit Naked Pictures From Boy
August 30, 2010 at 10:12 am by MorbidBARTOW, Fla. — Timothy Hammerstone, 22, is facing 16 counts of possessing child pornography after he convinced a 10-year-old boy to send him nude pictures in exchange for Xbox Live points. He explained he needed the pics because he was gay and that his mother would not let him look at pornography. the boy agreed and Hammerstone bought him a separate, secret Live account the boy would use to send pornographic images of himself. Deputies searched Hammerstone’s home where he lived with his sister and and found 16 images of child porn on his Xbox. They confiscated the console as well as some computer equipment. His sister feels her brother, who was employed at Disney’s Hollywood Studios as a AMC Theater concession clerk, is facing an unfair fate. “He needs help,” Sarah Hammerstone said on Facebook. “Other people can go out there and rape and keep doing it and get a slap on the wrist, and [Timothy] is going [to] serve life in prison.” oO. His brother went on to add that the 10-year-old lied about his age. “The kid said he was over 18, and James just found out last night he was 10,” James Hammerstone said.
Parents, if you got a kid online, make sure you are monitoring their activities. If they are using a console, set any available parenting controls. Of course there’s no way to completely protect your kids from predators aside from locking them in a cage, but it will make it a lot harder for people like Timothy to operate.
Tags: Child Pornography, Crime, Florida, Pedophile
























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