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explicit act, the Essex County prosecutor's office said in October when he was charged. He also was charged with
committing similar acts upon three children in Belleville.
He was one of hundreds snared following a global investigation into child pornography Web sites, authorities said.
Hildreth committed the acts while supervising children at the Wesley Methodist Church in Belleville, where he was
a volunteer and assistant scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 301 at the church until about five and a half years ago,
the prosecutor's office said.
Hildreth's plea bargain contemplates a sentence of six and a half to 10 years in federal prison although U.S. District
Judge William H. Walls could impose more or less than that.
Hildreth has been held without bail in federal custody in the Passaic County Jail since his arrest in June.
After his arrest, Hildreth told federal and state investigators that he had raped or molested at least nine boys who
lived in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the past 16 years, the U.S. attorney's office said. Two were relatives,
including the Scranton, Pa., child in Thursday's plea, the office said.
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Software Tracks Child Porn Sales
Canada - Zwire National News - April 08, 2005
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14314276&;BRD=1918&;PAG=740&;dept_id=226964&;rfi=6
Toronto A personal plea from a frustrated Toronto sex-crimes investigator to Microsoft founder Bill Gates led to the
launch Wednesday of an initiative to help law enforcement agents worldwide hunt down traffickers of child porn on
the Internet.
The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) was developed by Microsoft Canada, the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police and the Toronto Police Service, with the help of global law enforcement experts, including officers
from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Scotland Yard and Interpol.
In what Microsoft describes as the first software designed specifically to capture pornographers who prey on
children and sell their images via the Internet, the system will allow police to share and track information on
investigations and suspects.
"Sharing and exchanging information is one of the most powerful tools law enforcement agencies possess to battle
against online child exploitation," said David Hemler, president of Microsoft Canada. He said Internet
pornographers were computer savvy, so the program would put law enforcement officials "on the same level as the
bad guys."
The FBI has seen a 2,000 percent increase in the number of child pornography images on the Internet since 1996
and Canadian police estimate that more than 100,000 Web sites contain images of child sexual abuse. Experts say at
least 95 percent of victims are abused by someone they know, either a relative or neighbor.
"Criminals are using the Internet at an unprecedented rate to exploit the most vulnerable of our society our
children," said Canadian Minister of Public Safety Anne McLellan, who commended the creation of "a tool unlike
any other in the world that will help keep our children safe from online predators."
Hemler said Microsoft had committed $3.75 million toward the program and said the software would be available to
any police force, and at no cost.
The initiative was the result of an e-mail from Detective Paul Gillespie, a member of the Toronto Police Service
sex-crimes unit, after he sent an e-mail to Gates in January 2003 asking for help in battling child pornography. The
billionaire, known for his philanthropy in the area of AIDS research and education, called on Microsoft Canada to
develop a software program that would aid police.
Gillespie told The Associated Press that several suspected pornographers have already been arrested from testing of
the new system. One man was arrested in Toronto last week, after a tip plugged into CETS linked with two previous
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