A Griffin man has been charged with possessing child porn.
Anthony Bartlett, 36, was charged Thursday after GBI investigators and Spalding County sheriff’s deputies searched his home in the 100 block of Sidney Drive and found videos of child porn on his laptop computers, according to authorities.
The search warrant was obtained as a result of evidence developed by investigators with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office of peer-to-peer sharing of child pornography from a computer at Bartlett’s residence, authorities said. The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, which is also a part of the Internet Crimes Against Children task force, provided the evidence it uncovered to the GBI last month, according to GBI spokesman John Bankhead.
Bartlett was charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of children and taken to the Spalding County Jail.
This investigation is part of the ongoing effort by the GBI’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force to identify those involved in the child porn trade. The ICAC Program, created by the U. S. Department of Justice, was developed in response to the increasing number of children and teenagers using the Internet, the proliferation of child pornography and commercial sexual exploitation of children, and the heightened online activity by predators searching for unsupervised contact with underage victims, according to Bankhead. The task force consists of 180 affiliate Georgia law enforcement agencies, he added.
According to Bankhead, 972 arrests have been made in Georgia by the ICAC Task Force since it was established in 2002.
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