Florida Man Indicted for Producing and Distributing Child Abuse Material
Justin Ryan Culmo
According to court documents, 39-year-old Justin Ryan Culmo, was linked to two now-defunct dark web sites used to distribute child sexual abuse material. law enforcement took down the sites in 2015 and 2017.
The investigations that resulted in the identification and arrest of Culmo were launched in July 2023. HSI investigators received information that a victim of child abuse had been identified by facial recognition technology. The child abuse material had been posted on the two dark web sites by a user going by the usernames "Avalanche" and "TheRealAvalanche."
The identity of the victim was confirmed by her parents, who also disclosed that they believed the photos were taken between 2011 and 2014. The victim’s father also said that he remembered his work friend, Culmo, coming over while he was raking leaves in the backyard.
The father entered the home and found Culmo beside his daughter in the bedroom. When confronted, Culmo became very quiet and left the house. The investigators established that there were several child sexual abuse allegations made against Culmo.
The investigators went through posts made by Avalanche and TheRealAvalanche. The posts contained highly graphic descriptions of the abuse he subjected his victims. In addition to the child abuse material, he posted about spycams and encryption to avoid discovery and arrests.
The investigators executed a search warrant at Culmo's residence on September 26. The Agents found 11 pairs of female child underwear and five spy cameras in a locked drawer.
He reportedly admitted to using the usernames "Avalanche" and "TheRealAvalanche," and producing the child abuse material. He even admitted he had been producing child abuse material of his two daughters.
Culmo was charged with three counts of production of child sex abuse material, one count of distribution, and one count of possession of child sexual abuse material.
If convicted, Culmo faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years in federal prison for each production count, a minimum mandatory 5 years for the distribution count, and up to 20 years in federal prison for the possession offense.
Comments (33)
LockHimUp2023-11-022d00dbdd
abusing kids= real crime that fucks people up for life. yet the sentencing is often lighter than using drugs in US. what the fuck.
Inform Yourself2023-11-16ad42d99c
Not true, read the sentencing guidelines. There's also the fact that judges tend to be more lineant on drug dealers than sex offenders
Hethsk2023-11-03c46a2c12
What is it with these people man, why go for children when he can just get a hooker or go fuck a prostitute
jesus2023-11-031913e84d
Technology facial recognition... Oh fuck!! Don't post any pictures on social media or you are doom !!
boryoku 2023-11-0409ba006c
Maximum sentence would be 70 years you bozos. Still too low but hopefully he gets enough to make sure he dies like a fucking dog
just me2023-11-075ecdb96c
i think the police and the US should take such crime very serious and give the offender more years in prison.
Twistin Dawind2023-11-075b9af7b3
May his cellmates make him a human toilet; may lepers descend upon him for vigorous non-consensual sodomy.
Furiousdog2023-11-07935e4049
Fabulous USA, where Black-people can be killed with impunity, and where pedocriminals are going to jails, and can recidive few years after.
realmadrid2023-11-133a210cd2
black men are 6.5% of the US population but commit 70% of the murders. Every year, around 10,000 black people are killed by other black people. including children and elderly. time to wake up
PotatoCleaner2023-11-070fd87869
Soon AI will be able to do the same thing and will catch hundreds of thousands of people, so many people will be caught before they even know it and that's for any crime not just abuse crimes. Obviously i don't know how many images by number, but there are a fuck ton of CSAM and CSEM images that have been hashed and most image hosting sites use this database of hashes with facial recognition technology and if they get a match BOOM! reports and evidence will be filed. For every one single person caught could equal thousands more images added to this database. I can see these sites being set up as honeypots all over the darkweb with some coding to catch real IP Addresses and AI will be heavily involved.
thegreyswraith2023-11-11bc169132
if it is sexually toward a child and the child is obviously under duress, then there is no love. Only sick, warped, demonic lust of stealing the childs light for your demonic gluttony
thegreyswraith2023-11-11620dbd65
STOP HURTING CHILDREN. What is wrong with you sick pedophiles. A child is innocent for a time. A glimmer of the cosmos. I turned all the pain into power and I can still not get one person to have an intellectually honest conversation as to why any child and any adult should be engaged in anything other than just the parenting, guidance, setting boundaries, caring for them as people, teaching real ethics, philosophy, theology, esoteric thought etc. Instead you sick as pedos justify all the way. Your social and mental IQ's have always made me sick. I can smell a cho mo. I can smell rapists. it happened so ubiquitously in my life. My only goal is to change this sick concept and delete it forever from modernity and the future.
ADATA2023-11-285b57c342
Bring back death by firing squad lol thats the only proper solution to these specific crimes
Death Penalty2023-12-01ed3f4487
Florida recently passed a law increasing penalties for these sickos! If someone does something of this nature with a child 12 or under they can receive the death penalty!! It should be this way everywhere because we've all seen the statistics on these types of offenders - they almost always offend again. Hopefully this way they won't get the chance to re-offend!
Nuub2023-11-0139b4a18c
Give ‘em the chair fckn pussi