Long Investigation Leads to Arrest
Serious Charges Await
According to Valley News Live the Pope County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota caught Patrick Baker a 51-year-old man from Long Beach, Pope County after a long investigation of child exploitation. They started looking into him because they got tips from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children about him downloading and sharing a lot of bad pictures and videos involving kids. They got search warrants and arrested Baker of child exploitation charges on March 22. He had to go to court on March 25 and faces some really serious charges like having child porn and messing with kids’ privacy.
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(PHOTO:
X.com)Long Beach Man Arrested for Child Exploitation at Online Activities to Protect Children
Community Vigilance Urged as Baker’s Arrest Spotlights Police Efforts to Protect Children Online
Baker’s arrest shows how hard the police are working with other groups to stop child exploitation and bad things happening to kids online. This should remind everyone how important it is to tell the police if they see anything weird happening to kids online. The police say they need people to keep their eyes open and help them find anyone doing bad things to kids. As they deal with Baker’s case such child exploitation everyone needs to keep watching out for kids. The police are asking anyone who knows about other cases like child exploitation to tell them so they can protect more kids from being hurt. Baker getting caught should make other people think twice before doing bad things to kids because they’ll get in big trouble.
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