From Maryland State Police:
A Harford County man was arrested and charged this morning after a Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigation developed evidence supporting charges of possession and distribution of child pornography.
The suspect, Daniel Chetelat Jr., 49, of Kingsville, Md., is charged with six counts of possession of child pornography and three counts of distribution of child pornography. Chetelat was arrested and later transported to the Harford County Detention Center where he is being held on $50,000 bail. He is currently looking for the services of a bail bonds company.
In January 2018, investigators received multiple downloads of images depicting child pornography from a computer traced to Chetelat. Today, the Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which consisted of the Maryland State Police and Homeland Security Investigations served a search and seizure warrant at the Chetelat residence.
Forensic examiners conducted reviews of Chetelat’s electronic devices which resulted in the discovery of several images and videos of child pornography. Chetelat was arrested at the scene.
The Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit coordinates the Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. This is a combined law enforcement effort involving police departments across Maryland that is funded by a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. Task force investigators focus on identifying those involved in child pornography via the Internet and other related crimes that victimize children.
The investigation is ongoing.
I see by his photo that he is a member of the National Felon League. It figures!
He looks like a guy who followed me to my house at 2 in the morning…and asked why i was there, claiming I was evading him.
Looks like a typical Trump voter
Spoken like a typical idiot.
Or your father
And ANOTHER idiot….
…queue lights, and roll out the red carpet for Mr. Legal Scholar himself…
None other than, the infamous felon, Mr. Soul Crusher!
He will be taking the stage to give his take on the legality of a legally obtained, court issued search warrant, and how that violates the suspects rights (somehow)…
In 5…..4….
You asked for it…… I’m just going to say that I do NOT agree with putting a person in jail for watching a video, even a video containing child porn. I don’t think that distribution of child porn should be associated with file sharing, unless the person or persons who created the video is the one whom is sharing the file. When we make watching a video a crime, we have strayed from the principle of a crime needing a victim to make it a crime. It is unquestionable, that unless this man took part in making the video, he did not victimize anyone. I do NOT watch or condone child porn. I think people that watch it have issues. However, making a person go to jail, be put on probation, register as a sex offender and being marked as a child molester, ALL for watching a video, is a perversion of justice, as the person who watched it did not commit a crime. You need a victim for a crime to occur. Show me whom he victimized and I’ll say he is a criminal. The State can NOT be the victim and as far as I am concerned he only victimized the State’s code based on morality. Watching that video did not victimize the child. The one’s who made that video are responsible for victimizing that child……
Shut up and fix me a turkey pot pie.
Your screen name should’ve been “Bender’s Dad”, not “Bender”. Personally, I prefer CHICKEN pot pie……So why don’t you go fix me one of them…..
I am not a prude…but dam I am floored…its not ok to own kiddie porn, to watch privately, kiddie porn…its just wrong in every way imaginable. Please do not try to justify it in any way. I think you get the picture.
I’m not trying to justify it. It’s a video. Nothing more, nothing less. Watching a video is not committing a crime. I’m sorry, but that is just the way I feel about it. Creating the video is the crime. Partaking in the video is the crime. The dissemination and distribution of the video for profit is the crime. Is watching a video of a man killing another person a crime? In my opinion, killing a person is more of a crime than having sex with a person, even if the person is underage. So when are we going to make that a crime as well? I watched when Al Quaida beheaded that poor man from Pennsylvania on video. It made me sick to my stomach. Should I go to jail for that? When you give the government permission to govern what you can view, well that is a permission that has gone too far. To say I’m trying to justify child porn is not the real issue at hand. The issue is the government controlling what we can view when the media is made readily available to us.
Aside from the immorality of a child having sex as entertainment, the acquisition probably wasn’t free. The participation helps this disgusting black market. The film of a beheading though disgusting isn’t for titillation as kiddie porn is.
I understand the core of what you are trying to get across, but there are limits to everything.
When limits are put on certain freedoms, we eventually lose those certain freedoms all together. Remember, sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you and watching a video doesn’t make you guilty of a crime contained on a video you watched.
He was not charged for “watching” the video.
Charged with 6 counts of possession of child pornography and 3 counts of distribution of child pornography.
He forwarded it (distribution).
He hoarded it (possession).
Either way, sick freak…and a Baltimore Ravens fan to boot. Go figure.
GO EAGLES!
There is still no victim. Therefore there is still no crime. He downloaded digital videos to watch them. That is what videos are for. He was using a file sharing program which allows others to download it. But, he downloaded it from a readily available source using that same file sharing program. Was he the one who introduced the video to the file sharing network? Did he profit from others downloading it? Does he have others that use his computer? These are all relevant questions, but none as relevant as who did he victimize?
You have to remember that the SoulCrusher interprets the laws to suit his own needs especially if they occur in his or ones private residence.
I don’t care what you say. I have interpreted the law correctly and the supreme court has confirmed my interpretations. Just because the Maryland government is a mafia and picks and chooses whom they want to persecute doesn’t mean I didn’t interpret the law correctly. We live in a terrorist state in Maryland. We live in a state where the government is completely corrupt and unlawful. I don’t care what you say. When we go to our maker I have nothing to be ashamed of. You do…..for being a terrorist.
I tell you what. You explain to me why the State didn’t go after the Cox Bail Bonding company for running a racketeering ring with deceased Anne Arundel Court Commissioner James Spriggs, even though every police organization in Maryland knew what was going on, then I’ll yield to your thinking. You tell me why Edward Thomas Maxwell was allowed to use falsified business records to defend Cox, Spriggs and Weigman in the 2001 lawsuit against Cox, even though everyone knew the records were falsified, then I’ll yield to your thinking. You tell me why Tim McCrone is allowed to be a Judge, even though the MSP knows he was or is a cocaine user, then I’ll yield to your thinking. Go ahead, explain why our government and its employees are allowed to break the law for personal gains and drug use and I’ll kiss your butt….
And the silence speaks much louder than words…..
You’re lying to yourself if you believe that watching child porn is not part of the crime. Why do children get sexually abused in front of the camera? Because there is a MARKET for it from freaks like this guy who pay to see it…what this man allegedly did is just as much a part of the victimization of innocent children as anyone else in this crime. Your argument of “who did he victimize?” is like saying that it shouldn’t be considered a crime to USE heroin…I mean, after all, if you’re not manufacturing the drugs…or dealing the drugs…you’re only hurting yourself, right? The demand feeds the supply. There are no innocent people in this scenario other than the children being victimized. Maybe you don’t recall the vulnerability of childhood? Unless we demand the highest levels of protection for children, we are failing them. Children are a population not able to protect themselves, and yet it seems you feel we should protect the “rights” of child predators to view this kind of disgusting content, instead of protecting the rights of children to grow up free from exploitation and abuse.
You see, right there, you called the guy a child predator for downloading a video. I guess our definitions of a predator are different. Let’s see….Predator – a person who ruthlessly exploits others. That’s the definition I just looked up that applies to the word you used. Nope, I don’t see him as the one who ruthlessly exploited anyone. He’s got issues for watching that crap, but a felonious criminal? I can’t see that. If he had touched a child I would agree with you 100%.
The victim is the child in the video….the victim of the market. This guy sent the video files to police. Do you not get it? Why are you defending this reprobate scumbag?
The police downloaded it from a file sharing network. This guy had already downloaded it and was seeding it, probably inadvertently. I doubt the police downloaded the whole file from him and probably only got bits and pieces of it from his actual IP address. They probably got other bits and pieces of it from other computers as well, hence “the investigation is ongoing”. Do you not get it? It’s a witch hunt and I bet the full content of the download was actually downloaded from several computers. That’s how torrents work. You are actually downloading from multiple computers, not one. He downloaded it to watch it and did not remove it from the seed queue. He victimized no one but the state code and the state can not be the victim. I am not defending him, but if I was, isn’t that what infamous felons do? Isn’t that what “Queue the Music” was getting at? I am tired of seeing people persecuted by a constitutionally baseless code that is only enforced by the states because of a bribe known as federal funding.
We do not dump medical waste in the creek…its a crime even if no one dies. We do not drive drunk …its a crime even if there isn’t an accident.. We do not view , own, store, kiddie porn…its a crime. Not only is it a crime …its a good way to get shived in a jail cell.
It is not a crime because there is no victim. Putting a man in jail for a non crime is bad. Suggesting he get shived in jail is worse. If a man dies from downloading a video an extraordinary perversion of justice would occur….
Im tired of this crap….what kind of person gets wood watching children on children…or worse an adult on a child. Law 101. Laws are our codes and traditions. Tradition, screw a child…go to jail !!!!!! Law, Screw a child….go to jail.
Well, I gotta admit, he does have issues that I don’t approve of, but I don’t like these file sharing stings.
Whatever you do don’t go on pornhub and search Traci Lords you will get an answer to your question you do not want….
So that’s where the content is. You know, I’ve browsed torrent websites for years and never once did I run into something labeled “Child Porn”. I download TV shows, even though we have a subscription to watch the shows on live TV. I prefer to download them and watch them commercial free whenever I want. I’m glad you put a source on this forum. I now know that I don’t even browse a site that the MSP gestapo units are watching. It makes me feel safer because the MSP gestapo agents are terrorists who have invaded my world over and over. I hate MSP cops. I used to like them. I thought they were professional and courteous. I now know they are the greatest evil in the state. When Law Enforcement becomes terrorists the law loses because they lose people who were once sympathetic to their causes…..They definitely lost me.
Defending this mans actions is like admiring Tony Pedestas art collection.
Last time I checked, there was no constitutional authority granted by WE THE PEOPLE to control our behaviors, especially one that is victimless. Convictions gained in this manner are perversions of justice…
The extraordinary perversion is found in your ridiculous argument that no one was harmed by this man downloading and viewing child porn. This is NOT a victimless crime. Children are being sexually abused on film to FEED the horrendous desires of men like this guy, and you want to protect him? You should probably move next door and be his friendly neighbor. Don’t forget to take your family with you. Report back and let us know how that’s working out for you…
Well, you’re right. I guess the guy’s who originally made the video for profit didn’t get any money when he downloaded it from the file sharing network. I guess they could be considered the victim because he definitely didn’t touch or harm a child when he clicked the mouse button. But hold on, aren’t the ones who made the video the real culprits who victimized the child?