Lord Protector Jim Hood issued the following statement.
A 73-year-old man was arrested at his Clinton home Wednesday on one count of child exploitation for possession of child pornography, announced Attorney General Jim
Hood.
Terry
Baum was arrested by investigators in the AG’s Cyber Crime Unit after
an investigation into his suspicious online activity. He was booked into
the Clinton Police Department
on a $500,000 bond.
If
convicted, Baum faces up to 40 years in prison. A charge is merely an
accusation, and a defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven
guilty beyond a reasonable
doubt in a court of law.
This
case was investigated by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force with assistance from the Clinton
Police Department. It will be
prosecuted by Special Assistant Attorney General Brandon Ogburn.
12 comments:
120 Oakleigh Drive is located in a nice subdivision with lots of children.
HCCC Administrator or professor?
Where yall getting all that info? Its not in the posting. Regardless, so sad.
5:57 PM Address is from the Hinds Co. Assessor's Office land query search page and from www.mugshots.com.
Think he may have been a substitute teacher at Clinton High back in late 80s up to 90. Looks familiar.
I remember Terry from the late 80s and early 90s. He alleged, he was an accomplished Military man ( Army ) specialist in urban and land warfare..
At least that was his story to me. He use to wear BDU's and also claimed he was deployed many times for training.
Someone check into that..I'm curious now.
Check into it yourself. Don't ask don't tell.
I understand the concept that these arrests are intended to slow the flow of child porn and thereby, protect children. But why is the focus on arresting the person who clicks on a video offered on a website? Obviously, the AGs know which websites/videos are the offensive ones so....why not START with the website? Why not trace it back to its origin (the same way they trace the street address of the person who clicked) and take action THERE? Or, if they can't get cooperation from the authorities at the site of origin, why can't they hack the site or something to shut it DOWN?? What good does it do in the end to prosecute the end user when there will ALWAYS be thousands - if not millions - more following behind him??? Bottom line, these arrests do absolutely NOTHING to slow the child porn industry. It just makes "Lord Protector Jim Hood" LOOK like he's doing something.
most of these "websites" are set up & run by the AG's office
( here and other states)for the sole purpose of catching
these individuals while they are " surfing the web" !
to 10 :36 am.......... the origin of most childporn websites is russia , and the AG has no jurisdiction there. even you should be able to understand that . in the meantime, im fine with the AG busting these perverts who trade these photos like baseball cards.
One of these days the Supremes will realize that the mere possession of a document or a photo is not a crime. If I am in possession of an architectural drawing of the inside of the Target Store, a list of its cashiers and their shifts and passwords and overhead camera views of those registers in operation...have I committed a crime?
These people for the most part are trading in child porn, not "clicking" on websites. This activity perpetuates the problem, i.e. continues the sick exploitation of the most vulnerable.
Don't for a minute feel sorry for these people!
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