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Child Modeling Sites
19 Aug 2021 News
WOMEN CHARGED OVER SEXUALLY EXPLOITATIVE CHILD MODELING SITES
SARAH COBLE NEWS WRITER
Four Floridians have been charged in connection with a child sexual abuse
material (CSAM) subscription service that produced millions of images and videos
of sexualized minors.
International Florida-based business Newstar Enterprise, which was founded in
2005, built, maintained, hosted, and operated what appeared to be a series of
legitimate child modeling websites called Newstar Websites on servers based in
the US and abroad.
According to court documents, Newstar was in reality "an internet-based business
aimed at for-profit sexual exploitation of vulnerable children under the guise
of 'child modeling'."
Some of the images and videos sold via the Newstar Websites showed children as
young as 6 years old in sexual and provocative poses, wearing police and
cheerleader costumes, revealing swimsuits, pantyhose and miniskirts, thong
underwear, and transparent underwear.
Though the images and videos did not depict any minor as completely nude, some
of the children were shown engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
"To populate the Newstar Websites with content, Newstar Enterprise members
sourced, enticed, solicited and recruited males and females under the age of 18,
some of whom were prepubescent, to use as 'child models' for the Newstar
Websites," said the Department of Justice in a statement.
"Using the recruited child-victims, the Newstar Enterprise produced more than
4.6 million sexualized images and videos to distribute and sell on the Newstar
Websites."
The websites attracted users from 101 different countries. Some images were
provided free, while other content was unlocked by paying a subscription fee.
More than $9.4m in income was generated by the websites. Newstar Enterprise
employees fraudulently opened merchant and bank accounts in the United States,
using a bogus jewelry company to launder the proceeds.
Investigators found most of the children pictured on the site were recruited
from Eastern Europe.
Weston resident 58-year-old Kenneth Power was charged with conspiracy to
advertise child pornography and conspiracy to distribute child pornography, but
the case against him was dismissed following his death on March 9.
Power's wife, 41-year-old Tatiana Power, was charged with conspiracy to commit
money laundering, international promotion money laundering, and concealment
money laundering.
Patrice Eileen Wilowski-Mevorah, 53, of Tampa, and Mary Lou Bjorkman, 58, of
Lutz, pleaded guilty to laundering money for Newstar Enterprise.
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