Babble Club members made postings to the discussion boards, which included comments on specific images they liked, the type of clothing and poses they liked, and poetry written to the photographed child. According to court documents, the website encouraged the purchase of subscriptions to the individual websites of the children, and hosted discussion boards and groups which were devoted to each individual website. On the Babble Club's website, members could receive a free sample of images of the children. Libman also admitted that Webe Web promoted subscriptions to these individual sites through its free advertising website known as Babble Club.
Libman admitted that the websites depicting the 16 victims generated approximately $1 million in revenue, federal authorities said. If viewers wanted to join the website to access additional photographs, they could purchase a 30-day membership for approximately $30 per month. In some of the photos, the victims, all girls ages 8 to 15, were wearing underwear, lingerie, bathing suits and other revealing outfits, and were posed in positions that constituted child pornography, authorities said.Īccording to court documents, viewers of the websites could preview a certain number of images for free on the website homepage.
Libman admitted that the websites pertaining to 16 different children contained illegal images of child pornography. According to court documents, Libman was responsible for building and maintaining these websites.
The website contained hyperlinks to websites containing photographs of individual child super models featuring minor female children in various poses and wardrobes. Libman was also sentenced to lifetime supervised release, to follow his prison term.Īccording to court documents, Webe Web was the registered owner of the website which purported to be a child modeling website that promoted models ages 7 to 16 and their photographers. 15, 2010, to 16 counts of transporting child pornography. District Court in the Northern District of Alabama on Sept. Lauderdale, FL, vice president and co-director of Webe Web Corporation, a Florida company, pleaded guilty in U.S. REUTERSĪ man who used a child modeling website to push child pornography has been sentenced to nine years in prison, federal authorities said today. A man operating a "child model" website got a 9-year sentence Thursday for child pornography. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent Don Daufenbach is interviewed in his Cyber Crimes Center's office in Fairfax, Virginia July 24, 2009.
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