Possible WA child porn pics on Facebook

WA police are investigating a Facebook page after complaints about possible child exploitation material. Source: AP

West Australian police are investigating a Facebook page after several complaints about possible child exploitation material.

Detectives are liaising with Facebook staff to identify who was responsible for posting the images and comments.

"Police are attempting to ascertain the identity of the people in the photos, as well as determine their ages,'' a spokeswoman said.

"If the images are people under the age of 18, posing in a sexually explicit manner, then it is illegal to post them online.''

The maximum penalty for distributing child exploitation material in WA is 10 years imprisonment.
Anyone convicted of this crime would also go on the Sex Offenders Register.

Police are reminding the public never to send pictures of themselves to anyone they do not know.

"Do not provide your personal information, including name, home address, phone number or school over the internet,'' the spokeswoman said.

"Pressing 'send' is definite and final - you can't get it back or take it down.''
 

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Facebook death note leaves mum fuming

When police were unable to find Rickie Lamb's mother after he was killed in a traffic accident, they resorted to using an unrelated Facebook account to notify family. Source: Supplied

HARRIED police in Georgia gave up attempting to contact a mother about the death of her son, so they posted a message on her Facebook. She read it a month later.

Anna Lamb-Creasey only discovered her son, 30, had died almost four weeks after he had mysteriously disappeared.

The police post had been shuffled off her screen by Facebook's automatic priority system into a box called "other" in her messaging folder.

The buried post was made under the name "Misty Hancock" with a profile picture of an Atlanta rapper.

"I'm like, OK. I'm thinking it's just fake," she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Her son, Rickie Lamb, had been reported as missing since January 25.

Ironically, his mother had been posting messages to his Facebook page asking "Rickie where are you? Love mom."

He had been killed in a hit-run accident when he was crossing a road on January 24.

It was only on Valentines Day that his desperate sister decided to call the phone number on the strange "Misty Hancock" post.

A police officer gave her the bad news.

"They told me that they did the best that they can do. But I'm not sure about that. (Because) if they can track a criminal down, they couldn't track me down? They could have done better," mother Anna said. "I've been on my job 13 years. They could have found me."

Clayton County police say they had used conventional methods in a failed attempt to contact the family. They are investigating the use of the Facebook account.

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Facebook death note leaves mum fuming

When police were unable to find Rickie Lamb's mother after he was killed in a traffic accident, they resorted to using an unrelated Facebook account to notify family. Source: Supplied

HARRIED police in Georgia gave up attempting to contact a mother about the death of her son, so they posted a message on her Facebook. She read it a month later.

Anna Lamb-Creasey only discovered her son, 30, had died almost four weeks after he had mysteriously disappeared.

The police post had been shuffled off her screen by Facebook's automatic priority system into a box called "other" in her messaging folder.

The buried post was made under the name "Misty Hancock" with a profile picture of an Atlanta rapper.

"I'm like, OK. I'm thinking it's just fake," she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Her son, Rickie Lamb, had been reported as missing since January 25.

Ironically, his mother had been posting messages to his Facebook page asking "Rickie where are you? Love mom."

He had been killed in a hit-run accident when he was crossing a road on January 24.

It was only on Valentines Day that his desperate sister decided to call the phone number on the strange "Misty Hancock" post.

A police officer gave her the bad news.

"They told me that they did the best that they can do. But I'm not sure about that. (Because) if they can track a criminal down, they couldn't track me down? They could have done better," mother Anna said. "I've been on my job 13 years. They could have found me."

Clayton County police say they had used conventional methods in a failed attempt to contact the family. They are investigating the use of the Facebook account.

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