A Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine cartoonist who has recently made fun of conservatives for concerns about child grooming and who has previously criticized President-elect Donald Trump was detained for possessing child porn on Wednesday.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office announced in a press release on Thursday that the Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children ( ICAC ) had an investigation into a suspect’s upload of child sex abuse material after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
” The suggestion was related to 18 records containing CSAM”, law enforcement officials stated. ” The research continued, and a total of 134 video of CSAM were located and linked to the same account, owned and controlled by 49-year-old Darrin Bell”.
The press release explained that Internet Crimes Against Children Detectives executed a search warrant at Bell’s home on Wednesday and recovered information, including” computer-generated” child sex abuse stuff. Bell was detained and booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail, where he is currently being held on a$ 1 million bail, according to law enforcement officials.
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Due to a new legislation governing legal artificial intelligence-generated materials that came into force earlier this month, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office noted that the social poet’s arrest was the first by the Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Detectives.
In the media transfer, law enforcement officials confirmed that Bell is a “well-known artist” and that he has been “featured in several important blogs”. Bell has had images appear in The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, according to The New York Post.
In a democratic film from April 2022, Bell criticizes Republicans for their concerns about child groomers, particularly those related to the LGBTQ movement. At the time, Bell tweeted,”# Republicans describe those who teach admiration for #LGBT individuals as# Groomers”.
Media character Erick Erickson tweeted,” Cartoonist who attacked liberals for pointing out grooming habits turns out to have kid video on his notebook,” after learning about Bell’s imprisonment. Surprise. Surprise”.
