At Least 17 People Arrested on Child Pornography Crimes
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
FAIRHOPE Ala.
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media
April 14, 2025
At first glance, it may just seem to be a coincidence to most people. Albeit a strange and unusual occurrence that seems to have happened repeatedly in a short amount of time in small-town America.
At least seventeen people have been arrested during the past six months, all living in different areas of Baldwin and Mobile Counties, and all are charged with sex crimes involving children, including rape and multiple charges of receiving and distributing child pornography.
Another thing that makes these arrests so unusual is that those involved in the crimes had no direct connections to each other, nor the victims, and did not perpetrate or plan the crimes together, and probably never crossed paths with one another.
Many secretive online platforms do have chatrooms and private spaces where people go and talk about various illegal activities including child pornography, and many other online sites disgustingly share photos of underage girls posing nude, partially nude, or engaged in sexual activity with adults.
Although every bit of this is illegal and despicable, it is nearly impossible to track the thousands that are engaged in these crimes.
The unbelievable fact is that the number of those actively searching for such sites is increasing according to investigators with the US Department of Homeland Security which has a specialized internet unit to track such crimes.
Technology today does make investigating, locating, and arresting the culprits better than it has ever been, but it’s still not an instant arrest.
Hours and hours of online investigations, undercover work, and monitoring are involved just to initiate the beginning of a case.
In some of the arrests that have been made recently in Baldwin and Mobile County, Internet Crime Units and the Department of Homeland Security Investigations were able to identify potential online criminal violations being perpetrated locally and passed that information on to local law enforcement agencies who followed up, conducting further investigations, developing probable cause to obtain search and arrest warrants and rounding up the offenders.
The following are some of the arrests that were made over the past six months:
Foley Al. Kaleb Owens, 42, on child pornography charges.
Owens both filmed and disseminated explicit footage of a minor.
Owens has been charged with Dissemination/Display of Child Pornography, Production of Pornography with Minors, and Criminal Surveillance.
Mobile Al. Isaiah McDaniel is charged with four counts of possessing child porn and one count of distributing
Daphne Al. 24-year-old Forrest Sanford was charged with possession of child pornography and had been posing as underage children on a variety of online platforms.
Mobile Al. 45-year-old Jason WC Jones five counts of possession of child pornography and three counts of dissemination of child pornography.
Mobile Al. Christian Tyler Bostick faces 2 counts of Possession of Child Pornography and 2 counts of Dissemination of Child Pornography
Fairhope Al. 66-year-old Kenneth Greer was charged and arrested for four counts of possession of obscene matter containing visual depiction of persons under 17 years of age involved in obscene acts,
Mobile Al. 34-year-old Trevor Marshall Bateman faces two counts of child porn dissemination and five counts of child porn possession.
Saraland Al. 26-year-old John Martin Brown of Saraland and charged him with five counts of child porn possession.
Mobile Al. Dylan Ray Lovvorn was arrested on (5) counts of Possession of Child Pornography and (5) counts of Distribution of Child Pornography.
Fairhope Al. Police charged a teenager with possession of child pornography.
Mobile Al. Tyler Matthew Mcilwain was charged with 5 counts of possession and 5 counts of distribution of child pornography.
Fairhope Al. 52-year-old Timothy McGriff Jr was charged with four counts of possession of child pornography
Grand Bay Al. 34-year-old Keigh Hodges faces Human Trafficking, Child Pornography Charges. Including charges of:
5 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material
5 counts of production of child sexual abuse material
Distributing child sexual abuse material
First-degree human trafficking
Fairhope Al. 40-year-old Daniel Vincent Moore was arrested for 4 Counts of Felony Possession of Child Pornography and 2 Counts of Felony Transmit Obscene Material to Child
Mobile Al Steven Daniel Criswell was charged with 5 counts of Possession of Child Pornography and 2 counts of Dissemination of Child Pornography,
Gulf Shores Al 29-year-old Stephen Terry Sewell Jr is facing four counts of possession of child pornography.
Foley Al. Christian Andrew Henderson, 31 was charged with four counts of possession of child pornography.
Of the sixteen arrests made across two counties, four suspects were arrested in Fairhope.
During the same time, in other parts of the state, more than twenty-five others have been charged with similar crimes including two ALEA employees.
Chad Claybrook, an ALEA trooper was arrested in Talladega County. Claybrook is charged with possession of obscene matter of a person under the age of 17. Claybrook first started working with ALEA in June 2002 but resigned just before his arrest.
And in one of the more bizarre situations involving child pornography crimes, John Watson, 54, of Dothan, an ALEA license examiner is accused of sending pornographic images to the State House and Gov. Kay Ivey.
He resigned after his arrest, but the investigation continues according to the police.
In Shelby County Alabama, a fifty-year-old woman was charged with 23 counts, including sexual abuse with a child, production of child pornography, and disseminating child pornography.
Shelby Blake Miller Barakat, 50, of Chelsea, is facing a possible life sentence in prison if found guilty on all charges.
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