#DREAMBOARD ARRESTS REGISTRATION#
Mandatory conditions of his release will include that he not possess a firearm, ammunition or any other weapon, that he cooperate in the collection of DNA as directed by his probation officer and that he comply with sex offender registration requirements.Ĭourt documents include Blankenship's agreement to abandon property that had been seized in connection with the investigation. Upon his release from prison, Blankenship will be on supervised release for the rest of his life. He allegedly posted video and image files to the site labeled "Girl with Dog," "Nice small sets" and "Candle." Although he joined as member, his status was raised to the next highest level, known as VIP, as a result of his postings.ĭuring his time with Dreamboard, Blankenship posted 237 times, according to court documents.īlankenship, according to court documents, published three separate advertisements in April and May 2010 on Dreamboard in which he offered to distribute files containing child pornography. 9, 2009 and allegedly adopted the screen name of 14yrsmax, according to court documents. To conceal their conduct, members used screen names rather than actual names and accessed the bulletin board via proxy servers, with Internet traffic routed through other computers to disguise a user's location, according to court documents.īlankenship joined the bulletin board on Nov. In all, there were five distinct levels of membership.
He denied charges of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and posing a child in a state of nudity,Īnother Massachusetts man, David Michael Whitten of Lynn, was sentenced to 35 years in prison in October in connection with Dreamboard, according to the Globe.ĭreamboard, created in January, 2008, was a sophisticated operation that rewarded members for uploading images of child sexual abuse with increasing access to additional tiers of images.
On Tuesday, a second grader teacher at a Newton elementary school was arrested at his home, according to the Boston Globe.ĭavid Ettlinger, 34, of Allston, is facing a charge in that same federal court in Louisiana of participating in a child exploitation enterprise.Īccording to the Globe, Ettlinger was arraigned Wednesday in West Roxbury District Court on charges that he sexually assaulted a young girl and filmed the attack several years ago in the Boston area, according to the Globe. He is serving his sentence at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex in White Deer, Pennsylvania, according to an inmate locator operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.Īt the time of his arrest, Blankenship was one of 72 suspects charged in connection with Dreamboard.
Last month, a federal judge sentenced Blankenship to 20 years, court documents state. to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, according to court documents. Rush Frank Blankenship, 27, was a VIP member of an online bulletin board called "Dreamboard" whose members traded tens of thousands of images and videos of sexually abused children ages 12 and under, federal authorities said.īlankenship, who lived in Westfield before moving to Monson, pleaded guilty on Sept.
A former Monson man, charged last March with participating in an international online child pornography ring, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
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