© Cumberland County PrisonIra S. Task, 61, of Harrisburg, is facing charges that include rape of a child. He was charged Wednesday, and his charges are connected to charges filed against a Carlisle man accused of raping the same victim, and video-recording Task. o.O
An HIV-positive Harrisburg man charged with raping a child, whose case police say is connected with a Carlisle man charged with video recording the incident and putting it on the Internet, is facing criminal charges in Cumberland County. Charges that include rape of a child were filed Wednesday against
Ira S. Task, 61.
North Middleton Township Police say they have filed additional charges against William C. Byers Augusta, 19
The investigation began locally when North Middleton Township Police Detective Matthew Johnson and Detective Ryan Parthemore of the Cumberland County District Attorney's Office of Criminal Investigation Division were contacted by the Department of Homeland Security regarding an ongoing child-exploitation investigation.
According to charging documents filed on Wednesday, the investigation unfolded like this:
Federal investigators told local authorities of
a live-streamed rape of a 6-year-old over a video-conferencing website that occurred on July 22. The man in the video, who investigators identified as
William C. Byers Augusta, 19, was having sexual contact with the victim. The investigation led police to a North Middleton Township home where they found a laptop in Byers Augusta's bedroom. The laptop revealed numerous videos and photographs of child pornography.
Comment: It's only been a few years since Jerry Sandusky was arrested and charged with raping several children during his tenure at Penn State University. It was rumored that he was part of a larger ring, but the rumors were largely swept from the public's mind and the entire affair left the headlines. It's possible those rumors had some truth to them, especially when political connections to covering up investigations into larger pedophile rings have happened time and time again.
The curious reader is invited to google the Dutroux Affair, the Franklin Scandal, the Finder's cult or pedophiles in the Pentagon. All of these connections and events are discussed in a Sott Focus by Harrison Koehli: Men Who Hate Women: The Franklin Scandal and the Truth About Our Leaders.
What's clear is that there are a lot of pedophiles out there, they are very well connected and rarely caught.