Efforts to identify and apprehend these individuals continue.
Seventeen of the 72 charged individuals remain at large and are known only by their online identities. Twenty-five of the 41 individuals who have pleaded guilty for their roles in the conspiracy have been sentenced to prison and have received sentences ranging between 15 and 37 years. Fourty-one individuals have pleaded guilty and Wyss was convicted after a four-day jury trial. To date, 55 of the 72 charged defendants have been arrested in the United States and abroad. Dreamboard was a private, members-only, online bulletin board that was created and operated to promote pedophilia and encourage the sexual abuse of very young children, in an environment designed to avoid law enforcement detection.Ī total of 72 individuals, including Wyss, have been charged as a result of Operation Delego. The charges against Wyss are the result of Operation Delego, an ongoing investigation that was launched in December 2009 that targeted individuals around the world for their participation in Dreamboard. Wyss was charged in an indictment unsealed on Aug.
Evidence presented at trial revealed that Wyss had been an active member of Dreamboard, an online child pornography bulletin board, since January 2008 and had made numerous postings revealing that he had produced child pornography by capturing images of minors engaging in sexually explicit activity via webcam, including one video in which adult males were engaged in sexual intercourse with prepubescent girls. John Wyss, aka “Bones,” 55, of Monroe, Wis., was found guilty of one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, one count of conspiracy to advertise child pornography and one count of conspiracy to distribute child pornography. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) John Morton. Attorney Stephanie Finley of the Western District of Louisiana and Director of U.S. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. WASHINGTON – A Wisconsin man was found guilty yesterday in the Western District of Louisiana for his participation in an international criminal network, known as Dreamboard, dedicated to the sexual abuse of children and the creation and dissemination of graphic images and videos of child sexual abuse throughout the world, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A.