A Michigan man who produced child pornography depicting young boys being sexually abused and shared it with one of the most notorious online pedophile groups ever busted by the federal government has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, the United States attorney for the Central District of California announced this week.
Joshua Boras, 34, of Lapeer, Michigan, and a member of the since-dismantled international child-porn trading group known as "Lost Boy" was one of just two American members of the group to have been charged with actually producing some of the content on the online message board. The secret pornography group, which operated under password protected codes prior to its dismantling, was the subject of our January 12 feature article, "The Scooby-Doo Files."
At the time of its existence in 2009, the group, whose three dozen members operated across four continents, was the largest child exploitation enterprise ever indicted by the U.S. government. An investigation that began in Los Angeles spun off into a major case in the Missouri Ozarks, where pedophile Jeffrey Greenwell was caught producing pornographic content that made its way to the Lost Boy group. He recently received a 100-year prison sentence for his misdeeds.
Boras, who operated under the screen name "Steel," is the second member of the Lost Boy group to be sentenced. (Authorities have caught and convicted all but three American members.)
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