The FBI says it’s looking a person who allegedly sexually assaulted a kid behind a van.
The individual of hobby, referred to as John Doe 48, used to be captured on video abusing the kid, whom the FBI stated additionally it is looking to establish and find.Â
The FBI issued the enchantment on Wednesday by the use of its Endangered Kid Alert Program (ECAP), a countrywide and world media request for info on unknown adults, known as John/Jane Does, whose faces and/or different distinguishing traits are visual in affiliation with kid pornography photographs.
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John Doe 48 is sought after through the FBI. He’s described as a white guy with darkish hair, a grey beard and a tattoo on each and every of his forearms. (FBI; iStock)
John Doe 48 is described as a white guy, elderly between 45 and 65 years previous, with darkish hair and a grey beard. He has a tattoo on each and every of his forearms.
He’s observed within the video behind a 2018-2019 Nissan NV shipment van dressed in a blue T-shirt and a dark-colored hat. He’s heard talking English within the video, the FBI stated.
The FBI exposed the video in December 2023 all over 3 different investigations through the Nationwide Heart for Lacking and Exploited Kids. The knowledge embedded inside the video record indicated that it used to be produced in October 2023.
The FBI says John Doe 48 has essential data relating the identification of the kid sufferer in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation.
“This individual is surely an individual of hobby,” FBI Supervisory Particular Agent Karen Jurden advised Fox Information Virtual. “You must get this out to the general public in order that the general public can help in figuring out the individual.”
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The FBI says it’s looking a person who allegedly sexually assaulted a kid behind a van. (iStock)
Jurden stated the video allegedly presentations John Doe 48 abusing a minor behind a car. It’s unclear the place the video used to be taken, and the FBI didn’t give you the age or intercourse of the sufferer.
Jurden stated the FBI problems an enchantment by the use of its ECAP when all different investigative and analytical steps to check out to spot the topic had been exhausted.
“Usually, sooner than we start up a countrywide press unencumber, we put it out to our state and native in addition to with different brokers and FBI to peer in the event that they got here throughout it of their investigations. So we attempt to [investigate] the entirety sooner than we put out a press unencumber.”Â
“As of nowadays, we will have a complete of 48 John or Jane Does, and out of that quantity, 35 had been known.”
She stressed out that no longer all individuals at the listing are imagined to have sexually assaulted a kid.Â
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Jurden stated that occasionally they will have data that would possibly lead investigators to an abuser.Â
“It’s resulted within the id of over 50 kid sufferers,” Jurden says.
Someone with data can put up a tip on-line at pointers.fbi.gov or name the FBI’s toll-free tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324). The general public is reminded that no fees had been filed on this case and that the pictured particular person is presumed blameless until and till confirmed responsible in a courtroom of regulation.
