United States v. Thomas Valley

Thomas Valley, who is 29, posed on the Internet as a teenage boy and persuaded more than 50 under-age girls to send him sexually explicit photos of themselves. He also convinced at least one of those girls to meet in person for sex. Authorities had learned that Valley was using Internet file-sharing software to distribute child pornography and discovered the photos received from the girls while executing a state search warrant at his mother’s home, where he lived. Valley made incriminating statements during the search and, after his indictment, unsuccessfully moved to suppress those…