Rob Abrams
Special Agent Rob Abrams is a criminal investigator with the US Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). S/A Abrams is assigned to the Office of the Special Agent in Charge, Washington, DC to the Child Exploitation and Human Rights Violators Group. SA Abrams has been involved in the investigation of federal crimes against children since 2003 and was the US liaison to Interpol for Operation IDent. SA Abrams has provided instruction to international counterparts at the International Law Enforcement Training Center. SA Abrams is originally from NJ and graduated from the University of Michigan.
Cindy Alexander
Cindy Alexander, LCSW has served as the Clinical Director at the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center for the past 14 years. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. She also is an adjunct professor at the School of Social Work at Texas A&M Commerce. In March 2005, she received the Social Worker of the Year Award from the Dallas Branch of the National Association of Social Workers. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Mental Health Professional of the Year award from the Children Advocacy Centers of Texas. She has over 30 years of experience in working with children and families. She has presented at local, state, and national conferences.
Ward Allen
Mr. Ward Allen is a Forensic Imaging Consultant for SDFI-TeleMedicine. Ward brings over 18 years of direct hands-on knowledge and expertise related to secure digital forensic imaging solutions technologies to the table. Over the years, Ward has worked in a multitude of unrelated industries that are directly related to the development, introduction, use and management of advanced digital imaging; industries such as international corporate product development, digital pre-press and print production solutions, streamlined fulfillment processes, various photography related industries, digital insurance claims, advanced dental imaging and advanced digital medical imaging solutions. Ward’s focus, over the last nine years is specific to (S)ecure (D)igital (F)orensic (I)maging used in conjunction with secure TeleMedicine solutions related to Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.
Kristen Anderson
Kristen is the Deputy Director of the Case Analysis and Support Division at the
After three years as a Pediatric Hospitalist, Dr. Anderst completed a fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics in June 2007, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Child Abuse Pediatrics at UT Health Science Center San Antonio. His clinical activities include physical and sexual abuse and neglect consultations. He has published research in the areas of physical abuse, domestic violence, and sexual abuse.
General Counsel, Federal Programs Fox Valley College. Daniel Armagh received his law degree from the University of Oklahoma with honors where he received the American Jurisprudence Award for Achievement in the study of Legal Process in Contract Law. Mr. Armagh also studied at Queen’s College and Oxford University, United Kingdom. Mr. Armagh became Director of Legal Education at Fox Valley Technical College in August of 2004, and General Counsel of Federal Programs in 2008. Among Mr. Armagh’s responsibilities as Director of Legal Education is to train attorneys, law enforcement, and other professionals how to investigate and prosecute crimes against children. He also provides technical assistance on a wide variety of issues impacting children in the areas of the sexual exploitation of children, physical abuse of children, child abduction, and child fatalities. Mr. Armagh lectures frequently on crimes against children in national and international forums, most recently at INTERPOL in Lyon, France; ARD-CHECHI in Moscow, Russia; ISPCAN in Denver, CO; and EUROPOL in Thun, Switzerland. He is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of investigation and prosecution of computer – facilitated crimes against children, sexual exploitation of children, child pornography, and child physical abuse and fatalities. Mr. Armagh also presently serves as advisor to the Program Manager for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces.
Elizabeth Banker
Andy Beach
Andy Beach currently serves as a Dallas County prosecutor. Originally hired by Henry Wade in 1981, he tried over 100 felony jury trials including nine death penalty prosecutions before leaving in 1990. Mr. Beach practiced civil law in Fort Worth for 13 years before returning to prosecution in 2003. Mr. Beach was promoted to supervisory felony prosecutor over the child abuse and family violence divisions by incoming district attorney Craig Watkins in 2007. In 2007 he was named one of five 'Go-To' prosecutors in the State of Texas by Texas Lawyer magazine.
Michal Beaver
Thomas Blades
Boyd Boshears
Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation for 12 years. FBI Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team member. Casey Crowder abduction/homicide case agent.
Michael Bourke
John Bradley
A prosecutor since 1987 and thinks there is no law other than criminal law since he graduated from University of Houston Law Center in 1985. He currently serves as the elected District Attorney in Williamson County, Texas. After graduating from law school, Mr. Bradley worked for Judge Charles Campbell at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. He read records of trials, researched the law and drafted opinions for a couple of years, then became a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’ Office. In 1989, he moved to Georgetown and began working as a felony prosecutor in the Williamson County District Attorney's Office, eventually serving as the First Assistant District Attorney for five years. In December 2001, Governor Rick Perry appointed Bradley as the District Attorney for Williamson County. Mr. Bradley subsequently ran a contested race and was elected to the office. He has since been re-elected in an uncontested race.
Julie Brand
Holds a Masters degree in Counseling and enjoyed a distinguished 25-year career as a school counselor. Now she uses her unique perspective as both counselor and survivor, to speak and to write about maternal incest. In her recently published book and in her workshops, Julie combines research data, professional insights and her personal experiences to enlighten audiences about the reality of mother-daughter sexual abuse. Her workshops offer strategies to help victims become healthy survivors. Julie’s upbeat presentations focus on the power of resiliency and healing in all of our lives.
Irving Brandt
Irving Brandt is a Senior Inspector assigned to International Investigations Branch at the United States Marshal Service Headquarters.
Lawrence Braunstein
Lawrence Braunstein is a partner in the law firm of Braunstein & Zuckerman, Esps, in White Plains, New York. Since 1985 her has specialized in child custody litigation and litigation involving allegations of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and shaken baby in matrimonial, family and criminal cases. His practice includes the areas of Matrimonial and Family Law and related civil and criminal litigation. He regularly lectures as an invited speaker, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of child sexual abuse, physical abuse and shaken baby, child custody litigation, expert witness testimony, courtroom psychology, trial procedures, and on various other criminal, family and matrimonial law topics to judges, attorneys, medical and mental health professionals, law enforcement personal, prosecutors, and child protection services personnel.
Greg Brown
Greg has been working in the applied corrections field for over 20 years. He has his masters degree in Criminal Justice Administration for the University of Colorado. He has worked with both adult and juvenile populations and in a variety of specialized programs and capacities. He has extensive experience in the supervision, treatment and management of adult and juvenile sex offenders, as well as mentally ill and substance abusing clients. In addition, Greg has spent considerable time developing standards, policies and best practices for high risk clients including; juveniles, mentally ill and substance abusing populations. Greg is currently Chief Probation Officer for the 20th Judicial District, in Boulder Colorado. Greg is an instructor and consultant in sex offender management, forensic computer examinations and monitoring for the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforces (ICAC), and the National Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC).
Michael W. Bruns
Michael Bruns is a seventeen year veteran of law enforcement and holds a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from Chicago State University, and a Bachelors Degree from Lewis University. He is currently assigned to the High Tech Crimes Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Investigator Bruns has served as an Adult Probation Officer in the states of Illinois and Florida. He has also served as a Senior Parole Agent for the State of Illinois Department of Corrections, a member of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area/Technical Operations Group, and the Fugitive Apprehension Unit for the Illinois Department of Corrections. Investigator Bruns was deputized as a United States Marshal and assigned to the Great Lake Regional Fugitive Task Force. During this assignment he acted as a training advisor for the State and Local Fugitive Investigator’s Course taught at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco Georgia.
Sarah Buel
Clinical Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. Started, then co-directed their Domestic Violence Clinic and teaches “Domestic Violence and the Law,” criminal law, and torts courses. Professor Buel has spent the past 31 years working with battered women, abused children, and juveniles within the legal system, for seven years as a prosecutor. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1990, where she founded the Harvard Battered Women’s Advocacy Project, the Harvard Women in Prison Project, and the Harvard Children and Family Rights Project. Professor Buel has published more than 30 articles on family violence issues, serves on numerous board and commissions, and has received over 30 awards for her efforts on behalf of abuse victims.
Irish Burch
Irish Burch is the
Forensic Interview Program Director for the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center
in Dallas, Texas. Her primary responsibility is conducting forensic interviews,
as well as, supervising and training staff in current interviewing techniques.
She has worked in the child abuse for the past 12 years as a Child Protective
Services Specialist, Child Care Licensing Abuse and Neglect Investigator, and
Forensic Interviewer.
Jeff Burge
A 19 year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. During his career, he has worked in Patrol, SWAT, Gang Unit, and Narcotics. The last five years he has been assigned to the Special Investigations Unit/Child Exploitation Squad. He is responsible for the investigation of non-familial child molestation and sexual assault cases, child pornography and other offenses involving the sexual exploitation of children.
Linda Chambers
Linda Chambers is the First Assistant District Attorney for Greene County District Attorney's Office in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
Cindy Christian
Dr. Christian holds The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia endowed chair in child abuse and neglect prevention, and is an associate professor of Pediatrics at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Christian has more than 20 years experience in caring for maltreated children, and devotes much of her work to the issues of child abuse and neglect. Dr. Christian is a founding member of the Ray Helfer Society, and presently serves on the national Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Don Colcolough
Michelle Collins
Michelle Collins is the Executive Director of Exploited Children Services (ECS) at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, Virginia. She directly oversees the CyberTipline, the Congressionally-mandated recipient of reports on child sexual exploitation for the public and all U.S. based Electronic Service Providers. Ms. Collins spearheaded the creation of the Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP) and worked with programmers to create the Child Recognition & Identification System (CRIS). This image-detection computer program allows NCMEC to locate and identify unknown child victims featured in sexually abusive images as well as assist with child pornography prosecutions across the country. The CVIP initiative is responsible for the examination of all child pornography images & videos seized across the United States by federal, state & local law enforcement agencies. Each week, CVIP examines & analyzes approximately 150,000 child pornography images & videos.
Peter Collins
Dr. Peter Collins is the Coordinator of the Forensic Psychiatry Unit, Behavioural Sciences and Analysis Services, Investigation and Support Bureau of the Ontario Provincial Police and serves as the Consultant Psychiatrist to both the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Peter is also the Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist to the Profiling Unit of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. In 1997 Peter was elected a member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship In 2000 he was appointed a member of the INTERPOL Specialist Group on Crimes against Children. He is a psychiatrist, in the Canadian Navy (Reserve), at the rank of Lieutenant- Commander. Peter is an expert on violent crime and has worked with, and instructed, numerous criminal justice agencies in
Bonnie Cone, RN MSN joined the Texas Office of the Attorney General’s Crime Victim’s Services Division in May, 2005 as the SANE/SART Program Manager. In her role, she provides training and technical assistance to communities who have or are establishing SANE/SART programs. She holds the State of Texas certification as Certified Adult-Certified Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, national certification as Certified Forensic Nurse, and a national certification as Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (Adult/Adolescent). In addition to her healthcare and forensic nursing background, she has taught professionals in a variety of settings. Bonnie recently participated in the implementation of the Pediatric Education Guidelines for the International Association of Forensic Nurses.
Catherine
Connell is a state licensed Clinical Social Worker. Ms Connell
received her Bachelors of Social Work at Michigan State University.
She received her Masters of Social Work, at Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan. Ms Connell is currently employed with the FBI as a
Child/Adolescent Forensic Interview Specialist with the Office of
Victim Assistance. She provides interviews, consultation and training
for FBI Agents. Prior to the Bureau Ms Connell was the Director of
Intervention and Treatment, at CARE House, a Child Advocacy Center in
Pontiac, Michigan.
Jennifer Corbet is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California, where she has prosecuted a variety of federal crimes, including child exploitation cases and gang cases. Corbet has served as the Central District's Crimes Against Children Coordinator, and in that capacity oversaw the prosecution of child pornography offenses, travel offenses, and other offenses against minors. She also served as the point person for an undercover operation targeting individuals who travel to and within the greater Los Angeles area for the purpose of sexually exploiting minors. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's office, Corbet held positions at a law firm in New York City, at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall, United States District Judge. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School.
Cynthia L. Cordes
Cynthia L. Cordes is an Assistant United States Attorney specializing in human trafficking, computer crimes, and child exploitation. Cynthia joined the U.S. Department of Justice through the prestigious Attorney General Honors Program and has served the U.S. Attorney’s Office since 2004. Cynthia has obtained convictions in every one of her federal prosecutions, which totals in over 600 years of prison time for her defendants. Cynthia earned her juris doctor from the University of Notre Dame where she was honored by the University as Distinguished Woman of the Year. Cynthia earned a journalism degree from Boston University where she graduated magna cum laude.
Matthew Cox
Dr. Matthew Cox is a Child Abuse Pediatrician at UT Southwestern Medical School and Children's Medical Center Dallas. He received fellowship training in Child Abuse at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and has been working in Dallas since 2004. He is the medical director of the Referral and Evaluation of At-Risk Children (REACH) Program at CMC Dallas.
Cathy Crabtree
Cathy Crabtree is the Executive Director of Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas. Prior to assuming this position in November 2005, she served as a director with the Crime Victim Services Grants and Contracts Division for the Texas Office of the Attorney General and as a private consultant/trainer, providing training and technical assistance for staff, board and team members of local CACs as well as representatives of CAC state chapters across the nation. For six years, she served as the Director of Program Services for Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas, Inc. – an organization she helped to establish in the early 1990s.
Marc Crandall
Marc Crandall serves as Product Counsel with Google Inc., where he addresses legal issues involving the development of Google products as well as matters involving child online protection and computer systems abuse. Previously, Mr. Crandall served as Assistant General Counsel with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, providing legal advice regarding issues associated with technology’s impact on Internet investigations, including FBI efforts to combat online child pornography. Prior to this, Mr. Crandall was Lead Counsel of Internet Compliance and Enforcement with the California Department of Corporations. Mr. Crandall also served as Special Assistant U.S. Attorney with the US Department of Justice.
Patrick Cunningham
Special Agent with the FBI employed for 13 years.
Claude Davenport
Senior Special Agent Claude Davenport is the former Chief of the Child Exploitation Section at the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Cyber Crimes Center in Fairfax, Virginia. Mr. Davenport retired in December 2007 after 35 years in law enforcement with 24 years of federal government service, but has returned to the DHS/ICE Cyber Crimes Center as a Senior Special Agent, Subject Matter Expert, serving as the National Program Manager, for the Virtual Global Taskforce and Child Exploitation Tracking System initiatives for DHS/ICE in Fairfax, Virginia. Special Agent Davenport started his law enforcement career in 1972 as a military policeman and then as a Criminal Investigator with the U.S. Army. He has worked as a law enforcement officer at the municipal, county and federal levels. Special Agent Davenport has an extensive background in child exploitation investigations starting in 1977 as a Juvenile Division Detective with a municipal police department, the Child Exploitation Investigations Coordinator with U.S. Customs Service at the Office of the Special Agent in Charge, New Orleans, LA, a Computer Forensics Agent with the U.S. Customs Service, the National Program Manager for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s National Child Victim Identification System, as the Chief of the DHS/ICE Child Exploitation Section.
John Davison
John Davison is a 29 year veteran with the Dallas Police Department. His current position is Homicide Detective. He has investigated homicide cases for 18 years. His duties are to investigate the offenses of Murder, Suicide, and Unexplained Deaths. He files criminal cases with the District Attorney’s Office, and he executes arrest and search warrants.
Amy Derrick
Amy Derrick has been practicing as an Assistant District Attorney in Dallas County for almost 4 years. I have spent the last 18 months of which exclusively prosecuting child abuse cases. I did a short 3 month stint as the Assistant County Attorney for Nacogdoches County, where I represented CPS in child welfare cases.
William H. Donaldson
Supervisory Special Agent William H. Donaldson is assigned to Behavioral Analysis Unit III, which deals with crimes involving child victims, in the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. Prior to joining BAU III, SSA Donaldson was in the Muncie, Indiana Resident Agency of the Indianapolis Division. SSA Donaldson received a master's degree in Social Psychology from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Katie Donovan
Katie Donovan is the Outreach Coordinator for the NetSmartz Workshop, an educational resource of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Katie travels around the country to educate law enforcement, educators and community members about the NetSmartz Workshop and ways to keep kids safer online. She has worked in both the fields of child advocacy and child health. She volunteered at the Collin County Children's Advocacy Center in Plano, Texas doing a variety of work to help prevent child abuse and serve victims of abuse in North Dallas. While a student at The Pennsylvania State University, Katie helped raise money in the fight against pediatric cancer as a leader of the Penn State Dance Marathon, the largest student-run philanthropy organization in the world.
Jacqueline Dougher
Special Agent Jacqueline Dougher and Special Agent J. Brooke Donahue are assigned to the FBI's Innocent Images National Initiative (IINI), which is an intelligence driven, proactive, multi-agency investigative operation to combat the proliferation of child pornography/child sexual exploitation (CP/CSE) facilitated by an online computer. The IINI provides centralized coordination and analysis of case information that by its very nature is national and international in scope, requiring unprecedented coordination with state, local, and international governments and among FBI field offices and Legal Attachés. Prior to joining IINI, SA Dougher was in the Buffalo Division, and SA Donahue was in the Dallas Division.
Mike Duffey
Mike Duffey is a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement assigned to the Computer Crimes Center. Mike has been working as sworn law enforcement for the last fifteen years within the State of
Mark Everson
Mark is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he is the Director of the Program on Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment. Dr. Everson has served on both the National Board of Directors and the National Advisory Board of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). In this capacity, he served as co-director of two APSAC taskforces that developed best practice guidelines on child forensic interviewing, and on the use of anatomical dolls, in cases of alleged sexual abuse. During the last twenty years, Dr. Everson's professional career has had a primary focus on research and training in the area of child forensic interviewing in cases of alleged abuse.
Robert Farley
Robert is a thirty-year veteran of the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department in Chicago, Illinois. As a highly decorated Detective, Child Exploitation Unit Supervisor and Deputy United States Marshal he has had over twenty-eight years experience investigating and supervising all aspects of child abuse crimes from sexual abuse to child homicide. As an internationally recognized expert, consultant, author and instructor in child abuse investigation techniques, Robert has conducted training seminars for tens of thousands of professionals in all 50 states. He has also conducted child abuse seminars in 23 different countries around the world on behalf of INTERPOL.
Byron Fassett
Christine Feller
Christine Feller is the Program Manager within the Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP) at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Alexandria, Virginia. This program allows NCMEC to locate and identify unknown child victims featured in sexually abusive images as well as assist law enforcement agencies and prosecution teams with child pornography cases across the country. As CVIP serves as the clearinghouse for identified victims within the United States, the program works closely with Interpol and its member countries. Ms. Feller received a M.A. in Criminal Justice, with a concentration in Computer Fraud Investigations, from George Washington University, and a B.A. in Economics from Saint Mary’s College.
Daniel F. Ferraro, Jr.
Daniel F. Ferraro, Jr. is the Deputy Chief of Investigations for the Illinois Attorney
General’s Office. He is detailed to the High Tech Crimes Bureau which specializes in
Computer Crime Investigation, with a focus on Internet Crimes Against Children. Daniel
oversees the Computer Forensic Unit and has over 14 years of law enforcement
experience with the Attorney General’s Office and the Downers Grove Police
Department. He is also the Director of the Illinois Computer Crime Institute, which is
tasked with educating law enforcement personnel throughout the state in the area of
computer crime investigations.
Jamie Ferrell
Jamie Ferrell is a Forensic Nurse Examiner and Consultant providing education and system analysis for professionals and communities committed to improving their response for victims and interpersonal violence. She currently practices with the Memorial Hermann Forensic Nurse Response Team in Houston, Texas as a Forensic Nurse Examiner and Educator caring for adult and child victims. She is also a member of the National Forensic Nursing Institute (NFNI) faculty where she provides education and consultation nationally and abroad. Ms. Ferrell has 30 years of experience as a Registered Nurse with extensive practice in Emergency/Trauma care. The past 20 years have also been spent practicing as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner. This includes coordinating the SANE program at Northwest Texas Healthcare System from 1988-1998. Her practice has also included flight nursing, pediatric care, and maternal-infant health. Ms. Ferrell had received numerous awards recognizing her outstanding work in the area of sexual assault of adults and especially children. She was the recipient of the 1997 Medical Excellence Award from the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the 1998 Virginia A. Lynch Pioneer Award from the International Association of Forensic Nurses and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Nurses.
Martha Finnegan
Martha J. Finnegan was hired as the Child/Adolescent Forensic Interview Specialist for Innocent Images, the FBI’s multiagency investigative initiative to combat child pornography and child exploitation facilitated through the use of online computers. The FBI then moved Ms. Finnegan’s Child/Adolescent Forensic Interview Specialist position to the Office for Victim Assistance where she is available to provide expert testimony, technical assistance and training to FBI personnel, U.S. Attorneys, and other federal, state and local agencies in the areas of forensic interviewing of child victims of abuse and exploitation. She is also available to conduct child/teen victim interviews and/or help agents locate qualified interviewers in their area. Ms. Finnegan currently authored a guide for agents entitled Investigative Interviews of Adolescent Victims.
Kevin Forder
Kevin Forder provides Walsh Act counsel and training to USMS criminal investigators. He also serves as an ethics counsel to the USMS. During his career at the USDOJ, he has practiced in the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, the Criminal Division's Capital Case Unit, the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division and as an Assistant United States Attorney. He is a former Adjunct Professor at George Washington University Law School and served as Associate Investigative Counsel to the Webster Commission review of the Hanssen espionage case.
James Fottrell
James M. Fottrell U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section James Fottrell joined the Department of Justice in 2002 and is currently an Assistant to the Chief for Computer Forensics and Investigations. In his current role, he oversees the staff of Computer Forensics Specialist within the section’s High Technology Investigative Unit (HTIU). Among his duties, Mr. Fottrell conducts forensic examinations of seized computer systems and media, provides investigative and analytical support to prosecutors and law enforcement agents to identify online child pornography and obscenity offenses, and develops strategies for gathering electronic evidence. James Fottrell began his pioneering role in online child exploitation offenses in 1992 while working with the U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement with the agencies first computer based network of offenders using bulletin board systems. In 1993 Mr. Fottrell traveled to the United Kingdom to assist police agents and prosecutors in the first Web based investigation of distribution of child pornography via the Internet. Mr. Fottrell provides technical training related to computer forensics and Internet based investigations for prosecutors and investigators.
Sabra Garibay
Sabra Garibay is a detective with the Dallas Police Department, Child Abuse Unit. Detective Garibay has served DPD for 22 years and the Child Abuse Unit for the past 17years.
Michael Glennon
Special Agent Glennon joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in January 2004 and is currently assigned to the Detroit Division, working violent crimes and crimes against children matters. Agent Glennon is assigned to the Southeast Michigan Crimes Against Children Task Force (SEMCAC) which has been established to investigate the exploitation of children by means of prostitution. He is also a member of the Detroit Major Crimes Task Force and is an assigned member of the FBI Detroit SWAT Team. He is a member, and actively involved in, a number of local community outreach programs and local area leadership groups that focus on monitoring and enforcing civil rights and crimes against children statues within the Eastern District of Michigan. Agent Glennon has successfully investigated a number of Federal Violations, including, but not limited to Color of Law, Hate Crimes, Human Trafficking, Discrimination in Housing, Sexual Exploitation of Minors and Child Pornography matters.
Christopher Greeley
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston and is the Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics. He lectures locally, regionally and nationally on various topics regarding child maltreatment and vulnerable populations. He is on the national Board of Director for Prevent Child Abuse America and Chairs the Committee on Research. Dr. Greeley was the 2006 Ray E Helfer Award winner. The Ray E Helfer Award is an annual award jointly presented by The American Academy of Pediatrics and The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds to a distinguished pediatrician for his or her contribution to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Robert Hoever
Robert Hoever is currently employed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as an Associate Director of Training and Outreach. He is responsible for NCMEC’s role in the AMBER Alert Program, and serves as a liaison to law enforcement and other AMBER partners; liaison to the fifty-three Missing Children’s Clearinghouse; and liaison to Tribal Law Enforcement. Mr. Hoever recently retired from the New Jersey State Police after 26 years. He retired as a Lieutenant and the Assistant Bureau Chief of the Child Protection and Cyber-Crimes Bureau. He was responsible for the development of New Jersey’s AMBER program, and was the first AMBER Coordinator for New Jersey. He was first assigned to the Missing Persons Unit in 1985. He was also responsible for the creation of the Child Exploitation Squad, within the Missing Person Unit in 1986.
Patricia M. Hogue
Patricia M. Hogue is a former Assistant District Attorney for the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office for approximately 14 years where she served as Division Chief of the Child Abuse Division for over 7 ½ years. Patricia specialized in the prosecution of child capital murder and other highly complex child death and sexual abuse cases. Patricia earned a Bachelor of Science Social Science with a major in psychology from Southwestern University of Georgetown, Texas in 1983 and received her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in May 1990 and is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher JS Johnson is a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. SA Johnson has been a Special Agent for approximately four years assigned to the Detroit Division. SA Johnson was selected as the Crimes Against Children Coordinator for the Detroit Division and coordinates the South East Michigan Crimes Against Children Task Force who’s responsible for Federally appointed Task Force Officers from the Michigan State Police Department, Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, Detroit Police Department, and the Madison Heights Police Department. SA Johnson is also a member of the Detroit Division’s Evidence Response Team and Violent Crime Task Force. Prior to becoming a Special Agent, SA Johnson worked as a police officer in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
Denielle Johnson
Denielle
Johnson has been with the FBI Office for Victim Assistance since 2003.
She oversees the FBI's participation in the federal Victim Notification
System and Child Pornography Victim Notification Program. Ms. Johnson
also has three years experience as an FBI Victim Specialist at the
Washington Field Office. Prior to her employment with the FBI, Ms.
Johnson was a Crime Analyst with the Tyler (TX) Police Department. Ms.
Johnson attended both undergraduate and graduate school at Sam Houston
State University in Huntsville, TX.
Jennifer Jones
Current role with eBay is Law Enforcement Relationship Management. Develop and maintain relationships with law enforcement and industry to promote successful eBay/PayPal investigations. Organizations trained include USPIS, FBI, Europol, Interpol, IAFCI, HTCIA as well as participation at various conferences sponsored by local AG’s and police department. Prior to this role, Jones created and managed eBay’s Law Enforcement Ops team in Dublin, Ireland.
Sarah Kaleel
Julie Kenniston
Julie Kenniston, LSW is a former child protective social worker who trains nationally and internationally in the area of forensic interviewing. She has interviewed over 3,000 children and their parents. Ms. Kenniston trains with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, APRI Finding Words, the Childhood Trust in Cincinnati, as well as many other agencies. Currently, Ms. Kenniston is the Director of Training and Education for Butler County Children Services in Hamilton, Ohio.
Roseann Ketchmark
Roseann Ketchmark has been a prosecutor for 18 years. She served as a Missouri State prosecutor for 12 years and has been serving as an Assistant United States Attorney since 2001. Ms. Ketchmark has participated in over 100 jury trials. Ms. Ketchmark received her undergraduate degree in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma in 1986 and her law degree from the University of Kansas in 1990.
Shing Khor
Shing is a Security Manager with the Business and Legal Affairs department of Fox Interactive Media. She works primarily with MySpace on developing, researching and investigating cases related to safety and security issues.
Brian Killacky
For a decade, Brian has been assigned to investigate Cold Case homicide-related investigations. A member of the Cook County States Attorneys Cold Murder Unit, this unit has investigated serial, spree and mass murder, child fatalities and missing person homicides, gang related, domestic, sex related and organized crime homicides. As a Detective for the Chicago Police Department Brian was assigned to investigate Sexual Exploitation of Children for ten years and violent crimes and homicide for 8 Years. Brian and retired S/A Kenneth Lanning ( FBI ) were the first two speakers at the original CAC conference here in Dallas.
Bruce Kindley
Kirk King
Graduate of the University of Texas majoring in Criminal Justice. Employed by the U.S. Marshals Service for twenty (20) years. Assigned to the Technical Operations Group (TOG)/Electronic Surveillance Group (ESU)for ten (10) years. Assists the USMS and State and local law enforcement agencies in apprehending fugitives with the deployment of electronic surveillance techniques.