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A San Diego-area [Carlsbad, CA] teacher’s aide, substitute teacher and youth hockey coach has been arrested and charged by federal authorities with allegedly exchanging child pornography online with another teacher across the country, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

Daniel Dasko, 30, of Carlsbad, is accused of conspiring with a teacher in the Philadelphia area, as well as others to acquire and trade sexually explicit content involving minors.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office did not state where Dasko has worked locally, but did say his hockey coaching job involved elementary and middle school-aged children.

Prosecutors said the investigation that led to Dasko’s arrest began last year regarding the unnamed Philadelphia teacher, who prosecutors say conspired with others to pose as women or girls on social media sites in order to bait minor male victims into sending them nude photos or videos.

Prosecutors said the investigation that led to Dasko’s arrest began last year regarding the unnamed Philadelphia teacher, who prosecutors say conspired with others to pose as women or girls on social media sites in order to bait minor male victims into sending them nude photos or videos. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/sd ... ar-AAZIBup

One of the people the Philadelphia suspect was in contact with used the screen name “Mr. Pickles,” and they exchanged over 3,600 messages between October 2020-October 2021, with numerous messages including image and video files, Thornton said.

During investigation, FBI officials suspected that Dasko was Mr. Pickles. The FBI’s San Diego office received a federal search warrant, which was executed on July 13 to find evidence of child exploitation crimes.

After waiving his Miranda Rights and agreeing to talk with FBI agents, Dasko admitted that he was Mr. Pickles and the user of the social media account, Thornton said. He faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison.
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-new ... rnography/

Dasko, who went by the handle "Mr. Pickles" when communicating on social media with the teacher", and the teacher worked with another person in New York. Dasko and the teacher would provide the person in New York names and social media accounts for boys "in hopes that [they] would be able to obtain sexually explicit material from the minors," reads the July 14 federal investigation...


...Last week agents searched Dasko's home in San Diego. Dasko, according to the federal complaint, "admitted he was Mr. Pickles and the user of the social media account. Though he could not remember specific images and videos, he did admit that he would solicit others for images of minor males who were naked." https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local ... 379517f735

Investigators now also allege that Wolf used Telegram to communicate in “sexually explicit communications” about his own students at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy with a Telegram user known only as “Mr. Pickles,” who claimed to be a teacher who is a pedophile. https://www.phillymag.com/news/2021/10/ ... tnut-hill/

Wolf, 41, was charged with receiving and distributing child pornography when the FBI raided his Roxborough home. New court filings, however, suggest that Wolf impersonated a teenage girl on Instagram to solicit a 13-year-old boy for pornographic pictures of himself. The same court document shows that Wolf also used an instant messaging app called Telegram to communicate “with other like-minded child predators,” and that he began using Telegram as early as February 2018 to communicate with another user, known only as “Mr. Pickles,” who also purported to be a teacher. Wolf and Mr. Pickles messaged about “their shared sexual interest in minor boys,” the document said, “including their own students.”

Furthermore, the document states that Wolf, who “was trusted to chaperone overnight school trips and off-campus field trips and events, such as accompanying children to Phillies games,” had been taking surreptitious photos of his students.

According to court documents, Strange connected with Wolf online after reading some stories the feds say Wolf published on a controversial “erotic literature” website that includes genres such as bestiality, incest and “adult-youth.”

Wolf would identify the kids he wanted to target, giving Strange their names and social media accounts, and then Strange would go to work, illegally obtaining photos and videos of the boys and sending them to Wolf. The FBI also said in court documents that Wolf impersonated a young girl himself at times on TikTok and SnapChat, using the name Ashley Hamilton....

When investigators searched Wolf’s Roxborough home, they say they also discovered that Wolf had been using the messaging app Telegram to “communicate with other like-minded child predators” since at least 2018 and that he kept doing so until the day before his arrest, when prosecutors say he used the app to receive a sexually explicit video of a boy of middle school age.

...Sentencing in the case is scheduled for October 18th. Both men face a minimum of 15 years in federal prison as well as fines, restitution and anywhere from five years to a lifetime of supervised release after their prison terms are up.