Child Porn Arrest In Mobile

Mobile, ALA. A Mobile man was arrested this morning as part of a nationwide investigation targeting some 20,000 child pornography suspects whose names authorities seized from a credit card company database.
Ian Whittaker, 59, faces charges of receipt and possession of child pornography. He faces as much as 20 years in prison if convicted.
Dubbed Operation Site-Key by the FBI, the investigation stems from a raid in 2001 of the Santa Clara, Calif., offices of Site-Key, or Xvalidate as it was later known. The company is a credit card verification service.
Investigations collected the names of 20,000 people who had used the site to purchase or attempt to purchase child pornography.
Whittaker is scheduled to appear in federal court at 3 this afternoon.