This Labrador retriever sniffs out kiddie porn for cops

New York Post – by Jamie Schram

He’s a real “porn dog.”

A 17-month-old Labrador retriever named Ruger is the latest cop to join the fight against hoarders of kiddie porn after being purchased for $11,000 by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio.

Since Sept. 7, the cute black pooch has been assigned to a K-9 unit of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, using his snout to sniff out hard drives containing a chemical agent that leads them to child porn.  

Ruger has been modeled after a similar dog used to find child porn on the computers of disgraced Subway pitchman Jared Fogle, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Fogle, 39, pleaded guilty to child porn charges in 2015 and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.

Ruger has been trained to alert police officers whenever he smells a certain chemical on the flash drive of computers.

Although the chemical’s stench isn’t as pungent as those found in narcotics or bombs, a dog’s strong sense of smell can still pick it up, the newspaper reported.

“[But] It takes time,” said Ruger’s trainer, Jerry Azzi. “There is an odor to everything on this planet.”

Azzi added that teaching a dog how to sniff out kiddie porn on hard drives is no different than training them how to detect a rotting corpse.

“You isolate an odor,” Azzi said. “You’ve got to find the right dog for the job. Nothing more, nothing less.”

Ruger is Ohio’s first computer-sniffing dog and part of a small group of canines — fewer than two dozen — that do this type of work across the country, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

http://nypost.com/2016/09/28/this-labrador-retriever-sniffs-out-kiddie-porn-for-cops/

11 thoughts on “This Labrador retriever sniffs out kiddie porn for cops

  1. Anyone who believes there is a distinctive “odor” to infinitesimally different arrangements of 0’s and 1’s magnetically or electronically stored on a hard or flash drive is an idiot of immense proportions.

    That certain files that would be reconstituted as child porn somehow have inherently different physical properties than, let’s say, some kids frolicking with bathing suits in Grandma’s backyard pool or some adults engaged in sexual acts flies in the face of the laws of physics.

    Now, I WILL say that it MIGHT be possible that these specialist dogs are sensitive enough to the spiritual realm that they are able to detect the demonic activity that attaches itself to child pornography, and are alerting to that spiritual foulness (Much the same way that many of us are able to sense when we are in the presence of someone who is demonically oppressed). However, this presence would NOT be contained in the digital files themselves.

    Other than that, I hold to my first statements, above.

    ” Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
    It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ”
    The Words of Jesus,
    Gospel of Luke 17:1-2

  2. this lie needs to be called on

    all this is, is their way to confiscate anyone’s hard drive that they suspect or that they have already put kiddy porn on in an effort to bust people illegally

    one way to thwart their efforts is a microwave .. or a 44 bullet through your hard drive if they come to your front door

    because , they have already back doored your computer with their own smut that they are going to bust you with .. its a set up

    who they should be going after are the ones producing the child porn .. like the politicians and pedophiles of our government

    I could discredit this dog in 5 minuets

    an 11,000$ dog?
    oh boy did the tax payers get screwed on this one

  3. The Jew York Post story is misleading. What the dog actually does is sniff out flash drives, regardless of the content on those drives. Obviously the scent of a drive isn’t affected by the files on it, just like a drawing of a flower smells no different from a drawing of a turd.

    1. “MISLEADING”=”LIE”.11000 BUCKS FOR A FLASHDRIVE SNIFFIN DOG??????? IF THIS WAS IN MY TOWN, I WOULD MAKE IT A POINT TO KILL OFFICER “PORN DOG”……… GROUND BEEF AND PRESTONE ANYONE?

  4. Porn sniffing dogs.
    I guess that they know when the dog hits paydirt.
    When the dog goes directly to the computer and starts humping the screen.
    Subway…think fresh.

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