Willistown Police Honored For Sex Trafficking, Child Porn Bust

WILLISTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — The Willistown Township Police Department is being honored Monday night for their work to bring Malvern man who took photos of videos of him abusing a girl with autism to justice.

The Chester County District Attorney's Office is presenting a commendation to the department at the Annual Awards Night.

The award event will be held in the Sugartown Elementary School cafeteria at 7 p.m. Monday. The school is located at 611 Sugartown Road in Malvern.

Willistown Police arrested and charged Lawrence Jamieson, of Malvern, on March 2 2017,

Jamieson was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison after sexually abusing a minor girl who has autism and taking hundreds of videos and photos of the abuse. He also maintained a collection of more than 14.4 million images of child pornography that he downloaded from the internet.

Jamieson began collecting images of children being sexually assaulted approximately 15 years ago, authorities said.

He collected some of the most demented images imaginable of toddlers and infants being sexually assaulted by adult men and women, and in some cases, by animals, according to federal officials.
During the same time that he was trafficking in child pornography, Jamieson's conduct escalated, and he engaged in a plot to sexually assault a victim child who was in his care, federal authorities said.

Jamieson was well acquainted with the victim; he knew she had been diagnosed on the Autism spectrum and suffered from learning disabilities and mental health issues, authorities said.
He targeted this underage girl by first recruiting another adult male to pose as a teenage boy so that they could dupe the victim into believing he was her boyfriend and gain her trust, according to officials.

The "boyfriend" then engaged her in sexual activity, photographed and videotaped her, and distributed the videos and images back to Jamieson, authorities said. Her images were also distributed to others over the internet, authorities said.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the Willistown Police Department, and the Chester County District Attorney's Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michelle Rotella.