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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Stonebrink sentenced to 10 years for child
pornography, attempting to lure a minor
Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
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Science AAAS
Last week, NASA’s
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A sordid chapter in the
annals of Wallowa County
justice has come to an end
as John W. Stonebrink, 50,
Wallowa received a 123-
month sentence to the Ore-
gon Department of Correc-
tions at Wallowa County
Circuit Court on May 31
regarding multiple charges of
possession of child pornogra-
phy and attempting to lure a
minor.
Wallowa County District
Attorney Rebecca Frolander
said the case hit hard.
“Obviously, the subject
matter is very challenging,
and the descriptions of the
images is something that is
really hard to get out of your
head,” she said.
As Oregon Department of
Justice investigated the case,
Frolander wasn’t required
to view the fi lms involved
although she had to write out
brief descriptions of what the
fi lms contained.
The DOJ started investi-
gating the case after receiving
a tip from the National Cen-
ter for Missing and Exploited
Children. The initial informa-
tion came as a cyber tip from
the Internet Crimes Against
Children Task Force.
Frolander explained that
the DOJ reviewed all the rel-
evant material to the case
because although there is an
exception for law enforce-
ment purposes, the act of
copying and disseminating
sexually explicit images of
children is a crime, so the
DOJ tries not to duplicate
them.
The investigator gave Fro-
T HE B OOKLOFT
lander descriptions of the
images and had she needed
any for trial, the department
would have traveled here to
show her the images.
“Until I’m headed in for
trial, for my own health and
welfare, I try not to look at all
the images if I don’t have to.”
Frolander said she had
one other similar case she’s
prosecuted from the DA’s
offi ce. In that case, a Union
man had possession of sex-
ually explicit photos of a
minor he was communicat-
ing with online, although he
wasn’t trading them online,
as Stonebrink had.
together into one case. Fro-
lander said that the fi rst
tip about the fi rst Wallowa
County case came from Face-
book to the Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Force
Program, a national net-
work of 61 coordinated task
forces that represents 4,500
federal, state, and local law
enforcement and prosecuto-
rial agencies. The agency was
investigating the tip when
Stonebrink was arrested on
the Luring a Minor charge in
Wallowa County on the Jack-
son County case.
Stonebrink’s phone made
the trip to Jackson County
‘STATISTICALLY, WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE WHO
EXAMINE, POSSESS OR TRADE PORNOGRAPHIC
IMAGES OF CHILDREN TEND TO BE OFFENDERS
OF REAL CHILDREN … IF ANYONE COMES
FORWARD, WE WILL INVESTIGATE IT AND
PURSUE IT IN ANY MANNER THAT WE CAN.’
Wallowa County District Attorney Rebecca Frolander
Stonebrink kept his illegal
material in several places: On
his cell phone, through Face-
book exchanges, his email
and Dropbox.
“There were multiple plat-
forms these items were stored
in, transmitted through,
shared with other people,”
Frolander said.
A number of law enforce-
ment people worked collab-
oratively on the case. DOJ
employee Marl Posler did
much of the work. Frolander
said that the recently retired
Posler told her it was one of
the most egregious cases he’d
seen in the last 30 years.
Stonebrink’s two Wallowa
County cases and the Jackson
County case were melded
as part of his personal prop-
erty, but the tip to ICAC pro-
vided enough information to
allow a warrant to seize the
phone and examine the con-
tents. The phone revealed
contents pertinent to the
Jackson County case as well
as the fi rst Wallowa County
case. With Stonebrink in
jail in Jackson County, his
defense attorney asked for
permission to represent her
client in the Wallowa County
case and an ensuing dialogue
started between Frolander
and Stonebrink’s attorney
on the best way to resolve
the separate cases with the
least impact on the victim
and also avoid multiple trips
between Wallowa and Jack-
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During the fi rst Wal-
lowa County investigation
law enforcement received a
tip from Dropbox, an online
cloud storage platform, that a
Stonebrink account possibly
contained unlawful images
of children. Another investi-
gation with search warrants
ensued for Dropbox, Google
and other entities. Authorities
found more images, includ-
ing some duplicates of the
images from the fi rst case. All
were linked back to his home,
phone, email, etc.
“There were a lot of ways
we were able to prove it
was the same person,” Fro-
lander said. “They had differ-
ent dates they were uploaded
than the fi rst case, so it was a
separate incident. Everything
kind of happened at the same
time as far as one thing would
lead to the next.”
Stonebrink’s
network
of crime and pornography
extended to Europe. Fro-
lander added that child por-
nography is produced every-
where, and that the Center
for Missing and Exploited
Children keeps a database of
images regularly shared and
traded online.
Although Stonebrink is
spending the next 10 years
with no ability to exploit chil-
dren, it doesn’t necessarily
mean that all the loose ends
are tied up.
“Statistically, we know
that people who examine,
possess or trade pornographic
images of children tend to be
offenders of real children, so I
don’t know whether there are
any victims of him or anyone
else that will come forward,”
she said. “If anyone comes
forward, we will investigate
it and pursue it in any manner
that we can.” She also urged
that victims of sex crimes
who do not want to step for-
ward should seek medical
care and pursue counseling
or other supportive services
because the impact will even-
tually affect them physically
or emotionally for the rest of
their lives.
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