TULSA, Okla. — Former Tulsa firefighter Courtney Robinson is charged with manufacturing child porn and peeping tom.
FOX23 spoke with Jamie Miller, Donor Development and Funding Coordinator at The Demand Project, a shelter that helps victims who have been exploited.
“Unfortunately I am not shocked,” Jaime Miller said.
According to court documents, Robinson installed spy cameras throughout his entire home claiming they were surveillance, but records say he was filming people in his home. Documents say there could be hundreds of files between Aug. 8 and Aug. 13.
Records say he recorded 15 adults and 10 young people.
Miller said there’s only one word for it.
“Pornography,” she said.
In another case, Brendan Rhoden was charged with child sexual exploitation. Among the disturbing content found, records say there were 400 images and 49 videos of children believed to be under 12 engaging in sexual activity.
“At this point what I believe is going into 2024, it is not just about the groomers and pedophiles and predators, society is now grooming our children,” Miller said.
Neither case surprises Miller.
“We are losing as a society,” she said.
She said nationwide, 80,000 tips are sent in for child sexual abuse material each day with 50,000 files of sexual abuse materials downloaded every single minute.
“The demand project was created to disrupt the demand for sex with children to defund it,” Miller said. If we don’t have a demand, we don’t have a supply.”
Without taking the blame off predators, she is putting pressure on parents to rethink who they can trust.
“Who is a safe adult?” she said.
She is also stressing to parents to reexamine the amount of trust they put in their children with phones.
“We believe online enticement is preventable,” Miller said. “Sex trafficking is preventable, if we can educate children on the signs of a predator but also educating parents on how to safeguard their kids and have the right boundaries with a cell phone.”
She said crimes like these are so new and rapidly growing, it’s hard to even track how often it’s happening to Oklahoma children.
For more information, The Demand Project’s website is linked HERE.
