(May 29, 2013) A convicted child pornographer in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, thanks in part to three girls featured in CNN’s Freedom Project who provided information to U.S authorities. Jeffrey Herschell, 54, visited an Internet site that showed live sex shows that forced young girls to act out the sexual fantasies of customers. “Whatever the American client wants us to do, we must do it,” Gen (not her real name) told CNN in May 2011 for the CNN Freedom Project Documentary “The Fighters.” An investigator from Homeland Security Investigations, part of the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told CNN the information provided by the three girls was vital to the case against Herschell. The inquiry was led by several U.S. agencies, the Philippine National Police and the non-profit group Visayan Forum Foundation, which fights modern-day slavery.
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