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A California man, Jacob Melvin Hart, 46, faces a 40-year prison term for secretly using spyware on children’s laptops to record them and directing minors overseas to create child sexual abuse material. Caught at Miami Airport returning from Haiti, authorities found disturbing images and videos allegedly produced by children in Russia. Once an IT consultant for a church, Hart exploited his access to children, remotely activating cameras without their knowledge — recording at least eight victims. U.S. prosecutors call his actions a chilling abuse of technology and trust. This isn’t his first crime — he was convicted in 2006 for installing a hidden camera in a girls’ locker room. Officials describe his recent conduct as extraordinary, and the sentence sends a clear message: predators will be held accountable, no matter where the victims are.

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