The Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Detectives (ICAC) has arrested 49-year-old Darrin Bell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
The ICAC, a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office division in Sacramento, California, published a statement on social media platform X on Thursday stating that it arrested Bell on Wednesday morning after “a residential search at Bell’s home.”
The ICAC said it had received a tip about Bell from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children alleging the uploading of child sex abuse material (CSAM), also known as child pornography.
The tip directed law enforcement to 18 files containing CSAM. Upon investigation, the ICAC discovered 134 child sex abuse videos linked to the same account as the 18 files, an account “owned and controlled” by Bell, the ICAC said….