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An unsuspecting team member is helping put child abusers behind bars in South Carolina by sniffing out internet crimes.<\/p>\n
Queue, a 3-year-old black labrador retriever, works at the Greenville County Sheriff\u2019s Office as an electronic-detecting K9. A local charity,\u00a0 Defenders for Children, which was founded by Toni Clark, donated Queue in an effort to convict child sex offenders, abusers, and traffickers.<\/p>\n
Clark says police often search homes with warrants for child pornography. Electronic devices can be hidden throughout a home, and police could miss some crucial evidence. Some SD cards can be the size of a thumbnail.<\/p>\n
Queue finds the devices by sniffing-out certain chemicals. She is motivated by snack rewards. Since being placed along-side Sgt. Michael Rainey, Queue has been on more than 30 searches.<\/p>\n
\u201cQueue found a laptop that was hidden in a garage that had the key evidence they needed. The guy was convicted a couple months ago and sentenced to six years,\u201d said Rainey.<\/p>\n
Clark began Defenders for Children in 2010 when she learned Greenville County had the highest rate of sexual assaults in the state. The money raised to place Queue, Clark says, is a clear sign the community wants to combat the predators.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a strong message to the law enforcement officers that the public cares, and we want to help them,\u201d says Clark. \u201cWe want to help you stop these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Queue was the first dog in South Carolina\u00a0 trained to do this, and Clark says the state needs more. Her mission is to donate eight dogs to police departments across the state with community-raised money. Clark says it costs $23,000 for one electronic-detecting K9, and her charity will take all the help it can get.<\/p>\n
To donate to Clark\u2019s mission, visit defendersforchildren.org.<\/p>\n
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Queue is Sgt. Michael Rainey’s partner. He says police won’t go on a search warrant without Queue and her special nose.<\/p>\n
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An unsuspecting team member is putting child abusers behind bars in South Carolina by sniffing-out internet crimes.<\/p>
Queue, a 3-year-old black labrador retriever, works at the Greenville County Sheriff\u2019s Office as an electronic-detecting K9. A local charity founded by Toni Clark, Defenders for Children, donated Queue in an effort to convict child sex offenders, abusers, and traffickers.<\/p>
Sometimes police go on search warrants to find predators with electronic devices containing child pornography. Often, devices are hidden throughout the home and police could miss some crucial evidence.<\/p>
Since being placed along-side Sgt. Michael Rainey, Queue has been on over 30 searches.<\/p>
\u201cQueue found a laptop that was hidden in a garage that had the key evidence they needed. The guy was convicted a couple months ago and sentenced to 6 years,\u201d said Sgt. Rainey.<\/p>
Toni Clark began Defenders for Children in 2010 when she learned Greenville County had the highest rate of sexual assaults in the state. The money fundraised to place Queue, Clark says, is a clear sign the community wants to combat the predators.<\/p>
\u201cIt\u2019s a strong message to the law enforcement officers that the public cares and we want to help them,\u201d says Clark. \u201cWe want to help you stop these guys.\u201d<\/p>
Queue was the first dog in South Carolina who is trained to do this, and Clark says the state needs more. Her mission is to donate eight dogs to police departments across the state with community-fundraised money. Clark says it costs $23,000 for one electronic-detecting K9, and her charity will take all the help they can get.<\/p>
Defenders for Children will place two more electronic-detecting K9\u2019s, like Queue, in Richland and Spartanburg Counties later this month.<\/p>
You can donate to Clark\u2019s mission at defendersforchildren.org.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28215"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29561,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28215\/revisions\/29561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}