Police Employ 'Porn Dog' in Fight Against Child Predators

 

Police in Texas' Montgomery County have now found a new way to catch child predators. It is now planning to use a dog trained to sniff out hard drives and other storage devices to help investigate child pornography cases. 

 

A company is set to receive a K-9 chocolate Labrador retriever named Brody to assist the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office in finding hidden storage devices used by child predators and other criminals.

 

From experience, the new innovation might be successful after a similar K-9 named Bear was notably used in the case of former Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle to find hidden storage devices in his home.

"It's innovative, it's unique, it's cutting edge," Montgomery County Crimestopper Jon Dumas told KHOU of the K-9s he dubbed "porn dog" due to its specific skill set. "It's extremely catching and fitting because that's what it's there to do, sniff out child pornographers."

 

Montgomery County applied for a grant to receive a K-9 from the same company that trained Bear, as First Assistant District Attorney Phil Grant told KTRK that a "team effort" is required to combat child pornography.