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Old 10-24-2008   #1
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Porn Valley- Because it's the story making the rounds in the adult business today, it's got to be reported. Former adult industry salesman Mike Barbella was arrested by LAPD this week on kiddie porn charges.

Whether Barbella was operating sites, taking pictures with underage children or communicating with law enforcement posing as minors is not clear. But Barbella was taken into custody earlier this week.

Throughout his controversial career Barbella has worked for at least a dozen adult studios at one time or another in a sales capacity but was eventually fired from those positions due to drug abuse or his volatile temper. However Barbella would always land another position because he was considered a good salesman. Barbella's last known job in the industry was with Elegant Angel and he was also employed by other adult companies such as Metro, VIP and JM Productions.

A computer repairman on the side, Barbella has had a series of economic reverses and had been staying with a friend, Steve Volponi, a salesman for Devil's Film. According to Volponi, he basically gave Barbella, who had been living there at least six months, the run of the house. According to Volponi, Barbella would sometimes disappear for several days at a time and when questioned as to his whereabouts would get sarcastic and start calling Volponi "daddy".

The police, arriving in riot gear, at 7am Tuesday morning confiscated five of Barbella's lap top computers which were on the premises.

Volponi, who answered the door was handcuffed briefly and questioned outside by the police. But it was quickly determined that Volponi was not implicated, although Barbella had been working off of Volponi's web account. Volponi was also asked by the police if the handle "Big Daddy" was familiar to him which was apparently Barbella's web name.

Barbella was then awakened, brought downstairs by the police and promptly threw a blanket over his head and went into a fetal position.

Volponi said that one of the cops who was doing forensics on Barbella's computers was apparently shaken by some of the images he saw on screen and was asked by another officer if he was okay.

"They cuffed Barbella. They must have gotten him on something big. They knew exactly where to go because of the Internet connection," said Rob Spallone who was also familiar with the case.

Volponi said he couldn't believe what happened this week, that he was stunned by events.

"I feel betrayed and helpless- this is fucked up," adds Volponi. Volponi who spent the entire time the police were at his house in a state of shock was told by one of the arresting officers, not to feel sorry for Barbella.

"He's sick," the officer told Volponi.


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I talked to Gene about this case yesterday... If it is true and if he was just a consumer of CP I do not think it will effect industry that greatly. He was a salesman, not a producer.

However, if there is any evidence that he was producing then the industry is going to have to deal with a nightmare of a problem.

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All it seems to take is a few bad apples to make the rest look sour. I have zero tolerance for pedophiles in every group we have our things that are just not excepted and this is one of them. Just like in jails this is one of the things that are just not forgivable it goes with rape and murdering of children. I hate to think that he did get in on the producing side of the biz. blah Asshole
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It's this kind of crap that makes it hard to be open about what any of us do with the "normals".

Tell someone outside industry what you do, watch the first two questions that come. The first is usually "you're not involved with child porn are you?". Followed by "is what you're doing legal?".
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It's this kind of crap that makes it hard to be open about what any of us do with the "normals".

Tell someone outside industry what you do, watch the first two questions that come. The first is usually "you're not involved with child porn are you?". Followed by "is what you're doing legal?".
Ain't that the truth. It is a bit worrying that he disappeared days at a time.
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It's this kind of crap that makes it hard to be open about what any of us do with the "normals".

Tell someone outside industry what you do, watch the first two questions that come. The first is usually "you're not involved with child porn are you?". Followed by "is what you're doing legal?".
And these people work for governments and multinationals...

Now who's the criminal here ?
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And these people work for governments and multinationals...

Now who's the criminal here ?
The guys that was filming the kiddie porn.
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The guys that was filming the kiddie porn.
Yep, castrate the little fuckers then throw them in GenPop in any prison.
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arrived in riot gear?
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