Something on His Computer

“They showed up at about 8 o’clock and by 8:10 we were all in handcuffs,’ said Joseph’s dad. ‘Camouflage, bulletproof vests, helmets, assaults pistols. It was a military operation — there’s no other way to describe it’ … Outside, the neighbors watched as the men in body armor surrounded the house. Inside, some of the officers searched the rooms for evidence while others rounded up the family members and brought them, at gunpoint, to the living room. Joseph had no idea what was going on. It didn’t occur to him that something he had on his computer could be connected to the raid.” The Marshall Project with a disturbing investigation into the surprisingly common occurence of autistic adults getting caught up in child p*rnography investigations: Downloading a Nightmare.