Timothy DeFoggi, pictured, was downloading child abuse imagery the very moment his  house in Maryland was raided by the FBI A former federal cyber-security expert who used his professional skills to hide his membership of a 'dark web' child pornography ring called PedoBook has been jailed for 25 years. Timothy DeFoggi, 56, of Germantown, Maryland, joined a Tor-based website which featured images of child sex abuse believing that his activity would be completely anonymous. However, federal investigators discovered DeFoggi, who was the former acting director of cyber-security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, joined the Tor-network-based website on March 2, 2012 until the site was taken down by the FBI on December 8, 2012.
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Timothy DeFoggi, 56, was a member of the PedoBook social network
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DeFoggi used a Tor-network-based website in a bid to hide from the FBI
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He was downloading child pornography videos as the FBI raided his home
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DeFoggi ran to his laptop and had to be 'physically removed' from it
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Cyber-security expert spoke online of his desire to rape and murder
According to court documents, DeFoggi wanted to meet up with a fellow @placeholder member to fulfil his fantasy of raping and murdering a small child.