[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador has announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested thirty-three-year-old Philip Jack Lo of Coeur d’ Alene on Wednesday, July 10th, 2024. Lo was charged with 7 counts of sexual exploitation of a child by possession of sexually exploitative material and 3 counts of possessing visual representations of the sexual abuse of children under a new law that took effect on July 1, 2024.
“I’m very proud of the hard work being done by our ICAC investigators and those agencies and ICAC partners that are committed to protecting kids in our community,” said Attorney General Labrador. “This will be the first case prosecuted under Idaho’s new law that targets AI-generated, animated and other obscene images of child sexual abuse. The people who create and share these images, AI or otherwise, represent a profound threat to the safety and well-being of children across our state.”
Agencies that assisted the ICAC Task Force were the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Coeur d’ Alene Police Department. The Lead Investigator on the case is Jim Bohr, a member of the Meridian Police Department assigned full-time to the Idaho ICAC Task Force who serves in the Attorney General’s ICAC Unit.
Anyone with information regarding the exploitation of children is encouraged to contact local police, the Attorney General’s ICAC Unit at 208-947-8700, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678.
The Attorney General’s ICAC Unit works with the Idaho ICAC Task Force, a coalition of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, to investigate and prosecute individuals who use the internet to criminally exploit children.
Parents, educators, and law enforcement officials can find more information and helpful resources at the ICAC website, ICACIdaho.org.