March 5, 2010 - FBI agents and members of the FBI's Innocent Images Task Force arrested Sallie Lawson Fifield, age 49, at her northwest Portland residence in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 3. The arrest warrant, issued in the Western District of Tennessee, is based on a criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent in Memphis. The complaint charges Fifield with one count of enticement and one count of transfer of obscene material. The victim is a boy living in western Tennessee.
According to the complaint, Fifeld met the boy while playing "World of Warcraft," an online, multi-player game, in July 2009. Since that time, the complaint alleges, the online chats became sexual and involved both Fifield and the boy sending sexual pictures of themselves to each other.
Fifield made an initial appearance before a federal magistrate today at the U.S. District Courthouse in Portland. She was released pending another hearing on March 17. Assistant United States Attorney Gregory R. Nyhus is managing the Oregon portion of this prosecution. A complaint is only an allegation of criminal behavior, and every defendant should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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