Boca Raton doctor accused of child pornography had 1 terabyte of explicit content: PBSO

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A Boca Raton doctor has been accused of 30 counts of child pornography.

Palm Beach County's Sheriff's Office (PBSO) reported that they had received a CyberTip report from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children regarding a Google user who had uploaded, to his Google Drive, hundreds of files that showed sexual abuse of children.

"Specifically we're working with internet crimes against children taskforce. The ICACs. those are groups of law-enforcement professionals who are tech-savvy. they understand the reports. We send the reports from our cyber tipline directly to them for action," said Callahan Walsh, Exec. Director, Florida Branch, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

According to the arrest affidavit, on January 4, Google identified the account holder as 63-year-old Steven Friedenthal and reported the findings to CyberTips once the content within the drive came to the search giant's attention.