Law & Crime Report
A Wisconsin children’s court judge has been charged with seven felony counts of possessing child pornography, Law&Crime has learned. According to online court records, Brett Blomme, 38, of Cottage Grove, Wis., faces the list of felonies after an investigation by state and local authorities in both Wisconsin and Minnesota.
According to a criminal complaint document on file in Dane County, Wisconsin, the case unraveled when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a “CyberTip” that someone with the account name “DomMasterBB” used a messaging program called Kik to upload “images and videos consistent with child pornography through the application on 27 separate occasions in October and November of 2020.” The account was registered under a gmail address containing Blomme’s first and last names.
Per the complaint:
Kik . . . provided several different Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were used by “dommasterbb” to upload and share the images and videos. Through queries with American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), [a special agent] discovered that two of the IP addresses were provided by a Milwaukee County government building, one IP address was provided by Charter Communications, one IP address was provided by AT&T, and two IP addresses were provided by Verizon Wireless.
Another IP address allegedly used to access the material was linked to Blomme’s home in Cottage Grove, Wis. Yet another IP address was linked to a person known only as “Individual B.” That person told investigators he was a friend of Blomme’s. The documents suggest that Blomme had access to his friend’s internet:
Individual B also showed [two special agents] text message conversations Individual B had with Brett Blomme regarding days Blomme was at Individual B’s house. Some of those dates coincided with the dates from the Kik records when “dommasterbb” used Individual B’s AT&T internet service to upload child pornography videos and images.
The documents go on to explain in lurid and graphic detail the contents of seven specific files reviewed by investigators. A Special Agent “found that they met the definition of child pornography under Wisconsin law.” Some of the files were video files.
According to the criminal complaint, authorities executed five search warrants. News releases issued by the Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office indicate that the warrants applied to Blomme’s person, his judicial chambers in Milwaukee, his vehicle, and his residences in both Milwaukee and Dane Counties. It is unclear from the documents what officers obtained as a result of those searches.
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