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the screenshot, the date on the Apple device was displayed as Sunday, April 5. The messaging application depicted the different chat threads on the left side, and the contents of a group chat on the right side. The top chat thread, which was the thread that was displayed on the right side, was titled “Cocks, Cunts, and Kids.” The group’s profile picture depicted a child eating a popsicle. The contents of this group chat were partially visible behind a bubble depicting the names of the group chat members. There were 13 members in the group chat and two were active at the time of the screenshot.
23. The last message sent on the group chat was from the user of the messaging application on the device where the screenshot was taken. In the second-to-last message in the group, another user in the chat had commented that people in the group were not sharing videos and photos anymore. The last message, sent in response, contained at least one video. The frozen frame of that video depicted a young girl performing or about to perform oral sex on a man’s visible erect penis, with a circle with a triangle in the center of the image indicating that it was a video. The user sending this video also stated, “Not everyone is as prolific as you.” This message was sent at 11:07 AM, and it contained two check marks indicating the message had been delivered to the server, and that a user had opened the chat since the message had been delivered.
24. A search warrant for Meek’s iCloud account was obtained on November 14, 2022. The iCloud account contained backups of at least two of Meek’s devices, and the contents of the backup included significant numbers of photos of Meek’s family members and bills addressed to him at his known residence. During a review of the search warrant return, law enforcement located another copy of this screenshot. This second image contained metadata reflecting the image’s creation on April 5, 2020, at 11:07 AM UTC.
25. Another image located during the review of the iCloud search warrant return
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