July 18, 2023
S8, Chapter 1: tori4fun
During the afternoon hours of March 16, 2023,...
Part 1-of-2
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During the afternoon hours of March 16, 2023, a forty-five-year-old woman named Eleanor Hoppe got into her SUV and began the one-and-a-half-hour drive from her home in Charlottesville, Virginia to a hotel located in Warrenton.
To say Eleanor was excited about this road trip would be an understatement. She had been planning it for weeks. And as her car took the on-ramp to US 29 North and the white noise of rubber on asphalt hummed away—sexual fantasies flooded Eleanor’s mind.
But these were not normal sexual fantasies.
And this was not a normal road trip.
Eleanor didn’t know it at the time, but the man she was planning to meet was not who he said he was. He didn’t have an eight-year-old daughter like he and Eleanor had discussed in their chats on an encrypted messaging app. The man was in fact an undercover FBI agent.
This is the depraved tale of Eleanor Hunton Hoppe, or as she was known online: tori4fun.
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Update:
I thought this would be a one-off episode, but tonight I’ve discovered new information and am working on a part 2 right now. Will release it as soon as it’s finished.
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make a note that this episode contains graphic
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descriptions of child sexual abuse. So
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During the afternoon hours of March sixteenth,
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twenty twenty three, forty five year
old woman named Eleanor Hunting Hoppy, got
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into her small suv and began the
one and a half hour drive from her
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home in Charlottesville, Virginia, to
a hotel located in Warrenton, a small
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town about an hour west of the
nation's capital. To say that Eleanor was
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excited for this brief road trip would
be an understatement. She had been planning
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it for weeks, and as her
car took the on ramp to US twenty
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nine North and the White noise of
rubber on asphalt began to hum away.
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Sexual fantasies flooded Eleanor's mind, but
these were not normal sexual fantasies, and
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this was not a normal road trip. Eleanor didn't know it at the time,
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but the man she was planning to
meet was not who he said he
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was. He didn't have an eight
year old daughter like he and Eleanor had
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discussed in their chats. The man
was in fact an undercover FBI agent,
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and when Eleanor reached the hotel where
she was planning to stay with this man
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and his non existent eight year old
daughter, she was promptly arrested and taken
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into custody. Inside eleanor small suv, law enforcement found a pink children's bag
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that contained lubricant, silk undergarments and
a pink silk robe. This robe matched
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the same one in a picture that
Eleanor had sent to the undercover agent along
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with the message her big girl robe
for tonight. This is the depraved story
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of Eleanor Hunton Hoppy, or as
she was known under her online screen name
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Tory for fun. I think everyone
has a bit of a fascination of the
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dark side. I myself love the
dark side as well. I think it's
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something that everyone's secretly launce forms.
A Charlottesville woman with ties to the Richmond
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area is being held without bond after
the FBI accused her of trying to sexually
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abuse an eight year old girl.
Beginning in late February twenty twenty three,
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a task force officer with the FBI's
Washington Field office was working undercover as part
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of the Metropolitan Police Department's Federal Bureau
of Investigation in short, the MPD dash
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FBI with their Child Exploitation Task Force. He was operating out of a satellite
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office in Washington, DC. The
undercover agent was frequenting a fetish website that
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was known as a popular place for
people to meet, discuss, and trade
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homemade images depicting the of children.
A user by the name of Teto Tori
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initiated a private email chat with the
undercover agent via the fetish website. Teto
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Tori informed the undercover agent that she
herself was a mother and that she was
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looking for people to chat with about
quote taboo parenting. The agent responded that
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he was also a father of a
young girl. This woman then said that
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she likes to chat on a social
media app that uses end to end encryption,
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and asked if they could take the
conversation there. On this encrypted app.
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Under the screen name Tori for Fun, this woman again made contact with
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the undercover agent in a series of
chat communications that began on February twenty twenty
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three. They traded locations, and
Tory for Fun told the agent she lives
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in Charlottesville, Virginia. The agent
asked if she could verify that she was
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safe by sending an image of herself
holding up a thumb near her breast.
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Tory for Fun was happy to oblige
and sent the undercover an image of herself
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with her shirt pulled up, exposing
her bare breast and holding her thumb up.
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Her face is partially visible in this
image, and this was just one
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of the ways in which we're able
to identify Tory for Fun as Eleanor Hunton
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Hoppy, a married forty five year
old mother of two. Eleanor grew up
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under the name Eleanor Beaumont Hunton.
This is important because the Hunton family that
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she was born into was founder of
the largest law firm in Richmond, Virginia,
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Hunton Andrews and Kurth. They employ
over nine hundred lawyers, and according
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to Daily Progress dot com, their
history includes quote the late Louis F.
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Powell Junior, who served on the
US Supreme Court. Going back just three
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years, we can see that Eleanor
has a history with inappropriate sexual conduct.
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In twenty nineteen, she was found
guilty and absentia of undressing where prohibited.
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This incident reportedly occurred during the fall
of the same year. She did appeal
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the case and the charge was dismissed, and seemingly because of this, little
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else is known about this incident.
Eleanor worked at a number of organizations throughout
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her career. She was an event
planner for the University of Virginia, the
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development manager for the Center of Inquiry, and a development associate for the UVA,
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where she worked with a team coordinating
fundraising events. Perhaps most disturbingly in
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Eleanor's work history is the short period
of time she served as a manager of
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events and partnerships with an organization called
Big Big Sisters of America. According to
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their website, quote Big Brothers Big
Sisters serves young people from age five through
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young adulthood in one on one mentoring
friendships, bigs and littles hang out two
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to three times a month for a
few hours, doing normal everyday activities like
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seeing a movie, doing homework,
playing games, going out to eat,
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or just hanging out. During her
time with this organization, Eleanor would have
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undoubtedly had access to vulnerable and underprivileged
children. Eleanor would go on to marry
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a man named Joel Hoppy, and
she would indeed take his last name.
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I couldn't find the exact date of
their marriage, but they had two children
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together who are now ages ten and
twelve. Joel was born in nineteen seventy
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seven and was only one year the
senior to Eleanor. He himself was also
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intimately involved in the legal system,
and his full time job was as magistrate
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in the Western District of Virginia.
In twenty twenty one, the couple separated
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after a prolonged and disputatious legal battle. Joel contended that his wife, Eleanor
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was beset with finding other men and
women with whom to have sexual relations,
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and she was often pushing the sexual
boundaries of their marriage. I found some
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potential evidence of this on a social
media website when I searched Eleanor's screen name.
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Take all the following with a grain
of salt, because it's far from
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verified. First, I tried Tito
Tory, which was her reported user name
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on the fetish website, but that
came up with nothing. Then I tried
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Tory for Fun, and one Twitter
profile seemed like maybe, just maybe it
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could be a match. Now,
firstly, I want to say, there
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are a number of things that make
me think this might not be Eleanor's secret
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Twitter. Firstly, the count makes
a number of references to Las Vegas,
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and I could find no evidence that
Eleanor or Joel lived in Las Vegas or
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that they were frequent visitors. Even
so, the Tory for Fun account from
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roughly two thousand and nine to twenty
fifteen was constantly posting about the swinger lifestyle.
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One quote says, I used to
think swinging was for those unhappy relationships,
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but then a regular party turned wild. Though I should say, there's
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no real need to find more evidence
than what we already have in the chat
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logs between Eleanor and the undercover agent. In May of twenty twenty one,
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Eleanor and Joel agreed to joint custody, but after Eleanor's arrest, Joel is
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seeking full custody of his children,
which he will undoubtedly receive as long as
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the facts of the case stand where
they are today. There's currently no evidence
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that Joel was part of Eleanor's sick
and twisted fantasies involving children, and there's
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currently no evidence that Eleanor victimized her
own children, though there's no way for
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us to truly know that, at
least for now. On February twenty seventh,
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tw Eleanor messaged the undercover agent asking
about the abuse he was currently perpetrating
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against his own daughter. What about
you? What do you think the next
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steps are for you and your daughter? In these encrypted messages, Eleanor told
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the agent she wanted to visit him
in Washington, DC so that together they
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could abuse the purported eight year old
girl. Eleanor repeatedly stated that she wanted
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to assist in introducing the girl to
sexual activity. On March twelve, twenty
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twenty three, Eleanor made a plan
with the agent that she would travel to
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Washington, DC from Charlottesville. The
following exchange was then recorded. I can't
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wait. I'm so excited to have
you help out. Can't wait to see
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you with her. I'm going to
be so watching you play with her,
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and you watching me play with her, Eleanor. And then of course putting
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her to bed and waking her up
to do a few extra things will be
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so fun. Have you explored her
at all? Also? Has she seen
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videos of little girls with her dad? Yet? Yes? I had a
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really good link. It had dads
and a folder with moms with their kids
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too. It was fucking hot.
The damn link has broken. Now have
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you seen anything good? A couple
of photos here and there, but nothing
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really great, to be honest,
Yeah, before that link, it was
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the same for me, a few
picks from time to time. Eleanor then
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sent the undercover agent a thirty second
long video depicting a small, framed female
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who appears to be on a bed. The small girl, who appears to
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be a minor, can only be
seen from behind, and she is nude
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from the waist down. An adult
male can be seen her from behind.
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She has then shown face down on
a bed with her legs bent and her
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arms stretched over her head. On
March eighth, twenty twenty three, Eleanor
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wrote, A great thing to do
is to wake her up by trying new
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things. That hazy, dreamlike state
is perfect to introduce a variety of new
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things, especially with someone to help
with positioning her body, and then you
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let her fall right back to sleep. On March twelve, twenty twenty three,
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she wrote, if I were you, I'd start building up Thursday,
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telling her you know, it's going
to be super fun. We're going to
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hang out with an old friend of
yours. It's going to be like the
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best night ever. Blah blah blah. And then once I get there,
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obviously it will take a slight turn. I've loved Annal for a long time,
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don't worry. I can train her
well. On March sixteenth, twenty
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twenty three, using the encrypted messaging
application, Eleanor sent the undercover agent three
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images. One a prepubescent minor female
fully nude with her legs spread. A
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man can be seen in the child's
vagina. To a prepubescent minor female nude
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from the waist down. She's lying
on her back with her legs up in
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the air while the adult male her
vagina. And three a prepubescent minor female
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fully nude but for a pair of
white thigh high socks. The child is
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shown straddling an adult male who is
inserted into her during the afternoon hours of
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March sixteenth, twenty twenty three,
after exchanging a handful of messages, the
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undercover agent and Eleanor decided to change
their meeting place from DC to Warrenton,
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Virginia, a small town of about
ten thousand people located approximately an hour's drive
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west from DC. She then sent
the undercover agent more images. Three of
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these contained abusive material, and also
a picture of the pink robe with the
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message her big girl robe for tonight. We'll be right back stay with us.
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Eleanor hunting Hobby had one final message
exchange with the undercover agent while en
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route to the hotel in Warrenton.
Eleanor, wake her up and let her
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take a bath. Lots of bubbles
and go ahead and make sure you're helping
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her soap both her and in the
tub. And then when she gets out
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of the tub, just let her
wrap up in a big towel and I
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had to keep her cozy on the
couch or something like that, but try
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not to let her get back in
her clothes. I'll be there as soon
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as I can, and I'll get
naked too. Remember this is special daddy
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daughter night. No clothes needed.
Yes, I like that plan, smiley
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face. I am so bitter that
I'm an hour away. It's unreal.
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I'm sorry. Paved will be worth
it. Keep me posted and don't forget
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to wash her, attack and back
again, and keep out any toys.
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Leave stuff like that that you brought
with you. Put it right by the
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bedside table so she knows that this
is what we're here to do. Remember,
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these knights in the hotel with Dad
are about nothing but having fun,
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feeling good. And on this same
day, March sixteenth, twenty twenty three,
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Or was arrested in the hotel parking
lot in Warrenton, Virginia. She
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waived her Miranda rights and began talking
with police almost immediately. The story she
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concocted is completely unbelievable, but it's
not unheard of in the context of these
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types of staying operations. In fact, it's the same exact line I've heard
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a number of times on Chris Hansen's
show To Catch a Predator. You see,
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as Eleanor explains it, she only
came to the hotel out of concern
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for the child. Though there's a
problem with this explanation. Eleanor had absolutely
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no answer why she had not alerted
police to the abuse prior to her arrest,
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or why she had not contacted any
law enforcement authorities at all regarding her
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communications with the undercover agent, his
location, or the fact that he was
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sexually abusing his daughter. Eleanor also
admitted to distributing images of child sexual abuse
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material to the undercover agent, but
insisted that she only did this to keep
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talking. And lastly, Eleanor had
absolutely no answer for why there was a
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child's backpack in her car containing a
robe and lubricant. It didn't take long
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for the FBI to match the Teto
Tori account on the fetish website to Eleanor
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Hunt and Hoppy. In fact,
the complaint and arrest warrants state that the
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images available on her public Facebook profile
were a visual match for the woman on
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the Teto Tori account. Investigator subpoenaed
the fetish website for the user's email address,
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and then subpoena at Google for the
owner of the email's identity, which
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all traced back to Eleanor. On
April fourth, twenty twenty three, Eleanor
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pled not guilty to three charges one
distribution of child, two attempted transportation of
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a minor, would intend to engage
in criminal sexual activity in three coon and
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enticement of a miner. She is
currently being held without bond. In their
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decision to hold eleanor without bond,
the judge wrote, quote, although there
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is little to no evidence that Miss
Hoppy poses a flight risk, the government's
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allegations suggests that she poses a grave
danger to this community. First, the
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government presented evidence that Miss Hoppy has
knowledge of sophisticated encrypted communication platforms, which
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are known to law enforcement as popular
applications among people trafficking child. Her alleged
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use of these platforms is indicative of
consciousness of wrongdoing. Second, miss Hoppy's
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alleged actions target the most vulnerable victim
population, young minor children. Finally,
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Miss Hoppies alleged actions demonstrate a willingness
to put other minor children at risk.
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Considering the high risk of danger to
the community, this factor weighs strongly in
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favor of pre trial detention. Taken
together, the court finds the government has
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proved by clear and convincing evidence that
no combination of conditions could ensure the safety
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During the afternoon hours of March sixteenth,
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twenty twenty three, forty five year
old woman named Eleanor Hunting Hoppy, got
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into her small suv and began the
one and a half hour drive from her
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home in Charlottesville, Virginia, to
a hotel located in Warrenton, a small
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town about an hour west of the
nation's capital. To say that Eleanor was
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excited for this brief road trip would
be an understatement. She had been planning
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it for weeks, and as her
car took the on ramp to US twenty
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nine North and the White noise of
rubber on asphalt began to hum away.
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Sexual fantasies flooded Eleanor's mind, but
these were not normal sexual fantasies, and
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this was not a normal road trip. Eleanor didn't know it at the time,
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but the man she was planning to
meet was not who he said he
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was. He didn't have an eight
year old daughter like he and Eleanor had
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discussed in their chats. The man
was in fact an undercover FBI agent,
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and when Eleanor reached the hotel where
she was planning to stay with this man
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and his non existent eight year old
daughter, she was promptly arrested and taken
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into custody. Inside eleanor small suv, law enforcement found a pink children's bag
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that contained lubricant, silk undergarments and
a pink silk robe. This robe matched
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the same one in a picture that
Eleanor had sent to the undercover agent along
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with the message her big girl robe
for tonight. This is the depraved story
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of Eleanor Hunton Hoppy, or as
she was known under her online screen name
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Tory for fun. I think everyone
has a bit of a fascination of the
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dark side. I myself love the
dark side as well. I think it's
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something that everyone's secretly launce forms.
A Charlottesville woman with ties to the Richmond
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area is being held without bond after
the FBI accused her of trying to sexually
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abuse an eight year old girl.
Beginning in late February twenty twenty three,
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a task force officer with the FBI's
Washington Field office was working undercover as part
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of the Metropolitan Police Department's Federal Bureau
of Investigation in short, the MPD dash
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FBI with their Child Exploitation Task Force. He was operating out of a satellite
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office in Washington, DC. The
undercover agent was frequenting a fetish website that
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was known as a popular place for
people to meet, discuss, and trade
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homemade images depicting the of children.
A user by the name of Teto Tori
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initiated a private email chat with the
undercover agent via the fetish website. Teto
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Tori informed the undercover agent that she
herself was a mother and that she was
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looking for people to chat with about
quote taboo parenting. The agent responded that
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he was also a father of a
young girl. This woman then said that
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she likes to chat on a social
media app that uses end to end encryption,
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and asked if they could take the
conversation there. On this encrypted app.
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Under the screen name Tori for Fun, this woman again made contact with
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the undercover agent in a series of
chat communications that began on February twenty twenty
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three. They traded locations, and
Tory for Fun told the agent she lives
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in Charlottesville, Virginia. The agent
asked if she could verify that she was
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safe by sending an image of herself
holding up a thumb near her breast.
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Tory for Fun was happy to oblige
and sent the undercover an image of herself
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with her shirt pulled up, exposing
her bare breast and holding her thumb up.
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Her face is partially visible in this
image, and this was just one
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of the ways in which we're able
to identify Tory for Fun as Eleanor Hunton
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Hoppy, a married forty five year
old mother of two. Eleanor grew up
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under the name Eleanor Beaumont Hunton.
This is important because the Hunton family that
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she was born into was founder of
the largest law firm in Richmond, Virginia,
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Hunton Andrews and Kurth. They employ
over nine hundred lawyers, and according
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to Daily Progress dot com, their
history includes quote the late Louis F.
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Powell Junior, who served on the
US Supreme Court. Going back just three
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years, we can see that Eleanor
has a history with inappropriate sexual conduct.
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In twenty nineteen, she was found
guilty and absentia of undressing where prohibited.
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This incident reportedly occurred during the fall
of the same year. She did appeal
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the case and the charge was dismissed, and seemingly because of this, little
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else is known about this incident.
Eleanor worked at a number of organizations throughout
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her career. She was an event
planner for the University of Virginia, the
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development manager for the Center of Inquiry, and a development associate for the UVA,
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where she worked with a team coordinating
fundraising events. Perhaps most disturbingly in
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Eleanor's work history is the short period
of time she served as a manager of
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events and partnerships with an organization called
Big Big Sisters of America. According to
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their website, quote Big Brothers Big
Sisters serves young people from age five through
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young adulthood in one on one mentoring
friendships, bigs and littles hang out two
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to three times a month for a
few hours, doing normal everyday activities like
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seeing a movie, doing homework,
playing games, going out to eat,
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or just hanging out. During her
time with this organization, Eleanor would have
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undoubtedly had access to vulnerable and underprivileged
children. Eleanor would go on to marry
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a man named Joel Hoppy, and
she would indeed take his last name.
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I couldn't find the exact date of
their marriage, but they had two children
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together who are now ages ten and
twelve. Joel was born in nineteen seventy
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seven and was only one year the
senior to Eleanor. He himself was also
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intimately involved in the legal system,
and his full time job was as magistrate
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in the Western District of Virginia.
In twenty twenty one, the couple separated
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after a prolonged and disputatious legal battle. Joel contended that his wife, Eleanor
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was beset with finding other men and
women with whom to have sexual relations,
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and she was often pushing the sexual
boundaries of their marriage. I found some
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potential evidence of this on a social
media website when I searched Eleanor's screen name.
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Take all the following with a grain
of salt, because it's far from
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verified. First, I tried Tito
Tory, which was her reported user name
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on the fetish website, but that
came up with nothing. Then I tried
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Tory for Fun, and one Twitter
profile seemed like maybe, just maybe it
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could be a match. Now,
firstly, I want to say, there
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are a number of things that make
me think this might not be Eleanor's secret
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Twitter. Firstly, the count makes
a number of references to Las Vegas,
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and I could find no evidence that
Eleanor or Joel lived in Las Vegas or
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that they were frequent visitors. Even
so, the Tory for Fun account from
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roughly two thousand and nine to twenty
fifteen was constantly posting about the swinger lifestyle.
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One quote says, I used to
think swinging was for those unhappy relationships,
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but then a regular party turned wild. Though I should say, there's
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no real need to find more evidence
than what we already have in the chat
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logs between Eleanor and the undercover agent. In May of twenty twenty one,
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Eleanor and Joel agreed to joint custody, but after Eleanor's arrest, Joel is
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seeking full custody of his children,
which he will undoubtedly receive as long as
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the facts of the case stand where
they are today. There's currently no evidence
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that Joel was part of Eleanor's sick
and twisted fantasies involving children, and there's
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currently no evidence that Eleanor victimized her
own children, though there's no way for
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us to truly know that, at
least for now. On February twenty seventh,
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tw Eleanor messaged the undercover agent asking
about the abuse he was currently perpetrating
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against his own daughter. What about
you? What do you think the next
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steps are for you and your daughter? In these encrypted messages, Eleanor told
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the agent she wanted to visit him
in Washington, DC so that together they
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could abuse the purported eight year old
girl. Eleanor repeatedly stated that she wanted
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to assist in introducing the girl to
sexual activity. On March twelve, twenty
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twenty three, Eleanor made a plan
with the agent that she would travel to
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Washington, DC from Charlottesville. The
following exchange was then recorded. I can't
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wait. I'm so excited to have
you help out. Can't wait to see
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you with her. I'm going to
be so watching you play with her,
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and you watching me play with her, Eleanor. And then of course putting
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her to bed and waking her up
to do a few extra things will be
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so fun. Have you explored her
at all? Also? Has she seen
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videos of little girls with her dad? Yet? Yes? I had a
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really good link. It had dads
and a folder with moms with their kids
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too. It was fucking hot.
The damn link has broken. Now have
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you seen anything good? A couple
of photos here and there, but nothing
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really great, to be honest,
Yeah, before that link, it was
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the same for me, a few
picks from time to time. Eleanor then
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sent the undercover agent a thirty second
long video depicting a small, framed female
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who appears to be on a bed. The small girl, who appears to
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be a minor, can only be
seen from behind, and she is nude
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from the waist down. An adult
male can be seen her from behind.
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She has then shown face down on
a bed with her legs bent and her
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arms stretched over her head. On
March eighth, twenty twenty three, Eleanor
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wrote, A great thing to do
is to wake her up by trying new
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things. That hazy, dreamlike state
is perfect to introduce a variety of new
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things, especially with someone to help
with positioning her body, and then you
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let her fall right back to sleep. On March twelve, twenty twenty three,
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she wrote, if I were you, I'd start building up Thursday,
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telling her you know, it's going
to be super fun. We're going to
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hang out with an old friend of
yours. It's going to be like the
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best night ever. Blah blah blah. And then once I get there,
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obviously it will take a slight turn. I've loved Annal for a long time,
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don't worry. I can train her
well. On March sixteenth, twenty
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twenty three, using the encrypted messaging
application, Eleanor sent the undercover agent three
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images. One a prepubescent minor female
fully nude with her legs spread. A
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man can be seen in the child's
vagina. To a prepubescent minor female nude
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from the waist down. She's lying
on her back with her legs up in
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the air while the adult male her
vagina. And three a prepubescent minor female
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fully nude but for a pair of
white thigh high socks. The child is
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shown straddling an adult male who is
inserted into her during the afternoon hours of
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March sixteenth, twenty twenty three,
after exchanging a handful of messages, the
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undercover agent and Eleanor decided to change
their meeting place from DC to Warrenton,
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Virginia, a small town of about
ten thousand people located approximately an hour's drive
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west from DC. She then sent
the undercover agent more images. Three of
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these contained abusive material, and also
a picture of the pink robe with the
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message her big girl robe for tonight. We'll be right back stay with us.
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Eleanor hunting Hobby had one final message
exchange with the undercover agent while en
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route to the hotel in Warrenton.
Eleanor, wake her up and let her
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take a bath. Lots of bubbles
and go ahead and make sure you're helping
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her soap both her and in the
tub. And then when she gets out
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of the tub, just let her
wrap up in a big towel and I
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had to keep her cozy on the
couch or something like that, but try
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not to let her get back in
her clothes. I'll be there as soon
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as I can, and I'll get
naked too. Remember this is special daddy
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daughter night. No clothes needed.
Yes, I like that plan, smiley
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face. I am so bitter that
I'm an hour away. It's unreal.
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I'm sorry. Paved will be worth
it. Keep me posted and don't forget
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to wash her, attack and back
again, and keep out any toys.
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Leave stuff like that that you brought
with you. Put it right by the
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bedside table so she knows that this
is what we're here to do. Remember,
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these knights in the hotel with Dad
are about nothing but having fun,
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feeling good. And on this same
day, March sixteenth, twenty twenty three,
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Or was arrested in the hotel parking
lot in Warrenton, Virginia. She
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waived her Miranda rights and began talking
with police almost immediately. The story she
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concocted is completely unbelievable, but it's
not unheard of in the context of these
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types of staying operations. In fact, it's the same exact line I've heard
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a number of times on Chris Hansen's
show To Catch a Predator. You see,
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as Eleanor explains it, she only
came to the hotel out of concern
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for the child. Though there's a
problem with this explanation. Eleanor had absolutely
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no answer why she had not alerted
police to the abuse prior to her arrest,
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or why she had not contacted any
law enforcement authorities at all regarding her
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communications with the undercover agent, his
location, or the fact that he was
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sexually abusing his daughter. Eleanor also
admitted to distributing images of child sexual abuse
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material to the undercover agent, but
insisted that she only did this to keep
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talking. And lastly, Eleanor had
absolutely no answer for why there was a
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child's backpack in her car containing a
robe and lubricant. It didn't take long
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for the FBI to match the Teto
Tori account on the fetish website to Eleanor
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Hunt and Hoppy. In fact,
the complaint and arrest warrants state that the
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images available on her public Facebook profile
were a visual match for the woman on
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the Teto Tori account. Investigator subpoenaed
the fetish website for the user's email address,
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and then subpoena at Google for the
owner of the email's identity, which
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all traced back to Eleanor. On
April fourth, twenty twenty three, Eleanor
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pled not guilty to three charges one
distribution of child, two attempted transportation of
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a minor, would intend to engage
in criminal sexual activity in three coon and
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enticement of a miner. She is
currently being held without bond. In their
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decision to hold eleanor without bond,
the judge wrote, quote, although there
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is little to no evidence that Miss
Hoppy poses a flight risk, the government's
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allegations suggests that she poses a grave
danger to this community. First, the
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government presented evidence that Miss Hoppy has
knowledge of sophisticated encrypted communication platforms, which
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are known to law enforcement as popular
applications among people trafficking child. Her alleged
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use of these platforms is indicative of
consciousness of wrongdoing. Second, miss Hoppy's
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alleged actions target the most vulnerable victim
population, young minor children. Finally,
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Miss Hoppies alleged actions demonstrate a willingness
to put other minor children at risk.
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Considering the high risk of danger to
the community, this factor weighs strongly in
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favor of pre trial detention. Taken
together, the court finds the government has
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proved by clear and convincing evidence that
no combination of conditions could ensure the safety
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