Pierson promoted himself as a child modeling photographer.
When parents would leave their child with Pierson for a photography session, he would dress the children in adult lingerie, and in sexually explicit poses, photograph them, and subsequently sell those images to a "child modeling" website in Florida for Internet posting.
Many of the parents were unaware of the images being taken of their children, and some had signed over temporary legal custody of their child to Pierson during the modeling session. Read More
