a north carolina man who authorities believe sexually abused an eight year old girl in a child pornography video was arrested on thursday william akers, 46, was taken into custody after authorities released a still image from the video and asked for the public to help identify him the us immigration and customs enforcement's homeland security investigations kicked off a nationwide manhunt that brought more than 80 leads before one member of the public was able to tell investigators where akers was employed william akers, 46, was arrested thursday in raleigh, north carolina for allegedly sexually abusing an eight year old girl in a child pornography video seized by authorities  he was arrested at 1am while working the night shift at lulu press in raleigh, where he was a development and operations director, according to wncn one employee told the station that akers has since been fired authorities obtained the child pornography video akers allegedly appeared in while investigating convicted sex offender bailey mills and his wife elizabeth last year, according to the news & observer the mills identified the man in the video as peter gilbert, but investigators soon realized he was using an alias homeland security investigations reached out to the public on wednesday, asking them to help find a 'white male, 40 to 50 years in age' who 'may be using the name peter gilbert and may be driving a white pickup truck' akers was arrested after us immigration and customs enforcement's homeland security investigations released this still image from the video and asked for the public's help in identifying him  both bailey and elizabeth mills were arrested last year for running a child porn ring disguised as a daycare out of their sanford home, according to investigators bailey mills was caught after a 12 year old girl revealed to authorities he had contacted her on facebook about exchanging money for sex, according to wncn the young girl also told officers she had previous sexual relations with mills, and that she had been shown pornography featuring another underage girl while at his home bailey and elizabeth mills were arrested after investigators found photographic and video evidence that showed multiple underage children being sexually assaulted by adult males and an adult female the victims were between one and 14 years old both bailey and elizabeth mills pleaded guilty to multiple sex offense charges among bailey mills' charges were rape of a child and sexual exploitation of a child elizabeth mills was also charged with sexual exploitation of a child and statutory sex offense with a child authorities obtained the child pornography video akers allegedly appeared in while investigating convicted sex offender bailey mills (left) and his wife elizabeth (right) last year in connection to a child porn ring  akers has been charged with production of child pornography and conspiracy to produce child pornography, a homeland security investigations spokesman told daily mail online he is being held without bond at wake county jail us immigration and customs enforcement director sarah r saldaña said she was grateful for the public's 'quick action' to help find akers 'within hours of our request for assistance, more than a million people took notice and started spreading the word on social media and in the press,' she said in a statement 'because of this incredible support, we were able to identify and arrest a man accused of grossly violating an innocent child' the investigation was conducted under homeland security investigations operation predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators
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william akers, 46, was identified after investigators released a still image from the video  authorities obtained the video while investigating bailey and elizabeth mills, who were running child porn ring disguised as a daycare out of their home  they identified akers as 'peter gilbert' but investigators quickly discovered he was using an alias and asked the public to help identify him  someone told authorities where akers was employed and he was taken into custody while working the night shift  he has been charged with production of child pornography 