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Pedos & Child Porn in the News 

Volume 4 - Issue 7 

April 17, 2005 

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***** Index with Abstracts ***** 

1) How safe are your children from sex offenders? 

USA - Elizabethton Star, TN - March 27, 2005 

http://www.starhq.com/html/localnews/0305/032705sexualoffenders.htm 

Over the course of the last month, many parents have become increasingly concerned with the safety of their 

children after reports of a 9-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Florida by a convicted sex offender 

who was living in her family's neighborhood.John Evander Couey, a 46-year-old convicted sexual offender in the 

state of Florida has since been charged with the abduction and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. According to 

reports from Florida law enforcement authorities, Couey admitted to police that he had abducted and killed 

Lunsford and told police where to find her body where he had buried it behind the home of his sister where he was 

living at the time. His sister's home is located approximately 150 yards from the Lunsford's home in Homosassa, 

Fla.As in the state of Florida, convicted sexual offenders in the state of Tennessee are required to register with law 

enforcement agencies. 

2) Damages sought from teacher, P-H-M 

USA - South Bend Tribune, IN - March 27, 2005 

http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/03/27/local.20050327-sbt-FULL-A1-Damages_sought_from_.sto 

A girl molested by a former Walt Disney Elementary School teacher is seeking damages from him and from the 

Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp. in a lawsuit filed last week.Last month, former teacher Timothy Wyllie, 41, 

pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual conduct with the girl, who was a 10-year-old student in his fourth-grade class in 

2001.South Bend attorney Charles P. Rice filed the lawsuit on behalf of the girl, listed as "Jane Doe" to protect her 

identity, in the Mishawaka division of St. Joseph Superior Court.Wyllie is accused in court documents of setting up 

private meetings and "tutoring sessions" with the girl during the school day and of engaging in various sexual 

activities with her as well as photographing her in various stages of undress."On a regular basis, he separated her 

from class for private tutoring sessions," Rice said. 

3) Jonathan King freed 

United Kingdom - Guardian Unlimited - March 29, 2005 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1447337,00.html?gusrc=rss 

Disgraced pop mogul Jonathan King walked free today after serving less than half his seven-year sentence for 

abusing young boys. King said he was "100% innocent of the crimes", and that he still believed his convictions 

would be quashed. A passer-by shouted at King to "get back inside" as he stood by the prison gates with his 

thumbs raised and wearing a baseball cap. King's legal adviser Giovanni di Stefano said he would now be subject 

to extensive licence conditions, including a ban on working with children, staying at a specified address and not 

receiving visits from anyone under 18 without permission. "He has been granted parole by a parole board who 

don't necessarily have any love for Jonathan King. King had hoped to be free in time for Easter, but his legal team 

claims that a dispute with Surrey police over releasing custody records to the Prison Service delayed matters. 

4) Couple accused of videotaping rape of child 

USA - Erie Times-News, PA - March 29, 2005 

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-03292005-469275.html 

A man raped a 12-year-old girl while his wife videotaped the crime, and the couple also posted nude photos of the 

girl on the Internet, police said.George L. Eberle, 26, and Alesha M. Eberle, 22, both of Corry, sexually abused the 

girl at their home either in August or September 2002, Erie County police said. 

5) Former swim coach sentenced in sex case 

USA - The Kansas City Star, MO - March 29, 2005 

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11253784.htm 

He was arrested after he showed up at the residence carrying, among other things, flowers and condoms.In his plea, 

he also admitted having a previous relationship with another minor female and engaging in sex with her four times 

in 2003.The Johnson County district attorney's office charged Ivancic in February with five counts of aggravated 

indecent liberties with a child between the ages of 14 and 16. 

6) Posting too much information on Web leaves students vulnerable 

USA - The Enterprise March 29, 2005 


http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2005/03/29/news/news/news01.txt 

When Erik Dingley heard that Stonehill College in Easton was connected to "Thefacebook,"an Internet site that 

allows college students to connect with friends and classmates via student profiles, he was eager to post his profile 

on the site.Then he began getting the phone calls."A girl from the University of New Hampshire saw my 'facebook' 

picture, and was able to get my contact information," Dingley said. "She started instant messaging me online, and 

eventually called my room wanting to have phone sex."Dingley learned what many others have discovered putting 

too much information online can be dangerous."You are just posting it for the whole world," said Raynham Deputy 

Police Chief Louis J. Pacheco, president of the High Tech Crime Consortium, a national group involved with 

computer crime investigation and analysis.Thefacebook is a site growing in popularity among college students. 

7) Jail for teacher who had sex with girls 

Australia - The Advertiser - March 30, 2005 

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12696638%5E2682,00.html 

Since admitting sexual relationships with two of his girl school students, Kym William Slater has lived a "selfimposed 

exile" of shame and embarrassment.The convicted pedophile yesterday began a harsher exclusion from 

society a minimum 3 1/2 year jail term imposed by the District Court. While agreeing Slater was far from a 

"predatory" sex offender, Judge David Bright said his abuse of two teenage girls was too serious to suspend his 

sentence. "The law must make it clear that people in your position cannot allow the relationships they develop with 

students to develop into sexual relationships," Judge Bright said. He bought the second victim $60 credit for her 

mobile telephone and said she could "work it off", eventually having sex with her four times. 

8) We must have justice in this case 

USA - The Reporter, CA- March 29, 2005 

http://www.thereporter.com/letters/ci_2628148 

The parole boards and judges who allowed this predator to roam the night in search of helpless children to attack are 

responsible. Our legal system failed Jessica, her family and all of us who would like to believe in justice. How 

can we any longer believe in the so-called justice system when children are not safe in their own bedrooms when 

this derelict, perverted crack-head runs free. It seems that law-abiding citizens are the prisoners today, while justice 

turns a blind eye and votes in favor of the criminal. 

9) Jessica's death spurs talk of need to change sex offender laws 

USA - The Florida Times-Union, FL - March 28, 2005 

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/032805/D8949V780.shtml 

Once again a child has been killed and like many other cases, Floridians are asking whether loopholes in the law 

allowed a criminal easy access to his prey. Much of the nation watched this month as Jessica Lunsford's father 

desperately searched for her when she went missing from the Homosassa home she shared with her father and 

grandparents. Desperation turned to outrage after the third-grader's body was found March 19 and police arrested a 

part-time neighbor, convicted sex offender John Couey. Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, has already called for 

toughening the state's laws against sexual offenders. Sheriff Dawsy said lawmakers should also look at making 

people who harbor or help sex offenders, or who know sex offenders may have committed a crime and fail to report 

it, more accountable. 

10) Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in child porn case against former 

Calif. judge 

USA - North County Times, CA - March 28, 2005 

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/03/29/news/state/65812.txt 

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of a former California judge accused of storing child 

pornography on his court computer.Without commenting, justices let stand a federal appeals court ruling in favor of 

prosecutors who want to present graphic images allegedly taken from former Orange County Superior Judge Ronald 

Kline's computers. 

11) Point man sentenced for child porn 

USA _ WAOW-TV9, WI - March 28, 2005 

http://www.waow.com/news/full_story.php?id=36982&waow=07e312d34e000d93f1fe3ad3c81e14cc 

Bednarski pleaded guilty to the charges, and was sentenced to 70 months in prison. 

12) Second case of alleged sexual assault suggests child porn ring 


USA - KTRK-TV13, TX - March 23, 2005 

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/032305_local_childporn.html 

Now a second case has been linked to Bramwell, and police in Missouri City say that could be only the beginning. 

The boy accused Bramwell of sexually assaulting him at a self-storage warehouse, then taking pictures. Gregg 

Nelson with the Missouri City Police Department said, "The child gave us allegations of multiple offenses of sexual 

assault of a child. "Along with the things that he has said to these children, we suspect there may be a large-scale 

child pornography ring at work here," Nelson suggested. 

13) Juvenile alleges sexual encounter 

USA - Times-dispatch, VA - March 28, 2005 

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid 

=1031781840257 

A former flight attendant on Air Force Two, accused of using an Internet chat room to entice a Bedford County girl 

into having sex, hurried his plans to meet her because he was going to jail soon for a similar offense in Ohio, the girl 

testified yesterday."He said he wanted to go to my house and have sex with me before he went to jail," the 17-yearold 

girl testified yesterday in Air Force Sgt. Darryl Walizer's preliminary hearing in a Bedford court.The girl also 

testified that when she began a sexual relationship over the Internet with an English professor at Bridgewater 

College, Walizer threatened to notify the police.Walizer, 37, of Waldorf, Md., is charged with soliciting a juvenile 

to commit a felony of nonforcible sodomy. If convicted, he could spend 10 years in jail.An 18-year Air Force 

veteran, Walizer was convicted March 1, 2004, in a Wooster, Ohio, court of soliciting sex over the Internet. 

14) Ramstein master sergeant gets 19 years in child sex abuse, porn case 

Germany = Stars and Stripes European edition - March 30, 2005 

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28079 

Bart Lipscomb, a maintenance superintendent with the Ramstein-based 86th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 

admitted to sexually abusing one of the girls dozens of times over a four-year period. He apologized for sexually 

abusing her and her best friend.Theres no excuse for what I did to you, he said in a tearful statement.A military 

judge sentenced Lipscomb to 19 years in a military prison, a dishonorable discharge, a reduction to the lowest pay 

grade and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. 

15) Should Kids Be Listed as Sex Offenders? 

USA - ABC News - March 30, 2005 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=603717&page=2 

Shawn Murphy admits he forced his 11-year-old cousin to have sex with him, but when many of the people who 

know him in the eastern Iowa town of Russell found out about his crime, they said that since he's done his time and 

is going through therapy, he should be forgiven. Maybe that's because Murphy, an 18-year-old senior at Russell 

Community School, was just 13 when he committed the crime. Maybe it's because Murphy seemed just like any 

other teenager, until he turned 18 and, in accordance with Iowa law, his name was posted on the state's sex offender 

registry Web site. Some parents were angry that they did not know there was a sex offender walking the halls of 

the school, which is attended by 150 students from pre-K through grade 12. "I forced my cousin to have sexual 

intercourse with me," said Murphy, who was convicted in juvenile court of third-degree sexual assault, sent to a sex 

offender rehabilitation facility, and ordered to go through counseling and register as a sex offender. "With 

juveniles, we have pretty strong consensus in the field that we shouldn't be calling kids sex offenders when they're 

adolescents, when they're still forming their identities." But severe punishment is important for the victims and 

their families, said Laura Ahearn, the director of Parents for Megan's Law, a victims' rights organization focused of 

child sexual abuse victims. "Justice isn't served unless there is severe punishment for a crime that can ruin a 

person's life," she said. Various studies reviewed by the federal government's Office of Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention found that as few as 8 percent and as many as 14 percent of juvenile sex offenders commit 

new sex crimes. "We have a mental health crisis in this country, especially with kids in foster care, and a lot of kids 

who have committed sex crimes come out of foster care, and they are in there because somebody has acted out on 

them," she said. 

16) Boulder man arrested in child sex sting 

USA - Rocky Mountain News, CO - March 30, 2005 

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3661119,00.html 

Colorado Springs police were alarmed when they discovered in February what Paul James Stewart Scott was 

allegedly looking for on the Internet - initially, he wanted to have sex with a mother-daughter tandem, then murder 

the child. Investigators said the Boulder County man's plan evolved into something different, and every bit as 


disturbing - paying for sex with a child, plus his own murder at another girl's hands. A detective, posing as a broker 

capable of arranging such a scenario, told Scott his fantasy could become reality for the price of $13,200. When 

Scott showed up at a Colorado Springs park early Monday afternoon, he got into a car with a detective posing as the 

broker who was arranging Scott's macabre tryst. 

17) Former Boy Scouts Official Arrested on Child Porn Charges 

USA - ABC News - March. 29, 2005 

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=624049&page=1 

A former Boy Scouts of America official has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. 

Douglas Sovereign Smith Jr., who as national program director planned activities for thousands of Scouts across the 

country, was accused of receiving over the Internet images of children engaging in sexually explicit acts. Law 

enforcement officials indicated the pictures did not show boys who were affiliated with the Boy Scouts, according to 

Gregg Shields, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts. 

18) Ex-Boy Scout official pleads guilty to child porn charge 

USA - CNN - March 30, 2005 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/30/scouts.charges/index.html 

A former top official of the Boy Scouts of America pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of receiving and 

distributing child pornography, including pictures of boys younger than 12.Douglas S. Smith Jr., 61, entered the plea 

before a federal judge in Fort Worth, acknowledging he "knowingly received or distributed an image of child 

pornography."Smith didn't speak during the 45-minute hearing, other than an occasional "yes, sir" or "no, sir" when 

the judge asked him questions.As part of the plea, he will face a minimum of five years in prison and a possible 

maximum sentence of no more than 20 years. He had been placed on administrative leave when the group learned 

he was under criminal investigation, and he stepped down soon afterward, Boy Scouts of America spokesman Greg 

Shields said before the plea deal."As a professional Scouter, he was in more administrative positions -- most 

recently [director of programming] -- and not in direct contact with the youth," Shields said.Shields said the Boy 

Scouts organization is "shocked and dismayed" by Smith's arrest, but the group has cooperated with investigators in 

the case."We surrendered his work computer to authorities," he said.According to the plea agreement, investigators 

searched Smith's home in Colleyville on February 22 and seized his computer and computer discs, discovering 520 

images of child pornography, including video clips."The child pornography depicted males under the age of 18 

engaged in sexually explicit conduct," the agreement said. 

19) Female teacher suspended in sex probe 

United Kingdom - Biggleswade Today - March 30, 2005 

http://www.biggleswadetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=541&articleid=985075 

A female teacher from Luton's Halyard High School has been suspended accused of having sex with an under age 

pupil.Police arrested and bailed the teacher after the teenager made a statement to family protection officers about 

the relationship, which allegedly started when he was 15.The boy's father has criticised the school's handling of the 

case, accusing it of trying to sweep the matter under the carpet. 

20) Exclusive - Paedophile faces jail over hardcore child porn 

United Kingdom - Machester Online - March 30, 2005 

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/152/152933_exclusive__paedophile_faces_jail_over_hardcore_child_po 

rn__.html 

A Nursing home care assistant is facing jail after downloading revolting hardcore child porn including one image of 

a young girl being raped by a grown man onto his computer.Bespectacled paedophile Uwe Dieter Weniger, 44, 

stored more than 1,000 still and moving images of girls aged mainly between 11 and 14 on his PC at his home on 

Hurdsfield Road in Macclesfield, a court heard.The majority were classed as low-level child pornography showing 

lone girls, naked or semi-naked, in provocative poses. Forensic evidence showed Weniger was the only user, and 

he had not exchanged or sold pornography to anyone else.Mr Kerruish-Jones said the defendant admitted to police 

that he was interested in looking at girls aged 14-upwards.He said: Thats what he preferred. These are revolting 

images but they are mostly of a level-one class, meaning theres a low degree of exploitation and abuse.He 

downloaded these but did not make them, exchange or sell them. 

21) Man sentenced to six years in prison for child porn 

USA - Newsday - March 29, 2005 

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny-brf--childporn-sen0329mar29,0,5830619.story 


A central New York man who was part of a group that traded child pornography was sentenced Tuesday to 6 years 

in prison for distributing and receiving sexual images of children, federal prosecutors said. Resnick said Poole was 

a member of a group called "My Two," which trades sexual images of children. 

22) Cops battle dark side of Net 


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liporn0330,0,1382196.story 

A comparable unit in the Nassau County police department has made 14 arrests since it was created in November 

2003.One of Suffolk's most notable suspects, Bruce Wernick, 47, of Valley Stream, goes on trial in federal court 

Wednesday for five counts relating to child pornography. Prosecutors say he sodomized a 4-year-old girl but have 

chosen to focus on the pornography charges because they're easier to prove and the sentence is twice as severe.On a 

recent night, Forrestal joined a Yahoo chatroom called "$$Girls Who Need Money$$." With him posing as a 13year-old 

girl from New York, it took only seconds for nine adult men to pepper him with questions, ask for pictures, 

and offer money for a private strip tease in front of a Web cam."You couldn't keep up with the cases, that's how 

many idiots are out there," Forrestal said. Once they gather enough evidence for a search warrant, they seize a 

suspect's computer, and search for signs of real abuse.Hidden inside the Dix Hills man's computer was a haunting 

soundless video of a young girl with dirty blond hair being sexually abused in a basement.Known online as the 

"Crybaby Series," detectives first thought the films were of the man's own daughter being sodomized, possibly by 

Bruce Wernick. 

23) Deacon imprisoned for having child porn 

USA - Toledo Blade, OH - March 30, 2005 

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050330/NEWS02/503300381 

A Toledo diocesan deacon who was two days away from ordination to the priesthood when authorities seized his 

computer last year in a child pornography investigation was sentenced yesterday to 37 months in prison. Tynan, of 

Lakeview, Ohio, pleaded guilty Nov. 1 to possession of child pornography. Judge Katz said he will recommend 

Tynan be placed in Butner Federal Correctional Institute in North Carolina, where he can participate in a sexoffender 

program. Father Billian said Tynan remains an ordained deacon, but a request has been made to the 

Vatican to remove him from the ministry. Choking back tears and pausing for a moment to regain his composure, 

Tynan said the worst day of his life was telling Bishop Blair he was withdrawing from the priesthood. 

24) Man gets 18 months for having child pornography 

USA - The Star Press, IN - March 30, 2005 

http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/2/037143-9062-002.html 

A 61-year-old Muncie man who was caught with child pornography on his home computer received an 18-month 

sentence Monday.Robert Konkle contributed to the sexual exploitation of children when he downloaded explicit 

images onto his computer, Delaware Circuit Court 3 Judge Robert Barnet Jr. 

25) Public's help is key to combating online child pornography, police say 

Press & Sun-Bulletin 

http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne033005s157175.shtml 

Law enforcement's best weapon to fight Internet child pornography is public cooperation, a Broome County 

Sheriff's Office detective said Tuesday. The technician gave the computer to county investigators, who confirmed 

the images had been downloaded during the past year. FBI data show a 1,997-percent increase in so-called 

Innocent Images National Initiative cases -- essentially online child pornography -- from 113 in 1996 to 2,370 in 

2002. A tip also might come from someone who knows about another person's illegal downloading, or police 

might be looking into a separate compliant when they discover a pornography-laden computer. Though parents can 

take several steps to limit and protect their children's online activities, hackers can infiltrate almost every form of 

software protection and dump so-called pop-ups, spyware or other unwanted programs on a computer's hard drive. 

26) Man sentenced on child porn charges 

USA - The Herald-Dispatch, WV - March 30, 2005 

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2005/March/30/LNlist7.htm 

A 54-year-old Ashland man was sentenced Tuesday to 65 years in prison on child pornography convictions.In 

January, John Estep pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Ashland to two counts of producing child pornography, 

one count of conspiracy to receive child pornography, six counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of 

possession of child pornography.In his January plea, Estep admitted taking sexually explicit pictures of two 8-yearold 

girls and having pornographic images of children from the Internet on his computer.Estep, through his court- 


appointed attorney Richard Hughes of Ashland, tried to withdraw his guilty plea prior to sentencing. 

27) Tune in now for wisdom from the pedophile pundit 

USA - The Union Leader, NH - March 30, 2005 

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=52618 

The next-worst thing to hearing of yet another child abducted by a known molester is yet another tutorial by the 

newest media darling pedophile pundit Jake Golden- flame, whose Dickensian name seems more suited to porn 

credits than serious commentary. A self-described recovering pedophile, the convicted child molester whose 

victims have included his own 3-year-old daughter and numerous boys is also an author and therefore, we must infer 

from his unctuous omnipresence, an authority. Just as the cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) 

became a source of insight into the perverse mind of a murderer who skinned his victims to sew a new skin for 

himself, so we turn to Goldenflame for advice about how to handle those baffling deviants who prey on children. 

His marketing niche is that he, unlike most in his disturbed tribe, supports Megans Law, which requires convicted 

sex offenders to register with the states they live in so people can find out when the candy man moves into their 

neighborhood. Now weve moved to a new level of cognitive dissonance in which the vilest form of humanity is 

granted polite entry into the public parlor. 

28)Ex-altar boy describes priest's 'tickling' game Trial's outcome could affect 

results in 150 other cases 

USA - San Francisco Chronicle, CA - March 30, 2005 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/30/BAGE2C0IUH1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea 

"He didn't want to be around the church and he did not want to talk about why.'' Wood and her husband questioned 

their son and found out why. Troy's story is much like the one told by two other former altar boys, Bob and Tom 

Thatcher, the plaintiffs in this closely watched trial before Alameda County Superior Court Judge Harry Sheppard. 

Separate negotiations are continuing toward a possible settlement of about 75 cases against the Archdiocese of San 

Francisco, which includes San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties, and more than 40 claims facing the 

Oakland diocese, which runs parishes in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. On Monday, the Thatchers' lawyer 

admitted into evidence internal church documents showing that top leaders of the Oakland diocese had numerous 

warnings that Ponciroli was a child molester, yet they promoted him to be the founding pastor of the Antioch parish. 

29) Peters repeats claims against Auckland bookseller 

New Zealand - Stuff - March 30 2005 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3231635a11,00.html 

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters yesterday repeated allegations of paedophilia against an Auckland 

bookseller and was forced to apologise to the ACT Party for implying it defended paedophiles. Under 

parliamentary privilege, Mr Peters said Jim Peron - owner of Auckland bookstore Aristotle's - was a paedophile as 

defined in the Oxford dictionary as someone who has "sexual desire directed towards children". "Anyone who 

promotes sexual relations between men and boys should not be allowed citizenship, residency or even a temporary 

visa," he told Parliament. Immigration Minister Paul Swain said in Parliament yesterday Mr Peron was allowed to 

enter New Zealand after receiving police clearance from South Africa and the United States. "When I sold the 

bookstore to Jim, the only condition of the sale was that he would allow the Libertarian Party to meet and distribute 

literature in the store. 

30) Man faces child-porn, sex-assault charges 

Canada - Globe and Mail, On - March 29, 2005 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050329/TORBRIEFS29- 

3/TPNational/Toronto 

A man charged with sexually assaulting a young boy and then taking sexually explicit pictures of his victim is to 

appear in court today.Police allege 55-year-old Gary Hoare sexually assaulted a 10-year-old victim in Mr. Hoare's 

home in south Scarborough. 

31) Tracking sex offenders a daunting, ever-growing task 

USA - Miami Herald, FL - March 30, 2005 

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11265953.htm 

One month before a registered sexual offender allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered 9-year-old Jessica 

Lunsford, Florida law enforcement agencies had lost track of at least 1,800 other sexual offenders statewide, 

according to a review of Florida's Sexual Offender/Predator Registry.John Evander Couey, the man who would 

confess to killing Jessica, was not even listed as one of them because no one knew he wasn't living at his reported 


address and was staying near the Lunsfords.The fact that Couey wasn't marked as missing raises questions not only 

about how aggressively the state tracks offenders known to be on the lam, but how many others have absconded that 

aren't noticed at all.Couey was supposed to be living more than five miles from the Lunsford residence in 

Homosassa, Fla. Officials at the Citrus County Sheriff's Office said they discovered he was staying less than a 

block from the Lunsford's in his half-sister's mobile home - only after they began interviewing sex offenders as part 

of their investigation into Jessica's disappearance.Police found Jessica's body buried nearby after a three-week 

search."We can't do anything about Jessie's death now, but in the future we have to figure out a better way of 

knowing where these guys are," said Archie Lunsford, Jessica's grandfather.The Miami Herald obtained a copy of 

the sexual offender database in January and found 800 of those who were missing had committed lewd or lascivious 

acts against children while another 130 had been sentenced for sexual battery against minors younger than 16. 

Nearly all the remaining 870 committed sexual crimes against adults or teenagers older than 16.Among those who 

fled: George Gonel, 46, a Broward County man who in 1991 was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts and sexual 

battery against a child. He absconded two years later and has yet to be found.Mary Coffee, the supervisor of 

FDLE's Sexual Offender/Predator Unit, which maintains the registry, said the database is supposed to be a tool to 

alert residents of potentially dangerous people living in their neighborhoods and to assist law enforcement agencies 

with criminal investigations."It is absolutely a partnership between the state, the community and local law 

enforcement agencies," Coffee said. He has been arrested 26 times, including once in 1991 for exposing himself to 

a 5-year-old girl.On Dec. 2, nearly three months before Jessica was abducted, a Citrus County judge issued a 

warrant for Couey's arrest because he failed to report to his probation officer.The officer sent a letter to the same 

address listed in the state's sexual offender database asking Couey to report for probation. 

32) Classify "Pro-Paedophilia Journal" "Unbound" 

New Zealand Scoop Independent News - March 31 2005 

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0503/S00286.htm 

The Society formally applied on Wednesday to the Chief Censor, Mr Bill Hastings, for leave to have the "propaedophilia 

journal" UNBOUND that the Hon. Based on information the Society has obtained, its application lists 

the publisher of UNBOUND (Vol. 1 No. 4) as Free Forum Books (San Francisco), the bookshop that was formerly 

owned by Auckland bookseller Mr Jim Peron at the time the journal was published (1987). Mr Eric Garris, who 

sold the San Francisco bookshop to Mr Peron in 1985, obtained photocopies of pages of the journal that the Society 

has submitted for classification, at the time it was apparently readily available to the public in Mr Perons bookshop 

along with the "pro-paedophile journal" NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association). The issue (Vol. 

1 No. 4) Garris raised concerns about, contained an essay by Mr Peron: "Abused: One Boys Story" and a report 

expressing disgust at how the San Francisco police had raided Perons bookshop that year and seized copies of 

UNBOUND and other pro-paedophia publications in the course of an on-going investigation into David Simons (a 

part-time employee of Mr Perons, who was later arrested, convicted and jailed for 16 years for committing sexoffences 

against children). The video transcript (see Appendix II) states: NAMBLA AFFIRMS THAT SEXUAL 

INTIMACY CAN BE AN APPROPRIATE EXPRESSION OF THE LOVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 

PARENT AND CHILD, BETWEEN SIBLINGS, AND BETWEEN ADULT FRIENDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN' 

... 

33) Couple found guilty in child pornography case 

South Africa - IOL.co.za - Marcdh 31, 2005 

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20050331080756700C300154 

There were "reasonably high prospects" that a Russian couple who used their own children to generate child 

pornography would go to jail. The pornography and indecent assault charges related to 78 images downloaded 

from the couple's computer which depicted them performing sexual acts with their children.At the trial, a oneminute 

video clip showed similar acts.One of the charges related to 120 pornographic images which had been lifted 

from websites. 

34) Former teacher, coach admits child-porn charges 

USA - The Free Lance-Star, VA - March 31, 2005 

http://fredericksburg.com/Feedback/contact 

A former Stafford teacher and football coach has pleaded guilty to five counts of distributing child pornography. 

Welker was working as an earth science teacher, football defensive coordinator and track coach at North Stafford 

High School when he was arrested in October. The images depicted girls well under the age of 18, according to 

court records. 

35) Expert: PC child-porn caches no accident 


USA - Arkansas Democrate-Gazette, AK - March 31, 2005 

http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg&section=News&storyid=112159 

Accidental download of child pornography is nearly impossible, Little Rock computer experts and other officials 

said, but that is the claim put forth by the attorney for a former highranking Boy Scouts of America official who 

pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal child pornography charge. Smiths attorney, Jack Strickland, said his client 

became involved in pornography "by accident," according to The Dallas Morning News. Smith had rejected a 

previous offer to receive sexually explicit material, but later agreed and made the mistake of sending the images to 

others, the News reported. Illicit material could be placed on a computer through viruses and files stored on 

computers from visiting Web sites, said Dan Harpool, president of Complete Computing, Inc. in Little Rock. Signs 

that a computer may have a virus include a reduction in speed, some programs do not function normally and the 

appearance of unfamiliar, unsolicited programs. 

36) Man sentenced for child porn 

USA - Nashua Telegraph, NH - March 31, 2005 

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050331/NEWS01/50331016/-1/news01 

A former Londonderry man who admitted to buying and possessing child pornography videos was sentenced 

Tuesday to 27 months in prison, federal prosecutors announced.Daniel Aiken had pleaded guilty last year after an 

investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service revealed that hed ordered videos from a known supplier of child 

pornography in 1998 and 1999. 

37) Child Sex Abuse on Rise in One Part of Delmarva 

USA - WBOC-TV16, MD - March 31, 2005 

http://www.wboc.com/global/story.asp?s=3144985&ClientType=Printable 

The police say they need the community's help to protect children."We need them to be cognizant of their 

surroundings," said Georgetown Det. "We need them to be alert for the person who's hanging out around the 

daycare center, watching children or something of that nature."The police say sexual predators target younger kids 

like infants and toddlers. As a parent, become suspicious that your child might be the victim of abuse if you see 

bruises or other marks on their body, or they have an acute change in attitude. 

38) Child crusader's dirty little secret 

Australia - Daily Telegraph - April 1, 2005 

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=2895514 

A SEX company which sells pornographic films with titles such as Fresh Meat has emerged as a key financial 

backer of children's rights crusader Hetty Johnston.Adultshop.com was one of three porn companies which 

contributed a total of $4322 to Ms Johnston's failed bid for the Senate. The internet porn shop -- which sells DVDs 

with titles such as Fresh Meat, 18 and Nasty and 18 and Easy -- gave Ms Johnston more than $1500 to run for the 

Senate.Ms Johnston -- who led the campaign against former governor-general Peter Hollingworth over his handling 

of child sex abuse by other clergy -- has gone to ground and is refusing to comment on the scandal. A second 

company based in Sydney's Kings Cross, Gallery Global Networks, also gave a donation of $1666. Sex lobby 

group the Eros Association said it arranged the donations and defended the failed Senate candidate's decision to 

accept them. 

39) Martial arts teacher faces child pornography charge 

Canada - London Free Press, On March 31, 2005 

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/03/31/977518-sun.html 

A London taekwondo master who was trainer of the national team at the Pan American championships last 

November faces a child pornography charge. Philippe Villanueva, 33, formerly an employee of the Bluewater 

Taekwondo club in London, also is charged with a count of sexual exploitation. Villanueva was trainer of the 

Canadian men's team that competed at the Pan American championships in Santo Domingo in the Dominican 

Republic in November. 

40) OPP Charge Chatsworth Man With Child Pornography 

Canada - Canadian News Wirer - March 31, 2005 

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/31/c0659.html 

Members of the Ontario Provincial Police - Bruce County Detachment and the Ontario Provincial Police - Child 

Pornography Section (Project "P"), have arrested and charged a Chatsworth man following a child pornography 

investigation.On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, members of the OPP - Bruce County Detachment and the OPP Child 


Pornography Section, executed a search warrant at 216404 Concession 4, Sullivan Township, Municipality of 

Chatsworth, Ontario. 

41) Professor pleads guilty in child pornography case 

USA - Philadelphia Enquirer, PA - March 31, 2005 

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jersey/11273017.htm 

A suspended Delaware Valley College professor pleaded guilty yesterday in Bucks County Court to 490 counts of 

sexually abusing children by storing child pornography on his office computer.No sentencing date has been set for 

Joseph Stenson, 61, of Doylestown. 

42) Pedophiles Are Sexual Predators Of Children [SPOC] 

USA - Useless-knowledge.com - March 30, 2005 

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/mar/article415.html 

While it may be fact that most pedophiles are the creation of an act that was done to them, they still are NOT lovers 

of children. They are sick individuals that bring more sorrow and more pain to a child than most anything else in 

the world. We have "pederast" which means a "man" that has sex with a young boy. However, the only word I 

could find for a man that rapes a little girl was pedophile. To use the word "molestation" somehow lessens the 

horrible act of Rape of a child. We label him a Rapist and toss him in prison. I say call a spade a spade and a sick 

bastard a sick bastard. 

43) Abused Teen: Hit Pervs Hard 

USA - New York Post, NY - March 31, 2005 

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/22909.htm 

The victim of a sicko pedophile released from prison after a laughably short sentence urged lawmakers yesterday to 

enact legislation mandating harsher jail sentences for convicted perverts. Matthew Maiello, 31, was released from 

an upstate prison Tuesday after serving only two years for raping and sodomizing at least four underage victims, 

including Ann. As the youth minister at St. Raphael's Roman Catholic Church in East Meadow, L.I., Maiello 

preyed on three girls and one boy who placed their complete trust in him. During sentencing, Nassau County Judge 

Donald DeRiggi declined to run Maiello's sentences consecutively despite heart-wrenching petitions from the 

victims' families. 

44) Priests testify diocese aware of molestation 

USA - Inside the Bay Area, CA - March 30, 2005 

http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2630045 

Hayward A priest testifying in the first civil clergy abuse trial against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland said 

Tuesday the diocese knew local priests were abusing young parishioners but declined to call the police. The Rev. 

George Crespin, the diocese's former personnel director, admitted in a deposition videotape relayed to jurors that "it 

wasn't our practice" to contact police about sexual abuse allegations. The other priest, the Rev. Robert Freitas, 

himselfan accused child molester, testified that church leaders moved him to another church even after he admitted 

to molesting a boy in the mid-1970s. Freitas, who served the diocese for more than 30 years at parishes in Fremont, 

Hayward, San Leandro and elsewhere, was one of the first witnesses to testify Tuesday at the Hayward Hall of 

Justice during the second day of the trial. 

45) Balkans urged to curb trafficking 

Balkans - BBC News, UK - March 31, 2005 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4397497.stm 

Countries in South-East Europe are failing to take effective measures against people trafficking, the United Nations 

Children's Fund (Unicef) says. A Unicef report says that while countries in the region have strict anti-trafficking 

laws they do not tackle the root causes of the problem. Children ill-informed Many countries in South-East Europe 

have harsh laws against trafficking, but they focus on preventing illegal migration or cracking down on prostitution 

and organised crime. Children surveyed in Montenegro, for example, suggested that not walking alone at night 

might protect them. 

46) Man found dead after porn probe 

United Kingdom - BBC News - March 31, 2005 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4396863.stm 

Petty Officer John Hayward, 35, was found dead by police, in a car in his garage at his Liskeard home. Three days 

earlier, PO Hayward had been arrested for alleged computer misuse when HMS Monmouth returned to Plymouth's 


Devonport Naval Base. 

47) Former Florida teacher faces 5 years for child porn 

USA - WTSP-TV10, FL - March 31, 2005 

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=12902 

A former Clay County teacher is facing a five-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty in an Internet child 

pornography case. 

48) Sentencing set in porn case 

USA - The Oklahoman, OK - March 31, 2005 

http://www.newsok.com/xml/rss/1459859/ 

Ronald Jay Champion entered a blind plea to felony charges that included possession and distribution of child porn 

and violating the state's computer crimes act. 

49) Lane guilty of sex abuse 

USA - Scranton Times, PA - March 31, 2005 

http://www.scrantontimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14256057&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6 

Douglas V. Lane is facing five to 82 years in prison after a jury found the 61-year-old radio station owner guilty 

Wednesday of sexually abusing one teenage boy and photographing another who was naked. Mr. Lane, who has 

been free on bail since his arrest a year ago, was handcuffed after the verdict by two sheriff's sergeants and taken to 

Lackawanna County Prison -- his first time behind bars.The nine-man, three-woman jury deliberated just 90 minutes 

before finding Mr. Lane guilty of two counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, five child pornography 

counts for photographing a naked 15-year-old boy, and one count of child pornography possession.The verdict will 

be appealed, his lawyer, James J. Walker of Carbondale, said.Though the charges arose from crimes only since 

1996, jurors heard about Mr. Lane allegedly luring teenage boys into his life with booze, brotherly advice and 

opportunities to work at WWDL-FM 104.9, a practice that dated back 40 years."Just thank the Lord that the truth 

came out," the father of one of the victims said after the verdict. Lane did not testify at this week's trial, his second 

in a month. His first ended in mistrial in February when some of the charges were dismissed because the statute of 

limitations had expired.Just four people -- all character witnesses -- testified for Mr. Lane earlier Wednesday in a 

defense that lasted 20 minutes.Mr. 

50) Catholic Deacon Sentenced for Pornography Charge 

USA - WTOL-TV11, OH - March 30, 2005 

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=3142572&nav=5UaiY6pT 

46-year-old J. Michael Tynan pleaded guilty in November after US Customs agents confiscated his laptop last June 

and found more than 600 pornographic images.The Reverend Michael Billian, a spokesman, says the Toledo 

Diocese has asked the Vatican to remove Tynan from the ministry. The diocese says it has not had any complaints 

about Tynan at that church. 

51) Sleepover host pleads guilty to child porn 


http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11273005.htm 

A sleepover for two 9-year-old girls turned into a nightmare for one of them and led to criminal charges against the 

host.Yesterday, Joseph Vito Secunda, 56, of West Chester, pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including sexual 

abuse of children, possession of child pornography, invasion of privacy, and corruption of minors.Chester County 

Court Judge Phyllis R. Streitel will sentence Secunda in several months, after he is evaluated by the Sexual 

Offenders Assessment Board.Secunda's attorney, Samuel C. Stretton, said he would present evidence that Secunda 

was receiving extensive counseling."My client is changing, and he is truly sorry," Stretton said.Assistant District 

Attorney Kimberly A. Callahan said she planned to seek a sentence of two to six years in prison for Secunda.The 

criminal complaint provides the following account:On Aug. 18, the victim and a friend, also 9, received permission 

from their parents to stay overnight at Secunda's home. 

52) Don't take law into your own hands - Police vigilantes warning after leaflets 

campaign 

United Kingdom - Bedford Today - March 31, 2005 

http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=543&articleid=985830 


Police have issued a stark public warning against vigilante action after leaflets containing child pornography 

allegations were handed out to Luton shoppers.The printed A4 sheets stated a Luton man had walked free from a 

charge of possessing indecent pictures of children because they were found while another offence was being 

investigated.But police have hit out at the claims, which relate to a man found not guilty at Luton Magistrates Court 

on two charges fully investigated by specialist officers. 

53) Ex-teacher pleads guilty to child porn 

USA - Jacksonville Times-Union, TX - March 31, 2005 

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/033105/met_18357085.shtml 

His voice at times barely a whisper, a former sixth-grade teacher in Clay County pleaded guilty Wednesday to 

transporting child pornography over the Internet. They dropped two other counts alleging McIntyre transported and 

possessed child pornography. There was no evidence any of the photographs he sent to an undercover FBI agent or 

had on his computer involved his students, though an FBI agent said McIntyre discussed fantasizing about some of 

his students. He received two years' house arrest and two years' probation. 

54) Images of abuse to tell the tale 


http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-liporn314197235mar31,0,2668363.story 

The federal prosecution of Bruce Wernick began yesterday in a Central Islip courtroom with a list of names. "I 

don't have a list of children to start with," Barket said, referring to the prosecutor's statement. 

55) Amish Farmer Headed for Prison in Child Sex Abuse Case 

USA - ABC27.com, PA - March 31, 2005 

http://www.abc27.com/news/stories/0305/217311.html 

The Press enterprise says 48-year-old Eli Hostetler declined to comment and rushed out of the courthouse to a 

waiting van driven by a friend after entering his pleas Wednesday. 

56) Man Sentenced To Prison In Child Sex Abuse Case 

USA - WGAL-TV8, PA - March 30, 2005 

http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4330601/detail.html 

He and his wife, Patricia Newton, were accused of using a Web cam to photograph Patricia Newton engaging in sex 

acts with the child. 

57) Internet child porn arrests rocket 

United Kingdom - Manchester Evening News - April 1, 2005 

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/153/153212_internet_child_porn_arrests_rocket.html 

Arrests and convictions for internet child porn offences have more than quadrupled in just two years.Figures 

published last month showed 2,234 were cautioned or charged with crimes in England and Wales in 2003, compared 

with 549 in 2001 - a rise of 307%.Children's charity NCH pointed out 2003's figure was 64 times the 35 offences 

recorded in 1998, the year when the legal framework for child pornography was established.NCH internet safety 

adviser John Carr said: "The worry is that they represent not a blip, but a new normality."Many police admit they 

are still only touching the tip of a very ugly iceberg."Between 2002 and 2003, the figure - compiled by the Home 

Office - rose from 870, a year-on-year rise of 157%.The rise is mainly down to the police's Operation Ore, which 

was launched in April 2002 when the US Postal Inspection Service handed over credit card details of 6,500 

Britons.Those on the list had entered a US pay-per-view web "portal", called Landslide, to gain access to about 300 

web sites carrying child abuse images.The original list was whittled down to about 6,000, because of a number who 

had either died or left the UK.So far 3,800 have been arrested and nearly 1,500 convicted, with more still going 

through the courts.RelativesLast April, the National Crime Squad said British police forces had rescued 102 

children - some as young as two - from paedophiles because of Operation Ore.Many had been repeatedly raped by 

their own fathers or other relatives so that sick pictures could be put on the internet.Police have removed children 

from families in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, Belfast, Wales, Essex, Kent, Norfolk, 

Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Devon and Cornwall.Rock legend Pete Townshend is the most high-profile name to 

emerge so far from the Operation Ore list.The Who guitarist was not charged because he had not downloaded any 

pictures, and said he had been researching for a book about child abuse. 

58) Spokane man gets 17 years for porn 

USA - The Fresno Bee,CA - April 1, 2005 

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/10231189p-11043941c.html 


A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a defendant in the international child pornography case that centered on 

Clovis chiropractor Lloyd Alan Emmerson to more than 17 years in prison and scolded him for saying he was not a 

bad man, a thief or a rapist. "What you did is bad, it is wicked and it is evil."Wanger sentenced Tschernetzki, 44, of 

Spokane, Wash., to 210 months in prison, with credit for the 21/2 years he has already been in custody. 

59) Man walks free after porn clampdown 

Australia - Sunday Times - April 2, 2005 

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,12725464%5E2761,00.html 

A TEACHER caught distributing child pornography during a national crackdown on internet pedophilia walked free 

from a Perth court yesterday.Alan John Vella, 24, was told by a judge at Western Australia's District Court he was 

very lucky to be given a suspended prison term after pleading guilty to charges of distributing and possessing child 

pornography. Judge Deane suspended the sentence for two years after taking into consideration the relatively small 

number of images collected and what she said was Vella's low risk of re-offending. 

60) Homosassa man gets 15 years for child molestation 

USA - Citrus County Chronicle, FL - April 1, 2005 

http://www.chronicleonline.com/articles/2005/04/01/news/news40.txt 

He will be subjected to the "Jimmy Ryce Act," a law which allows for a sex offender's involuntary commitment to a 

mental health facility for treatment if a panel of psychologists determine the offender is still a risk to the 

community.Perry must also pay money to a rape crisis fund, and to Crimes Against Minors.While Perry could have 

faced life in prison if convicted, Assistant State Attorney Rich Buxman said the plea deal saved the children the 

trauma of having to testify during a trial.Child porn trial setPhilip Sellers goes to trial May 31, facing 56 counts of 

possessing child pornography.Sellers, 30, of Crystal River, was arrested June 25 after investigators say they found 

92 images of children engaged in sexual activity on compact discs at his home.Investigators say during an interview, 

he admitted to downloading the pictures from the Internet so that he could view them later.Man on trial in shooting 

caseJury selection begins Monday for Daniel Sumners, charged with attempted murder after an early morning 

shooting in November 2003.Sumners, 20, of Lecanto, is accused of shooting Scott Bensing in the stomach and leg 

with a shotgun, following an argument at his sister's home.Though sheriff's investigators say Sumners fled the scene 

after the shooting, he turned himself in later that day.He faces life in prison under the state's 10-20-Life gun law, 

which gives mandatory sentences for possessing a gun, firing a gun or injuring a person with a gun while 

committing a crime.The trial is expected to last two days. 

61) Net groomer jailed for sex abuse 

United Kingdom - BBC News - April 1, 2005 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4401151.stm 

A former child psychiatrist has been jailed for four years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl after grooming 

her on the internet. Last year, Morrell pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child and to meeting a 

child following sexual grooming. Sentencing him on Friday, Judge Merfyn Hughes QC described Morrell as 

posing "a serious risk of causing harm". Struck off Morrell had been considered a leading expert in child 

psychiatry, specialising in sleeping disorders. 

62) Centre to tackle net paedophiles 


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4399183.stm 

A unit to protect children in the UK from internet paedophiles is being set up by the Home Office. About 100 staff, 

including police and child welfare experts will join the Centre for Child Protection on the Internet next April. 

"Online abuse crosses geographical police force boundaries, so it makes sense to tackle the problem at a national 

level " Charles Clarke Home SecretarySpecialists from the telecommunications industry will also work at the centre, 

which will be part of the government's planned FBI-style investigation bureau, the Serious Organised Crime Agency 

(Soca). 

63) Former teacher, coach pleads guilty to child porn charges; faces more 

USA - Daily Press, VA - March 31, 2005 

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--teacherporn0331mar31,0,7718534.story?coll=dp-headlinesvirginia 

He faces a bench trial on those charges Aug. 10, the same day he will be sentenced on the distribution charges. 

Welker also is charged with 40 child-pornography offenses in Stafford. 


64) Cameraman's Child Porn Shame 

United Kingdom - Derbyshire Evening Telegraph - April 01 2005 

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=131596&command=displayContent&sourceNode=1243 

71&contentPK=12145175 

A professional photographer has been jailed for six months after being caught with 12,700 indecent computer 

images of children at his Chaddesden home Simon Hammond (35) claimed he needed the images to restore old 

photographs for his employer, WW Winter, Derby Crown Court heard yesterday.Hammond, of Nairn Avenue, 

Chaddesden, was caught with the images after he subscribed by credit card to an American website called Landslide 

Productions.When U.S. authorities closed down the website in 1999 they passed on Hammond's details, along with 

those of thousands of other subscribers, to UK police.Hammond was convicted at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' 

Court on February 15 this year for 15 offences of making indecent photographs of children and six offences of 

possession of indecent photographs of children.John Wood, prosecuting, told yesterday's hearing that police 

searched Hammond's home in June 2003 and seized two computers and stacks of computer discs."When first 

interviewed he said he had been looking for adult porn and accessed the child porn sites by mistake," said Mr 

Wood."However, when interviewed again by Derbyshire police he admitted he had been downloading child porn for 

a number of years."He said some images were on his computer and others were on discs, the most serious of which 

had been disguised as a wall clock hanging in his house."Hammond told police he viewed the child porn for artistic 

purposes, as he claimed some of the children were in "glamorous" poses.He also said he needed the images to allow 

him to successfully restore old photos by matching faces from a database, Mr Wood said.Olivia Chaffin-Haird, 

mitigating, said Hammond had stored thousands of other images on his computer for work purposes.She said: "Now 

he understands the pictures are inappropriate and that he may have been naive to access this type of site."There is no 

evidence that he distributed these images and he is genuinely apologetic and ashamed of his behaviour."He has the 

full support of his employer and[...] 

65) 'If You Turn Up Dead, No One Will Wonder Why', Says Child Sex Ring 

Victim 

Mexico - Inter Press Service News Agency - March 10, 2005 

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=27817 

These girls, boys and teenagers are offered up as "merchandise" in brothels, photographed nude for Internet 

websites, or forced to perform in live sex shows. That basic human right has been stolen from them by the 

exploiters, pimps and "clients" who fuel the booming business of child prostitution and "kiddie porn". Bente 

Sorensen, coordinator of an International Labour Organisation (ILO) regional project to fight commercial sexual 

exploitation of children and adolescents, and Jos Manuel Capelln, director of the Honduran headquarters of Casa 

Alianza (the Latin American branch of the New York-based Covenant House, a child advocacy organisation), 

described the situation in Central America as "extremely serious". In Honduras alone, between 8,000 and 10,000 

girls and boys are the victims of sexual exploitation, according to a still unpublished Casa Alianza study conducted 

last year in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. 

66) Police amp up sex abuse investigations 

USA - MSNBC News-Journal Online - April 2, 2005 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7363305/ 

Because of the time lapse and fear that remained, he said an arrest was never made.Now 30 years old, the Port 

Orange man continues to have flashbacks.While counselors work with children and adults like Hammons, 

investigators today are dealing with a growing number of child sex-abuse cases in Volusia and Flagler counties over 

the last several years. The State Attorney's Office also recently formed a sexual-assault response team to 

immediately arrive on the scene with law enforcement in some cases. "Every prosecutor feels a special 

responsibility to children."Confirmed child sexual abuse has risen in the past five years, with 345 sexually abusive 

acts, referred to as "maltreatments" by officials, in Volusia and Flagler counties last fiscal year compared to 261 in 

1999-2000, according to reports from the state Department of Children & Families. That's down from last year's 

numbers of 1,023 total cases, including 730 sexual abuse.About 80 percent of those cases have confirmed indicators 

of abuse, officials there said. 

67) Teenager in the clutches of American cult 

South Africa & USA - IOL, SA - April 1, 2005 


A desperate South African couple have lost their 18-year-old daughter to a cult group in the United States that lured 

her via the Internet.Diane McMillan, from Johannesburg, has married the 58-year-old American cult leader - who 


calls himself "Amadon" - in Oregon, and vowed never to return home.Her parents, Karene and Ian McMillan, say 

she met the man, who styled himself as a new age guru, when she turned to the Internet for comfort. She was 15 at 

the time and was drawn to his website. Almost instantly, Diane fell under the influence of "Amadon" - the cult 

leader. Also involved in the "cult" was Amadon's ex-wife, Sara Schorske, who has numerous aliases, the latest 

being Sara Donna.'My family was devastated'Amadon and Sara Donna confirmed the details of their backgrounds in 

an email to Ian McMillan after Diane arrived in the US.The Oregonian newspaper in Oregon has previously 

described Amadon as a "foul-mouthed zealot who psychologically controlled his workers" and who had been 

successfully sued for sexual harassment by two former employees in Santa Rosa, California, in 1996. Within a day 

of arriving in the state of Oregon she secretly married Amadon - a sham marriage to get US citizenship - and 

declared that she is never returning home. The SAPS told the Saturday Star its Child Protection Unit was busy with 

an inquiry into the matter, but "since Diane McMillan is over 18 and all indications are that she left the country out 

of her own free will, there is currently no indication that any crime was committed locally".The McMillans are 

furious that neither US nor South African authorities have assisted them in securing their teenage daughter's safety. 

68) Police say search for online child predators is paying off 

USA - Daily Press, VA - April 1, 2005 

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-dc--childpredators0401apr01,0,4354388.story?coll=dp-headlinesvirginia 

They're regular people by any ordinary measure--a youth minister, an engineer, a security guard. But six people 

arrested and charged as online sexual predators in the past 10 days are part of what police call a nationwide 

explosion of online child exploitation and pornography. The suspects arrived with the expectation of having sex 

with a young girl, he said. If convicted, Barber and suspects with similar charges would be placed on Virginia's 

violent sex offender registry. 

69) 3 men arrested in Internet child sex sting 

USA - Tribune-Review, April 2, 2005 

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_319854.html 

Authorities say two southwestern Pennsylvania men believed they were going to a North Huntingdon Township 

convenience store to rendezvous with a teen they met on the Internet. Bakth and Danhart are free on $50,000 

unsecured bond. Catley is free on $25,000 unsecured bond. As part of their bail conditions, the three are 

prohibited from using computers and were put under the supervision of Westmoreland County officials in pretrial 

services and probation and parole agencies. According to authorities, the three men believed they were arranging a 

meeting for sex with a 13-year-old girl in an America Online chat room. A female member of the attorney general's 

Child Sexual Exploitation Task Force was posing as the teen. The area has had numerous other Internet cases 

involving adults allegedly contacting children for sexual purposes. They include: Last month, Michael Murdoch, 

23, formerly of Spring Run Manor, Crescent Township, Allegheny County, was indicted in federal court on a charge 

of using the Internet to arrange sexual encounters with a 14-year-old. In January, Ian Finlay, 28, a former computer 

security expert at Carnegie Mellon University, was convicted of trying to lure an online acquaintance he believed 

was a 15-year-old girl into a sexual liaison. 

70) Get the message, kids 

Australia - Sydney Morning Herald - April 2, 2005 

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Icon/Get-the-message-kids/2005/03/30/1111862448404.html# 

If you have internet access, and 52 per cent of Australian households do, it's more than likely your children have an 

instant messaging (IM) session open as well.IM and online chat are fast becoming the early 21st-century equivalent 

of email in the 1990s - a pervasive part of our lives at work, home, school and when we are out and about via mobile 

phone.About 10.5 million Australians browse the internet every month, and according to Nielsen/Netratings the No. 

1 IM service, MSN Messenger, reaches 32 per cent of the online community and 60 per cent of online 12-to-17year-olds.For 

parents, the pervasiveness of IM raises the issue of minimising the risks inherent in such services. 

Diligent parents are careful to monitor who their children associate with, but the anonymity of the net makes this 

difficult.Even if you are sitting beside your child, all that can be seen is the messaging window with sender's screen 

name, or "handle", which may bear no relation to the person's real identity. Last year, two separate Queensland 

Crime and Misconduct Commission and police "sting" operations netted two men, aged 23 and 28, who made 

contact in chat rooms with undercover policewomen masquerading as 13-year-old girls.In each case, the man 

engaged the girl in sexually explicit conversation. 

71) How society enables the abuse of kids 

USA - World Net Daily, PR - April 2, 2005 


http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43611 

In the case of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, the crime was committed by a registered sex offender who failed to 

report that he relocated as required by law. Just about the same time this story aired, I saw a segment on "The 

Oprah Winfrey Show" warning of the predator-like nature of child molesters. She was molested by an uncle when 

she was a young girl. Her response to her father and the viewing audience was that no matter what happened, she 

was violated by her uncle and her uncle alone "was responsible." We treat children as though they are capable of 

adult sexual relationships when they are not. Proof can be seen almost any night in prime-time television 

programming, which has the impact of making both victims and predators of our children. Just last week, a local 

prosecutor, told me of one of his cases in which a 14-year-old boy molested his 4-year-old cousin. Yet as a society, 

we promote it and then lash out against those who attempt to shield or protect our children from such abuses. Now, 

sexual predators ironically are being protected through the right of privacy the same grounds used by the Supreme 

Court in 1973 when discovering a constitutional right to abortion. 

72) Despite SC order, Swiss paedophile couple flees India 

India - India Express - April 1, 2005 

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=67597 

The SC was hearing a petition filed by Maharashtras Advocate General asking it to overturn a March 2004 order by 

a Bombay High Court judge which accepted an offer from the couple to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation to each of their 

child victims, street children (9 and 11 years) of South Mumbai, in exchange for being set free. The Martis escape 

marks another controversial chapter since the night of December 16, 2000 when Mumbai police nabbed the couple 

in a suburban hotel room in a nude state with two minor streetgirls, preparing child pornography images. Their 

conviction in March 2003 was considered landmark since they were the only foreigners after Freddy Peats to be 

proven guilty of paedophilia. Within days, however, they seem to have left the country: On November 29, the 

Swiss Embassy wrote to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) saying, the Marti couple has left India and have 

applied to the embassy for travel documents to go to a third country. Instead, it says that in late 2004 the Indian 

Police informed the Swiss embassy that the Martis have left India. 

73) Man sentenced for kiddie porn 

USA - Ironwood Daily Globe, MI - April 1, 2005 

http://www.ironwooddailyglobe.com/contact-mail.html 

John Leroy Morrison, 38, of Wakefield, was sentenced this week in federal court to four years in prison and three 

years supervised release upon discharge for possessing child pornography. 

74) Internet child porn arrests quadruple 

United Kingdom - Telegraph - Aril 1, 2005 

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/01/uporn.xml 

Arrests and sentences for internet child porn crimes quadrupled in two years, according to new figures.Figures 

published last month revealed 2,234 people were warned or charged with crimes in England and Wales in 2003, 

compared with 549 in 2001.NCH, the children's charity, said the 2003 figures were 64 times the 35 crimes recorded 

in 1998, the year the legal framework for dealing with child pornography crimes was set up. 

75) Former Oxford firefighter pleads guilty to molestation charges 

USA - Sun Herald, MS - April 1, 2005 

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/11288679.htm 

A former Oxford firefighter has pleaded guilty to 19 counts of child molestation.Reed Naron, 42, entered the pleas 

Friday to 17 felony counts of touching a child for lustful purposes, one felony count of sexual battery of a child and 

one felony count of child exploitation.Lafayette County Circuit Judge Andrew Howorth deferred sentencing because 

the father of one of the victims could not attend the court proceedings."It is important to the court that the victims be 

present and be heard if they so desire," Howorth said.The 19 counts involve incidents starting in April 2003 and 

ending in February 2004 with five different girls under the age of 16, according to court documents.The district 

attorney's office has recommended 15 years with five years suspended on the touching a child for lustful purposes 

counts, 30 years with 10 years suspended on the sexual battery count and 20 years with five years suspended on the 

child exploitation count. 

76) Must also pay $2,000 fine, costs of investigation 

USA - Aberdeen American News, April 2, 2005 

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/11294695.htm 


An Aberdeen man will spend time in prison as the result of possessing child pornography.Michael G. Otis, 52, was 

sentenced Friday in Brown County Circuit Court.Judge Scott Myren sentenced Otis to 180 days in state prison and 

10 years probation. Otis must also pay a $2,000 fine as well as an undetermined amount to cover the cost of his 

being investigated.The probation period is unusually long. He told Otis that even the slightest violation will mean 

more prison time.Rich Russman, a deputy state's attorney for Brown County, asked that Myren restrict Otis' use of 

computers and/or the Internet as a term of probation. He said the images came from a Web site that contained 

news- and science-related information, but that he consciously decided to download the child porn when he saw it. 

77) Child psychiatrist groomed girl for sex 

United Kingdom - ic Wales - April 2, 2005 

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15359102&method=full&siteid=50082&headline 

=child-psychiatrist-groomed-girl-for-sex-name_page.html 

By October, the girl's parents found out and called the police.Morrell pleaded guilty in December to meeting a child 

following sexual grooming, and two counts of sexual activity with a child.He was sentenced to three years for the 

grooming charge and four years for each of the sexual activity charges. 

78) Suspected pedophile arrested 

Canada - The Question, BC - April 2, 2005 

http://www.squamishchief.com/madison/WQuestion.nsf/0/0B0160B92FAB8A2E88256FD6000EEB11?OpenDocu 

ment 

A 44-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested on the weekend and held in what the Squamish RCMP is calling 

a child pornography case. Colin Worth of the RCMP said Tuesday (March 29) police arrested a man after an 

unidentified father of a 10-year-old girl told police his daughter had contact with the man. The arrest of the suspect 

was made based on information provided by the father, his daughter and two other young girls. The justice of the 

peace formally swore charges at that time and the suspect was ordered to remain in custody until a court appearance 

on Tuesday (March 29). 

79) Peters' paedophile target hits back 

New Zealand - Stuff - April 03 2005 


The man accused by NZ First leader Winston Peters of being a paedophile says he is being crucified for views he 

expressed 20 years ago and now rejects. Jim Peron was accused by Peters of being a paedophile, and of publishing 

the magazine Unbound in the 1980s. Peron denies he published the magazine but has admitted writing an article in 

it which appears to condone "boy lovers". The article, as cited on website GayNZ.com, contrasts the physical abuse 

Peron suffered as a child with the abuse by men on boys. He said his accusers had no evidence to support the 

allegation he had "violated the law" and "done horrible things to children". 

80) Lax Legislation Creates Free Zone for Internet Paedophiles 

Mexico Inter Press Services News Agency - April 2, 2004 

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28132 

More than 4,000 child pornography websites have been uncovered in Mexico over the last five years, but thanks to 

legal loopholes, the perpetrators quite frequently escape punishment. The Spanish police investigation into the ring 

uncovered a total of 900 websites with child pornography content, of which 200 originated in Mexico. We patrol 

the Internet and if we find websites with this form of pornography, we investigate them and block them to keep the 

paedophiles from contacting new victims, one of the directors of the Mexican Public Security Ministry's cyber 

police force told IPS. Often they will pretend they are kids themselves and invite the boys or girls they meet in chat 

rooms to a fictitious party or some other meeting place, where they will lie in wait and abuse them, the cybercrime 

specialist noted. The Mexican Congress is finally taking action to close up the gaps in legislation that organised 

crime rings use to pursue activities like child pornography on the Internet. Criminal groups know that there are no 

laws establishing penalties for these crimes, which generate over 20 million dollars in income annually, according to 

statistics from Mexico's Federal Preventive Police. 

81) State prison guard sentenced for child pornography 

USA - Philadelphia Enquirer, PA - APril 2, 2005 

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/11296149.htm 

He was sentenced to five to 48 months of probation.McQuay was arrested in February 2003 after his estranged wife 

told authorities she found dozens of images of child pornography on a computer he gave their daughter, authorities 

said in court papers.She told police she could not have downloaded the images herself because she didn't have 


Internet access at the time.Following his arrest, McQuay was suspended from his job at State Correctional 

Institution at Greene. 

82) A former Willis veterinarian pleaded guilty to producing more than 70 

images of child pornography. 

USA - The Courier, TX - April 3, 2005 

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14272208&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532215&rfi=6 

Stuart Dallas Hodges, 42, of New Waverly, also pleaded guilty to possessing images of child pornography on his 

computer.Hodges is scheduled for sentencing June 22 before U.S. District Judge David Hittner in Houston. He also 

faces a $250,000 fine and $100 special assessment for each count. The additional charges were dropped as part of 

his plea agreement, court records show.He was indicted last year after an investigation by Montgomery County 

Sheriff's deputies and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents found images of Hodges and two then-7-year-old girls 

in sexually explicit poses.The investigation started after Hodges' estranged wife contacted police on Oct. 20, 2004 

after finding sexually explicit images of Stuart Hodges and a child on a computer at the New Waverly home the two 

shared."Hodges admitted in his plea that he took photographs of then-7-year-old girls in his custody while he was 

naked and placing his genitals on the girl's body and facial areas," Shelby said. 

83) Prostitution horror for young women 

Mexico - Daily News, NY - April 2, 2005 

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/296058p-253464c.html 

Hundreds of young women stand with their backs pressed up against a graffiti-covered concrete wall on a side street 

in Tijuana. Leering men swarm around the girls, some as young as 8, as a chill wind blows across their exposed 

skin, bound tightly inside leather bustiers, miniskirts and schoolgirl uniforms. Before the night is over, the girls of 

"Zona Rosa" - a notorious red-light district just a few blocks from the main tourist drag in this Mexican border town 

- will make as much as $250 each by selling sex. It's cold-blooded sexual slavery - forced prostitution that began 

when they were kidnapped from their small towns in Mexico and Central America and smuggled through a 

dangerous corridor that leads into the United States. "I've been in this business for 30 years - it's much more 

prevalent now than it was then," said federal agent Martin Ficke, who oversees the U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement's New York division. Preying upon uneducated and impressionable girls from poor towns throughout 

Mexico, the family allegedly kidnapped, raped and beat its victims into submission. The family made hundreds of 

thousands of dollars, while its sex slaves, who toiled inside ordinary-looking homes in Queens, earned next to 

nothing, authorities charge. "Tijuana is a good crossing point because it's a prostitution zone," said Marisa Ugarte, 

executive director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, an anti-trafficking group based in San Diego. Still 

other pimps promise to smuggle the impressionable girls into the United States, telling them they can get jobs as 

nannies, cooks and maids - making enough money to support their families back home. These traffickers charge 

the girls as much as $7,500 in illicit crossing fees - but once they get to the United States, the girls are raped and 

forced into prostitution. A ring of traffickers busted last year forced 50 girls to have sex with 300 to 500 men a day 

in a field of reeds just north of San Diego. 

84) Paedophile Glitter To Return To Britain 

Cambodia - ContactMusic, UK - April 4, 2005 

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/paedophile%20glitter%20to%20return%20to%20brit 

ain 

He's British and he wants to come home."As for his planned bash, another source adds, "He wants to meet up for a 

get-together."He knows what people think of him now, and he knows it will upset a lot of people, but he's to take his 

chances back in Britain." 

85) Scouts: A Surprising Plea 

USA - Newsweek - April 11, 2005 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7369511/site/newsweek/ 

It's what Boy Scouts of America teaches its 4.5 million troops in one of the country's strongest programs for 

protecting kids against sexual predators. The operation has netted 5,300 child-porn collectors in the United States 

(including a circus performer named Spanky the Clown) in two years. 

86) Man charged with child porn stemming from Boy Scout case 

USA - Burlington County Times, PA - April 2, 2005 



A man has been arrested on child pornography charges stemming from a case involving a former Boy Scouts of 

America official.Richard Reichert, 64, of Penn Hills, was arrested Friday in a sting by customs agents posing as the 

former scouting official, according to authorities.Douglas Sovereign Smith Jr., 61, the former national director of 

programs for the Boy Scouts in Irving, Texas, pleaded guilty to child pornography on Wednesday and faces five to 

20 years in prison.After Smith was arrested in February, he agreed to cooperate with investigators and help 

authorities nab child pornography traffickers with whom he corresponded.Reichert was one of the men, according to 

prosecutors. 

87) Former Dickinson pleads guilty to child porn charge 

USA - Grand Forks Herald, ND - April 2, 2005 

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/11297341.htm 

A former Dickinson businessman has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of possessing child pornography.David 

William Fisher, 44, pleaded guilty Friday to the charge in U.S. District Court. "I see only a sick, calculating 

sociopath."Fisher previously was president and chief operating officer of Dickinson's Fisher Industries. 

88) Paedophile Freddy Peats dead 

India - The Navhind Times - April 3, 2005 

http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=040320 

He was serving life sentence in the jail.GMC sources informed that Peats had suffered paralytic attack and that he 

died at 5.45 p.m. of various complications including old age.Peats was serving sentence following his conviction in 

paedophile cases. 

89) Disgusted! The ballad of Maidstone jail 

United Kingdom - The Independent - April 3, 2005 

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=625773 

Celebrity culture is bound to produce spin-offs: not only execrable television shows celebrating celebrity, 

newspapers dominated by celebrities and government policy legitimised by celebrities rather than politicians, but 

inevitably the dark side of celebrity - celebrity crime and punishment.We used to have celebrity criminals who 

achieved this status as a result of their criminal activity. King, who discovered in his teens a talent for manipulation 

and self-promotion which could only lead to the music industry, was released from prison last week, paroled after 

serving half of a seven-year sentence for abusing teenage boys. The collision between hyper-ego (King) and metahumbug 

(media) was fascinating to behold.I knew King at university. The release last Tuesday from jail of a 60year-old 

pop person unknown to the present or previous generation of record-buyers provoked a deluge of abuse. 

He pranced exuberantly out of Maidstone prison, a walking, talking cacophony of hype, and was met by dozens of 

reporters and photographers. King was a "ranting sex fiend" and "pervert who has no shame". 

90) Former Oxford Firefighter Pleads Guilty To Molestation Charges 

USA - WPMI-TV, FL - April 1, 2005 

http://www.wpmi.com/news/regional/story.aspx?content_id=39E92ED4-AF4B-4D1A-972F-AE5F6C73E53E 

Reed Naron entered the pleas today to 17 felony counts of touching a child for lustful purposes, one felony count of 

sexual battery of a child and one felony count of child exploitation. 

91) Traffickers in people use many methods in fastest-growing criminal 

enterprise 

USA - The News-Sentinel, IN - April 4, 21005 

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/11306621.htm 

Worldwide, the estimate is 600,000 to 800,000 each year.The sex trade is the most prevalent type of servitude, 

although forced prostitution makes up less than half - about 46 percent - of all major trafficking caught in the United 

States. They may threaten to hurt the victims' families, or scare them with stories about how U.S. police officers 

will imprison or deport them for the slightest insubordination. 

92) SA speaker quits in paedophile MP row 

Australia - The AGe - April 4, 2005 

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking-News/SA-speaker-quits-in-paedophile-MProw/2005/04/04/1112489412023.html# 

South Australian MP Peter Lewis has quit as parliamentary speaker, feeling betrayed by a Labor government which 

he said should be addressing his claim one of the state's sitting MPs was a paedophile.Mr Lewis, the Independent 


who handed government to Labor at the 2002 election with his decisive vote of support, claimed there was a 

network of "organised activity" between a group of high society paedophiles in Australia involving politicians, the 

judiciary and public servants.The Rann government, which had since forged a majority with other independents to 

strengthen its power base, was to have passed a no confidence motion in Mr Lewis as parliament resumed.But Mr 

Lewis, a controversial MP representing a rural seat east of Adelaide, quit and avoided becoming the first SA speaker 

to have been ousted by a no confidence motion since state parliament began in 1857.In a 20-minute address to 

parliament, Mr Lewis defended raising his claims of a serving paedophile MP - allegations now under police 

investigation.Mr Lewis said two gay men, since murdered, had separately told his office of an MP who frequented 

Adelaide's south parklands, a known homosexual haunt.Suggesting the subsequent murders of the men could not be 

dismissed as coincidence, two volunteers who worked from Mr Lewis' office last Friday released statutory 

declarations naming four prominent Adelaide people as paedophiles.Two of those named were police officers, and 

Police Commissioner Mal Hyde said the claims were now being investigated.Mr Lewis told parliament: "There will 

never be a smoking gun ... 

93) Fugitive paedophile 'feared jail' 


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/4409741.stm 

A convicted paedophile who fled to Ireland while on bail has claimed he did so out of fear at the treatment he would 

receive in prison. "He was concerned about the treatment he would receive in prison " Huw Rees QCDefending 

Peachey, Huw Rees QC told the court his client fled because he was petrified of what might happen to him in jail. 

Sentencing Peachey, Judge John Diehl also put him on the sex offenders' register for 10 years and banned him from 

working with children for life. Dyfed-Powys Police officers brought him back to Wales last month, before he was 

sentenced on Monday. Originally from Brighton, Peachey moved to mid Wales about eight years ago, after being 

jailed for burglary. 94) Arrest For Internet Child Pornography 

Greece - Macedonian Press Agency - April 4, 2005 

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=520524 

The Athens police solved another Internet child pornography case in which a 43-year-old owner of a nightclub in 

the island of Myconos is involved.The individual arrested is accused of using child pornographic material on the 

Internet since 2001.According to information, the boys and girls appearing on the photos are between the ages of 5 

and 15 and are Greek. 

95) Study reports on child pornography 

Philippines - Manila Bulletin - April 5, 2005 

http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN2005040632058.html 

These are widespread poverty, the existence of prostitution and sex tourism, general tolerance for pornography, 

ignorance about the effects of pornography on children, availability of advanced communication technology, lack of 

stringent laws against child pornography, and inefficient prosecution of perpetrators.It also mentioned child 

trafficking in many parts of the Philippines, particularly in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, Pampanga, Angeles 

City, and Cebu City. Pedophilia, prostitution, and child pornography have often been reported in the 

areas.Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said that the 

pornography situation in the country is alarming because "Filipinos are not ready to talk about it.""We sort of avoid 

talking about pornography mainly because we do not know enough about it, she said.Bellamy presented the study to 

Soliman after UNICEF found the pornography situation in the country through anecdotes coming from the 

experience of children who were victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation.UNICEF cited the role of digital 

technology in the recruitment of children into prostitution, adding that the growth of information technology, 

especially the Internet and digital communication, has paved the way for child trafficking to proliferate not only in 

the country but also in the world."The Internet is not only a repository for child pornography, it is also a means of 

exchanging pornographic images through e-groups and email, UNICEF said in a press statement.Soliman said that 

urban areas are "very sex-oriented" due to media advertising.She said that the DSWD is addressing the situation by 

giving lectures to the youth, particularly those out-of-school, on topics such as exploitation, teenage pregnancies, 

and Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS). 

96) OPP Charge Kingston Man with Child Pornography 

Canada - Canadian News Wire - April 5, 2005 

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2005/05/c2398.html 

Members of the Ontario Provincial Police, Child Pornography Section (Project "P"), and Electronic Crime Section 

in conjunction with the Kingston Police Service, have charged a 36 year old Kingston man following a child 

pornography investigation.On Monday April 4, 2005, as a result of an ongoing investigation, police executed a 


Criminal Code search warrant on a residence. 

97) Guilty plea entered in federal child pornography case 

USA - The Ardmoreite, OK - APril 5, 2005 

http://ardmoreite.com/stories/040505/loc_0405050007.shtml 

United States Attorney Sheldon J. Sperling announced that on March 31, Franciscus Boerenbeker, aka Frank 

Boerenbeker, 64, of Ardmore entered a plea of guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma 

for the possession of child pornography. The indictment resulted from a citizen complaint regarding child 

pornography that was observed in Boerenbeker's residence. 

98) Lecturer's Child Porn Sentence Halved 

United Kingdom - The Scotsman - April 5, 2005 

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4355601 

A university lecturers 12-month jail sentence for downloading child porn images from the internet was cut to six 

months by the Court of Appeal today.Two judges in London held that the sentence on Dr Christopher Bishop, who 

taught at Liverpool John Moores University, was too severe because only 12 of the 2,482 images found on his 

laptop, home and work computers were categorised as above level one the lowest grade of obscenity.Bishop, 53, 

from Heswall, Merseyside, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court in January to making indecent images of 

children, mainly girls aged from about six to 13 years in erotic poses.Police visited Bishops home after his credit 

card details appeared on Landslide, the US-based paedophilia website which led to Operation Ore in this 

country.Bishop admitted making payments for adult porn, but denied paying for child images, saying he 

downloaded them through a legitimate, members-only news group in which users swap information about any 

topic.The court heard that Bishop, a doctor of philosophy who specialised in electron microscopy, had resigned 

from the university and now worked as a lorry driver.He had an 18-year-old daughter with his first wife, who died 

when the child was two years old. 

99) Spain Cracks Down on Child Porn 

Spain - Islam Online, Qatar - April 5, 2005 

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-04/05/article03.shtml 

Spanish police have launched a nationwide campaign against child porn Web sites, the seventh in three months time 

to crack down on the dark corners of cyberspace.As it tops the worlds list of countries where Internet child 

pornography is widespread, Spain is working in tandem with child rights organizations to protect the younger 

generation from falling prey to child abusers.Early this year, Spanish police smashed an 11-member child porn ring 

and questioned 28 suspects.The past year witnessed one of the largest anti-child porn raid in Spain, which netted up 

to 100 pedophiles in 26 cities.Statistics of Spanish police showed that European countries top the list of countries 

misusing the Web to distribute a plethora of child porn Web sites.The list also includes 15 African countries, 11 

from Asia and 12 from the Americas.Police sources also say there are over 100,000 images of abused children with 

some of the children only two years old.Civil CampaignNGOs and child rights organizations are also on the prowl 

for child pornography, defined by NGOs and federal laws as a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually 

explicit conduct.The civil campaign is primarily aimed at raising the awareness of parents and schoolteachers about 

how to closely monitor their children and regularly check the history of their Web pages.It further recommends 

parents to prevent their children chatting with strangers even if they are children.Papers are full of stories on how 

many children and teenagers were lured into the trap of a man posing as a child or a teenager, who are actually 

nothing but pedophiles.The Spanish Society of Defending Teenagers revealed that 44 percent of children using chat 

rooms were abused by adults, which left them psychologically scarred.It said 11 percent of them were abused more 

than one time.In 2003, Microsofts Internet service, MSN, decided to shut down its MSN chat service in over 25 

countries.The decision was in response to the growing concern about the safety of children who[[...] 

100) Man pleads guilty to child-porn count 

USA - Toledo Blade, OH - April 5, 2005 

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050405/NEWS03/504050412/-1/NEWS 

Strayer was indicted last August by a Wood County grand jury on seven counts of pandering and six counts of 

illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material or performance after agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal 

Identification and Investigation searched his home and found the pictures on his computer. 

101) Convicted Paedophile Peats Dead 

India - rediff.com - April 5, 2005 

http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/05sandesh.htm 


Freddy Peats, the notorious paedophile who was serving a life imprisonment at the Aguada central jail in Goa since 

1996 after being convicted, died at the age of 81.He died at the Goa Medical College Hospital from a paralytic 

attack.The whole country was shocked when Peats' decade-long racket was exposed. 

102) J'lem pedophile gets 16-year sentence 

Israel - Jerusalem Post - April 6, 2005 

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1112754018919 

A 52-year-old Jerusalem pedophile convicted of more than 50 counts of sexual abuse was sentenced Wednesday in 

the Jerusalem district court to sixteen years in jail, in one of the worst child molestation cases in recent history. In 

their ruling, the three justice panel, headed by court vice-president Judge Zvi Segal did not hide their disgust and 

revulsion for the crimes the defendant carried out. 

103) On-the-Run Child Rapist Held in Germany 

Germany - The Scotsman, UK - APril 6, 2005 


A paedophile who went on the run before he could be jailed for raping a nine-year-old girl has been detained in 

Germany, police said today.Benjamin Griffiths, formerly of Aberystwyth, mid-Wales, was convicted of rape and 

indecent assault last December at Chester Crown Court and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in his 

absence.After the former teacher went missing Judge Roger Dutton issued a warrant for his arrest, describing him as 

an intelligent and dangerous character.Today a Dyfed Powys Police spokeswoman said: German authorities have 

contacted us relaying the information that Benjamin Griffiths has been detained and we are liaising with them.The 

court heard last year that 63-year-old Griffiths, who had extreme religious views, had taken advantage of the girl 

following the death of her mother. 

104) Rotorua businessman pleads guilty to child porn charge 

New Zealand - New Zealand Herald - April 6, 2005 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10119043 

The self-employed businessman, who has interim name suppression, was caught in an international sting set up by 

United States authorities. The man, described in Rotorua District Court as an outstanding member of the 

community, is one of more than 40 men who have been arrested throughout New Zealand over recent months as part 

of a nationwide crackdown on internet pornography. The man hung his head when he stood in the dock yesterday 

and pleaded guilty to a representative charge of importing child pornography over a six-month period in 2003. 

105) Jail for man found with child-porn pictures 

United Kingdom - The Welwyn & Hatfield Times - April 06 2005 

http://www.whtimes.co.uk/content/whtimes/news/story.aspx?brand=WHTOnline&category=newshertford&tBrand= 

herts24&tCategory=newswhtimes&itemid=WEED06%20Apr%202005%2011%3A50%3A25%3A703 

Hertford man Stephen Tillcock downloaded 8,500 pornographic photos while on nightshifts as a contracts 

manager.A colleague who had discovered the images on a works computer called the police and Tillcock, 52, was 

arrested at his home in Pearson Avenue. 'Dreadful industry'Judge Geoffrey Burke sentencing Tillcock at St Albans 

Crown Court said downloading these photographs encouraged a "dreadful industry".He said: "The importance of 

this case is the degradation, humiliation and trauma that the taking of these photos creates for the children who are 

the subject. 

106) Sex offender charged with child porn 

USA - The Northwestern, Wi - April 6, 2005 

http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/local/stories/local_20502503.shtml 

A Menasha man convicted of sexually assaulting a child in 1991 could spend the rest of his life in prison if 

convicted on any one of 10 felony child pornography counts. According to the criminal complaint, police began 

investigating Robinson after a 6-year-old girl last year reported that he took nude photos of her. Robinson is being 

charged as a persistent repeater due to the 1991 conviction. Robinson will make an initial appearance on the child 

pornography charges in Judge Robert Hawleys courtroom April 13. 

107) Former administrator sent to prison for child porn 

USA - Todays Inquirer, PA - April 6, 2005 


Describing the child pornography possessed by a former municipal administrator as beyond "vile," a Chester County 

Court judge today sentenced him to spend 111/2 to 23 months in prison.Judge Anthony A. Sarcione said he believed 


incarceration for Gary F. Henderson was needed "for the sake" of the children - some of them infants - depicted in 

the sexually explicit images found on Henderson's computer.The judge rejected a request by defense attorney Joseph 

P. Henderson remained impassive as deputy sheriffs shackled him and led him out of the courtroom."I'm pleased 

with the sentence," said Assistant District Attorney David P. Clark, who had requested a jail term of 18 to 36 

months. "Judge Sarcione recognizes that this is not a victimless crime."Green had argued for probation."There's no 

question that he collected and organized horrific images, but he recognized that," Green said. Dougherty read a 

letter in behalf of 10 of the approximately 40 families who live on Heron Hill Drive, a horseshoe-shaped road in 

Downingtown.Dougherty, who was joined in court by five other neighbors, showed the judge a map that indicated 

where the 57 children on the street live in relation to Henderson. 

108) An Airman was convicted of possessing child pornography during a recent 

court-martial 

USA - i-Newswire – April 6, 2005 

http://i-newswire.com/pr13748.html 

Military judge sentenced Airman 1st Class Axel Acevedo, a 325th Operations Support Squadron air traffic 

controller, to five months confinement, reduction to airman basic and a bad conduct discharge.Airman Acevedo said 

he used an Internet file-sharing program to search for images of young boys, which he then downloaded and burned 

to a CD. 

109) Tougher enforcement of paedophile laws wanted 

New Zealand - NZCity - April 8 2005 

http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=49215 

Internet Safety Group says existing anti-paedophile laws should be enforced more vigorouslyThe Internet Safety 

Group says there is a lot that can be done to stop paedophiles before grooming legislation is invoked.The 

Government has announced it will add an offence of sexual grooming (setting a child up, for sexual activity) to the 

upcoming Crimes Amendment Bill.Internet Safety Group director Liz Butterfield is welcoming the move, but she 

says the existing law could be enforced more vigorously, with measures such as charging people for sending 

obscene messages under the Telecommunications Act.She adds that sending age-restricted or illegal material 

already carries stiff penalties.Paedophiles who groom children for sex will face up to seven years in prison under the 

new law.The bill comes before Parliament in the next few weeks. 

110) Microsoft System Tracks Pedophiles 

Canada - Internetnews.com - April 7, 2005 

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3496066 

In January 2003, a Toronto Police detective sent an e-mail to Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill 

Gates asking for help in the fight against child exploitation. Development of the CETS system began in 2003 and 

involved the Toronto Police Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS) and other global law enforcement bodies. CETS is a Microsoft-developed, securityenhanced 

database that works with existing offender tracking systems in various global jurisdictions to allow 

investigators to tap into the data and make connections that help them more effectively track, locate and ultimately 

arrest offenders. CETS is based on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL, though according to Microsoft Canada 

President David Hemler the system won't force authorities to migrate to Windows and/or other Microsoft products. 

"One of the key design point we had is that we had great collaboration from the department of Homeland Security 

early on in our process up here to give us input into how they could use and how they might use it and how it might 

be applicable in the U.S.," Hemler said. 

111) An admitted sexual predator pleads guilty 

USA - The Star-Ledger, NJ - April 08, 2005 

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1112937185250120.xml 

A Nutley man who has admitted to sexually assaulting nine children, including at least two he videotaped during sex 

acts in the basement of a church, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal pedophilia charges. Kevin Hildreth, 35, 

pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark to crossing state lines to sexually assault a child and to possession of 

child pornography, part of what authorities say was his nearly two decades of preying on young children. The 

Essex County Prosecutor's Office charged Hildreth in October with having sex with five of the boys between 1989 

and 2004, saying in a press release that some of the offenses took place while he was supervising children for 

Wesley United Methodist Church in Belleville. Ken Hall, 47, who lives next door, remembers nothing unusual 

about the family, except that Hildreth was frequently in the company of young boys. The family suspected nothing 

until Nutley police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents came to the home on June 9, 2004, and 


conducted a consensual search of the premises, the suit said. Nutley police told the Union Avenue family that they 

also had discovered videotapes that Hildreth had made of their two older boys engaged in sex acts in 1998 in the 

basement of the church, according to the lawsuit. 

112) Paedophile faces long sentence 

United kingdom - This s London - April 10 2005 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/PA_LONA23325451112968322A0?source= 

Simon Moore, 36, travelled from Hackney to Johnstone to snare the teenager. 

113) Jailed man belonged to pedophile ring 

Australia - The Courier-Mail - April 9, 2005 

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12793539%5E3102,00.html 

A member of a Brisbane-based pedophile ring, who repeatedly molested two boys, was yesterday sentenced to 

seven years' jail when he appeared in the District Court.Leigh William Andrews, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of 

maintaining a sexual relationship with a child under 16 and 13 counts of indecently dealing with a child under 16. 

The court was told Andrews became involved in the pedophile ring through an Internet chat site and was introduced 

to the youngest of the two boys in January 2001 by one of the ringleaders. 

114) Worldwide web closes on child porn pervert 

United Kingdom - Cambridge Evening News - April 8, 2005 

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/huntingdon/2005/04/08/bab1e827-7f33-4ecc-b6ee-e79a646c5753.lpf 

A child porn internet pervert is facing jail after b.coming only the fifth person in Britain to be convicted of having 

filthy images obtained in another country.Peter Swale, 49, was caught by an eagle-eyed manager at an internet 

games arcade who spotted him downloading images of naked children as youngsters sat next to him.Swale, who was 

living at West Street, Huntingdon, before his arrest in June last year, admitted inciting a child in the Philippines 

t.commit gross indecency, five offences of taking indecent images of children in Cambodia in 2001 and one of 

taking indecent images of children in the Philippines between August 2003 and April 2004, when he appeared at 

Ipswich Crown Court.He also admitted possessing a digital camera memory card containing indecent images. 

Swale's arrest sparked a global investigation.Images came from a naturist swimming site based in Mildenhall, but 

the worst came from paedophile haunts in Cambodia and the Philippines when Swale was abroad.Disgraced British 

glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter has been in exile in Cambodia ever since his 1999 conviction for 

downloading child pornography.Det Con Adrian Cassidy, of a specialist online investigation team from Suffolk 

police, said: "This was one of our more interesting and unique cases."We are very, very pleased we have got a 

successful prosecution. 

115) Magistrate Jailed for Downloading Child Porn 

United kingdom - The Scotsman - April 8, 2005 


He was jailed at North Avon Magistrates Court for six months and ordered to register as a sex offender for seven 

years.The court heard he had more than 240 pornographic images and files on his computer or saved on CDs.Botley 

from Withington Close, Bitton, Bristol, paid US 29.95 to access a website.Prosecutor Huw Rogers said police 

officers were given information by colleagues in America as part of Operation Ore and searched Botleys home 

seizing a laptop computer and CDs.Mr Rogers said: These were examined by the hi-tech crime unit who found a 

number of indecent images.There were a total of 234 still images and nine moving images.The court heard two of 

the images fell into the most serious category, involving sadism, with 26 images in the second most serious category 

showing sex between adults and children.Botley resigned as a magistrate in Bristol within days of the police raid, 

the court heard. 

116) Bad day for accused pedophile: lawyer quits; uncle pulls bail 

Canada - Endmonton Sun, AB - April 9, 2005 

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/04/09/pf-989307.html 

A Cambridge pedophile lost both his key supporter and his lawyer during a brief court appearance yesterday. 

Youlten had been released on bail despite a 1989 conviction for sexually abusing two boys in Ohio and new charges 

he approached boys on March 22 in violation of a recognizance order. 

117) Net Trace On Paedophiles 

United Kingdom - The Mirror - April 9 2005 


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=15383008&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=net-trace-onpaedophiles-name_page.html 

Det Sgt Paul Gillespie, from Canada's police sex crimes unit, persuaded Gates to join the battle against child 

porn.He said: "One suspect was arrested after information from Scotland Yard was programmed into the 

system."The data identified a credit card link to an abuser who was taking pictures of children. 

118) 2 more charged over child porn 

Greece - Kathimerini - April 9, 2005 

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100023_09/04/2005_55011 

Officers raided the suspects homes on Thursday and seized a computer hard drive, a laptop computer, five credit 

cards, a large number of CDs and DVDs and a small amount of cannabis. 

119) City man gets 15 years for child pornography 

USA - Baltimore Sun, MD - April 9, 2005 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.porn09apr09,1,6958327.story?coll=bal-local-headlines 

McKenzie pleaded guilty Feb. 11 to transmitting child pornography. According to court papers, McKenzie 

operated a file server from his home computer. On Jan. 21 and Jan. 29 last year, FBI undercover agents signed onto 

the Internet, went into a channel on Internet Relay Chat and gained access to McKenzie's file server. 

120) Marion man sentenced for possession of child pornography 

WOI-TV5 News, IA - APril 9, 2005 

http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3187457 

A 40-year-old Marion man has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography 

and receipt of child pornography.Brion Dodd Johnson was convicted by a jury on November 4th. 

121) MPs investigated over pedophilia 



A Special police task force has been set up to investigate allegations of pedophilia against a South Australian MP, a 

former MP and two police officers.SA Police Commissioner Mal Hyde said the separate allegations were currently 

under investigation by different branches of the police force, but would all be brought together into one 

investigation. SA's parliamentary Speaker Peter Lewis resigned last week, in the wake of a controversy stirred up 

when he went public with claims of a sitting pedophile MP in state parliament. Mr Ratcliffe said he saw the man in 

an Adelaide park last week and realised he was not the Labor politician he had previously identified. 

122) 21-year-old pleads to counts of trading child porn online 

USA - The Advocate, LA - April 9, 2005 

http://2theadvocate.com/stories/041005/new_trading001.shtml 

The parents of a former LSU student sat Friday in federal court in Baton Rouge and watched as their 21-year-old 

son pleaded guilty to trading child pornography online. Perrin attends the University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

now, but won't be able to finish his education there anytime soon, Holthaus said. LSU police and FBI investigators 

caught Perrin in 2003 after receiving a tip from Kentucky State Police. He has been cooperating for the past two 

years in investigations involving crimes in Baton Rouge and in other states, Holthaus said. U.S. Attorney David 

Dugas said the public needs to be aware that child pornography isn't just illegal to make: it's illegal to possess and 

share. "Anyone who comes across it on the Internet should report it." Also, the Internet increasingly has become 

an avenue for crimes, including many affecting the Baton Rouge area, Dugas said. 

123) Sweden asked to extradite suspected paedophile 

Sweden - The Local Sweden's News in English - April 11 2005 

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1262&date=20050411 

Romania's justice ministry said on Monday that it had asked for the extradition of the founder of a semi-religious 

movement suspected of paedophilia who was arrested in Sweden last week.Gabriel Bivolaru, 53, a yoga teacher 

who was arrested in Malm on April 4 on an Interpol warrant, is accused of sexual relations with minors, sexual 

perversion, trafficking of minors and attempted illegal frontier crossing.Bivolaru founded the Movement for 

Spiritual Integration in the Absolute, which claims to have thousands of members in Romania, and includes the 

drinking of urine among its precepts. 


124) Former police officer sentenced on child porn charges 

USA - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, GA - APril 11, 2005 

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0405/11childporn.html 

A former Griffin police officer stood in federal court Friday and asked for help with an Internet porn addiction 

before being sentenced to 57 months for possessing digital sexual images of children."I don't want to minimize what 

I did," David Paul Erdman told Judge Jack T. Camp. 

125) Protecting the most vulnerable 

USA - Des Moines Business Record, IA - April 3, 2005 

http://www.businessrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=40&ArticleID=1783&SubSectionID=75 

Taking that action might quench a thirst for vengeance, but would do little to protect other children from 

pedophiles.With only a few weeks remaining until the legislative session ends, its unlikely any proposal to restore 

capital punishment will go anywhere this year. Such measures are reactionary, but necessary when a child has been 

violated as Jetseta Gage was. Though all children are vulnerable to sexual exploitation, which seemingly has 

reached epidemic proportions, poverty is a great risk factor for almost every destructive condition that might affect a 

child.A key to curbing child abuse of all kinds sexual abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse is found in 

investing in families, beginning at a childs birth. 

126) Disturbing Trend in Child Sex Abuse Offences 

New Zealand - Scoop - April 8 2005 


Disturbing Trend in Child Sex Abuse Offences Today the Department of Internal Affairs advised of the prosecution 

in Palmerston North of David Stuart Hartley found guilty possessing over 4,500 of child pornography images on his 

computer. Under New Zealand law the producing and trading in child pornography was increased in February 

2005 from 12 months to 10 years imprisonment. This means that in a sense every time these images are viewed the 

child is once again violated ECPAT is a not for profit agency set up to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. 

127) Naron to serve 30 years 

USA - The Daily Mississippian, MS - April 08, 2005 

http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/08/42565f334ab5a 

Former Oxford firefighter Carroll Reed Naron, 42, was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in the state penitentiary, 

with 10 of those years suspended, on 19 assorted counts of sexual crimes involving five female minors.Judge 

Andrew Howorth handed down the sentence in Lafayette County Circuit Court at the recommendation of the 

prosecution.For pleading guilty to 17 counts of touching a child for lustful purposes, Naron received 15 years with 

five years suspended.On one count of sexual battery, Naron pleaded guilty and received 30 years with 10 years 

suspended.Naron also pleaded guilty to one count of child exploitation, receiving 20 years with five years 

suspended.Howorth ordered that all of the years be served concurrently.At the recommendation of the prosecution, 

Howorth also ruled that Naron serve five years of post-release probation.During that time he will be prohibited from 

any Internet access.In addition, Naron was ordered to forfeit his computer and all computer equipment, as well as to 

begin paying an ongoing restitution for costs accrued by the victims and their families during the trial period.He was 

also told to refrain from contacting the victims or their families in any way.Narons sentencing occurred after several 

family members of the victims addressed the court about their ordeals.Relatives of the girls tearfully spoke of the 

trials the girls would have to face for the rest of their lives as a result of Narons abuses.You worked your way into a 

position of trust and used it for the gratification of your lust, your victims, five young girls. 

128) Denmark woman charged in teen sex case 

USA - The Green Bay News-Chronicle, WI - April 9, 2005 

http://www.gogreenbay.com/page.html?article=130813 

Wendy Eland, 38, was charged with 10 felonies and two misdemeanors including two counts of child sexual 

exploitation, two counts of child enticement-prostitution, two counts of soliciting a child for prostitution and two 

counts of second degree sexual assault of a child. 

129) Man may be sexual predator after guilty plea on abuse charges 

USA - The Mercury, PA - April 8, 2005 

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14308424&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi 

=6 


Stuart Ackerman, 34, of Freemansburg, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to charges of conspiracy to 

commit sexual abuse of children, indecent assault and indecent exposure in connection with incidents that occurred 

in the spring and summer of 2003. Judge William T. Nicholas deferred sentencing so that probation officials can 

complete a background investigation of Ackerman, who also has to be evaluated by the Pennsylvania Sexual 

Offender Assessment Board to determine if he is a sexually violent predator under Megans Law.Ackerman, a U.S. 

Marine Corps veteran, faces a possible maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison on the charges.Beth Bowers, 

Ackermans co-conspirator, previously admitted that she conspired with Ackerman, whom she met in an Internet 

chat room, to arrange a sexual tryst with him and the 11-year-old girl.Bowers, 32, of the 300 block of West Ridge 

Pike, Limerick, pleaded guilty last month to charges of conspiracy to exploit a child, indecent assault, sexual 

exploitation of a child, sexual abuse of a child, unlawful contact with a child, corruption of a minor, indecent 

exposure and endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the incidents. In this case, he found the perfect 

partner for that, Beth Bowers," said Assistant District Attorney Samantha Cauffman, referring to Ackerman. 

130) Shipments of children, a darkly growing trade 

Philippines - International Herald Tribune, France - April 9, 2005 

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/08/news/phils.html 

I don't know what would happen to me," said Julia, who spoke on the condition that her real name not be used.Julia 

was 17 when a man approached her on the street in General Santos, a city in the southern Philippines, and offered 

her a job as a housemaid in Manila. All the man asked of Julia was that she lie about her age and leave that same 

night.Together with four other teenage girls, Julia boarded a passenger ship bound for Manila last November, one of 

the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Filipino children being trafficked to Manila every day, most of them ending up in 

prostitution dens or in warehouses and factories where they are treated virtually as slaves.It is a modus operandi that 

is being repeated all over the country, particularly in the poorest areas. As a result, the Philippines is now one of 

the hot spots in Southeast Asia for trafficking in persons, especially children, which generates approximately $10 

billion a year worldwide, according to Unicef, the UN agency that works to protect children.According to Unicef, a 

"good proportion" of the estimated 60,000 to 100,000 exploited children in the Philippines have been trafficked. A 

decade ago, a national survey determined that a quarter-million Filipino children were working and living away 

from their homes.While most trafficking is done domestically, many of the Filipino victims end up as prostitutes in 

Japan, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Europe. 

131) Teacher jailed in child porn case 

United Kingdom - The Journal Newcastle - April 6, 2005 

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/thejournal/tm_objectid=15371026&method=full&siteid=50081&headl 

ine=teacher-jailed-in-child-porn-case-name_page.html 

A music teacher was behind bars last night after a court heard how he had collected more than 6,400 indecent 

images of children at his home.Northumberland piano tutor Michael Barton, 55, was sentenced to four months in 

prison by magistrates after they were told how police officers discovered the huge hoard of photographs - and 44 

pornographic movies - on his home computer and computer discs.The material, which he had downloaded from 

internet sites over two years, included boys as young as 14 engaged in various sexual activities and erotic 

poses.Yesterday Barton, of Sylvan Close, Morpeth, was led from Bedlington court in handcuffs to begin his jail 

term after magistrates said the seriousness of the offences meant only a custodial sentence was appropriate.Barton 

was secretary of the respected Morpeth Music Society - which has just celebrated its 60th anniversary - but is said to 

have resigned as a result of the offences.The court was also told that as a piano tutor he worked with private pupils 

ranging in age from seven to 60 but had immediately given up music teaching after being arrested by police.As well 

as the prison sentence, Barton was made the subject of a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order, which 

severely restricts his ability to associate with anyone under the age of 18.Yesterday he pleaded guilty to six offences 

of making or possessing indecent photographs of children over a period from May 2002 to May last year.Cuthbert 

Reagan, prosecuting, said Barton was arrested as a result of joint operations by law enforcement agencies in the 

USA and the UK National Crime Squad which targeted users of websites containing obscene images of children. 

Investigations by Northumbria Police traced a number of transactions to Barton's Morpeth home where a credit card 

had been used to pay for viewing internet sites.A search of the house, where Barton lives with an 80-year-old man, 

uncovered the indecent images and movies on his computer hard drive and CDs. 

132) Child prostitution on rise in border town 

Mexico - The Washington Times, DC - April 4, 2005 

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050404-034844-6809r.htm 

Child prostitution in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Tijuana is a growing problem receiving little government 

attention, El Universal reported Monday. 


133) Child exploitation growing 

Philippine - Malaya News - April 6, 2005 

http://www.malaya.com.ph/apr06/news4.htm 

AN estimated 60,000 to 100,000 Filipino children are exploited in the sex trade, forced to work in unsanitary 

conditions or are directly involved in the armed conflict between government and various rebel groups in Mindanao, 

a study commissioned by the United Nations Children's Fund said.The study, conducted by professors at the 

University of the Philippines Center for Integrative Development Studies (UP-CIDS), said an undetermined number 

of poor children are being exploited through child pornography perpetrated by foreigners and locals.The Unicef said 

heightened armed conflict in Mindanao has made the region one of the hotspots in human trafficking, with children 

being smuggled out to Malaysia, among other neighbors.The report, "Combating Child Trafficking," the first to be 

conducted in Asia, said children who want to help their families, gain material wealth and improve their physical 

appearance are lured to big cities or to Japan as entertainers."Among the main causes of child trafficking in the 

Philippines are poverty, low economic development in communities of origin, gender inequalities, limited 

employment opportunities, existence of and access to public infrastructure, large family sizes, inadequate awareness 

among families, and sex tourism," the report said.Dr. Nicholas Alipui, country representative of Unicef 

Philippines, said the agency commissioned the study because of persistent reports of widespread child exploitation 

in the country.The Philippines, he said, is also advertised in the Internet as a sex haven where young girls and boys 

can be had cheaply.Unicef executive director Carol Bellamy, who is in town for the 112th Inter-Parliamentary 

Union meeting at the Philippine International Convention Center, told the IPU general assembly that child 

trafficking worldwide has become a $10 billion a year industry.She said the UN study found extensive evidence of 

child pornography in the Philippines, particularly in tourist destinations like Pagsanjan in Laguna, Angeles City, 

Baguio City and Puerto Galera in Mindoro.Bellamy said the Philippines is among the few countries that are making 

a dent in the fight against the trafficking of women and children.But she challenged lawmakers to enact stricter and 

more comprehensive laws against child exploitation and to strengthen law enforcement capability.The Philippines 

passed the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act in 2003 which provides for the establishment of the National Inter- 

Agency Council Against Trafficking in Persons, the lead agency that coordinates the work of similar councils now 

being established at the provincial and city levels."This is not going to be easy," Bellamy said. The first choice 

virtually guarantees strong national development; the second choice virtually guarantees the continuation of 

poverty," Bellamy said."Parliamentarians are very powerful. 

adult predators because aside from Central Luzon, the national capital region and Calabarzon, most of the reported 

cases took place in the poorest areas of the county like Eastern Samar, Mindanao and the Bicol region. - 

134) Prostitute at only 11 

United Kingdom - The Evening Chronicle - April 5, 2005 

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/eveningchronicle/tm_objectid=15368726%26method=full%26s 

iteid=50081%26headline=prostitute%2dat%2donly%2d11-name_page.html 

The information we get from services in Newcastle who work with these young people tell us that."Barnardo's 

commissioned research from 120 services working with children in Newcastle, asking about any young people they 

knew of who were involved in prostitution.About half of these agencies have now responded, identifying 147 young 

people in the city.Eleven of the organisations say they are working with children who are definitely being exploited, 

with one service having a client involved since the age of 11.Detective Superintendent Mike Jones from 

Northumbria Police said: "This is child abuse, pure and simple, and should not be viewed as anything else."It is too 

early to say how much of a problem we have in Newcastle but the continued efforts to identify those at risk of 

exploitation are to be welcomed."We must remember that paying for the sexual services of someone under the age 

of 18 is a serious criminal offence, with the punishment liable to be a lengthy prison sentence."Workers say much of 

the abuse remains hidden and many victims are reluctant to come forward, perhaps not even realising they are being 

victimised.Mr Davies added: "There could be a variety of reasons for this - shame, fear and guilt among them. 

135) Time for us to act 


http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/eveningchronicle/tm_objectid=15368799&method=full&siteid 

=50081&headline=time-for-us-to-act-name_page.html 

Shock and revulsion are the reactions to two reports on child abuse out today.In one we are told children as young as 

11 are being exploited through prostitution in the city.In the other, the number of children in Newcastle at risk of 

abuse and neglect is revealed to be double the national average.The problems are there for all to see; the solutions 

are not so clear.In the case of child prostitution in the city, agencies have identified 121 children as being at 

significant risk of being dragged into this seedy underworld.As a priority these vulnerable youngsters need to be 

protected.The police have vowed to come down hard on anyone using child prostitutes but they should come down 


harder on those who put these youngsters on to the streets. 

136) 6 months, and abused kids dont have a lawyer 

India - The Indian Express - April 9, 2005 


It has been six months yet Maharashtra has not managed to find a public prosecutor to represent four abused 

children in a fast-track court.The alleged abusers are Duncan Grant (61) and Allan Waters (57), former British 

Royal Navy sailors, both of whom worked at the Anchorage Shelter in Colaba.On Friday, the the Sewri sessions 

court judge R Bhandurge wrote to the Law and Judiciary Department over its persistent failure to find a special 

prosecutor in what is now called the Anchorage Shelter child-abuse case. Grant was arrested in Tanzania last year 

after a report by a Tanzanian paper and The Indian Express alerted the Tanzanian police to his presence at a 

childrens home there. Now, private lawyer J Madan has been approached: he has not yet told the court if hes 

available. 

137) Man gets two years in child-sex plea 

USA - The Eagle, TX - April 9, 2005 

http://www.theeagle.com/region/localregional/040905davis.php 

A 19-year-old who took explicit photos of his 15-year-old girlfriend was sentenced to two years in prison Friday 

after pleading guilty to sexual assault of a child and child pornography charges. 

138) Former counselor sentenced to five years in prison 



Eric Dorfner, 42, of Wagon Wheel Court in Evesham pleaded guilty in December to two counts of endangering the 

welfare of a child. Both victims, now adults, told Smith yesterday their lives have been irrevocably changed by the 

assaults They said they have experienced nightmares, taken illegal drugs and had to undergo counseling. He must 

submit a DNA sample for inclusion in a database of sex offenders. 

139) Former asst. scoutmaster admits fondling 7-year-old boy 

USA - Newsday - April 8, 2005 

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--sexabuse-plea0408apr08,0,5539703.story 

Hildreth, 35, still faces charges that he molested about a half-dozen boys from 1989 to 2004 in two Essex County 

towns. Hildreth committed the acts while supervising children at the Wesley Methodist Church in Belleville, where 

he was a volunteer and assistant scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 301 at the church until about five and a half years 

ago, the prosecutor's office said. 

140) Software Tracks Child Porn Sales 

Canada - Zwire National News - April 08, 2005 

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14314276&;BRD=1918&;PAG=740&;dept_id=226964&;rfi=6 

A personal plea from a frustrated Toronto sex-crimes investigator to Microsoft founder Bill Gates led to the launch 

Wednesday of an initiative to help law enforcement agents worldwide hunt down traffickers of child porn on the 

Internet. The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) was developed by Microsoft Canada, the Royal 

Canadian Mounted Police and the Toronto Police Service, with the help of global law enforcement experts, 

including officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Scotland Yard and Interpol. In what Microsoft 

describes as the first software designed specifically to capture pornographers who prey on children and sell their 

images via the Internet, the system will allow police to share and track information on investigations and suspects. 

"When we pulled up all three, it gave us the ability to physically identify somebody and grounds for an arrest 

warrant," Gillespie said. 

141) Jail for collector with more than 4,500 child sex abuse images, case 

highlights trend in such offending 

New Zealand - Department of Internal Affairs - April 8, 2005 

http://www.dia.govt.nz/web/press.nsf/d77da9b523f12931cc256ac5000d19b6/ffe783b47c2c9737cc256fdd0016a318! 

OpenDocument 

The Palmerston North District Court today sentenced a Palmerston North man, David Stuart Hartley, to 10 months 

jail on a total of 21 charges of collecting and distributing electronic pictures and movies of children being sexually 

abused. Judge Gregory Ross lifted a name suppression order and ordered forfeiture and destruction of Hartleys 


computer system and computer disks. The Director of the Department of Internal Affairs Gaming and Censorship 

Regulation Group, Keith Manch, said that Hartley had amassed a collection of more than 4,500 pictures and movies 

of child sexual abuse. Mr Manch said that Hartleys offending illustrated the trend in such offending. While the 

statistics we have do not show that more New Zealanders are offending, the evidence we gather shows a tragic 

change in the images. This case began in July 2003 when a Canadian organisation detected a New Zealander 

offering to distribute child sex abuse images on the Internet. He was using what is known as a peer-to-peer 

application. 

142) Online threats to kids hunted - Buffalo FBI agents set traps, making sex 

predators their prey 

USA - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - April 11, 2005 

http://www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050411/NEWS01/504110325 

FBI Special Agent Steven Forrest has entered an online chat room, "I Love Older Men," while posing as 14-year-old 

Carly. Within seconds, the instant messages begin flashing on Forrest's computer screen. Forrest bounds back and 

forth between conversations with the proficiency of, well, a teenage girl. Assuming they're being honest about their 

gender, the men communicating with Forrest have no idea that Carly is a male FBI agent sitting behind a computer 

screen in a long, narrow room at Buffalo's FBI headquarters. "If we had 100 (agents) working online crimes 

against children, they'd all be busy," said FBI Special Agent Holly Hubert, who heads the Buffalo office's Cyber 

Task Force. Travelers and tradersOn a recent weekday morning, Forrest posed as Carly to demonstrate just how 

quickly he'd be approached while online. The chat room itself is not illicit; there may, in fact, be adult women in it, 

hoping to connect with men, Forrest says. On one wall are individual photos of men arrested for child pornography 

or sexual exploitation, as well as photos of some of the materials found in their homes, including an inflatable 

female doll. Last week, federal authorities arrested a Gates man, 20-year-old Richard Petix, who they allege 

communicated online with an FBI special agent working out of Buffalo. The FBI special agents are adept at 

weeding out the talkers or those who simply chat with youths but likely won't commit a crime from the travelers. 

143) Man faces 30 years for sex with girl 

USA - Monterey Herald, CA - April 12, 2005 

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11373652.htm 

A convicted pedophile pleaded guilty Monday to traveling to Reno, Nev., to engage in sex with a 14-year-old girl he 

met through a telephone chat service.Michael Stephen Dahl, 49, of Sacramento, already was on federal probation for 

a July 2000 conviction in south Texas for a similar conviction of traveling with intent to engage in a sexual act with 

a juvenile. 

144) Does viewing child pornography leads to further crime? Experts disagree 

USA - WWL-TV4, LA - April 9, 2005 

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/040905ccjrwwlchildpornography.1c1b12bf7.html 

One day after a former LSU student was arrested for keeping thousands of pictures of child pornography on his 

home computer, experts say it's very difficult to see warning signs of pedophilia. "When it comes to sexual 

behavior in human beings, all bets are off," said Jill Hammer, a forensic psychologist at LSU's Health Sciences 

Center. Pedophiles, who abduct, molest and even murder children, will feel sorry after being arrested - but sorry 

for themselves, not their victims, she said. University of New Orleans criminologist Peter Scharf works with the 

FBI and other law enforcement agencies tracking cybercrime through the Gulf Coast Forensic Lab. The Internet 

has provided a global distribution system which brought a significant increase in child pornography cases, Scharf 

said. "Monitor what your children are watching on television, monitor what they are viewing on the computer and 

monitor who they are hanging out with," Hammer said. 

145) Woman Sentenced For Sex With Baby 

USA - KCCI-TV8, IA - April 8, 2005 

http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/4362042/detail.html 

Some charges against Brown were dropped in exchange for her testimony against her boyfriend. 

146) Man sentenced to prison in child porn case 


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--childpornographer0411apr11,0,570569.story 

Thomas Pidel, 40, of Pine Hill in the town of Shandaken, was also ordered to have no unsupervised contact with 

minors, undergo a mental health evaluation and register as a sex offender, according to U.S. Attorney Glenn 

Suddaby. Jack McQuade, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in charge in Albany, said Pidel also 


faces criminal charges in Ulster County Court for abusing the boy. 

147) Former detective gets 18 years in child porn case 

USA - WBIR-TV, TN - April 12, 2005 

http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=24833&provider=rss 

James Hobart Irwin Junior was given an 18 year federal prison term after earlier admitting he sent an undercover 

police officer child pornography. 

148) Man jailed over WA's largest collection of child porn 

Australia - ABC News Online - April 12, 2005 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1343861.htm 

A 37-year-old Perth man has been sentenced to three years' jail for possessing what has been described as the 

Western Australia's largest collection of child pornography.Raymond John Belcher pleaded guilty to possessing 

more than 350,000 images and more than 6,400 short movies and videos of child pornography.Belcher was one of 

thousands of men arrested across Australia in a crackdown on child pornography on the Internet last year code 

named Operation Auxin.The images found on Belcher's computer included children being abused and his lawyer 

told the court that looking for child pornography had become a habit for him.District Court Judge Hal Jackson 

sentenced Belcher to three years' jail.He will have to serve at least half before he can be considered for parole. 

149) The two-edged sword: Legal computer forensics and open source 

Canada - New Forge, CA - April 13, 2005 

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/05/2052235&from=rss 

Ryan Purita of Totally Connected Security is one of the leading computer forensic experts in private practice in 

Canada. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, holding one of the most advanced security 

qualifications in the world. Working for both the prosecution and the defence in legal cases, Purita has also taught 

computer security to law enforcement agencies, probation officers and social workers, and is currently developing 

programs for the Justice Institute of British Columbia. His work methods offer fresh perspectives on security, 

privacy issues and the relative merits of Windows and GNU/Linux -- to say nothing of a niche industry where open 

source is more than holding its own."Computer forensics" is a term that is usually applied to an investigation after a 

system has been cracked. Moreover, the precedence for accepting their evidence in court is well established 

although, increasingly, their open source equivalents are not far behind. According to Purita, the most widely used 

piece of forensic software is EnCase, a proprietary Windows program. Purita describes Encase as "the most courtvalidated 

software on earth," noting that evidence produced by Encase has been used over 2700 times in court. 

Conducting an Investigation No matter what forensic software is used, an investigation comes down to a series of 

searches through the files and wiped space for evidence. Some forensic programs, such as EnCase, come with a 

wide variety of file-type searches already defined by extensions. Law enforcers who become forensic computer 

experts often jump to private industry, where their knowledge receives greater financial rewards. 

150) Plea reached in child pornography case - Photos found in man's locker at 

work 

USA - Daily News Journal, TN - April 13, 2005 

http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050413/NEWS01/504130317/1002 

Sixteen years of probation were granted Tuesday for a Nissan employee who stored child pornography in his work 

locker, Circuit Court records stated. Lytle pleaded guilty to six counts of aggravated exploitation of a minor. Todd 

Spearman was called to Nissan in 2003 by security officers who apparently found child pornography in Lytle's 

locker. Assistant District Attorney Laural Nutt and defense attorney Carla Ford negotiated a plea agreement for 

Lytle who does not have a prior criminal record. 

151) Don't blame Internet for sex predators 


http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opfag044215533apr13,0,977210.story 

Not long ago, tales of innocent children falling victim to sexual predators who had lured them into strange cars were 

heard regularly. Whether such incidents actually occurred regularly was irrelevant; to parents, the risk to their 

children's safety was real and needed to be addressed.Amazingly, I don't recall people saying the solution to the 

problem was to get rid of cars. Rather, I remember parents taking great care to teach their children basic safety 

rules about talking to strangers, about not getting into strange cars - and about what to do if someone asked them to 

do just that.I thought about this after hearing of Stephanie Caruso, the 16-year-old Long Islander who disappeared in 

February with a registered sex offender she met via the Internet. Considering that one of every five children 


already has received an online sexual solicitation, parents should pay attention to the paths their children take in 

cyberspace.But then Stephanie's parents said one of the first things they'd do upon their daughter's return home was 

throw out their computer - a stance many other parents doubtlessly applauded. 

152) Prominent Sun Valley doctor pleads guilty in child-pornography case 

USA - KTVB-TV7, ID - April 12, 2005 

http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-apr1205-richard_davis.1cf921626.html 

Richard Davis (pictured in Feb. 2002) has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.After pleading guilty 

yesterday, Richard Dennis Davis faces up to ten years behind bars. Davis was arrested in January near the Sun 

Valley post office with a Danish child porn magazine and a video entitled "Lesbian Lolita." 

153) Soldier Arrested in Child-Pornography Case 

Canada - Canadian News Wire Service - April 12, 2005 


A Quebec City-based soldier has been arrested in relation to accessing and possessing child pornography after an 

investigation by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (NIS). 

154) Virginia Beach Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges 

USA - WAVY-TV10, VA - April 12, 2005 

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3200214&nav=23iiYZld 

A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty Tuesday to more than two dozen obscenity charges involving three 

minors.Authorities say the arrest of 28-year old Nathan A. Wilson last December was the result of an online child 

pornography investigation started by federal agents in 2002.Officials say Wilson was taking pornographic pictures 

of females ages five, seven, and nine and placing those images on his computer. 

155) Convicted pedophile pleads guilty to child sex charges 

USA - KRNV-TV4, NV - April 13, 2005 - April 13, 2005 

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3198581&nav=8faOYYwU 

Forty-nine year old Michael Stephen Dahl of Sacramento already was on federal probation for a July 2000 

conviction in south Texas for a similar conviction. 

156) Girl Testifies in France Pedophilia Trial 

France - Newsday, USA - April 12, 2005 

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-france-pedophilia-trial,0,538526.story?coll=sns-apworld-headlines 

A girl whose parents and grandfather are among 66 adults accused in France's biggest pedophilia case in recent 

memory described in testimony Tuesday how games of "doctor" turned into a sexual ordeal. In Tuesday's 

proceedings, a young girl named Marine, at times rocking nervously or sucking her thumb, was shown telling police 

or investigators that she had been involved in games of "doctor" that had turned sexual, or pointing to pictures of 

suspects in a photo album. Asked to respond to the testimony after the videotape was stopped, all but two of the 

defendants denied the accusations. Before the girl's account was shown, defense lawyers argued that the court had 

excerpted portions of the taped testimony, and demanded that it be shown in full. 

157) Paedophile Warning Rejected 

Indonesia & Australia - SBS World News - April 12, 2005 

http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=109334&region=7 

Australias Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is defending his decision not to warn travellers about the risks of 

Indonesian child care following two cases of child sex abuse. After being told about the alleged abuse by the 

families, Justice Minister Chris Ellison requested Mr Downer issue new travel advisories warning of the danger. 

It's simply impossible for Australian officials to check out every childcare centre in the world and draw up a 

massive list of the standards that they meet or don't meet, Mr Downer said. 

158) IT expert jailed over child porn 

Australia - news.com.au - April 13, 2005 

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12841255-2,00.html 

A Recently married IT expert caught with what is thought to be Australia's biggest child pornography collection was 

sentenced to three years' jail yesterday.Raymond John Belcher, 37, was among hundreds of Australian men arrested 


last year in the nation's biggest child pornography sting, Operation Auxin. Police who raided his home in the 

northern Perth suburb of Woodvale last September found more than 350,000 pornographic images and more than 

6400 videos of girls aged between 12 and 14, the Perth District Court was told. Defence lawyer Michael Tudori 

said Belcher was extremely remorseful and wanted help. As his marriage failed, Belcher had begun perusing adult 

internet sites and had found the child pornography site, Mr Tudori said. 

159) Former Jefferson Co. detective gets 18 years in child porn case 

USA - WHNT-TV19, TN - April 13, 2005 

http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=3197396 

State and federal courts have sentenced a former Jefferson County sheriff's detective in child sex cases.James 

Hobart Irwin Junior was given an 18-year federal prison term after earlier admitting he sent an undercover police 

officer child pornography. 

160) In saving child-porn victims, a picture can speak volumes 


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liporn0414,0,1578807.story?coll=ny-top-headlines 

The school logo on the young girl's T-shirt had been intentionally obscured.But on her orange wristband, 

investigators made out the name of an amusement park chain -- the first in a series of unlikely clues that led them to 

the 6-year-old girl featured in one of the most violent child porn photo collections online, and to the North Carolina 

man who abused her.That man, Brian Schellenberger, 42, pleaded guilty in January to exploitation of children and 

child porn charges, and is awaiting sentencing. Furniture, bedspreads and clothing can suggest geographic region, 

Rodriguez said.Still, untangling riddles from undated photos is difficult and most cases go unsolved. Once online, 

the images are viewed by people the world over, but seldom by anyone who might recognize the child.As the 

volume of online child porn has increased, images have become more violent -- "hurt-core" is the newest sub-genre 

-- and victims have gotten younger, said Austin Berglas, of the FBI's Crimes Against Children unit."The demand 

has become so great, people have become bored with the normal child rape photo," Berglas said.Two years ago, 

detectives in Toronto digitally erased a young girl seen lying on a bed inside a hotel, painted over the space where 

her body had been and released the picture to the public.Within a half hour, Gillespie said, a caller told investigators 

that the hotel was located near Walt Disney World in Florida. 

161) Combat child porn on Net, urges expert 

Switzerland - The Hindu, India - April 14, 2005 

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200504140332.htm 

Governments must do more to combat Internet child pornography, which is flourishing in many countries within a 

legal vacuum that fails to address the threat, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday. Many countries have yet 

to pass laws making the distribution and possession of such material illegal, according to Juan Miguel Petit, the UN 

special investigator on child prostitution and pornography. 

162) Province funding fight against child porn 

Canada - Northern Life, ON - April 12, 2005 

http://www.northernlife.ca/localGovArticle.asp?25id10-pn=&view=85733 

The provincial government and police organizations across Canada are determined to halt child pornography.Police 

Chief Ian Davidson told the Greater Sudbury Police Services Board Monday night the province has committed $5 

million to police organizations to upgrade equipment and provide specialized training for officers to try to eradicate 

the problem.Davidson has been appointed as a member of a special provincial committee mandated to try and find 

ways to reduce this growing problem.The local police service has every intention of accessing this new fund with a 

goal of having one officer work full-time on the issues surrounding child pornography, said Davidson.The police 

service is hoping to access funding in the neighbourhood of $200,000 to $300,000 to purchase the sophisticated 

computer equipment needed and to provide the specialized training required.When police seize a computer hard 

drive with expected images of child pornography, the hard drive has to be analyzed at OPP headquarters in 

Orillia.This is a very worthwhile project and we will be taking full advantage of funding made available by the 

province, he said.Because almost every home has a computer and the popularity of the Internet, catching 

perpetrators involved in making, distributing and promoting child pornography remains extremely difficult for 

police authorities, said Davidson.The local police service currently has one officer designated to cybercrime, 

including trying to catch those involved in child pornography, but that job is often fruitless with the current 

technology and training available, he said.Purchasing sophisticated hardware and offering specialized training has 

proven extremely successful in other jurisdictions and would do the same here in Greater Sudbury, he said.Many 

people dont want to believe it, but the increase in this most abhorrent of crimes has only increased despite the efforts 


of police agencies and tougher sentences handed down by the courts, said Davidson.The lives of innocent children 

are[[...] 

163) Ex-Danville man to serve 15 years for child porn 

USA - Indianapolis Star,IN - April 13, 2005 

http://www2.indystar.com/articles/7/236456-2897-009.html 

Justice pleaded guilty Feb. 10 to advertising, transporting, receiving and possessing child pornography.Investigators 

arrested Justice at his brother's home last October in Bossier City, La. 

164) 5,000 paedophiles to be listed on WA register 



Western Australian police expect more than 5,000 convicted sex offenders will be on a state register by the end of 

the year.New legislation requires all paedophiles released from prison from February 1 to inform police if they 

change jobs, move house or start having contact with children.Some could be monitored by police on a weekly 

basis.There are currently 140 paedophiles are on the WA register but that is expected to significantly increase in 

July when child sex offenders released in the last eight years will be included.The child abuse unit's Detective 

Senior Sergeant Martin Voyez says the register will then be extended to all sex offenders."Those sex offenders who 

have committed offences against adults as well as children," he said."Those could number up to 5,000. 

165) Man admits huge child porn haul 

United Kingdom - BBC News - APril 14, 2005 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4445871.stm 

A man has admitted two charges relating to computer porn described by a child protection expert as the worst 

paedophile material he had ever seen. The High Court in Glasgow heard that more than 80,000 images were found 

on hard disc and CDs in a raid on the Glasgow home of David Duncan, 45. Duncan, now of The Kyles, Kirkcaldy, 

Fife, was also found with almost 40,000 still and moving images of a teenage girl taken with a secret camera as she 

showered in the privacy of her bathroom. 

166) Man gets prison time in child porn case 

USA - Janesville Gazette, WI - April 14, 2005 

http://www.gazetteextra.com/hicks041405.asp 

The incident happened while Hicks was out on bond on the child pornography case. 

167) Teacher Admits Downloading Child Porn 



A computer teacher today admitted downloading more than 100 images of child pornography.Paul Whitfield, 35, is 

currently suspended from his post as head of IT at Churchdown Comprehensive School in 

Gloucestershire.Whitfield, of The Fleet, Stockton on Tees, pleaded guilty to 16 offences of making indecent images 

and one of possessing indecent images of children.Prosecutor Peter Ashby said the offences came to light when a 

family with which Whitfield was staying became suspicious of his computer use.Cheltenham Magistrates Court said 

the police were called in and investigated the contents of various computers used by Whitfield, including, a schoolissued 

laptop.Mr Ashby said they found a total of 103 images of under-aged girls.He said: It is a matter of some 

concern because of the particular employment of this defendant and his proclivities with regard to the pictures of 

children.The majority of the pictures relate to 12-year-old girls in various forms of undress. 

168) OPP Charge Simcoe Man with Child Pornography 



Members of the Ontario Provincial Police Child Pornography Section (Project "P"), the OPP Electronic Crime 

Section, in conjunction with members of the Norfolk County Ontario Provincial Police Crime management unit, 

have arrested and charged a 43 year old Simcoe-area male following a Child Pornography investigation.On 

Wednesday April 13, 2005, following a four-month investigation, a search warrant was executed at M. LUDWIG 

and Sons Limited in Simcoe, Ontario. 

169) 25-year-old gets 2 years for child porn conviction 


USA - The Lufkin Daily News, TX - April 14, 2005 

http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/04/14/20050414LDNporn.html;COXnetJSessionI 

Dbuild71=Cf2SwxH9qt8yrmXF236eW2CXumsWyzWjT8vs1q3cm0wNQWgWv8vL!- 

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389045081 

A 25-year-old Angelina County man will spend the next two years of his life in a federal prison in North Carolina 

for a conviction on child pornography charges, according to a court judgment. 

170) Fifth child porn arrest in just over a week 



A 40-year-old man yesterday became the fifth Greek in just over a week to face a prosecutor on charges of 

producing pornographic material involving young children and distributing it over the Internet.The married shipping 

firm employee had allegedly been selling exceptionally hardcore material involving children as young as 4 to 

unidentified clients for the past six years, according to police.In a raid on the suspects Athens home, officers seized 

a computer, a digital camera and a large number of CDs and DVDs allegedly containing child pornography. 

171) Discord In The Church: Divide Over Priest Abuse Still Evident 

USA - Detroit Free Press, IL - April 14, 2005 

http://www.freep.com/news/religion/pope-bar214e_20050414.htm 

The decision by Vatican officials to have Cardinal Bernard Law preside over a high-profile mourning mass for Pope 

John Paul II is the latest example of the chasm that separates how senior Vatican officials view the priest sex-abuse 

scandal and the way many U.S. Catholics see it. While John Paul II and other senior Vatican officials repeatedly 

condemned child sex abuse by priests and endorsed U.S. bishops' efforts to combat it, church officials in Rome 

never saw the revelations as the kind of confidence-shattering, life-changing event that many in the United States 

did. Some senior church officials -- including Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez, who is considered a 

strong papal candidate -- continually suggested that the scandal was a creation of the U.S. news media. "We all 

know that Ted Turner is openly anti-Catholic, and he is the owner not just of CNN but of Time Warner," Rodriguez 

said inaccurately in May 2002, in a broadside criticizing the former CNN chairman and U.S. news outlets. The 

priest-abuse scandal "never cut so deeply and so personally in Rome as it did in the U.S., and especially in Boston," 

said the Rev. Thomas Williams, dean of the school of theology at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in 

Rome and a native of Bloomfield Hills. Many of the Vatican officials come from societies that lack the awareness 

of sexual abuse that Americans have, he said, and they didn't understand that for Americans, the cover-up by a 

trusted yet secretive, unaccountable institution was as outrageous as the individual crimes. Allen, theologian 

Williams and others also contend that Latin cultures, including Italy and the Vatican bureaucracy, tend to emphasize 

forgiveness and redemption more than Anglo-Saxon cultures do. Some advocates for victims of priest abuse argue 

that the Vatican has never taken priest abuse seriously except as a public relations debacle. 

172) Jury awards two brothers $2 million in priest sex case 

USA - Desert Sun, CA - April 14, 2005 

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20050414&Category=NEWS10&ArtNo=504140320&Sect 

ionCat=&Template=printart 

The case involving the abuse of Bob and Tom Thatcher was closely watched because it is the first in a series of sexabuse 

lawsuits to seek punitive damages. His brother Tom, 33, was awarded $180,000 in compensatory damages 

and no punitive damages were sought in his case. While the total award of $1.93million was far less than the $27 

million plaintiffs attorney Rick Simons asked for in closing arguments, he said he was pleased the jury ruled that the 

Oakland Diocese acted with malice and awarded punitive damages. The jury decided that the diocese should be 

responsible for 60 percent of the compensatory damages and the Rev. Robert Ponciroli is responsible for 40 percent. 

The plaintiffs argued that the church knew Ponciroli was sexually abusing children but failed to stop him. Diocesan 

lawyers do not dispute that the abuse occurred, but they disagree the diocese was responsible for the anxiety, 

relationship and drug and alcohol problems the men suffered later. 

173) Online paedophilia on the rise 

USA - April 14, 2005 

http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/31590.asp 

Fourteen-year-old Anasuya seldom knew that the "doctor uncle" she often met at the chat room was just another 

pervert trying to meet an underage persona for sex. Efforts by security forces in several countries have resulted in 


the localisation and arrest of over 500 child pornographers in a paedophilia ring who distributed child pornography 

via the Internet including public chats spanning 11 countries, officials at Panda Software, a leading developer of IT 

security solutions for all types of users, has said. Chats have become the paedophiles favourite tool for contacting 

potential victims. They said, "the concern for minors'' use of the Internet should not just focus on preventing 

attacks from paedophiles, but also on preventing children or teenagers from becoming a victim in the future." 

India's IT crime prevention unit confirmed that paedophiles that circulate the Internet are getting younger, which it 

attributes to excessive pornography online. 

174) Child porn crusader Sharpe to appeal 

Canada - CNews, BC - April 14, 2005 

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Law/2005/04/13/995688-cp.html 

The man who challenged child porn laws in Canada's highest court will appeal his March 2004 conviction for 

indecent assault. Sharpe appeared in the B.C. Court of Appeal briefly on Wednesday to apply for a lawyer to be 

appointed to represent him. In sentencing Sharpe last year, Justice Robert Edwards of the B.C. Supreme Court 

acknowledged Sharpe's poor health and age - 71 - meant he presents little or no danger to reoffend, but said with the 

seriousness of the crime no less than custody would be appropriate. In the assault case, the assaults began when the 

boy was 11 years old and occurred multiple times over about a two-year period. 

175) Countian gets 15 years for child porn 

USA - Lancaster New Era, PA - April 13, 2005 

http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/6/13485 

An East Lampeter Township man was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison this week for taking sexually 

explicit photos of two teen boys and possessing thousands of pornographic images of children.Paul K. Vaccarelli, 

52, was prosecuted with the help of a secret recording device worn by one of the teens, who knew Vaccarelli 

through his work as the manager of a suburban restaurant.In the conversation, Vaccarelli talks about a pornographic 

video he wanted the two teens to make, which Vaccarelli planned to sell to a pornographer in California or New 

York, prosecutors said.Vaccarelli also had showed the two teens numerous child porn photos on his computer and a 

pornographic video depicting boys having sex, prosecutors said.After searching Vaccarellis 243 Black Oak Drive 

home and a storage facility, police found Polaroid photos of other unidentified victims that indicated Vaccarelli had 

been taking pornographic photos of teen boys for a significant period of time, federal prosecutors said in a 

sentencing document.Because U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehans office in Philadelphia prosecuted Vaccarelli, he 

obtained a much tougher sentence. 

176) Students punished over sex photos 

USA - St. Petersburg, Fl - April 14, 2005 

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/14/Citrus/Students_punished_ove.shtml 

The events involve a cell phone camera and Academy of Environmental Science students on a field trip.Crystal 

River - Two students at the Academy of Environmental Science have been suspended, and a third faces discipline, 

concerning sexual photos that were taken with a cell phone camera during a bus ride home from a field trip last 

week.Details of the incident emerged piecemeal Wednesday during a meeting of the academy's governing board. 

The governing board forwarded the matter to the school district for investigation.Parents at the meeting Wednesday 

voiced concerns about photos "of a sexual nature" taken with a cell phone camera. Board members themselves 

were caught up in that same frustration as multiple related controversies have swirled around the school in recent 

weeks.Citing the need for new leadership as the charter school expands its programs, the board voted several weeks 

ago not tobring back Lisa Merritt as director and teacher next school year. 

177) Ex-pediatrician charged with molestation 

USA - Review-journal, NV - April 14, 2005 

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Apr-14-Thu-2005/news/26288195.html 

A former Las Vegas pediatrician accused of molesting children has been indicted on 50 counts in Clark County, and 

bail was set at $1 million Wednesday by Chief District Judge Kathy Hardcastle. Evans was a resident in the 

pediatric medicine program at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and had been performing his residency 

for six months at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and at University Medical Center. 

178) NAMBLA Arrests 

USA - Fox News Channel - February 17, 2005 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147904,00.html 


BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Impact" segment tonight, the FBI in San Diego infiltrated the North American 

Man/Boy Love Association, have arrested seven men who are heading to Mexico, allegedly to sexually abuse young 

boys.Now we thought we had driven NAMBLA out of this country after reporting the terrible murder of a 10-yearold 

Massachusetts boy, but apparently that group's Web site is up and running again. And they have a post office 

box in New York City and also in San Francisco.Joining us now from Washington, Pat Trueman, senior legal 

counsel for the Family Research Council (search). You know, the last time we looked at them hard, they had shut 

down their Web site and gone up to Canada or over to Denmark some place. But now they're back and operating 

again it looks like, right?Pat Trueman, Family Research Council: That's right. And thanks to you and the publicity 

you have given to law enforcement for what they've done in the past, NAMBLA was pretty quiet, but now you see 

they're still alive. The FBI says there are hundreds of people that belong.It's a network of child abusers and people 

who advocate sex with children. They're saying, as you know, Bill, used to be "sex before eight or it's too late." 

179) Sexual assault victims need supportive response 

USA - Daily Sentinel, IA - April 13, 2005 

http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1094159.html 

That's the advice the Council on Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence gives when people call, according to Cathy 

VanMaanen, outreach coordinator for Plymouth County. Victims do not need someone to judge or tell them what 

to do or how to feel, according to VanMaanen, but mostly someone to listen. Staff and volunteers of CSA&DV 

provide a 24-hour crisis line, support groups, crisis counseling, advocacy, information and referral, shelter and 

community education. CSA&DV, along with victims' programs throughout the nation, face 2006/07 budget cuts 

making those services possible. Congress has threatened cuts to programs budgeted through the Federal Crime 

Victims Fund, which was created by the Victims of Crime Act of 1984. The crime of sexual assault has more to do 

with power and control than it does about sex, VanMaanen explained to the group of professionals and high school 

students. A victim of sexual assault may be male or female, a child or adult. Most teens will tell a friend first, 

rather than reporting the crime to a parent or police. CSA&DV offers counselors and can refer individuals to 

therapists in the area. 

180) Cybersex Crimes Against Kids, Adults On The Rise 

USA - CBS-TV2, IL - April 13, 2005 

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_104172143.html 

Over the last decade, the FBI tells us, there has been more than a 2,000 percent increase in cases of predators using 

the Internet to target children for explicit sexual purposes. In response to this growing trend, the City of Naperville 

has launched one of the most aggressive computer crimes units in the country, and their success rate is impressive. 

Kim and her husband Jeff had become targets of an Internet sex crime.We would get emails with naked photos of 

men soliciting sex, Kim says.Unbeknownst to the Naperville couple, someone had listed them on an Internet 

bulletin board as a couple looking for sex partners.Cybersex crime between adults is on the rise, but the much bigger 

problem is that of adult Internet predators victimizing children. Several of the people that I am chatting with right 

now want me to come live with them and be their sex slaves, one agent tells us.Sometimes they like to be your first - 

- your first older man, the first person that you lose your virginity to, another agent tells us.Incredibly, these agents 

have as many as six chats going on simultaneously. 

181) Perverts 40,000 Sneak Pics Of Girl In Shower 

United Kingdom - Daily Record - April 15 2005 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15404051&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=perverts-40- 

000-sneak-pics-of-girl-in-shower-name_page.html 

A Pervert rigged a bathroom camera to spy on a young girl - and collected 40,000 images of her naked.Engineer 

David Duncan, 45, stored the images on his computer and on CDs, along with 82,633 depraved child porn pictures, 

a court was told yesterday.His twisted secret life was exposed when the teenage girl found one of the secret videos 

and told her mother, who called in the police. 

182) Women accountable for under age sex offences 

New Zealand - NZCity - APril 15, 2005 


Women having sex with minors are now just as accountable as men after the passing of the Crimes Amendment 

Bill.The legislation means women can be prosecuted alongside men for having sex with an under 16-year-old, but 

the definition of rape remains strictly a man against woman offence.Justice Minister Phil Goff is pleased the bill 

received an overwhelming majority of support with 89 MPs voting in favour.He says only the National Party voted 

against it and even it conceded the bill made progress.A penalty has also been introduced for paedophiles grooming 


children for sexual activity. 

183) Child rapist doctoring CV to get work 



A Christchurch businessman was horrified to discover that a convicted child rapist had applied for a job at his firm 

as a car groomer, his CV disguising his detention at a mental hospital as "work experience". "I think it's absolutely 

disgusting," Ray Dyer, from Hopmans QEII Quality Cars, said. Lloyd McIntosh was sent to Lake Alice Mental 

Hospital in 1989 when he was deemed unfit to answer a charge of raping a six-year-old girl. McIntosh's CV, 

obtained by the Dominion Post newspaper yesterday, says he worked at the mental hospital, not that he was a 

patient. According to McIntosh's 10-year extended supervision order, he must be accompanied by two minders in 

public because of the risk of his reoffending. 

184) Guilty verdict in child pornography case 


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liwern0416,0,792374.story?coll=ny-main-tabheads 

Several spectators cheered, cried and embraced each other in a Central Islip courtroom Friday when a Valley Stream 

man was convicted of federal child pornography charges.Bruce Wernick, 47, a computer consultant, was found 

guilty of downloading, storing and distributing hundreds of photos and videos depicting children being sexually 

abused.He also was convicted of using the Internet to persuade underage boys to meet for sex."We are very gratified 

by the jury's verdict," prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz said afterward.Wernick's attorney, Bruce Barket of Garden City, 

said he was disappointed but not surprised by the outcome of the three-week trial.Wernick, who has appeared 

relaxed -- even defiant -- during the trial, showed no visible reaction.No sentencing date was set. 

185) City man sentenced to 20 years in rape of child 

USA - Herald Star, OH - April 16, 2005 

http://www.hsconnect.com/news/story/0416202005_new07news041205.asp 

Gino Caporini, 31, of Steubenville was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday by Common Pleas Judge Joseph 

Bruzzese Jr. He also must submit to a DNA sampling for his DNA to be kept on record. One student said Monday 

during the sentencing hearing that he never said anything to police about the molestation admission because 

Caporini believed his arrest was imminent. 

186) Suspect admitted choking, raping girl 

USA - Argus Leader, SD - April 16, 2005 

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050416/NEWS/504160323/1001 

The man accused of murdering Jessica Rae DeLaTorre admitted to detectives that he raped, choked and beat the 8year-old 

Sioux Falls girl, according to court papers.In the documents, filed this week in Minnehaha County Circuit 

Court, Murray James Jones, 41, recounts for police the events leading up to the discovery of Jessica's body April 9 

at an abandoned farm near Fulton, about 65 miles west of Sioux Falls."I did the wrong thing," Jones told a detective 

when informed that clothes belonging to Jessica had been found in a trash bin near his house.Jones said he had put 

his hands around Jessica's neck, according to the court papers. He is being held without bond in the Minnehaha 

County Jail.Jones is the boyfriend of Jessica's grandmother, Norma Carver. He grabbed her shorts and a blanket 

that had a trace of blood on it and drove back to Sioux Falls, where he threw the shorts in the Dumpster across the 

street from his home.He put the blanket in the washer, did some work on the computer, took a shower and went to 

bed.Initially, Jones gave police a different account, according to court papers:He said he got home around 9:30 p.m. 

187) Cockeysville Man Sentenced For Buying Child Porn 

USA - WBAL Radio, MD - April 15, 2005 

http://wbal.com/stories/anmviewer.asp?a=30237 

The tapes contained depictions of minors having sex.When federal agents entered Barrick's house, they found the 

package unopened. 

188) Former Mayor, Teacher Sentenced For Producing Child Porn 

USA - KCTV-TV5, MO - April 15, 2005 

http://www.kctv.com/global/story.asp?s=3217677 

A former small town mayor, teacher, foster parent and Boy Scout leader was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal 

prison without parole for producing child pornography.Authorities began investigating Richard P. Warner, 53, after 

he asked someone to repair his computer and that person found child porn on the machine, including a child the 


epairman recognized, said Don Ledford, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Todd Graves, who announced the 

sentence. Graves described Warner as a "sexual predator" who was involved in various volunteer activities that 

gave him access to children. 

189) Child sex abuse deeply rooted in Del Norte 

USA - Daily Triplicate, CA - April 15, 2005 

http://www.triplicate.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=29 

When Mark Folkenberg was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison for child molestation, his wife spoke in 

Del Norte Superior Court about how deeply rooted the problem of child sex abuse is here. Folkenberg himself was 

sexually abused as a child, she told the court. As an adult, Folkenberg repeatedly molested a girl over a two-year 

period. "It went back generation to generation on both sides of his family," Raelene Folkenberg said. Law 

enforcement authorities and other experts in the field say that cycle of sexual abuse is common: Those who are 

abused often grow up to become abusers, spreading the human damage to an ever-widening circle of victims. 

Given Del Norte's population of 28,266, that's a per capita rate of .322, second only to Trinity County's per capita 

rate of .364. "Law enforcement has always known that there's been a high degree of sexual crimes within the city 

and the county," Crescent City Police Chief Doug Plack said. Part of the problem, Cabrera said, is that sexual 

abuse no matter the age of the victim was for too long something that was kept quiet and not dealt with. "It's either 

one person abusing generations of people or incest being repeated generation after generation," Cabrera said. The 

most common symptom seen in Del Norte County schools associated with child sexual abuse is lack of 

concentration, according to Del Norte County Unified School District psychologist Tina Rhodes. 

190) Carlson: Abuse victims' gut-wrenching stories end with signs of hope 

USA - Des Moines Register, IA - April 17, 2005 

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050417/OPINION01/504170340/1035 

I was abused when I was 8 years old."The 100 people in the audience - prison wardens and guards, counselors, 

victims advocates, county and state prosecutors - spend their careers dealing with life's horrors.They've seen and 

heard it all. Nothing so public, from a 10-year-old describing how she was affected by sexual abuse.[]Outside 

Mask: This mask shows "Sarah" on the outside."When I was 9 years old, my mom caught the abuse. The girl in the 

picture has a big smile, a face so happy it sparkles, and the most wonderful blue eyes.It's a self-portrait - a look at 

Sarah on the outside - the Sarah others saw."The girl with the blue eyes got hurt by someone she trusted," Sarah 

says. She needed to look the same, because she was told not to tell anyone or she would get in trouble."Sarah is 

speaking at a downtown Des Moines meeting titled "Collective Voices of Victims." It's sponsored by the Iowa 

Department of Corrections as part of National Crime Victims' Rights Week. It's an almost unimaginable selfportrait 

of a child."The girl was learning to live with happy days and days that might be cloudy," Sarah says. "And 

just when she thought she was through it all, her dad died and that added more trauma into her life. She felt sad, 

kind of depressed and lonely."Some in this tough crowd are crying as the child finishes her story."I am the girl with 

blue eyes," she says. I can get ice cream from the best mom ever without doing a thing."Sarah looks at her mom, 

who is sitting a few feet away in the front row. The two leave the room as Frank, the 16-year-old boy, begins to 

speak.Looking at his mom and dad, he tells a very different story. They'll never forget.It does not mean their lives 

are forever destroyed.It's a matter of a child - even an adult - understanding that the terrible thing that happened is 

not their fault, that they didn't do anything wrong, that they shouldn't be ashamed, that they're good people 

too.Sarah, who comes back into the room as the program ends, seems to understand."Congratulations," a visitor at 

the meeting tells her. 

191) Gallop backs cancellation of paedophiles' passports 



Western Australian Premier Geoff Gallop has backed a proposal by a national child welfare group for convicted 

paedophiles to have their passports confiscated.The Federal Government yesterday revealed a number of men listed 

on the national child sex offender data base tried to prey on children in areas affected by the Asian 

tsunamis.However, authorities stopped them entering those countries.Bernadette McMenamin, who is the director of 

Child Wise, says the register does not stop paedophiles travelling overseas and the Federal Government should 

cancel their passports."The world is a very big place for these individuals and if we're pushing them out of our 

institutions in Australia we are pushing them over to very vulnerable communities overseas," she said."Removing 

passports is a very sensible option." 

192) Rapist 'married' 9-year-old victim 

United kingdom - ic Wales - April 17 2005 


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The victim of evil child rapist Benjamin Griffiths fears he will hunt her down to reclaim his 'bride' after he 'wed' her 

in a twisted marriage ceremony.The 14-year-old's family spoke out last night after the paedophile sex pervert was 

arrested in Germany this month, four months after vanishing on the last day of his trial.The former Aberystwyth 

teacher was jailed for 10 years in his absence after being found guilty of indecently assaulting and raping the girl 

when she was just nine years old.Last night, the family of the distressed girl told how she was struggling to rebuild 

her life after her hell at the hands of 63-year-old Griffiths, who is currently undergoing extradition.Today we can 

reveal:nReligious nut Griffiths cut the youngster with a broken cup and mixed their blood together in a macabre 

'marriage'.nHe spent lunch breaks during his rape trial loudly preaching in a city centre.nHe managed to flee the 

country by applying for a passport DURING his trial.nThe girl's house was installed with police alarms after 

Griffiths swore to kill her and himself if he was caught.nAnd he was only snared by German police after using his 

real name to apply for a dog licence.The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, now lives with her legal 

guardian, a member of her family, in England's East Midlands.Last night, the family member opened her heart about 

the trauma they had been put through.She said: "We've finally had the police alarms removed from the house."He 

had told her if he ever got caught, he would take her down with him. He had made a suicide pact and would kill 

them both. She keeps asking what will happen if he escapes, if he comes back to her."Griffiths jumped bail before 

his final hearing at Chester Crown Court last December.He often spent up to an hour answering each question.Judge 

Roger Dutton said the trial would have been over much sooner if Griffiths had not wasted so much time.But it has 

now emerged he had applied for a passport and was dragging the trial out while he waited for it to arrive.On the 

final day, the court received a handwritten letter from Griffiths, postmarked Coventry, saying the rapist had "had 

enough".He had devoted his lunchtimes throughout the trial to preaching the Gospel to shoppers in Chester city 

centre.The bearded Welsh-speaker entered the girl's life after her mother died.He became obsessed with the nineyear-old, 

bombarding her with love letters and cards before raping and indecently assaulting her.The extreme 

Christian threatened her with the "wrath of God" if she told anyone and even carried out a bizarre 'marriage' ritual, 

cutting her arms with a broken cup, mixing her blood with his and telling her they were forever "united in blood".He 

had previously been married to a Swedish girl decades his junior.He was finally tracked down on April 6 in a hotel 

in the south-west German town of Karlsruhe.German police sources said he applied for a dog licence and his name 

triggered an Interpol alert.The family member has now called for a massive overhaul in the bail system that allowed 

Griffiths to apply for a passport during the trial.She said: "I've lost my faith in the system."I couldn't believe a man 

accused of rape was on bail."The girl herself is desperately trying to rebuild her shattered life at the age of just 

14.She attends school and dreams of becoming a special needs teacher, but her marks have slipped dramatically 

since the two-week trial.While Griffiths was on the loose, the school was given a hotline to the police and she had to 

be escorted to and from the gates.She is still "very confused" by what has gone on,[...] 

193) Balancing civil rights and child protection 

USA - Argus Leader, - April 17, 2005 


A computer message that surfaced 17 days before Jessica DeLaTorre disappeared exposes a dilemma in American 

law when personal freedom collides with the need to protect children.The message, traced to Murray James Jones, 

the man who has confessed to raping and killing the 8-year-old Sioux Falls girl, might or might not have 

foreshadowed what was about to occur. But it does illustrate how, in some cases, the clues from psychology carry 

no weight legally until a crime is committed.And while the Jones case might fit a textbook pattern of pornography 

leading to violence, it also shows how Sioux Falls police must decipher hundreds of suspicious cases without 

trampling personal rights that are endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court."I don't think there was any shortcoming in 

the law. It was one of those horrible things," said Rob Regier, executive director of the South Dakota Family 

Policy Council, which tracks political and social issues that concern families.Jones, 41, was a customer in a Sioux 

Falls business March 23 when he used a computer to send a note to a Hill City woman logged onto the same Internet 

chat room."We had a lot of fun raping your granddaughter," Jones' note said, according to Harlan Jacobsen, owner 

of Video Mania, 2019 S. Minnesota Ave., where the message originated.Within 21/4 weeks, Jones would be 

charged with raping and killing the granddaughter of Norma Carver, the woman with whom he lived.But the night 

of the original message, he could not have known to whom he was writing. The second time, April 8, was the 

evening before Jessica DeLaTorre disappeared and Jones led police to her body.The sequence appears to show a 

predictable progression of pornography, said David Miller, vice president of Citizens for Community Values, a 

Cincinnati-based organization.Exposure leads to addiction, then escalation, desensitization and then an increasing 

tendency to act out the behaviors exhibited, said Miller, quoting the work of Victor Cline, a clinical psychologist at 

the University of Utah."Not everyone who looks at pornography becomes a Ted Bundy," Miller said. Subsequent 

viewing of child porn would not be a crime unless Jones had downloaded it or otherwise had taken possession."That 


conversation - that was not enough," Barthel said. He had no idea who he was talking to."Hindsight is one thing, 

but before the girl's death, Jones was a man with no history as a sex offender and one more individual for police to 

monitor, Barthel said. There's a percentage of these people who don't get caught and don't have that criminal 

history."Long said research links consumption of adult porn to other forms branded as more serious."The people 

who sort through this stuff working in my crime lab almost invariably find adult porn with the child porn," he said. 

194) Some parents worried website could expose children up to pedophiles 

USA - KRNV-TV4, NV - April 15, 2005 

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3215464&nav=8faOYiH3 

With hundreds of online dating websites, more people are meeting through the Internet. It may sound harmless for 

adults, but these friends may not be the type you want your children chatting with. "Some of these responses where 

from men over 30 years old, I was out of my mind."The website requires users to be over 18, but that hasn't stopped 

middle school students from logging on. 

195) Dauphin man facing child porn charges 

Canada - Canada.com - April 15, 2005 

http://www.canada.com/fortstjohn/story.html?id=de4b6046-2b0a-45f9-bf72-ebf4aa5ab24a 

Police say the arrest followed a joint international police investigation involving law enforcement agencies from 

Canada and the U.S. 

196) Paedophiles "aiming for tsunami-hit areas" 

Australia - Swiss Info - April 17, 2005 

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5691284&cKey=1113649523000 

Convicted Australian paedophiles have been caught trying to travel to areas of Asia hit by the devastatingDecember 

tsunami, Australian Justice and Customs Minister Chris Ellison said on Saturday.The Australian newspaper said that 

about 20 convicted paedophiles had tried to travel to Indonesia and Thailand immediately after thetsunami, but they 

were refused entry after their details were forwarded by Australia.Ellison did not confirm the numbers involved, but 

said the paedophiles were on a national child sex offender register, which follows theirmovements.He said the 

Government, Australian Federal Police and Asian authorities were working to stop paedophiles from exploiting 

circumstancescaused by the tsunami."There is no allegation as I understand it that anyone has committed an offence, 

but certainly this is about prevention," he told reporters."It is of concern to me that paedophiles might use the 

current environment in Indonesia and Thailand, in fact the region, to prey upon childrenand Australia must do 

everything possible to stop what is an abominable activity." 

197) Explosive Testimony Before Justice Committee on Sex Offenders 

Canada - News Release CND Justice Committee Member - April 14, 2005 

http://www.markwarawa.com/PDF/71.pdf 

University of Toronto psychiatrist, Dr. Ron Langevin testified before the committee today regarding his recently 

completed intensive study on deviant sex offenders and recidivism in Canada, called Lifetime Sex Offender 

Recidivism. Dr. Langevin revealed some incredible statistics which shocked the committee members, says 

Warawa, BCs Justice Committee representative.According to the study, 88 percent of deviant sex offenders in a 25 

year follow up have re-offended. These offenders average 14 prior convictions before being declared a dangerous 

offender. This study has shown that offenders who possess a certain criteria of sex offending will re-offend and in 

my opinion should be declared a dangerous offender says Warawa.This study shows that Canadians are not being 

protected, and that many sex offenders living in the community will reoffend, says the Langley MP. 


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How safe are your children from sex offenders? 

USA - Elizabethton Star, TN - March 27, 2005 

By Abby Morris-Frye, amorris@starhq.com 

http://www.starhq.com/html/localnews/0305/032705sexualoffenders.htm 

Over the course of the last month, many parents have become increasingly concerned with the safety of their 

children after reports of a 9-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Florida by a convicted sex offender 

who was living in her family's neighborhood. 

John Evander Couey, a 46-year-old convicted sexual offender in the state of Florida has since been charged with the 

abduction and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. According to reports from Florida law enforcement 

authorities, Couey admitted to police that he had abducted and killed Lunsford and told police where to find her 

body where he had buried it behind the home of his sister where he was living at the time. His sister's home is 

located approximately 150 yards from the Lunsford's home in Homosassa, Fla. 

As in the state of Florida, convicted sexual offenders in the state of Tennessee are required to register with law 

enforcement agencies. Here in Carter County, 43 individuals are currently listed as sexual offenders whom are 

required to register with the state. 

According to local law enforcement officers, previously sexual offenders were required to register directly with the 

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation but in the last year, a new law was passed through the Tennessee State 

Legislature that changed the registration process 

Now, sexual offenders who are not currently serving probation or parole are required to report to the law 

enforcement office whose jurisdiction they live in. Residents of the City of Elizabethton who live in the city are 

required by the state law to register with the Elizabethton Police Department. Residents of Carter County who live 

outside the city limits of Elizabethton are required to register with the Carter County Sheriff's Department. Those 

individuals who are currently serving probation or parole are required to register with their probation or parole 

officer through the state Board of Probation and Parole. 

According to Carter County Sheriff's Department Investigator Johnny Blankenship, who oversees the registration 

for the CCSD, there are currently 25 registered sexual offenders who must report to the CCSD. Sgt. Elonza Perkins 

who oversees sexual offender registration for the Elizabethton Police Department stated that there are currently four 

sexual offenders registered through the EPD. There are currently 14 Carter County residents who are registered as 

sexual offenders through the state Board of Probation and Parole (BPP) according to Jack Elder, and official with 

the BPP. 

With sexual offenders living within the community, local law enforcement officials have offered some tips so that 

parents can help protect their children from sexual predators. 

"Anybody that is acting suspicious around kids I would most definitely recommend that the parent or guardian be 

very alert and notify law enforcement," said Carter County Sheriff John Henson, adding that parents should be alert 

"especially in the summer at the day cares and recreation areas where kids play because that is where most of these 

sexual predators like to find a victim or attack them." 

Henson stated that at parks and playgrounds parents should watch for people who frequent those locations where 

children often play but never bring any children with them. He said that parents should also watch for strangers 

attempting speak to the children or strangers who are acting suspiciously. "They (sexual predators) are really easy to 

spot if you look carefully," he said. 

Elizabethton Police Department Chief Roger Deal echoed Henson's advice. He recommended that anyone observing 

a suspicious person around children contact their local law enforcement agency. "Eyeball them and get a good 

description," he said. "Get a good description of their car and try to get the tag numbers." 


Deal also stated that parents who take an active role in their children's lives can help prevent their children from 

becoming the targets of sexual predators. He stated that parents should "know where their kids are," "know their 

neighbors," and "know who their children run with." He further stated that "The parents need to know if their kids 

are involved in scouts who the scout masters are -- in boy scouts or girl scouts -- and if the children are involved in 

church activities to know the people involved there." 

According to Deal, it is important to know the individuals involved with their children because sexual offenses are 

not a crime that occurs only in one race, age group, gender or socio-economic class. "Pedophiles come in all shapes, 

sizes, ages and colors," he said. "A lot of times pedophiles try to get into trustworthy positions like scout masters, 

school teachers, church leaders. It's not uncommon." 

Parents should also be careful of whom they invite into their homes and allow around their children. "If they 

(parents) don't know the individual, don't let their children associate with them without checking them out," Deal 

said. 

When parents take their children to a park or recreation area, Deal said that both the parents and children need to be 

aware of their surroundings, noticing who is there, who is there alone and the layout of the area. 

"The best advice I can give is for parents to be involved with their children so they know who their children know, 

whether it be school activities or church activities or whatever and keep the lines of communication open with their 

children," he said. 

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Damages sought from teacher, P-H-M 

USA - South Bend Tribune, IN - March 27, 2005 

By Marti Goodlad Heline 

http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/03/27/local.20050327-sbt-FULL-A1-Damages_sought_from_.sto 

Mishawaka -- A girl molested by a former Walt Disney Elementary School teacher is seeking damages from him 

and from the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp. in a lawsuit filed last week. 

Last month, former teacher Timothy Wyllie, 41, pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual conduct with the girl, who was 

a 10-year-old student in his fourth-grade class in 2001. 

South Bend attorney Charles P. Rice filed the lawsuit on behalf of the girl, listed as "Jane Doe" to protect her 

identity, in the Mishawaka division of St. Joseph Superior Court. 

Wyllie is accused in court documents of setting up private meetings and "tutoring sessions" with the girl during the 

school day and of engaging in various sexual activities with her as well as photographing her in various stages of 

undress. 

"On a regular basis, he separated her from class for private tutoring sessions," Rice said. "It's difficult to understand 

how that didn't raise a huge red flag (with school employees)." 

The closed-door meetings are reported to have occurred in art rooms or storage rooms during such times as lunch or 

gym class. 

It was the teacher who claimed the girl needed tutoring, not her parents, Rice said. 

"P-H-M employees or agents were aware of, permitted and facilitated these repeated one-on-one sessions," 

according to allegations listed in a notice of tort claim sent to the school corporation. 

Claims against P-H-M 

Earlier this month, Rice sent some 100 such notices of tort claims to P-H-M School Corp. regarding Wyllie's 

conduct. 


A claim was filed for each time the girl was touched or photographed, Rice said. 

"You drop your kids off at school with the implicit promise by the school to keep them safe and not do any harm," 

Rice said. 

As of Thursday, Rice had not received a formal response from the school corporation to the claims. 

Extent of harm 

"There is no question that Wyllie's actions have hurt this girl," Rice said. 

The full extent of that harm is not yet known, he added. 

Now 14, she undergoes counseling, has had academic problems in school and now is attending a private school, at 

an increased cost to her family, according to the case. 

The case does not specify an amount of damages requested because the entire loss cannot yet be ascertained, Rice 

said. 

"This is the type of case that really only a jury can put a value on," Rice said. He has asked for a jury trial. 

The suit seeks damages from Wyllie for acts committed beyond the scope of his employment as a teacher. These 

include Wyllie's alleged dissemination of images of the girl to Internet groups dedicated to sexually exploiting 

children. 

Strong victim 

"This is a tough kid, first to come forward with accusations, then to maintain them and ultimately be vindicated 

through the hard work of police officers and others in the prosecutor's office," Rice said. 

The girl did not report Wyllie's conduct for two years. It was when she refused to go out for a basketball team that 

Wyllie was involved with as a coach that she told her parents what happened to her in fourth grade. 

After her parents made a police report in early 2003, P-H-M suspended Wyllie, but charges were not filed until June 

2004. 

"This suit is about justice and making sure there is accountability for everyone in how this happened and making 

sure it never happens again," Rice said. "Mr. Wyllie answered to the criminal justice system but has not answered 

this girl." 

Wyllie's child porn case 

On March 14, Wyllie pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago in a case that accused him of possessing and posting 

digital images of child pornography in an Internet chat room. 

Wyllie's plea agreement in the federal case suggests he could receive a prison sentence of 78 to 97 months when he 

is sentenced May 13. 

In the local criminal case, Wyllie's plea agreement calls for him to receive a 30-year sentence May 18 on the 

molesting charge. 

A question Rice said he's had, based on reviewing patterns of behavior for the type of conduct involved, is, "I don't 

think you just wake up and suddenly think, I'll become a child pornographer and molester." 

Other victims? 

"We are anxious to learn the extent to which Mr. Wyllie's behavior raised red flags, concerns and suspicions among 

parents and students," Rice said. 

He encouraged anyone with such information to contact him at his law firm, Boveri, Murphy, Rice & LaDue. 


"This is just the beginning of the case," Rice said. "We anticipate turning this guy's life inside-out." 

One aspect that makes the case unique, according to Rice, is the computer forensic science that has allowed law 

enforcement officials to identify the source of the uploading of pornography and identify the victim from that. 

Investigators also were able to find the computer from electronic paths left behind and learn the identity of the 

person using the Internet accounts involved. 

Rice noted that while preparing to file the lawsuit, he forwarded documents concerning Wyllie's guilty pleas to the 

state agencies that govern Wyllie's Indiana teaching license and his Illinois law license. 

He was employed as a lawyer in suburban Chicago, at a Naperville, Ill., law firm, when he was arrested last June. 

After leaving P-H-M, he had resumed a legal career that started before he began teaching in 1992. 

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Jonathan King freed 

United Kingdom - Guardian Unlimited - March 29, 2005 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1447337,00.html?gusrc=rss 

Disgraced pop mogul Jonathan King walked free today after serving less than half his seven-year sentence for 

abusing young boys. 

King, 60, smiled and gave the thumbs-up for the cameras as he stepped out of the gates at Maidstone prison in Kent 

at 7.10am. 

Members of the former Genesis producer's legal team handed out copies of a CD which he is releasing today to 

waiting journalists. 

King said he was "100% innocent of the crimes", and that he still believed his convictions would be quashed. 

"I've had a brilliant three-and-a-half years for crimes I did not commit. 

"What remains is that I am innocent and my lawyer assures me my convictions will be quashed." 

A passer-by shouted at King to "get back inside" as he stood by the prison gates with his thumbs raised and wearing 

a baseball cap. 

The impresario, who had his first hit in 1965 with Everyone's Gone to the Moon, said he would be campaigning to 

help other people he believed had been victims of miscarriages of justice. 

He said: "I'm not that important. Think of the people who have been locked up for crimes they did not commit, some 

of whom have killed themselves. 

"They're the people I care for and will crusade for." 

King urged people to buy his new record, My Love, My Life, which is described on promotional material as 

"released when he is". 

Before leaving in a blue Chrysler van, he added: "As Oscar Wilde almost said when he was released 100 years ago 

for very similar crimes, 'On to the next adventure'." 

King's legal team handed out a flier to accompany the CD which was headed: "Don't Play This Track ..." 

The flier continues: "If you don't play Elvis Presley because he slept with a 14-year-old girl ... or the Beatles 

because they had criminal records or read the work of Oscar Wilde because he liked underage boys or look at 

Michelangelo statues because he was a homosexual ... then you should go no further than the sleeve of Jonathan 


King's 'My Love, My Life'. 

"Don't review it or purchase it or download it or programme it. According to the tabloids, the man's a 'vile pervert'." 

King was convicted at the Old Bailey in September 2001 of sexually abusing five youngsters aged 13 to 15. 

The jury heard that the Cambridge-educated impresario lured boys to his mews home in Bayswater, London, in the 

1980s and showed them pornography before assaulting them. 

He was jailed for seven years in November 2001, but continued to protest his innocence despite failing in a bid to 

have his convictions overturned in 2003. 

King's legal adviser Giovanni di Stefano said he would now be subject to extensive licence conditions, including a 

ban on working with children, staying at a specified address and not receiving visits from anyone under 18 without 

permission. 

Mr di Stefano told journalists outside the prison today that King was entitled to be released like any other prisoner. 

"He has been granted parole by a parole board who don't necessarily have any love for Jonathan King. 

"The parole board have heard evidence that he poses no threat whatsoever." 

Mr di Stefano said King would be trying to get his convictions quashed on the grounds that the director of public 

prosecutions had not given formal permission for the case to be taken to court. 

"The consent of the DPP must be obtained. Whether it was by mistake or intentional it was not forthcoming. 

"This is fatal to the prosecution's case." 

Mr di Stefano said he had no doubt the self-styled king of pop would be successful again. 

"He's a man with talent and talent shines. Many great people suffer what he's suffered and just get on with their 

lives." 

A black plastic sack containing King's possessions was loaded into the back of a four-wheel-drive vehicle before the 

mogul left with his entourage. 

King had hoped to be free in time for Easter, but his legal team claims that a dispute with Surrey police over 

releasing custody records to the Prison Service delayed matters. 

It is understood he now plans to write a musical about Cole Porter. 

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Couple accused of videotaping rape of child 

USA - Erie Times-News, PA - March 29, 2005 


Erie, Pa. - A man raped a 12-year-old girl while his wife videotaped the crime, and the couple also posted nude 

photos of the girl on the Internet, police said. 

George L. Eberle, 26, and Alesha M. Eberle, 22, both of Corry, sexually abused the girl at their home either in 

August or September 2002, Erie County police said. The girl was a relative of Alesha Eberle and was staying at the 

couple's home for a week's visit, authorities said. 

The girl told investigators the couple took photos of her undressing before George Eberle raped her and Alesha 

Eberle recorded the assault, according to court documents. 

Authorities said they first began investigating the Eberles in August when Yahoo Inc. contacted the Pennsylvania 


Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to report that a Web page made by George Eberle contained sexually 

explicit photos of a young female. 

In March, the girl told Corry police she had been abused by the couple, officials said. 

The couple was arrested Monday. George Eberle was charged with four misdemeanors and eight felonies, including 

rape of a child and sexual exploitation of children. Alesha Eberle was charged with two misdemeanors and seven 

felonies, including aggravated indecent assault of a child and corruption of minors. 

George Eberle was held in the Erie County Prison on a $10,000 bail and Alesha Eberle was released on her own 

recognizance. 

A telephone number listed under the Eberle's name was disconnected and the couple could not immediately be 

reached Tuesday morning. It was unclear if they had attorneys. 

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Former swim coach sentenced in sex case 

USA - The Kansas City Star, MO - March 29, 2005 

By Robert A. Cronkleton 

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11253784.htm 

A federal judge Monday sentenced a former swimming coach from Prairie Village to five years in prison for trying 

to persuade a minor to engage in sex with him. 

U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Van Bebber in Kansas City, Kan., also ordered Craig Ivancic, 30, to three years of 

probation after his prison term, which does not allow for parole. 

The former coach with the Kansas City Blazers Swim Team pleaded guilty in January to one count of using a 

telephone to attempt to persuade a minor to engage in sex. 

Authorities said Ivancic had communicated with a 14-year-old Clay County girl over the Internet and proposed a 

sexual relationship. The girl told her parents about her conversations with Ivancic, and the girl's parents contacted 

authorities. 

FBI officials used a member of a cyber crime task force to impersonate the girl. 

Ivancic admitted in his plea that he had daily contact with the undercover FBI agent from Aug. 30 through Sept. 9. 

During his communications, he expressed interest in having sex with her. Ivancic said he used his cell phone to send 

sexually explicit pictures. 

Ivancic arranged a rendezvous at the girl's house in Clay County. He was arrested after he showed up at the 

residence carrying, among other things, flowers and condoms. 

In his plea, he also admitted having a previous relationship with another minor female and engaging in sex with her 

four times in 2003. 

The Johnson County district attorney's office charged Ivancic in February with five counts of aggravated indecent 

liberties with a child between the ages of 14 and 16. An additional count, sexual exploitation of a child, was added 

this month. 

During Monday's sentencing hearing, Ivancic apologized to his Clay County victim and her family. 

He also apologized generally to the more than 500 children and their families whom he had come into contact with 

as a swim coach because, he said, he felt he had also let them down. 

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Posting too much information on Web leaves students vulnerable 


USA - The Enterprise March 29, 2005 

By Kelly Karolyshyn 

http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2005/03/29/news/news/news01.txt 

When Erik Dingley heard that Stonehill College in Easton was connected to "Thefacebook,"an Internet site that 

allows college students to connect with friends and classmates via student profiles, he was eager to post his profile 

on the site. 

Then he began getting the phone calls. 

"A girl from the University of New Hampshire saw my 'facebook' picture, and was able to get my contact 

information," Dingley said. "She started instant messaging me online, and eventually called my room wanting to 

have phone sex." 

Dingley learned what many others have discovered putting too much information online can be dangerous. 

"You are just posting it for the whole world," said Raynham Deputy Police Chief Louis J. Pacheco, president of the 

High Tech Crime Consortium, a national group involved with computer crime investigation and analysis. 

Thefacebook is a site growing in popularity among college students. Stonehill and Bridgewater State colleges have 

recently joined more than 300 schools now on the network. 

Once they have accessed Thefacebook network, students must register on the site using their school e-mail address. 

If they do not have a valid address at the school, they are not able to join the site. 

From there, the student makes a "profile," which often includes a picture, contact information, location, interests, 

hobbies and relationship status. The students can include as much or as little information about themselves as they 

like. 

Students use the site to meet new people and contact people with similar interests. They can get in touch with one 

another if the person has posted such contact information as residence hall, online screen name, room number and 

cellphone numbers. 

Stonehill College senior Caitlyn DeRose said Thefacebook offers convenient ways to find like-minded people. 

"It has more benefits than simply being a 'stalker' Web site. It provides a convenient way to keep in touch with old 

friends, new friends and acquaintances," she said. 

Gossip is a key use for the Web site, she said. 

"The most popular reason to join Thefacebook is to catch up on gossip," DeRose said. "If your friends are talking 

about someone and you can't figure out who it is, you can log on to Thefacebook and finally put a face to a name." 

There is a spot in a student's profile that asks what they are "looking for" on Thefacebook. Options include 

"Friendship, Dating, Relationship, or Random Play," so students will know what the person is interested in pursuing. 

Students and college staff can access all the posted information from their own college and they can obtain limited 

information from another college linked to the network. People who do not have a college e-mail address cannot 

register for the site to gain access to the information, unless they are using someone else's address and password. 

But despite those boundaries, some say too much information about students can be gleaned from the posted profiles 

and that can be risky. 

Stonehill College student Jill Allen, 19, said she only puts limited information in her profile. 

"I didn't put my phone numbers in my profile because I don't want random people to be able to call me," she said. 

"The only people that need my phone number are the ones that I give it to." 

According to the FBI's guide to Internet safety, people should "never give out identifying information such as their 

name, home address, school name or telephone number." 


Many students provide some or all of this information in their facebook profile. 

Users also an "invite" other users to be included in the section "My Friends." The person who has been invited will 

receive an e-mail asking them to "confirm" or "reject" the student's friendship. 

"You only have as many friends as facebook tells you that you do," Dermody said. 

Jeff Jones, 20, a Bridgewater State College student, has mixed feelings on the "Friends" section. 

"In a way, I think it's cool because you get a chance to talk to people you normally wouldn't, but it doesn't really 

have much of a point other than trying to compete with people to see who gets more facebook friends," Jones said. 

"It's kind of like a popularity contest." 

Pacheco said the students can't be sure who is reading their profiles and what that person wants to do with the 

information. 

"The Internet has connected all of these pedophiles and made them anonymous," he said. 

According to a research survey by Crimes Against Children Research Center, one out of every 33 youths on the 

Internet has been the victim of aggressive sexual solicitation and one in 17 was threatened or harassed in the past 

year. 

"Kids think they are invulnerable because they are in a safe area, their dorm, their bedroom. They get a sense of 

safety and then, when they put that private information out there, with that personal information, they are exposing 

themselves to the world," Pacheco said. 

The site, www.thefacebook.com, was launched on Feb. 4, 2004 and was created by Mark Zuckerberg. 

According to the Web site, Thefacebook is "an online directory that connects people through social networks at 

colleges and universities." In order for a college to be included, people from the school must send requests to the 

administrators of the Web site, asking to be included. 

Other facebook features include "Groups," in which students can create a club where students with similar interests 

can join. Most groups revolve around a theme, such as a musician, a television show, a hair color, or a sports team. 

Some students say the Web site can be habit-forming. 

"Facebook is really addictive," said Caitlin Dermody, 19, a student at Bridgewater State. "It's the ultimate antihomework 

procrastinating device." 

Allen agreed. 

"I like it, but it's really addicting," she said. "I don't go on it that much anymore just because I'll end up wasting so 

much time looking people up." 

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Jail for teacher who had sex with girls 

Australia - The Advertiser - March 30, 2005 

By Sean Fewster 

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12696638%5E2682,00.html 

Since admitting sexual relationships with two of his girl school students, Kym William Slater has lived a "selfimposed 

exile" of shame and embarrassment. 

The convicted pedophile yesterday began a harsher exclusion from society a minimum 3 1/2 year jail term imposed 

by the District Court. While agreeing Slater was far from a "predatory" sex offender, Judge David Bright said his 

abuse of two teenage girls was too serious to suspend his sentence. 


"The law must make it clear that people in your position cannot allow the relationships they develop with students to 

develop into sexual relationships," Judge Bright said. 

The 35-year-old, of Craigmore, pleaded guilty to one count of indecent assault and five counts of unlawful sexual 

intercourse by a school master. 

Slater met his victims, both students of his at a Riverland high school, in 2002. He has since resigned from teaching. 

Their games of "truth or dare" and his questions about sex gave way to flirting text messages and sexual intercourse. 

The first victim was indecently assaulted on Valentine's Day 2003. They had sex on a couch in his house. He bought 

the second victim $60 credit for her mobile telephone and said she could "work it off", eventually having sex with 

her four times. When the relationships ended, Slater used text messages to urge the girls to keep silent. 

John Lister, for Slater, said his client had lived a "self-imposed exile" since pleading guilty to the offences and had 

sought professional treatment. 

"In objective terms, (the offences have) ruined the career of a relatively young man . . . he will never again be able 

to work in the education system in any capacity," Mr Lister said. 

"He fully acknowledges it was his fault and he regrets what happened . . . he has asked me to express publicly his 

apologies to (the girls) concerned." 

Judge Bright, however, said jail was the only appropriate punishment for Slater "despite those considerations". "I 

accept it was because of that depression that you permitted yourself to do things which you obviously knew you 

should not have done. 

"The court must make it plain to others who would be likely to offend in the same way that such conduct will be met 

with severe punishment." 

He sentenced Slater to six years' jail, with a 3 1/2 year non-parole period. 

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We must have justice in this case 

USA - The Reporter, CA- March 29, 2005 

http://www.thereporter.com/letters/ci_2628148 

Jessica Lunsford was stolen from her own bedroom by a sexual predator who had been arrested 24 times before. I 

think he is the scum of the earth. John Evander Couey deserves death with no chance of appeal. He reportedly has 

admitted that he committed this brutal crime against this beautiful little girls. 

But there are others I consider criminally culpable, as well. The three, including Couey's half-sister Dorothy Dixon, 

who have been arrested deserve just punishment, as well. We must have justice. 

There are others in suits and ties and perhaps black robes who share in the guilt for Jessica's murder. The parole 

boards and judges who allowed this predator to roam the night in search of helpless children to attack are 

responsible. 

According to all the information I have, a pedophile can never be rehabilitated. Surely judges and parole boards 

know this if the ordinary citizen knows it. Our legal system failed Jessica, her family and all of us who would like to 

believe in justice. How can we any longer believe in the so-called justice system when children are not safe in their 

own bedrooms when this derelict, perverted crack-head runs free. No. It seems that law-abiding citizens are the 

prisoners today, while justice turns a blind eye and votes in favor of the criminal. 

When is our so-called justice system going to act for the helpless, the hardworking, law-abiding citizen rather than 

for the predators of this world? 

I'm sure that soon there will be those in the press who will add greatly to the suffering of the Lunsford family by 


trying to rationalize this murder by pleading mental illness, a deprived childhood or drugs. But before they do, they 

should ask themselves what if this was their daughter, granddaughter, sister or anyone else whom you love? How 

would you feel then? 

We the people need to demand justice in this case, and in every case where criminals prey on law-abiding citizens. 

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Jessica's death spurs talk of need to change sex offender laws 

USA - The Florida Times-Union, FL - March 28, 2005 

By David Royse 

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/032805/D8949V780.shtml 

Tallahassee, Fla. - Once again a child has been killed and like many other cases, Floridians are asking whether 

loopholes in the law allowed a criminal easy access to his prey. 

Much of the nation watched this month as Jessica Lunsford's father desperately searched for her when she went 

missing from the Homosassa home she shared with her father and grandparents. 

Desperation turned to outrage after the third-grader's body was found March 19 and police arrested a part-time 

neighbor, convicted sex offender John Couey. 

Jessica's father never knew a sex offender lived across the street. 

High profile cases - particularly those involving innocent children - always make lawmakers eager to fix anything 

that might have gone wrong. When Carlie Brucia was abducted and murdered in Sarasota last year, and a 

probationer was charged, legislation to crack down on people on probation was filed quickly, although nothing 

substantive has passed yet in that case. 

There are hundreds of laws known by the name of a child who died - The Jimmy Ryce Act, Kayla's Law, Megan's 

Law and others. 

Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy, who investigated Jessica's murder this month, was in Tallahassee Monday 

meeting with senators about what might need to be changed to prevent something like this from happening again. 

Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, has already called for toughening the state's laws against sexual offenders. 

Couey is a repeat felon previously convicted of a sex crime against a minor. He had warned people in the system 

that he couldn't control his urges. 

What can be done is a big question, but Sen. Nancy Argenziano, Jessica's senator, has some ideas. 

For one, she's considering whether the definitions of who is a sexual offender and who is classified a sexual predator 

should change. Sex offenders are people who commit one of several crimes, from sexual battery to child 

pornography. Sexual predators are offenders whose crimes are against children or are violent, or who are repeat 

offenders. 

The state tracks both, requiring them to register their whereabouts. But sex predators are more closely watched. 

Argenziano, R-Crystal River, also said she'd also like lawmakers to look at possible sentencing changes, but no 

specifics have been spelled out yet. 

Perhaps the most dramatic suggestion is that sex offenders be tracked by global positioning systems so their 

whereabouts are always known. 

Argenziano said she'd like to see them tracked "for life." 

"It's been proven you don't get better," she said. 

Sheriff Dawsy said lawmakers should also look at making people who harbor or help sex offenders, or who know 


sex offenders may have committed a crime and fail to report it, more accountable. 

Prosecutors should have more authority to go after Couey's half-sister Dorothy Dixon, with whom he lived, Dawsy 

said. She was charged with misdemeanor obstruction of justice, accused of lying to investigators who asked about 

Couey living at her home. 

"Couey's half sister allows Couey to live at that residence knowing he's a sexual offender, allows him to live there, 

understands his background, understands his thirst and appetite for children, young children, and fails to kick him 

out or failed to let us know," Dawsy said. "There should be a law holding that person accountable." 

Dixon's lawyer, Robert Christensen, said Monday he couldn't comment on her case because he'd only just been 

assigned to represent her. 

Couey, 46, is being held without bail on charges of capital murder, battery, kidnapping and sexual battery on a child 

under 12. 

Senate President Tom Lee said he hoped the Legislature would take a serious look at tightening the law regarding 

sex offenders. 

"I have a 7-year-old daughter," said Lee, who talked to Jessica's father last week. "So I could relate very well to 

what he's going through." 

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Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in child porn case against former Calif. 

judge 

USA - North County Times, CA - March 28, 2005 

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/03/29/news/state/65812.txt 

Los Angeles (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of a former California judge 

accused of storing child pornography on his court computer. 

Without commenting, justices let stand a federal appeals court ruling in favor of prosecutors who want to present 

graphic images allegedly taken from former Orange County Superior Judge Ronald Kline's computers. 

The case now returns to a Los Angeles federal court where a judge will hear a motion by Kline's attorney who is 

challenging the truthfulness of a government agent in a search warrant affidavit, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman 

for the U.S. attorney's office. 

No date has been set, he said, adding that if the judge rules in favor of prosecutors in the hearing, then the case will 

go to trial. 

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in October that the images can be admitted at trial, 

striking a federal judge's decision to throw out the evidence allegedly found on Kline's home and court computers. 

The argument centers on whether the images were seized legally by Canadian hacker Bradley Willman, who used a 

computer program to download diary entries and other material from Kline's computers. The hacked information 

was turned over to Pedowatch, a Colorado watchdog group, which notified the Irvine Police Department. 

Kline, 64, has pleaded innocent to charges of possessing child pornography. 

"There are several pending motions that will proceed with vigor," Kline's attorney, Paul Meyer, said after learning 

about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision. 

In June 2003, U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall threw out key evidence found on Kline's home computer, 

saying the evidence was seized after an illegal search by Willman. 

The judge ruled Willman was working as a government agent when he hacked Kline's computers, thus requiring a 

search warrant. 


But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ruling, saying Willman was an anonymous tipster and 

Irvine police had no advance knowledge of his search, so no warrant was needed. 

Kline, who was arrested in 2001, stepped down from the bench. He also faces separate state charges of molesting a 

14-year-old boy in the late 1970s. 

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Point man sentenced for child porn 

USA _ WAOW-TV9, WI - March 28, 2005 

http://www.waow.com/news/full_story.php?id=36982&waow=07e312d34e000d93f1fe3ad3c81e14cc 

A Stevens Point man will spend the next five years in prison for having child pornography on his computer. 

Prosecutors charged 68 year old, John Bednarski, after a search of his home. 

Police found a computer hard drive with images of children engaged in sexual behavior. 

An exam of the computer, also revealed many sexually explicit pictures on an internet chatroom. 

Bednarski pleaded guilty to the charges, and was sentenced to 70 months in prison. 

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Second case of alleged sexual assault suggests child porn ring 

USA - KTRK-TV13, TX - March 23, 2005 

By Deborah Wrigley 

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/032305_local_childporn.html 

Missouri City, TX Investigators in Fort Bend County believe they have uncovered a child pornography ring. That's 

after a second victim has come forward saying he was assaulted by a man arrested last week. 

Detectives announced the first case against Kevin James Bramwell, 26, on Monday. That one involved an 11-yearold 

boy. Now a second case has been linked to Bramwell, and police in Missouri City say that could be only the 

beginning. 

Bramwell is accused of enticing an 11-year-old boy with an offer of $150 on March 10. The boy accused Bramwell 

of sexually assaulting him at a self-storage warehouse, then taking pictures. 

On Tuesday, a second boy accused Bramwell of assaulting him as well. He's a 16-year-old male student at Clements 

High School in Sugar Land. 

Gregg Nelson with the Missouri City Police Department said, "The child gave us allegations of multiple offenses of 

sexual assault of a child. Those allegations are being investigated at present. We believe they will be substantiated." 

Detectives suspect there are more cases to come. Another computer belonging to Bramwell has now been seized. 

Police say there may also be more people involved. Another man is said to be a person of interest, and an 

unidentified woman from Fort Bend County could be involved as well. 

The trio is possibly operating out of an RV that moved around the area, and that concerns police even more. 

"Along with the things that he has said to these children, we suspect there may be a large-scale child pornography 

ring at work here," Nelson suggested. "We have many concerns. Our big concern is children are still coming to 

harm." 

Experts recommend parents reassure their children and talk with them. 


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Juvenile alleges sexual encounter 

USA - Times-dispatch, VA - March 28, 2005 

By Rex Bowman 

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid 

=1031781840257 

Bedford - A former flight attendant on Air Force Two, accused of using an Internet chat room to entice a Bedford 

County girl into having sex, hurried his plans to meet her because he was going to jail soon for a similar offense in 

Ohio, the girl testified yesterday. 

"He said he wanted to go to my house and have sex with me before he went to jail," the 17-year-old girl testified 

yesterday in Air Force Sgt. Darryl Walizer's preliminary hearing in a Bedford court. 

The girl also testified that when she began a sexual relationship over the Internet with an English professor at 

Bridgewater College, Walizer threatened to notify the police. 

Walizer, 37, of Waldorf, Md., is charged with soliciting a juvenile to commit a felony of nonforcible sodomy. If 

convicted, he could spend 10 years in jail. 

An 18-year Air Force veteran, Walizer was convicted March 1, 2004, in a Wooster, Ohio, court of soliciting sex 

over the Internet. In that case, he went to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl who turned out to be an 

undercover police officer. 

Shortly after his arrest in Ohio in 2003, Walizer was booted off the Air Force Two flight team. Air Force Two is the 

aircraft that carries the vice president and other high-ranking U.S. officials. Walizer was sentenced to 10 months in 

jail in Ohio, and a judge there had ordered him to report to jail after denying his appeal. 

In court yesterday, Bedford Commonwealth's Attorney Randy C. Krantz said the Bedford girl had been chatting 

with Walizer online for more than two years, since she was 15. 

Both had webcams attached to their computers, and she said she occasionally, though reluctantly, exposed and 

touched herself because of his persistent requests. Sometimes he videotaped her. 

She said Walizer grew more forceful in his demands as his incarceration approached, so she consented to a 

rendezvous, afraid that if she didn't, he would start calling her house. He drove to Bedford, she said, where she 

picked him up in the parking lot of a shopping center and drove him back to her house, where they had sex. 

She said she felt pressured to do it: "I was very scared and I wasn't sure what I was going to do. That's why I carried 

a pocketknife in my purse." 

The girl said her computer is located in the basement of her parents' house, and she used it without their supervision. 

Krantz said the parents discovered her alleged liaison with Walizer in late January and notified authorities. 

Using Walizer's statements and a forensic scan of her computer, authorities discovered she had had a sexual 

relationship with a college professor she met on line, Krantz added. The accused professor, Sean Dunn, was to have 

his preliminary hearing along with Walizer yesterday in Bedford Juvenile and Domestic District Court, but his 

hearing was postponed. 

Dunn, 36, who was fired from his teaching job after his arrest, is charged with soliciting the girl to commit a felony 

of nonforcible sodomy and soliciting her to commit a felony of producing child pornography. Authorities said he 

had numerous sexual encounters with the girl in Bedford over nine months. He faces 20 years in prison if convicted. 

After yesterday's hearing in the Walizer case, Judge Phillip A. Wallace sent the charge to a grand jury meeting in 

May. The grand jury must decide if Krantz has enough evidence to prosecute Walizer. 

Walizer's attorney, Carter Garrett, conceded that Walizer had sex with the girl, but he disputed Krantz's 

characterization of the online chat between the girl and Walizer. 


The transcripts introduced into evidence yesterday showed Walizer using graphic language to describe the sex acts 

he wanted to perform on the girl, language Garrett characterized as "talking dirty," but not solicitation. 

Krantz said there's a lesson in the "sordid" episode. 

"Young people need to be monitored and supervised on the Internet," he said. "We always tell our children not to 

talk to strangers. For some reason, with the advent of the Internet, there are no more strangers." 

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Ramstein master sergeant gets 19 years in child sex abuse, porn case 

Germany = Stars and Stripes European edition - March 30, 2005 

By Scott Schonauer, 

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28079 

Ramstein Air Base, Germany An Air Force master sergeant pleaded guilty at a court-martial Tuesday to sexually 

abusing two girls and amassing a stash of child pornography that included digital images of infants. 

Master Sgt. Bart Lipscomb, a maintenance superintendent with the Ramstein-based 86th Aircraft Maintenance 

Squadron, admitted to sexually abusing one of the girls dozens of times over a four-year period. He apologized for 

sexually abusing her and her best friend. 

Theres no excuse for what I did to you, he said in a tearful statement. 

A military judge sentenced Lipscomb to 19 years in a military prison, a dishonorable discharge, a reduction to the 

lowest pay grade and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. A plea bargain, however, means he will not serve more 

than 11 years in jail. 

The sentencing ended a full day of graphic testimony that, at times, had members of the viewing gallery in tears. 

From the time the girl was 8, Lipscomb said, he molested her as much as four times a week. 

Although Lipscomb said he tried to stop, the abuse continued, and the abuse became more frequent the older she 

got. On at least one occasion, he tried to use handcuffs on the girl, now 13. 

Air Force prosecutor Capt. Kimberly Quendensley said Lipscomb turned the girl into a sexual slave. 

Every time he abused her, Quendensley said, he took away her innocence. 

The abuse continued until the girls best friend told her mother, an Air Force technical sergeant based at Ramstein at 

the time, that Lipscomb also molested her. The 14-year-old girl testified during the court-martial that Lipscomb 

fondled her last year. 

Her mother told the judge that her daughter didnt admit to what happened until she began having behavior problems 

soon after the molestation. Thats when she and her daughter went to the police. 

Under questioning from Air Force criminal investigators, Lipscomb confessed to the abuse. Seizure of his home 

computer, zip drives and compact discs would lead to a large stash of child pornography. 

Investigators found 1,500 digital images and movies of child pornography on Lipscombs home computer. Some of 

the pictures included photographs of infants. 

Before sentencing, Lipscomb admitted he needed rehabilitation and didnt know exactly why he turned to abusing 

the girls. 

Why I chose to do something so horrible ... Ill never understand, Lipscomb said. 

Quendensley argued that he should serve no less than 15 years behind bars. 


No young child is safe from him, she said. 

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Should Kids Be Listed as Sex Offenders? 

USA - ABC News - March 30, 2005 

By Dean Schabner 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=603717&page=2 

Shawn Murphy admits he forced his 11-year-old cousin to have sex with him, but when many of the people who 

know him in the eastern Iowa town of Russell found out about his crime, they said that since he's done his time and 

is going through therapy, he should be forgiven. 

Maybe that's because Murphy, an 18-year-old senior at Russell Community School, was just 13 when he committed 

the crime. Maybe it's because Murphy seemed just like any other teenager, until he turned 18 and, in accordance 

with Iowa law, his name was posted on the state's sex offender registry Web site. 

Some parents were angry that they did not know there was a sex offender walking the halls of the school, which is 

attended by 150 students from pre-K through grade 12. They wanted him thrown out of school and were furious at 

school officials. 

When the school held a meeting to consider the issue earlier this month, many of Murphy's classmates showed up 

wearing T-shirts with slogans supporting him, and after he spoke about his crime, some hugged him in sympathy. 

"I forced my cousin to have sexual intercourse with me," said Murphy, who was convicted in juvenile court of thirddegree 

sexual assault, sent to a sex offender rehabilitation facility, and ordered to go through counseling and register 

as a sex offender. "I messed up, and I'm truly sorry. And nothing can change that. I hope you guys can see me for 

who I am, not my past." 

That is the difficulty in dealing with any convicted sex offender, but the problem may be particularly troublesome 

when dealing with teenagers, especially when juveniles -- whether they are violent rapists or an older teen who had 

consensual sex with a younger boyfriend or girlfriend -- are treated the same way as adults and forced to carry the 

label of sex offenders. 

"It causes a lot of problems and doesn't make much sense," said Gail Ryan of the National Adolescent Perpetrator 

Network's Kempe Children's Center. "With juveniles, we have pretty strong consensus in the field that we shouldn't 

be calling kids sex offenders when they're adolescents, when they're still forming their identities." 

But severe punishment is important for the victims and their families, said Laura Ahearn, the director of Parents for 

Megan's Law, a victims' rights organization focused of child sexual abuse victims. 

"Justice isn't served unless there is severe punishment for a crime that can ruin a person's life," she said. 

However, she said that treatment is also important for juvenile offenders, because there is a chance that it can have 

an effect on their behavior once they are released from prison. 

"It's more palatable for the family of a child sex abuse victim to know the perpetrator is getting treatment when the 

perpetrator is a juvenile, rather than an adult, because juvenile offenders have a better chance for treatment to have a 

result," she said. "Most people would agree you can't change a sex preference, so treatment is not going to be 

effective for a pedophile. No amount of treatment is going to change that." 

Besides acting as a warning to the public, labeling an adult as a sex offender may be a useful rehabilitation tool 

because it clashes with that person's idea of who he is -- serving as a reminder of the horrible thing he has done and 

thus acting as a deterrent. But in the case of a juvenile, the label could become his self-image, encouraging the youth 

to repeat the crime. 

"Calling juveniles sex offenders in and of itself is not productive," Ryan said. "It is not productive to have them 

thinking of themselves as sex offenders, when that's not who we want them to be." 


Despite the popular perception that sex offenders are extremely likely to repeat their crimes, studies show people 

convicted of sex crimes have among the lowest recidivism rates of any category of criminal, and those numbers are 

even lower for juveniles. 

"The vast majority don't continue offending as adults," Ryan said. "They're more like other delinquents than like 

adult sex offenders." 

Various studies reviewed by the federal government's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention found 

that as few as 8 percent and as many as 14 percent of juvenile sex offenders commit new sex crimes. 

A meta-analysis of 61 studies of adult sex offender recidivism put the rate for child molesters at 12.7 percent and for 

rapists at 18.9 percent, but the studies that were involved only considered reconviction rates. A more recent 

longitudinal study in Canada that considered self-reported acts that were not reported to police, however, found 

higher recidivism rates for adults: 22 percent for incest child molesters, 19.5 percent for non-incest child molesters 

and 17.1 percent for rapists. 

"What virtually all of the studies show, contrary to popular opinion, is that relatively few JSOs [juvenile sex 

offenders] are charged with a subsequent sex crime," the report said. "Whether this is due to deterrence, humiliation, 

lack of opportunity, clinical treatment, increased surveillance or inadequate research methodology is difficult to 

ascertain." 

Ryan, who has studied juvenile perpetrators for 20 years, said most juvenile sex offenders commit their crimes the 

way some kids shoplift or commit acts of vandalism, "pushing the limits." She said that in many cases she has 

looked at, particularly when the offenders were extremely young, such as 12 or 13, they did not even realize what 

they had done was against the law. 

"But the effect on their lives is so much greater that the effect of other things they might get involved in," she said. 

Advocacy groups that work for child victims of sexual abuse agree that juvenile offenders should be treated 

differently than adults, at least in part because many such offenders are victims of abuse themselves, and because it 

is believed that aggressive treatment can reduce the risk that sex offenders will repeat their crimes. 

Ahearn said that while juvenile sex offenders need to be severely punished, they should not have their names put on 

adult sex offender registry Web sites. 

Instead, she said, those with a "need to know," such as school officials, should be informed if a teenager is a 

convicted sex offender so that appropriate precautions can be taken. 

Donna Coleman, director of Children's Advocacy Alliance, said too many juvenile sex offenders were victims 

before they became abusers. 

"We have a mental health crisis in this country, especially with kids in foster care, and a lot of kids who have 

committed sex crimes come out of foster care, and they are in there because somebody has acted out on them," she 

said. "I don't think we should label them. We should try to rehabilitate them." 

Shawn Murphy, who is hoping to go to college, talked like somebody who had been rehabilitated at the meeting last 

week to decide whether he would be thrown out of high school just months before he was to graduate. In the end, 

school officials decided to allow him to receive his degree, though he was barred from attending classes for the rest 

of the year. 

"It was a situation where we had to make a decision about his education, and he's entitled to it," said Bob McCurdy, 

superintendent of the Russell School District. "It is a relief to parents who had anxieties, and the diploma takes care 

of the young man. It was in everyone's best interests that he do that, and the board was happy to grant that." 

For others who were juvenile sex offenders, being treated the same way as an adult would mean not being able to 

fully participate in their own children's lives, according to the founding director of Save Our TexSons, a Texasbased 

group that is trying to get the state to be more flexible in how it deals with youthful offenders, depending on 

the nature of their crime. 


Save Our TexSons is focused on the kinds of cases when a teenager of 17, 18 or 19 has consensual sex with a 

younger teen, either in ignorance of his or her partner's real age or during an ongoing relationship, and when no 

force or coercion is involved. 

Among the stories posted on the group's Web site are tales in which the sex offender is now married to his or her 

victim, and they have children, but the sex offender is barred from taking their children to day care, attending school 

meetings and in some cases visiting other family members because of where they live. 

The group was started by three longtime friends after the teenage son of one was labeled a sex offender because, the 

group says, he had sex with a 14-year-old who told him she was 17. 

State laws vary on how juvenile sex offenders are dealt with, and if or when their names are added to the sex 

offender registries. 

In Iowa, for example, not every juvenile sex offender is placed on the sex offender registry Web site, and most do 

not wind up with their names on the list. The law says a judge can decide whether a minor must register. 

Robert Blink, a former Iowa juvenile court judge, said several factors such as the age of the offender, the 

relationship to the victim, and the nature and severity of the offense weigh into a judge's decision. If a sex offender 

is under the age of 20 at the time of the offense and the victim is 14 or 15 years of age, the offender cannot be 

placed on the registry's Web site. 

But perhaps the most important consideration, Blink said, is whether the juvenile is likely to commit another sex 

crime. 

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Boulder man arrested in child sex sting 

USA - Rocky Mountain News, CO - March 30, 2005 

By Charlie Brennan, 

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3661119,00.html 

Colorado Springs police were alarmed when they discovered in February what Paul James Stewart Scott was 

allegedly looking for on the Internet - initially, he wanted to have sex with a mother-daughter tandem, then murder 

the child. 

Investigators said the Boulder County man's plan evolved into something different, and every bit as disturbing - 

paying for sex with a child, plus his own murder at another girl's hands. 

The alleged scheme didn't result in Scott's death, but it has landed the 53-year-old in jail on a $1 million cash-only 

bail. 

"I was posing as an adult, setting this up for him," said Colorado Springs police Detective Clay Blackwell. 

"We went ahead and contacted him and told him we might be able to fix things up, and arrange it. And all of a 

sudden, things changed, and he wanted to die, rather than killing the girl." 

As the conversations continued, Blackwell said, Scott allegedly became more specific in what he was seeking. 

"He wanted to have sex with an 8- to 12-year-old," said Blackwell. "When he got there, he was going to pick 

between an 8- or a 10-year-old to have sex with, that we supposedly had for him. 

"And then there was going to be another one - we said, 'How about 16 years old?' - and that was the one that was 

supposed to kill him." 

Scott, police said, wanted to be smothered while having sex with a child. 

A detective, posing as a broker capable of arranging such a scenario, told Scott his fantasy could become reality for 

the price of $13,200. 


"He sent us a cashier's check for $1,200 as a deposit, and he came with another $12,000 cash," Blackwell said. 

When Scott showed up at a Colorado Springs park early Monday afternoon, he got into a car with a detective posing 

as the broker who was arranging Scott's macabre tryst. 

After allegedly producing his $12,000, Blackwell said, Scott was arrested. 

Scott, said Blackwell, was surprised to find that the police, not underage girls, awaited him. 

"He was quite shocked," said Blackwell. "You could tell by the expression on his face that he definitely thought he 

had made the right connection - and it wasn't the police." 

It appeared, through online conversations with Scott, that he was serious in wanting to carry out the crimes for 

which he is being held, according to police. 

"I tried to get him to talk to me about that. I asked him, 'Is this what you want? This is final.' He said, 'Yeah, I've 

been thinking about it for years.' He never gave me an explanation, as to why." 

Scott lived with his wife in the 100 block of Betasso Road in the mountains west of downtown Boulder. Blackwell 

did not know how long Scott and his wife had been married. 

Pat Mika, Scott's attorney, declined comment Tuesday until he could learn more about the case. 

Scott was being held Tuesday for investigation of solicitation for child prostitution, a class-three felony; attempted 

sexual assault on a child, a class-five felony; enticement of a child, a class-four felony; and attempted sexual assault, 

a class-two misdemeanor. 

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Former Boy Scouts Official Arrested on Child Porn Charges 

USA - ABC News - March. 29, 2005 

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=624049&page=1 

A former Boy Scouts of America official has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. 

Douglas Sovereign Smith Jr., who as national program director planned activities for thousands of Scouts across the 

country, was accused of receiving over the Internet images of children engaging in sexually explicit acts. 

Smith, 61, was also chairman of the Scout's Youth Protection League -- alerting Scout leaders to the dangers of 

predators on the Internet, ABC News has learned. 

Law enforcement officials indicated the pictures did not show boys who were affiliated with the Boy Scouts, 

according to Gregg Shields, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts. 

Tip From German Authorities 

U.S. customs and immigration agents began investigating Smith last year after German authorities in Frankfurt 

tipped them off to his alleged ties to an Internet child pornographer. 

Customs agents connected the child pornography to an e-mail address that was traced to Smith. He was arrested as 

part of an international crackdown on Internet child pornography that has netted 5,000 suspects so far. 

"There's no typology for the child pornographer," said John Clark, deputy assistant secretary for Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement. "And that's part of the problem we have in law enforcement. They run the gamut of persons, 

doctors, lawyers, teachers, priests, clergymen of all sorts." 

"You're going to find people who are accessing pornography from every segment of our society, which means we 

need to do a better job of protecting our kids and make no assumptions about where our kids might be safe," said 


Shay Bilchik, president and chief executive officer of the Child Welfare League of America. 

The Boy Scouts organization issued a statement saying it was "dismayed and shocked to learn of the charges 

against" Smith. 

The group placed Smith on administrative leave last February after learning of the investigation. Smith, who had 

been with the Scouts for 38 years with no indication of prior criminal activity, immediately retired. 

Smith is expected to appear in federal court Wednesday. Prosecutors say they expect him to plead guilty. 

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Ex-Boy Scout official pleads guilty to child porn charge 

USA - CNN - March 30, 2005 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/30/scouts.charges/index.html 

Fort Worth, Texas (CNN) -- A former top official of the Boy Scouts of America pleaded guilty Wednesday to one 

count of receiving and distributing child pornography, including pictures of boys younger than 12. 

Douglas S. Smith Jr., 61, entered the plea before a federal judge in Fort Worth, acknowledging he "knowingly 

received or distributed an image of child pornography." 

Smith didn't speak during the 45-minute hearing, other than an occasional "yes, sir" or "no, sir" when the judge 

asked him questions. 

As part of the plea, he will face a minimum of five years in prison and a possible maximum sentence of no more 

than 20 years. He also could be fined up to $250,000. 

A sentencing date was set for July 12. Smith will be free on bond until then. 

Bret Helmer, an assistant U.S. attorney, said there was no evidence Smith molested any children. He said Smith has 

been contrite and wants "to get this behind him." 

"Mr. Smith has been forthright," Helmer said. "He is willing to accept responsibility as he did today." 

Nearly 40-year Scout career 

Smith retired from the Boy Scouts in February following a 39-year career with the youth organization -- which is 

based in suburban Dallas. He had been placed on administrative leave when the group learned he was under 

criminal investigation, and he stepped down soon afterward, Boy Scouts of America spokesman Greg Shields said 

before the plea deal. 

"As a professional Scouter, he was in more administrative positions -- most recently [director of programming] -- 

and not in direct contact with the youth," Shields said. 

Shields said the Boy Scouts organization is "shocked and dismayed" by Smith's arrest, but the group has cooperated 

with investigators in the case. 

"We surrendered his work computer to authorities," he said. 

According to the plea agreement, investigators searched Smith's home in Colleyville on February 22 and seized his 

computer and computer discs, discovering 520 images of child pornography, including video clips. 

"The child pornography depicted males under the age of 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct," the agreement 

said. "Among these pornographic images were sexually explicit depictions of actual and known prepubescent males 

under the age of 12 years." 

According to the plea, Smith, a former Eagle Scout, received the images via the Internet and stored them on his 

computer, on computer discs and in his AOL e-mail account before distributing "the images to others over the 


Internet." 

A search of his work computer at the headquarters of Boy Scouts of America yielded no images. Smith surrendered 

to authorities Friday and was allowed to be released without bond, according to court records. 

Prosecutor: Case a warning to others 

Helmer said it appeared Smith had been involved with downloading and distributing child pornographic pictures for 

several years. He said Wednesday's plea was a warning to others. 

"We will find you," Helmer said. 

According to the plea, the investigation began in Germany in November 2003 when authorities there executed a 

search warrant on a man suspected of trafficking in child pornography over the Internet. As part of that 

investigation, authorities found that Smith had received images of child pornography from the man. 

The Smith investigation is part of a U.S. probe known as Operation Predator, which began in 1997. It has resulted in 

more than 5,300 arrests worldwide since 2003, said Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement, which oversees the investigation. 

Those charged in previous cases have included doctors, police officers, teachers, camp counselors and coaches, he 

said. 

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Female teacher suspended in sex probe 

United Kingdom - Biggleswade Today - March 30, 2005 

http://www.biggleswadetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=541&articleid=985075 

A female teacher from Luton's Halyard High School has been suspended accused of having sex with an under age 

pupil. 

Police arrested and bailed the teacher after the teenager made a statement to family protection officers about the 

relationship, which allegedly started when he was 15. 

The boy's father has criticised the school's handling of the case, accusing it of trying to sweep the matter under the 

carpet. 

He said Halyard only suspended the teacher after he complained she was still teaching three school days later. The 

dad also claimed the school failed to act on an anonymous phone call, which he discovered had informed police 

about the alleged relationship a month earlier. 

He said: "I want to make sure they are investigating things properly for our benefit and for other parents. 

"It's the second situation at the school and it seems like they are trying to hide this one because it's the last thing they 

want." 

Former Halyard assistant headteacher Paul Douglas, 38, was sentenced to 15 months in jail for child pornography 

offences at Luton Crown Court earlier this month. 

Police this week confirmed a Halyard teacher had been arrested and an investigation was under way, with support 

from specialist family protection officers. 

Luton Council spokeswoman Lisa Levy said: "It's not our usual policy to comment on individual members of staff. 

"However, we can confirm a teacher working at Halyard High School has been suspended pending a police 

investigation. 

"We are unable to make any further comments until the investigation is complete." 


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Exclusive - Paedophile faces jail over hardcore child porn 

United Kingdom - Machester Online - March 30, 2005 

By Robbie MacDonald 

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/152/152933_exclusive__paedophile_faces_jail_over_hardcore_child_po 

rn__.html 

A Nursing home care assistant is facing jail after downloading revolting hardcore child porn including one image of 

a young girl being raped by a grown man onto his computer. 

Bespectacled paedophile Uwe Dieter Weniger, 44, stored more than 1,000 still and moving images of girls aged 

mainly between 11 and 14 on his PC at his home on Hurdsfield Road in Macclesfield, a court heard. 

The majority were classed as low-level child pornography showing lone girls, naked or semi-naked, in provocative 

poses. Some were described as pre-pubescent. 

However, a minority of the images showed girls in sex acts with adult men, Macclesfield magistrates were told. 

And one was classed by police as a level-five image the most serious which, the bench was told, could include 

sadism and bestiality. 

Weniger admitted 18 offences relating to the possession of indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs and was 

warned he faced jail pending a probation report. 

Matthew Kerruish-Jones, prosecuting, said Weniger, a care assistant in elderly peoples homes, stored paedophilic 

images from the internet on his home computer. 

Police raided his home last July. Forensic evidence showed Weniger was the only user, and he had not exchanged or 

sold pornography to anyone else. 

Mr Kerruish-Jones said the defendant admitted to police that he was interested in looking at girls aged 14-upwards. 

He said: Thats what he preferred. He had downloaded images of younger girls but had deleted them. 

Various images and sequences were described in court. The majority showed lone girls in provocative sexual poses 

indoors and outdoors. 

However, one showed an 11 or 12-year-old performing sex acts with a man, another showed another girl with a 

man, and a third showed a girl aged 12 or 13 being raped by a man, Mr Kerruish-Jones said. 

Sergey Prokofiev, defending, said: The defendant admitted these offences the day he was arrested. He has not 

hidden anything. 

He said, yes, hes into porn. Yes, he has it on his computer. These are revolting images but they are mostly of a levelone 

class, meaning theres a low degree of exploitation and abuse. 

He downloaded these but did not make them, exchange or sell them. The images were all for personal use and there 

was no commercial gain. 

Mr Prokofiev said jailing his client would ruin his life. He had a plan to attend nursing school, to further his 

qualifications. But now, his ability to do so will be greatly compromised. 

Magistrates chairman Brenda Pragnell warned that they were keeping all sentencing options open. 

She told the defendant: There were at least five images above level-one, and you will have to sign the sex offenders 

register. 


Wenigers period on the register could depend on the length and type of his sentence. 

If he gets a non-custodial sentence or conditional discharge, his registration will last for the period of the sentence. 

If he is fined, it could last five years. And if he is jailed, his registration could last seven years, it was said. 

His computer equipment was seized by the police last year, and his defence solicitor requested some components be 

returned, as they were valuable and not central to the case, unlike the computers hard-drive. 

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Man sentenced to six years in prison for child porn 


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny-brf--childporn-sen0329mar29,0,5830619.story 

Buffalo, N.Y. (AP) _ A central New York man who was part of a group that traded child pornography was 

sentenced Tuesday to 6 years in prison for distributing and receiving sexual images of children, federal prosecutors 

said. 

Thomas Poole, 49, of Geneva also was fined $750, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Resnick. 

Poole pleaded guilty Dec. 22 to distributing and receiving child porn. Resnick said Poole was a member of a group 

called "My Two," which trades sexual images of children. 

Roughly 1,900 images of child porn were found on several computers and hard drives that were seized during a 

February 2004 raid on Poole's home, Resnick said. Also found were 300 movies. 

Resnick some of the images discovered contained sadistic and violent conduct. 

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Cops battle dark side of Net 


By Samuel Bruchey 

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liporn0330,0,1382196.story 

A slice of sausage pizza in one hand, Rory Forrestal, a gray-haired, heavy-smoking, happily married father of four 

gazed into his computer one evening last week as lewd sexual propositions came pouring in. 

"Hi ... you doing shows?" inquired PTLOVR4U. 

"Do you have a cam?" COLLEGEGUY_27_2004 wanted to know. 

The real answer was an emphatic "No." But even though Forrestal, 48, a detective in Suffolk's Computer Crimes 

Section, wasn't investigating these screen names, he wasn't about to turn away a potential pedophile from courting 

new victims. 

Forrestal and the five other detectives in the four-year-old unit have arrested 81 people on charges of sexually 

abusing children or possessing kiddie porn, more than three-fourths of them in the last two years. A comparable unit 

in the Nassau County police department has made 14 arrests since it was created in November 2003. 

One of Suffolk's most notable suspects, Bruce Wernick, 47, of Valley Stream, goes on trial in federal court 

Wednesday for five counts relating to child pornography. Prosecutors say he sodomized a 4-year-old girl but have 

chosen to focus on the pornography charges because they're easier to prove and the sentence is twice as severe. 

On a recent night, Forrestal joined a Yahoo chatroom called "$$Girls Who Need Money$$." With him posing as a 

13-year-old girl from New York, it took only seconds for nine adult men to pepper him with questions, ask for 

pictures, and offer money for a private strip tease in front of a Web cam. 

"You couldn't keep up with the cases, that's how many idiots are out there," Forrestal said. "But we're trying to go 


after the hard-core pedophiles." 

Their work has led them to darker corners of the Internet where pedophile parents swap children with each other. To 

them, the Internet is a permanent warehouse of images of anonymous children being sexually abused. 

"It just eats at you every time you come across one of these videos, Forrestal said. "Who are these children?" 

Three months after Suffolk officially created its computer crimes unit in May 2001, investigators received a tip that 

would lead them to a web of child-swapping, and a disturbing catalog of unidentified children. 

The case began with an advertisement posted by a Dix Hills man in the "babysex" chatroom seeking "fantasy chat 

with dads about swapping children for sex." 

Posing as a curious father with 9- and 13-year-old daughters, Forrestal found the man online on Aug. 28, 2001. 

"What does it all mean?" asked Forrestal, using a fictitious screen name. 

"It means I have a daughter I want to swap for fun with another on long Island NY," responded DADswapDAUliny, 

with imperfect spelling. 

"4 is a little young maybe," Forrestal wrote. 

But the man assured Forrestal she was ready for sexual activity.In September, after further investigation, they 

arrested the man and charged him with sodomy. He pleaded guilty and also implicated Wernick. The Dix Hills man 

is serving an 18-year prison sentence. 

Stored on his computer were encrypted conversations that led investigators to Wernick, and two other men, one 

from Westchester, the other from West Virginia. Wernick spoke openly online with all three about having sex with 

other people's children, said Det. Sgt. John Cowie, the commanding officer of Suffolk's Computer Crimes Section. 

"We were blown away to learn that this kind of thing was going on," Cowie said. 

Many cases begin with a child telling a parent about an uncomfortable encounter online. 

According to Parry Aftab, an Internet attorney and child safety advocate based in Paramus, N.J., the majority of 

cases go unreported because children keep encounters secret. 

For cops posing as children, it can take months to learn the identity of a person in an online chatroom. 

Take, PIMPOFALLPIMPS692003, who presented himself as a 21-year-old man from New Jersey. He approached 

Forrestal in the "$$Girls Who Need Money$$" chatroom and was intent on turning the conversation sexual. 

"So what all are u into?" he asked. 

"Um stuff," Forrestal replied, before asking for PIMP's age, sex and location. 

"22m," he responded in shorthand. "You?" 

"13 f." 

"Too old for u," replies PIMP, "or no." 

PIMP could just be engaging in fantasy chat, Forrestal said. He hasn't asked to swap pictures, or asked about 

meeting in person. 

Without leading them on, detectives have to keep potential pedophiles talking. If not, they will quickly move on and 

find another target. 

With hundreds of chatrooms on Yahoo, AOL and other online service providers, and an emerging genre of Web 

sites enabling teenagers to post their profiles, there are countless potential victims. 


After engaging a potential criminal, detectives subpoena service providers for personal information associated with 

an online account. Once they get a name, they check criminal records, driving records, and sometimes conduct 

surveillance. Once they gather enough evidence for a search warrant, they seize a suspect's computer, and search for 

signs of real abuse. 

Hidden inside the Dix Hills man's computer was a haunting soundless video of a young girl with dirty blond hair 

being sexually abused in a basement. 

Known online as the "Crybaby Series," detectives first thought the films were of the man's own daughter being 

sodomized, possibly by Bruce Wernick. But they weren't -- they were of some unknown girl about 4 years old and 

some unknown man. 

Wernick was later indicted for sodomizing the girl, and abusing two teenage boys from Suffolk County. He has 

maintained his innocence, saying he was falsely accused. Wernick's attorney declined to comment. If convicted, 

Wernick faces as many as 50 years in prison. 

After obtaining an indictment against Wernick and the Dix Hills man -- who Newsday is not naming to avoid 

identifying his daughter -- detectives went after two more online partners of Wernick's, helping to earn convictions 

against both. 

After Wernick and the other three men had been arrested, investigators were left with a heap of anonymous videos 

and photos. On Wernick's computer alone were 2,900 images. Only 10 children have been identified. 

"You try to think of them as pictures, not people, it's the only way you can keep yourself sane," Forrestal said. "But 

when a case is done, the pictures come back in your mind. They don't stay, thank God, they don't stay. But they 

visit, every once in a while." 

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Deacon imprisoned for having child porn 

USA - Toledo Blade, OH - March 30, 2005 

By Mark Reiter 

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050330/NEWS02/503300381 

A Toledo diocesan deacon who was two days away from ordination to the priesthood when authorities seized his 

computer last year in a child pornography investigation was sentenced yesterday to 37 months in prison. 

J. Michael Tynan, 46, who was sentenced in U.S. District Court, withdrew his petition for the priesthood June 10 

after U.S. Customs agents raided his home, taking a laptop computer that contained over 600 pornographic images, 

including those of children. 

Tynan, of Lakeview, Ohio, pleaded guilty Nov. 1 to possession of child pornography. 

Judge David Katz said the viewing of child pornography is the driving force behind the industry and the exploitation 

of unintentional victims, who are forced to participate in sex acts. 

"It is much like the war on drugs: If you eliminate the user, you will eventually get at drying up the supply," he said. 

Judge Katz said he will recommend Tynan be placed in Butner Federal Correctional Institute in North Carolina, 

where he can participate in a sex-offender program. He is not eligible for parole. Tynan also was ordered to serve 

five years of supervised probation after his release from prison. 

The punishment, Judge Katz said, would offer protection to the public from future crimes and provide correctional 

treatment while in the facility. The maximum sentence for the crime is 10 years in prison. 

Tynan, who has degrees from Miami University and a branch of Ohio State University, attended Sacred Heart 

School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wis. He was a pastoral intern at St. Aloysius in Bowling Green from 2001 to 

2002. 


The Rev. Michael Billian, episcopal vicar for the Toledo diocese, said Tynan was living in a parish residence at St. 

Rose Church in Lima, Ohio, when agents raided the residence in June. 

Bishop Leonard Blair suspended Tynan from the ministry after authorities informed diocesan officials about the 

investigation. Father Billian said Tynan remains an ordained deacon, but a request has been made to the Vatican to 

remove him from the ministry. 

Before being sentenced, Tynan told Judge Katz he became addicted to online pornography and that the compulsion 

escalated to viewing children. 

Choking back tears and pausing for a moment to regain his composure, Tynan said the worst day of his life was 

telling Bishop Blair he was withdrawing from the priesthood. 

"I can't put into words to express how I feel because I will never be a priest and serve in a parish," he said. "I have 

brought shame to the diocese, my family, and my friends." 

Tynan is the second diocesan official to be charged with possession of child pornography. The Rev. Stephen G. 

Rogers, who was a religion teacher at Central Catholic High School, was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 

September, 2003. 

Claudia Vercellotti, leader of the Toledo chapter of Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests, said the incident 

for which Tynan was convicted was troubling because it occurred after the diocesan reforms on child abuse in 2002. 

"He was working as an ordained deacon. This was done under the cloak of reform. This is proof positive there is a 

long way to go to eradicate child sexual abuse in our diocese," she said. 

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Man gets 18 months for having child pornography 

USA - The Star Press, IN - March 30, 2005 

By Nick Werner 

http://www.thestarpress.com/articles/2/037143-9062-002.html 

Muncie - A 61-year-old Muncie man who was caught with child pornography on his home computer received an 18month 

sentence Monday. 

Robert Konkle contributed to the sexual exploitation of children when he downloaded explicit images onto his 

computer, Delaware Circuit Court 3 Judge Robert Barnet Jr. said. 

"Thousands of children in this country are abused on a daily basis," the judge said. "People that are involved in child 

pornography contribute to that abuse." 

Konkle, 2910 S. Pershing Drive, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, a class D felony, and received 

the standard sentence for such a crime. 

Six months of his punishment will be suspended and Konkle will also be on probation for six months following his 

release from prison. 

Prosecutors dropped three other charges of child exploitation as part of a plea agreement. 

Authorities said they discovered as many as 400 pornographic images of children on Konkle's computer. 

FBI agents received a federal search warrant for Konkle's home last July after they made an arrest of an alleged 

child pornographer in San Diego, Calif. 

During the California investigation, federal authorities found evidence linking Konkle to pornographic images of 

children. 


Konkle spoke at his sentencing and apologized. 

"I bought a computer and started getting into chat rooms," he said. "I don't know. I just got caught up in it." 

Konkle said abuse during his childhood made him confused about his sexual identity and contributed to his interest 

in child pornography. He had previous convictions for armed robbery in 1967 and seven misdemeanors. 

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Public's help is key to combating online child pornography, police say 

Press & Sun-Bulletin 

By William Moyer 

http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne033005s157175.shtml 

Law enforcement's best weapon to fight Internet child pornography is public cooperation, a Broome County 

Sheriff's Office detective said Tuesday. 

That's what led investigators to a Vestal man whose computer had 3,500 images of suspected child pornography. 

"We look for the public to give us information as a starting-off point," Detective Sgt. Patrick Isenburg said. "All we 

need is a small shred of information, and more often than not, we can make an arrest." 

A local repair shop discovered the child pornography while working on Gary L. Mack's computer. The technician 

gave the computer to county investigators, who confirmed the images had been downloaded during the past year. 

Mack, 54, of Vestal, was charged Monday with five felony counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child. 

He had been involved in youth baseball as a coach and umpire. 

It was the second time in less than a week that a Southern Tier man was charged with a Internet-related sex crime. 

Police in Fairfax County, Va., have charged Dr. Timothy FitzPatrick, 53, a Vestal veterinarian, with using the 

Internet to facilitate certain offenses involving children, a felony. FitzPatrick was arrested March 24 when he went 

to meet a 13-year old girl at a Centreville parking lot. A detective, however, had posed as the teenage girl when 

exchanging instant messages with FitzPatrick. 

Online child pornography is a fast-growing cybercrime confronting law enforcement officials and the Federal 

Bureau of Investigation. FBI data show a 1,997-percent increase in so-called Innocent Images National Initiative 

cases -- essentially online child pornography -- from 113 in 1996 to 2,370 in 2002. FBI cases concentrate on major 

producers and distributors of online child pornography. 

Because downloading and possessing child pornography happens far from public view in private homes, law 

enforcement officials rely on public cooperation to nab offenders. 

"They did the right thing," Isenburg said of the computer repair shop that tipped off authorities in Mack's case. 

"They contacted us and we did an investigation." 

A tip also might come from someone who knows about another person's illegal downloading, or police might be 

looking into a separate compliant when they discover a pornography-laden computer. 

"You need public cooperation," said Doug Rose, a private investigator at Vallas Associates Inc. in Endicott who 

spent 20 years with the Endicott Police Department before retiring. "People initiate things; people help end things. If 

you sit on it, nothing happens." 

The two local arrests raise the question of Internet safety, especially for children who "surf the Net" or use instant 

messenger programs to chat online. 

Though parents can take several steps to limit and protect their children's online activities, hackers can infiltrate 

almost every form of software protection and dump so-called pop-ups, spyware or other unwanted programs on a 

computer's hard drive. 


"The only safe computer is one that doesn't go on the Internet," said Scott Chalker, managing partner of Dott 

Computer Services on Chenango Street in Binghamton. 

Still, parents should take advantage of parental control options that most Internet Service Providers offer to limit 

access to Web sites, Chalker said. Additional software programs, including Net Nanny, offer another layer of 

protection, too, he said. 

But nothing is totally fail-safe, Chalker said, other than parents sitting next to their children when they're on the 

Internet. 

"The big thing is adult supervision," he said. "You can't find a program to do what mom or dad can do." 

Isenburg also recommends a dialogue between parents and children. 

"Know what children are doing," he said. "Just some good old-fashioned talking about the Internet." 

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Man sentenced on child porn charges 

USA - The Herald-Dispatch, WV - March 30, 2005 

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2005/March/30/LNlist7.htm 

Ashland -- A 54-year-old Ashland man was sentenced Tuesday to 65 years in prison on child pornography 

convictions. 

In January, John Estep pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Ashland to two counts of producing child 

pornography, one count of conspiracy to receive child pornography, six counts of receipt of child pornography and 

one count of possession of child pornography. 

In his January plea, Estep admitted taking sexually explicit pictures of two 8-year-old girls and having pornographic 

images of children from the Internet on his computer. 

Estep, through his court-appointed attorney Richard Hughes of Ashland, tried to withdraw his guilty plea prior to 

sentencing. U.S. District Judge David Bunning refused to allow Estep to withdraw his plea and sentenced him to 65 

years in prison. 

Estep could have been sentenced to up to 210 years in federal prison, according to a press release from the Office of 

the United States Attorney, Eastern District of Kentucky. 

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Tune in now for wisdom from the pedophile pundit 

USA - The Union Leader, NH - March 30, 2005 

By Kathleen Parker 

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=52618 

The next-worst thing to hearing of yet another child abducted by a known molester is yet another tutorial by the 

newest media darling pedophile pundit Jake Golden- flame, whose Dickensian name seems more suited to porn 

credits than serious commentary. 

Goldenflame is nearly as ubiquitous as porn these days, recently inescapable as television news producers leave no 

rock unturned to find fresh voices to opine on current events. When the days breaking story is a disappeared child, 

who else to call but a registered sex offender? 

Thus has Goldenflame become the Talking Head du Jour. A self-described recovering pedophile, the convicted 

child molester whose victims have included his own 3-year-old daughter and numerous boys is also an author and 

therefore, we must infer from his unctuous omnipresence, an authority. 

Just as the cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) became a source of insight into the perverse 


mind of a murderer who skinned his victims to sew a new skin for himself, so we turn to Goldenflame for advice 

about how to handle those baffling deviants who prey on children. 

When some sicko decides to drop a human being into a plastic shredder, might we expect to see members of 

Saddam Husseins fedayeen death squads interviewed for their unique insights into the mind of a torturer? Simply 

put, I dont care what Goldenflame thinks. About anything. I dont want to know his name (unless he moves next 

door), much less invite him into my living room. Yet here he is chatting it up with our friends at Fox and Joe 

Scarborough on MSNBC. Even Oprah invited him over as though Goldenflame were just another hail-fellow-wellmet 

with some intriguing angles on quirky behavior. 

His marketing niche is that he, unlike most in his disturbed tribe, supports Megans Law, which requires convicted 

sex offenders to register with the states they live in so people can find out when the candy man moves into their 

neighborhood. The law was passed after Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey girl, was raped and killed in 1994 

by a convicted child molester/neighbor. 

Its not so much what Goldenflame says thats objectionable. What he says, in fact, is true that sex offenders cant be 

cured and must be carefully monitored. So true that its commonly known among experts, who have managed to 

become authorities without committing crimes. 

Goldenflames own technique for avoiding re-offending for the past 14 years is to avoid temptation. In the same way 

that alcoholics steer clear of circumstances that would tempt them to drink, molesters like Goldenflame try not to be 

around children. Megans Law is one more layer of defense in a world populated by millions of delectable innocents. 

No, what causes that creepy feeling, putting one in mind of rough loofahs and gritty soaps, is that Goldenflame is 

invited to the discussion at all. Why is a sex offender given an audience? Why are we willing participants in this 

moral farce? 

Weve long ago become inured to the blurring of news and entertainment. Now weve moved to a new level of 

cognitive dissonance in which the vilest form of humanity is granted polite entry into the public parlor. Without our 

notice, the perverse and the sublime commingle in the unconscious American psyche until, insidiously, the 

abnormal becomes normal, the bizarre ordinary, and Evil has an agent. 

I dont begrudge Golden- flame his rehabilitation, but Id rather he do it on his own time. His self-outing is a form of 

therapeutic confession that purges his own demons while imposing them on the rest of us. He feels better and we 

need a bath. Our passive complicity constitutes, if not tacit approval, a least a level of involuntary involvement that 

is both voyeuristic and prurient. 

When Oprah asks Golden- flame in 2003: Its been 12 years since youve been out of prison. Have you had the urge 

to molest? And he says, Yes. Ill see a young teenage boy that turns me on. Suddenly, were all in the game. Implicit 

is a wink and a nod and the sense that were all essentially the same, just folks talking about this n that. 

So goes American celebrity in the 21st century. It matters not what you do or what you are, only that you can look a 

camera in the eye without blinking. In such a world, Jake Goldenflame isnt your worst nightmare. Hes a magician. 

And we dozing under the somnambulant spell of moral relativism his unflinching fools. 

28) Ex-altar boy describes priest's 'tickling' game Trial's outcome could affect 

results in 150 other cases 

USA - San Francisco Chronicle, CA - March 30, 2005 

Don Lattin 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/30/BAGE2C0IUH1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea 

Mabis Wood, a founding member of St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Antioch, couldn't understand why her 13-yearold 

son, Troy, suddenly refused to go anywhere near "Father Bob." 

It was 1982. Troy had always looked up to the priest, the Rev. Robert Ponciroli, as a second father. He'd served as 

one of his parish altar boys and volunteered to cut the grass outside his suburban rectory. 

"Troy started having all these excuses for not going over to cut the lawn, '' Mabis Wood recalled in a Hayward 


courtroom Tuesday. "He didn't want to be around the church and he did not want to talk about why.'' 

Wood and her husband questioned their son and found out why. 

Troy Wood explained the reason in court himself on Tuesday. He said he had been enticed up to the priest's bed, 

told to take off his shirt and grabbed from behind for an extended round of "tickling." 

Troy's story is much like the one told by two other former altar boys, Bob and Tom Thatcher, the plaintiffs in this 

closely watched trial before Alameda County Superior Court Judge Harry Sheppard. 

Twelve jurors have been called to pass judgment on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland for its admittedly 

negligent supervision of a known pedophile priest. The outcome of the case could encourage the collective 

settlement of more than 150 similar lawsuits filed against Catholic dioceses across Northern California. 

Separate negotiations are continuing toward a possible settlement of about 75 cases against the Archdiocese of San 

Francisco, which includes San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties, and more than 40 claims facing the 

Oakland diocese, which runs parishes in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. 

"There's progress being made in San Francisco and Oakland,'' said Walnut Creek attorney Mike Meadows, who 

represents clients on both sides of the bay. 

Attorneys for victims, the Oakland diocese and its various insurance companies have been called to meet Monday 

afternoon with Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter, one of two judges overseeing settlement 

negotiations. 

The legal morass surrounding the Catholic Church was created by a 2002 law that temporarily lifted the statute of 

limitations on damages claims against organizations that gave known child molesters access to more victims. 

On Monday, the Thatchers' lawyer admitted into evidence internal church documents showing that top leaders of the 

Oakland diocese had numerous warnings that Ponciroli was a child molester, yet they promoted him to be the 

founding pastor of the Antioch parish. 

Among those testifying Tuesday at the Hayward Hall of Justice was another admitted pedophile priest, the Rev. 

Robert Freitas, who served Catholic churches in Hayward, Newark, Fremont and San Leandro. 

Freitas said his church supervisor learned in the mid-1970s that Freitas had molested minors. At that time, Freitas 

testified, he was told to confess his sins, but given no therapy for his problem. 

Freitas said he was then assigned to a church in Fremont from 1979 to 1983, where he committed "more than one 

incident" of molestation. 

After that, Freitas said he was sent to a six-month treatment program at a facility in Massachusetts called the House 

of Affirmation. 

Under questioning from the Thatchers' lawyer, Rick Simons, Freitas said he thinks he would not have committed the 

Fremont molestations if he had gotten earlier treatment. 

Freitas, 59, said he left his last priestly assignment two years ago at St. Alphonsus Liguori Parish in San Leandro. 

Ponciroli, 68, has also been removed from public ministry. 

Bob Thatcher, 34, now lives in Arizona. His brother Tom, 33, lives in Florida. 

Testimony was expected to continue today in Hayward. 

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Peters repeats claims against Auckland bookseller 

New Zealand - Stuff - March 30 2005 


By Danya Levy 


New Zealand First leader Winston Peters yesterday repeated allegations of paedophilia against an Auckland 

bookseller and was forced to apologise to the ACT Party for implying it defended paedophiles. 

Under parliamentary privilege, Mr Peters said Jim Peron - owner of Auckland bookstore Aristotle's - was a 

paedophile as defined in the Oxford dictionary as someone who has "sexual desire directed towards children". 

He also claimed that in the 1980s the American expatriate had been the editor of San Francisco magazine Unbound - 

which contained pictures of naked male youths and descriptions of sexual relations between adult men and young 

boys - and contributed articles to the publication. 

"Anyone who promotes sexual relations between men and boys should not be allowed citizenship, residency or even 

a temporary visa," he told Parliament. 

Mr Peters used parliamentary privilege last month to accuse Mr Peron of being a member of the North American 

Man Boy Love Association (Nambla) and called Aristotle's a porn store. 

Mr Peron has previously admitted Nambla meetings were held at his former bookstore in San Francisco - Free 

Forum Books - but said he only allowed the meetings because the previous owner had done so and eventually put a 

stop to them. 

He has also admitted Free Forum Books was raided by police who were investigating an employee who was 

convicted for having sex with a teenager. 

Immigration Minister Paul Swain said in Parliament yesterday Mr Peron was allowed to enter New Zealand after 

receiving police clearance from South Africa and the United States. 

"However, on the (immigration) application form it does ask whether a person has been the subject of any 

investigation," he told Parliament. 

If application forms were not filled out correctly, visas or immigration permits could be revoked, Mr Swain said. 

"Investigations are under way to see whether in fact that form was filled out correctly." 

Mr Peters tabled in Parliament a letter from the former owner of Free Forum Books, Eric Garris, who sold Mr Peron 

the San Francisco bookstore. 

Mr Garris said he did not allow Nambla meetings in the bookstore when he owned it. 

"Jim (Peron) was an ardent supporter of Nambla and gave it a home at the bookstore. 

"When I sold the bookstore to Jim, the only condition of the sale was that he would allow the Libertarian Party to 

meet and distribute literature in the store. 

"I would never have asked him to allow Nambla to meet there and would have not sold him the bookstore if I had 

known he would use it to promote Nambla." 

Mr Peters also tabled a copy of Unbound in which Mr Peron criticises San Francisco police for confiscating copies 

of the magazine while searching the bookstore. 

Mr Peters was forced to apologise in the House to all members of ACT for implying the party "seems to be a 

defender of paedophilia behaviour and paedophiles in New Zealand". 

Mr Peron sold books at the ACT conference last month. 

ACT leader Rodney Hide later said Mr Peters' implication was "looney bin stuff". 

"If he has got allegations against any individual which are as serious as he said, then he should take them to the 


police," Mr Hide told NZPA. 

Chapman Tripp lawyer John McKay, who acts for Mr Peron, said yesterday the bookseller was overseas and would 

be away for some time. 

He had been given no advice from Mr Peron about today's allegations, Mr McKay told NZPA. 

It is understood Mr Peron has a temporary three-year visa which expires in December. 

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Man faces child-porn, sex-assault charges 

Canada - Globe and Mail, On - March 29, 2005 

By Jordan Press 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050329/TORBRIEFS29- 

3/TPNational/Toronto 

A man charged with sexually assaulting a young boy and then taking sexually explicit pictures of his victim is to 

appear in court today. 

Police allege 55-year-old Gary Hoare sexually assaulted a 10-year-old victim in Mr. Hoare's home in south 

Scarborough. He then took photos of his victim in sexually explicit positions, police say. 

Acting on a tip, police arrested Mr. Hoare at his home Friday and seized numerous computer discs, CDs and hard 

drives. He has been charged with two counts each of sexual assault, sexual interference, making child pornography 

and possession of child pornography. 

Police are asking anyone who had dealings with Mr. Hoare to contact them. 

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Tracking sex offenders a daunting, ever-growing task 

USA - Miami Herald, FL - March 30, 2005 

By Jason Grotto And Luisa Yanez 

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11265953.htm 

Miami - One month before a registered sexual offender allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered 9-year-old Jessica 

Lunsford, Florida law enforcement agencies had lost track of at least 1,800 other sexual offenders statewide, 

according to a review of Florida's Sexual Offender/Predator Registry. 

John Evander Couey, the man who would confess to killing Jessica, was not even listed as one of them because no 

one knew he wasn't living at his reported address and was staying near the Lunsfords. 

The fact that Couey wasn't marked as missing raises questions not only about how aggressively the state tracks 

offenders known to be on the lam, but how many others have absconded that aren't noticed at all. 

Couey was supposed to be living more than five miles from the Lunsford residence in Homosassa, Fla. Officials at 

the Citrus County Sheriff's Office said they discovered he was staying less than a block from the Lunsford's in his 

half-sister's mobile home - only after they began interviewing sex offenders as part of their investigation into 

Jessica's disappearance. 

Police found Jessica's body buried nearby after a three-week search. 

"We can't do anything about Jessie's death now, but in the future we have to figure out a better way of knowing 

where these guys are," said Archie Lunsford, Jessica's grandfather. 

The Miami Herald obtained a copy of the sexual offender database in January and found 800 of those who were 

missing had committed lewd or lascivious acts against children while another 130 had been sentenced for sexual 

battery against minors younger than 16. Nearly all the remaining 870 committed sexual crimes against adults or 


teenagers older than 16. 

Among those who fled: George Gonel, 46, a Broward County man who in 1991 was convicted of lewd and 

lascivious acts and sexual battery against a child. Also missing: Frederick Campbell, 45, of Miami-Dade County, 

who was sentenced in 1996 to 10 years supervision after attempting to sexually batter a minor. He absconded two 

years later and has yet to be found. 

Mary Coffee, the supervisor of FDLE's Sexual Offender/Predator Unit, which maintains the registry, said the 

database is supposed to be a tool to alert residents of potentially dangerous people living in their neighborhoods and 

to assist law enforcement agencies with criminal investigations. 

"It is absolutely a partnership between the state, the community and local law enforcement agencies," Coffee said. 

"The registry is not something that is going to eliminate all sex offenses." 

But breakdowns in the system conjure up memories of other heinous crimes committed by sexual offenders who 

were supposed to be closely monitored. 

Howard Steven Ault was a registered sexual offender on probation when the father of an 11-year-old girl in 

Lauderdale Lakes, Fla., reported Ault tried to sexually assault her on New Year's Eve, 1995. 

He wasn't arrested in that case until November 1996 - and only after police brought him in to answer questions in 

yet another case: two missing sisters, age 7 and 11. 

While in custody, he confessed to strangling the two sisters and hiding their bodies in the attic of his Fort 

Lauderdale apartment. Ault, 38, has been on Florida's Death Row since 2000. 

The Herald spot-checked addresses given by more than a dozen registered sexual offenders in Miami-Dade County 

and found much of the information was accurate. But not all of it. 

For example, Jose Lohuis, 40, of Miami, sentenced to five years in 1993 for sexual battery on a minor, kidnapping 

and robbery, is supposed to be living at 1780 SW Fifth St. - an address he gave in March 2001. 

But residents at the duplex said they've never heard of Lohuis. 

According to the registry, a block away from Lohuis should be the home of another sexual offender, Pedro 

Gonzalez, 64. He is listed as living at 1834 SW Fifth St. But the address does not exist. 

Most of the 15 addresses checked by The Herald were accurate, however. 

Angel Luis Pabon, 23, shares a small cottage behind a home in Little Havana with his family. 

Pabon said his neighbors know of his criminal record. He was convicted of sexual battery on a victim younger than 

10 and is on probation until 2014. 

"My neighbors know I'm on probation. But finding work is hard," said the unemployed Pabon, who lives at 1537 

SW 10th St. 

Couey had a long criminal record that spanned nearly three decades. He has been arrested 26 times, including once 

in 1991 for exposing himself to a 5-year-old girl. 

On Dec. 2, nearly three months before Jessica was abducted, a Citrus County judge issued a warrant for Couey's 

arrest because he failed to report to his probation officer. 

The officer sent a letter to the same address listed in the state's sexual offender database asking Couey to report for 

probation. He never responded. But when the judge issued the warrant, no one went looking for Couey - or informed 

FDLE that a child sexual offender had absconded. 

The Citrus County Sheriff's Office said the warrant was one of hundreds they have to work through every day. 

In the aftermath of outrage over the state's failure to track Couey's movements, victims' rights advocates and state 


lawmakers are calling for changes to the way the state tracks sexual offenders. 

"We've been pushing for lifetime supervision for these guys," said Laura Ahearn, director of Parents for Megan's 

Law, a national victims' rights organization focused on child sexual abuse. "That way these people are monitored, 

and we'll know if something is wrong or if they aren't where they say they are." 

Under that scenario, most sexual offenders would have to report to a probation officer for the rest of their lives. 

Rep. Charles Dean, a Citrus County Republican, plans to introduce legislation in the House that would require 

sexual offenders to wear a tracking device like an ankle bracelet. 

"There is a loophole, a breakdown in the system," said Dean, who was the sheriff of Citrus County for 16 years. 

"We must know where these people are and make sure that we enhance our ability to track them and be accountable 

for them once they are convicted of a sex crime." 

As the first state to post information and photographs of sex offenders on the Internet, Florida is considered a 

national model for its registry. Maintained by FDLE, the database contains more than 30,000 sexual offenders and 

predators. 

But a database is only as good as the information in it. Even if the Lunsfords had checked it in the weeks before 

Jessica's disappearance, they wouldn't have known Couey was in the neighborhood. As far as law enforcement 

officials were concerned, he lived across town. 

Because FDLE checks the whereabouts of sexual offenders only once a year, months could go by before the state 

discovers offenders like Couey - who last verified his address on July 7, 2004 - have skipped out. 

Sexual predators, who are violent or repeat offenders, are checked four times a year, while offenders on probation 

are supposed to be monitored by the Florida Department of Corrections. Still, 800 of the absconders in The Herald's 

review were on probation when they fled. 

When FDLE discovers an offender has gone missing, they are supposed to contact local law enforcement agencies, 

which are responsible for chasing down absconders. Those who fail to register or remain at their registered address 

commit a third-degree felony. 

But the sheer number of people in the registry can make that task daunting. In 1997, the year the Florida Legislature 

passed the Public Safety Information Act, which expanded the use of the registry and made it available online, there 

were fewer than 10,000 offenders on the list. Since then, the number has tripled. 

Because most sexual offenders stay on the list for life, the registry will only continue to grow. 

"The common denominator in all of these cases is you have a system with huge holes in it," said Attorney General 

Charlie Crist, who is helping push legislation that will give judges the power to re-incarcerate violent offenders who 

repeatedly violate probation. "It seems to me one of the obvious solutions is to re-incarcerate these people." 

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Classify "Pro-Paedophilia Journal" "Unbound" 

New Zealand Scoop Independent News - March 31 2005 


The Society formally applied on Wednesday to the Chief Censor, Mr Bill Hastings, for leave to have the "propaedophilia 

journal" UNBOUND that the Hon. Winston Peters tabled in parliament on Tuesday, classified (Vol. 1 

No. 4 [1987). The application to Mr Hastings, Head of the Office of Film and Literature Classification, has been 

made under s. 13(1)(c) of the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Act 1993 ("the Act"). Based on 

information the Society has obtained, its application lists the publisher of UNBOUND (Vol. 1 No. 4) as Free Forum 

Books (San Francisco), the bookshop that was formerly owned by Auckland bookseller Mr Jim Peron at the time the 

journal was published (1987). Mr Eric Garris, who sold the San Francisco bookshop to Mr Peron in 1985, obtained 

photocopies of pages of the journal that the Society has submitted for classification, at the time it was apparently 

readily available to the public in Mr Perons bookshop along with the "pro-paedophile journal" NAMBLA (North 


American Man Boy Love Association). Mr Garris says he confronted Mr Peron at the time about the availability of 

UNBOUND in Perons shop, having first copied pages from it that concerned him, as evidence. He says he objected 

to its pro-paedophilia content and sought clarification from Mr Peron as to who published it. He says that Mr Peron 

confirmed that Free Forum Books published it. The issue (Vol. 1 No. 4) Garris raised concerns about, contained an 

essay by Mr Peron: "Abused: One Boys Story" and a report expressing disgust at how the San Francisco police had 

raided Perons bookshop that year and seized copies of UNBOUND and other pro-paedophia publications in the 

course of an on-going investigation into David Simons (a part-time employee of Mr Perons, who was later arrested, 

convicted and jailed for 16 years for committing sex-offences against children). 

News reports today state that Mr Peron denies being editor of Unbound and states an article written by him - 

Abused: One Boy's Story - detailing his abusive experiences as a boy and later relationships with men as an 

adolescent, appeared in the magazine [UNBOUND] without his knowledge. Peron said there was no explicit sexual 

content in the piece, and he denied that he was referring to paedophiles when using the term "boylover". Peron said 

the story he wrote was used without his permission. He said Unbound was published by another person who rented a 

back office from his former bookstore. (Stuff News and The Dominon Post 31/3/05) 

UNBOUND, a "pro-paedophilia journal" as it has been described in at least one online bibliography, should be 

classified "objectionable". S. 3(2) of the Act states that a publication that "tends to promote or support the 

exploitation of children or young persons, or both, for sexual purposes" must be classified "objectionable" 

simpliciter. Parliament has recently strengthened the principle Act by amending it to ensure that suppliers of propaedophilia 

journals, images etc. (via the internet etc.) are subject to much harsher penalties. 

Society president Mr Mike Petrus says: "The vast majority of New Zealanders, including all our members, support 

harsher penalties and stricter enforcement with respect to all "objectionable" publications that "tend to promote and 

support" activities set out in s. 3(2) of the Act. (including paedophilia, necrophilia, sex acts involving human 

excrement and urine, and bestiality etc.)." 

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC. 

P.O. BOX 13-683 Johnsonville 

http://www.spcs.org.nz 

Attention Mr Bill Hastings 

Chief Censor of Film and Literature 

Office of Film and Literature Classification 

Wellington 

30 March 2005 

Application Under s. 13(1)(c) of the Films, Videos 

and Publications Classification Act 1993 ("the Act") 

With respect to: 

UNBOUND - Volume 1 No. 4 (1987) 

Edited by Mr Jim Peron 

Published by Free Forum Books 

(Owned and managed by Mr Peron 1985-1990) 

Dear Mr Hastings 

The Society executive wishes to submit to your Office the publication UNBOUND Volume 1 No. 4 for 

classification under s. 13(1)(c) of the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Act 1993 ("the Act"). This 

"paedophile journal" as it is described in at least one online bibliography, was tabled in the House by the Hon. 

Winston Peters, Leader of the NZ First Party, on Tuesday afternoon 29 March 2005 and is described by him as 


"contain[ing] articles about men and boys having sex, as well as pictures of naked boys". The Dominion Post (30 

March 2005) reports: "It contains photos of naked children and descriptions of sex between men and boys". 

UNBOUND Vol. 1 No. 4 was tabled together with a copy of an e-mail communication from Dr Frits Bernard - a 

Rotterdam-based paedophile advocate - who confirms "the editor of UNBOUND was Jim Peron" (he also notes that 

the French version has been published in Brussels). Dr Bernard has had a number of his own articles published in 

UNBOUND (Vol. 1, issue 2, no year (1987), pp. 9-15; Vol. 2, issue 5, no year (1988), pp. 22-30; Vol. 2, no. 1, no 

year (1989), pp. 1-4) and therefore we assume he is more than qualified to state who the publisher of Vol. 1 No. 4 is. 

See: http://www.ipce.info/booksreborn/bernard/publications.htm 

Mr Peters confirmed to the House that the paedophile journal UNBOUND Vol. 1 No. 4 "sets out page after page of 

evidence in respect of this mans [Perons] beliefs and [sexual] proclivities." Mr Jim Peron, an Auckland bookseller 

who currently owns and manages Aristotles Bookshop and formally owned and managed a bookstore in San 

Francisco - Free Forum Books, has been described in the New Zealand media as a "gay" man who lives with his 

homosexual "partner". He is Executive Director of the NZ Institute for Liberal Values. 

Also tabled by Mr Peters was a statement from Mr Eric Garris, the previous owner of the San Francisco Bookstore 

bookstore (purchased by Mr Peron from him in 1985), making it clear that (1) Free Forum Books published 

UNBOUND and (2) Mr Peron advanced the cause of NAMBLA - the North American Boy Love Association - 

while managing the bookshop, by allowing its members to meet regularly at his premises in which he stocked and 

sold paedophile promoting journals. The Dominion Post (30/3/05) reports Mr Garris stating: "Jim was an ardent 

supporter of Nambla and gave it a home at the bookstore after I sold it to him. I … would have not sold him the 

bookstore if I had known he would use it to promote Nambla." (The bookshop was formerly known as Libertarian 

Books and Publications and is located at 1800 Market Street, San Francisco). 

NAMBLA as you will know promotes, supports and advocates paedophilia including intergenerational sex between 

adults and children. 

UNBOUND Volume 1 No 4 which does not have an ISBN number according to Dr Bernard was published in late 

1987 by Free Forums Books under Jim Perons ownership and management. This periodical/journal (published 

between 1987 - 1989) endorses, advocates and celebrates man/boy love (paedophilia), and sees it as a legitimate and 

normal part of life that is wrongfully illegal. Volume 1 No 4 which was available in Mr Perons bookshop in San 

Francisco at the time Mr Garris, the shops former owner, made copies of some of its pages, contains a number of 

articles that tend to promote and support the view that man/boy love should be expressed sexually and should be 

made lawful. Peron is reported by GayNZ.com as saying that he does not endorse the contents of "Unbound", and 

maintains it was never sold in his store - Free Forum Books. When confronted recently with the photocopied pages 

obtained by Eric Garris, Peron said he had never seen the publication. However when confronted by Eric Garris in 

the 1980s with the same pages from Volume 1 No. 4, and asked directly "is this your publication?" Peron replied 

"yes, we print it out the back". 

http://www.gaynz.com/aarticles/templates/features.asp?articleid=703&zoneid=16 

Justin Raimondo, partner of the former bookshop owner says Free Forum Books began publishing an "in-house 

paedophile journal after Jim Peron assumed ownership and management" in 1985. Peron sold the shop in 1990. 

http://www.lockefoundation.org.nz/Peron_Report.pdf 

The contents of UNBOUND Volume 1 No 4 include: 

"Police Attack Unbound Headquarters" P. 1 [An account expressing indignation at a police raid on Mr Perons shop - 

Free Forum books - described as "Unbound Headquarters" in which a number of paedophile promoting publications 

were seized including issues of NAMBLA and UNBOUND. Peron is quoted as expressing indignance over these 

particular publications being seized. One of his part-time employees David Simons was later convicted on three 

charges involving sexual molestation of minors]. 

"What Do You Say to a Naked Youth?" P. 3. [Extracts were quoted on Prime Television News by Paul Holmes 

24/3/05]. 


"Camp Hope Part IV" P. 13 

"Abused: One Boys Story" P. 21 [Written by Jim Peron] 

"Affectionate Shepheard" p. 26 

"The Garland Weaver" P. 27 

"Wilhelm von Gloeden" P. 29 

In an essay recounting his associations with manboy lovers Peron states: 

Throughout the gay community, pompous, politically-correct fools, some elected, spout off about "abusing" 

children. They disassociate themselves from boylovers. They repudiate them. They say, "there is no place in the 

human rights movement for these people." Gay politicians throw boylovers to the lions every chance they get. All, 

they say, to prevent children from being abused. 

GayNZ.Com a political lobby group within the New Zealand "gay" community, has disassociated itself from 

boylovers, repudiating "the highly discredited paedophile organisation NAMBLA" in its attack on the Living Word 

videos (see Appendix I). One of these videos "AIDS: What you havent been told" alludes to the involvement of 

NAMBLA in the North American Gay Rights Movement. The video transcript (see Appendix II) states: 

NAMBLA AFFIRMS THAT SEXUAL INTIMACY CAN BE AN APPROPRIATE EXPRESSION OF THE 

LOVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD, BETWEEN SIBLINGS, AND BETWEEN 

ADULT FRIENDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN' … sexual intimacy can be an appropriate expression of the loving 

relationship between parent and child, between siblings, and between adult friends of young children. 

As a prominent members of the "gay" community both you and your deputy Ms Nicola McCully, will be in an 

excellent position to assess the content of this paedophile journal UNBOUND. You will be aware of the very strong 

link between paedophilia and homosexual lifestyle and will know how best to protect the public from those who 

actively proselytise for paedophilia life-style. At least one of the homosexual contributors to UNBOUND Vol. 1 No. 

4, Louis Colantuono, is a convicted paedophile, twice-jailed for sexual offences with boys, as Paul Holmes reported 

on Prime TV News. 

As the former Deputy President of the Film and Literature Board of Review that was responsible for banning the 

Living Word videos, you will understand how important it is that the true facts on NAMBLA, its promoters, and 

their publications, are to censorship issues. Given that you were the one responsible for writing the Boards decision 

that banned the two Living Word videos (later overturned on an appeal by the distributor to the Court of Appeal), 

you will understand how important it is for the distributor of a publication that has been submitted for classification, 

to have the opportunity to defend it against the invective and vitriol levelled at its contents by a tiny vociferous 

minority of a certain proclaimed "sexual orientation". 

While Jim Perons contribution was written some time ago (1987), the two part articles he had published in 2003 - 

"The Claptrap Over Child Porn" - express the same indignation and utter disdain for censorship officials who try 

and curtail the activities of paedophiles. 

http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/kiddie_porn1.htm 

http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/kiddie_porn2.htm 

Below are two further links that seek to make it clear that Jim Peron is an advocate of man-boy sexual activity. 

http://jimperon.bravehost.com/index.html 


http://www.lockefoundation.org.nz/Peron_Report.pdf 

S. 3(2) of the FVPC Act 1993 makes it clear that any publication that tends to promote or support paedophilia must 

be classified "objectionable". Any advocacy of views that suggest the exploitation of young persons or children for 

sexual purposes is acceptable, means that the publication is constituted "objectionable" simpliciter. 

The Society urges the Classification Office to seek submissions from the publisher of the paedophile journal 

UNBOUND Vol. 1 No. 4 - Mr Jim Peron - outlining his case to the New Zealand public for why this journal should 

not be classified objectionable. 

To obtain a copy your Office can contact the Clerk of the House, as the publication was tabled, as noted, by the 

Hon. Winston Peters on Tuesday. 

If you choose to not grant our Society leave under s. 13(1)(c) we request that you use your powers under s. 13 (3) of 

the Act to direct the Secretary of Internal Affairs, Mr Christopher Blake, to "take all reasonable steps to obtain a 

copy of the publication and submit it to the Classification Office" along with all other issues of Mr Perons 

"UNBOUND" paedophile journal that may be available in New Zealand. Copies of this journal were brandished by 

Mr Paul Holmes on Prime Tine News on Tuesday night (29 March 2005). 

Finally, as a non-profit community organisation with a special interest and track-record in seeking to uphold the 

application of the law in matters of censorship, we would request that our application fee applicable under s. 

13(1)(c), be waived as it is in the public interest for the publication UNBOUND Vol. 1 No. 4 to be classified as soon 

as possible. Material from UNBOUND including Jim Perons essay on his experience of paedophilia ("Abused: One 

Boys Story") has been broadcast by Prime Television (Holmes Show). 

We look forward to your response to this application for classification. 

[SPCS National Committee P.O. Box 13-683 Johnsonville] 

[Note application form was submitted separately by fax to Chief Censor]. 

Appendix 

1. 

AIDS: WHAT YOU HAVENT BEEN TOLD (Video) 

Review by Jay Bennie, "ex-publisher and founding editor of Express newspaper, and gay activist and researcher" 

Callum Bennachie. 

In a section titled "Sexual Deviates Unite" the highly discredited paedophile organisation NAMBLA (North 

American Man Boy Love Association) is represented as an integral and influential part of the gay community and 

gay politics. Grainy slow motion images of tiny children being carried on their fathers' shoulders at gay pride 

marches are accompanied by sinister "Hammer Horror" style music while the narration discusses the inclusion of 

gay issues in school sexuality education material. 

http://www.gaynz.com/archives/gayrights-specialrights.asp 

2. 

Quoting from transcript prepared by Human Rights Action Group (Wellington) [HRAG]. 

AIDS: WHAT YOU HAVENT BEEN TOLD 

Voice Over:Also represented in the lesbian and gay rights struggle (CUT TO A SHOT OF TWO NAMBLA 

BULETINS. BACKGROUND NOISE STOPS, FADE IN SINISTER MUSIC) is an organisation called NAMBLA. 

Founded in 1978 (CUT TO A SHOT OF SEVERAL PAMPHLETS, THE TOP ONE READING "INTRODUCING 

THE NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION"), the North American Man Boy Love Association 

may soon change its name to include all adult sex with children. (CUT TO A SLOW MOTION DARKENED 

SCENE OF MAN WITH A SHORT MOHAWK STYLE HAIRCUT WITH A NAKED INFANT ON HIS 


SHOULDERS THE CHILD IS IDENTIFIED IN "GAY RIGHTS SPECIAL RIGHTS: INSIDE THE 

HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA" AS HIS CHILD. SINISTER MUSIC BEGINS IN THE BACKGROUND) NAMBLA 

affirms (FADE IN THE WORDS " 'NAMBLA AFFIRMS THAT SEXUAL INTIMACY CAN BE AN 

APPROPRIATE EXPRESSION OF THE LOVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD, 

BETWEEN SIBLINGS, AND BETWEEN ADULT FRIENDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN' RENATO CORAZZO, 

NAMBLA MEMBER", SUPERIMPOSED OVER THE SCENE. SINISTER MUSIC CONTINUES) that sexual 

intimacy can be an appropriate expression of the loving relationship between parent and child, between siblings, and 

between adult friends of young children. 

(CUT TO A SCENE OF A YOUNG MAN, ANON FIFTY SIX, WEARING A T-SHIRT SAYING "DO YOU 

CARE ...". HE IS LABELLED "PEDOPHILE/NAMBLA PROMOTER". BECAUSE OF THE POOR SOUND 

QUALITY FROM INSIDE THE MARQUEE, A SUBSCRIPT PRINTS WHAT HE SAYS: "WE FIND THAT 

LOCAL BOYS WILL BECOME FRIENDS IF YOU EXPRESS AN INTEREST IN THEM. TREAT THEM AS 

FRIENDS". BACKGROUND NOISE RESUMES) 

Anon Fifty Six :We find that local boys will become friends if you express an interest in them. Treat them as friends 

(SUBSCRIPT CHANGES TO "INDIVIDUALS, AS PEOPLE. GAIN THEIR RESPECT THEN THERE'S MORE 

CHANCE OF ESTABLISHING A RELATIONSHIP WITH A SEXUAL ELEMENT TO IT) individuals, as people. 

Gain their respect then there's more chance of you establishing a relationship that has a sexual element to it. 

(CUT TO A SHOT OF SEVERAL NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS FROM THE NAMBLA BULLETIN, ONE WITH 

THE PROMINENT HEADING "PHOTOGRAPHER MANN EXPLORES CHILD NUDITY". BACKGROUND 

NOISE STOPS, REPLACE WITH SINISTER MUSIC) 

Voice Over:In a desire to legalise sex with children, NAMBLA has proposed first, changing (CUT TO A SHOT OF 

THE TITLE OF A STUDY BY THEO SANDFORT CALLED "BOYS ON THEIR CONTACTS WITH MEN, A 

STUDY OF SEXUALLY EXPRESSED FRIENDSHIPS") the age of consent to thirteen, then eliminating the age of 

consent law altogether. (CUT TO A SLOW MOTION SCENE OF SEVERAL PEOPLE WALKING PAST THE 

CAMERA, ONE WITH A YOUNG CHILD ON HIS SHOULDERS. SINISTER MUSIC CONTINUES) They 

maintain that if an adult could have sex with a child (CUT TO A SHOT OF THE NAMBLA BULLETINS SEEN 

EARLIER. SINISTER MUSIC CONTINUES), "the adults (FADE IN THE WORDS "'THE ADULTS 

POSSIBILITY OF ACQUIRING AIDS WOULD BE GREATLY REDUCED, IF NOT ELIMINATED. WE 

SHOULD NOT FEAR THE AIDS ISSUE. IT SHOULD BE OUR STRONGEST ARGUMENT. ISN'T IT ABOUT 

TIME WE FOUGHT FOR OUR YOUTH! THE TIME TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE HAS BEGUN', EDGAR 

RICHARDS, NAMBLA MEMBER" OVER THE TOP OF THE PICTURE OF THE NAMBLA BULLETINS 

WHICH ARE DARKENED SLIGHTLY. SINISTER MUSIC CONTINUES) possibility of acquiring AIDS would 

be greatly reduced, if not eliminated. We should not fear the AIDS issue. It should be our strongest argument. Isn't it 

about time we fought for our youth. The time to go on the offensive has begun". (CUT TO A SHOT OF AN 

ADVERT FEATURING A YOUNG PERSON WITH THE PHONE NUMBER "212/818 976 BOYS" UNDER IT. 

[IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT "BOYS" IN GAY MAGAZINES IN AMERICA REFERS TO THOSE AGED 

FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY ONE]. SINISTER MUSIC CONTINUES) This fighting for our youth is now in 

full swing. (CUT TO A SCENE OF A BLUE BANNER READING "PARENTS FLAG, PARENTS AND 

FRIENDS OF LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA". NOISE OF 

MARCH RESUMES IN BACKGROUND) Through efforts of numerous homosexual PTA's (CUT TO A SCENE 

OF SEVERAL PEOPLE HOLDING A WHITE BANNER WITH THE WORDS "WASHINGTON GAY 

FATHERS" ON IT. BACKGROUND NOISE CONTINUES) and Gay Fathers Organisations. 

http://www.christian-apologetics.org/html/Aids.htm 

(Transcript submitted to Film and Literature Board of Review by HRAG) 

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Couple found guilty in child pornography case 

South Africa - IOL.co.za - Marcdh 31, 2005 

By Tania Broughton 


There were "reasonably high prospects" that a Russian couple who used their own children to generate child 


pornography would go to jail. With these words, Durban regional court Magistrate Mike Lasich refused the grimfaced 

couple bail, pending sentencing in May. 

The couple, who cannot be named to protect the identity of their children, who are now in foster care, were arrested 

in August 2003 at their Bluff home. 

They faced 26 charges: 11 of generating child pornography, 13 of indecently assaulting their eight-year-old son, 

three-year-old daughter and two-year-old son, and two charges under the Child Care Act. 

The pornography and indecent assault charges related to 78 images downloaded from the couple's computer which 

depicted them performing sexual acts with their children. 

At the trial, a one-minute video clip showed similar acts. 

One of the charges related to 120 pornographic images which had been lifted from websites. These depicted what 

appeared to be youths and adults dressed like children performing sexual acts. 

The trial, earlier this year, lasted only one week. The couple called only one witness and argument by defence 

advocate Jeff Hewitt SC centred mainly on technical issues. 

The judgment, delivered by Lasich on Wednesday, was equally technical. While he acquitted the couple on many of 

the counts, this was because of technicalities and "duplication of charges". The verdict, in essence, was that the state 

had proved its case. 

He found both husband and wife guilty of one count each of indecent assault and another count each of possession 

or creation of child pornography. 

Additionally, he found the man guilty of an additional count of possession of child pornography relating to the 

video, and three counts of committing indecent acts with children under the age of 16. 

The woman was also convicted of a charge under the Films and Publications Act relating to the pornographic 

images of her and the children. 

In his judgment, the magistrate said that some of the images in which genitalia were displayed amounted to "nothing 

more than indecent exposure" and did not constitute an assault. 

However, one of the images, which showed the mother and her son, was "clearly an assault of an indecent nature". 

The defence had suggested that this was some form of therapy for a condition that the boy suffered from, but the 

magistrate dismissed this as "false beyond any doubt". 

"In any event, it begs the question as to why one would want to document this," he commented. 

The magistrate also concurred with the defence that some of the images looked at individually could be "tomfoolery, 

horseplay or just ugly". But viewed in their totality, the images definitely constituted child pornography, he said. 

The couple are expected to call a psychologist to give evidence in mitigation of sentence. 

Hewitt said evidence would be led that the couple were not paedophiles and that the children had not been 

traumatised or injured. 

Arguing for their bail to be extended, he said none of the offences carried mandatory jail sentences. 

But the magistrate disagreed, and ordered that they remain in custody. 

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Former teacher, coach admits child-porn charges 

USA - The Free Lance-Star, VA - March 31, 2005 


By Rob Davis rdavis@freelancestar.com> 

http://fredericksburg.com/Feedback/contact 

A former Stafford teacher and football coach has pleaded guilty to five counts of distributing child pornography. 

Craig D. Welker, 33, was also arraigned today in Fredericksburg Circuit Court on 125 counts of possessing child 

pornography. 

His bench trial was set for Aug/ 10, the same day he will be sentenced on the distribution charges. He faces a 10year 

maximum sentence on each charge. 

Welker was working as an earth science teacher, football defensive coordinator and track coach at North Stafford 

High School when he was arrested in October. 

Someone using the screen name powerade100 had uploaded 13 images to a Yahoo! group, according to evidence 

presented yesterday. The images depicted girls well under the age of 18, according to court records. 

Authorities in Bedford Countya state clearinghouse for child porn casestraced the screen name and an e-mail 

address to Welker, who was living on Cornell Street in Fredericksburg. 

Virginia State Police obtained search warrants for his home and the school, and seized a large number of compact 

discs, 8 mm videos, pictures and magazines, according to court records. Welkers laptop computer and other items 

were seized from the school. 

Welker is also charged with 40 child pornography offenses in Stafford; an April 28 jury trial is set there. 

Welker is being held without bond in the Rappahannock Regional Jail. 

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Expert: PC child-porn caches no accident 

USA - Arkansas Democrate-Gazette, AK - March 31, 2005 

By Brandon Tubbs 

http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg&section=News&storyid=112159 

Accidental download of child pornography is nearly impossible, Little Rock computer experts and other officials 

said, but that is the claim put forth by the attorney for a former highranking Boy Scouts of America official who 

pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal child pornography charge. 

The official, Douglas Sovereign Smith Jr., 61, of Colleyville, Texas pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of 

receiving and distributing child pornography. He is to be sentenced July 12. Investigators found 520 images of male 

child pornography on his home computer, but none on his work computer. None involved Boy Scouts, investigators 

said. 

Smiths attorney, Jack Strickland, said his client became involved in pornography "by accident," according to The 

Dallas Morning News. Smith had rejected a previous offer to receive sexually explicit material, but later agreed and 

made the mistake of sending the images to others, the News reported. 

Katya Gifford, program manager for the Internet safety organization CyberAngels, said it is conceivable that 

someone could visit a Web site to obtain codes for certain maneuvers in video games and receive a popup 

containing an illicit image, but most companies are careful to ensure no child pornography is associated with their 

sites. "Child porn is an underground thing," Gifford said. 

She said its the difference between going to a convenience store for cigarettes and going behind a convenience store 

to buy marijuana. "Its not going to be sitting on the counter," she said. 

Illicit material could be placed on a computer through viruses and files stored on computers from visiting Web sites, 

said Dan Harpool, president of Complete Computing, Inc. in Little Rock. "Its extremely rare for someone to have it 

(pornography) on there accidentally," Harpool said. 


If illicit material does find its way on a computer accidentally, it is only an image or two, he said. Signs that a 

computer may have a virus include a reduction in speed, some programs do not function normally and the 

appearance of unfamiliar, unsolicited programs. 

To further reduce the chances, Harpool and other experts suggest anti-virus and spyware software, such as those 

produced by Symantec, to scan for corrupt files. John Cryer, owner of The Computer Doctor, recommended adding 

a secondary virus scanner such as the one produced by Grisoft and Pest Patrol. Virus and spyware programs should 

be updated weekly. Filtering software, such as SurfNanny and CyberPatrol, can screen out pornographic and other 

material, Greg Chastine, owner of GFC Computer Service. In general, computer experts advise users to not open email 

that is suspicious. 

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Man sentenced for child porn 

USA - Nashua Telegraph, NH - March 31, 2005 

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050331/NEWS01/50331016/-1/news01 

Concord - A former Londonderry man who admitted to buying and possessing child pornography videos was 

sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in prison, federal prosecutors announced. 

Daniel Aiken had pleaded guilty last year after an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service revealed that 

hed ordered videos from a known supplier of child pornography in 1998 and 1999. Investigators also found child 

porn video clips on Aikens computer. 

Aiken will remain under supervision for three years after he gets out of prison. 

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Child Sex Abuse on Rise in One Part of Delmarva 

USA - WBOC-TV16, MD - March 31, 2005 

http://www.wboc.com/global/story.asp?s=3144985&ClientType=Printable 

Georgetown - It is a disturbing trend in one part of Delmarva. The Georgetown police say they are now seeing at 

least one case of child sexual abuse every week. 

The police say they need the community's help to protect children. 

"We need them to be cognizant of their surroundings," said Georgetown Det. Mike Marlow. "We need them to be 

alert for the person who's hanging out around the daycare center, watching children or something of that nature." 

The police say sexual predators target younger kids like infants and toddlers. But in the case of teenagers, victim 

and abuser often know each other. 

Many sexual predators target young victims like infants and toddlers, according to the police. And in the cases of 

older children and teens, counselors say many of them actually know their abuser. Forensic interviewer Ralph 

Richardson said, "It's often somebody they trust. An uncle, a grandfather a step relative, mom's boyfriend that's 

living in the home. They know them, they trust them." 

As a parent, become suspicious that your child might be the victim of abuse if you see bruises or other marks on 

their body, or they have an acute change in attitude. "They may become very withdrawn or may become very 

aggressive, but it's a radical change," said Richardson. 

The police advise parents to not be afraid to talk to your kids about inappropriate ways of touching, and that they 

can tell someone if they feel uncomfortable. 

There are more than 1,900 registered sex offenders in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. 


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Child crusader's dirty little secret 


By Luke Mcilveen And Mark Skelsey 


A SEX company which sells pornographic films with titles such as Fresh Meat has emerged as a key financial 

backer of children's rights crusader Hetty Johnston. 

Adultshop.com was one of three porn companies which contributed a total of $4322 to Ms Johnston's failed bid for 

the Senate. 

The internet porn shop -- which sells DVDs with titles such as Fresh Meat, 18 and Nasty and 18 and Easy -- gave 

Ms Johnston more than $1500 to run for the Senate. 

Ms Johnston -- who led the campaign against former governor-general Peter Hollingworth over his handling of child 

sex abuse by other clergy -- has gone to ground and is refusing to comment on the scandal. 

She this week denied being a hypocrite for accepting money from hard-core pornographers to further her political 

career. 

The Daily Telegraph can reveal Ms Johnston received a cheque from Adultshop.com last August for $1666. The 

"666" is believed to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Devil's number. 

A second company based in Sydney's Kings Cross, Gallery Global Networks, also gave a donation of $1666. 

Gallery Global Networks is part-owned by a hard-core German pornography group called Beate Uhse. 

Beate Uhse offers internet services such as "XXX portals" and "live lesbian love shows." 

When The Daily Telegraph visited the offices of Gallery Global Networks yesterday, company secretary Rick Hill 

declined to provide a reason for the donation. 

"I am the chief financial officer but I don't make decisions in relation to donations," he said. "I don't know the 

answer to that question." 

Ms Johnston, who failed to win a Senate seat at the November election, is the head of Bravehearts, a support 

network for children who have suffered at the hands of sexual predators. 

She was one of the driving forces behind the demise of former governor-general Peter Hollingworth, who lost the 

public's support after he accused a 14-year-old girl of seducing a priest. 

Sex lobby group the Eros Association said it arranged the donations and defended the failed Senate candidate's 

decision to accept them. Association spokeswoman Fiona Patten said the group's president, Robbie Swan, discussed 

the donations with Ms Johnston before the money was handed over. 

"We've always supported a number of organisations that fight child sexual abuse," Ms Patten said. "She is smart 

enough to figure out there is nothing wrong with adults having sex. We discussed it with her, she went away and 

thought about it, and then said she had no problem." 

She said the group had donated to the Democrats, ALP and Liberals. 

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Martial arts teacher faces child pornography charge 

Canada - London Free Press, On March 31, 2005 

By Jane Sims, 

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/03/31/977518-sun.html 


A London taekwondo master who was trainer of the national team at the Pan American championships last 

November faces a child pornography charge. Philippe Villanueva, 33, formerly an employee of the Bluewater 

Taekwondo club in London, also is charged with a count of sexual exploitation. 

Villanueva turned himself in to London police on March 17. He appeared in court and was released. He is to return 

to court on April 14. 

Const. Jeff Arbing said yesterday police were following up on a complaint and a computer has been seized. 

Arbing described the investigation as ongoing and would not say if the charges were related to Bluewater, where 

Villanueva no longer works. 

Villanueva has coached several top-flight London martial arts athletes, including Kamil Dubinski, who won Pan Am 

gold in 2002. 

Villanueva was trainer of the Canadian men's team that competed at the Pan American championships in Santo 

Domingo in the Dominican Republic in November. 

He also coached two Bluewater women athletes, Noula Mina and Victoria Heath. 

Issam Thabit, who owns Bluewater Taekwondo on Dulaney Drive, said Villanueva's employment with the club was 

terminated a month ago. 

Villanueva was arrested after he returned from a two-week martial arts meet in Korea. 

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OPP Charge Chatsworth Man With Child Pornography 

Canada - Canadian News Wirer - March 31, 2005 

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/31/c0659.html 

Chatsworth - Members of the Ontario Provincial Police - Bruce County Detachment and the Ontario Provincial 

Police - Child Pornography Section (Project "P"), have arrested and charged a Chatsworth man following a child 

pornography investigation. 

On Wednesday, March 30, 2005, members of the OPP - Bruce County Detachment and the OPP Child Pornography 

Section, executed a search warrant at 216404 Concession 4, Sullivan Township, Municipality of Chatsworth, 

Ontario. As a result of the search, a computer system and laptop computer were seized along with floppy diskettes, 

videocassettes and other items pertinent to the investigation. 

As a result, John Horton, 57, of Sullivan Township, has been arrested and charged with two counts of possessing 

Child Pornography and one count of accessing Child Pornography. The accused was scheduled to appear in Ontario 

Court of Justice, Walkerton, Ontario, on Mar. 31, 2005. 

The investigation is continuing. For further information: OPP Detective Inspector Angie Howe, Child Pornography 

Section (Project P), (416) 235-4542 

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Professor pleads guilty in child pornography case 


http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/new_jersey/11273017.htm 

A suspended Delaware Valley College professor pleaded guilty yesterday in Bucks County Court to 490 counts of 

sexually abusing children by storing child pornography on his office computer. 

No sentencing date has been set for Joseph Stenson, 61, of Doylestown. Stenson, a longtime chemistry professor at 

the college, was arrested in October. 


He had been suspended in June, shortly after mistakenly sending an e-mail to the college's entire faculty and staff, 

commenting on some of the pornography he had obtained. An investigation discovered that he had nearly 500 

pornographic images, mostly of prepubescent boys, on his computer. 

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Pedophiles Are Sexual Predators Of Children [SPOC] 

USA - Useless-knowledge.com - March 30, 2005 

By Darrel Robert Day Jr. 

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/mar/article415.html 

I have written on this subject before but felt compelled to say it again. The word pedophilia is absolutely wrongly 

used concerning creatures that prey on children. It is used in the most non- chalant way in reference to a very Not so 

non- chalant act. 

These predators do NOT like nor do they love children, no matter what their twisted minds may tell them. While it 

may be fact that most pedophiles are the creation of an act that was done to them, they still are NOT lovers of 

children. They are sick individuals that bring more sorrow and more pain to a child than most anything else in the 

world. 

There must surely be a name that means "hater of children" though I have searched and searched and have not found 

it. We have "pederast" which means a "man" that has sex with a young boy. However, the only word I could find for 

a man that rapes a little girl was pedophile. The words we use seem to differ when we talk of children and when we 

talk of adults. When we say a name or ear-mark a certain people {I use the word people loosely}, then we need to 

make it say what they truly are. 

I used the word Rape in my previous paragraph because that is indeed what it is. To use the word "molestation" 

somehow lessens the horrible act of Rape of a child. When we hear of a man that raped a woman we say "Oh my 

God, I hope they catch the bastard!" We label him a Rapist and toss him in prison. I say then we call the creature 

that "Rapes" a child a "SPOC". Sexual Predator Of Children. Give them a name that when someone says it, people 

respond to it in a very aggressive way. 

Pedophile? I say call a spade a spade and a sick bastard a sick bastard. Don't send them back out to rape another 

little girl or boy. Do NOT give them the chance to rape or kill another child. We are supposed to be the watchers of 

these innocent babies. Here! Here is a sign they can tattoo to their forheads for all the world to see. The mark of 

Cain! "I AM A SPOC! PLEASE DO NOT LET ME NEAR YOUR CHILDREN!" 

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Abused Teen: Hit Pervs Hard 

USA - New York Post, NY - March 31, 2005 

By Devin Smith 

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/22909.htm 

The victim of a sicko pedophile released from prison after a laughably short sentence urged lawmakers yesterday to 

enact legislation mandating harsher jail sentences for convicted perverts. 

"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about the abuse," said Ann, a teen who revealed only her middle 

name to protect her identity. "I was absolutely disgusted by the fact that he only served two years." 

Matthew Maiello, 31, was released from an upstate prison Tuesday after serving only two years for raping and 

sodomizing at least four underage victims, including Ann. 

As the youth minister at St. Raphael's Roman Catholic Church in East Meadow, L.I., Maiello preyed on three girls 

and one boy who placed their complete trust in him. 

At the church, Maiello abused Ann for three years, having deviant sex with her hundreds of times, she told reporters 

yesterday. 


Maiello, who directed the church's theater productions, "groomed" his victims by giving them gifts and making 

them feel popular with roles in the productions. 

"He bought me things, he told me he loved me, he told me that nobody would ever be right for me but him," said 

Ann. "He used his charm and charisma to get his way with me." 

Maiello left the church in early 2003. Ann went to the police soon afterward, which led to his arrest in April of that 

year but Ann found little satisfaction afterward. 

In July 2003, Nassau prosecutors allowed Maiello to plead guilty to only three counts of sodomy and one count of 

rape. He was initially charged with 13 counts. 

During sentencing, Nassau County Judge Donald DeRiggi declined to run Maiello's sentences consecutively despite 

heart-wrenching petitions from the victims' families. Back-to-back prison terms would have given him four to 12 

years behind bars, not one to three. 

Yesterday, Ann and Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents For Megan's Law, urged lawmakers to enact 

harsher mandatory sentences for child predators. 

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Priests testify diocese aware of molestation 

USA - Inside the Bay Area, CA - March 30, 2005 

By Matt O'Brien 

http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2630045 

Hayward A priest testifying in the first civil clergy abuse trial against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland said 

Tuesday the diocese knew local priests were abusing young parishioners but declined to call the police. 

Another priest said he was moved to other parishes when allegations of sexual misconduct arose. 

The testimony came in the second day of a civil trial in which two former Antioch altar boys are accusing the 

diocese of failing to protect them from a pedophile priest, the Rev. Robert Ponciroli. 

The Rev. George Crespin, the diocese's former personnel director, admitted in a deposition videotape relayed to 

jurors that "it wasn't our practice" to contact police about sexual abuse allegations. 

The other priest, the Rev. Robert Freitas, himselfan accused child molester, testified that church leaders moved him 

to another church even after he admitted to molesting a boy in the mid-1970s. 

The diocese, which encompasses Alameda and Contra Costa counties, acknowledges that Ponciroli abused brothers 

Tom and Bob Thatcher. 

But the amount of money the church will award the victims depends in large part on whether the jury decides 

diocesan actions constituted neglect, or the more serious charge of "knowing disregard." 

Freitas, who served the diocese for more than 30 years at parishes in Fremont, Hayward, San Leandro and 

elsewhere, was one of the first witnesses to testify Tuesday at the Hayward Hall of Justice during the second day of 

the trial. 

The priest spoke calmly, answering a series of questions about his record of sex abuse from the Thatchers' attorney, 

Rick Simons. 

His comments, like much of the testimony from various witnesses Tuesday, had nothing to do specifically with 

Ponciroli and the abuse of the Thatcher boys. Simons has said he is seeking to show a general pattern of "knowing 

disregard" in the church's handling of pedophile priests. 

Freitas stopped working for the diocese in 2002 amid a criminal investigation, but formally remains a priest only the 

Vatican has authority to defrock him. He is also free from future prosecution because of the statute of limitations for 


sex abuse cases in California. 

Freitas said he was serving at a church in San Leandro in the 1970s when a pastor first confronted him about sex 

abuse allegations. 

Freitas testified that he admitted to his involvement in the abuse, was told to go to a spiritual advisor, then returned 

to abusing boys when he was assigned to a Fremont church from the late 1970s until 1983. 

Only then, after new allegations arose, did the diocese send him to a Massachusetts treatment center for priests, the 

House of Affirmation, Freitas testified. He said it was his belief that if he went to the House of Affirmation earlier, 

he would have stopped abusing children earlier. 

"I wanted to go get help," Freitas said. 

He also said that when he returned to the Oakland Diocese from Massachusetts, church leaders gave him new 

ministry work and did not forbid him from being near children. 

"There was nothing in writing that said one way or another," Freitas said. "I don't remember being told not to (be 

alone with children)." 

Jurors also heard testimony on Tuesday from Crespin, an elderly priest who served as the diocesan chancellor until 

1987. 

Crespin did not appear in person to testify lawyers say he broke his foot and could not make it to the courthouse. 

But lawyers on both sides of the case used videotaped excerpts of a deposition taken in January and read from two 

other depositions taken last fall. 

Crespin, asked if the diocese responded to abuse allegations by contacting law enforcement, said: 

"It wasn't our practice. That's not what we do." 

He was questioned about how he handled several alleged East Bay clergy abuse cases he dealt with over a period 

of more than ten years, including those involving Monsignor Vincent Breen, the Rev. Gary Tollner, the Rev. 

Stephen Kiesle, the Rev. George Francis, and others. 

In talking about a case in which the Fremont Police Department was investigating Breen for molesting juvenile 

girls, Crespin said the relationship he had with some police agencies was that the diocese should handle its own 


"The police were saying (they) would not pursue this investigation any further if we removed (Breen) from the 

county," Crespin said. 

He said that that upon his 1987 retirement as chancellor, he offered to give his successor, the Rev. Frank Houdek, a 

number of personnel files, but the new chancellor declined. 

"(Houdek) said he wanted to start with a clean slate," Crespin said. 

Along with hearing from Freitas and Crespin, jurors on Tuesday heard from two mothers, one from Antioch and 

one from Castro Valley, who reported their concerns about Ponciroli to church leaders. 

They heard from another Ponciroli accuser, Troy Ward, now a member of the U.S. Air Force, who said he was 12 

years old when Ponciroli took him into a bedroom in Antioch and tickled the shirtless boy. 

And they heard, through transcripts only, from the Thatchers' father, Steve Thatcher, a former Antioch city manager, 

who said he found Ponciroli to be gruff and rude but didn't know his children were being abused. The father did not 

appear in person because he has a medical disability and lives in Southern California. 

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Balkans urged to curb trafficking 

Balkans - BBC News, UK - March 31, 2005 

By Imogen Foulkes 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4397497.stm 

Countries in South-East Europe are failing to take effective measures against people trafficking, the United Nations 

Children's Fund (Unicef) says. 

A Unicef report says that while countries in the region have strict anti-trafficking laws they do not tackle the root 

causes of the problem. 

Unicef found that young people at risk often did not know how to protect themselves from traffickers. 

Few knew that traffickers were often friends or even family members. 

The report looked at trafficking in Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania 

and Serbia-Montenegro. 

No one knows exactly how many people fall victim to traffickers - it is a secretive and complex business. 

But Unicef does know what kind of people are trafficked: young women between the ages of 15 and 17 are sold for 

sexual exploitation; children under 13 are trafficked for forced labour and begging. 

Children ill-informed 

Many countries in South-East Europe have harsh laws against trafficking, but they focus on preventing illegal 

migration or cracking down on prostitution and organised crime. 

"The problem of trafficking in South-East Europe has gone underground " Deborah McWhinney Unicef 

What is missing, Unicef says, are child-focused strategies to prevent trafficking in the long term. 

Children surveyed in Montenegro, for example, suggested that not walking alone at night might protect them. 

In Romania, trafficked children returning from European Union countries are simply sent back to their families by 

the police, without involving the child protection agency and without investigating the situation of the family 

concerned. 

But there are some success stories. Moldova, Europe's poorest country, has set up community services for abused 

children and introduced family and life-skill classes for those most at risk. 

Education and awareness-raising are, Unicef says, the strategies most likely to prevent trafficking in the long-term. 

Repressive laws alone will not work. 

Deborah McWhinney of Unicef told the BBC that the repressive measures taken were "not empowering - they don't 

focus necessarily in their response on the human rights of victims, but on preventing the movement of people". 

She said NGOs were reporting that the problem of trafficking in South-East Europe had "gone underground, so that 

we are no longer finding tens or hundreds of women in bars that are being noticed and picked up during raids, but 

there's just as much trafficking going on in private homes". 

Nevertheless, she added that "south-east European countries have shown that they are much more willing to address 

the issue than many countries in western Europe". 

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Man found dead after porn probe 

United Kingdom - BBC News - March 31, 2005 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4396863.stm 


A Royal Navy sailor found dead in Cornwall had been questioned over allegations of child pornography, a naval 

spokesman has confirmed. 

Petty Officer John Hayward, 35, was found dead by police, in a car in his garage at his Liskeard home. 

Three days earlier, PO Hayward had been arrested for alleged computer misuse when HMS Monmouth returned to 

Plymouth's Devonport Naval Base. 

No suspicious circumstances surround the sailor's death, say police. 

A spokesman said officers were called to an address in Trevanion Road, Liskeard, on Saturday morning and found a 

man dead and a hosepipe attached to the car's exhaust. 

A Royal Navy spokeswoman confirmed PO Hayward had been arrested when his ship returned from a four-month 

deployment in the Mediterranean. 

She said: "The MoD Police went out to the ship and arrested him in Plymouth Sound for computer misuse. He was 

questioned, but not charged. 

"Very sadly, his body was found on Saturday morning and so now Devon and Cornwall Police are holding an 

investigation on behalf of the coroner." 

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Former Florida teacher faces 5 years for child porn 

USA - WTSP-TV10, FL - March 31, 2005 

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=12902 

Jacksonville, Fla. (AP) -- A former Clay County teacher is facing a five-year federal prison sentence after pleading 

guilty in an Internet child pornography case. 

Forty-year-old John McIntyre was accused of sending pornographic pictures to an undercover F-B-I agent and 

saying he fantasized about some of his students. 

His computer messages were tracked using his screen name. 

The 16-year veteran teacher was assigned to a Middleburg elementary school when he was arrested last August at 

home near Orange Park. He also was a youth basketball coach for the YMCA. 

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Sentencing set in porn case 

USA - The Oklahoman, OK - March 31, 2005 

http://www.newsok.com/xml/rss/1459859/ 

El Reno -- Formal sentencing has been set for April 15 in Canadian County District Court for a 52-year-old 

Piedmont man who pleaded guilty in September to 10 felony counts related to child pornography on his home 

computer. 

Ronald Jay Champion entered a blind plea to felony charges that included possession and distribution of child porn 

and violating the state's computer crimes act. 

Champion, a former deputy warden at the privately owned Lawton Correctional Facility, faces maximum penalties 

of 95 years in prison and a fine of $135,000. 

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Lane guilty of sex abuse 


USA - Scranton Times, PA - March 31, 2005 

By Michael McNarney 

http://www.scrantontimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14256057&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6 

Douglas V. Lane is facing five to 82 years in prison after a jury found the 61-year-old radio station owner guilty 

Wednesday of sexually abusing one teenage boy and photographing another who was naked. 

Mr. Lane, who has been free on bail since his arrest a year ago, was handcuffed after the verdict by two sheriff's 

sergeants and taken to Lackawanna County Prison -- his first time behind bars. 

The nine-man, three-woman jury deliberated just 90 minutes before finding Mr. Lane guilty of two counts of 

involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, five child pornography counts for photographing a naked 15-year-old boy, 

and one count of child pornography possession. 

The verdict will be appealed, his lawyer, James J. Walker of Carbondale, said. 

Though the charges arose from crimes only since 1996, jurors heard about Mr. Lane allegedly luring teenage boys 

into his life with booze, brotherly advice and opportunities to work at WWDL-FM 104.9, a practice that dated back 

40 years. 

"Just thank the Lord that the truth came out," the father of one of the victims said after the verdict. "Hopefully, if 

more people have situations like this in their life, they'll come forward." 

Said his wife: "Praise the Lord, justice prevailed." 

Mr. Lane was found not guilty of four child pornography charges. The two counts of involuntary deviate sexual 

intercourse he was convicted of carry mandatory minimum sentences of five years -- meaning Mr. Lane will be in 

prison until he is 66. The pornography convictions do not carry minimum sentences. 

Mr. Lane did not testify at this week's trial, his second in a month. His first ended in mistrial in February when some 

of the charges were dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired. 

Just four people -- all character witnesses -- testified for Mr. Lane earlier Wednesday in a defense that lasted 20 

minutes. 

Mr. Lane was expressionless as the verdict was read by Jason O'Malley, a law clerk for Judge Michael J. Barrasse, 

who presided over the trial. Before he left in handcuffs, Mr. Lane left on the defense table his wallet, pocket change 

and a bottle of pills. 

Later, in the courthouse's first-floor hallway, First Assistant District Attorney Gene Talerico shared a hug with 

fellow prosecutor Michelle Olshefski and a high-five with Detective Christopher Kolcharno, one of the case's 

investigators. 

"After four decades of victims, four decades of ruined lives, finally, Doug Lane is where those victims wanted to see 

him," Mr. Talerico said. "The hope is he will never get out of prison. Ever." 

Mr. Talerico credited both the work of investigators on the case and the courage of the six men, from their 20s to 

their 50s, who testified that Mr. Lane molested them. 

Outside the courthouse, Mr. Lane's mother, Virginia B. 'Dixie' Lane, 84, who has sat behind her son for both of his 

trials, turned and stared silently at the television news crews following her. After a few moments, she walked away. 

Mr. Walker said he respected the jury's verdict but believes it was based on evidence he thinks jurors should not 

have heard -- testimony from the five men who said Mr. Lane molested them from 1965 to 1995. 

Though the statute of limitations had expired on those charges, Judge Barrasse allowed them to testify over Mr. 

Walker's objection to demonstrate that Mr. Lane had been doing the same thing -- befriending teenage boys, gaining 

their families' trust, and then molesting them. 

"That (testimony) had a great impact on the decision of the jury," Mr. Walker said. "We're very confident that there 

are appealable issues that are extremely strong." 


A sentencing date has not been set. 

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Catholic Deacon Sentenced for Pornography Charge 

USA - WTOL-TV11, OH - March 30, 2005 

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=3142572&nav=5UaiY6pT 

Toledo -- A judge has sentenced a Roman Catholic deacon to three years and one month in prison for possession of 

child pornography. 46-year-old J. Michael Tynan pleaded guilty in November after US Customs agents confiscated 

his laptop last June and found more than 600 pornographic images. 

The Reverend Michael Billian, a spokesman, says the Toledo Diocese has asked the Vatican to remove Tynan from 

the ministry. Until that happens, Tynan remains an ordained deacon. 

In a story first broadcast last October, News 11 reported Tynan was an intern at Saint Aloysius Church in Bowling 

Green for about 10 months. The diocese says it has not had any complaints about Tynan at that church. "Nothing 

came up in any of the evaluations that there was something inappropriate," said Billian in an interview from October 

2004. 

The pastor of Saint Aloysius, Father Ed Schleter, didn't go on camera in October, but did say he thought Tynan was 

going to be a good priest, and related well with all ages. He calls the news about Tynan's charges disappointing and 

discouraging. 

The diocese admits authorities first learned about the problems in June of 2004, but deny claims of any kind of 

coverup. "You have to give the authorities the room to do their job an we didn't have the option. We were ordered 

to be silent about this issue," said Billian in October of 2004. 

As a part of the sentence, Tynan was also ordered to serve five years' probation. 

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Sleepover host pleads guilty to child porn 


By Kathleen Brady Shea 

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11273005.htm 

A sleepover for two 9-year-old girls turned into a nightmare for one of them and led to criminal charges against the 

host. 

Yesterday, Joseph Vito Secunda, 56, of West Chester, pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including sexual abuse of 

children, possession of child pornography, invasion of privacy, and corruption of minors. 

Chester County Court Judge Phyllis R. Streitel will sentence Secunda in several months, after he is evaluated by the 

Sexual Offenders Assessment Board. 

Secunda's attorney, Samuel C. Stretton, said he would present evidence that Secunda was receiving extensive 

counseling. 

"My client is changing, and he is truly sorry," Stretton said. 

Assistant District Attorney Kimberly A. Callahan said she planned to seek a sentence of two to six years in prison 

for Secunda. 

The criminal complaint provides the following account: 

On Aug. 18, the victim and a friend, also 9, received permission from their parents to stay overnight at Secunda's 

home. After he picked up the girls, Secunda stopped at a store to buy gym-style shorts for one of them because he 


said the shorts she was wearing were not comfortable. 

When the girls arrived at Secunda's home, they went to the bedroom he had prepared for them - which was equipped 

with a hidden video camera that captured one girl changing her shorts. She said Secunda eventually took back the 

shorts, saying he did not want the girl's mother to know he had bought them. 

Later, the same girl went into the bedroom by herself "to return a teddy bear," and Secunda followed her, locked the 

door, ordered her to remove her clothes, and photographed her. The girl complied because she was scared. 

Police were notified the following day after the girl returned home and told her parents. Authorities subsequently 

executed search warrants that turned up 161 images of child pornography on Secunda's computer. 

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Don't take law into your own hands - Police vigilantes warning after leaflets 

campaign 

United Kingdom - Bedford Today - March 31, 2005 

http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=543&articleid=985830 

Police have issued a stark public warning against vigilante action after leaflets containing child pornography 

allegations were handed out to Luton shoppers. 

The printed A4 sheets stated a Luton man had walked free from a charge of possessing indecent pictures of children 

because they were found while another offence was being investigated. 

But police have hit out at the claims, which relate to a man found not guilty at Luton Magistrates Court on two 

charges fully investigated by specialist officers. Spokeswoman Jo Hobbs urged people who had received the leaflets 

not to take the law into their own hands. 

She said: "We do not encourage vigilante behaviour and want to warn people about the consequences of it, which 

will lead to them being prosecuted. 

"I can categorically state that if we investigate someone for one offence and stumble across another offence then we 

will always investigate that as well. The claims made in the leaflet are completely inaccurate. This man was charged 

with two offences, evidence was put before a court and he was found not guilty." 

Leaflets were handed out in Luton town centre on Tuesday lunchtime by the Parents Awareness Campaign, set up 

by Alma Thompson, 22, and partner Anji Rhys, 36. 

Dunstable mum Ms Thompson said she was not advocating vigilante action but wants to raise public awareness. 

She was a witness in the case, in which it could not be proved who downloaded two indecent images found in the 

deleted files on a computer. 

Ms Thompson said: "I handed out the leaflets in order to make other people aware of what is going on. I am not 

going anywhere near this man or telling anyone else to. I am certainly not telling people to take the law into their 

own hands." 

The women said they were upset that after two years of investigations the court was ordered to find the defendant 

not guilty. 

The pair are campaigning for a change in the law so that anyone found with indecent images of children is forced to 

explain themself to the court. 

Ms Rhys said: "If somebody is found in possession of child pornography, by whatever means, we want them to be 

questioned in court. All we want is for the justice system to stop locking horns with the police, who work very hard 

to get a case into the courtroom only to see it fail." 

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Ex-teacher pleads guilty to child porn 

USA - Jacksonville Times-Union, TX - March 31, 2005 

By Paul Pinkham 

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/033105/met_18357085.shtml 

His voice at times barely a whisper, a former sixth-grade teacher in Clay County pleaded guilty Wednesday to 

transporting child pornography over the Internet. 

John E. McIntyre, 40, faces five to 20 years in prison after a pre-sentence investigation is completed. U.S. 

Magistrate Marcia Morales Howard said that could take two to three months. He remains free on $50,000 bail. 

Prosecutors agreed to ask for a sentence at the low end of that range because of his cooperation. They dropped two 

other counts alleging McIntyre transported and possessed child pornography. 

"The defendant admitted, in essence, that he traded with his computer over the Internet images of young children 

engaged in sexual activity," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Henry. 

McIntyre, who taught at Tynes Elementary School in Middleburg, was arrested in August at his home near Orange 

Park. There was no evidence any of the photographs he sent to an undercover FBI agent or had on his computer 

involved his students, though an FBI agent said McIntyre discussed fantasizing about some of his students. 

Henry said McIntyre was arrested after an FBI agent in Buffalo, N.Y., working undercover in an America Online 

chat room last June, observed a message from McIntyre that read "trading young boys." The agent initiated an 

instant messaging session with McIntyre that resulted in the teacher e-mailing him files containing pictures of 

prepubescent boys engaged in various sex acts with adult males. 

The FBI identified McIntyre by his screen name and arrived at his home with a search warrant in August. Henry 

said McIntyre admitted to agents at his home that he used his computer to send and receive digital photographs of 

child pornography. 

McIntyre declined comment Wednesday through his lawyer. He had taught in Clay County schools since 1988 and 

had been at Tynes since it opened in 1994. He also was a youth basketball coach for the YMCA. 

McIntyre's brother, Walter, was arrested in 2002 for possessing child pornography on his computer at the JEA 

power plant where he worked. He received two years' house arrest and two years' probation. But the law has 

changed since then and now requires a five-year minimum prison sentence, said Robert Willis, John McIntyre's 

attorney. 

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Images of abuse to tell the tale 



http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-liporn314197235mar31,0,2668363.story 

The federal prosecution of Bruce Wernick began yesterday in a Central Islip courtroom with a list of names. 

Four-year-old Jennifer from Dix Hills. Seven-year-old Heather from Texas. Eight-year-old Helen from England. 

These are just a few of the sexually-abused children whose images investigators found on Wernick's computers in 

September 2001, prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz said in her opening statement to the jury. Wernick, she said, 

"collected and methodically catalogued an extensive library of porn." 

Wernick, 47, of Valley Stream, is charged with possessing, producing and distributing child pornography, as well as 

using a computer to target, then sodomize three Suffolk teenage boys between December 1999 and September 2001. 

"He hunted for vulnerable teenage boys who he could persuade to meet," Gatz said. 

But Wernick's attorney, Bruce Barket of Garden City, said his client is innocent and urged the jury not to be swayed 


y emotional appeals. "I don't have a list of children to start with," Barket said, referring to the prosecutor's 

statement. 

Although Barket said the videos and pictures of children they may see will make them angry, they shouldn't allow 

that anger to lead them to a wrong verdict. "The anger will lead you to one place," Barket suggested, "the evidence 

will lead you someplace else." 

The investigation into Wernick began after Suffolk detectives arrested a Dix Hills man on charges that he 

sodomized his 4-year-old daughter. The man, who Newsday has not identified to protect his daughter's identity, later 

pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 years in prison, but not before he led police to Wernick. 

Using evidence gathered from the Dix Hills man's computer, along with statements from him and others, Wernick 

was arrested. 

Wernick initially was indicted in Suffolk County on charges that he sodomized the Dix Hills man's daughter and 

two teenage boys in Suffolk. Those charges were set aside, however, in favor of the U.S. Attorney's child porn case 

against Wernick, which could put him in prison for up to 50 years. 

Barket told the jury they will learn about computer viruses and Trojan horses - infirmities capable of manipulating 

the content of a computer. 

But Gatz told the jury that Wernick alone was responsible for the hundreds of images uncovered from his computer, 

"despite his best efforts to delete them." 

"These are real kids," Gatz said. 

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Amish Farmer Headed for Prison in Child Sex Abuse Case 

USA - ABC27.com, PA - March 31, 2005 

http://www.abc27.com/news/stories/0305/217311.html 

Danville, Pa. - An Amish farmer faces up to 29 years in prison and sanctions under the state's Megan's Law after 

pleading no-contest to molesting seven young girls at his dairy farm in Montour County. 

The Press enterprise says 48-year-old Eli Hostetler declined to comment and rushed out of the courthouse to a 

waiting van driven by a friend after entering his pleas Wednesday. He will be sentenced later. The charges against 

Hostetler involved illicit sexual encounters kept secret over the past decade by the victims, who prosecutors say also 

came from Amish families. Montour County District Attorney Robert Buehner says a plea agreement was arranged 

in recent days to end the case so that the victims would not have to testify at a public trial. 

Hostetler will also undergo an evaluation under Pennsylvania's Megan's Law. 

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Man Sentenced To Prison In Child Sex Abuse Case 

USA - WGAL-TV8, PA - March 30, 2005 

http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4330601/detail.html 

Lancaster, Pa. -- A Mechanicsburg man has been sentenced to one to two years in state prison after being convicted 

in the sexual abuse of a 4-year-old girl. 

Henry Newton, 36, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual abuse of children. 

He and his wife, Patricia Newton, were accused of using a Web cam to photograph Patricia Newton engaging in sex 

acts with the child. 

Police said the couple put the images on the Internet. 


Patricia Newton earlier pleaded guilty to charges of sexual abuse of children and aggravated indecent assault. 

She is awaiting sentencing. 

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Internet child porn arrests rocket 

United Kingdom - Manchester Evening News - April 1, 2005 

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/153/153212_internet_child_porn_arrests_rocket.html 

Arrests and convictions for internet child porn offences have more than quadrupled in just two years. 

Figures published last month showed 2,234 were cautioned or charged with crimes in England and Wales in 2003, 

compared with 549 in 2001 - a rise of 307%. 

Children's charity NCH pointed out 2003's figure was 64 times the 35 offences recorded in 1998, the year when the 

legal framework for child pornography was established. 

NCH internet safety adviser John Carr said: "The worry is that they represent not a blip, but a new normality. 

"Many police admit they are still only touching the tip of a very ugly iceberg." 

Between 2002 and 2003, the figure - compiled by the Home Office - rose from 870, a year-on-year rise of 157%. 

The rise is mainly down to the police's Operation Ore, which was launched in April 2002 when the US Postal 

Inspection Service handed over credit card details of 6,500 Britons. 

Those on the list had entered a US pay-per-view web "portal", called Landslide, to gain access to about 300 web 

sites carrying child abuse images. 

The original list was whittled down to about 6,000, because of a number who had either died or left the UK. 

So far 3,800 have been arrested and nearly 1,500 convicted, with more still going through the courts. 

Relatives 

Last April, the National Crime Squad said British police forces had rescued 102 children - some as young as two - 

from paedophiles because of Operation Ore. 

Many had been repeatedly raped by their own fathers or other relatives so that sick pictures could be put on the 

internet. 

Police have removed children from families in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, Belfast, Wales, 

Essex, Kent, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Devon and Cornwall. 

Rock legend Pete Townshend is the most high-profile name to emerge so far from the Operation Ore list. 

The Who guitarist was not charged because he had not downloaded any pictures, and said he had been researching 

for a book about child abuse. However, his name was added to the sex offenders' register. 

The son of comedy legend Ronnie Barker fled abroad last year following his arrest as part of Operation Ore. 

Actor Adam Barker, 38, from Ealing, west London, failed to answer police bail in June after he was detained by 

Scotland Yard's paedophile squad. 

Others on the list include judges, civil servants, teachers, lawyers and surgeons. 

Investigators made it known there were 50 British police officers on the list who would face investigation and 

prosecution like all the other names. 


Suicide 

Among them were Detective Constable Brian Stevens, liaison officer to the family of Soham murder victim Jessica 

Chapman, and Pc Anthony Goodridge, an exhibits officer in the Soham inquiry. 

At least 33 men have committed suicide rather than face the shame and public humiliation brought about by their 

vile crimes. 

There was outrage in February when a paedophile who built up Britain's biggest collection of child pornography 

walked free from court because of a legal loophole. 

Married father-of-five John Harrison, 55, amassed a library of more than a million sickening images, including 

photographs of babies. 

But the computer expert - caught after a worldwide police operation - escaped a maximum 10-year sentence and was 

free within hours of being sentenced. 

The Home Office raised the maximum term for such crimes from three to 10 years in January 2001, but Judge John 

Burke QC, at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, was powerless to use the tougher legislation because the 

charges dated back to 1997. 

Harrison was jailed for two-and-a-half years after he admitted conspiracy to distribute indecent images and making 

and possessing pictures. 

But because he had already served 16 months on remand, more than half his sentence, he was allowed to walk free. 

In August 2003, a police sergeant who had one of the then largest collections of child pornography ever uncovered 

in the UK was jailed for 15 months. 

Anthony King, then 49, had an impeccable police record and received several commendations during his 26-year 

career. 

But London's Southwark Crown Court heard he had 25,000 pictures of children from all over the world in his 

catalogued library obtained through the Internet. 

Despite their successes, police claimed last November that internet paedophiles were escaping justice and children 

were suffering horrifying sexual abuse because of a shortage of funding. 

Police officers are also facing the new challenge of third generation or "3G" mobile phones which could allow 

youngsters to access porn anywhere at any time. 

The Association of Chief Police Officers and a coalition of leading charities have called on the Government to give 

a huge cash injection to internet porn policing. 

Boundary 

They argued a lack of essential police equipment was allowing criminals to evade capture or be bailed for long 

periods. 

And investigations were often dropped because the internet crimes had not taken place within a police force's 

boundary, they added. 

The groups argued sentencing guidelines used for people possessing internet child porn were too crude and should 

be reviewed. 

They also called on computer manufacturers and retailers to pre-install internet safety software to protect children 

from porn, and for banks to design payment cards which will automatically alert parents, for example, if services 

such as gambling sites were being used by someone under 18. 


Home Office minister Paul Goggins denied the police service was short of cash to combat the crime. 

The new unit to tackle child cyber-porn is expected to receive an extra 1million a year in sponsorship from the 

telecoms and technology industries, further boosting the ability to catch and convict perverts. 

In December, a government-commissioned survey of more than 50 internet and technology experts concluded 

online paedophiles were the greatest threat facing the internet. 

A variety of internet child porn issues dominated a "top 10" of criminal threats posed by new technology, with 

grooming and possible stalking of children ranked top. 

Out of a total of 101 crime issues in the league table compiled by the survey, 12 related to child porn. 

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Spokane man gets 17 years for porn 

USA - The Fresno Bee,CA - April 1, 2005 

By Jerry Bier / 

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/10231189p-11043941c.html 

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a defendant in the international child pornography case that centered on 

Clovis chiropractor Lloyd Alan Emmerson to more than 17 years in prison and scolded him for saying he was not a 

bad man, a thief or a rapist. 

"You just told me that what you did was not bad, not evil, that you are not a rapist," U.S. District Judge Oliver W. 

Wanger told Harry Tschernetzki. "What you did is bad, it is wicked and it is evil." 

Wanger sentenced Tschernetzki, 44, of Spokane, Wash., to 210 months in prison, with credit for the 21/2 years he 

has already been in custody. 

The judge followed the terms of a plea agreement between Tschernetzki and federal prosecutors, which had 

recommended a prison sentence of 171/2 years. 

Tschernetzki, fighting tears at times, read a statement to the judge in which he apologized for his crimes and said he 

never meant to hurt anyone, that he took photographs of his then-3-year-old daughter and exchanged them with 

Emmerson, but contended he never abused the child. He acknowledged that what he did "was wrong, terribly 

wrong," that he cheated his daughter of her childhood with her father. He said his arrest and incarceration has made 

him "feel like a piece of garbage." 

Wanger said the photos the men exchanged were meant only to satisfy prurient interests and sexual gratification 

through the exploitation of minors. 

The punishment must set an appropriate example, Wanger said. There is no protection that can be offered to 

children from predators, the judge said, "but we can make the punishment so severe that they think about it before 

they engage in this type of conduct." 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan B. Conklin said Tschernetzki was facing up to 260 years in prison if he had gone 

to trial and been convicted. 

The sentence for Tschernetzki will run concurrent to a 10-year sentence he is serving in Washington for related 

crimes and also concurrent to a 15-year sentence for related crimes in Alabama. 

Emmerson became the target of federal investigators and Clovis police in January 2002, after a tip from the Danish 

National Police following the arrests of several people in Denmark and Germany. 

Investigative work eventually untangled a child-porn ring with Emmerson at its heart. Examination of his computer 

files by Clovis police began at the time of his arrest and produced about 750,000 files, including 400,000 images of 

adult and child pornography, investigators said. 


Authorities have identified 45 children, including 37 in the United States, as victims. 

Since the investigation began, about 70 people have been arrested in the United States and Europe. 

Emmerson received a 30-year sentence last month as part of a plea agreement. 

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Man walks free after porn clampdown 

Australia - Sunday Times - April 2, 2005 

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,12725464%5E2761,00.html 

A TEACHER caught distributing child pornography during a national crackdown on internet pedophilia walked free 

from a Perth court yesterday. 

Alan John Vella, 24, was told by a judge at Western Australia's District Court he was very lucky to be given a 

suspended prison term after pleading guilty to charges of distributing and possessing child pornography. 

Vella, a teacher for three years at St Brigid's Primary School in the Perth suburb of Middle Swan, was one of the 

717 Australians, including 70 West Australians, targeted in the international child porn crackdown dubbed 

Operation Auxin last year. 

Described in court as "sexually naive", Vella was said to have subscribed and renewed a membership to a child 

pornography website, downloading 30 images of children as young as nine engaged in sex acts with other children. 

Vella also distributed some of the images to a number of other people via an internet chatroom, the court heard. 

Judge Shauna Deane said in her sentencing remarks she could not understand why a teacher, who was supposed to 

have the interests of children at heart, would want to view such images. 

"It is difficult to understand how you could stoop to behaving in this way," Judge Deane said. 

Vella received a 14-month prison sentence for the distribution charge and concurrent six-month sentences for each 

possession charge making a total of 20 months. 

Judge Deane suspended the sentence for two years after taking into consideration the relatively small number of 

images collected and what she said was Vella's low risk of re-offending. 

"You are very fortunate not to be going to prison today," Judge Deane said. 

Vella has been sacked from his position at the school. 

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Homosassa man gets 15 years for child molestation 

USA - Citrus County Chronicle, FL - April 1, 2005 

By Dave Pieklik 

http://www.chronicleonline.com/articles/2005/04/01/news/news40.txt 

Trials set in child porn, attempted murder case. 

A 41-year-old Homosassa man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for molesting two children from 

Dunnellon. 

James Scott Perry pleaded guilty to 11 counts he faced, including sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation 

and pornography possession. He was arrested in April 2004 after Citrus County Sheriff's investigators say he 

performed sex acts on an 8-year-old girl. 

During a taped interview with investigators, the girl indicated her 5-year-old brother was also involved. 


As part of his plea agreement, Perry will be considered a sexual predator and must serve 15 years of sex-offender 

probation after his release from prison. He will be subjected to the "Jimmy Ryce Act," a law which allows for a sex 

offender's involuntary commitment to a mental health facility for treatment if a panel of psychologists determine the 

offender is still a risk to the community. 

Perry must also pay money to a rape crisis fund, and to Crimes Against Minors. 

While Perry could have faced life in prison if convicted, Assistant State Attorney Rich Buxman said the plea deal 

saved the children the trauma of having to testify during a trial. 

Child porn trial set 

Philip Sellers goes to trial May 31, facing 56 counts of possessing child pornography. 

Sellers, 30, of Crystal River, was arrested June 25 after investigators say they found 92 images of children engaged 

in sexual activity on compact discs at his home. 

Investigators say during an interview, he admitted to downloading the pictures from the Internet so that he could 

view them later. 

Man on trial in shooting case 

Jury selection begins Monday for Daniel Sumners, charged with attempted murder after an early morning shooting 

in November 2003. 

Sumners, 20, of Lecanto, is accused of shooting Scott Bensing in the stomach and leg with a shotgun, following an 

argument at his sister's home. 

Though sheriff's investigators say Sumners fled the scene after the shooting, he turned himself in later that day. 

He faces life in prison under the state's 10-20-Life gun law, which gives mandatory sentences for possessing a gun, 

firing a gun or injuring a person with a gun while committing a crime. 

The trial is expected to last two days. 

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Net groomer jailed for sex abuse 


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4401151.stm 

A former child psychiatrist has been jailed for four years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl after grooming 

her on the internet. 

Dr Julian Morrell, 42, travelled 300 miles from his London home to meet the teenager, from Gwynedd, north Wales. 

Last year, Morrell pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child and to meeting a child following 

sexual grooming. 

He was struck off in April 2004 for looking at child porn on the internet. 

Caernarfon Crown Court was told at an earlier hearing that Morrell had posed as a teenage boy to meet the girl in an 

internet chatroom. 

"You are a sexual predator of young girls, with a significant level of obsessive behaviour which you have been 

unable or unwilling to control " Judge Merfyn Hughes QC 

They exchanged several e-mails during the following month, before Morrell drove from his home in Ealing in west 


London to a campsite in Snowdonia. 

The following month, the married father-of-two again drove to the campsite and sexually assaulted the girl once 

more. The girl's parents found out in October 2004 and called the police. 

Sentencing him on Friday, Judge Merfyn Hughes QC described Morrell as posing "a serious risk of causing harm". 

"You used your professional skill and expertise in order to gain the trust of your victim and you had personal and 

professional insight into what consequences your victim may suffer," he said. 


unable or unwilling to control." 

Morrell was sentenced to three years for the grooming charge and four years for each of the sexual activity charges. 

All the sentences are to run concurrently. 

In addition to a jail sentence, a sexual offence prevention order was made including disqualification of Morrell from 

working with any child. 

Struck off 

Morrell had been considered a leading expert in child psychiatry, specialising in sleeping disorders. 

He had worked at the Park Hospital for children in Oxford and a children's clinic in Reading, Berkshire. 

He was struck off by the General Medical Council in April 2004 for looking at child pornography on the internet. 

Morrell had been caught looking at similar sites before, but was only suspended by the GMC. 

His defence barrister Rachel Smith said: "He has already lost everything he holds dear - his good name, his career, 

his wife, his children." 

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Centre to tackle net paedophiles 


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4399183.stm 

Paedophiles using the internet to "groom" children will be targeted. A unit to protect children in the UK from 

internet paedophiles is being set up by the Home Office. 

About 100 staff, including police and child welfare experts will join the Centre for Child Protection on the Internet 

next April. 

The centre will take on work being done by the National Crime Squad and will target those who distribute child 

porn images or "groom" children for abuse. 

It will be open 24 hours a day so people can report suspicious activity. 

The centre will take on the child porn role currently carried out by the National Crime Squad's Hi-Tech Crime Unit, 

and government spending will remain at about 6m a year. 

But a Home Office spokesman said industry partners were likely to provide an extra 1m in technological support 

and seconded workers' salaries. 

"Online abuse crosses geographical police force boundaries, so it makes sense to tackle the problem at a national 

level " Charles Clarke Home Secretary 

Specialists from the telecommunications industry will also work at the centre, which will be part of the 


government's planned FBI-style investigation bureau, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca). 

As well as allowing people to report suspicious websites and online activity, it will offer information and advice to 

victims, and will manage the national police database of child abuse images - used to identify victims and abusers. 

Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the centre would help the police do their job more effectively and help catch 

and prosecute child abusers. 

"Online abuse by definition crosses geographical police force boundaries, so it makes much more sense to tackle the 

problem at a national level," he said. 

Childrens' charities also welcomed the centre as "a big step forward". 

John Carr, an internet expert at children's charity NCH, said: "It's the first example anywhere in the world of the 

police, the industry, child welfare bodies and the government working together under one roof to tackle internet 

child abuse." 

And the NSPCC said it meant internet child abuse had become a national police priority, which sent a "strong 

message that the internet is no longer a market for abusive images of children". 

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Former teacher, coach pleads guilty to child porn charges; faces more 

USA - Daily Press, VA - March 31, 2005 

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--teacherporn0331mar31,0,7718534.story?coll=dp-headlinesvirginia 

Fredericksburg, Va. -- A former Stafford County teacher and football coach pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts 

of distributing child pornography. 

Craig D. Welker, 33, also was arraigned in Fredericksburg Circuit Court Thursday on 125 counts of possessing child 

pornography. He faces a bench trial on those charges Aug. 10, the same day he will be sentenced on the distribution 

charges. 

Welker also is charged with 40 child-pornography offenses in Stafford. He faces an April 28 trial on those charges. 

Welker was working as an earth science teacher, football defensive coordinator and boys' and girls' track coach at 

North Stafford High School when he was arrested in October. 

Police traced a screen name and e-mail address to Welker that had been used to upload 13 images of girls "well 

under the age of 18," court records said. Virginia State Police later seized a large number of compact discs, 8 mm 

videos, pictures and magazines from his home and his laptop computer and other items from school. 

Welker is being held in Rappahannock Regional Jail. 

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Cameraman's Child Porn Shame 

United Kingdom - Derbyshire Evening Telegraph - April 01 2005 

By Sarah North 

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=131596&command=displayContent&sourceNode=1243 

71&contentPK=12145175 

A professional photographer has been jailed for six months after being caught with 12,700 indecent computer 

images of children at his Chaddesden home 

Simon Hammond (35) claimed he needed the images to restore old photographs for his employer, WW Winter, 

Derby Crown Court heard yesterday. 


Hammond, of Nairn Avenue, Chaddesden, was caught with the images after he subscribed by credit card to an 

American website called Landslide Productions. 

When U.S. authorities closed down the website in 1999 they passed on Hammond's details, along with those of 

thousands of other subscribers, to UK police. 

Hammond was convicted at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court on February 15 this year for 15 offences of 

making indecent photographs of children and six offences of possession of indecent photographs of children. 

John Wood, prosecuting, told yesterday's hearing that police searched Hammond's home in June 2003 and seized 

two computers and stacks of computer discs. 

"When first interviewed he said he had been looking for adult porn and accessed the child porn sites by mistake," 

said Mr Wood. 

"However, when interviewed again by Derbyshire police he admitted he had been downloading child porn for a 

number of years. 

"He said some images were on his computer and others were on discs, the most serious of which had been disguised 

as a wall clock hanging in his house." 

Hammond told police he viewed the child porn for artistic purposes, as he claimed some of the children were in 

"glamorous" poses. 

He also said he needed the images to allow him to successfully restore old photos by matching faces from a 

database, Mr Wood said. 

Olivia Chaffin-Haird, mitigating, said Hammond had stored thousands of other images on his computer for work 

purposes. 

She said: "Now he understands the pictures are inappropriate and that he may have been naive to access this type of 

site. 

"There is no evidence that he distributed these images and he is genuinely apologetic and ashamed of his behaviour. 

"He has the full support of his employer and is highly regarded in his work. His wife has also stood by him through 

this." 

Sentencing Hammond to six months' imprisonment and placing him on the sex offenders' register for seven years, 

Judge David Price told him: "You had over 12,000 images, some of which were of the most serious kind and 

undoubtedly encourage abuse of children. 

"The sheer number of images gives me cause for concern, which is why a custodial sentence is the only appropriate 

outcome." 

WW Winter, based in Midland Road, Derby, declined to comment after the case. 

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'If You Turn Up Dead, No One Will Wonder Why', Says Child Sex Ring Victim 

Mexico - Inter Press Service News Agency - March 10, 2005 

By Diego Cevallos 

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=27817 

Mexico City - "If you turn up dead someday, no one is going to wonder how you died," said Kathy, a Honduran girl 

caught up in a child sex ring. She is just one of an estimated 40,000 minors in Central America whose childhood has 

been stripped away for the pleasure and profit of adults. 

These girls, boys and teenagers are offered up as "merchandise" in brothels, photographed nude for Internet 


websites, or forced to perform in live sex shows. Most are poor, and all are utterly denied their right to a safe and 

happy childhood. 

That basic human right has been stolen from them by the exploiters, pimps and "clients" who fuel the booming 

business of child prostitution and "kiddie porn". 

Bente Sorensen, coordinator of an International Labour Organisation (ILO) regional project to fight commercial 

sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and Jos Manuel Capelln, director of the Honduran headquarters of 

Casa Alianza (the Latin American branch of the New York-based Covenant House, a child advocacy organisation), 

described the situation in Central America as "extremely serious". 

Chances are that Kathy, whose personal account appears in an ILO report, remains a victim of sexual exploitation 

by adults -- unless she has met the same fate as Elena, another young Honduran girl trapped in the same situation. 

"I'm afraid of what might happen to me here (the place where she was being forced to work as a prostitute), I'm 

afraid for my life," Elena told the ILO researchers before she died in 2002. 

In Honduras alone, between 8,000 and 10,000 girls and boys are the victims of sexual exploitation, according to a 

still unpublished Casa Alianza study conducted last year in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. 

According to Capelln, who provided IPS with some data from the upcoming report, the researchers found minors 

under 18 years of age working as prostitutes in all of the 50 brothels they visited in Guatemala. 

In a telephone interview from Honduras, Capelln noted, "Sexual exploitation is a product of poverty, and in Central 

America, 80 percent of the population is poor, and half the population is under 18 years of age." 

Casa Alianza, which works with street children in numerous countries, estimates that between 35,000 and 50,000 

girls and boys are forced into prostitution in Central America. 

For their part, the ILO researchers say they cannot provide hard figures on the number of minors in the region who 

have fallen victim to commercial sexual exploitation, but according to Sorensen, "there are thousands of them." 

In the 1990s, a series of international agreements were created to protect children and teenagers from sexual 

exploitation. 

Most of these instruments have been signed and ratified by the countries of Central America, but only Costa Rica, 

El Salvador and Panama have updated their legislation to address the issue, while similar legal reforms are still 

being debated in Honduras and Guatemala. 

Throughout the region as a whole, "the problem of sexual exploitation is widely recognised, and that helps a great 

deal, but it hasn't eliminated the problem, and it doesn't make up for the lack of help given to the victims in most 

cases," said Sorensen, interviewed from her offices in Costa Rica. 

The investigations conducted by both the ILO and Casa Alianza have exposed an entire sex tourism industry in 

Central America specialising in child prostitution. There is also evidence of boys and girls in the region being used 

to supply material for child pornography websites on the Internet. 

Marisol Rodrguez, the Honduran special prosecutor for crimes against minors, reported in late February that she and 

her counterparts in the other Central American nations had uncovered what appears to be a large and well-developed 

Internet child pornography ring operating in the region. 

In a 1997 study, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported numerous cases of men from the United 

States and Europe who moved to Central America after retirement specifically to have easier access to child 

prostitution services. 

Based on interviews with minors forced to engage in prostitution, UNICEF revealed that close to 70 percent of them 

had sexual relations with at least one or two partners every day. 

In addition, 93 percent of these children and teens had at some time contracted a sexually transmitted disease, such 

as genital herpes, gonorrhoea, syphilis and genital warts. 


Almost 65 percent of the girls interviewed by UNICEF said that their first sexual relations, before entering a 

prostitution ring, had been with their fathers or mothers, followed by 10 percent with uncles, another 10 percent 

with brothers, five percent with boyfriends and 2.6 percent with friends. 

UNICEF also noted that once minors are in a child prostitution ring, it is very difficult for them to get out, because 

any attempt to escape is likely to meet with threats, beatings or torture. 

Psychologists say that a minor subjected to sexual exploitation is left with permanent psychological scars that can 

only be alleviated with professional treatment. This kind of help, however, is available to only a small minority of 

the young victims in Central America, according to both the ILO and Casa Alianza. 

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Police amp up sex abuse investigations 

USA - MSNBC News-Journal Online - April 2, 2005 

By Deborah Circelli 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7363305/ 

USA - Todd Hammons was 11 years old, he said, when an older friend of the family started molesting him.The 10 

months of torture he describes included being tied up in the woods and raped. He was so terrified he waited about 

three years before telling his mom. Because of the time lapse and fear that remained, he said an arrest was never 

made. 

Now 30 years old, the Port Orange man continues to have flashbacks. 

While counselors work with children and adults like Hammons, investigators today are dealing with a growing 

number of child sex-abuse cases in Volusia and Flagler counties over the last several years. As April's National 

Child Abuse Prevention Month begins, investigators are relying on proven strategies and quick improvements put 

into place after the recent murder of Jessica Lunsford in Citrus County. . 

Larger law enforcement agencies and the State Attorney's Office have special sex-crime units to deal with sexual 

abuse against children and adults. The State Attorney's Office also recently formed a sexual-assault response team to 

immediately arrive on the scene with law enforcement in some cases. The rapid response is similar to the State 

Attorney's Office approach to murder investigations. 

The team responded last weekend to their first case involving a 12-year-old Port Orange girl, who police say was 

sexually assaulted after she got into a Jeep with two men. The team worked together with police to expedite search 

warrants and subpoenas, which helped lead to their arrest, said David Smith, first assistant state attorney. 

"A child victim is more disturbing to me than any other victim because they are less able to protect themselves," 

said Phil Havens, supervising attorney for sex-crimes prosecutions at the State Attorney's Office. "Every prosecutor 

feels a special responsibility to children." 

Confirmed child sexual abuse has risen in the past five years, with 345 sexually abusive acts, referred to as 

"maltreatments" by officials, in Volusia and Flagler counties last fiscal year compared to 261 in 1999-2000, 

according to reports from the state Department of Children & Families. The same child may suffer more than one 

maltreatment. 

Local DCF officials say those numbers have declined recently. From July 2004 to March this year, there were 196 

sexual-abuse maltreatments compared to 229 during the same period last year, officials say. 

Alan Abramowitz, local DCF administrator, said some of the increase from years past is because DCF investigators 

are getting better at identifying sexual abuse and asking children the right questions. 

Law enforcement officials say they have remained busy, and efforts are being increased to catch offenders, 

prosecute them and keep them in jail. 

"The thing about physical abuse is the scars heal -- with sex crimes they carry those scars around forever," said John 


C. Eckersen, investigator with Volusia County Sheriff's Office sex-crimes unit. 

The three-man unit reviews about 20 cases a month of child sexual abuse, he said. The unit last year reviewed 1,600 

child-abuse reports overall, including physical, sexual and neglect complaints. That's up from 1,300 the previous 

year. 

Local counselors say victims face issues at various stages throughout their life, from being unable to trust again to 

having feelings of powerlessness. 

Hammons, who said he's had relationship problems from pushing people away, recently completed a 12-week 

Wounded Heart program through the Children's Advocacy Center in Daytona Beach for adults who were sexually 

abused as children. 

The law school graduate plans to start a local support group and represent abused children after passing his bar 

exam. 

"I felt almost like I had two different personalities -- a scared little child inside and the facade I put on to the world 

that everything was OK," Hammons said. "I'll never be completely repaired, but it doesn't have to be a wound all the 

time." 

Pat Hale, 62, a licensed mental health counselor for the center who counsels adults and children referred by the DCF 

and authorities, plans to start a counseling program for adults in the Bunnell office June 1. 

"I do this because I know the path is hard, but I also know it's possible," said Hale, who added she was also abused 

as a child. "I want to give them hope that they can get through this." 

The center's Child Protection Team, which helps investigate child-abuse cases under a state contract, received 762 

referrals from the DCF and authorities of alleged child abuse and neglect last fiscal year, including 523 sexual abuse 

cases. That's down from last year's numbers of 1,023 total cases, including 730 sexual abuse. 

About 80 percent of those cases have confirmed indicators of abuse, officials there said. Numbers are down partly 

because investigators believe they are not receiving as many referrals as they should be from the DCF, but that 

problem has recently been corrected. 

DeLand pediatrician Dr. Michael Bell, medical director of the Child Protection Team, said nurses and counselors 

see a range of children, including toddlers to early school-age children. Most know the abuser, he said, whether it's 

an uncle, grandfather or a mother's boyfriend. 

Bell said, in many cases, the sexual abuse, which usually starts with touching and later escalates, can last over a 

period of years. The perpetrators coerce the child through fear not to tell. When a child does tell, Bell said many 

times there is negativity from family and the child later recants the story. 

Bell said education is the key in teaching children to identify someone to tell. He said parents also need to be 

vigilant and listen to their children. 

"If your child says something, even though it may seem farfetched, don't just blow it off," he said. "Query them 

about it and see if it is real. It's better to deal with it now early on than to find out 25 years after the fact that it was 

real." 

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Teenager in the clutches of American cult 

South Africa & USA - IOL, SA - April 1, 2005 

By Kashiefa Ajam 


A desperate South African couple have lost their 18-year-old daughter to a cult group in the United States that lured 

her via the Internet. 


Diane McMillan, from Johannesburg, has married the 58-year-old American cult leader - who calls himself 

"Amadon" - in Oregon, and vowed never to return home. 

Her parents, Karene and Ian McMillan, say she met the man, who styled himself as a new age guru, when she turned 

to the Internet for comfort. She was 15 at the time and was drawn to his website. 

Almost instantly, Diane fell under the influence of "Amadon" - the cult leader. Also involved in the "cult" was 

Amadon's ex-wife, Sara Schorske, who has numerous aliases, the latest being Sara Donna. 

'My family was devastated' 

Amadon and Sara Donna confirmed the details of their backgrounds in an email to Ian McMillan after Diane arrived 

in the US. 

The Oregonian newspaper in Oregon has previously described Amadon as a "foul-mouthed zealot who 

psychologically controlled his workers" and who had been successfully sued for sexual harassment by two former 

employees in Santa Rosa, California, in 1996. 

The employees said in their suit that employees were encouraged to touch one another and to allow themselves to be 

touched. They said Amadon would walk through the office daily to evaluate the spiritual and psychological state of 

the employees' minds. He would frequently touch them and ask them about their sex lives. 

"We, as parents, only became aware of Diane's unhealthy liaison about a year ago," said Mr McMillan, who is the 

head of the trauma unit at a Krugersdorp private hospital. 

"At that time, Amadon had proposed marriage to our then 17-year-old daughter. The matter was investigated by the 

Child Protection Unit in Pretoria and a forensic audit of our home computer was done. We tried all we could to 

dissuade our daughter from these ideas, which began when she was a devout Christian and during a time of great 

health crisis in her mother." 

'I want you to know that I am safe' 

But on the last day of the school term last month, the McMillans' worst nightmare came true. 

"After school, Diane told us she was staying over with a friend. But we later discovered that she had absconded to 

the US via Canada on a return-ticket funded secretly by Amadon. Sadly, it did not end there. Within a day of 

arriving in the state of Oregon she secretly married Amadon - a sham marriage to get US citizenship - and declared 

that she is never returning home. My family was devastated." 

On Easter Monday the family received "a typical cult-like letter" from Diane, cutting off ties with them - unless they 

complied with certain conditions. 

In the letter, which has been seen by the Saturday Star, sister paper of the Weekend Argus, Diane wrote: "I want you 

to know that I am safe. Amadon is everything I always thought he was. Now that I have left home and am a married 

woman I am no longer under your control. This is my choice and it is the life I want to lead. If you choose to 

express your disapproval about this I will not communicate with you. 

"This thing is final. And you will have to accept it. If you can't and if you reject my husband and these people, then 

you have rejected me. I don't think that under those circumstances, it's possible for us to have any workable 

relationship." 

After Ian was informed of the marriage proposal last year, he contacted the US embassy in Pretoria and explained 

the situation. Although he had refused to give Diane her passport, he said he was sure she "would try and get 

another one". 

"I asked the embassy to block her from getting a visa and I received an email saying the request had been forwarded 

to the consulate." 

When the Saturday Star contacted the embassy, spokesperson Daniel Stewart said the request "probably had been 

sent to the consulate", but that he could not discuss individual applications for visas. 

"(Diane) is 18 years old. She is an adult and she has a right to apply for a visa. I know that US immigration laws 


frown upon marriages of convenience but there is nothing we can do about that." 

Ian McMillan also contacted the FBI in Portland and even approached Interpol for help, without success. 

The SAPS told the Saturday Star its Child Protection Unit was busy with an inquiry into the matter, but "since Diane 

McMillan is over 18 and all indications are that she left the country out of her own free will, there is currently no 

indication that any crime was committed locally". 

The McMillans are furious that neither US nor South African authorities have assisted them in securing their 

teenage daughter's safety. 

"How can a 58-year-old man use the Internet to solicit minor children, wait until they are 18 and then import them to 

the US for exploitation and get away with it?" pleaded Ian McMillan. 

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Police say search for online child predators is paying off 

USA - Daily Press, VA - April 1, 2005 

By Brett Zongker 

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-dc--childpredators0401apr01,0,4354388.story?coll=dp-headlinesvirginia 

Alexandria, Va. -- They're regular people by any ordinary measure--a youth minister, an engineer, a security guard. 

But six people arrested and charged as online sexual predators in the past 10 days are part of what police call a 

nationwide explosion of online child exploitation and pornography. 

Northern Virginia and District of Columbia police departments formed a joint Internet Crimes Against Children 

Task Force in January. Officers go online posing as 12- and 13-year-old children in Internet chat rooms. Sometimes 

within minutes a sexual predator tried to solicit the supposed child for sex, Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. 

W. Steve Flaherty said Friday. 

"These predators are out there surfing the net for your son or daughter," Flaherty said. 

Since January, authorities in the region have arrested nine suspected sexual predators by creating and monitoring 

fake chat room profiles. 

"What's even more disturbing is the fact that the majority of these folks that we arrested were taken into custody at a 

prearranged location," Flaherty said. The suspects arrived with the expectation of having sex with a young girl, he 

said. 

A youth minister from a D.C. church was one such suspect _ arrested Wednesday after a trip to Stafford County. 

Michael D. Barber, 52, of Arlington, faces one count of attempted indecent liberties with a juvenile, which carries 

up to a five-year sentence and $2,500 fine, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller. He was released 

Thursday from Rappahannock Regional Jail on a $25,000 bond. 

If convicted, Barber and suspects with similar charges would be placed on Virginia's violent sex offender registry. 

Part of the problem is relationships through the Internet have become no different than the real world, said Ernie 

Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 

"For millions of parents there's a false sense of security" because they think their children are safe using computers 

in their homes, Allen said. "When you're online you're in public." 

A $300,000 Justice Department grant will fund the regional task force for 18 months, and officials hope to renew 

the program. So far 37 officers, investigators and federal agents have been trained for the program. 

Some suspects who cross state lines to solicit a child for sex could also face federal charges, which carry a stiffer 

penalty. 


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3 men arrested in Internet child sex sting 

USA - Tribune-Review, April 2, 2005 

By Bob Stiles 

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_319854.html 

Authorities say two southwestern Pennsylvania men believed they were going to a North Huntingdon Township 

convenience store to rendezvous with a teen they met on the Internet. 

Instead, they were greeted by township police and agents of the state Attorney General's Office as part of a "child 

sex sting." 

Now the men, Dale W. Catley Jr., 27, of 4231 Hilty Road, Export; and Omar J. Bakth, 25, of 5460 Northumberland 

St., in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill section; along with a third man, Henry Danhart Jr., 29, of 114 Hook St., 

Canonsburg, Washington County; are charged with attempting to contact a minor unlawfully and criminal use of a 

communication facility. 

Each was arraigned on the felony offenses Friday before Magisterial District Judge Douglas Weimer, of North 

Huntingdon Township. Bakth and Danhart are free on $50,000 unsecured bond. Catley is free on $25,000 unsecured 

bond. 

As part of their bail conditions, the three are prohibited from using computers and were put under the supervision of 

Westmoreland County officials in pretrial services and probation and parole agencies. 

According to authorities, the three men believed they were arranging a meeting for sex with a 13-year-old girl in an 

America Online chat room. A female member of the attorney general's Child Sexual Exploitation Task Force was 

posing as the teen. 

"The growth of the Internet ... has been astronomical (and), regrettably, as we have seen by these arrests today, these 

predators use the Internet as their primary means of contacting and communicating with their young victims," 

Attorney General Tom Corbett said at a news conference at the agency's office in North Huntingdon. 

The arrests came as Corbett also is asking the state Legislature for $1.3 million in the next state budget to expand 

the task force from a three- to a 10-member panel to be called the Child Predator Unit. 

Previously, with only three members, the task force concentrated on Internet sex crimes in the Harrisburg area, 

Corbett said. The three arrests yesterday were the group's first in southwestern Pennsylvania. 

"With a larger child predator unit, we can increase the pursuit of those in our state, or those who come into 

Pennsylvania, who seek to sexually exploit or otherwise prey upon and steal the innocence of our children, 

effectively preventing children from becoming victims of crime," Corbett said. 

The Internet unit of agents and attorneys also would create training programs to teach children and their parents how 

to avoid sexual predators. 

"I can't stress enough how serious a situation this is," Corbett said. "We have computers everywhere we go ... and 

any time you turn on a computer and connect to the Internet, you're talking to somebody you don't know." 

According to court documents, the contacts by the three men spanned from January to March. All three were told 

that the person they were communicating with was a 13-year-old girl, court papers said. 

Authorities said they found a disposable camera in Catley's car when agents converged on him Jan. 28 at the 

convenience store. 

Bakth began his conversations March 8 with the undercover officer, officials said. He indicated that he wanted to 

have sex and also take nude photographs, according to court documents. Bakth was identified by authorities at the 

convenience store March 11. 


Both Catley and Bakth allowed searches of their vehicles and later made statements to authorities, court papers 

indicated. The contents of those statements weren't disclosed by authorities. 

Danhart first contacted the undercover agent on March 8, authorities said. He went on to provide the person he 

believed to be a teen with a cellular telephone number to contact him, court papers said. He then surrendered to the 

Attorney General's Office. 

The area has had numerous other Internet cases involving adults allegedly contacting children for sexual purposes. 

They include: 

Last month, Michael Murdoch, 23, formerly of Spring Run Manor, Crescent Township, Allegheny County, was 

indicted in federal court on a charge of using the Internet to arrange sexual encounters with a 14-year-old. 

In February, a 13-year-old girl from Hempfield Township and a Texas man she met over the Internet were stopped 

near Texarkana, Ark., by police and FBI agents. Nathan Hugh Wedgeworth, 22, of Lufkin, told investigators the two 

were on their way to Texas and he hoped to have sex with the girl. He was indicted by a federal grand jury. 

In January, Ian Finlay, 28, a former computer security expert at Carnegie Mellon University, was convicted of 

trying to lure an online acquaintance he believed was a 15-year-old girl into a sexual liaison. 

Two months earlier, Baden police Officer Kenneth Jones, 38, was charged with using a computer to entice a teenage 

boy into sex. 

In 2003, Scott W. Tyree, of Herndon, Va., was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for taking a 13-year-old 

Crafton Heights, Allegheny County, girl to his home and shackling her to a bed before she was rescued by 

authorities. The two met on the Internet. Tyree's online profile described him as "master for teen slave girls." 

Corbett said he also hopes to convince authorities to hand down harsher sentences for sexual predators. 

The three men charged yesterday each face up to 20 years in prison, but Corbett said that in similar previous cases 

the sentences imposed were much less. 

To try to deter contact by Internet predators, Corbett suggested that parents put the computers their children are 

using in a public area of the home. 

"It should be a place where a parent can easily see what's going on," he said. 

Online dangers 

There are 100,000 Web sites that offer illegal child pornography on the Internet. 

Eleven is the average age of exposure to Internet pornography. 

One in five girls and one in 10 boys are sexually exploited before they reach adulthood. 

One in five children, ages 10 to 17, receive unwanted sexual solicitations online. 

Sources: The Internet Filter Review, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the U.S. Department 

of Justice and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. 

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Get the message, kids 

Australia - Sydney Morning Herald - April 2, 2005 

By Darren Baguley 

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Icon/Get-the-message-kids/2005/03/30/1111862448404.html# 

Dinner has just finished, you've packed the dishwasher and you're curled up on the sofa with your partner while the 

children are doing their homework. If you have internet access, and 52 per cent of Australian households do, it's 

more than likely your children have an instant messaging (IM) session open as well. 


IM and online chat are fast becoming the early 21st-century equivalent of email in the 1990s - a pervasive part of 

our lives at work, home, school and when we are out and about via mobile phone. 

About 10.5 million Australians browse the internet every month, and according to Nielsen/Netratings the No. 1 IM 

service, MSN Messenger, reaches 32 per cent of the online community and 60 per cent of online 12-to-17-year-olds. 

For parents, the pervasiveness of IM raises the issue of minimising the risks inherent in such services. Diligent 

parents are careful to monitor who their children associate with, but the anonymity of the net makes this difficult. 

Even if you are sitting beside your child, all that can be seen is the messaging window with sender's screen name, or 

"handle", which may bear no relation to the person's real identity. It could be a classmate or a friend, but there is the 

possibility that it is a stranger with less than honourable intentions. 

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And such strangers are out there. Last year, two separate Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission and police 

"sting" operations netted two men, aged 23 and 28, who made contact in chat rooms with undercover policewomen 

masquerading as 13-year-old girls. 

In each case, the man engaged the girl in sexually explicit conversation. In the case of the 28-year-old man, he 

transmitted sexually explicit material. Late last year, a 37-year-old Melbourne man, David Padgham, was sentenced 

to four months jail after he had sex with a 15-year-old girl he had met in a Yahoo! chat room. 

While statistics are hard to come by, the problem of online child abuse is widespread. Police and security agencies 

around world, including the Australian Federal Police's Australian High Tech Crime Centre, formed the Virtual 

Global Task Force in 2003. Online child abuse includes downloading, sharing or even searching for images of child 

sex abuse, and recent legislation has made it an offence to "groom" children for later procurement for sexual abuse 

either on or offline. 

Federal agent Sharon Cowden, co-ordinator of the Online Child Sex Exploitation Team (OCSET), which was 

launched last month, says that while it was not targeted at the internet, last year's nationwide child pornography 

crackdown, Operation Auxin, showed that online child abuse was widespread. "There were 250 people arrested or 

summonsed as a result of that investigation and 2279 charges laid and it was part of the driving force behind 

updated legislation and the creation of the OCSET," says Cowden. 

While initial efforts, such as the Queensland "sting" operations, were aimed at chat rooms, law enforcement 

agencies are also aware of the possibilities of pedophiles approaching children via instant messaging. The good 

news is that parents, through a combination of education and parental control tools can greatly minimise the risk to 

their children when using IM. 

Just as generation Xers were told not to talk to strangers, so parents today need basic ground rules for their children 

to follow while online. Websites such as nettysworld.com.au, www.netalert.net.au and 

microsoft.ninemsn.com.au/safetyresourcecenter.aspx provide comprehensive information, which includes tips such 

as not instant messaging with strangers, keeping personal information private and not meeting with an online friend 

unless an adult is present. 

The parental control tools available vary according to the IM service you are using but there are two types: those 

that are downloaded or bundled free, and those that are part of a subscription service. Popular clients include 

Microsoft Messenger that is built into Microsoft XP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Apple iChat and 

AOL Instant Messenger. 

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Free IM services don't have password-protected parental controls. Although they do have privacy features that can 

be configured to provide some protection, they can generally be disabled by a child and are unsuitable for all but the 

youngest. For older children, parents may choose to configure the software appropriately but insist the settings not 

be changed as a condition of continued use of the service. 

Tollgates 


Both MSN and AOL offer customisable parental controls that can be accessed from only the master or administrator 

account as part of subscription services, dubbed MSN Premium and AOL Client Software respectively. 

While the details vary between the two systems, the fundamentals are the same. Parents can choose from three 

default settings that are broadly defined as preteen, young teenager and mature teenager or an unrestricted setting, 

all of which can be further customised. Each default setting has varying levels of access to web browsing, chat, 

instant messaging and email. Preteens can be blocked from IM completely while young teenagers are allowed 

access but file downloads are blocked. Older teenagers have a higher level of access again. 

Other controls include restricted contact lists, download blocks regardless of default setting, reports that don't record 

a child's conversations but identify websites that were visited, or attempted to visit, and the online identity of people 

contacted via IM and email. 

All these controls, however, can be circumvented through a variety of means such as using a non-AOL web 

browser, although this can be countered by turning on Internet Access Controls which blocks all non-AOL software, 

or a non-Microsoft IM client. Ultimately, however, there is no substitute for education and parental supervision. 

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How society enables the abuse of kids 

USA - World Net Daily, PR - April 2, 2005 

By Dr. Kelly Hollowell 

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43611 

Few things upset me more than hearing a child was abducted, sexually assaulted and killed. In the case of 9-year-old 

Jessica Lunsford, the crime was committed by a registered sex offender who failed to report that he relocated as 

required by law. 

What's worse, this repeat offender reportedly made it no secret that he was unable to control his depraved urges. His 

24 arrests spanning 30 years and his rap sheet practically guaranteed his days of predation would continue. 

Just about the same time this story aired, I saw a segment on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" warning of the predatorlike 

nature of child molesters. It showed an interview with a pedophile who told of the premeditated nature of his 

crimes. He specifically told how he manipulated his young victims to trust him. 

After the interview, Oprah herself related pieces of her own story. 

She was molested by an uncle when she was a young girl. It wasn't until she was in her 40s that her father asked for 

the details of what happened. Her response to her father and the viewing audience was that no matter what 

happened, she was violated by her uncle and her uncle alone "was responsible." 

Oprah said (and I paraphrase), "Even if I approached him naked and sat on his head, he had the responsibility to tell 

me to go home, put my clothes on or walk away. He was the adult, and I was the child." 

I couldn't agree with Oprah more. I strongly suspect that most of the millions of women watching her program also 

agreed. 

So the question is: "Why don't we better protect our children from and more aggressively pursue sexual predators?" 

The answer, in part, is because as a society, we glamorize and promote sex through every possible venue. Selling 

sex is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is integral to mainstream media, available through the Internet and sold 

through billboards, bookstores and supermarkets. We not only expose adults but also our children to every form of 

sexuality, including information on alternative lifestyles in grade school. 

We treat children as though they are capable of adult sexual relationships when they are not. Proof can be seen 

almost any night in prime-time television programming, which has the impact of making both victims and predators 

of our children. 

Just last week, a local prosecutor, told me of one of his cases in which a 14-year-old boy molested his 4-year-old 


cousin. While no penetration took place, the boy's goal was to ejaculate. When asked what prompted his behavior, 

the boy simply replied "TV," specifically programming he watched on HBO. 

Common sense tells us that children should not be having sex with each other or adults. So it should be deterred, not 

encouraged or condoned. Yet as a society, we promote it and then lash out against those who attempt to shield or 

protect our children from such abuses. 

Pornography, X-rated television programming and Hollywood films are all protected through a distorted exercise of 

free speech and the First Amendment. Now, sexual predators ironically are being protected through the right of 

privacy the same grounds used by the Supreme Court in 1973 when discovering a constitutional right to abortion. 

Consider that in Kansas and Indiana the states' chief law enforcement officials have decided to pursue and prosecute 

child molesters by searching medical records for evidence of rape and child abuse. 

Specifically, in Indiana, Attorney General Steve Carter and his Medical Fraud Control Unit want to search the 

medical records of 12- and 13-year-olds who were victims of child abuse. (In Indiana, anybody under the age of 14 

who has sex is, by law, a victim of abuse.) 

In Kansas, Attorney General Phill Kline has subpoenaed medical records in an investigation of abortion clinics 

regarding child rape and illegal late term abortions. (Under Kansas law, when a girl under 14 is pregnant, she has 

been raped.) 

Attorneys General Kline and Carter obviously recognize their duty to investigate such criminal activity to protect 

the children of their respective states. They also recognize their duty to expose and prosecute those who routinely 

cover up such crimes. 

As you might expect, Planned Parenthood is denouncing the efforts to seize patient medical records from clinics, 

calling the actions "a coordinated attempt to intimidate health-care providers and patients." In each case, abortion 

rights advocates object on grounds of privacy. 

Ironically, that means the rapists go free under the veil of women's sexual freedom and right to abortion. So instead 

of protecting the very people the organization supposedly exists to serve, Planned Parenthood is protecting men who 

abuse women and young girls. 

Truth is the reaction of Planned Parenthood isn't a surprise. The surprise is that the so many millions of men and 

women can be alarmed and outraged by the sexual assault and murder of a 9-year-old little girl like Jessica and not 

see their contribution. It lies in society's tolerance and individual support of abortion and sexual promiscuity in its 

myriad forms. In the end, it makes us all partly to blame for what happened to Jessica Lunsford. 

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Despite SC order, Swiss paedophile couple flees India 

India - India Express - April 1, 2005 

By Chitrangada Choudhury 


Mumbai - In a shocking violation of a Supreme Court order, the Swiss couple Wilhelm (62) and Lile Marti 

(60)found guilty of paedophilia in March 2003 by a Mumbai Sessions Courthave fled India. 

Last April, the apex court had granted bail to the couple till it heard the case on the condition that their passports 

remain in court custody and they stay in the country. 

The SC was hearing a petition filed by Maharashtras Advocate General asking it to overturn a March 2004 order by 

a Bombay High Court judge which accepted an offer from the couple to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation to each of their 

child victims, street children (9 and 11 years) of South Mumbai, in exchange for being set free. 

The Martis escape marks another controversial chapter since the night of December 16, 2000 when Mumbai police 

nabbed the couple in a suburban hotel room in a nude state with two minor streetgirls, preparing child pornography 

images. Their conviction in March 2003 was considered landmark since they were the only foreigners after Freddy 


Peats to be proven guilty of paedophilia. 

The HC order a year later setting them free met widespread protest from activists. On November 1, 2004, the 

Supreme Court dismissed a follow-up petition by the Martis asking for permission to leave India. 

Within days, however, they seem to have left the country: On November 29, the Swiss Embassy wrote to the 

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) saying, the Marti couple has left India and have applied to the embassy for 

travel documents to go to a third country. 

The Martis Saga 

DECEMBER 16, 2000: Mumbai police raid a suburban hotel room with a team of NGOs, find Wilhelm and Lili 

Marti in a nude state with two streetgirls. In court, Wilhelm Marti claims he was working against child pornography 

for a Swiss social organisation. The Swiss police find child pornography images at their Swiss residence, register 

case. 

MARCH 28, 2003: A Sessions Court finds the couple guilty, sentences them to seven years of rigorous 

imprisonment, and a Rs 5,000 worth compensation to each of their victims. 

MARCH 23, 2004: Bombay HC accepts an offer by the Martis to pay a Rs 1 lakh compensation to each victim in 

return for being set free. 

APRIL 5, 2004: The Maharashtra A-G challenges it in SC which stays the HC order, grants the couple bail till it can 

hear the matter. 

The embassy went on to ask MEA to reply within 10 days, or else it would issue the travel documents. 

With the letter swiftly travelling down to Maharashtras Home Department, the then head of the Mumbai Polices 

Social Service (SS) Branch handling the case, DCP Pradnya Sarvade replied expressing strong objections to issuing 

of travel documents... 

Beyond this, however, there seems to have been no effort by authorities to find how and where the couple had fled. 

Today Sarvade told The Indian Express that her department then had no knowledge of the couples whereabouts. In 

response to an Express questionnaire, the Swiss embassy refused to reveal from which country the Martis had 

written to it asking for travel documents, saying that consular information was protected by Swiss federal law. 

Instead, it says that in late 2004 the Indian Police informed the Swiss embassy that the Martis have left India. 

The embassy denied any role in the Martis fleeing, stating that it hasnt issued them travel documents nor is it for the 

embassy to ascertain where they are today. 

Sanjay Apranti, the SS Branchs DCP, shrugged off the matter: Since the couple has left, its a closed file, a mere 

statistic for us. Its now the Supreme Courts business. 

Advocate Ravindra Adsure, who represented Maharashtra Advocate General in the Supreme Court, is shocked. If 

the Indian police has information to this effect, it is their duty to apprise the Supreme Court of the same, he says. 

It is still unclear how the couple managed to leave: The Indian Express has confirmed from officials in Mumbais 

Sessions Court, which had convicted the Martis, that the two passports are still in its safe custody. 

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Man sentenced for kiddie porn 

USA - Ironwood Daily Globe, MI - April 1, 2005 

http://www.ironwooddailyglobe.com/contact-mail.html 

Marquette -- John Leroy Morrison, 38, of Wakefield, was sentenced this week in federal court to four years in 

prison and three years supervised release upon discharge for possessing child pornography. 

The count charged visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said assistant U.S. Attorney 


Leslie A. Hagen. 

Morrison was ordered to pay a special assessment of $100 and to perform 300 hours of community service. 

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hagen said. The investigation was part of 

"Operation Peer Pressure," one facet of the FBI's ongoing national initiative to protect children from sexual 

offenders, including child pornographers and pedophiles. 

Locally, the case was investigated by special agent Jay Johnston. 

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Internet child porn arrests quadruple 

United Kingdom - Telegraph - Aril 1, 2005 

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/01/uporn.xml 

Arrests and sentences for internet child porn crimes quadrupled in two years, according to new figures. 

Figures published last month revealed 2,234 people were warned or charged with crimes in England and Wales in 

2003, compared with 549 in 2001. 

NCH, the children's charity, said the 2003 figures were 64 times the 35 crimes recorded in 1998, the year the legal 

framework for dealing with child pornography crimes was set up. 

John Carr, NCH internet safety adviser, said: "The worry is that they represent not a blip, but a new normality. 

"Many police admit they are still only touching the tip of a very ugly iceberg." 

The rise is attributed mainly to Operation Ore, which was launched in April 2002 when the US Postal Inspection 

Service handed over details of 6,500 Britons, who had entered US pay-per-view websites showing child abuse 

images. 

Of these, 3,800 were arrested and nearly 1,500 convicted, with more cases still going through the courts. 

The most high-profile case was that Pete Townshend, the rock star and former Who guitarist. 

He was cautioned as he had not downloaded any pictures, and maintained he was researching for a book about child 

abuse. His name was, however, added to the sex offenders' register. 

Last April, the National Crime Squad said Operation Ore had helped British police forces rescue 102 children - 

some as young as two - from paedophiles. 

In Aug 2003, a police sergeant who had one of the largest collections of child pornography ever uncovered in the 

UK was jailed for 15 months. John Harrison, 55, had amassed a library of more than a million images. 

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Former Oxford firefighter pleads guilty to molestation charges 

USA - Sun Herald, MS - April 1, 2005 

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/11288679.htm 

Oxford, Miss. - A former Oxford firefighter has pleaded guilty to 19 counts of child molestation. 

Reed Naron, 42, entered the pleas Friday to 17 felony counts of touching a child for lustful purposes, one felony 

count of sexual battery of a child and one felony count of child exploitation. 

Lafayette County Circuit Judge Andrew Howorth deferred sentencing because the father of one of the victims could 

not attend the court proceedings. 


"It is important to the court that the victims be present and be heard if they so desire," Howorth said. 

The 19 counts involve incidents starting in April 2003 and ending in February 2004 with five different girls under 

the age of 16, according to court documents. 

The district attorney's office has recommended 15 years with five years suspended on the touching a child for lustful 

purposes counts, 30 years with 10 years suspended on the sexual battery count and 20 years with five years 

suspended on the child exploitation count. Prosecutors have recommended that the sentences run concurrently. 

Prosecutors said Naron would get credit for the time he has already served in the Lafayette County Detention 

Center. Upon release, Naron will have to register as a sex offender. 

Under Mississippi law, the maximum Naron could have received was a life sentence. 

Naron, a former firefighter, was arrested Sept. 21, 2004, at his home. He has been held in the county jail since his 

arrest. 

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Must also pay $2,000 fine, costs of investigation 

USA - Aberdeen American News, April 2, 2005 

By Scott Waltman 

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/11294695.htm 

An Aberdeen man will spend time in prison as the result of possessing child pornography. 

Michael G. Otis, 52, was sentenced Friday in Brown County Circuit Court. 

Judge Scott Myren sentenced Otis to 180 days in state prison and 10 years probation. Otis must also pay a $2,000 

fine as well as an undetermined amount to cover the cost of his being investigated. 

The probation period is unusually long. Myren said he wanted to error on the side of caution. He told Otis that even 

the slightest violation will mean more prison time. 

Rich Russman, a deputy state's attorney for Brown County, asked that Myren restrict Otis' use of computers and/or 

the Internet as a term of probation. Myren thought that was a good idea, but said that because Otis' job required the 

use of both, he wouldn't. However, the judge ruled that computers used by Otis are subject to random law 

enforcement searches without cause or warning. 

Otis was granted a suspended imposition of sentence, meaning the incident will not go on his record if he adheres to 

the terms of his probation. 

In a previous hearing, Russman said that if Otis took full responsibility for his actions, the prosecutor would neither 

ask for nor oppose a suspended imposition. 

Otis said in court Friday that he knowingly downloaded and saved child pornography on his computer. He said the 

images came from a Web site that contained news- and science-related information, but that he consciously decided 

to download the child porn when he saw it. He also apologized for his actions. 

None of the images were of area children. 

Myren noted that a psycho-sexual evaluation showed Otis is not a threat to youngsters. Still, he ruled that as long as 

Otis is on probation, he will not be allowed unsupervised visits with people who are younger than 18. Myren also 

ordered that Otis continue counseling. 

Gregg Magera of Aberdeen, Otis' attorney, asked that Otis not be given jail or prison time because he has health 

problems. At a previous hearing, a 60-day jail term had been discussed as a possibility. In that regard, Myren's 180day 

prison sentence was more than expected. 


Otis must now register as a sex offender. He had no previous criminal record. 

In autumn 2003, Otis was arrested after child pornography was found on his computer. At the time, law enforcers 

met with him at his Aberdeen home on a different matter. But they came across information related to child porn, 

obtained a search warrant and seized his computer. 

Originally, Otis was charged with 10 child porn counts. The crime is a felony punishable by as much as 10 years in 

prison and a $10,000 fine. 

In return for Otis' guilty plea to one count earlier this year, the other nine child porn charges were dropped. 

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Child psychiatrist groomed girl for sex 

United Kingdom - ic Wales - April 2, 2005 


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An Eminent child psychiatrist who had sex with a 14-year-old girl, after grooming her on the internet, was jailed for 

four years yesterday. 

Dr Julian Morrell, 42, posed as a 17-year-old boy called "Jules" to meet the girl in a web chatroom called "Pre- 

Teen". 

The pair exchanged numerous emails and text messages over a month-long period before Morrell drove from his 

London home to a Welsh campsite last August. 

After "admitting" he was 24, Morrell led the girl into his tent and took her virginity. 

Robert Trevor Jones, prosecuting, told Caernarfon Crown Court, "It is not alleged the sexual intercourse was nonconsensual 

although it was clearly contemplated and pursued by the defendant and the girl was at first hesitant and a 

naive partner." 

The following month the married father-of-two again drove to the campsite and had sex with her. By October, the 

girl's parents found out and called the police. 

Morrell pleaded guilty in December to meeting a child following sexual grooming, and two counts of sexual activity 

with a child. 

He was sentenced to three years for the grooming charge and four years for each of the sexual activity charges. All 

the sentences are to run concurrently. 

Judge Merfyn Hughes QC said Morrell was a sexual predator who used his professional skills to lure the girl. 

He said, "You used your professional skill and expertise in order to gain the trust of your victim and you had 

personal and professional insight into what consequences your victim may suffer. 

"Those consequences will be significant, even if at this stage it is impossible to predict with any accuracy. 


unable or unwilling to control." 

Morrell of Ealing, west London, was considered a leading expert in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, 

specialising in sleep disorders. 

He had worked at the Park Hospital for children in Oxford and a children's clinic in Reading, Berkshire. 

He had also had work published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 


Morrell's appetite for child sex had already cost him his career. In April this year he was struck off by the General 

Medical Council for looking at child pornography on the internet. 

He had been caught looking at similar sites before, but was only suspended by the GMC. 

At the time of his arrest for the offences, he was training to be a plumber. 

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Suspected pedophile arrested 

Canada - The Question, BC - April 2, 2005 

By John French 

http://www.squamishchief.com/madison/WQuestion.nsf/0/0B0160B92FAB8A2E88256FD6000EEB11?OpenDocu 

ment 

A 44-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested on the weekend and held in what the Squamish RCMP is calling 

a child pornography case. 

Sgt. Colin Worth of the RCMP said Tuesday (March 29) police arrested a man after an unidentified father of a 10year-old 

girl told police his daughter had contact with the man. The father was concerned as he felt his daughter 

witnessed indecent acts. 

The arrest of the suspect was made based on information provided by the father, his daughter and two other young 

girls. 

The father went to the RCMP on Saturday (March 26). 

Worth said, after doing some investigating the suspect was located and arrested on Sunday. 

We spent a lot of time on it [the investigation] over the weekend, Worth said. 

According to Worth, police took statements from the three 10-year-olds who had contact with the suspect. 

Worth wouldnt give any information pertaining to the mans identity. He did say the suspect lived in Squamish for 

only a month or two. 

A justice of the peace ruled on Sunday (March 27) that the suspect be held in custody. The justice of the peace 

formally swore charges at that time and the suspect was ordered to remain in custody until a court appearance on 

Tuesday (March 29). North Vancouver Provincial Court documents from the proceedings on Tuesday indicate a 

man whose identity is protected by court order made an appearance accused of two counts of assault and a count 

relating to the possession of obscene material for the purpose of publication. 

The same court document indicated the suspect was taken back into custody after the hearing. The suspect was 

scheduled to appear again on Thursday (March 31). The results of the hearing were not available as of The Chiefs 

press deadline. 

The RCMP is asking anyone with information or concerns about this matter to call the office in Squamish at 604- 

892-6100. 

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Peters' paedophile target hits back 

New Zealand - Stuff - April 03 2005 

By Helen Bain 


The man accused by NZ First leader Winston Peters of being a paedophile says he is being crucified for views he 

expressed 20 years ago and now rejects. 


Jim Peron was accused by Peters of being a paedophile, and of publishing the magazine Unbound in the 1980s. 

Peron denies he published the magazine but has admitted writing an article in it which appears to condone "boy 

lovers". 

The article, as cited on website GayNZ.com, contrasts the physical abuse Peron suffered as a child with the abuse by 

men on boys. 

"I want people to understand what real abuse is like. I constantly read these newspaper articles where a man is 

arrested for loving a boy and I see how the police, the politicians, and the press call it abuse. 

"How dare they minimise what happened to me as a child by calling these other relationships abusive? I know 

abuse. I experienced real abuse for several years and it is nothing like the typical man/boy relationship." 

But in an interview by email from Europe, Peron told the Sunday Star-Times he is being persecuted for beliefs he no 

longer holds. 

He said his accusers had no evidence to support the allegation he had "violated the law" and "done horrible things to 

children". 

"Instead they are crucifying me over the interpretation of opinions I expressed 20 years ago which I long ago 

rejected as invalid. 

"Had they begun their crusade with the charge that I held bad opinions two decades ago but no longer do, no one 

would have paid attention." 

The Peron allegations surfaced after inquiries by a Dunedin couple, Madeleine and Matthew Flannagan, who were 

list candidates for the Christian Heritage Party and are members of the Locke Foundation, a conservative Christian 

activist group. 

Act leader Rodney Hide said Flannagan contacted him before Peters made the allegation about Unbound, and told 

him she "had the goods" on Peron. 

Hide said that after the claims, Peron did not want to be in his Auckland bookshop, fearing attack every time 

someone came in, so he left early on a planned visit to a conference in Germany. 

Hide said he could not speak for Peron, because he did not know whether Peron published Unbound or wrote an 

article in the magazine. 

"I don't know what he wrote 20 years ago - I'd even have trouble telling you what I wrote 20 years ago." 

But he stood by his defence of Peron because Peters had no evidence Peron had ever had sex with minors. 

Hide said he first became aware of rumours about Peron several years ago, when Lindsay Perigo, now a journalist 

for Prime TV, told him Peron was a paedophile. 

"I thought hell, what do you do with that sort of information?" Hide said. 

"He had no evidence. I just sort of stored it away. I had seen the emails and knew that there was ill-feeling between 

them, which was nothing to do with me. 

"I thought it was bloody awful. I didn't broach it with Jim, but he raised it with me." 

Perigo and Peron knew each other through the Libertarianz movement and had initially been friendly. But they 

subsequently fell out. 

Perigo said he had known of allegations that Peron was a convicted paedophile, and that Peron had denied it. 

He passed on the information "to people I thought should know", including Hide, Act MP Deborah Coddington, and 

a couple of people in Libertarianz. But he was not the source of the information that led to Peters' claims. 


Flannagan said she was told that Peron had paedophile links by Coddington, so started to investigate the claims. 

She said she contacted Peters and told him she had information linking Peron him to paedophile groups, and was 

seeking a copy of Unbound from the United States. 

Peters' office paid the $120 it cost Flannagan to get Unbound mailed to New Zealand, and she gave Peters a copy. 

Flannagan said she and her husband had been Christian Heritage spokespeople under the leadership of Graham 

Capill, who pleaded guilty last week to charges of molesting an 8-year-old girl. 

Her membership had expired and she would not stand for the party this election. 

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Lax Legislation Creates Free Zone for Internet Paedophiles 

Mexico Inter Press Services News Agency - April 2, 2004 

By Adrin Reyes 

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28132 

Mexico City - More than 4,000 child pornography websites have been uncovered in Mexico over the last five years, 

but thanks to legal loopholes, the perpetrators quite frequently escape punishment. 

In March, police in Spain exposed a paedophilia ring that also encompassed operations in Argentina, Chile, Costa 

Rica, the Dominican Republic, France, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Sweden and Uruguay. 

The Spanish police investigation into the ring uncovered a total of 900 websites with child pornography content, of 

which 200 originated in Mexico. 

We patrol the Internet and if we find websites with this form of pornography, we investigate them and block them to 

keep the paedophiles from contacting new victims, one of the directors of the Mexican Public Security Ministry's 

cyber police force told IPS. 

However, according to the source, who asked to remain anonymous, Mexican laws limit the intelligence work done 

by this specialised force, which has nonetheless uncovered countless criminal activities perpetrated using the Net, 

including pornography, drug trafficking, fraud, extortion, identity and information theft, subversive activities and 

kidnappings. 

In 2003 alone, he said, 364 child pornography sites were found, in which five percent of the victims were infants 

under one year of age, seven percent were children between the ages of one and four, 14 percent between four and 

eight, 36 between eight and 12, and 38 percent between 12 and 17. 

Sometimes these Internet paedophiles pass themselves off as women to seduce young boys, and if the kids are at 

home alone, they can sometimes convince them to take off their clothes and pose in front of a webcam, he said. 

On other occasions, the perpetrators make contact with minors by exchanging e-mails or chatting through webbased 

messaging services. 

Often they will pretend they are kids themselves and invite the boys or girls they meet in chat rooms to a fictitious 

party or some other meeting place, where they will lie in wait and abuse them, the cybercrime specialist noted. 

Children with low self-esteem, who feel neglected by their parents or have difficulty relating to others, are prime 

potential victims of paedophiles, psychologist Guadalupe Azuara commented to IPS. Children like these can be 

easily 'hooked' by individuals who reel them in by showing an interest in them. 

In an interview with IPS, Federico Delfn, a sex therapist and president of the independent Council for the 

Certification of Sex Education and Sexology Professionals, maintained that paedophilia is fuelled by the model of 

modern society in which some men feel their manhood is reinforced by degrading other individuals and treating 

them as objects. 


In this case, it is underage children and teens who are chosen as their objects, he noted. 

The Mexican Congress is finally taking action to close up the gaps in legislation that organised crime rings use to 

pursue activities like child pornography on the Internet. 

Criminal groups know that there are no laws establishing penalties for these crimes, which generate over 20 million 

dollars in income annually, according to statistics from Mexico's Federal Preventive Police. 

Mexico is used by crime syndicates to commit Internet fraud, since they can take advantage of the lack of legislation 

regarding the identification and punishment of cybercrime, said lawmaker Jess Aguilar, secretary of the Chamber of 

Deputies Communications Committee and a member of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). 

Aguilar, the author of one of the draft bills being studied by Congress to penalise cybercrime, told IPS that there are 

currently no laws in Mexico that properly address infractions committed through electronic means, like Internet 


A judge will not admit a backup file of a computer database as evidence, even if it contains proof of a crime, noted 

Aguilar. Our laws demand material evidence of the commission of a crime in order for it to be punished, he added. 

In October, when the next session of the lower house begins, the cyber police hope they will be provided with more 

weapons to catch and prosecute paedophiles who trawl for victims on the Net, said Deputy Guillermo Tamborrell, a 

representative of the governing conservative National Action Party (PAN) and member of the Committee for 

Attention to Vulnerable Groups. 

Numerous proposed reforms of the Federal Penal Code are awaiting approval, in order to specifically define the use 

and distribution of child pornography material on the Internet as crimes and establish penalties ranging from fines to 

prison sentences of up to 14 years. 

Mexico lags far behind in this area, but it could make significant progress if it joins in on international mechanisms 

like those created by the European Union to fight organised cybercrime, Federico Manzo, an advisor to the Chamber 

of Deputies Communications Committee, told IPS. 

In view of the seriousness and scope of the Web-based abuse of minors uncovered by the Spanish police operation, 

Mexican legislators are working as part of an interdisciplinary team that also includes Internet service distributors, 

other business representatives and security forces, all with the aim of developing laws to effectively combat 

cybercrime. 

In a recent tour of cyber cafes in Mexico City, this IPS correspondent confirmed that minors under 18 years of age 

can rent a computer for under a dollar an hour and surf the Internet with no restrictions whatsoever. 

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State prison guard sentenced for child pornography 

USA - Philadelphia Enquirer, PA - APril 2, 2005 


Washington, Pa. - A former state prison guard was sentenced to probation for possessing child pornography. 

David J. McQuay, 36, of North Charleroi, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of corruption of minors before 

Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky. He was sentenced to five to 48 months of probation. 

McQuay was arrested in February 2003 after his estranged wife told authorities she found dozens of images of child 

pornography on a computer he gave their daughter, authorities said in court papers. 

She told police she could not have downloaded the images herself because she didn't have Internet access at the 

time. 

Following his arrest, McQuay was suspended from his job at State Correctional Institution at Greene. He later was 


fired, said his attorney, Michael Savona. 

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A former Willis veterinarian pleaded guilty to producing more than 70 images of 


USA - The Courier, TX - April 3, 2005 

By Sue Thackeray 

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14272208&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532215&rfi=6 

Stuart Dallas Hodges, 42, of New Waverly, also pleaded guilty to possessing images of child pornography on his 

computer. 

Hodges is scheduled for sentencing June 22 before U.S. District Judge David Hittner in Houston. He faces from 10 

to 20 years in federal prison for the production offense and up to 10 years for the possession charge. He also faces a 

$250,000 fine and $100 special assessment for each count. He can also be sentenced to up to a life term of 

supervised release on the possession charge, according to Untied States Attorney Michael Shelby. 

Hodges faced a five-count federal indictment, including not only the charges he pleaded guilty to, but charges of 

sexual exploitation of children and reproduction of child pornography. The additional charges were dropped as part 

of his plea agreement, court records show. 

He was indicted last year after an investigation by Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies and Federal Bureau of 

Investigation agents found images of Hodges and two then-7-year-old girls in sexually explicit poses. 

The investigation started after Hodges' estranged wife contacted police on Oct. 20, 2004 after finding sexually 

explicit images of Stuart Hodges and a child on a computer at the New Waverly home the two shared. 

"Hodges admitted in his plea that he took photographs of then-7-year-old girls in his custody while he was naked 

and placing his genitals on the girl's body and facial areas," Shelby said. "He transferred them to another computer 

in October 2003 where they remained until law enforcement searched his computer after receiving information that 

he had the illegal photographs." 

The photographs were allegedly taken in July and September 2001 at the Huffmeister/Cypress home where he lived 

at the time. 

It is not believed the Hodges assaulted the girls. 

"I asked Hodges if he sexually penetrated the girls in the images," FBI Special Agent Soo Barrow stated in his 

criminal complaint against Hodges. "Hodges stated he only took photographs of the girls and himself and that no 

actual penetration, either vaginally or orally, took place. He stated the girls were asleep during the incidents. Stuart 

Hodges stated the photographs were taken with his digital camera using a timer feature. Hodges further stated he 

was able to take some of the images by holding the camera in his outstretched arm." 

At the time of his arrest, Hodges was a popular veterinarian in the Willis and Montgomery areas with offices at 208 

E. Powell St. in Willis and 17156 W. FM 1097 across from Bentwater. Both those offices have since closed their 

doors. Telephone numbers for the officers were also disconnected. 

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Prostitution horror for young women 

Mexico - Daily News, NY - April 2, 2005 

By Nicole Bode 

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/296058p-253464c.html 

Young prostitutes ply their trade on streets of border town Tijuana, Mexico. Many will make as much as $250 each 

day selling sex. 

Hundreds of young women stand with their backs pressed up against a graffiti-covered concrete wall on a side street 


in Tijuana. Leering men swarm around the girls, some as young as 8, as a chill wind blows across their exposed 

skin, bound tightly inside leather bustiers, miniskirts and schoolgirl uniforms. 

Before the night is over, the girls of "Zona Rosa" - a notorious red-light district just a few blocks from the main 

tourist drag in this Mexican border town - will make as much as $250 each by selling sex. 

It's cold-blooded sexual slavery - forced prostitution that began when they were kidnapped from their small towns in 

Mexico and Central America and smuggled through a dangerous corridor that leads into the United States. 

After they work their apprenticeships in Tijuana, many of the girls end up as sexual servants in New York's illegal 

brothels. 

"I've been in this business for 30 years - it's much more prevalent now than it was then," said federal agent Martin 

Ficke, who oversees the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York division. 

"They are coming from everywhere," Ficke said. "[They] are brought to the U.S. under false pretenses and they are 

forced to work as prostitutes against their will." 

As many as 17,500 sex slaves are smuggled into the United States each year, according to the latest federal 

statistics. 

One out of every three people trafficked into New York is forced into prostitution, according to Safe Horizon, a 

Manhattan-based human rights organization. 

The depraved exploitation will be spotlighted by this week's Brooklyn Federal Court case against the Carreto 

family, a group of extended relatives from Mexico. 

Preying upon uneducated and impressionable girls from poor towns throughout Mexico, the family allegedly 

kidnapped, raped and beat its victims into submission. The family made hundreds of thousands of dollars, while its 

sex slaves, who toiled inside ordinary-looking homes in Queens, earned next to nothing, authorities charge. 

At the heart of the shadowy sex-trafficking industry lies Zona Rosa, law enforcement sources told the Daily News. 

"Tijuana is a good crossing point because it's a prostitution zone," said Marisa Ugarte, executive director of the 

Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, an anti-trafficking group based in San Diego. "It's easy to get from Tijuana into 

Arizona, California, Texas, to New York. It's simple." 

The border town, a short drive from San Diego, also provides a daily flood of sex-hungry tourists and a police 

department that looks the other way. 

During a recent trip to Zona Rosa, The News found dozens of cops standing by as hundreds of girls sold sex to 

strangers. 

The girls' burly pimps kept a watchful eye, never moving more than a few feet away. Nearby, street hustlers 

solicited customers, many of them American men, telling them to move inside dank bars and seedy, second-story 

motels. They promised "naked massage." Many johns were eager to oblige, forking over a going rate of $20 to $60 

for a half-hour session of forced sexual favors. 

Premium prices were charged for "bareback," or unprotected sex. But the highest prices were charged for the 

youngest girls - or "cherries" - who are prized for their fresh appearance and their supposed lack of sexually 

transmitted diseases. 

"There is a perception that the younger the child, the safer you are going to be and the less disease-ridden you are 

going to be," Ugarte said. "It's another myth because by the time they have a 12-year-old or a 13-year-old, by this 

time maybe she has already had 50 to 60 men." The girls are forbidden from keeping the money they make from sex 

and are prohibited from contacting their families or talking to other women. 

Violence against them is frequent and severe. 

The pimps beat the girls with coat hangers, cables, beer bottles and belts. Many of them are forced to have abortions 


when they become pregnant and others are given crystal meth and cocaine so they become addicts. 

The pimps also threaten to hurt the girls' loved ones. 

"They say, 'We'll kill your family.' If they have babies, they say, 'We'll kill your babies,'" said Deputy Sheriff Rick 

Castro of the San Diego Sheriff's Department. 

The sex rings are well-organized and many pimps work with relatives - just as the Carretos allegedly did to smuggle 

girls to Queens. 

Each ring uses its own route from Tijuana into the United States. 

Some drive girls across the border flashing counterfeit documents in California. Other sex slaves are slipped across 

the border on foot and then shuttled by van to brothels through a network of covert safehouses. 

Still other pimps promise to smuggle the impressionable girls into the United States, telling them they can get jobs 

as nannies, cooks and maids - making enough money to support their families back home. 

These traffickers charge the girls as much as $7,500 in illicit crossing fees - but once they get to the United States, 

the girls are raped and forced into prostitution. By the time the girls realize they have been kidnapped, it's too late 

for them to escape. 

"They start going, 'Why aren't we free to leave? ... Why are there men blocking the exit?'" Castro said. 

A ring of traffickers busted last year forced 50 girls to have sex with 300 to 500 men a day in a field of reeds just 

north of San Diego. The girls were given a piece of carpet or a towel to lay on, and an egg timer to keep track of 

their 10-minute sessions. Each man paid $20 for his window of time. 

The ring catered to day laborers, and advertised through word of mouth. 

In New York, the sex slaves' clientele includes illegal immigrants who work long hours to send money back to their 

families and use what little money they have left to buy illicit pleasure. President Bush's administration has moved 

aggressively to combat human trafficking, and Bush has mentioned the problem in many major speeches. 

Despite the growing awareness, anti-trafficking advocates face a daunting task. 

The victimized girls are reluctant to go to authorities because they feel a crippling sense of shame. Most also are 

living here illegally and don't trust law enforcement because authorities in their hometowns either profit from the 

sex-slave trade or do nothing to prevent it. 

"A lot of people think prostitution is voluntary, and maybe for some women it is," Castro said. "But when you're 

talking about children or people who were brought in under false pretenses, that's not voluntary. That's something 

completely different." 

Seductive lure of bogus ads 

Mexican sex traffickers deceive countless young women into becoming prostitutes by placing bogus ads in local 

papers. Here's a look at one of the ads, translated from Spanish: 

If you are between 18 and 24 years old, like to dance, are a size 3 to 7 ... are pretty and want to get between $6,000 

and $20,000, pay attention. We're offering: 

A round-trip plane ticket. A work visa to Canada. Housing. Transportation from the hotel to the clubs. Advice on 

the law. Contract for six weeks' work. Training if you have no experience. 

Help put end to nightmare 

If you know someone who is a victim of human trafficking or want to help combat the international problem, here 

are some private and government agencies that can help: 


Safe Horizon 

(800) 621-HOPE 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

(866) DHS-2ICE 

Covenant House 

(800) 999-9999 New York Association for New Americans 

(888) 242-5838 

Asociacin Tepeyac of New York 

(212) 633-7108 

Latin American Integration Center 

(718) 565-8500 

New Immigrant Community Empowerment 

(718) 205-8796 

Urban Justice Center Sex Workers Project 

(646) 602-5617 

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Paedophile Glitter To Return To Britain 

Cambodia - ContactMusic, UK - April 4, 2005 

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/paedophile%20glitter%20to%20return%20to%20brit 

ain 

Disgraced British Glam rocker Gary Glitter will fly home to Britain from Cambodia in the next few weeks. 

The convicted paedophile plans to throw a party to mark his return to his native country after five years in exile 

since his 1999 conviction for downloading child pornography. 

A source tells British newspaper The Sunday Mirror, "He's fed up with living over there (Phnom Penh). 

"He thinks he's done his time living on the run. He's British and he wants to come home." 

As for his planned bash, another source adds, "He wants to meet up for a get-together. 

"He knows what people think of him now, and he knows it will upset a lot of people, but he's to take his chances 

back in Britain." 

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Scouts: A Surprising Plea 

USA - Newsweek - April 11, 2005 

By T. Trent Gegax and Mark Hosenball 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7369511/site/newsweek/ 

April 11 issue - They're called the three R's: recognize, resist and report. It's what Boy Scouts of America teaches its 

4.5 million troops in one of the country's strongest programs for protecting kids against sexual predators. So Scouts 

were more than a little shocked when the man responsible for the policy, Douglas S. Smith Jr., a husband with three 

sons, suddenly pleaded guilty last week to possessing child pornography. Scout sponsors aren't abandoning the 

organization, but they are making concerned calls to headquarters. 

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Operation Predator, working with German agents who confiscated a 

pedophile's computer containing American e-mail addresses, raided Smith's Ft. Worth, Texas, home and found 

hundreds of digital photos and movies of boys having sex. The operation has netted 5,300 child-porn collectors in 


the United States (including a circus performer named Spanky the Clown) in two years. Child-protection advocates 

are calling on Boy Scouts of America to screen employees and volunteers with tests that are stronger than the 

criminal-background and reference checks it currently uses. "Only 3 percent of pedophiles are ever caught," says 

David Allburn of Safe Harbor Resources. "So you don't just find them all on a list." 

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Man charged with child porn stemming from Boy Scout case 



Pittsburgh - A man has been arrested on child pornography charges stemming from a case involving a former Boy 

Scouts of America official. 

Richard Reichert, 64, of Penn Hills, was arrested Friday in a sting by customs agents posing as the former scouting 

official, according to authorities. 

Douglas Sovereign Smith Jr., 61, the former national director of programs for the Boy Scouts in Irving, Texas, 

pleaded guilty to child pornography on Wednesday and faces five to 20 years in prison. 

After Smith was arrested in February, he agreed to cooperate with investigators and help authorities nab child 

pornography traffickers with whom he corresponded. 

Reichert was one of the men, according to prosecutors. Agents obtained a warrant to search Reichert's home after 

tapes they sent to him arrived at his house Tuesday. 

Reichert was being held in custody pending his arraignment Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if he had an 

attorney. 

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Former Dickinson pleads guilty to child porn charge 

USA - Grand Forks Herald, ND - April 2, 2005 

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/11297341.htm 

Bismarck, N.D. - A former Dickinson businessman has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of possessing child 

pornography. 

David William Fisher, 44, pleaded guilty Friday to the charge in U.S. District Court. Fisher will return to his 

residence in Albuquerque, N.M., to await sentencing on July 7. 

Under questioning from U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland, Fisher acknowledged possessing two short video clips 

and about 23 computer files of child pornography in March 2003. 

Six of the images were of a 10-year-old girl whom Fisher had hired to help with office chores. 

"Everything that's here, you know it's true," Fisher said at the hearing. "I don't have any excuses. I don't have any 

rational reasons why I did what I did." 

The victim's stepfather assailed Fisher in a prepared statement read at the end of the hearing. 

"I look at you and I see no real remorse," the stepfather said to Fisher. "I see only a sick, calculating sociopath." 

Fisher previously was president and chief operating officer of Dickinson's Fisher Industries. He also was president 

of Fisher Martin Inc. 

Fisher also was chairman of the Dickinson United Methodist Church's administrative council, from January to 

March 2003. He and his ex-wife, Laura, have three young children. 


Assistant U.S. Attorney Clare Hochhalter said he will move to dismiss three remaining counts against Fisher at 

sentencing, as part of a plea agreement. Fisher previously had pleaded not guilty. 

Prosecutors are recommending five years imprisonment, a fine, restitution, three years supervised release and a 

forfeiture of $25,000. 

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Paedophile Freddy Peats dead 

India - The Navhind Times - April 3, 2005 

http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=040320 

Panaji - Notorious paedophile, Freddy Peats died at the Goa Medical College Hospital at Bambolim this evening. 

He was 81 years old. 

Peats, who was lodged in Aguada Central Jail in 1996, was admitted in the GMC yesterday as his health condition 

deteriorated. He was serving life sentence in the jail. 

GMC sources informed that Peats had suffered paralytic attack and that he died at 5.45 p.m. of various 

complications including old age. 

Peats was serving sentence following his conviction in paedophile cases. He was arrested on April 3, in 1991 and 

thereafter a charge-sheet was filed against him in 1992. He was convicted on March 21 1996 and sentenced to life 

imprisonment. 

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Disgusted! The ballad of Maidstone jail 

United Kingdom - The Independent - April 3, 2005 

By Peter Cole 

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/story.jsp?story=625773 

Celebrity culture is bound to produce spin-offs: not only execrable television shows celebrating celebrity, 

newspapers dominated by celebrities and government policy legitimised by celebrities rather than politicians, but 

inevitably the dark side of celebrity - celebrity crime and punishment. 

We used to have celebrity criminals who achieved this status as a result of their criminal activity. Gangsters such as 

the Krays turned notoriety into celebrity by hanging round the rich, famous and impressionable. These days the 

media fascination is with those who achieve celebrity first, and then offend: millionaire footballers who brawl or 

drive when drunk; politicians, like Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer, whose vanity and sense of their own 

impregnability lead them to lie and to jail. 

And just now there are the alleged or convicted sex offenders, Michael Jackson and Jonathan King respectively, 

who are filling the columns and airwaves. King, who discovered in his teens a talent for manipulation and selfpromotion 

which could only lead to the music industry, was released from prison last week, paroled after serving 

half of a seven-year sentence for abusing teenage boys. The collision between hyper-ego (King) and meta-humbug 

(media) was fascinating to behold. 

I knew King at university. He was called Kenneth then, but apart from that and less weight was just the same as he 

is now. He was entirely unself-conscious, relentlessly self-promoting, often funny and seldom boring. He was also 

unusual in that he had a hit single while still an undergraduate and had the first in-car stereo any of us had ever seen. 

It played 45rpm singles, almost always sung by King or his clients. We did not know, at university or afterwards, 

about his "other" life. 

The tabloid press does disgust like King does self-promotion. The release last Tuesday from jail of a 60-year-old 

pop person unknown to the present or previous generation of record-buyers provoked a deluge of abuse. King, 

characteristically and doubtless as a result of much planning, got in the first word. He pranced exuberantly out of 

Maidstone prison, a walking, talking cacophony of hype, and was met by dozens of reporters and photographers. He 

promoted his new single, an Abba cover recorded before he entered prison. He talked of the "brilliance" of his time 


inside and his "innocence". 

Television filmed him. Radio recorded him. The humbug got under way late on Tuesday night, when the Radio 5 

Live phone-in played snatches of a King interview, before inviting guests to rubbish it, and then snatches of the new 

single, before inviting guests to rubbish it. It was a foretaste of what was to come. 

Next morning, The Sun was disgusted. "There are few more disgusting sights than a gloating paedophile walking 

out of prison ... the scenes of King's triumphalism as the gates of Maidstone Prison swung open for him were 

enough to turn the strongest stomach." That was the leader. There were another two pages of disgust. And another 

leader and another page of "news" the next day. 

The Mirror was disgusted. "If you see this vile man with anyone under 18, he could be thrown back in jail. Please do 

the nation a favour and call the police." That was the front page, and there was another page of the release from jail 

elsewhere. 

The Express was disgusted. King was a "ranting sex fiend" and "pervert who has no shame". The leader said: "As 

his release makes Britain slightly less attractive, we must resolve that we shall never give this sick individual a 

hearing again." Two pages gave him such a "hearing". 

Both the Express and the Mirror connected the release of King with the jailing of Linda Walker, the teacher who 

fired an air gun at youths who "terrorised" her family. The message was "paedophile freed as vandalism victim 

jailed". Almost as though King had not been inside for three years. 

The "serious" papers also gave the release handsome coverage, with large pictures and plenty of King quotes. The 

Independent even published a leader, doing its own version of disgust - "deeply disturbing". The editorial continued: 

"It says something about our society when even the prison gates can be turned into a circus of publicity and shallow 

self-justification." 

So across the media we have disgust for the self-publicist packaged in pages of publicity nobody compels the media 

to provide. We have every media outlet at the prison gates. We have calls not to buy the new King single, alongside 

the announcement of its existence and title. We have, surely, a King content with his morning's work. 

It is not even as though he's Michael Jackson. 

Peter Cole is professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield 

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Former Oxford Firefighter Pleads Guilty To Molestation Charges 

USA - WPMI-TV, FL - April 1, 2005 

http://www.wpmi.com/news/regional/story.aspx?content_id=39E92ED4-AF4B-4D1A-972F-AE5F6C73E53E 

A former Oxford firefighter has pleaded guilty to 19 counts of child molestation. 

Reed Naron entered the pleas today to 17 felony counts of touching a child for lustful purposes, one felony count of 

sexual battery of a child and one felony count of child exploitation. 

Lafayette County Circuit Judge Andrew Howorth deferred sentencing because the father of one of the victims could 

not attend the court proceedings. 

Court documents show the 19 counts involve incidents starting in April 2003 and ending in February 2004 with five 

different girls under the age of 16. 

Naron has been held in the county jail since his arrest. 

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Traffickers in people use many methods in fastest-growing criminal enterprise 

USA - The News-Sentinel, IN - April 4, 21005 


By Eun-kyung Kim, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/11306621.htm 

(KRT) - Human trafficking, a modern-day form of slavery, is tied with arms dealing as the world's second-largest 

criminal industry after drug dealing. It's also the fastest growing. 

Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are illegally brought into the United States annually and exploited, according to 

the U.S. State Department. Worldwide, the estimate is 600,000 to 800,000 each year. 

The sex trade is the most prevalent type of servitude, although forced prostitution makes up less than half - about 46 

percent - of all major trafficking caught in the United States. Close behind is forced labor, sometimes in sweatshops 

or construction sites, more often in agricultural fields or in domestic jobs such as housekeepers or nannies. 

The government defines human trafficking as the act of using force, fraud or coercion to exploit someone for sexual 

purposes or for unpaid work. 

"A person doesn't actually have to be physically locked up for them to be trafficked, or held in slavery," said Jolene 

Smith, executive director of the Washington-based organization Free the Slaves. 

Samson Siame has no doubts about the treatment he received from TTT: Partners in Education, a Christian ministry 

that claimed to raise money to help educate poor children in Africa. 

"I was definitely a slave," Siame says, referring to his time under TTT's control. 

Traffickers use various techniques to hold their subjects hostage. They may threaten to hurt the victims' families, or 

scare them with stories about how U.S. police officers will imprison or deport them for the slightest insubordination. 

Traffickers may also threaten to shame their subjects in front of family and friends. Sometimes, victims are told they 

are indebted to their traffickers because of the costs associated with bringing them over to their new country. 

Choir members say TTT officials used all of these techniques. The singers also claimed that TTT withheld their 

passports and other legal documents, another common method employed by traffickers. 

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, but it wasn't until the 

passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 that human trafficking victims received 

services and protections specific to their circumstances. 

The law, which created a special "T-1" category visa for victims, is intended to allow individuals to rebuild their 

lives and stay away from traffickers who may be pursuing them or trying to send them back to their home country. 

The visas are also intended to allow victims to stay in the United States long enough to testify against their 

trafficker. 

All of the former choir members living in the St. Louis area were able to obtain these visas. Each may apply for 

permanent U.S. residency after he has had the visa for three years. 

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COMMON TECHNIQUES 

Psychological 

Shame victims by alleging immoral or illegal conduct 

Limit and monitor contact with family and public 

Threaten deportation or imprisonment 

Physical 

Limit movement by seizing passport, documents or money 


Threaten harm to victim and family 

Financial 

Control earnings for safekeeping 

Hold victims responsible for bogus debts 

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HELP 

According to the Justice Department: 

"Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Traffickers often prey on individuals who are poor, frequently 

unemployed or underemployed, and who may lack access to social safety nets, predominantly women and children 

in certain countries. Victims are often lured with false promises of good jobs and better lives, and then forced to 

work under brutal and inhuman conditions." 

To report trafficking crimes or to get help for victims, the Justice Department has set up the Trafficking in Persons 

Workers Exploitation Complaint Line: 1-888-428-7581. The line is open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4 

p.m. St. Louis time. 

For people in need of services or help, the Human Trafficking and Information and Referral Hotline is open 24 

hours a day: 1-888-373-7888. 

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SA speaker quits in paedophile MP row 

Australia - The AGe - April 4, 2005 

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking-News/SA-speaker-quits-in-paedophile-MProw/2005/04/04/1112489412023.html# 

South Australian MP Peter Lewis has quit as parliamentary speaker, feeling betrayed by a Labor government which 

he said should be addressing his claim one of the state's sitting MPs was a paedophile. 

Mr Lewis, the Independent who handed government to Labor at the 2002 election with his decisive vote of support, 

claimed there was a network of "organised activity" between a group of high society paedophiles in Australia 

involving politicians, the judiciary and public servants. 

The Rann government, which had since forged a majority with other independents to strengthen its power base, was 

to have passed a no confidence motion in Mr Lewis as parliament resumed. 

But Mr Lewis, a controversial MP representing a rural seat east of Adelaide, quit and avoided becoming the first SA 

speaker to have been ousted by a no confidence motion since state parliament began in 1857. 

In a 20-minute address to parliament, Mr Lewis defended raising his claims of a serving paedophile MP - 

allegations now under police investigation. 

Mr Lewis said two gay men, since murdered, had separately told his office of an MP who frequented Adelaide's 

south parklands, a known homosexual haunt. 

Suggesting the subsequent murders of the men could not be dismissed as coincidence, two volunteers who worked 

from Mr Lewis' office last Friday released statutory declarations naming four prominent Adelaide people as 

paedophiles. 

Two of those named were police officers, and Police Commissioner Mal Hyde said the claims were now being 

investigated. 


Mr Lewis told parliament: "There will never be a smoking gun ... as hard evidence" against a paedophile network he 

claimed included MPs throughout Australia and the judiciary. 

"Removing me will not remove the stain or the shame," he told parliament. 

Mr Lewis said he would contest his seat at the next state poll, due by March next year. 

"It's not over," he said. 

"There is a hell of a job to do to clean up the mess. 

"I guess what the government has to do, what (Premier) Mike Rann has got to do, is understand now he won't have 

me to help him through it. 

"It (the government) is out over the edge of a precipice, on an overhanging rock and it thinks it's on firm ground." 

Mr Lewis' resignation came as the Labor government flagged legislation removing parliamentary privilege for 

naming or identifying any politician or public official as being involved in criminal sexual misconduct. 

The legislation, described by Deputy Premier Kevin Foley as groundbreaking in the Westminster political system, 

would also allow a police search of Mr Lewis' parliamentary offices for evidence regarding the paedophile MP 

claim. 

Mr Lewis, who was expelled from the Liberal Party in 2000 for calling for the then-premier to resign, was replaced 

as speaker by Independent Bob Such. 

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Fugitive paedophile 'feared jail' 


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/4409741.stm 

A convicted paedophile who fled to Ireland while on bail has claimed he did so out of fear at the treatment he would 

receive in prison. 

Eric Peachey, 56, from Aberystwyth, was found guilty in May 2002 of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old boy. 

He absconded to Ireland and was eventually caught, but spent 19 months appealing against extradition. 

He was sentenced to nine months in prison at Swansea Crown Court on Monday. 

"He was concerned about the treatment he would receive in prison " Huw Rees QC 

Defending Peachey, Huw Rees QC told the court his client fled because he was petrified of what might happen to 

him in jail. 

He added that Peachey had fled Britain by ferry from Liverpool to Dublin and stayed in homeless hostels before 

eventually making himself known to police. 

"He was frightened at the prospect of a prison sentence and being a convicted sex offender in the prison regime," Mr 

Rees said. 

"He was concerned about the treatment he would receive in prison." 

Mr Rees added that while in prison in Dublin last December, Peachey suffered a heart attack. 

Sentencing Peachey, Judge John Diehl also put him on the sex offenders' register for 10 years and banned him from 

working with children for life. 

The judge added that Peachey would have to attend a sex offenders' group programme for three years on his release. 


Extradition appeal 

Judge Diehl said that a pre-sentence report at the time had recommended Peachey receive a non-custodial sentence. 

Had he not absconded he may not have received a jail term, he said. 

Peachey was not sentenced for absconding but was told only three of the 19 months he had spent in an Irish jail 

would count towards his nine-month sentence. 

Peachey was brought back to the UK in March nearly three years after going on the run in May 2002. 

He spent 19 months in jail in Dublin appealing against extradition. 

Dyfed-Powys Police officers brought him back to Wales last month, before he was sentenced on Monday. 

Originally from Brighton, Peachey moved to mid Wales about eight years ago, after being jailed for burglary. 

At the time of the sexual assault in April 2001, he was working as a cleaner at a primary school. 

After he went missing Dyfed-Powys Police turned to the BBC's Crimewatch UK programme for help. 

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Arrest For Internet Child Pornography 

Greece - Macedonian Press Agency - April 4, 2005 

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=520524 

The Athens police solved another Internet child pornography case in which a 43-year-old owner of a nightclub in 

the island of Myconos is involved. 

The individual arrested is accused of using child pornographic material on the Internet since 2001. 

According to information, the boys and girls appearing on the photos are between the ages of 5 and 15 and are 

Greek. For the record, a quantity of drugs was also found in the Myconos nightclub. 

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Study reports on child pornography 

Philippines - Manila Bulletin - April 5, 2005 

By Jenny F. Manongdo 

http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN2005040632058.html 

Child pornography remains under-reported and continues to victimize many Filipino minors in many parts of the 

country. 

This was revelead by a joint study on child pornography in the Philippines launched yesterday by the University of 

the Philippines Center for Integrative and Developmental Studies (UPCIDS) and the United Nations International 

Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF). 

The study, which was presented by Carol Bellamy, executive director of UNICEF, revealed that child pornography 

occurs in the country as a result of foreign and domestic perpetrators seeking to exploit poor and vulnerable families 

and children. 

The UNICEF said that several factors make Filipino children vulnerable to pornography. These are widespread 

poverty, the existence of prostitution and sex tourism, general tolerance for pornography, ignorance about the effects 

of pornography on children, availability of advanced communication technology, lack of stringent laws against child 

pornography, and inefficient prosecution of perpetrators. 


It also mentioned child trafficking in many parts of the Philippines, particularly in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, 

Pampanga, Angeles City, and Cebu City. Pedophilia, prostitution, and child pornography have often been reported 

in the areas. 

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said that the 

pornography situation in the country is alarming because "Filipinos are not ready to talk about it." 

"We sort of avoid talking about pornography mainly because we do not know enough about it, she said. 

Bellamy presented the study to Soliman after UNICEF found the pornography situation in the country through 

anecdotes coming from the experience of children who were victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation. 

UNICEF cited the role of digital technology in the recruitment of children into prostitution, adding that the growth 

of information technology, especially the Internet and digital communication, has paved the way for child 

trafficking to proliferate not only in the country but also in the world. 

"The Internet is not only a repository for child pornography, it is also a means of exchanging pornographic images 

through e-groups and email, UNICEF said in a press statement. 

Soliman said that urban areas are "very sex-oriented" due to media advertising. 

She said that the DSWD is addressing the situation by giving lectures to the youth, particularly those out-of-school, 

on topics such as exploitation, teenage pregnancies, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune 

Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS). They are also conducting parent-effectiveness seminars that also tackle the 

issues. 

Meanwhile, Soliman said she has interviewed several cybersex workers who were rescued by DSWD. 

"They said that they are not doing anything wrong since they are not touched physically, they are only inside 

cubicles. It speaks the kind of values that young people are acquiring. They have no respect for their body. They 

cannot see the exploitation being done to them. They also claimed that they were 19 years old, but in my eyes, I 

think they are only about 16 years old, she said. 

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OPP Charge Kingston Man with Child Pornography 

Canada - Canadian News Wire - April 5, 2005 


Kingston, ON - Members of the Ontario Provincial Police, Child Pornography Section (Project "P"), and Electronic 

Crime Section in conjunction with the Kingston Police Service, have charged a 36 year old Kingston man following 

a child pornography investigation. 

On Monday April 4, 2005, as a result of an ongoing investigation, police executed a Criminal Code search warrant 

on a residence. Officers seized four computers, CD Roms, and floppy diskettes. The computer and CD Roms, 

contain what is believed to be child pornography. 

Charged with one count of possession of child pornography is Trevor Vanrijn of 453 Sharp Court, Kingston, 

Ontario. The accused is scheduled to appear April 5, 2005 in the Ontario Court of Justice in Kingston, Ontario. The 

investigation is continuing. 

For further information: OPP Detective Sergeant Kevin Adam, Child Pornography Section (Project P), (416) 235- 

4552 

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Guilty plea entered in federal child pornography case 

USA - The Ardmoreite, OK - APril 5, 2005 

http://ardmoreite.com/stories/040505/loc_0405050007.shtml 


Muskogee -- United States Attorney Sheldon J. Sperling announced that on March 31, Franciscus Boerenbeker, aka 

Frank Boerenbeker, 64, of Ardmore entered a plea of guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of 

Oklahoma for the possession of child pornography. 

The indictment resulted from a citizen complaint regarding child pornography that was observed in Boerenbeker's 

residence. As a result of that information, an investigation was conducted by the Ardmore Police Department and 

the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During the investigation, a search warrant was obtained for Boerenbeker's 

residence and authorities found more than a hundred child pornography images which has been downloaded from 

the Internet and printed. Thousands of additional images were located on Boerenbeker's Internet account and 

computer harddrive. 

Boerenbeker was a volunteer at an elementary school and was taken into custody there after the search warrant was 

executed. Students and staff at the school referred to Boerenbeker as "Papa Frank." There is no indication that any 

of the children were either assaulted by the defendant or involved in any of the illegal pornography. 

Sentencing will follow at presentence investigation. Boerenbeker faces a possible term of imprisonment of up to 10 

years, a term of supervised release of up to 3 years and a fine totaling $250,000. The defendant will remain in 

custody pending sentencing. 

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Lecturer's Child Porn Sentence Halved 

United Kingdom - The Scotsman - April 5, 2005 

By Mike Taylor, PA 


A university lecturers 12-month jail sentence for downloading child porn images from the internet was cut to six 

months by the Court of Appeal today. 

Two judges in London held that the sentence on Dr Christopher Bishop, who taught at Liverpool John Moores 

University, was too severe because only 12 of the 2,482 images found on his laptop, home and work computers 

were categorised as above level one the lowest grade of obscenity. 

Bishop, 53, from Heswall, Merseyside, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court in January to making indecent 

images of children, mainly girls aged from about six to 13 years in erotic poses. 

Police visited Bishops home after his credit card details appeared on Landslide, the US-based paedophilia website 

which led to Operation Ore in this country. 

Bishop admitted making payments for adult porn, but denied paying for child images, saying he downloaded them 

through a legitimate, members-only news group in which users swap information about any topic. 

The court heard that Bishop, a doctor of philosophy who specialised in electron microscopy, had resigned from the 

university and now worked as a lorry driver. 

He had an 18-year-old daughter with his first wife, who died when the child was two years old. His second wife 

remained supportive despite his conviction. 

Passing sentence in January, Judge John Roberts told him: As you recognise, the more people like you who are 

curious enough to want to access such images, the more there will be a market for them. 

The longer the market continues, the longer the cycle of abuse suffered by young children. 

Today, Mr Justice David Clarke, sitting with Mr Justice Christopher Clarke, said the fact that virtually all the 

images were in category one and did not depict actual abuse was inconsistent with the suggestion that Bishop had 

deliberately sought out pornography at the higher levels two to five. 

The total number of images downloaded is regrettably by no means exceptional in cases of this sort, the judge said. 


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Spain Cracks Down on Child Porn 

Spain - Islam Online, Qatar - April 5, 2005 

By Al-Amin Andalusi, IOL Correspondent 

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-04/05/article03.shtml 

MADRID Spanish police have launched a nationwide campaign against child porn Web sites, the seventh in three 

months time to crack down on the dark corners of cyberspace. 

As it tops the worlds list of countries where Internet child pornography is widespread, Spain is working in tandem 

with child rights organizations to protect the younger generation from falling prey to child abusers. 

Early this year, Spanish police smashed an 11-member child porn ring and questioned 28 suspects. 

The past year witnessed one of the largest anti-child porn raid in Spain, which netted up to 100 pedophiles in 26 

cities. 

Statistics of Spanish police showed that European countries top the list of countries misusing the Web to distribute a 

plethora of child porn Web sites. 

The list also includes 15 African countries, 11 from Asia and 12 from the Americas. 

Police sources also say there are over 100,000 images of abused children with some of the children only two years 

old. 

Civil Campaign 

NGOs and child rights organizations are also on the prowl for child pornography, defined by NGOs and federal laws 

as a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. 

The civil campaign is primarily aimed at raising the awareness of parents and schoolteachers about how to closely 

monitor their children and regularly check the history of their Web pages. 

It further recommends parents to prevent their children chatting with strangers even if they are children. 

Papers are full of stories on how many children and teenagers were lured into the trap of a man posing as a child or a 

teenager, who are actually nothing but pedophiles. 

The Spanish Society of Defending Teenagers revealed that 44 percent of children using chat rooms were abused by 

adults, which left them psychologically scarred. 

It said 11 percent of them were abused more than one time. 

In 2003, Microsofts Internet service, MSN, decided to shut down its MSN chat service in over 25 countries. 

The decision was in response to the growing concern about the safety of children who visit these chat rooms that are 

full of sexually explicit language, cyber sex and pedophiles. 

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Man pleads guilty to child-porn count 

USA - Toledo Blade, OH - April 5, 2005 

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050405/NEWS03/504050412/-1/NEWS 

Bowling Green - A Perrysburg man charged with having sexually explicit photographs of children on his home 

computer pleaded guilty to reduced charges yesterday in Wood County Common Pleas Court. 


Michael Strayer, 22, pleaded guilty to one count of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor. He is to 

be sentenced May 23 by Judge Alan Mayberry. 

Strayer was indicted last August by a Wood County grand jury on seven counts of pandering and six counts of 

illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material or performance after agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal 

Identification and Investigation searched his home and found the pictures on his computer. 

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Convicted Paedophile Peats Dead 

India - rediff.com - April 5, 2005 

By Sandesh Prabhudesai In Panaji 

http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/05sandesh.htm 

Freddy Peats, the notorious paedophile who was serving a life imprisonment at the Aguada central jail in Goa since 

1996 after being convicted, died at the age of 81. 

He died at the Goa Medical College Hospital from a paralytic attack. 

The whole country was shocked when Peats' decade-long racket was exposed. In the name of Gurukul, which he 

established in a village near Colva beach in South Goa, Peats sexually exploited destitute children and also sold 

them to paedophiles from abroad. 

The Margao police, in 1991, busted the racket. Peats was arrested on April 3, 1991 and was charge-sheeted in 1992. 

The case was handed over to the CBI as per a high court order, after Mumbai-based child rights activist Sheela 

Barse approached the court, complaining that the local police authorities were not seriously investigating the matter. 

The CBI charge-sheeted seven foreigners, including Peats, in the case. 

The prosecution, while producing several witnesses, including the victims, established that the children were 

kidnapped, subjected to sexual abuse, sold and made available to foreign nationals. 

Peats was convicted on March 21, 1996. 

In July 2002, his accomplice Eoghan Colm McBride, 63, from New Zealand, was also sentenced to seven-year 

rigorous imprisonment for running a child prostitution racket in the southern coastal belt of Goa. 

Dominique Sabire from France were arrested in 1996. However, due to police negligence, he managed to jump bail 

in July 2002. He is still absconding. 

The other four - Werner Wulf Ingo (Australia), Neels Oscar Johnson (Sweden), Raymond Varley (Bangkok) and 

Zell Jurgen Adreas alias Yogi (German) are also absconding. 

Both Peats and McBride were sentenced for committing offences amounting to criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, 

abducting and selling minors for prostitution. 

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J'lem pedophile gets 16-year sentence 

Israel - Jerusalem Post - April 6, 2005 

By Etgar Lefkovits 

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1112754018919 

A 52-year-old Jerusalem pedophile convicted of more than 50 counts of sexual abuse was sentenced Wednesday in 

the Jerusalem district court to sixteen years in jail, in one of the worst child molestation cases in recent history. 

The sexual predator, Shimon Ben-Tov, had plead guilty to more than 45 cases of sexually molesting minors, and at 

least nine other cases of sodomizing youths during a six year period from 1998-2004 as part 


of a plea bargain. 

Ben-Tov, who was arrested last year, would lure his young victims to his house by offering to let them play games 

on his computer. 

Instead, once at his home, he would sexually molest the minors, filming his perverse actions on videotape. 

In their ruling, the three justice panel, headed by court vice-president Judge Zvi Segal did not hide their disgust and 

revulsion for the crimes the defendant carried out. 

"Only on rare occasions, does the court happen on a case where someone is convicted on such a long and 

frightening series of crimes to such an extent that it boggles the mind in disbelief, and one's soul unsuccessfully 

seeks out refuge from the monstrous descriptions of the acts carried out, and from the wickedness caused by them. 

Such is the case before us," the judges wrote in their blistering 11 page sentencing. 

The three judge panel utterly rejected an appeal by the pedophile's attorney, Michael Horovitz, to hand down a 

lighter sentence since the pedophile was himself sexually abused as a child, writing in their ruling that the pedophile 

was "an intelligent man" who could distinguish between what was permitted and what was illegal, and who acted in 

sophisticated manner to attain his sick sexual desire. 

In several cases, after abusing the youths, the pedophile even coaxed them to have sexual intercourse with an elderly 

woman, and even perform sexual acts between themselves. 

"The accused lost all moral inhibitions and dedicated himself to his evil deeds whereby the souls and bodies of 

youth of a soft age where used in his hands as legitimate tools for the fulfillment of his needs," the judges wrote. 

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On-the-Run Child Rapist Held in Germany 

Germany - The Scotsman, UK - APril 6, 2005 

By Gemma Collins, PA 


A paedophile who went on the run before he could be jailed for raping a nine-year-old girl has been detained in 

Germany, police said today. 

Benjamin Griffiths, formerly of Aberystwyth, mid-Wales, was convicted of rape and indecent assault last December 

at Chester Crown Court and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in his absence. 

After the former teacher went missing Judge Roger Dutton issued a warrant for his arrest, describing him as an 

intelligent and dangerous character. 

Today a Dyfed Powys Police spokeswoman said: German authorities have contacted us relaying the information 

that Benjamin Griffiths has been detained and we are liaising with them. 

The court heard last year that 63-year-old Griffiths, who had extreme religious views, had taken advantage of the 

girl following the death of her mother. 

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Rotorua businessman pleads guilty to child porn charge 



A well-known Rotorua businessman has admitted importing child pornography. 

The self-employed businessman, who has interim name suppression, was caught in an international sting set up by 

United States authorities. 


The man, described in Rotorua District Court as an outstanding member of the community, is one of more than 40 

men who have been arrested throughout New Zealand over recent months as part of a nationwide crackdown on 

internet pornography. 

The man hung his head when he stood in the dock yesterday and pleaded guilty to a representative charge of 

importing child pornography over a six-month period in 2003. 

The maximum penalty for the offence is six months' jail or a fine of up to $10,000. 

It was revealed in court the businessman not only accessed and downloaded up to 15 images of child pornography 

from the internet, but also posted comments about the pictures and gave some of them a rating out of five. 

His actions were picked up by United States authorities who set up an undercover operation. 

The man's lawyer, Harry Edward, handed several references to Judge Greg Hikaka and told the court they showed 

the man was an "outstanding member of our community". 

The offending dated back two years and he had an "absolute pristine record". 

Judge Hikaka refused Mr Edward's request to sentence the man straight away. He said after seeing the nature of the 

charges and the references more information was needed before he could be sentenced. 

The man was granted interim name suppression but New Zealand Customs has indicated it would oppose a 

permanent suppression order. 

The man has been remanded at large for sentencing on June 1. 

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Jail for man found with child-porn pictures 

United Kingdom - The Welwyn & Hatfield Times - April 06 2005 

Editorial, whtimes@archant.co.uk 

http://www.whtimes.co.uk/content/whtimes/news/story.aspx?brand=WHTOnline&category=newshertford&tBrand= 

herts24&tCategory=newswhtimes&itemid=WEED06%20Apr%202005%2011%3A50%3A25%3A703 

A grandfather who had a stash of 450 sick images was sent to prison for eight months on Friday. 

Hertford man Stephen Tillcock downloaded 8,500 pornographic photos while on nightshifts as a contracts manager. 

A colleague who had discovered the images on a works computer called the police and Tillcock, 52, was arrested at 

his home in Pearson Avenue. 

The 450 images of children included 10 photographs of sadism and 30 of sex between an adult and child. 

'Dreadful industry' 

Judge Geoffrey Burke sentencing Tillcock at St Albans Crown Court said downloading these photographs 

encouraged a "dreadful industry". 

He said: "The importance of this case is the degradation, humiliation and trauma that the taking of these photos 

creates for the children who are the subject. 

"You in downloading them are not responsible for the taking of the photographs but people wanting the photographs 

and downloading them from the internet encourages this dreadful industry." 

Louis Moll, defending, said Tillcock's wife of 31 years, who attended court to support her husband, was disgusted, 

shocked and humiliated. 

Mr Moll added Tillcock was full of remorse. 


"He is well aware that he could face a custodial sentence, he feels that he deserves it," he added. 

Tillcock pleaded guilty to six charges of making indecent photographs or pseudo photographs and one charge of 

possessing indecent photographs. 

Judge Burke sentenced him to eight months for each charge, to run concurrently. 

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Sex offender charged with child porn 

USA - The Northwestern, Wi - April 6, 2005 

By Jim Collar 

http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/local/stories/local_20502503.shtml 

A Menasha man convicted of sexually assaulting a child in 1991 could spend the rest of his life in prison if 

convicted on any one of 10 felony child pornography counts. 

Clark G. Robinson, 32, was charged Tuesday in Winnebago County Circuit Court. According to the criminal 

complaint, police began investigating Robinson after a 6-year-old girl last year reported that he took nude photos of 

her. When she refused to undress, Robinson undressed her, the complaint states. 

The child also told officers that Robinson exposed her to pornography on his computer and told her to have sexual 

contact with her younger brother, according to the complaint. 

Police during service of a search warrant in September seized videotapes, computer disks, a camera and other items. 

Two of five videos seized from the home had child pornography. Computer files revealed about 400 images 

depicting nude children or children engaged in sexual contact. Police also seized a story describing sexual acts 

performed on a young child, the complaint states. 

The 10 charges correlate with 10 specific items of child pornography seized. 

Robinson is being charged as a persistent repeater due to the 1991 conviction. Wisconsin has a two-strikes law, 

meaning those who are convicted for a second time on a sexual charge against a child receive life imprisonment 

without the possibility of parole. 

Robinson had gotten a probation term for his sexual assault conviction. Beyond the 1991 conviction, Robinson was 

convicted last year of failure to provide information as a sex offender. His probation on that case was revoked in 

November, and hes now serving a three-year prison term. 

Robinson will make an initial appearance on the child pornography charges in Judge Robert Hawleys courtroom 

April 13. 

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Former administrator sent to prison for child porn 

USA - Todays Inquirer, PA - April 6, 2005 

By Kathleen Brady Shea 


Describing the child pornography possessed by a former municipal administrator as beyond "vile," a Chester County 

Court judge today sentenced him to spend 111/2 to 23 months in prison. 

Judge Anthony A. Sarcione said he believed incarceration for Gary F. Henderson was needed "for the sake" of the 

children - some of them infants - depicted in the sexually explicit images found on Henderson's computer. 

The judge rejected a request by defense attorney Joseph P. Green Jr. to continue Henderson's bail pending an appeal 

of the conviction. Henderson remained impassive as deputy sheriffs shackled him and led him out of the courtroom. 


"I'm pleased with the sentence," said Assistant District Attorney David P. Clark, who had requested a jail term of 18 

to 36 months. "Judge Sarcione recognizes that this is not a victimless crime." 

Green had argued for probation. 

"There's no question that he collected and organized horrific images, but he recognized that," Green said. "I think 

the sentence is excessive for a person who was prosecuted only for trying to destroy the images." 

Henderson retired as Philadelphia deputy managing director in December 2001 to accept the top administrative post 

in Berks County. He was forced to quit in February 2003 after six female employees accused him of sexual 

harassment, according to Berks County officials. 

According to testimony during Henderson's nonjury trial in November, the investigation surfaced after Henderson, 

58, took an inoperable hard drive to a Pottstown computer services company in February 2003. 

Witnesses said Henderson included written instructions for saving family photos and tax files but deleting 

everything else. The store's owner clicked on a couple of files to check the repairs and saw images so disturbing that 

he contacted police. 

At yesterday's hearing, Clark called the evidence that Henderson was attempting to erase the material 

inconsequential. 

"Child pornography is child abuse," Clark said. "These children have no voice... . I would submit, your honor, the 

silence is deafening." 

Clark presented one witness: Rick Dougherty, a neighbor of Henderson's. Dougherty read a letter in behalf of 10 of 

the approximately 40 families who live on Heron Hill Drive, a horseshoe-shaped road in Downingtown. 

Dougherty, who was joined in court by five other neighbors, showed the judge a map that indicated where the 57 

children on the street live in relation to Henderson. He said Henderson's presence put some parents "on edge," 

prompting them to restrict their children's activities. 

"We have been horrified and shocked by this despicable crime," he said. "This convicted sex offender deserves the 

maximum penalty." 

Under questioning by Green, Dougherty said that he had "no factual foundation" for his fears but that they existed. 

Green told Dougherty that Henderson, who was evaluated by the Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, was not 

considered to be sexually violent. 

Asked by Sarcione whether he wanted to address the court, Henderson said he wanted to address his neighbors. 

"I don't consider myself a threat to anyone - except, initially to myself," he said, turning to the group and 

apologizing for any anxiety he caused. "If the judge decides to make me a guest of the county for a while, I hope 

you will look after my wife." 

After the hearing, the neighbors said their fears had been allayed by the sentence, which included 13 years of 

consecutive probation. The judge also included a provision that Henderson have no unsupervised contact with 

children. 

"Are you really going to suggest he cannot be alone with his own grandchildren?" Green asked. 

"I am going to order that," Sarcione replied. 

Later, Green said he found the neighbors' sentiments troubling. 

"I think it's unfair that neighbors are telling their children that danger is lurking on Heron Hill Drive," Green said. 

"Everyone acknowledges that Gary Henderson has never made any improper contact with any child." 


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An Airman was convicted of possessing child pornography during a recent 

court-martial 

USA - i-Newswire - April 6, 2005 

by Capt. Eric Johnson, 325th Fighter Wing Staff Judge Advocate 

http://i-newswire.com/pr13748.html 

Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. (AFPN) - Military judge sentenced Airman 1st Class Axel Acevedo, a 325th 

Operations Support Squadron air traffic controller, to five months confinement, reduction to airman basic and a bad 

conduct discharge. 

Airman Acevedo said he used an Internet file-sharing program to search for images of young boys, which he then 

downloaded and burned to a CD. The Airman said he knew the pictures were of real boys younger than 18. He 

showed the pictures to two other Airmen, one of whom subsequently reported him to the authorities. 

Some people think this is a victimless crime, but the children in the images are victimized every time the images are 

viewed, said Capt. Shawn Tabor, assistant trial counsel. 

Airman Acevedo is currently serving his sentence in the 325th Security Forces Squadron confinement facility, 

officials said. 

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Tougher enforcement of paedophile laws wanted 

New Zealand - NZCity - April 8 2005 


Internet Safety Group says existing anti-paedophile laws should be enforced more vigorously 

The Internet Safety Group says there is a lot that can be done to stop paedophiles before grooming legislation is 

invoked. 

The Government has announced it will add an offence of sexual grooming (setting a child up, for sexual activity) to 

the upcoming Crimes Amendment Bill. 

Internet Safety Group director Liz Butterfield is welcoming the move, but she says the existing law could be 

enforced more vigorously, with measures such as charging people for sending obscene messages under the 

Telecommunications Act. 

She adds that sending age-restricted or illegal material already carries stiff penalties. 

Paedophiles who groom children for sex will face up to seven years in prison under the new law. 

The bill comes before Parliament in the next few weeks. 

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Microsoft System Tracks Pedophiles 

Canada - Internetnews.com - April 7, 2005 

By Sean Michael Kerner 

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3496066 

Toronto -- In January 2003, a Toronto Police detective sent an e-mail to Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software 

Architect Bill Gates asking for help in the fight against child exploitation. 

Today that plea was answered with the official launch of the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS). 

Development of the CETS system began in 2003 and involved the Toronto Police Service, the Royal Canadian 


Mounted Police (RCMP), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other global law enforcement 

bodies. 

CETS is a Microsoft-developed, security-enhanced database that works with existing offender tracking systems in 

various global jurisdictions to allow investigators to tap into the data and make connections that help them more 

effectively track, locate and ultimately arrest offenders. 

CETS is based on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL, though according to Microsoft Canada President David 

Hemler the system won't force authorities to migrate to Windows and/or other Microsoft products. 

"The system was designed to be able to integrate with the offender management systems around the world," Hemler 

explained in a morning press conference. "We didn't want them to have to migrate off those systems. A lot of design 

went into the interoperability and open standard of this." 

Police services are able to tap into the CETS system via an Internet portal over a secure connection. The system has 

been in active beta testing since at least October 2004, and the Toronto Police Service together with the RCMP 

claim it has helped in the arrest of at least four alleged criminals. 

CETS was rolled out in Canada but has not yet seen time in the U.S., though the goal is to roll the system out 

globally. Hemler and RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli stressed that collaboration with the DHS was a 

critical aspect of the development of CETS. "One of the key design point we had is that we had great collaboration 

from the department of Homeland Security early on in our process up here to give us input into how they could use 

and how they might use it and how it might be applicable in the U.S.," Hemler said. "We're actively working with 

law enforcement agencies within the U.S. to take what we've learned with CETS and make it available there." 

To date, Microsoft has donated the software and services behind CETS to the Toronto Police Service and Canadian 

authorities. Microsoft has also pledged to continue to support it both locally and on a global basis making it 

available for free to authorities that want to use the service. 

"We've given away all of our software and service in the development of CETS, roughly $2.5 million to date; we've 

additionally committed $2 million around this project office to ensure that deployment within Canada and on a 

global basis continues and we're committed to give this software away to any police or law enforcement 

organizations on a worldwide basis that want it," Hemler said. 

Microsoft will not directly be making any money from the CETS initiative; rather it is seen as part of the software 

giant's commitment to being a good citizen. 

"There is no additional revenue for Microsoft," Hemler said. "What's in it for Microsoft is a safer Internet upon 

which we all live and work, which is a huge aspect of what we believe is important in society. 

"Frankly it amounts to doing the right thing." 

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An admitted sexual predator pleads guilty 

USA - The Star-Ledger, NJ - April 08, 2005 

By William Kleinknecht and Jonathan Schuppe 

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1112937185250120.xml 

A Nutley man who has admitted to sexually assaulting nine children, including at least two he videotaped during sex 

acts in the basement of a church, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal pedophilia charges. 

Kevin Hildreth, 35, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark to crossing state lines to sexually assault a child 

and to possession of child pornography, part of what authorities say was his nearly two decades of preying on young 

children. 

"This guy's a dangerous predator," said Thomas Manifase, the deputy special agent-in-charge of the Newark 

division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "We're glad he's off the streets." 


Hildreth, who was arrested in June 2004 as part of an international investigation of Internet child pornography, told 

investigators he had fondled or raped nine children in the past 16 years. All of the children were boys under 13; one 

of the victims was 4. 

The Essex County Prosecutor's Office charged Hildreth in October with having sex with five of the boys between 

1989 and 2004, saying in a press release that some of the offenses took place while he was supervising children for 

Wesley United Methodist Church in Belleville. 

The release said he was an assistant Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 301 at the church until about five years ago. 

Manifase said he believed Hildreth was active in the Scout troop for about a dozen years. 

Trip McMillan, Scout executive of the Northern Jersey Council of the Boy Scouts of America, said last night he was 

not aware of the criminal charges and did not have the council's personnel records available in his home to see if 

there were any complaints about Hildreth. 

But he said the Scouts have strict background checks and other policies aimed at preventing pedophiles from 

becoming involved with Scout troops. He said he would look into the circumstances surrounding Hildreth's years of 

service. 

Hildreth, a small, bespectacled man who appeared in court handcuffed and wearing a gray prison suit, told Judge 

William Walls that he was born in Staten Island and raised in Belleville. He said he graduated from Belleville High 

School and spent four years in the Navy. 

Hildreth grew up in a modest home on Parkview Avenue with his parents, Charles and Barbara, and a younger sister 

and brother, Barbara and Brian. Ken Hall, 47, who lives next door, remembers nothing unusual about the family, 

except that Hildreth was frequently in the company of young boys. 

"He was always with the young kids, playing with a couple of younger boys from up the street," he said. "He was in 

his 20s, the kids were 9 or 10 years old." 

Hildreth's parents had died by 2001, and after his siblings both moved to Pennsylvania he appeared to become a 

loner, Hall said. In summer, the grass would grow a foot high, and after snowstorms, Hildreth would just clear a 

small path to the front door, he said. 

By February 2004, the house had become a shambles, and Hildreth sold it to two brothers "for a song," Hall said. 

About a year earlier Hildreth had abandoned the home and moved across the Nutley border, living in the basement 

of some friends' home. 

He is accused of sexually abusing the couple's three boys, who were ages 4, 9, and 12 in 2004, according to a 

lawsuit the family has filed in Superior Court in Newark against Hildreth and Wesley United Methodist Church. 

The suit claims Hildreth would take the boys on outings and sometimes brought them to activities at the church, 

where his parents were longtime members. 

The family suspected nothing until Nutley police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents came to the 

home on June 9, 2004, and conducted a consensual search of the premises, the suit said. 

According to an affidavit signed by federal agent Jill Lasseter, the search yielded three photos of pre-pubescent 

children engaged in sexual activities, which had been printed off a computer. Hildreth admitted his 16 years of 

exploiting children, the affidavit said. 

Nutley police told the Union Avenue family that they also had discovered videotapes that Hildreth had made of their 

two older boys engaged in sex acts in 1998 in the basement of the church, according to the lawsuit. 

It says the 4-year-old described what happened, but the two older boys, who were not told of the videotapes, denied 

that anything occurred. 

In court, Hildreth admitted that he went to Scranton, Pa., in May 2004 and fondled his 7-year-old nephew, who was 

at times left in his care. 


Hildreth has not hired an attorney or answered the charges in the lawsuit. His criminal attorney, Peter Carter, could 

not be reached after the hearing. 

Christopher DePhillips, the church's attorney, said the plaintiffs in the suit have not submitted any documents 

backing up their charges. But he said his client was not liable in any case because Hildreth was not an employee or 

agent of the church. 

Federal sentencing guidelines recommend a penalty of 78 to 121 months for Hildreth's crimes, although Walls is 

free to depart somewhat from the guidelines. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Walsh took no position on what 

Hildreth's sentence should be. The defendant has been held in federal custody in the Passaic County Jail since his 

arrest. 

Federal agents were initially led to Hildreth through a larger investigation into nearly 1,000 people who used their 

computers and credit cards to subscribe to child porn Web sites linked to Belarussian organized crime figures. 

"This is an example of the worst kind of child predator out there," said U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie. "When 

federal prosecution is appropriate, we will use our resources to keep people like Hildreth in prison for as long as 

possible." 

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Paedophile faces long sentence 

United kingdom - This s London - April 10 2005 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/PA_LONA23325451112968322A0?source= 

An east London internet paedophile who preyed on a 13-year-old schoolgirl in Scotland has been told he faces a 

lengthy prison sentence. 

Simon Moore, 36, travelled from Hackney to Johnstone to snare the teenager. 

He is already serving six years for targeting another teenager in London. Sentencing at Paisley Sheriff Court was 

adjourned for psychiatric reports. 

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Jailed man belonged to pedophile ring 

Australia - The Courier-Mail - April 9, 2005 

By Leanne Edmistone 

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12793539%5E3102,00.html 

A member of a Brisbane-based pedophile ring, who repeatedly molested two boys, was yesterday sentenced to 

seven years' jail when he appeared in the District Court. 

Leigh William Andrews, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of maintaining a sexual relationship with a child under 16 

and 13 counts of indecently dealing with a child under 16. 

The court was told Andrews became involved in the pedophile ring through an Internet chat site and was introduced 

to the youngest of the two boys in January 2001 by one of the ringleaders. 

The boy became involved with the pedophiles after being introduced to them by a school friend, who was a victim 

of another member. 

For three years, Andrews molested the boy by performing oral sex, masturbating him and taking up to 20 indecent 

photos, some of which were later found on co-accused Earl James Henderson'scomputer. 

Andrews was also charged with indecently dealing with the boy's older brother on several occasions. 

Documents tendered to the court revealed Andrews would take the boys camping, to the beach and on other outings, 

and would often give his youngest victim gifts such as a mobile phone and computer games. 


Andrews was a visitor to the family home, having met his victim's parents through a sporting club. 

The court was told Henderson and a third man Shannon Lee Voight were the main ringleaders. They have pleaded 

guilty to numerous similar charges. 

Judge Michael Shanahan yesterday sentenced Andrews to seven years' jail 

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Worldwide web closes on child porn pervert 

United Kingdom - Cambridge Evening News - April 8, 2005 

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/huntingdon/2005/04/08/bab1e827-7f33-4ecc-b6ee-e79a646c5753.lpf 

A child porn internet pervert is facing jail after b.coming only the fifth person in Britain to be convicted of having 

filthy images obtained in another country. 

Peter Swale, 49, was caught by an eagle-eyed manager at an internet games arcade who spotted him downloading 

images of naked children as youngsters sat next to him. 

Swale, who was living at West Street, Huntingdon, before his arrest in June last year, admitted inciting a child in the 

Philippines t.commit gross indecency, five offences of taking indecent images of children in Cambodia in 2001 and 

one of taking indecent images of children in the Philippines between August 2003 and April 2004, when he 

appeared at Ipswich Crown Court. 

He also admitted possessing a digital camera memory card containing indecent images. A further charge of 

possessing a disk with 38 indecent images will remain on his file. 

The lorry driver from New Zealand faced a total of 16 charges and admitted other similar offences at an earlier 

hearing. 

Judge Alastair Darroch told Swale, who arrived in England last April, that he faces prison when he is sentenced on 

May 6. 

The court heard that 3,576 indecent images of children, mainly at the lower end of a scale of seriousness, were 

found on hi.computer equipment. Further images were discovered, mostly downloaded from naturist websites, 

during a second search. 

Michael Sloan, a former manager of the internet games arcade in Ipswich, told how Swale acted suspiciously when 

he went into the centre last June and was flicking between websites. 

He said he was able to watch Swale's screen from behind the counter and saw him saving images to disk so it would 

not go on the hard drive and was erasing the 'history' section. 

"What he did not know was temporary internet files still exist and I knew where they were. I went and accessed 

them and saved them. There was quite a lot on there and a lot of it was naked children, mostly boys," Mr Sloan said. 

"It was obvious what stuff he was looking for. He was actually sitting next to small children, who were aged maybe 

about eight or nine. 

"I thought if they saw what he was doing it would have been awful." 

Mr Sloan told police and informed them when Swale arrived the next day. Swale's arrest sparked a global 


Images came from a naturist swimming site based in Mildenhall, but the worst came from paedophile haunts in 

Cambodia and the Philippines when Swale was abroad. 

Disgraced British glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter has been in exile in Cambodia ever since his 

1999 conviction for downloading child pornography. 


Det Con Adrian Cassidy, of a specialist online investigation team from Suffolk police, said: "This was one of our 

more interesting and unique cases. 

"We are very, very pleased we have got a successful prosecution. It was a global investigation." 

He said a paedophile online investigation team in London had told him that Swale was one of only five people to 

admit or be convicted of possessing images acquired abroad. 

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Magistrate Jailed for Downloading Child Porn 


By David Hughes, PA 


A magistrate was today jailed for downloading child porn. 

Geoffrey Botley, 52, admitted 12 offences of making indecent photos between October 2001 and December 2004. 

He was jailed at North Avon Magistrates Court for six months and ordered to register as a sex offender for seven 

years. 

The court heard he had more than 240 pornographic images and files on his computer or saved on CDs. 

Botley from Withington Close, Bitton, Bristol, paid US 29.95 to access a website. 

Prosecutor Huw Rogers said police officers were given information by colleagues in America as part of Operation 

Ore and searched Botleys home seizing a laptop computer and CDs. 

Mr Rogers said: These were examined by the hi-tech crime unit who found a number of indecent images. 

There were a total of 234 still images and nine moving images. 

The court heard two of the images fell into the most serious category, involving sadism, with 26 images in the 

second most serious category showing sex between adults and children. 

Botley resigned as a magistrate in Bristol within days of the police raid, the court heard. 

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Bad day for accused pedophile: lawyer quits; uncle pulls bail 

Canada - Endmonton Sun, AB - April 9, 2005 

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/04/09/pf-989307.html 

Kitchener, ON -- A Cambridge pedophile lost both his key supporter and his lawyer during a brief court appearance 

yesterday. Mark Youlten, 46, was scheduled for a bail hearing, but was remanded in custody after his lawyer, Bruce 

Ritter, quit the case and Youlten's uncle, Robert Gmelin, withdrew as his surety. 

"He's been completely cut out of my life," said Gmelin, 54, a former Waterloo Region cop. "He'll have to make it on 

his own." 

Ritter said he doesn't have time to handle the case and referred Youlten to another lawyer. 

Youlten had been released on bail despite a 1989 conviction for sexually abusing two boys in Ohio and new charges 

he approached boys on March 22 in violation of a recognizance order. Youlten was charged again a week ago with 

approaching boys at a bus terminal and on a bus in February and March. 

An admitted pedophile, Youlten was deported from the U.S. last May after spending 14 years in an Ohio prison for 

rape and gross sexual imposition involving two brothers, ages three and seven, whom he babysat. 


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Net Trace On Paedophiles 

United Kingdom - The Mirror - April 9 2005 

By Gary Jones 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=15383008&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=net-trace-onpaedophiles-name_page.html 

THE first computer tracking system to help police hunt down paedophiles has been launched. 

Scotland Yard has helped Microsoft create software designed to capture perverts. 

In future, those selling pornographic images over the internet will be put under surveillance by computer systems 

linked all over the world. 

Experts believe 100,000 websites contain pictures of child sexual abuse. 

Microsoft president David Hemler said: "Sharing information is one of the most powerful tools law enforcement 

agencies possess to battle against online child exploitation." 

The software giant's founder Bill Gates personally backed the development of the Child Exploitation Tracking 

System (CETS). 

Child abuse experts at Scotland Yard have already helped arrest a paedophile, who used a UK chatroom. Det Sgt 

Paul Gillespie, from Canada's police sex crimes unit, persuaded Gates to join the battle against child porn. 

He said: "One suspect was arrested after information from Scotland Yard was programmed into the system." 

The data identified a credit card link to an abuser who was taking pictures of children. 

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2 more charged over child porn 



Another two Greeks were charged yesterday with producing and distributing via the Internet pornographic material 

involving young children, Thessaloniki police said, bringing the nationwide total for this week alone up to four. 

The two men, aged 27 and 30, were not named. Officers raided the suspects homes on Thursday and seized a 

computer hard drive, a laptop computer, five credit cards, a large number of CDs and DVDs and a small amount of 

cannabis. Police said they also found images showing children as young as four engaged in sexual acts with each 

other and with adults. 

The men are suspected of having been involved in peddling these images since 2003 through a number of websites 

based in Europe and the US, in return for payment by credit card. Two people, including a 15-year-old boy, were 

arrested on similar charges last month. The latest case brings the total number of suspects arrested in Greece since 

January 2004 on suspicion of distributing child pornography through the Internet to at least 22. 

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City man gets 15 years for child pornography 

USA - Baltimore Sun, MD - April 9, 2005 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.porn09apr09,1,6958327.story?coll=bal-local-headlines 

Law enforcement authorities used a remote computer connection to ferret out a Baltimore child pornographer who 

was sentenced in federal court yesterday. 


Joseph Ray McKenzie, 22, of the 1700 block of Rockhaven Ave. received a 15-year prison term, followed by 20 

years' supervised release. McKenzie pleaded guilty Feb. 11 to transmitting child pornography. 

According to court papers, McKenzie operated a file server from his home computer. File servers consist of 

software that can give other people access through the Internet to files on the hard drive of a personal computer. 

On Jan. 21 and Jan. 29 last year, FBI undercover agents signed onto the Internet, went into a channel on Internet 

Relay Chat and gained access to McKenzie's file server. The agents found a collection of images with sexually 

suggestive names. 

Court papers did not say why agents targeted McKenzie's files. 

The agents downloaded and opened several files from McKenzie's computer. They confirmed the images showed 

minors engaging in sexually explicit acts. 

On Feb. 6 last year, FBI agents and Baltimore County police officers searched McKenzie's home and seized several 

computers. 

They also found paperwork in the name of "Joe Johnson," the name McKenzie had used to connect his filer server to 

the Internet. 

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Marion man sentenced for possession of child pornography 

WOI-TV5 News, IA - APril 9, 2005 

http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3187457 

Cedar Rapids, Iowa A 40-year-old Marion man has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in federal prison for possession 

of child pornography and receipt of child pornography. 

Brion Dodd Johnson was convicted by a jury on November 4th. 

The indictment stated that in June 2003, Johnson possessed pictures of minors engaged in explicit conduct and the 

previous December he received pictures of the same subject. 

U.S. District Judge Linda R. Reade found that Johnson lied during his testimony at trial. She sentenced Johnson to 

151 months in prison. 

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MPs investigated over pedophilia 



A Special police task force has been set up to investigate allegations of pedophilia against a South Australian MP, a 

former MP and two police officers. 

SA Police Commissioner Mal Hyde said the separate allegations were currently under investigation by different 

branches of the police force, but would all be brought together into one investigation. 

The special task force takes the current, related investigations out of the Anti-Corruption Branch and the Sexual 

Crimes Investigation Branch, so they can all be dealt with in one area, Mr Hyde said in a statement. 

Assistant Commissioner Bryan Fahy would lead the task force, with a team of one primary investigator and five 

other officers working under him. 

The team would be separate to all other police branches, Mr Hyde said. 

I understand the public interest in getting answers on the allegations raised, he said. 


The special task force will work expeditiously, and I will release as much detail as possible on the outcome of their 

investigations. 

SA's parliamentary Speaker Peter Lewis resigned last week, in the wake of a controversy stirred up when he went 

public with claims of a sitting pedophile MP in state parliament. 

The previous week, volunteers working in his office - Barry Standfield and Wendy Utting - released statutory 

declarations to media organisations naming the current MP, a former politician and two senior police officers as 

alleged pedophiles. 

The allegations against the sitting MP had been previously investigated by police in 2003 and found not to be 

substantiated, but were reopened after Mr Lewis claimed to have been provided with new evidence. 

Meanwhile, a man who claimed the MP was a pedophile now says it was a case of mistaken identity, the ABC 

reported. 

Craig Ratcliffe had previously claimed he had sex with a Labor MP in the 1980s, who he referred to as Terry. 

Mr Ratcliffe said he saw the man in an Adelaide park last week and realised he was not the Labor politician he had 

previously identified. 

We came across a guy who I know as of Terry and it definitely isn't that of the Labor MP - I do apologise to the 

Labor Party, he told the ABC. 

I've spoken to his lawyers the other day and apologised to them and asked them to convey my apologies to the MP 

involved. 

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21-year-old pleads to counts of trading child porn online 

USA - The Advocate, LA - April 9, 2005 

By William Taylor 

http://2theadvocate.com/stories/041005/new_trading001.shtml 

The parents of a former LSU student sat Friday in federal court in Baton Rouge and watched as their 21-year-old 

son pleaded guilty to trading child pornography online. 

Bruce H. Perrin admitted his computer contained 4,237 photograph and video files classified as child porn. 

U.S. District Judge John V. Parker silently read a statement of facts submitted in support of Perrin's guilty pleas. 

The statement described the contents of Perrin's computer, including how six files depict children having sex with 

animals and many others show adults raping young children. 

"Please, stop, stop," a 4-year-old is heard begging on one. 

Advertisement 

Perrin acknowledged collecting the child pornography during several years of receiving and sending files. 

He was practically a child himself when he started, but is being treated like a 45-year-old man, his attorney, Frank 

Holthaus, said. 

Perrin attends the University of Louisiana at Lafayette now, but won't be able to finish his education there anytime 

soon, Holthaus said. 

One of the three counts against him carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison. 

The maximum combined prison time for all three counts is 45 years, although typically convicts are allowed to 

serve their sentences all at the same time, instead of one after the other. 


Perrin will likely be sentenced several weeks from now, Holthaus said. 

The attorney added that Perrin didn't personally download all of the files on his computer. 

Kazaa, a program typically used to swap music files, was set up on Perrin's computer so others could access it and 

send or receive pornographic files, Holthaus said. 

"You don't necessarily know what's coming all the time," but people are responsible for what's put on their 

computer, he said. 

LSU police and FBI investigators caught Perrin in 2003 after receiving a tip from Kentucky State Police. 

An investigation there uncovered online trading of pornography between Ron Wallace, a suspect in Kentucky, and 

Perrin, according to a 2003 search warrant request. 

Police here seized Perrin's computer in November 2003. 

As part of his plea, he will forfeit the equipment to the U.S. Government. 

Perrin's plea agreement also requires his cooperation with any other potential investigations. 

He has been cooperating for the past two years in investigations involving crimes in Baton Rouge and in other 

states, Holthaus said. 

U.S. Attorney David Dugas said the public needs to be aware that child pornography isn't just illegal to make: it's 

illegal to possess and share. 

"It's contraband," he said. "Anyone who comes across it on the Internet should report it." 

Also, the Internet increasingly has become an avenue for crimes, including many affecting the Baton Rouge area, 

Dugas said. 

Sexual predators use the Internet to lure children into dangerous situations, and criminals use it to steal personal 

information like credit card numbers, Dugas said. 

Illegal drugs have also been sold online, leading to at least one area death, he added. 

Parents need to be aware of the dangers, Dugas said. 

"Sometimes conduct that you could keep away from your home in the past comes much closer now because of the 

Internet," he said. 

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Sweden asked to extradite suspected paedophile 

Sweden - The Local Sweden's News in English - April 11 2005 

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1262&date=20050411 

(AFP) Romania's justice ministry said on Monday that it had asked for the extradition of the founder of a semireligious 

movement suspected of paedophilia who was arrested in Sweden last week. 

Gabriel Bivolaru, 53, a yoga teacher who was arrested in Malm on April 4 on an Interpol warrant, is accused of 

sexual relations with minors, sexual perversion, trafficking of minors and attempted illegal frontier crossing. 

Bivolaru founded the Movement for Spiritual Integration in the Absolute, which claims to have thousands of 

members in Romania, and includes the drinking of urine among its precepts. According to members, Bivolaru, 

nicknamed "the guru", demanded absolute obedience, and administered corporal punishment to recalcitrants. 


He was first arrested at the end of March last year as he allegedly tried to cross the Romanian-Hungarian border 

secretly while under investigation for corrupting minors. Freed on account of a procedural error a few days later, he 

disappeared. 

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Former police officer sentenced on child porn charges 

USA - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, GA - APril 11, 2005 

By Kathy Jefcoats 

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0405/11childporn.html 

A former Griffin police officer stood in federal court Friday and asked for help with an Internet porn addiction 

before being sentenced to 57 months for possessing digital sexual images of children. 

"I don't want to minimize what I did," David Paul Erdman told Judge Jack T. Camp. "I got addicted to the Internet 

and got carried away. I've got a problem and I need help." 

But federal prosecutors said Erdman's sexual behavior toward children was escalating and could have led to 

abduction or physical harm. 

While awaiting sentencing on the federal charges, Erdman was arrested in Henry County Nov. 28 for exposing 

himself to a 9-year-old girl and her grandmother inside a store. 

"He goes from bragging about being a police officer and wanting to have sex with young girls to exposing himself 

over a Web cam," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Jordan. "He exposes himself in person to a 9-year-old girl. 

His behavior is escalating. What if he decides next to kidnap that child?" 

Erdman's attorney, Howard Jarrett Weintraub, agreed that his client has a problem and got Camp's approval for 

Erdman's participation in a sex offender program while in federal custody. 

After release, Erdman will be supervised for five years. 

Erdman still faces child molestation and public indecency charges in Henry County and is scheduled to be arraigned 

May 3. Weintraub said Erdman will plead guilty to the Henry charges. 

Erdman was indicted on the federal charges Feb. 11, 2004, after being caught in an FBI Internet sting operation. 

Using the screen name "dadcaughtwatchingporn," Erdman thought he was communicating with a 15-year-old girl, 

not an undercover FBI agent based in Chicago. 

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Protecting the most vulnerable 

USA - Des Moines Business Record, IA - April 3, 2005 

http://www.businessrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=40&ArticleID=1783&SubSectionID=75 

Our View 

As the tragedy that befalls too many children hit home in Iowa last week with the abduction, sexual assault and 

murder of 10-year-old Jetseta Gage of Cedar Rapids, some of the reactions were typical and not unexpected. One 

example of that emotional reaction was state Rep. James Van Fossens call for reinstatement of the death penalty. 

Taking that action might quench a thirst for vengeance, but would do little to protect other children from pedophiles. 

With only a few weeks remaining until the legislative session ends, its unlikely any proposal to restore capital 

punishment will go anywhere this year. There are, however, things the Legislature can and should do to protect 

Iowas most vulnerable citizens. Lengthen the sentences of convicted child molesters. Require them to complete sexoffender 

treatment before they are released, even if they were good in prison and eligible for early release under the 

Iowa Department of Corrections good time provisions. Once they are released, require them to wear electronic 

monitoring devices. 


Such measures are reactionary, but necessary when a child has been violated as Jetseta Gage was. Beyond that, 

policymakers should focus their attention on helping families sustain stable environments that predators cant 

permeate. Though all children are vulnerable to sexual exploitation, which seemingly has reached epidemic 

proportions, poverty is a great risk factor for almost every destructive condition that might affect a child. 

A key to curbing child abuse of all kinds sexual abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse is found in 

investing in families, beginning at a childs birth. That means adequately funding early-childhood education 

initiatives, where children can thrive in a safe environment. It means adequately funding Medicaid. It means 

investing in programs that help mothers and fathers become better parents. 

Studies show that for every dollar spent on the treatment of child abuse in the United States, only a penny is 

spent on its prevention. If resources are not invested in the prevention of child abuse in its various forms, 

significantly greater amounts of money will be needed to treat the consequences that arise later in life, including 

interpersonal difficulties, substance abuse, teen pregnancy and delinquency. 

For all types of abuse, the goal of legislators should be to prevent it, not avenge it after the fact. 

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Disturbing Trend in Child Sex Abuse Offences 

New Zealand - Scoop - April 8 2005 

By ECPAT 


Disturbing Trend in Child Sex Abuse Offences 

Today the Department of Internal Affairs advised of the prosecution in Palmerston North of David Stuart Hartley 

found guilty possessing over 4,500 of child pornography images on his computer. The images included girls as 

young under two years old being sexually abused by men. 

Hartley was sentenced to 10 months for this offence. Under New Zealand law the producing and trading in child 

pornography was increased in February 2005 from 12 months to 10 years imprisonment. In the case of Hartley the 

offences occurred prior to the new law being enacted. 

Alan Bell, Director of ECPAT says The sentence of 10 months does not adequately reflect the seriousness of this 

offence. It is hoped that in future the sentencing will properly reflect the recent changes in the legislation. There is a 

strong linkage between possession of child pornography and child offending. In the interest of protecting our 

children it is important that those breaking the law in regard to child pornography are dealt with strongly as a 

deterrent to others. 

Bell continues However perhaps the most disturbing element is the evidence collected over a period of time that 

reveals the nature of child sex abuse cases are becoming more tragic. 

In this case the fact that some of the images of girls being sexually abused by men were aged under two years. 

People need to understand these images are of real children who have been abused and raped and had their 

innocence ripped from them. Their images are now available forever and can never be retrieved. This means that in 

a sense every time these images are viewed the child is once again violated 

ECPAT is a not for profit agency set up to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. . 

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Naron to serve 30 years 

USA - The Daily Mississippian, MS - April 08, 2005 

by Marti Covington 

http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/08/42565f334ab5a 

Former Oxford firefighter Carroll Reed Naron, 42, was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in the state penitentiary, 


with 10 of those years suspended, on 19 assorted counts of sexual crimes involving five female minors. 

Judge Andrew Howorth handed down the sentence in Lafayette County Circuit Court at the recommendation of the 

prosecution. 

For pleading guilty to 17 counts of touching a child for lustful purposes, Naron received 15 years with five years 

suspended. 

On one count of sexual battery, Naron pleaded guilty and received 30 years with 10 years suspended. 

Naron also pleaded guilty to one count of child exploitation, receiving 20 years with five years suspended. 

Howorth ordered that all of the years be served concurrently. 

At the recommendation of the prosecution, Howorth also ruled that Naron serve five years of post-release probation. 

During that time he will be prohibited from any Internet access. 

In addition, Naron was ordered to forfeit his computer and all computer equipment, as well as to begin paying an 

ongoing restitution for costs accrued by the victims and their families during the trial period. 

He was also told to refrain from contacting the victims or their families in any way. 

Narons sentencing occurred after several family members of the victims addressed the court about their ordeals. 

Relatives of the girls tearfully spoke of the trials the girls would have to face for the rest of their lives as a result of 

Narons abuses. 

You worked your way into a position of trust and used it for the gratification of your lust, your victims, five young 

girls. You took from them something that can never be replaced; you stole their innocence, one relative of the girls 

said in his prepared statement. 

They also expressed gratitude to the police and legal system for finally hearing the truth. 

Family members of the victims appeared happy and relieved after the sentence was announced, and Naron was 

remanded to the custody of the Lafayette County Sheriffs Department to be transported to the state penitentiary. 

The lawyer for the prosecution, Leilani Pepper, applauded the efforts of Sheritta Sullivan and the Cyber Crime Unit 

at the attorney generals office for their assistance in the case. 

She also thanked the Lafayette County Sheriffs Department, specifically Investigator Jay Hill, for doing their part to 

bring Naron to justice. 

Naron was indicted by the grand jury on the 19 assorted counts of sexual crimes with a minor in February. 

Court records found he participated in these acts as early as April 2003 with five girls ranging in age from seven to 

13-years-old. 

He was arrested on Sept. 21, 2004, shortly after investigators raided his home and seized his computer. 

Since that time, Naron has been held without bond at the Lafayette County Detention Center. 

These are Narons first felony convictions. 

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Denmark woman charged in teen sex case 

USA - The Green Bay News-Chronicle, WI - April 9, 2005 

http://www.gogreenbay.com/page.html?article=130813 


A rural Denmark woman who was allegedly involved in a teen prostitution involving 14- and 16-year old girls will 

be in Manitowoc County Circuit Court April 18. 

Wendy Eland, 38, was charged with 10 felonies and two misdemeanors including two counts of child sexual 

exploitation, two counts of child enticement-prostitution, two counts of soliciting a child for prostitution and two 

counts of second degree sexual assault of a child. 

Eland faces possible life imprisonment and is currently in Manitowoc County Jail. 

William Jansky, 52 of Manitowoc was also charged in connection with the case. Jansky was charged with two 

counts of causing a child to view sex activity and two counts of soliciting prostitution. 

Eland was previously sentenced to five years in prison for first degree sexual assault of a child in Brown County in 

1999 and is a registered sex offender. 

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Man may be sexual predator after guilty plea on abuse charges 

USA - The Mercury, PA - April 8, 2005 

Carl Hessler Jr. 

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14308424&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi 

=6 

Norristown -- A Northampton County man admitted Thursday that he conspired with a Limerick woman to sexually 

abuse an 11-year-old girl. 

Stuart Ackerman, 34, of Freemansburg, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to charges of conspiracy to 

commit sexual abuse of children, indecent assault and indecent exposure in connection with incidents that occurred 

in the spring and summer of 2003. Ackerman showed no emotion during his guilty plea hearing but his mother, aunt 

and girlfriend wept in the courtroom. 

The open plea means prosecutors have no deals with Ackerman regarding his potential punishment. Judge William 

T. Nicholas deferred sentencing so that probation officials can complete a background investigation of Ackerman, 

who also has to be evaluated by the Pennsylvania Sexual Offender Assessment Board to determine if he is a 

sexually violent predator under Megans Law. 

Ackerman, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, faces a possible maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison on the 

charges. 

Beth Bowers, Ackermans co-conspirator, previously admitted that she conspired with Ackerman, whom she met in 

an Internet chat room, to arrange a sexual tryst with him and the 11-year-old girl. 

Bowers, 32, of the 300 block of West Ridge Pike, Limerick, pleaded guilty last month to charges of conspiracy to 

exploit a child, indecent assault, sexual exploitation of a child, sexual abuse of a child, unlawful contact with a child, 

corruption of a minor, indecent exposure and endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the incidents. 

She is awaiting sentencing and had agreed to testify truthfully against Ackerman had he gone to trial. 

"He seeks sexual contact with young girls. In this case, he found the perfect partner for that, Beth Bowers," said 

Assistant District Attorney Samantha Cauffman, referring to Ackerman. "Its disgusting. The two of them found each 

other at the cost of this child." 

Cauffman vowed to seek a state prison sentence against Ackerman. 

Ackerman pleaded guilty shortly before jury selection was to begin in his case and after he lost several pretrial 

issues. 

"Stuart Ackerman is not a bad man. Hes given 10 years of his life for our country," said defense lawyer James 

Freeman, referring to Ackermans military duty. "Its an unfortunate set of circumstances." 


Bowers and Ackerman were arrested last August after a joint investigation by authorities from Montgomery and 

Berks counties. 

According to a criminal complaint, Bowers and Ackerman met on the Internet in July 2003. After exchanging nude 

images of one another, Bowers then took nude photographs of the 11-year-old girl and emailed the nude images of 

the girl to Ackerman, detectives said. 

Bowers and Ackerman eventually agreed to meet at the Days Inn in Pottstown and Bowers brought along the girl, 

court documents indicate. Ackerman took photographs of the girl and touched the girl and forced her to touch him 

while he lay naked on a bed, according to the criminal complaint. 

Ackerman was arrested in February 2004 for trying to solicit sex from a North Coventry detective who was posing 

as a 12-year-old girl in an Internet chat room. 

After reading about Ackermans arrest in Chester County, Bowers called The Mercury, claiming she had witnessed 

Ackerman molest a young girl the previous summer. When detectives interviewed Bowers, they determined she 

participated in the rendezvous and both Bowers and Ackerman were charged with conspiring to abuse the girl. 

Last year, Ackerman was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in jail in connection with the Chester County case after he 

pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to commit unlawful conduct with a minor and attempting to corrupt a minor. 

Authorities said Ackerman, during a two-month period beginning Dec. 18, 2003, contacted the undercover North 

Coventry detective posing as the teenage girl on the Internet and he wrote that he wanted to meet the girl to have 

sex, according to court records. 

According to testimony, Ackerman is also on probation for a stalking conviction in Northampton County. 

Ackermans guilty plea on Thursday represents a violation of that previous probation and so Ackerman could face 

additional jail time for the violation in Northampton County. 

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Shipments of children, a darkly growing trade 

Philippines - International Herald Tribune, France - April 9, 2005 

By Carlos H. Conde 

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/08/news/phils.html 

Manila The young girls often come in groups of five or more, clustered in the farthest sections of passenger ships, 

away from prying eyes. They hardly talk to each other, but only because they hardly know each other. They are 

mostly teenagers, some as young as 14. Most of them are excited about the trip to Manila, which is usually their 

first. 

But some, like Julia, know they made the wrong decision the moment the ship pulls away. 

"I was afraid the whole time. I don't know what would happen to me," said Julia, who spoke on the condition that 

her real name not be used. 

Julia was 17 when a man approached her on the street in General Santos, a city in the southern Philippines, and 

offered her a job as a housemaid in Manila. She was promised a monthly salary of $55 - a handsome sum for a girl 

whose parents earn hardly half of that in a month. All the man asked of Julia was that she lie about her age and leave 

that same night. 

Together with four other teenage girls, Julia boarded a passenger ship bound for Manila last November, one of the 

dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Filipino children being trafficked to Manila every day, most of them ending up in 

prostitution dens or in warehouses and factories where they are treated virtually as slaves. 

It is a modus operandi that is being repeated all over the country, particularly in the poorest areas. As a result, the 

Philippines is now one of the hot spots in Southeast Asia for trafficking in persons, especially children, which 

generates approximately $10 billion a year worldwide, according to Unicef, the UN agency that works to protect 

children. 


According to Unicef, a "good proportion" of the estimated 60,000 to 100,000 exploited children in the Philippines 

have been trafficked. A decade ago, a national survey determined that a quarter-million Filipino children were 

working and living away from their homes. 

While most trafficking is done domestically, many of the Filipino victims end up as prostitutes in Japan, the United 

States, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Europe. 

The Philippines is also a transit point and destination for victims from China, the U.S. State Department said in a 

report on human trafficking released in June last year. 

"Endemic poverty, a high unemployment rate, a cultural propensity towards migration, a weak rule-of-law 

environment, and sex tourism all contribute to significant trafficking activity in the Philippines," the report said. 

"There's an increasing number of trafficking going on now," said Dolores Alforte, executive director for the 

Philippines of Ecpat, an international network that opposes child prostitution, trafficking and pornography. 

A recent study by Alforte's group found at least seven "high-risk areas" in the country: the cities of Zamboanga, 

Cagayan de Oro, Laoag, Dumaguete, Cebu, and Manila as well as the province of Bicol. 

Although the government, along with nongovernmental groups, has been active in its campaign against child 

trafficking, traffickers - usually friends and acquaintances, even relatives, of the victims' families - have always 

found ways to be a step ahead, said Vicky Juat, Unicef's child protection officer in Manila. 

For example, when the government and these organizations, along with the coast guard and the maritime police, 

increased their inspection of passenger ships, even establishing halfway houses for trafficked people in certain ports, 

the traffickers merely used other routes or shifted to buses and small ferries, which are not as well-monitored. 

But even with increased vigilance by the authorities, the traffickers still manage to lure victims. At the port of 

Manila, hardly a day goes by without minors' being abandoned by their recruiters for fear of the police, according to 

the Visayan Forum Foundation, a Unicef-supported private group that put up a halfway house inside the port 

compound. 

The number of trafficked children is often increased by the conflicts in the south. According to Rebecca Barrious- 

Ballesteros, head of Visayan Forum's protective care unit, the number of trafficked children increased tenfold during 

certain months in 2003, when fighting broke out between the government and Muslim insurgents in Mindanao. 

"We've noticed an increase in the number of those we help in recent months," Ballesteros said. "That could mean 

that more trafficking has been going on, but that could also mean that it is because of the increased intervention by 

government and nongovernment groups." 

Visayan Forum has cared for more than 2,000 trafficked Filipinos since October 2003. 

Juat, the Unicef officer, said the Philippines continued to be a hot spot because of a number of factors, foremost of 

which is the grinding poverty in the provinces, where most of the victims come from. 

"We are country that's very vulnerable mainly because of the poverty," Juat said. She said that in many cases parents 

agreed to send their children away, partly to ease the burden on them but mainly so these children could work and 

help out. Often, the recruiters would give advance money to the parents. 

In one instance, the Visayan Forum found out that many of the victims they thought they had sent home turned up 

later at the organization's halfway house, indicating a reluctance among many of the victims to go home. "They'd be 

going home to the same poor environment so they probably thought, 'Why bother?"' said Unicef's Juat. 

In fact, Julia, the girl from General Santos City, does not plan to go home soon. "I'd rather stay here at the halfway 

house for a little while, maybe finish high school," she said. 

Julia had been rescued from her recruiters when a fellow passenger learned that the girls were going to be sold to a 

prostitution den and promptly reported the situation to the authorities. 


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Teacher jailed in child porn case 

United Kingdom - The Journal Newcastle - April 6, 2005 

By Dave Black 

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/thejournal/tm_objectid=15371026&method=full&siteid=50081&headl 

ine=teacher-jailed-in-child-porn-case-name_page.html 

A music teacher was behind bars last night after a court heard how he had collected more than 6,400 indecent 

images of children at his home. 

Northumberland piano tutor Michael Barton, 55, was sentenced to four months in prison by magistrates after they 

were told how police officers discovered the huge hoard of photographs - and 44 pornographic movies - on his 

home computer and computer discs. 

The material, which he had downloaded from internet sites over two years, included boys as young as 14 engaged in 

various sexual activities and erotic poses. 

Yesterday Barton, of Sylvan Close, Morpeth, was led from Bedlington court in handcuffs to begin his jail term after 

magistrates said the seriousness of the offences meant only a custodial sentence was appropriate. 

Barton was secretary of the respected Morpeth Music Society - which has just celebrated its 60th anniversary - but 

is said to have resigned as a result of the offences. 

The court was also told that as a piano tutor he worked with private pupils ranging in age from seven to 60 but had 

immediately given up music teaching after being arrested by police. 

As well as the prison sentence, Barton was made the subject of a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order, which 

severely restricts his ability to associate with anyone under the age of 18. 

Yesterday he pleaded guilty to six offences of making or possessing indecent photographs of children over a period 

from May 2002 to May last year. 

Cuthbert Reagan, prosecuting, said Barton was arrested as a result of joint operations by law enforcement agencies 

in the USA and the UK National Crime Squad which targeted users of websites containing obscene images of 

children. Investigations by Northumbria Police traced a number of transactions to Barton's Morpeth home where a 

credit card had been used to pay for viewing internet sites. 

A search of the house, where Barton lives with an 80-year-old man, uncovered the indecent images and movies on 

his computer hard drive and CDs. In total, computer crime officers found 6,429 images and 44 movies, all involving 


Barton told police he had downloaded the images for his own personal use and that the man he lives with had no 

knowledge of what he had been doing. 

He admitted knowing that some of the children on the images were as young as 14. 

During police interviews Barton said he had been viewing indecent images of young men aged 14 to 25 for about 

two years because he was "interested" in such material. 

Janice Hall, defending, said the vast majority of the images found at Barton's home were at the very lowest level in 

terms of seriousness. Chairman of the magistrates Paul Kidd said aggravating features in the case included the fact 

that Barton had committed the offences over two years and knew that many of the images were of children under 

18. 

Prison for sex attacker 

A former councillor who indecently assaulted a schoolgirl has been jailed. 


Henry Devine, 54, touched the youngster's private parts after taking her to his home in Salter's Lane, Wingate, in 

2002. 

Devine denied any wrongdoing but was found guilty by a jury at Durham Crown Court earlier this year. 

Devine was a former Independent member of Easington District Council for his home village. He was arrested in 

June 2003 and initially accused of inciting two girls to commit an act of gross indecency as well as the indecent 

assault charge. 

He was cleared of the gross indecency charges but jurors failed to reach a verdict on the indecent assault. While 

awaiting a re-trial he was arrested in Bridlington, North Yorkshire, accused of approaching a 12-year-old girl and 

offering her 10 for sex. He was cleared of the Bridlington incident by a jury acting on the judge's direction. 

Devine appeared at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday to be sentenced for the indecent assault on the schoolgirl. 

Judge Richard Lowden jailed Devine for 22 months. He also ordered that he should be the subject of a sexual 

offences prevention order for five years. 

City 'has child prostitutes' 

Children as young as 11 are being turned into prostitutes by adult abusers in the North-East, the charity Barnado's 

claimed yesterday. 

Its research suggests there are 26 children and young people currently being exploited through prostitution in 

Newcastle, and a further 121 at significant risk of becoming involved. 

Fears are growing that the problem could be much wider, with many youngsters who are being abused, or have been 

victims in the past, too frightened to come forward. 

Det Supt Mike Jones from Northumbria Police said: "This is child abuse, pure and simple, and should not be viewed 

as anything else." 

Until now there has been no accurate picture of child prostitution in the city. 

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Child prostitution on rise in border town 

Mexico - The Washington Times, DC - April 4, 2005 

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050404-034844-6809r.htm 

Tijuana -- Child prostitution in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Tijuana is a growing problem receiving little 

government attention, El Universal reported Monday. 

Jorge Bedoya Lopez, director of the San Diego, Calif.-based Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, said there is a lack 

of funding and appropriate legislation at the local, state and federal levels to combat the problem. 

A recent study of child sexual abuse in 100 Mexican cities estimated Tijuana was home to some 5,000 children "atrisk" 

of being forced into the sex trade, he said. 

Mexico's legal system does not adequately support those who are subject to child prostitution and there are still no 

laws that explicitly address punishment of those who sexually exploit children, Bedoya Lopez said. 

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Child exploitation growing 

Philippine - Malaya News - April 6, 2005 

By JP Lopez, Marilou Jumilla and Ashzel Hachero 

http://www.malaya.com.ph/apr06/news4.htm 


AN estimated 60,000 to 100,000 Filipino children are exploited in the sex trade, forced to work in unsanitary 

conditions or are directly involved in the armed conflict between government and various rebel groups in Mindanao, 

a study commissioned by the United Nations Children's Fund said. 

The study, conducted by professors at the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative Development Studies 

(UP-CIDS), said an undetermined number of poor children are being exploited through child pornography 

perpetrated by foreigners and locals. 

The Unicef said heightened armed conflict in Mindanao has made the region one of the hotspots in human 

trafficking, with children being smuggled out to Malaysia, among other neighbors. 

The report, "Combating Child Trafficking," the first to be conducted in Asia, said children who want to help their 

families, gain material wealth and improve their physical appearance are lured to big cities or to Japan as 

entertainers. 

"Among the main causes of child trafficking in the Philippines are poverty, low economic development in 

communities of origin, gender inequalities, limited employment opportunities, existence of and access to public 

infrastructure, large family sizes, inadequate awareness among families, and sex tourism," the report said. 

Dr. Nicholas Alipui, country representative of Unicef Philippines, said the agency commissioned the study because 

of persistent reports of widespread child exploitation in the country. 

The Philippines, he said, is also advertised in the Internet as a sex haven where young girls and boys can be had 

cheaply. 

Unicef executive director Carol Bellamy, who is in town for the 112th Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting at the 

Philippine International Convention Center, told the IPU general assembly that child trafficking worldwide has 

become a $10 billion a year industry. 

She said the UN study found extensive evidence of child pornography in the Philippines, particularly in tourist 

destinations like Pagsanjan in Laguna, Angeles City, Baguio City and Puerto Galera in Mindoro. 

Bellamy said the Philippines is among the few countries that are making a dent in the fight against the trafficking of 

women and children. 

But she challenged lawmakers to enact stricter and more comprehensive laws against child exploitation and to 

strengthen law enforcement capability. 

The Philippines passed the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act in 2003 which provides for the establishment of the 

National Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking in Persons, the lead agency that coordinates the work of similar 

councils now being established at the provincial and city levels. 

"This is not going to be easy," Bellamy said. "We are dealing with criminals and they are not stupid. There are lots 

of money to be made and they will go to any length to continue harming and exploiting children in this awful way. 

We need governments to make good laws and beef up investigative work. 

"(Parliamentarians) can make decisions that ensure the protection of children, or they can make decisions that leave 

children vulnerable to being exploited and abused. The first choice virtually guarantees strong national 

development; the second choice virtually guarantees the continuation of poverty," Bellamy said. 

"Parliamentarians are very powerful. They have a voice. They are leaders. And they have the power of inquiry. We 

hope that providing them with information and examples of policy, of what has to be done to actually go after 

traffickers, we could help strengthen their laws, policies and actions," Bellamy said. 

The UN official said the unsupervised use of the Internet by children makes them vulnerable to child pornographers 

through e-mail, chat rooms, web sites, web cameras and Internet cafes. 

The child sex trade, she said, is difficult to stop on the web because Internet providers and credit card companies, 

citing privacy rights, refuse to divulge information on pedophiles and producers of pornography. 


Dr. Elizabeth Protacio-de Castro, head of the Program on Psychosocial Trauma and Human Rights at UP-CIDS, 

who was at the launch of the handbook at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati yesterday, said they are so frustrated with 

Internet providers who are "totally uncooperative" when it comes to providing leads on child exploiters. 

She said she has also been tipped off that one can now download pornographic images of children in one's cellphone 

for as low as P100. 

Unlike child prostitution, De Castro said child pornography is more difficult to stop because it is not visible. 

She also blamed the Filipino concept of utang na loob which enabled an elderly American to have sex with 17 

minors in Puerto Galera after he gave their parents money and had their houses renovated. 

According to the study, the number of reported child pornography victims totaled nine in 2000; four in 2001; seven 

in 2002 and 13 in 2003. Child prostitution data listed 186 reported cases in 2000; 224 in 2001; 245 in 2002, and 247 

in 2003. 

Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman, who also spoke during the book launching, said these cases indicate that 

children from poor areas are at greater risk from adult predators because aside from Central Luzon, the national 

capital region and Calabarzon, most of the reported cases took place in the poorest areas of the county like Eastern 

Samar, Mindanao and the Bicol region. - 

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Prostitute at only 11 


By Craig Thompson 

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/eveningchronicle/tm_objectid=15368726%26method=full%26s 

iteid=50081%26headline=prostitute%2dat%2donly%2d11-name_page.html 

Perverts are preying on child prostitutes as young as 11 on Tyneside. 

For the first time the Chronicle can expose the hidden cycle of sexual abuse which shames Newcastle. 

Alarming figures reveal there are 26 children and young people currently being exploited through prostitution in the 

city. 

And a further 121 are at significant risk of becoming involved in the seedy underworld. 

Fears are growing that the problem could be much wider, with many youngsters who are being abused, or have been 

victims in the past, too frightened to come forward. 

Up until now, there has been no accurate picture of child prostitution in the city. 

Ady Davies works for the Reducing the Impact of Sexual Exploitation (RISE) project, which was established by 

children's charity Barnardo's to look at the issue in Newcastle. 

He said: "We have found the world of sexual exploitation through prostitution is a very closed and secretive one and 

we are having great difficulty breaking through and getting access to it. 

"We know it exists. The information we get from services in Newcastle who work with these young people tell us 

that." 

Barnardo's commissioned research from 120 services working with children in Newcastle, asking about any young 

people they knew of who were involved in prostitution. 

About half of these agencies have now responded, identifying 147 young people in the city. 

Eleven of the organisations say they are working with children who are definitely being exploited, with one service 

having a client involved since the age of 11. 


Detective Superintendent Mike Jones from Northumbria Police said: "This is child abuse, pure and simple, and 

should not be viewed as anything else. 

"It is too early to say how much of a problem we have in Newcastle but the continued efforts to identify those at risk 

of exploitation are to be welcomed. 

"We must remember that paying for the sexual services of someone under the age of 18 is a serious criminal 

offence, with the punishment liable to be a lengthy prison sentence." 

Workers say much of the abuse remains hidden and many victims are reluctant to come forward, perhaps not even 

realising they are being victimised. 

Mr Davies added: "There could be a variety of reasons for this - shame, fear and guilt among them. But there is also 

a limited perception by some young people of the risks they are undertaking and the fact they are being exploited." 

Of the 147 children and young people now identified, detailed information on 57 of them has been collected. 

Of these, 51 are 17 and under, the youngest being just 13. 

Most are heterosexual and 46 out of the 57 are girls. Many are in suitable and stable accommodation, although 

seven are currently homeless. 

The Barnardo's RISE project has been carrying out research on behalf of the Newcastle Area Child Protection 

Committee, with support from Northumbria Police and Newcastle Primary Care Trust. 

This month, the project will move to another level, with extensive advertising on buses in a desperate bid to reach 

those currently involved, or who have been involved, with child prostitution. 

Mr Davies added: "We want to reassure people our research is strictly confidential and they can contact us without 

fear of jeopardising their anonymity. 

"Our next step is trying to talk to the young people affected and get them to access the website and fill in the on-line 

questionnaire." 

There will be advertising on 150 buses around the city, crossing into Gateshead. 

Several years ago, research conducted in Middlesbrough found girls as young as 12 were being abused through 

prostitution. 

The Barnardo's Sexual Exploitation of Children on the Streets (SECOS) project found many had already suffered 

previous childhood abuse, had run away from home or local authority care and had become involved in drugs. 

RISE can be contacted by logging on to the website www.barnardos.org.uk/rise or by calling (0191) 261 6565. 

Their backgrounds 

Of the 147 young people identified in the research into child prostitution in Newcastle: 

* 31 have been in local authority care. 

* 35 have a history of running away or going missing. 

* 43 use alcohol, drugs or both. 

* 49 have a history of family break-up. 

* 23 have a history of homelessness. 

* 23 have experienced some form of abuse. 


* 19 have regular sexual health problems. 

* 31 have unexplained "gifts" or "rewards". 

* 20 have peers involved in prostitution. 

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Time for us to act 


http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/eveningchronicle/tm_objectid=15368799&method=full&siteid 

=50081&headline=time-for-us-to-act-name_page.html 

Shock and revulsion are the reactions to two reports on child abuse out today. 

In one we are told children as young as 11 are being exploited through prostitution in the city. 

In the other, the number of children in Newcastle at risk of abuse and neglect is revealed to be double the national 

average. 

The problems are there for all to see; the solutions are not so clear. 

In the case of child prostitution in the city, agencies have identified 121 children as being at significant risk of being 

dragged into this seedy underworld. 

As a priority these vulnerable youngsters need to be protected. 

The police have vowed to come down hard on anyone using child prostitutes but they should come down harder on 

those who put these youngsters on to the streets. This vile trade must be smashed before it is allowed to get a grip in 

the city. 

But we, as a community, need to play a bigger role in beating the underlying causes of child prostitution. 

A Barnardo's study revealed a strong link between abuse and neglect at home with child prostitution. They found 

many children on the streets were abused and had run away from home or local authority care and into prostitution. 

With Newcastle having the country's third highest proportion of youngsters on the child protection register it is easy 

to see where the cycle of abuse begins. 

Many vulnerable children are too frightened to come forward, which is why anyone who believes a child to be at 

risk must report the matter to the authorities. 

It is our responsibility as a caring community to protect the young and these vulnerable children need all the support 

they can get. 

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6 months, and abused kids dont have a lawyer 

India - The Indian Express - April 9, 2005 

By Chitrangada Choudhury 


Mumbai - It has been six months yet Maharashtra has not managed to find a public prosecutor to represent four 

abused children in a fast-track court. 

The alleged abusers are Duncan Grant (61) and Allan Waters (57), former British Royal Navy sailors, both of whom 

worked at the Anchorage Shelter in Colaba. 


On Friday, the the Sewri sessions court judge R Bhandurge wrote to the Law and Judiciary Department over its 

persistent failure to find a special prosecutor in what is now called the Anchorage Shelter child-abuse case. 

Four prosecutors were appointed thus far, but citing varied problems, they have not appeared in court. So the trial 

has been repeatedly adjourned over the last six months. 

Child-abuse charges against Grant and Waters were filed in 2001, but it was only with Waters extradition from New 

York to Mumbai in September 2004 that the case was committed to trial in November. 

Grant was arrested in Tanzania last year after a report by a Tanzanian paper and The Indian Express alerted the 

Tanzanian police to his presence at a childrens home there. 

With leading lawyer Majeed Menon defending the suspects, NGOs like Childline who helped register the childrens 

complaints and believe Grants shelters were a front for a paedophile racketare keen that the government make 

special efforts. 

If so much money can be spent in extradition of suspects, why not ensure a good prosecutor? asked a member of 

Childline, which, unhappy with the calibre of one of the prosecutors, successfully demanded a change. 

Another special public prosecutor, Kalpana Chavan, agreed to take the case but requested that the Anchorage trial 

be transferred to the city sessions court in Fort, where she was fighting other important cases. 

But Memon opposed this. 

Now, private lawyer J Madan has been approached: he has not yet told the court if hes available. 

Meanwhile, Waters and Memon are angry. A fast-track trial cannot be adjourned repeatedly on flimsy grounds like 

the state prosecutors inconvenience, said Memon. How do I explain these delays to my client and the British High 

Commission? 

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Man gets two years in child-sex plea 

USA - The Eagle, TX - April 9, 2005 

http://www.theeagle.com/region/localregional/040905davis.php 

A 19-year-old who took explicit photos of his 15-year-old girlfriend was sentenced to two years in prison Friday 

after pleading guilty to sexual assault of a child and child pornography charges. 

Justin Tyler Davis was arrested after a mother from College Station said she found photos of her daughter unclothed 

and lying on a bed. 

Sexual assault of a child is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The child pornography 

and sexual performance by a child charges were used in determining the other sentence. 

The photography was consensual, but the act was illegal because the girl was a minor and the two were more than 

three years apart in age, according to Assistant District Attorney Earl Gray. 

Davis also was sentenced Friday to two years in state jail after his probation was revoked for a previous charge of 

evading arrest with a vehicle. 

The sentences will run concurrently. 

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Former counselor sentenced to five years in prison 


By Mike Mathis 



Mount Holly - A former youth counselor was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for inappropriately 

touching a teenage boy while they were in the hot tub of his home and sending child pornography via the Internet. 

Eric Dorfner, 42, of Wagon Wheel Court in Evesham pleaded guilty in December to two counts of endangering the 

welfare of a child. 

Dorfner declined to comment when asked by Superior Court Judge Thomas S. Smith Jr. if he had anything to say 

before he was sentenced. 

Dorfner was charged in October 2003 with sexually assaulting two boys, but he pleaded guilty to charges involving 

only one victim as part of his plea agreement. 

Both victims, now adults, told Smith yesterday their lives have been irrevocably changed by the assaults 

They said they have experienced nightmares, taken illegal drugs and had to undergo counseling. 

"He's changed my life forever in a negative way," one told the judge. 

When Dorfner pleaded guilty, he admitted to touching one of the victims on one occasion between March 1997 and 

March 1999. 

Dorfner met the boy while he was a youth counselor at the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, Woodcrest Chapter, 

based at Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, authorities said. 

He had been a volunteer counselor with B'nai B'rith for about eight years before resigning in May 2003. 

Dorfner also admitted when he pleaded guilty that he used his personal computer to transmit child pornography to 

what turned out to be an undercover FBI agent in March 2003. 

Authorities said the pornography did not involve either of the victims who Dorfner was originally charged with 

assaulting. 

After he is released from prison, Dorfner must comply with all provisions of Megan's Law. 

He must submit a DNA sample for inclusion in a database of sex offenders. He also will have to register with police, 

and he will be subject to community supervision for the rest of his life. 

In exchange for his plea agreement, multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact and 

sexual assault filed against Dorfner were dismissed yesterday. 

Meanwhile, the victims are seeking unspecified damages from Dorfner in civil lawsuits. 

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Former asst. scoutmaster admits fondling 7-year-old boy 


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--sexabuse-plea0408apr08,0,5539703.story 

Newark, N.J. -- A former assistant scoutmaster has admitted traveling from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to fondle a 

7-year-old boy. 

Kevin W. Hildreth pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to interstate travel to sexually assault a minor and to 

possessing child pornography on his computer. 

Hildreth, 35, still faces charges that he molested about a half-dozen boys from 1989 to 2004 in two Essex County 

towns. 

Hildreth had been a caretaker for three children in Nutley, where he fondled them and videotaped one in a sexually 


explicit act, the Essex County prosecutor's office said in October when he was charged. He also was charged with 

committing similar acts upon three children in Belleville. 

He was one of hundreds snared following a global investigation into child pornography Web sites, authorities said. 

Hildreth committed the acts while supervising children at the Wesley Methodist Church in Belleville, where he was 

a volunteer and assistant scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 301 at the church until about five and a half years ago, 

the prosecutor's office said. 

Hildreth's plea bargain contemplates a sentence of six and a half to 10 years in federal prison although U.S. District 

Judge William H. Walls could impose more or less than that. 

Hildreth has been held without bail in federal custody in the Passaic County Jail since his arrest in June. 

After his arrest, Hildreth told federal and state investigators that he had raped or molested at least nine boys who 

lived in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the past 16 years, the U.S. attorney's office said. Two were relatives, 

including the Scranton, Pa., child in Thursday's plea, the office said. 

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Software Tracks Child Porn Sales 

Canada - Zwire National News - April 08, 2005 

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14314276&;BRD=1918&;PAG=740&;dept_id=226964&;rfi=6 

Toronto A personal plea from a frustrated Toronto sex-crimes investigator to Microsoft founder Bill Gates led to the 

launch Wednesday of an initiative to help law enforcement agents worldwide hunt down traffickers of child porn on 

the Internet. 

The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) was developed by Microsoft Canada, the Royal Canadian 

Mounted Police and the Toronto Police Service, with the help of global law enforcement experts, including officers 

from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Scotland Yard and Interpol. 

In what Microsoft describes as the first software designed specifically to capture pornographers who prey on 

children and sell their images via the Internet, the system will allow police to share and track information on 

investigations and suspects. 

"Sharing and exchanging information is one of the most powerful tools law enforcement agencies possess to battle 

against online child exploitation," said David Hemler, president of Microsoft Canada. He said Internet 

pornographers were computer savvy, so the program would put law enforcement officials "on the same level as the 

bad guys." 

The FBI has seen a 2,000 percent increase in the number of child pornography images on the Internet since 1996 

and Canadian police estimate that more than 100,000 Web sites contain images of child sexual abuse. Experts say at 

least 95 percent of victims are abused by someone they know, either a relative or neighbor. 

"Criminals are using the Internet at an unprecedented rate to exploit the most vulnerable of our society our 

children," said Canadian Minister of Public Safety Anne McLellan, who commended the creation of "a tool unlike 

any other in the world that will help keep our children safe from online predators." 

Hemler said Microsoft had committed $3.75 million toward the program and said the software would be available to 

any police force, and at no cost. 

The initiative was the result of an e-mail from Detective Paul Gillespie, a member of the Toronto Police Service 

sex-crimes unit, after he sent an e-mail to Gates in January 2003 asking for help in battling child pornography. The 

billionaire, known for his philanthropy in the area of AIDS research and education, called on Microsoft Canada to 

develop a software program that would aid police. 

Gillespie told The Associated Press that several suspected pornographers have already been arrested from testing of 

the new system. One man was arrested in Toronto last week, after a tip plugged into CETS linked with two previous 


eports on the suspect. 

"When we pulled up all three, it gave us the ability to physically identify somebody and grounds for an arrest 

warrant," Gillespie said. "That person was investigated and arrested, and in fact found to be involved in abusing a 

child." 

Gillespie said another suspect was arrested several months ago, after information from the FBI, Scotland Yard and 

Homeland Security, investigating child pornography chatrooms and credit card purchases of the images, were 

programmed into the system. 

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Jail for collector with more than 4,500 child sex abuse images, case highlights 

trend in such offending 

New Zealand - Department of Internal Affairs - April 8, 2005 

http://www.dia.govt.nz/web/press.nsf/d77da9b523f12931cc256ac5000d19b6/ffe783b47c2c9737cc256fdd0016a318! 

OpenDocument 

The Palmerston North District Court today sentenced a Palmerston North man, David Stuart Hartley, to 10 months 

jail on a total of 21 charges of collecting and distributing electronic pictures and movies of children being sexually 

abused. 

Judge Gregory Ross lifted a name suppression order and ordered forfeiture and destruction of Hartleys computer 

system and computer disks. Judge Ross gave Hartley leave to apply for home detention but did not defer the start of 

the jail sentence. 

The Director of the Department of Internal Affairs Gaming and Censorship Regulation Group, Keith Manch, said 

that Hartley had amassed a collection of more than 4,500 pictures and movies of child sexual abuse. These included 

images of baby girls aged between 18 months and two years being sexually abused by adult men. 

Mr Manch said that Hartleys offending illustrated the trend in such offending. 

While the statistics we have do not show that more New Zealanders are offending, the evidence we gather shows a 

tragic change in the images. 

The victims are becoming younger and the levels of violence and kinds of abuse inflicted are becoming worse. 

Hartleys collection was extensive but by no means the largest we have encountered. Sexual abuse of babies is 

appallingly sad but it is also no longer uncommon for our Inspectors to find pictures and movies of it. 

The children are real and so is the abuse and suffering inflicted on them. 

Offending like Hartleys encourages more abuse. Collectors demand more images and more extreme images. 

When they distribute images from their collections they spread the false message that sex with children is 

acceptable. 

The Departments actions are not about pictures on a computer. They are part of New Zealands commitment to help 

protect children from abuse. 

This case began in July 2003 when a Canadian organisation detected a New Zealander offering to distribute child 

sex abuse images on the Internet. He was using what is known as a peer-to-peer application. 

Information was subsequently provided to the Department, which investigated and was able to identify the New 

Zealander as Hartley and track him to his home in Palmerston North. 

Department Inspectors and Police executed a search warrant on Hartleys house in February 2004. The Inspectors 

seized a computer and 35 CD ROMs. 


Analysis of the computer and disks showed the history of Hartleys Internet use and the more than 4,500 movies and 

pictures. It showed he had been collecting child sex abuse images since September 2001. 

The Department filed eight charges relating to alleged distribution of child sex abuse images and 13 relating to 

possession. Hartley pleaded not guilty but after preliminary hearings changed his plea to guilty on all charges. He 

is a 34-year-old beneficiary. 

New penalties 

In February this year Parliament amended the Films Videos and Publications Classification Act, substantially 

increasing the penalties for breaches. Hartleys offending occurred before the amendments were passed. 

Penalties for possession have increased from a fine of up to $2,000 to a jail term of up to five years. Those for 

distribution have increased from a jail term of up to one year, to up to 10 years jail. 

Media contact 

Vince Cholewa Phone 04 495 9350 

Communications Advisor Cellular 027 272 4270 

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Online threats to kids hunted - Buffalo FBI agents set traps, making sex 

predators their prey 

USA - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - April 11, 2005 

By Gary Craig 

http://www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050411/NEWS01/504110325 

FBI Special Agent Steven Forrest has entered an online chat room, "I Love Older Men," while posing as 14-year-old 

Carly. 

Within seconds, the instant messages begin flashing on Forrest's computer screen. Within minutes, there are contacts 

from 11 different men, including one from Rochester. All are seemingly unconcerned that "Carly" is three years 

younger than the age limit for most statutory rape charges. 

Forrest bounds back and forth between conversations with the proficiency of, well, a teenage girl. He chats in the 

shorthand abbreviations common in online teen lingo, with questions such as "How r u?" 

Assuming they're being honest about their gender, the men communicating with Forrest have no idea that Carly is a 

male FBI agent sitting behind a computer screen in a long, narrow room at Buffalo's FBI headquarters. With 

computers providing easy portals into the homes of teens and preteens, the FBI now uses Forrest and other agents in 

online undercover operations. 

In the last year, a handful of local child pornography arrests including those of a sheriff's deputy and a prominent 

pediatrician have demonstrated the popularity of the Internet as an avenue for crime. 

But those occasional arrests may understate the possibilities of the Internet as a haven for pedophiles and child-porn 

peddlers. Forrest's demonstration shows just how willing men are to approach underage girls online, and just how 

deep the pool of predators may be. 

"If we had 100 (agents) working online crimes against children, they'd all be busy," said FBI Special Agent Holly 

Hubert, who heads the Buffalo office's Cyber Task Force. 

Travelers and traders 

On a recent weekday morning, Forrest posed as Carly to demonstrate just how quickly he'd be approached while 

online. The chat room itself is not illicit; there may, in fact, be adult women in it, hoping to connect with men, 

Forrest says. But often that chat room and others like it are visited by men seeking teens or younger children, and 

authorities such as Forrest trying to ferret them out. 


In their chats with "Carly," some men pose simple questions: Why are you home? What are you doing? 

Carly explains that she's sick and didn't go to school. 

Eventually, some questions follow a different line. Carly describes herself petite, 90 pounds to men inquiring about 

her appearance. "What do you fantasize about?" one man asks. 

Carly asks one persistent man whether he's bothered by her age. "Too young?" Carly asks. 

"That's OK," the man responds. 

On many days, Forrest and other members of the office's Cyber Task Force plop themselves in front of computers 

and pretend to be bored youngsters. On other days, they pose as men fixated on child pornography. 

Their targets are "travelers" and "traders." The travelers are adults, usually men, who will establish an online 

relationship with a young person, then set up a meeting. Traders, also typically men, are those who like to swap 

child pornography in cyberspace. 

In 1995, the FBI started its "Innocent Images National Initiative," designed to combat child pornography and the 

sexual exploitation of children. In 1996, about 100 cases fell within the investigative arms of the initiative; now 

there are more than 2,000 a year, an increase spawned by the prevalence of the Internet. 

Buffalo's FBI Cyber Task Force is one of the agency's 27 "Innocent Images" operations around the country; 

Rochester has a satellite operation in which agents are trained to interview people accused of child pornography 

possession. 

Since the reach of the Internet is global, the agents in the Buffalo office may well find themselves communicating 

with a predator elsewhere in the country or the world. The agents will inform their law enforcement colleagues in 

that region, Hubert said. 

The Cyber Task Force room reinforces Hubert's claim. On one wall are individual photos of men arrested for child 

pornography or sexual exploitation, as well as photos of some of the materials found in their homes, including an 

inflatable female doll. Nearby hangs a map of the United States with colored pins stuck in the states where 

investigations have sprung up based on leads from the task force. A pin protrudes from nearly every state. 

The exponential increase in child pornography arrests has fueled a debate over the dangers of men who trade in 

child pornography. Some maintain that their fixation is harmless and that they'd never hurt children. FBI agents 

contend that ultimately many do sexually abuse children and that in any case, children are brutally victimized to 

create the pornography. 

The difficulty with men fixated on child pornography is discerning which ones could be dangerous, said Carl 

Christensen, a social worker and partner at Linden Oaks Sexual Abuse Treatment Services. 

"Some of them are harmless," he said. "Some of them are extremely dangerous." 

Extensive therapy often may be necessary to determine which category a person falls into, Christensen said. 

In the room where FBI agents masquerade as children, there's little sympathy for the online criminals. And there's 

little surprise that so many are willing to communicate via computer, despite the fact that it provides an easy road to 

detection and arrest. 

"The need to feed their sickness outweighs the fear of getting caught," Hubert said of the men who traffic in child 

pornography online. 

The child pornography the FBI pursues often features preteens, not images of older teens who may actually be 20year-olds 

clad as teenagers. 

"We get a lot of infant molestation videos being traded on the Internet," Hubert said, referring to disturbing sexual 


images of children as young as 1. 

Last week, federal authorities arrested a Gates man, 20-year-old Richard Petix, who they allege communicated 

online with an FBI special agent working out of Buffalo. Petix, authorities allege, agreed to allow the agent, who 

was operating undercover, access to a computer cache of child pornography images. 

Petix used the online nickname "Pervert1," the FBI alleges. He admitted that he had hundreds of child pornography 

photos and videos, the FBI alleges. 

'Monster in your home' 

There is no debate over the hazards of the travelers, since they often seek to meet youths in person. But not every 

man who strikes up an online relationship with a teenager is a would-be traveler; some simply find a perverse 

fulfillment in the conversation. 

The FBI special agents are adept at weeding out the talkers or those who simply chat with youths but likely won't 

commit a crime from the travelers. The men who quickly launch into sexually oriented chat are the least likely to set 

up a meeting, FBI agents say. 

"It's almost counterintuitive," Hubert said. But, she said, the men who want to go beyond talk are "plotting, 

methodical." 

These men are mannerly and often provide an outlet for vulnerable youths. The teens or preteens find comfort in the 

conversations, which may stretch on with occasional online chats for weeks or longer. The youths often develop a 

fondness for the adults. 

Some traveler criminal cases take weeks to develop. Others don't. 

In one case, a female Buffalo Police Department officer, who works with the Cyber Task Force, pretended to be a 

14-year-old boy online. She or "he" met a Buffalo man online, and the man invited the teen to his home. 

The FBI dressed a youthful male agent in appropriate teen clothing, put a knapsack on his back, sent him to the 

address, and made the arrest. 

"The entire case was made in 45 minutes," Hubert said. 

In another case, the Buffalo office dressed one of its younger female agents in a Catholic school uniform to meet a 

man at a restaurant who'd admitted in an online conversation that he had a fetish for the attire. He also ended up 

being arrested. 

FBI spokesman Paul Moskal, speaking from Buffalo, said he recalls that he was warned as a child to stay away from 

parks after dark. 

"Now the monster is in your home," Moskal said. 

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Man faces 30 years for sex with girl 

USA - Monterey Herald, CA - April 12, 2005 

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11373652.htm 

Sacramento (AP) - A convicted pedophile pleaded guilty Monday to traveling to Reno, Nev., to engage in sex with a 

14-year-old girl he met through a telephone chat service. 

Michael Stephen Dahl, 49, of Sacramento, already was on federal probation for a July 2000 conviction in south 

Texas for a similar conviction of traveling with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile. He spent 15 months 

in federal prison on that conviction. 

Dahl now faces five to 30 years in federal prison at his July 14 sentencing. 


He pleaded guilty to traveling to Reno April 23-25, 2004, to meet the girl, who had placed a personal ad on the 

Qwest Telepersonal system. The girl placed her ad in the 18-20 age category, and Qwest requires users to be at least 

18 years old, but the girl told investigators no one verified her age. 

She and Dahl called each other for months before he told her he would travel to Reno, prosecutors said. He is 

alleged to have picked her up, forced her to engage in intercourse, then dropped her off near her home. 

Dahl was arrested Jan. 20. Investigators said the case took so long to prosecute because the FBI wasn't notified until 

September and couldn't determine the alleged victim's identity until November. 

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Does viewing child pornography leads to further crime? Experts disagree 

USA - WWL-TV4, LA - April 9, 2005 

By Bill Capo 

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/040905ccjrwwlchildpornography.1c1b12bf7.html 

One day after a former LSU student was arrested for keeping thousands of pictures of child pornography on his 

home computer, experts say it's very difficult to see warning signs of pedophilia. 

"When it comes to sexual behavior in human beings, all bets are off," said Jill Hammer, a forensic psychologist at 

LSU's Health Sciences Center. "Sexual deviancy goes as far as the mind and the imagination can take it." 

Hammer is an expert on pedophiles and people who view child pornography. She conducts in-depth interviews with 

them for attorneys preparing for court cases. The details of crimes against children they confess to her are beyond 

shocking, she said. 

"I don't understand how a person could be that ruthless to children, to animals, to anything that is defenseless. But 

people are," she said. 

Pedophiles, who abduct, molest and even murder children, will feel sorry after being arrested - but sorry for 

themselves, not their victims, she said. 

"It's only when they get caught that they're going to stop," she said. "While they may be ashamed of their behavior, 

and they may not want to continue, these sexual urges are so strong that they continue to do what they are doing." 

But those who view child pornography over the Internet have a very different view of the crime they are 

committing, she said. 

"The pornographer thinks he's not hurting anyone - he's not doing this to anyone. He's just looking at images," she 

said. "The reality is that when people view child pornography, they're supporting that trade. They're supporting the 

sexual exploitation of children. 

University of New Orleans criminologist Peter Scharf works with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies 

tracking cybercrime through the Gulf Coast Forensic Lab. The Internet has provided a global distribution system 

which brought a significant increase in child pornography cases, Scharf said. 

"About 40% of the cases that go through out forensic lab are from the [Internet], and they're rising," he said. "It's 

just really easy to do it. Anybody with Google can basically find themselves into a world. Some of the sites you just 

have to say you're over 18 and in you go." 

Whether or not viewing child pornography can lead to child molestation or abduction is a source of controversy 

within the profession, Hammer said. 

"Can you really argue that undetected, a child pornographer will go on to other forms of sexual predation? That's an 

unknown at this point," Scharf said. 

Both experts encourage parents to be watchful of their children's activities. 


"Monitor what your children are watching on television, monitor what they are viewing on the computer and 

monitor who they are hanging out with," Hammer said. 

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Woman Sentenced For Sex With Baby 

USA - KCCI-TV8, IA - April 8, 2005 

http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/4362042/detail.html 

Police: Boyfriend Videotaped Child Sexual Abuse 

Des Moines, Iowa -- An eastern Iowa mother was sentenced to prison for having sex with a 1-year-old. 

Police said Melissa Mae Brown had sex with the boy while her boyfriend videotaped. 

The charges of child sexual abuse and child exploitation led to 10 years in prison. 

Some charges against Brown were dropped in exchange for her testimony against her boyfriend. 

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Man sentenced to prison in child porn case 


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--childpornographer0411apr11,0,570569.story 

Albany, N.Y. -- A 40-year-old former operator of a youth hostel in the Catskills was sentenced Monday to more 

than 12 years in federal prison for producing and receiving child pornography, authorities said. 

Thomas Pidel, 40, of Pine Hill in the town of Shandaken, was also ordered to have no unsupervised contact with 

minors, undergo a mental health evaluation and register as a sex offender, according to U.S. Attorney Glenn 

Suddaby. 

Pidel, arrested Jan. 16, 2004, pleaded guilty last June, admitting that between 1999 and 2003 he took explicit 

pictures and sexually abused a 9-year-old boy and downloaded hundreds of pornographic images of children from 

Internet sites, Suddaby said. Before his arrest, he ran a youth hostel in the Belleayre resort region of the Catskills, 

and computers at his home and business contained child porn, authorities said. 

Jack McQuade, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in charge in Albany, said Pidel also faces 

criminal charges in Ulster County Court for abusing the boy. McQuade said Pidel was dishonorably discharged 

from the Air Force in 1994 and spent 36 months in prison after military convictions in cases involving minors. 

Authorities tracked Pidel through a national initiative against people downloading child pornography, McQuade 

said. That has led to more than 20 arrests. 

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Former detective gets 18 years in child porn case 

USA - WBIR-TV, TN - April 12, 2005 

http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=24833&provider=rss 

State and federal courts have sentenced a former Jefferson County sheriff's detective in child sex cases. 

James Hobart Irwin Junior was given an 18 year federal prison term after earlier admitting he sent an undercover 

police officer child pornography. The sentence was the culmination of a plea agreement. 

Following the federal court hearing on Monday, the 60 year old Irwin was sentenced in Knox County Criminal 

Court to 18 years in the rape of an 8 year old girl who he took pictures of for his pornography collection. 


That sentence will run concurrently to his federal prison term. 

Irwin was a Jefferson City police officer before joining the county sheriff's office. 

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Man jailed over WA's largest collection of child porn 



A 37-year-old Perth man has been sentenced to three years' jail for possessing what has been described as the 

Western Australia's largest collection of child pornography. 

Raymond John Belcher pleaded guilty to possessing more than 350,000 images and more than 6,400 short movies 

and videos of child pornography. 

Belcher was one of thousands of men arrested across Australia in a crackdown on child pornography on the Internet 

last year code named Operation Auxin. 

The images found on Belcher's computer included children being abused and his lawyer told the court that looking 

for child pornography had become a habit for him. 

District Court Judge Hal Jackson sentenced Belcher to three years' jail. 

He will have to serve at least half before he can be considered for parole. 

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The two-edged sword: Legal computer forensics and open source 

Canada - New Forge, CA - April 13, 2005 

By Bruce Byfield 

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/05/2052235&from=rss 

Ryan Purita of Totally Connected Security is one of the leading computer forensic experts in private practice in 

Canada. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, holding one of the most advanced security 

qualifications in the world. Working for both the prosecution and the defence in legal cases, Purita has also taught 

computer security to law enforcement agencies, probation officers and social workers, and is currently developing 

programs for the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Much of his daily work is an extension of a system 

administrator's activities. A good part of it involves the advanced use of open source tools, including several 

standard system tools. His work methods offer fresh perspectives on security, privacy issues and the relative merits 

of Windows and GNU/Linux -- to say nothing of a niche industry where open source is more than holding its own. 

"Computer forensics" is a term that is usually applied to an investigation after a system has been cracked. And, in 

fact, Purita's work does sometimes fall under this definition. However, the term is also used more narrowly to define 

investigations that find evidence for legal purposes. Illegal possession of trade secrets, intellectual property or child 

pornography, the dismissal of employees, divorce, insurance fraud, insider trading, counterfeiting, criminal or 

sexual harassment -- any of these could require a forensic investigation of a hard drive, removable media, or 

network. 

Although open source tools are not the only ones available for computer forensics, they are among the most widely 

used. A GNU/Linux enthusiast, Purita often prefers the open source tools. However, he frequently uses proprietary 

ones as well. The proprietary tools, he explains, are "pretty," with better developed GUIs that are easier for clients to 

understand. Moreover, the precedence for accepting their evidence in court is well established although, 

increasingly, their open source equivalents are not far behind. 

According to Purita, the most widely used piece of forensic software is EnCase, a proprietary Windows program. 

Purita describes Encase as "the most court-validated software on earth," noting that evidence produced by Encase 

has been used over 2700 times in court. A close second is The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT), an open source project from 

Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema, the co-developers of Satan. Another widely used program is SMART, a 


proprietary GNU/Linux program. All these programs have roughly similar functionality. 

Securing the File System 

In order for results to hold up in court, the file system under investigation must remain unaltered. If a single file has 

a time stamp later than the date and time that the file system was surrendered as evidence, an opposing lawyer can 

call the entire investigation into question. "You screw one little thing up," Purita explains, "and everything else is 

gone" in the case. 

For this reason, Purita's first efforts are to ensure the integrity of the original medium. Physically, that can mean 

working in a locked room if a case is sensitive, such as an allegation of possession of child pornography. When 

working with a hard drive, it means attaching a Write-Blocker such as Firefly before attaching the drive to a 

computer. The Write-Blocker has the added benefit of keeping any logic bombs in a disc-wiping program from 

being activated when the system is turned off. 

As an added precaution, Purita may access a file system via GNU/Linux. "Windows," he notes, "will always try to 

interfer with everything," adding a recycling bin and other features. By contrast, on a GNU/Linux system, he can 

control when and how the the file system is mounted, providing an additional safeguard against writing to the drive. 

Finally, Purita copies a disk image of a file system to CDs or DVDs. If the forensic software he is using does not 

have an imaging tool, he uses dd instead. The original drive is then placed in a company safe until the case is over or 

it is surrendered to a search warrant. Purita then works from the copy, accessing the original only if an additional 

copy is needed. 

Conducting an Investigation 

No matter what forensic software is used, an investigation comes down to a series of searches through the files and 

wiped space for evidence. Sometimes Purita is given clues in the form of key words and names, a date, or a type of 

file. At other times, he may have only a general sense of what he is looking for and the type of file in which it might 

be found -- an email or office program file, for example. 

Some forensic programs, such as EnCase, come with a wide variety of file-type searches already defined by 

extensions. They include extensions used by many open source formats, including OpenOffice.org. However, Purita 

cannot always rely on these pre-defined search scripts. Changing a Windows file extension is a common way to hide 

files, and extensions are not used on UNIX-like systems to the same extent as they are on Windows. 

Instead, Purita may search for file headers and footers using grep tools and a full range of regular expressions. In 

general, these searches are far more reliable than ones based on file extensions. Even EnCase relies on a Windows 

version of grep, providing a functional GUI for adding regular expressions. 

An even more reliable search item is digital signatures retrieved using md5. According to Purita, databases of md5 

signatures are maintained by the National Institute of Science of Technology "for everything from child porn to 

hacking tools to counterfeiting software." By comparing the results of the investigation against these databases, 

Purita can quickly narrow the focus of his search. This comparison is especially easy with TCT, which can write a 

complete log of all the digital signatures on a file system. 

Context can also play a role in an investigation. For example, Purita may know from preliminary statements that a 

particular witness claims she only uses her home computer to work on spreadsheets. If he finds that an e-mail in 

which her company's trade secrets are given away was sent a couple of minutes after a spreadsheet was closed, then 

he has established the possibility that the witness might have sent the email. The connection is tenuous, but further 

questioning from a law enforcement officer or cross-examination from a lawyer may produce additional proof or 

even a confession. 

To establish such context-based evidence, Purita relies on ordinary file information and logs, as well as meta-tags 

used by HTML and office program files and even keys in the Windows registry. Purita points out that both 

Windows and MS Office record far more information about users' activities than most people realize. Unless a 

firewall is in place, Windows XP even records and transmits information about the searches conducted and help 

files accessed. While Purita wonders why this information is collected, he concedes that it makes forensic 

investigations far easier on Windows than on GNU/Linux. 


Unsurprisingly, the time for an investigation varies wildly. The size of the file system, the scope of the investigation, 

and the clues provided are the main variables. Some of Purita's investigations have taken less than an hour. Others 

have taken over 500 hours. On networks, the required time is kept reasonable by searching for only key computers 

or usernames rather than the entire system. In most cases, Purita will only expand network searches if this 

preliminary approach fails to give results. 

Investigative Problems 

Purita identifies several common problems with forensic investigations. First, security is so lax on some systems 

that many witnesses convincingly claim that damning files were downloaded after the system was compromised by 

Internet-borne malware. Such claims are particularly common in pornography cases. In response, Purita has 

developed the habit of searching for viruses and trojans at the start of each investigation. If none are found, then the 

claim is immediately disproved. If one is found, Purita then checks whether it can behave as the witness claims. 

Second, similar claims are made about pop-ups that download files automatically without the computer user's 

knowledge. With pop-ups, Purita checks the time that the files were accessed. If those files were not accessed or 

were accessed at a time when the person being investigated was was not at the computer, he or she may be telling 

the truth about the files. 

A third problem for an investigation is the password policy on a system. This is especially a problem on home 

machines running Windows. Unless passwords are unique to each user and a secure password policy is enforced, 

proving that a particular user has done something is difficult. Usually, more information from users is required. In 

this respect, most UNIX-like systems and networks that require each user to have unique login are easier to 

investigate than Windows systems, especially those used at home. 

Increasingly, cryptographic and disk-wiping tools are also a problem. Used properly, either can defeat Purita's 

investigation. Sometimes, however, witnesses will disclose cryptographic keys. As for wiping tools, many of those 

on Windows are less effective than advertised. Purita also notes that the mere presence of such tools does not 

indicate criminal or dishonest intent. Having used such tools himself, Purita recognizes that privacy advocates and 

people working with sensitive material may have legitimate reasons for possessing these tools -- a point that he 

sometimes has to make to law enforcement officers or prosecutors. 

Conclusion 

Purita's expertise stands in marked contrast to that of most law enforcement officers. Although Purita believes that 

computer and security awareness is higher among law enforcement personnel than it was five years ago, their 

general level of knowledge remain low. Law enforcers who become forensic computer experts often jump to private 

industry, where their knowledge receives greater financial rewards. Meanwhile, the policies of such agencies as the 

Canadian RCMP result in over nine-tenths of computer forensics investigations being conducted internally by 

overworked and undertrained employees. 

Although his services are in high demand, Purita continues to research his chosen field on his own time. 

Increasingly, this research involves open source technology. One of his concerns is that, just as open source 

development provides new tools for computer forensics, it can also arm those whom he investigates. In this respect, 

he admits, open source is a "two-edged sword" that "could make my life a nightmare." Thinking about the situation, 

he takes comfort from the belief that, if an act cannot be committed via computer, it will simply be done another 

way. If a man cannot remove data from a hard drive, for instance, he will simply break and enter to steal the whole 

computer. 

All the same, Purita seems to view the spread of GNU/Linux, whose architecture is more secure than Windows, 

with a mixture of private delight and professional dismay. From Purita's professional perspective, "The great thing 

about Windows is that even though [people] think they have covered their tracks, they haven't." 

Links 

"Totally Connected Security" - http://www.totallyconnectedsecurity.com/ 

"Certified Information Systems Security Professional" - http://www.gocertify.com/certification/CISSP.shtml 

"Justice Institute of British Columbia" - http://www.jibc.bc.ca/ 

"EnCase" - http://www.guidancesoftware.com/orderv5today.shtm 

"The Coroner's Toolkit" - http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html 

"Satan" - http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/security/wietse-archive/ 


"SMART" - http://www.asrdata.com/SMART/ 

"Firefly" - http://www.digitalintelligence.com/products/firefly/ 

"National Institute of Science of Technology" - http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/ 

"records and transmits information" - http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/298702.html 

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Plea reached in child pornography case - Photos found in man's locker at work 

USA - Daily News Journal, TN - April 13, 2005 

By Lisa Marchesoni 

http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050413/NEWS01/504130317/1002 

Sixteen years of probation were granted Tuesday for a Nissan employee who stored child pornography in his work 

locker, Circuit Court records stated. 

Defendant Larry E. Lytle, 55, of Nashville was indicted by Rutherford County grand jurors on charges of 31 counts 

of aggravated exploitation of a minor. 

Lytle pleaded guilty to six counts of aggravated exploitation of a minor. Under the law, Lytle exchanged material of 

minors engaging in sexual activity which was considered offensive. The remaining 25 counts were dismissed. 

Circuit Court Judge James Clayton accepted the plea. 

Smyrna Police Detective Lt. Todd Spearman was called to Nissan in 2003 by security officers who apparently found 

child pornography in Lytle's locker. 

Spearman met with Lytle and asked him for consent to look in the locker. 

In a report, Spearman stated Lytle gave him permission to look at the contents of a blue folder. 

"Inside the folder were what appeared to be underage female children in sexual poses," Spearman reported. 

Spearman interviewed Lytle at the police department where the suspect indicated he downloaded the pictures from 

the Internet on his home computer. Spearman examined the computer's contents. 

The lieutenant presented the case to grand jurors who returned the indictments. 

Assistant District Attorney Laural Nutt and defense attorney Carla Ford negotiated a plea agreement for Lytle who 

does not have a prior criminal record. 

Under the plea, Lytle will be placed on probation for 16 years. If he violates probation, he will serve the sentence. 

He was ordered to pay a $2,000 sexual offenders tax, undergo a psychosexual evaluation and register for the sexual 

offenders registry. 

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Don't blame Internet for sex predators 


By Alane Fagin 

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opfag044215533apr13,0,977210.story 

Not long ago, tales of innocent children falling victim to sexual predators who had lured them into strange cars were 

heard regularly. Whether such incidents actually occurred regularly was irrelevant; to parents, the risk to their 

children's safety was real and needed to be addressed. 

Amazingly, I don't recall people saying the solution to the problem was to get rid of cars. Rather, I remember 

parents taking great care to teach their children basic safety rules about talking to strangers, about not getting into 

strange cars - and about what to do if someone asked them to do just that. 


I thought about this after hearing of Stephanie Caruso, the 16-year-old Long Islander who disappeared in February 

with a registered sex offender she met via the Internet. No doubt, the case spurred many parents to cast wary eyes at 

the way their children are using computers. That's good. Considering that one of every five children already has 

received an online sexual solicitation, parents should pay attention to the paths their children take in cyberspace. 

But then Stephanie's parents said one of the first things they'd do upon their daughter's return home was throw out 

their computer - a stance many other parents doubtlessly applauded. Although cases of child sexual exploitation via 

the Internet have increased more than 2,000 percent since 1996, it's wrong to aim our collective ire at the Internet 

and the tools we use to connect to it as if they were to blame for the existence of sexual predators. 

Modern tools of communication such as computers, camera phones and other devices with Internet connections may 

have made it easier for predators to ply their trade, but these devices are just tools - nothing more, nothing less. 

Their sophistication allows those who misuse them to reach larger audiences more quickly - and anonymously - than 

ever before. While they have exponentially expanded the circle of individuals who can take pleasure in or 

potentially inflict another's pain, that does not make the devices the enemy; rather, as cars once did, the devices have 

changed the way the enemy operates. 

The Internet makes it possible for sexual predators to go into online chat rooms, often posing as children 

themselves, and strike up conversations with potential victims. It makes it possible for ill-meaning adults to expose 

unsuspecting children to pornographic material. But it hasn't stopped sexual predators from hanging around 

playgrounds, schoolyards or the mall to gain access to their targets, or from trying to lure children into cars by 

posing as family friends. Indeed, if the Internet were to disappear tomorrow, the threat sexual predators pose to 

children would remain. 

But since the Internet is here to stay, parents must realize a child at home is not necessarily a child who's safe. The 

shock of this reality certainly could lead parents worried about protecting their children to view computers and other 

modern tools of communication as threats to be dealt with rather than tools to be lived with. But with apologies to 

William Shakespeare, we must remember that the fault lies not in our devices, but in ourselves - and as such, so 

does the solution. 

Just as parents adapted to the rise of the automobile, they must adapt to the rise of the Internet by augmenting the 

basic safety lessons they teach their children with messages about protecting themselves online - and they have to 

begin before their children start going online. Remind children not to give out personal information to strangers, and 

help them understand that a person who claims to know someone they know should still be considered a stranger. 

Talk with them about their online experiences - who their friends are, what they do and where they go. And let them 

know they can talk with you about any disturbing messages they receive without worrying that you'll pull the plug 

on their Internet access - that's what many children fear the most. 

But remember: none of these efforts will put sexual predators out of business or guarantee we'll never hear another 

story like Stephanie Caruso's. Ultimately, if we want to eliminate unwanted behaviors directed toward our children 

we must focus not on the tools used to express them, but on all the factors responsible for creating those who engage 

in them. 

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Prominent Sun Valley doctor pleads guilty in child-pornography case 

USA - KTVB-TV7, ID - April 12, 2005 

http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-apr1205-richard_davis.1cf921626.html 

Boise -- A Sun Valley radiologist and father of one of America's most-successful disabled skiers has admitted to 

possessing child pornography. 

Richard Davis (pictured in Feb. 2002) has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. 

After pleading guilty yesterday, Richard Dennis Davis faces up to ten years behind bars. 

He also could pay fines of $250,000. 


He'll be sentenced June 29th in federal court in Boise. 

Davis was arrested in January near the Sun Valley post office with a Danish child porn magazine and a video 

entitled "Lesbian Lolita." It was the culmination of a nine-month investigation. 

Davis is the father of Muffy Davis. 

Three years ago, the Sun Valley resort named a run after her, "Muffy's Medals." 

She won three silver medals at the Salt Lake City Paralympics. 

Before being paralyzed in a 1989 skiing accident, Davis was one of the nation's top young skiers. 

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Soldier Arrested in Child-Pornography Case 



Quebec City, - A Quebec City-based soldier has been arrested in relation to accessing and possessing child 

pornography after an investigation by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (NIS). The 

investigation was initiated by the NIS, working closely with Department of National Defence (DND) computer 

analysts, after discovering evidence that the soldier's work computer had been used to access several 

child-pornography sites. 

The soldier was arrested at work April 8 and released with conditions. 

"The possession of child pornography is illegal and we will use all available resources to prevent and deter this 

criminal behavior within the military community," said Cmdr. Steve Moore, deputy provost marshal for the 

NIS. 

The name of the soldier will be released once the pre-charge screening process is complete and military prosecutors 

have approved the charges. 

The NIS has a mandate to investigate serious and sensitive matters in relation to National Defence property and CF 

personnel serving in Canada and 

abroad. 

For further information: Master Cpl. Stephane Gendron, Investigator, NIS Eastern Region, CFB Valcartier, Que., 

(418) 844-5000, ext. 3032; Capt. Mark Giles, Public Affairs Officer, CF Provost Marshal / NIS, National Defence 

Headquarters, (613) 945-0522; Lieut. Peggy Theriault, Public Affairs Officer, Naval Reserve Headquarters, Quebec 

City, Que., (418) 694-5560, ext. 5303 

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Virginia Beach Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges 

USA - WAVY-TV10, VA - April 12, 2005 

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3200214&nav=23iiYZld 

A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty Tuesday to more than two dozen obscenity charges involving three minors. 

Authorities say the arrest of 28-year old Nathan A. Wilson last December was the result of an online child 

pornography investigation started by federal agents in 2002. 

Officials say Wilson was taking pornographic pictures of females ages five, seven, and nine and placing those 

images on his computer. 

Wilson's formal sentencing is scheduled in June. 


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Convicted pedophile pleads guilty to child sex charges 

USA - KRNV-TV4, NV - April 13, 2005 - April 13, 2005 

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3198581&nav=8faOYYwU 

A convicted pedophile in California has pleaded guilty to traveling to Reno to engage in sex with a 14-year-old girl 

he met through a telephone chat service. 

Forty-nine year old Michael Stephen Dahl of Sacramento already was on federal probation for a July 2000 

conviction in south Texas for a similar conviction. He now faces five to 30 years in federal prison at his July 14th 

sentencing. 

Dahl pleaded guilty to traveling to Reno a year ago to meet the girl, who had placed a personal ad on the Qwest 

Telepersonal system. She and Dahl called each other for months before he told her he would travel to Reno. 

Prosecutors allege he picked her up, forced her to engage in intercourse, then dropped her off near her home. 

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Girl Testifies in France Pedophilia Trial 

France - Newsday, USA - April 12, 2005 

By Stephanie Lacaze 

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-france-pedophilia-trial,0,538526.story?coll=sns-apworld-headlines 

Angers, France -- A girl whose parents and grandfather are among 66 adults accused in France's biggest pedophilia 

case in recent memory described in testimony Tuesday how games of "doctor" turned into a sexual ordeal. 

The videotaped testimony from the girl, now 10, was the first from suspected victims in the pedophilia trial in the 

western city of Angers. None of the children was to appear in court. 

Investigators say 45 children -- aged six months to 14 years old -- were abused by their parents or their 

acquaintances from 1999 to 2002, in some cases in exchange for small amounts of money, food, cigarettes or 

alcohol. 

In Tuesday's proceedings, a young girl named Marine, at times rocking nervously or sucking her thumb, was shown 

telling police or investigators that she had been involved in games of "doctor" that had turned sexual, or pointing to 

pictures of suspects in a photo album. 

"He's a mean one. He didn't stop bothering me," the girl said, pointing to one suspect. Asked by a judge whether she 

had enjoyed the rounds of "doctor," Marine said simply: "No." 

She is the daughter of two top suspects in the case, who were said to have hosted adults and lured other children to 

their home. 

Asked to respond to the testimony after the videotape was stopped, all but two of the defendants denied the 

accusations. One of those two, identified only as Philippe V., is the girl's grandfather. 

Before the girl's account was shown, defense lawyers argued that the court had excerpted portions of the taped 

testimony, and demanded that it be shown in full. 

"In my soul and conscience, I chose to show everything that appeared to me necessary to demonstrate the truth," 

responded presiding judge Eric Marechal. He postponed a decision on the defense request. 

The case broke in 2000, when a 16-year-old girl alleged she had been raped by her mother's boyfriend and his 

brother. It has shaken the town of Angers, some 165 miles southwest of Paris. 

More than half of the accused, aged 27 to 73, were unemployed, living off benefits in state-supported housing. Some 


of the accused were abused themselves as children, defense attorneys have said. 

If convicted, defendants face prison sentences ranging from three years to life. The trial began March 3 and is 

expected to end in July, but showing all the taped accounts would require a three-week extension of the proceedings. 

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Paedophile Warning Rejected 

Indonesia & Australia - SBS World News - April 12, 2005 

http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=109334&region=7 

Australias Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is defending his decision not to warn travellers about the risks of 

Indonesian child care following two cases of child sex abuse. 

According to newspaper reports, two Australian children were sexually molested at Bali resorts. 

In one incident a three-year-old girl contracted gonorrhoea when she was abused at the Sheraton Nusa Dua resort, 

while at another hotel, a five-year-old boy was orally raped. 

After being told about the alleged abuse by the families, Justice Minister Chris Ellison requested Mr Downer issue 

new travel advisories warning of the danger. 

But Mr Downer says a new advisory was not warranted because Indonesian police did not find conclusive evidence 

of the abuse. 

"On the basis of an inconclusive investigation, that is it wasn't clear who had molested the child, you wouldn't issue 

a travel advisory to that particular hotel, that would be a pretty tough thing to do, Mr Downer told ABC radio. 

He says a generic warning on the Department of Foreign Affairs website advises caution when choosing child care 

overseas. 

It's simply impossible for Australian officials to check out every childcare centre in the world and draw up a 

massive list of the standards that they meet or don't meet, Mr Downer said. 

What we've done instead is have a general proposition made available to parents travelling with children that they've 

got to be careful about childcare centres ... thats just a commonsense way of handling it. 

But Labors Foreign Affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd says the allegations are stomach churning. 

He is demanding answers from DFAT. 

Child abuse campaigner Hetty Johnston says specific warnings about foreign child care facilities should be posted 

on Australian websites. 

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IT expert jailed over child porn 

Australia - news.com.au - April 13, 2005 

By Paige Taylor 

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12841255-2,00.html 

A Recently married IT expert caught with what is thought to be Australia's biggest child pornography collection was 

sentenced to three years' jail yesterday. 

Raymond John Belcher, 37, was among hundreds of Australian men arrested last year in the nation's biggest child 

pornography sting, Operation Auxin. 

Police who raided his home in the northern Perth suburb of Woodvale last September found more than 350,000 

pornographic images and more than 6400 videos of girls aged between 12 and 14, the Perth District Court was told. 


He had downloaded the images after paying $40 for a month's subscription to a US-based child pornography 

website. 

The pictures had probably been provided by Russian organised crime syndicates, the court was told. 

Belcher pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing child pornography and was sentenced to three years' 

imprisonment with parole. 

Defence lawyer Michael Tudori said Belcher was extremely remorseful and wanted help. 

As his marriage failed, Belcher had begun perusing adult internet sites and had found the child pornography site, Mr 

Tudori said. 

Some of the images showed girls in various states of undress, but others showed them performing sexual acts. 

Mr Tudori said it had developed into an "addiction" and a "habit" that his client knew was wrong and had tried to 

curb. 

He had limited himself to one session of viewing a week, but had not known who to turn to for more help, the court 

was told. 

Belcher's wife was now divorcing him and he had been unable to find work since his arrest was made public. 

Mr Tudori said Belcher was surprised that he had so many images. 

He had used his comprehensive understanding of computers to write a program that "mirrored" the child 

pornography website, downloading its entire contents on to two hard drives at his home. 

The court was told Belcher admitted in a police interview that he had masturbated while looking at the images. But 

Mr Tudori said Belcher did not consider himself a pedophile. 

Judge Hal Jackson acknowledged that Belcher had not personally molested any children, but said child pornography 

was not a victimless crime and that each image represented the corruption and abuse of a child. 

"The vast quantities of the images and video clips -- some of which are of a depraved nature -- require a term of 

imprisonment,' he said. 

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Former Jefferson Co. detective gets 18 years in child porn case 

USA - WHNT-TV19, TN - April 13, 2005 

http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=3197396 

Knoxville, Tenn. State and federal courts have sentenced a former Jefferson County sheriff's detective in child sex 

cases. 

James Hobart Irwin Junior was given an 18-year federal prison term after earlier admitting he sent an undercover 

police officer child pornography. The sentence was the culmination of a plea agreement. 

Following the federal court hearing yesterday, the 60-year-old Irwin was sentenced in Knox County Criminal Court 

to 18 years in the rape of an eight-year-old girl who he took pictures of for his pornography collection. 

That sentence will run concurrently to his federal prison term. 

Irwin was a Jefferson City police officer before joining the county sheriff's office. 

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In saving child-porn victims, a picture can speak volumes 




http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liporn0414,0,1578807.story?coll=ny-top-headlines 

The school logo on the young girl's T-shirt had been intentionally obscured. 

But on her orange wristband, investigators made out the name of an amusement park chain -- the first in a series of 

unlikely clues that led them to the 6-year-old girl featured in one of the most violent child porn photo collections 

online, and to the North Carolina man who abused her. 

That man, Brian Schellenberger, 42, pleaded guilty in January to exploitation of children and child porn charges, 

and is awaiting sentencing. The girl was placed in protective custody. 

But most material of this kind -- including hundreds of photos and videos allegedly downloaded and shared by 

Bruce Wernick, 47, the Valley Stream man now on trial on child pornography charges in federal court in Central 

Islip -- features boys and girls investigators will never identify. 

"Finding these kids is somewhat comparable to looking for a needle in a haystack," said Michelle Collins, leader of 

an online child abuse unit at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va. 

When police solve cases, it's because they have found items in the background of child porn images that offer clues 

about where and when the molestation occurred. 

Electrical sockets manufactured in the United States, for example, are generally square and have three prongs. In 

Europe, most are round and two-pronged, according to Ruben Rodriguez, of the federally funded nonprofit center, 

which has 200 employees. 

Newspapers, magazines and television advertisements reveal language. Furniture, bedspreads and clothing can 

suggest geographic region, Rodriguez said. 

Still, untangling riddles from undated photos is difficult and most cases go unsolved. There are more than 50,000 

victims online, but fewer than 500 who have been identified, said Det. Sgt. Paul Gillespie of the Toronto police 

Child Exploitation Section, which investigated Schellenberger. 

One reason, Collins said, is that technology now allows people to produce and upload videos onto the Internet 

without anyone seeing the content. Once online, the images are viewed by people the world over, but seldom by 

anyone who might recognize the child. 

As the volume of online child porn has increased, images have become more violent -- "hurt-core" is the newest 

sub-genre -- and victims have gotten younger, said Austin Berglas, of the FBI's Crimes Against Children unit. 

"The demand has become so great, people have become bored with the normal child rape photo," Berglas said. 

Two years ago, detectives in Toronto digitally erased a young girl seen lying on a bed inside a hotel, painted over 

the space where her body had been and released the picture to the public. 

Within a half hour, Gillespie said, a caller told investigators that the hotel was located near Walt Disney World in 

Florida. The girl, however, is still missing. 

Since February of last year, the FBI has teamed up with Fox's television program "America's Most Wanted" to 

identify six suspects, four of whom have been captured. 

Several organizations, including Interpol in Lyon, France, the FBI and the National Center for Missing & Exploited 

Children maintain databases of child porn, known victims and investigators who can testify about individual cases. 

Toronto detectives started their investigation of the 6-year-old girl with only photos, many of which had been 

doctored by Schellenberger to thwart investigators. After magnifying the name of the amusement park chain, they 

learned the company had eight locations -- two in North Carolina. 

Detectives sharpened two digits of the girl's Brownie troop number, which Schellenberger had blurred, and 

discovered that several troops in that state had similar numbers. 


Then detectives sent images of the school uniform to manufacturers in North Carolina, who helped point them 

toward a particular school. Detectives then matched the school's logo to the obscured logo in the photos. The final 

step was to bring the school principal a photo of the girl and ask who she was. 

"Most of what we do just comes from brainstorming, following our hunches, and seeing how things fit together," 

said Det. Ian Lamond, who worked on the case. "You start with so little to go on, that it's wonderful when your 

work takes you to a little girl." 

But, as it often does, the investigation also took detectives to Schellenberger's computer. It yielded thousands more 

photos, and scores of unnamed children. 

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Combat child porn on Net, urges expert 

Switzerland - The Hindu, India - April 14, 2005 

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200504140332.htm 

Geneva, Governments must do more to combat Internet child pornography, which is flourishing in many countries 

within a legal vacuum that fails to address the threat, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday. 

Many countries have yet to pass laws making the distribution and possession of such material illegal, according to 

Juan Miguel Petit, the UN special investigator on child prostitution and pornography. 

"It is not easy for a country to speak openly of the dark side of a society -- the dark side of human nature," Petit, a 

Uruguayan lawyer said. "The place where this problem is not spoken of, is where it is most likely to develop." 

But the "nearly unlimited freedom" of the Internet is mking proliferation much more widespread and threatens 

thousands of innocent children worldwide, Petit said, adding that most child porn consumers are in fact middle-class 

or upper middle-class males. 

Petit told the 53-nation UN Human Rights Commission that countries should outlaw the production or possession of 

child pornography material; make Internet service providers responsible for monitoring illegal material; and ensure 

that laws protect all children under 18. 

He said that the problem was becoming particularly acute in developing countries, where children are being lured - 

often with parental consent - to pose naked or semi-naked for illegal photo agencies, who then post the material on 

websites. 

Petit said it was impossible to name which countries produced the most material, but that in the United States alone 

hundreds of websites were generating millions of dollars each month distributing child pornography. 

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Province funding fight against child porn 

Canada - Northern Life, ON - April 12, 2005 

By Keith Lacey 

http://www.northernlife.ca/localGovArticle.asp?25id10-pn=&view=85733 

The provincial government and police organizations across Canada are determined to halt child pornography. 

Police Chief Ian Davidson told the Greater Sudbury Police Services Board Monday night the province has 

committed $5 million to police organizations to upgrade equipment and provide specialized training for officers to 

try to eradicate the problem. 

Davidson has been appointed as a member of a special provincial committee mandated to try and find ways to 

reduce this growing problem. 

The local police service has every intention of accessing this new fund with a goal of having one officer work full- 


time on the issues surrounding child pornography, said Davidson. 

The police service is hoping to access funding in the neighbourhood of $200,000 to $300,000 to purchase the 

sophisticated computer equipment needed and to provide the specialized training required. 

When police seize a computer hard drive with expected images of child pornography, the hard drive has to be 

analyzed at OPP headquarters in Orillia. 

This is a very worthwhile project and we will be taking full advantage of funding made available by the province, he 

said. 

Because almost every home has a computer and the popularity of the Internet, catching perpetrators involved in 

making, distributing and promoting 

child pornography remains extremely difficult for police authorities, said Davidson. 

The local police service currently has one officer designated to cybercrime, including trying to catch those involved 

in child pornography, but that job is often fruitless with the current technology and training available, he said. 

Purchasing sophisticated hardware and offering specialized training has proven extremely successful in other 

jurisdictions and would do the same here in Greater Sudbury, he said. 

Many people dont want to believe it, but the increase in this most abhorrent of crimes has only increased despite the 

efforts of police agencies and tougher sentences handed down by the courts, said Davidson. 

The lives of innocent children are being devastated by people involved in making and distributing this filth and 

police agencies must not back down and have no choice but to increase their resolve to reduce and eradicate this 

growing problem, he said. 

This is occurring all over the world...people can make, trade and sell this stuff from the comfort of their own 

home...its very difficult to investigate, he said. 

Davidson said he will lead the charge in applying for provincial funding from this new fund and will keep the board 

apprised as the application 

process continues. 

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Ex-Danville man to serve 15 years for child porn 

USA - Indianapolis Star,IN - April 13, 2005 

http://www2.indystar.com/articles/7/236456-2897-009.html 

A former Danville resident was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for distributing child pornography over the 

Internet. 

U.S. District Judge David F. Hamilton also ordered Brian Scott Justice, 32, to serve supervised release for the rest of 

his life after serving his sentence. Justice pleaded guilty Feb. 10 to advertising, transporting, receiving and 

possessing child pornography. 

Investigators arrested Justice at his brother's home last October in Bossier City, La. Authorities said he sent images 

depicting minors engaging in sexual acts to an undercover FBI agent Aug. 30. 

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5,000 paedophiles to be listed on WA register 



Western Australian police expect more than 5,000 convicted sex offenders will be on a state register by the end of 

the year. 


New legislation requires all paedophiles released from prison from February 1 to inform police if they change jobs, 

move house or start having contact with children. 

Some could be monitored by police on a weekly basis. 

There are currently 140 paedophiles are on the WA register but that is expected to significantly increase in July 

when child sex offenders released in the last eight years will be included. 

The child abuse unit's Detective Senior Sergeant Martin Voyez says the register will then be extended to all sex 

offenders. 

"Those sex offenders who have committed offences against adults as well as children," he said. 

"Those could number up to 5,000. Especially when we go back retrospectively as well." 

Senior Sergeant Voyez says police have conducted an operation to find five offenders who had not registered. 

"Depending on the type of employment we will, if necessary, contact their employers so in some respects it is quite 

intrusive but that's the nature of this particular piece of legislation," he said. 

"It's a balance against the needs of the community as opposed to the needs of the offender." 

Offenders face fines and imprisonment if they do not tell police about changes to their employment or living 

arrangements. 

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Man admits huge child porn haul 

United Kingdom - BBC News - APril 14, 2005 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4445871.stm 

A man has admitted two charges relating to computer porn described by a child protection expert as the worst 

paedophile material he had ever seen. 

The High Court in Glasgow heard that more than 80,000 images were found on hard disc and CDs in a raid on the 

Glasgow home of David Duncan, 45. 

Judge Lord McFadyen declined to view the images after being told that anyone who saw them might need 

counselling. 

The judge called for a risk assessment and deferred sentence until June. 

Duncan, now of The Kyles, Kirkcaldy, Fife, was also found with almost 40,000 still and moving images of a 

teenage girl taken with a secret camera as she showered in the privacy of her bathroom. 

Secret filming 

He admitted a breach of the peace involving him covertly recording photographs of the youngster in the shower and 

bath without her knowledge between 1999 and 2003. 

Pleas of not guilty to recording covert pictures of another four girls were accepted by the Crown. 

Sean Murphy, prosecuting, told the court that Duncan was discovered after the girl accidentally found one of the 

secret video tapes he had taken of her. 

Detectives later traced wires between his secret camera and a room where Duncan had his five computers. 

'Horrific' images 


Duncan had also joined a computer paedophile news group from which he had downloaded all the porn, although 

there was no suggestion he had circulated images of the girl round the group. 

Mr Murphy said that a leading child protection doctor who viewed the images said they showed "degrading and 

horrific sexual practices". 

He added: "He described them as being distressing in the extreme and that they were the worst images he had ever 

had to review in his experience of dealing with child protection. 

"He also said that anyone who viewed them might be advised to get counselling." 

Lord McFadyen called for a risk assessment report on Duncan before sentencing him in June, and continued his bail. 

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Man gets prison time in child porn case 

USA - Janesville Gazette, WI - April 14, 2005 

http://www.gazetteextra.com/hicks041405.asp 

Eight years in prison followed by 12 years of extended supervision were ordered Wednesday for a Janesville man 

convicted of possessing child pornography. 

Robert J. Hicks, 34, of 302 Center Ave., had downloaded child pornography onto his computer, which police 

confiscated in April 2002, according to the criminal complaint. 

Hicks' fiance called police after she caught him in a pornographic chat room on the Internet, according to the 

complaint. 

The computer was seized by police and analyzed at the Wisconsin Crime Laboratory, where technicians reported 

finding five pornographic pictures of juvenile females, according to the complaint. 

Hicks has a prior conviction for sexually assaulting a 29-year-old Evansville woman in 1993. He was sentenced to 

seven years in prison. 

Still pending against him is an unrelated charge of sexual assault of child in which he is accused of crawling into the 

bed of a 6-year-old girl that he knows and touching her indecently in August 2003. The incident happened while 

Hicks was out on bond on the child pornography case. 

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Teacher Admits Downloading Child Porn 


By David Hughes 


A computer teacher today admitted downloading more than 100 images of child pornography. 

Paul Whitfield, 35, is currently suspended from his post as head of IT at Churchdown Comprehensive School in 

Gloucestershire. 

Whitfield, of The Fleet, Stockton on Tees, pleaded guilty to 16 offences of making indecent images and one of 

possessing indecent images of children. 

Prosecutor Peter Ashby said the offences came to light when a family with which Whitfield was staying became 

suspicious of his computer use. 

Cheltenham Magistrates Court said the police were called in and investigated the contents of various computers 

used by Whitfield, including, a school-issued laptop. 


Mr Ashby said they found a total of 103 images of under-aged girls. 

He said: It is a matter of some concern because of the particular employment of this defendant and his proclivities 

with regard to the pictures of children. 

The majority of the pictures relate to 12-year-old girls in various forms of undress. Very few of these girls were 

completely undressed, most had some form of underwear on. 

Magistrates adjourned sentence for reports and Whitfield was granted conditional bail until May 12. 

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OPP Charge Simcoe Man with Child Pornography 



Simcoe, ON - Members of the Ontario Provincial Police Child Pornography Section (Project "P"), the OPP 

Electronic Crime Section, in conjunction with members of the Norfolk County Ontario Provincial Police Crime 

management unit, have arrested and charged a 43 year old Simcoe-area male following a Child Pornography 


On Wednesday April 13, 2005, following a four-month investigation, a search warrant was executed at M. 

LUDWIG and Sons Limited in Simcoe, Ontario. Officers seized a computer system, computer peripherals, CD 

Roms, and other articles pertinent to the investigation. Numerous computerized graphic image files believed to be 

child pornography, were found during the search. 

Evidence discovered during the police investigation suggested that the accused male was distributing computer 

graphic images of child pornography via the Internet from his place of employment. 

Charged with three counts of possession of child pornography, two counts of distribution of child pornography is 

Michael Allan Ludwig of L22, C5 RR No. 2 Simcoe, Ontario. 

LUDWIG is scheduled to appear in Ontario Provincial Court, Simcoe, Ontario, today , (April 14,2005). The 

investigation is continuing. 

For further information: Contact: OPP Detective Sergeant Kevin Adam, Child Pornography Section (Project P), 

(416) 235-4552 

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25-year-old gets 2 years for child porn conviction 

USA - The Lufkin Daily News, TX - April 14, 2005 

By Ashley Cook 

http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/04/14/20050414LDNporn.html;COXnetJSessionI 

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A 25-year-old Angelina County man will spend the next two years of his life in a federal prison in North Carolina 

for a conviction on child pornography charges, according to a court judgment. 

Adam Bowman, who pleaded guilty, will serve 27 months in prison according to the judgment signed by U.S. 

District Judge Ron Clark and filed on Monday. 

During his stay in prison, Bowman will likely participate in a sex offender treatment program and an alcohol abuse 

program, according to court recommendations. 


After his release, Bowman will serve three years on probation. He will be required to register as a sex offender and 

receive treatment, and is barred from being around children under age 18 without an approved adult supervising. 

During probation, he is barred from having access to computers connected to the Internet, or from having or seeing 

sexually-explicit images, according to special probation conditions listed in the judgment. 

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Fifth child porn arrest in just over a week 



A 40-year-old man yesterday became the fifth Greek in just over a week to face a prosecutor on charges of 

producing pornographic material involving young children and distributing it over the Internet. 

The married shipping firm employee had allegedly been selling exceptionally hardcore material involving children 

as young as 4 to unidentified clients for the past six years, according to police. 

In a raid on the suspects Athens home, officers seized a computer, a digital camera and a large number of CDs and 

DVDs allegedly containing child pornography. Police are investigating the possibility that some of the material was 

produced in Greece. 

The arrest brings to 23 the number of suspects arrested in Greece since January 2004 on charges of distributing child 

pornography over the Net. 

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Discord In The Church: Divide Over Priest Abuse Still Evident 

USA - Detroit Free Press, IL - April 14, 2005 

By Ken Dilanian 

http://www.freep.com/news/religion/pope-bar214e_20050414.htm 

Rome -- The decision by Vatican officials to have Cardinal Bernard Law preside over a high-profile mourning mass 

for Pope John Paul II is the latest example of the chasm that separates how senior Vatican officials view the priest 

sex-abuse scandal and the way many U.S. Catholics see it. 

While John Paul II and other senior Vatican officials repeatedly condemned child sex abuse by priests and endorsed 

U.S. bishops' efforts to combat it, church officials in Rome never saw the revelations as the kind of confidenceshattering, 

life-changing event that many in the United States did. 

Some senior church officials -- including Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez, who is considered a strong 

papal candidate -- continually suggested that the scandal was a creation of the U.S. news media. 

"We all know that Ted Turner is openly anti-Catholic, and he is the owner not just of CNN but of Time Warner," 

Rodriguez said inaccurately in May 2002, in a broadside criticizing the former CNN chairman and U.S. news 

outlets. Turner sold his cable networks, including CNN, to Time Warner in 1996. He became the company's vice 

chairman, a title he retained after AOL and Time Warner merged in 2000. 

Rodriguez suggested the church has been persecuted because of its pro-Palestinian outlook. Rodriguez continues to 

stand by his remarks. 

Such comments led many in the United States to wonder whether the Vatican grasped the nature of the scandal -- 

that it went beyond the problem of child sex abuse to an institutional cover-up. 

Now with the church about to pick a new pope, the tapping of Law to preside over Monday's mass, one of nine 

during the official period of papal mourning that follows the funeral, underscored how wide that gap is between the 

Vatican and U.S. Catholics on the sex-abuse scandal. 

The priest-abuse scandal "never cut so deeply and so personally in Rome as it did in the U.S., and especially in 


Boston," said the Rev. Thomas Williams, dean of the school of theology at Regina Apostolorum Pontifical 

University in Rome and a native of Bloomfield Hills. "... Here in Rome, it's considered basically over and done 

with." 

For many in the Vatican, Law is a well-regarded scholar. But for many in the United States, Law is the symbol of 

church negligence, the person who as Boston's archbishop knowingly shuffled sexually abusive priests among 

parishes. He was forced to resign as Boston archbishop in 2002 and later was given the job of archpriest of St. Mary 

Major, one of Rome's four so-called patriarchal basilicas. In that role, he was tapped to preside over the mass. 

Some key Catholic voices were aghast. 

Nicholas Cafardi, who chairs the National Review Board, which was appointed by U.S. bishops to monitor how the 

church responds to priest abuse, said he didn't think Vatican officials understood how wounded U.S. Catholics 

might feel over Law's role. 

"It makes them look insensitive, and that's not what we need right now," the Duquesne University Law School dean 

said. 

"I thought it was very foolish of the hierarchy to ask him, and I thought it was foolish and not gracious for him to 

accept," said Washington lawyer Robert Bennett, principal author of a groundbreaking report last year that was 

published along with a study showing that nearly 11,000 children -- and perhaps as many as 14,000 -- were sexually 

abused by Catholic priests in the United States over the last five decades. 

Of the 11 U.S. cardinals, only Philadelphia's Justin Rigali attended the mass led by Law. Some reports suggested 

that the other U.S. cardinals stayed away intentionally. A spokeswoman for Rigali said she was unable to reach him 

in Rome for comment. 

The culture clash between the Vatican and the U.S. church over the abuse scandal is about more than one man's role, 

and it's deeply felt by U.S. theologians and others in the United States who closely follow the church in Rome. 

National Catholic Reporter correspondent John Allen Jr. devoted an 89-page chapter in his latest book, "All the 

Pope's Men," to examining why each side viewed the priest scandal differently -- and misunderstood each other. 

Allen argues that Vatican officials were stunned that litigants could win multimillion-dollar judgments against the 

Catholic Church under the U.S. civil justice system. Many of the Vatican officials come from societies that lack the 

awareness of sexual abuse that Americans have, he said, and they didn't understand that for Americans, the cover-up 

by a trusted yet secretive, unaccountable institution was as outrageous as the individual crimes. 

Allen, theologian Williams and others also contend that Latin cultures, including Italy and the Vatican bureaucracy, 

tend to emphasize forgiveness and redemption more than Anglo-Saxon cultures do. Americans misunderstand that 

as arrogance or insensitivity to victims. 

"What Americans call 'sheltering,' church officials in other parts of the world often think of as 'giving a second 

chance,' " Allen said by e-mail. 

They also were shocked by the U.S. news media's intense focus on the problem. 

"Our democratic system brings things to light with the media in a way that is different from other cultures, which 

prefer to deal with such matters in private," said the Rev. Keith Pecklers, a professor at Pontifical Gregorian 

University in Rome. 

Some advocates for victims of priest abuse argue that the Vatican has never taken priest abuse seriously except as a 

public relations debacle. 

"You can't get around the fact that the Vatican has ignored the problem and has tried to stonewall and deny it under 

this papacy," said the Rev. Thomas Doyle, a canon lawyer who warned the Vatican about priest abuse in 1985. 

"The problem is that they don't adequately appreciate what Law did," he said. "... Forgiveness is one thing, but 

forgiveness does not in any way mitigate the pain that these victims have suffered." 


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Jury awards two brothers $2 million in priest sex case 

USA - Desert Sun, CA - April 14, 2005 

Kim Curtis, The Associated Press 

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20050414&Category=NEWS10&ArtNo=504140320&Sect 

ionCat=&Template=printart 

HAYWARD - Two brothers molested by a priest more than two decades ago were awarded nearly $2 million in 

damages by a jury Wednesday. 

The case involving the abuse of Bob and Tom Thatcher was closely watched because it is the first in a series of sexabuse 

lawsuits to seek punitive damages. 

Bob Thatcher, 34, was awarded $875,000 in compensatory damages and $875,000 in punitive damages. His brother 

Tom, 33, was awarded $180,000 in compensatory damages and no punitive damages were sought in his case. 

"We exposed a lot of wrongdoing," Tom Thatcher said outside of court. "The church was called despicable on the 

record. They say they have changed their ways and I hope they have." 

While the total award of $1.93million was far less than the $27 million plaintiffs attorney Rick Simons asked for in 

closing arguments, he said he was pleased the jury ruled that the Oakland Diocese acted with malice and awarded 

punitive damages. 

"We've done the job we came here to do," Simons said. "The jury found malice on the part of the managing agents. 

We're really proud of Bob and Tom Thatcher. My congratulations to them and my thanks to the jury." 

The jury decided that the diocese should be responsible for 60 percent of the compensatory damages and the Rev. 

Robert Ponciroli is responsible for 40 percent. The plaintiffs do not expect to receive any money from Ponciroli 

because he has no assets. 

The diocese is responsible for the entire punitive damage award and insurance is not allowed to cover such awards. 

There was no immediate word on whether an appeal was planned. 

The plaintiffs argued that the church knew Ponciroli was sexually abusing children but failed to stop him. "The jury 

decided the policy and practice within the diocese of Oakland was to protect pedophile priests over children," 

Simons said. 

Legal observers have suggested that a significant award for the plaintiffs could force the Roman Catholic Church to 

settle dozens of lawsuits filed against Northern California dioceses, but Simons said he didn't know what impact this 

verdict would have on future cases. 

The former altar boys said they were molested when they were 9 or 10 at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Antioch by 

Ponciroli, who lured each boy upstairs to his bedroom after asking them to come to the rectory to pick weeds. 

Ponciroli, 68, has been removed from public ministry and now lives in Florida. 

"It wasn't about the money," Bob Thatcher said. "What the jury said today is the abuse that occurred to me and my 

brother shouldn't have happened. It could have been prevented." 

Diocesan lawyers do not dispute that the abuse occurred, but they disagree the diocese was responsible for the 

anxiety, relationship and drug and alcohol problems the men suffered later. 

Church lawyers suggested $250,000 to $400,000 for each man was appropriate. Diocesan lawyer Allen Ruby said in 

closing arguments the Thatchers did not prove the link between the abuse when they were children and their 

emotional problems as adults. 

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Online paedophilia on the rise 


USA - April 14, 2005 

http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/31590.asp 

Fourteen-year-old Anasuya seldom knew that the "doctor uncle" she often met at the chat room was just another 

pervert trying to meet an underage persona for sex. After having engaged in the chat for weeks, giving her "beauty 

tips", the "doctor" expressed a desire to engage in sexual acts with the girl and e-mailed her four nude photographs; 

two displayed children. "I don''t know who to talk to about this, and I can''t believe that he would do this to me," the 

shocked ninth grade student said. 

Online paedophilia is on the rise and there has been a 300 per cent increase in calls reporting Internet child 

pornography over the last three years. Efforts by security forces in several countries have resulted in the localisation 

and arrest of over 500 child pornographers in a paedophilia ring who distributed child pornography via the Internet 

including public chats spanning 11 countries, officials at Panda Software, a leading developer of IT security 

solutions for all types of users, has said. According to the NGO Protegeles, between 2001 and 2004, it has received 

a total of 28,900 complaints and around 1,990 paedophile communities have been identified. 

The European non-governmental organisation, formed to track and remove child pornography from the Internet, 

said 500 calls a month were received reporting child pornography on the Internet in 2001. This figure has increased 

to 1,500 in 2004. Chats have become the paedophiles favourite tool for contacting potential victims. 

"Without a doubt, the risk of being approached by a paedophile is the most dangerous of those that threaten children 

and teenagers that use the Internet, but certainly the solution to these problems is not to ban use of the Internet," 

officials at Panda Software said. They said, "the concern for minors'' use of the Internet should not just focus on 

preventing attacks from paedophiles, but also on preventing children or teenagers from becoming a victim in the 

future." 

India's IT crime prevention unit confirmed that paedophiles that circulate the Internet are getting younger, which it 

attributes to excessive pornography online. Senior officials at the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell noted that 

paedophiles had easy access to children through the means of Internet. "Child molesters are using the electronic 

superhighway to look for victims and the Internet is the paedophiles'' playground, because it affords them 

anonymity, and they can use newsgroups, chat rooms, and e-mail to exchange information about child pornography 

and interact with children," they observed. 

According to experts who follow the modus operandi of paedophiles, there are computer bulletin boards set up 

specifically for the seduction of children. Paedophiles lure kids in with games and establish relationships with them 

online. Then they arrange to meet face-to-face. Chat rooms and instant/private messages are two main tools 

paedophiles use to contact children on-line. 

Paedophiles use the Internet to share "trade secrets" like how to change identities, forge passports, and smuggle 

children. Paedophiles use the Internet for "virtual validation" of their activities within their circles of fellow 

paedophiles, so they feel accepted and consider their sexual interest in children normal. "The cause of the recent 

surge in online child pornography can be attributed to the growth of the Internet worldwide and its pervasive effects, 

said Patrick Hinojosa," CTO, Panda Software. 

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Child porn crusader Sharpe to appeal 

Canada - CNews, BC - April 14, 2005 

By Jeremy Hainsworth 

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Law/2005/04/13/995688-cp.html 

Vancouver - The man who challenged child porn laws in Canada's highest court will appeal his March 2004 

conviction for indecent assault. 

John Robin Sharpe was sentenced last July to two years less a day in the case. Now, he's making good on the 

promise he made as he was led away to jail that he would appeal. Sharpe appeared in the B.C. Court of Appeal 

briefly on Wednesday to apply for a lawyer to be appointed to represent him. 

The application was granted. 


No documents detailing the grounds for appeal have been filed with the court. 

In sentencing Sharpe last year, Justice Robert Edwards of the B.C. Supreme Court acknowledged Sharpe's poor 

health and age - 71 - meant he presents little or no danger to reoffend, but said with the seriousness of the crime no 

less than custody would be appropriate. 

The Crown asked for a prison term of two to four years for the crime, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 

years. 

"Sharpe lives in an Alice and Wonderland existence," said Crown lawyer Elliot Poll at the time, noting Sharpe 

complained of vilification the media, yet published his views advocating "boy love" on the Internet. 

In the assault case, the assaults began when the boy was 11 years old and occurred multiple times over about a twoyear 

period. 

The victim, now in his mid-30s, testified Sharpe paid him money, marijuana and cigarettes to pose in hundreds of 

photos and the pair eventually engaged in masturbation, oral sex and digital penetration. 

Sharpe sparked a national debate four years ago when he challenged a section of Canada's child-pornography laws. 

Police raided his home and found photos of underage boys engaged in sexual acts as well as a collection of stories 

he had written. 

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld most of the federal law that makes production, dealing and simple possession 

of child pornography a crime. 

But, the court said, it would be wrong to outlaw material such as personal journals, fictional writings and drawings 

that are imaginary and don't involve exploitation of an actual child. 

Sharpe was subsequently convicted on several counts. But he was acquitted of the charges related to his writings, 

which a trial judge described as "morally repugnant" but not totally lacking in artistic merit. 

Legislation introduced the Liberals in December 2002 in response to the Sharpe case proposed to tighten the 

definition of artistic merit. 

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Countian gets 15 years for child porn 

USA - Lancaster New Era, PA - April 13, 2005 

By Cindy Stauffer 

http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/6/13485 

Lancaster County, PA - An East Lampeter Township man was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison this 

week for taking sexually explicit photos of two teen boys and possessing thousands of pornographic images of 

children.Paul K. Vaccarelli, 52, was prosecuted with the help of a secret recording device worn by one of the teens, 

who knew Vaccarelli through his work as the manager of a suburban restaurant. 

In the conversation, Vaccarelli talks about a pornographic video he wanted the two teens to make, which Vaccarelli 

planned to sell to a pornographer in California or New York, prosecutors said. 

Vaccarelli also had showed the two teens numerous child porn photos on his computer and a pornographic video 

depicting boys having sex, prosecutors said. 

After searching Vaccarellis 243 Black Oak Drive home and a storage facility, police found Polaroid photos of other 

unidentified victims that indicated Vaccarelli had been taking pornographic photos of teen boys for a significant 

period of time, federal prosecutors said in a sentencing document. 

Because U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehans office in Philadelphia prosecuted Vaccarelli, he obtained a much tougher 


sentence. If Vaccarelli had been convicted in county court, his offense would have called for a prison sentence of 

only six to 14 months. 

The case against Vaccarelli began last spring, when one of the teens went to police after Vaccarelli took the photos 

and then asked him and the other teen to participate in the pornographic video, offering to pay them. 

In the search of Vaccarellis home and a storage facility, police discovered thousands of pornographic videos and 

DVDs, magazines, newspapers, books, personal ads, newspaper clippings, photographs and thousands of disks 

containing tens of thousands of images, according to the sentencing document. 

In some of the images, children are being visibly forced to engage in the sex acts, the document says. 

Perhaps most disturbing, the document notes, are Polaroid photos the police found of two other boys that were taken 

some years ago, judging from the hairstyles and minimal clothing in the photos. The background in the photos was 

the same bedroom as the one used for the Polaroids of the two more recent victims, the document says. 

Though police were not able to identify the two earlier victims, those Polaroids indicate that Vaccarelli has been 

engaged in a pattern of sexual exploitation and abuse of numerous minor boys for a significant period of time, the 

document says. 

The sentencing document also notes that Vaccarellis history of sexual exploitation and abuse of children dates back 

as far as 1979, when he was charged with sodomy in connection with the sexual abuse of a child in New York. 

Had Vaccarelli not completely cooperated with federal authorities, the memo notes, prosecutors would have sought 

a much longer sentence. The maximum sentence for the crimes is 35 to 70 years. 

After serving his sentence, Vaccarelli was sentenced to five years supervised release and ordered to have no contact 

with the victims or with any minors without supervision, and no employment in a business that employs or serves 

minors without supervision. He also was ordered not to own or use a computer without written approval. 

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Students punished over sex photos 

USA - St. Petersburg, Fl - April 14, 2005 

By Barbara Behrendt 

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/14/Citrus/Students_punished_ove.shtml 

The events involve a cell phone camera and Academy of Environmental Science students on a field trip. 

Crystal River - Two students at the Academy of Environmental Science have been suspended, and a third faces 

discipline, concerning sexual photos that were taken with a cell phone camera during a bus ride home from a field 

trip last week. 

Details of the incident emerged piecemeal Wednesday during a meeting of the academy's governing board. The 

governing board forwarded the matter to the school district for investigation. 

Parents at the meeting Wednesday voiced concerns about photos "of a sexual nature" taken with a cell phone 

camera. Students said the pictures constituted "child pornography" because they were explicit and the subjects were 

younger than 18. 

During the trip back to Citrus County, school staff and chaperones sat in the front of the bus. The students now 

facing discipline were in the back. Parents voiced disappointment about the supervision level; two academy teachers 

said that ever since the incident came to light the staff has sat at the back and in the middle of the students to 

supervise. 

Also at Wednesday's board meeting, students not involved in the incident complained that they were being punished 

unfairly because they now must sit in assigned seats on the bus. The school's staff pointed out that the assigned 

seating was canceled as of Wednesday. 


Students and parents alike voiced frustration about what appeared to be a lack of action by the school to concerns 

about the incident. Board members themselves were caught up in that same frustration as multiple related 

controversies have swirled around the school in recent weeks. 

Citing the need for new leadership as the charter school expands its programs, the board voted several weeks ago 

not tobring back Lisa Merritt as director and teacher next school year. She has led the program there since it began 

in 1999. 

Several days ago, board members learned of the Epcot trip incident and were given other information that Merritt 

may have been questioning staff members and students about what they knew about a district investigation of her 

husband, Allen Kline, who was a substitute teacher at the academy for a time. 

No details of that investigation have yet become public. 

Further complicating the matter, Merritt has been absent from the school since late last week because Kline has been 

ill. Board Chairman Gary Maidhof said he has spoken to Merritt and she is expected back at work by Monday. But 

her absence has made the school's investigation into the cell phone incident stall. 

An additional complication came when several board members tried to convey information via e-mail concerning 

the Epcot trip and reports about Merritt's questioning of students and staff members. The communication raised 

questions of whether the board members were violating Florida's Government in the Sunshine Law by privately 

talking about issues. 

Maidhof on Wednesday gently chided the board, warning members that they must be careful about any 

conversations about academy business, whether they be by phone or by e-mail. He said he understood that, as a 

small organization, the board often takes on tasks that a staff member would do if available but noted that the law 

must be followed. 

Sending out an informational e-mail is allowed, but "if you send out an e-mail seeking input, that's where we run 

afoul" of the rules, Maidhof said. The problem was compounded when another academy board member responded, 

sending copies to all members of the board. 

Board members Bob Gill and Chris Lloyd, who sent the original e-mail and the response, each apologized for 

having possibly embarrassed the academy. But each also said that some method needs to be chosen to be sure board 

members are informed of incidents at the school. 

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Ex-pediatrician charged with molestation 

USA - Review-journal, NV - April 14, 2005 

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Apr-14-Thu-2005/news/26288195.html 

A former Las Vegas pediatrician accused of molesting children has been indicted on 50 counts in Clark County, and 

bail was set at $1 million Wednesday by Chief District Judge Kathy Hardcastle. 

Dr. David Evans, 32, already faces similar charges in California. 

Evans was a resident in the pediatric medicine program at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and had 

been performing his residency for six months at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and at University Medical 

Center. 

There is no evidence that he committed crimes against children in his capacity as a doctor at those hospitals. 

Evans was arrested in December after police received a tip that child pornography had been found on the doctor's 

computer at his home in the 10000 block of Alexander Road near the Las Vegas Beltway. 

Police obtained a search warrant and found as many as 40 photos of a young boy in sexual poses on the computer, 

authorities say. 


It was later alleged Evans had molested a Las Vegas boy he met while volunteering for the Big Brothers Big Sisters 

of Nevada program. 

An examination of Evans' computer led Las Vegas authorities to coordinate further investigation with California 

authorities, prompting 31 counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child and one count of production of child 

pornography in Amador County, Calif. Those charges stem from alleged interaction with a different boy. 

Evans is scheduled to be arraigned in front of District Court Judge Nancy Saitta on April 20. 

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NAMBLA Arrests 

USA - Fox News Channel - February 17, 2005 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147904,00.html 

This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," Feb. 16, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. 

BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Impact" segment tonight, the FBI in San Diego infiltrated the North American 

Man/Boy Love Association, have arrested seven men who are heading to Mexico, allegedly to sexually abuse young 

boys. 

Now we thought we had driven NAMBLA out of this country after reporting the terrible murder of a 10-year-old 

Massachusetts boy, but apparently that group's Web site is up and running again. And they have a post office box in 

New York City and also in San Francisco. 

Joining us now from Washington, Pat Trueman, senior legal counsel for the Family Research Council (search). Mr. 

Truman formally worked in the Justice Department (search ), where he oversaw cases about abused children. 

You know, I thought I had this outfit out. You know, the last time we looked at them hard, they had shut down their 

Web site and gone up to Canada or over to Denmark some place. But now they're back and operating again it looks 

like, right? 

Pat Trueman, Family Research Council: That's right. And thanks to you and the publicity you have given to law 

enforcement for what they've done in the past, NAMBLA was pretty quiet, but now you see they're still alive. The 

FBI says there are hundreds of people that belong. 

It's a network of child abusers and people who advocate sex with children. They're saying, as you know, Bill, used 

to be "sex before eight or it's too late." And there are people who know how to molest kids. And they're networked. 

They tell about sting operations to alert their members. They tell where you can get kids and how to molest them. 

O'REILLY: Yes. 

TRUEMAN: What countries have soft laws. 

O'REILLY: And that's what we're reporting. The Curly boy who was killed by a NAMBLA member in 

Massachusetts. I mean, the NAMBLA member, you know, told the court, hey look, I did it because of the Web site. 

They told me how to do it. And they justified it. And that's why I did it. There was no question. 

And that civil lawsuit is still underway. But these people, it's hard to find out where they are. That's the problem, 

right? 

TRUEMAN: Well... 

O'REILLY: The FBI got through the screen and did infiltrate the organization to make these seven arrests, but it's 

generally hard to find out where they are. 

TRUEMAN: It is hard to find out. And they aren't as big perhaps as they used to be. But that's because of the 

Internet. Pedophiles now can, of course, download child pornography or go to a Web site like Yahoo! and join a 

club that caters to pedophiles. It's free. You put your e-mail address in and you'll get your e-mail box filled up with 


solicitations. 

O'REILLY: But most of that stuff comes from overseas. It comes from Thailand. It comes from northern Europe... 

TRUEMAN: Well, a lot of it come right here, Bill. 

O'REILLY: ...where there are no laws against this kind of stuff. And they're not enforced if they have them. 

But this, the FBI got through. It actually got through, got into the little club, and then nailed these seven guys and 

another guy in Los Angeles, I think it was. 

And some of these guys were former teachers. One was a minister or is a minister. I mean, here they are. We're 

looking at them. Do you know how the FBI got in there? 

TRUEMAN: They joined, which you can do on the Web site, and went to a couple of meetings, and got friends with 

some of the pedophiles who are part of this network, and then suggested a trip. They dummied up a travel service 

for a sail from San Diego to Mexico and got seven people to agree. 

O'REILLY: All right, so this is interesting. So they went into the Web site. They started to talk to them in the 

chatrooms. And then they said, hey, let's all go down to Mexico. I know a place where we can get boys. And let's 

book through this travel agent. They'll all get us down. 

And then these guys did it. And then when they showed up, they arrested them. 

TRUEMAN: And then following on, I presume, the FBI searched their houses, their offices, their computers to find 

out what other individuals they're trading child pornography with or what children they're molesting. 

O'REILLY: Right. 

TRUEMAN: A lot of pedophiles keep copious records. 

O'REILLY: Oh, absolutely. 

TRUEMAN: This sting will go on and on and on. 

O'REILLY: Well, I mean... 

TRUEMAN: There will be many, many people caught. 

O'REILLY: So this is very effective in the sense that now any idiot who glows to the NAMBLA Web site may be 

talking to a Fed. 

TRUEMAN: That's right. 

O'REILLY: So I'm glad the feds are actually monitoring this Web site, which is up and running right now, right? 

TRUEMAN: Right. And now with your publicity I would say anybody thinking about joining, who's a pedophile, 

will think twice, Bill. 

O'REILLY: Yes. I mean, and I hope they -- you know, these people just -- they're the worst. 

Now the final deal on this thing is the post office boxes. You have to pay like $350 to be a member of NAMBLA 

and get their literature and I guess their passwords to certain perversions. Why can't the Feds just trace those post 

office boxes? 

TRUEMAN: I'm sure they can. And individuals that were caught up in this web, the seven individuals will have that 

information. And they can go right at NAMBLA if they want to. 

NAMBLA -- I'd like to know who's running it here in the States... 

O'REILLY: Yes, so would I. 


TRUEMAN: Their attorney, -- Larry Stanley (search ), who we prosecuted when I was at Justice, got off because 

the judge threw out the child pornography. But he was convicted in a South American country the last couple years, 

serving time in some jail down there where I'm sure he regrets ever... 

O'REILLY: I think it's Bolivia some place this guy. 

TRUEMAN: Yes. 

O'REILLY: Well, yes. Well, anyway, look, enough said. We're glad the Feds are doing their job. This outfit's got to 

be put out of business. 

Mr. Trueman, thanks very much. Let us know if anything new happens. 

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Sexual assault victims need supportive response 

USA - Daily Sentinel, IA - April 13, 2005 

By Sue Morris 

http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1094159.html 

What should one say when told a friend, wife, daughter or employee has survived sexual assault? 

"I'm glad you're alive." 

"It's not your fault." 

"I'm sorry it happened." 

"You did the best you could." 

That's the advice the Council on Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence gives when people call, according to Cathy 

VanMaanen, outreach coordinator for Plymouth County. 

Sharing the most helpful and supportive things to say and do when someone tells about their experience is one of the 

services provided by CSA&DV. Victims do not need someone to judge or tell them what to do or how to feel, 

according to VanMaanen, but mostly someone to listen. 

Staff and volunteers of CSA&DV provide a 24-hour crisis line, support groups, crisis counseling, advocacy, 

information and referral, shelter and community education. Services are free and confidential. 

CSA&DV, along with victims' programs throughout the nation, face 2006/07 budget cuts making those services 

possible. Congress has threatened cuts to programs budgeted through the Federal Crime Victims Fund, which was 

created by the Victims of Crime Act of 1984. VOCA funds come entirely from collections from federal criminal 

fines, forfeitures and special assessments -- not from taxpayers. 

CSADV had to cut their outreach program in Onawa this past year due to recent budget cuts. The Plymouth County 

outreach office is needed, VanMaanen told the Plymouth County health planning committee this month. Services 

are not only for the victims themselves, but the families and loved ones who are affected by the assault. 

The crime of sexual assault has more to do with power and control than it does about sex, VanMaanen explained to 

the group of professionals and high school students. 

"Sex is the weapon and power is the motive," said VanMaanen. 

Sexual assault is a crime of violence, anger and hostility meant to degrade and humiliate the victim emotionally, 

psychology and sexually. It is not lovemaking, emphasizes CSA&DV counselors. Instead it is an act of aggression, 

against someone's will. It is less often the stranger who provides the danger -- 85 percent of victims knew their 

attacker, Van Maanen said. 


Sexual assault includes: 

* Unwanted touching 

* Rape 

* Attempted rape 

* Incest 

* Child molestation 

* Sexual harassment 

* Sexual exploitation, and, 

* Other forms of sexual violence. 

Anyone can be a victim, VanMaanen said. A victim of sexual assault may be male or female, a child or adult. 

More young males are reporting being victimized by assaults, area juvenile justice personnel told the committee. 

Statistics nationally show that one of every seven men will be sexually abused by the age of 18, VanMaanen cited. 

One in four women will be sexually abused by that age. One of every three women will be sexually abused during 

their lifetime, according to current national statistics. 

One of every four teens will experience an assault while dating, VanMaanen told the group. Most teens will tell a 

friend first, rather than reporting the crime to a parent or police. 

"How to respond to a friend can make such a difference in someone's life," said VanMaanen. 

Knowing how to respond and offer support is one of the messages provided in public education by CSA&DV, she 

explained. Their organization provides information to local schools and organizations. 

"We're not here to tell people what to do," said VanMaanen. "We're here to be good listeners." 

CSA&DV offers counselors and can refer individuals to therapists in the area. 

"The sooner they get help or support, the symptoms can be alleviated," explained Patrick Schmitz, executive 

director of Plains Area Mental Health Center. 

April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month is a time to celebrate the fact that help and support available, according to 

VanMaanen. 

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Cybersex Crimes Against Kids, Adults On The Rise 

USA - CBS-TV2, IL - April 13, 2005 

By Antonio Mora 

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_104172143.html 

Naperville - Over the last decade, the FBI tells us, there has been more than a 2,000 percent increase in cases of 

predators using the Internet to target children for explicit sexual purposes. In response to this growing trend, the City 

of Naperville has launched one of the most aggressive computer crimes units in the country, and their success rate is 

impressive. 

CBS 2's Antonio Mora finds that while cybersex crime against children is rampant, it is also affecting adults. 


Two years ago, Kim's email and phone lines suddenly got swamped. The phone would ring with men and 

obscenities on the phone, she says. Kim and her husband Jeff had become targets of an Internet sex crime. 

We would get emails with naked photos of men soliciting sex, Kim says. 

Unbeknownst to the Naperville couple, someone had listed them on an Internet bulletin board as a couple looking 

for sex partners. 

Cybersex crime between adults is on the rise, but the much bigger problem is that of adult Internet predators 

victimizing children. The online playground those sexual predators are lurking in: the chatroom. 

Naperville Computer Crimes Detective Mike Sullivan says, Our workload is getting heavier and not lighter. He 

points to chatrooms on his computer screen and says, These are all rooms that are revolving around nothing but 

victimizing children. 

Thousands of chat rooms such as Child Sex Slave" and "Young Girl Sex" are legal and can be freely visited by our 

children and those who prey on them. 

FBI Supervisor Joshua Skule says, Sexual predators are just using a different tool. They don't have to go to the 

playground because they can get the same satisfaction off of using the Internet. 

The FBI's Innocent Images task force showed us how undercover agents infiltrate chatrooms and pose as fourteenyear-old 

girls. 

Several of the people that I am chatting with right now want me to come live with them and be their sex slaves, one 

agent tells us. 

Sometimes they like to be your first -- your first older man, the first person that you lose your virginity to, another 

agent tells us. 

Incredibly, these agents have as many as six chats going on simultaneously. 

"Only bring what you can put in your backpack, I'll buy you new sexy clothes," the second agent reads aloud. This 

is also very common: that they insist they get you pregnant. 

In 2004, the local FBI task force arrested more than 54 cybersex predators. Naperville has apprehended 150 since 

1997. 

There's a huge misconception online right now, and that is as an offender you are anonymous. That's not true, 

Detective Sullivan says. You leave a huge footprint while youre in cyberspace. 

Kim was unnerved when the trail of the sexually explicit e-mails she received led across her backyard fence. 

We were able to track that email back to the offender, back to his computer. A search warrant was served, Detective 

Sullivan says. 

Kims neighbor was arrested and convicted of harassment. Unless you don't use your Internet, I just can't see how 

you can stop something like this from happening, she says. 

The FBI and the Naperville police each recommend: 

Computers not be placed in a child's room where he or she can shut the door 

Users turn on their service provider's parental control filters 

Use secondary controls to filter content such as "cyber signal" software, which prevents selected information such as 

addresses, names and credit card numbers from ever leaving the computer 

Additionally, the City of Naperville conducts monthly classes on Internet safety for parents. Find out more about 

that program and others below. 

Naperville Police Department/District 203 


Free classes on Internet safety for parents at NTWLink iCafe 

22 E. Chicago Avenue, suite #111 

(630) 718-1399 

www.ntwlink.com/announcement_Internet_Safety.pdf 

Naperville Police Department 

www.naperville.il.us/dynamic_template.cfm?doc_id=308 

1350 Aurora Avenue 

Naperville, Il 60540 

(630) 420-6666 

Info@naperville.il.us 

Detective Michael Sullivan's book Safety Monitor: How to Protect Your Kids Online is a hands-on, step-by-step, 

practical instruction for parents to protect their children from exploitation, sexual predators, adult-only content, 

pornography, and other harmful content that comes with computer and Internet access. 

Available on www.amazon.com 

FBI Innocent Images task force 

www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/innocent.htm 

http://chicago.fbi.gov/ 

To report child pornography and/or sexual exploitation of children, please contact your Crimes Against Children 

coordinator at your local FBI field office or link to the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children's 

cybertipline at www.cybertipline.com the cybertipline allows parents and children to file a report by submitting an 

online form. This form is then reviewed by analysts and forwarded to law enforcement including the FBI, the US 

Customs Service, the US Postal Inspection Service, and state and local police agencies. 

National Center For Missing And Exploited Children 

www.missingkids.com/cybertip/ 

1-800/843-5678 

Illinois Attorney General's Office 

www.ag.state.il.us/children/internet.html 

Software Resources: 

www.cyber-sentinel.net 

www.securitysoft.com 

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Perverts 40,000 Sneak Pics Of Girl In Shower 

United Kingdom - Daily Record - April 15 2005 

By John Mceachran 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15404051&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=perverts-40- 

000-sneak-pics-of-girl-in-shower-name_page.html 

A Pervert rigged a bathroom camera to spy on a young girl - and collected 40,000 images of her naked. 

Engineer David Duncan, 45, stored the images on his computer and on CDs, along with 82,633 depraved child porn 

pictures, a court was told yesterday. 

His twisted secret life was exposed when the teenage girl found one of the secret videos and told her mother, who 

called in the police. When police raided Duncan's home in Glasgow, the haul was the second-biggest seizure of 

paedophile material ever made in Scotland. 

At the High Court in the city, judge Lord MacFadyen declined to view the child porn images in the case after being 

told they showed 'degrading and horrific sexual practices'. 

Sean Murphy, prosecuting, said a leading child protection doctor had described them as 'distressing in the extreme'. 


He added: 'They were the worst images he had ever had to review. He said that anyone who viewed them might be 

advised to get counselling.' 

The judge, however, did see some images of the teenage girl in the shower. 

Mr Murphy told the court that the teenage girl spied on by Duncan accidentally found one of the video tapes and 

pulled the cassette apart in anger. 

She then called her mother, who discovered a mirror tile on the bathroom wall facing the shower and wiring for 

camera equipment behind it. 

Police later seized five computers belonging to Duncan, one of which contained the massive haul of child porn on 

its hard drive. Duncan, now unemployed and living in Kirkcaldy, Fife, admitted two computer porn charges and 

recording secret pictures of the girl between 1999 and 2003. 

Pleas of not guilty to recording covert pictures of another four girls were accepted by the Crown.Duncan also had a 

plea of not guilty accepted to a lewd and libidinous practices charge. 

The court was told that detectives discovered Duncan had doctored some of the photos in his possession. 

He had also joined an internet paedophile news group from which he had downloaded porn. 

The court was told that there was no suggestion he had circulated images of the girl in the shower around other 

perverts using the group. 

Lord McFadyen called for a risk assessment report on Duncan. 

He set a sentencing date for June and extended Duncan's bail until that date 

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Women accountable for under age sex offences 

New Zealand - NZCity - APril 15, 2005 


Women having sex with minors are now just as accountable as men after the passing of the Crimes Amendment 

Bill. 

The legislation means women can be prosecuted alongside men for having sex with an under 16-year-old, but the 

definition of rape remains strictly a man against woman offence. 

Justice Minister Phil Goff is pleased the bill received an overwhelming majority of support with 89 MPs voting in 

favour. 

He says only the National Party voted against it and even it conceded the bill made progress. 

A penalty has also been introduced for paedophiles grooming children for sexual activity. 

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Child rapist doctoring CV to get work 



A Christchurch businessman was horrified to discover that a convicted child rapist had applied for a job at his firm 

as a car groomer, his CV disguising his detention at a mental hospital as "work experience". 

"I think it's absolutely disgusting," Ray Dyer, from Hopmans QEII Quality Cars, said. 


"Based on his CV some poor businessman could maybe give him a chance and their business would be wrecked. 

You'd have people boycotting your business, it would be stone dead." 

Mr Dyer discovered who the man was upon reading a newspaper article yesterday. 

Lloyd McIntosh was sent to Lake Alice Mental Hospital in 1989 when he was deemed unfit to answer a charge of 

raping a six-year-old girl. 

He was freed in 1993 when a law change meant he was no longer considered mentally ill. 

McIntosh's CV, obtained by the Dominion Post newspaper yesterday, says he worked at the mental hospital, not that 

he was a patient. 

The CV refers only to his having "recently completed serving time" and ignores the fact he is a repeat child rapist, 

and was jailed for a sex attack on an intellectually handicapped woman, says the newspaper. 

It lists his experience at the hospital in 1988 as a "voluntary carer" and lists his duties as "assisting elderly residents 

with daily household chores and planning activities". 

Mr Dyer told the newspaper that McIntosh walked into the yard on Wednesday, seeking a job as a car groomer. 

He described himself as a hard worker and left his CV with the businessman. 

All the time he was being watched by three people from a nearby car. 

According to McIntosh's 10-year extended supervision order, he must be accompanied by two minders in public 

because of the risk of his reoffending. 

Mr Dyer said he was furious McIntosh had sought a job in an area full of children. 

"There's a kindergarten straight across the road, a school less than 250 metres away." 

He said it was outrageous McIntosh's history was glossed over. 

"His CV should have those details. It's misleading, it's dishonest, it's a disgrace. He's a bloody paedophile." 

A covering letter says he is on probation, must have no contact with children under 16 and must have support staff 

with him at all times "for the short time". 

The agency supervising McIntosh, the name of which is suppressed, is contractually obliged by Corrections to help 

him develop life skills, including finding employment 

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Guilty verdict in child pornography case 



http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liwern0416,0,792374.story?coll=ny-main-tabheads 

Long Island - Several spectators cheered, cried and embraced each other in a Central Islip courtroom Friday when a 

Valley Stream man was convicted of federal child pornography charges. 

Bruce Wernick, 47, a computer consultant, was found guilty of downloading, storing and distributing hundreds of 

photos and videos depicting children being sexually abused. 

He also was convicted of using the Internet to persuade underage boys to meet for sex. 

"We are very gratified by the jury's verdict," prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz said afterward. 


Wernick's attorney, Bruce Barket of Garden City, said he was disappointed but not surprised by the outcome of the 

three-week trial. 

Wernick, who has appeared relaxed -- even defiant -- during the trial, showed no visible reaction. 

No sentencing date was set. The maximum sentence Wernick faces is 65 years in prison, but officials say he'll likely 

get much less. 

Wernick was arrested in September 2001 after an investigation of a Dix Hills man -- who later pleaded guilty to 

molesting his 4-year-old daughter -- revealed he and Wernick had been swapping illicit images online and 

discussing sharing the man's daughter. 

Wernick was indicted in Suffolk County Court on charges of abusing the girl. 

Those charges were set aside, however, in favor of the federal prosecution, which would not require the victim to 

testify. 

Barket argued that computer viruses and other users remotely accessing Wernick's computers were responsible for 

the 2,900 images found on Wernick's computer equipment. 

He also said Wernick was not at his computer on two dates when pornographic images were sent or received. 

Gatz countered that specific information contained in online messages sent from Wernick's computer proved that 

Wernick was responsible. 

On Dec. 9, 2000, for instance, a video was sent from Wernick's computer with the message, "I made this video by 

compiling three videos, I hope you like it." 

Barket acknowledged Wernick had sex with 14- and 15-year-old boys whom Wernick had met on a Web site. 

Although Barket called the actions "despicable," he said they were not illegal under federal law because Wernick 

enticed the teens in person, not online. 

The jury rejected that claim. 

During deliberations, which lasted six hours over two days, jurors quickly decided Wernick was culpable for 

receiving and sending the porn, according to juror James Benzinger of Brooklyn. 

The charge of sexually enticing the teenage boys over the Internet took more time to resolve, Benzinger said. 

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City man sentenced to 20 years in rape of child 

USA - Herald Star, OH - April 16, 2005 

http://www.hsconnect.com/news/story/0416202005_new07news041205.asp 

Gino Caporini, 31, of Steubenville was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday by Common Pleas Judge Joseph 

Bruzzese Jr. after pleading guilty to five counts of rape of a child under the age of 13 and five counts of gross sexual 

imposition. 

Caporini admitted to performing sexual acts on the girl, age 7 1/2, in 2004. Bruzzese ruled Caporini is a sexual 

predator that requires him to report to the sheriff of the county where he will be living and he must report to the 

sheriff every 90 days for the rest of his life. He also must submit to a DNA sampling for his DNA to be kept on 

record. 

The judge also ruled he is forever barred from making contact with the child. 

Caporini was a Franciscan University of Steubenville student when he was arrested in January. Three other students, 

when questioned in January by City Police and county sheriff's deputies, admitted Caporini said he had molested the 


girl. One student said Monday during the sentencing hearing that he never said anything to police about the 

molestation admission because Caporini believed his arrest was imminent. 

Child pornography was found on Caporini's computer and another computer at a house he shared with fellow 

students, according to county Assistant Prosecutor Jane Keenan. Caporini faces 75 years in prison if convicted as 

charged. 

The mother of the child testified during the sentencing hearing she was satisfied with the 20-year sentence. She said 

her daughter has been in counseling and was afraid of facing Caporini during a trial. 

"I'm sorry for what I have done," Caporini said prior to sentencing. 

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Suspect admitted choking, raping girl 

USA - Argus Leader, SD - April 16, 2005 

Denise D. Tucker 


The man accused of murdering Jessica Rae DeLaTorre admitted to detectives that he raped, choked and beat the 8year-old 

Sioux Falls girl, according to court papers. 

In the documents, filed this week in Minnehaha County Circuit Court, Murray James Jones, 41, recounts for police 

the events leading up to the discovery of Jessica's body April 9 at an abandoned farm near Fulton, about 65 miles 

west of Sioux Falls. 

"I did the wrong thing," Jones told a detective when informed that clothes belonging to Jessica had been found in a 

trash bin near his house. 

Jones said he had put his hands around Jessica's neck, according to the court papers. When she started making noise, 

he "lost it" and began to hit and kick her all about the body, including the neck, the records show. 

Preliminary autopsy results indicated Jessica died of "multiple incidents of blunt force trauma." The autopsy also 

found evidence of sexual assault. 

Jones is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and first-degree rape. He is being held without bond in the 

Minnehaha County Jail. 

Jones is the boyfriend of Jessica's grandmother, Norma Carver. The two have lived together for two years at 204 N. 

Primose Place. 

According to the court documents, Carver was not home April 8 because she had gone to Avera McKennan Hospital 

to take part in an overnight sleep study. That left Jones to care for Jessica and her two brothers, who were spending 

the night. 

The affidavit in support of a search warrant provides the following account, based on Jones' interviews with police: 

After midnight, Jones took Jessica, who had been sleeping, and drove his 1989 Chevrolet Caprice station wagon 

west on Interstate 90 for about 50 miles. He went north, past Highway 38, to a gravel road and through a field. 

When asked whether he raped Jessica, Jones said yes, adding that she was awake during the sexual assault and 

struggled with him. 

Jones said he left her in the field. He grabbed her shorts and a blanket that had a trace of blood on it and drove back 

to Sioux Falls, where he threw the shorts in the Dumpster across the street from his home. 

He put the blanket in the washer, did some work on the computer, took a shower and went to bed. 

Initially, Jones gave police a different account, according to court papers: 


He said he got home around 9:30 p.m. April 8. He made dinner for the children, and they all sat down to watch "Star 

Wars." Jessica fell asleep on the couch shortly after the movie started. Jones covered her with a blanket, went to get 

rid of old programs on the computer, took a shower and then went to bed, where he stayed until Carver woke him 

up. 

Before going to bed, he washed his underwear along with some of Carver's clothes and some rags. 

Carver arrived home at 8 a.m. and noticed Jessica missing. When she last saw her, Jessica had been wearing pink 

shorts, a white top and black sandals. 

During a search of the area, the sandals and a plastic bag containing the shorts were found in a Dumpster across 

from Carver's residence. 

When Jones was told that Jessica's clothes were found, he said, "I am a bad person; I did the wrong thing." He led 

police to Jessica's body. 

Jones also told police he had viewed child pornography on a home computer and had photographed Jessica in the 

past. 

On Sunday, Carver notified a detective that she had found computer disks and a pornographic magazine in Jones' 

toolbox in a shed at the residence. 

Police have said Jones also is being investigated for allegedly sending a woman sexually explicit computer 

messages and accessing child pornography Web sites at the cybercafe at Video Mania, 2019 S. Minnesota Ave. 

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Cockeysville Man Sentenced For Buying Child Porn 

USA - WBAL Radio, MD - April 15, 2005 

http://wbal.com/stories/anmviewer.asp?a=30237 

A 72-year-old Cockeysville man has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison and a year of home confinement 

on a child pornography conviction. 

According to court documents, an undercover agent with the US Postal Inspection Service delivered eight 

videotapes to Charles Barrick's home in May 2003. The tapes contained depictions of minors having sex. 

When federal agents entered Barrick's house, they found the package unopened. But interim Maryland U-S Attorney 

Allen Loucks says Barrick admitted that he had ordered the tapes and paid for them, and he knew what was on 

them. 

Barrick claimed he bought the tapes intending to sell them to a friend. But agents also found scenes of minors 

having sex on his home computer. 

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Former Mayor, Teacher Sentenced For Producing Child Porn 

USA - KCTV-TV5, MO - April 15, 2005 

http://www.kctv.com/global/story.asp?s=3217677 

Kansas City - A former small town mayor, teacher, foster parent and Boy Scout leader was sentenced Friday to 14 

years in federal prison without parole for producing child pornography. 

Authorities began investigating Richard P. Warner, 53, after he asked someone to repair his computer and that 

person found child porn on the machine, including a child the repairman recognized, said Don Ledford, a 

spokesman for U.S. Attorney Todd Graves, who announced the sentence. 

Graves described Warner as a "sexual predator" who was involved in various volunteer activities that gave him 


access to children. Warner had served as city councilman and mayor for the small town of New Hampton in 

northwest Missouri, as well as working as a teacher in a number of school districts. 

Warner admitted in September to using a minor child to make sexually explicit material between Sept. 16, 2002 and 

Oct. 4, 2002. He also admitted sending and receiving child porn over the Internet and agreed to hand over a hard 

drive from his home computer. 

"Warner served as a foster parent, volunteered to drive the bus and lead youth activities in his church, and was 

involved in Boy Scouts -- activities that put him into close contact with children," Graves said in a news release. 

Warner is already in state prison serving 20 years for statutory sodomy and child molestation. The same 

investigation led to both the state and federal sentences, which were to be served concurrently. 

When Warner becomes eligible for parole in the state prison, Ledford said he will be sent to federal prison to serve 

whatever is left of the 14-year federal sentence. 

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Child sex abuse deeply rooted in Del Norte 

USA - Daily Triplicate, CA - April 15, 2005 

By Matt Mais 

http://www.triplicate.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=29 

When Mark Folkenberg was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison for child molestation, his wife spoke in 

Del Norte Superior Court about how deeply rooted the problem of child sex abuse is here. 

Folkenberg himself was sexually abused as a child, she told the court. As an adult, Folkenberg repeatedly molested 

a girl over a two-year period. 

"It went back generation to generation on both sides of his family," Raelene Folkenberg said. 

Law enforcement authorities and other experts in the field say that cycle of sexual abuse is common: Those who are 

abused often grow up to become abusers, spreading the human damage to an ever-widening circle of victims. 

They also say this problem is particularly prevalent in Del Norte County and that it's not likely to stop any time 

soon. 

Del Norte ranks second among all California counties in the number of registered sex offenders per capita. 

According to the new Megan's Law Web site, which lists California's registered sex offenders by address, there were 

91 registered sex offenders living in Del Norte County in 2004, the latest year for which county-by-county statistics 

are available. 

Given Del Norte's population of 28,266, that's a per capita rate of .322, second only to Trinity County's per capita 

rate of .364. 

Del Norte has far more registered offenders than any other California county with population under 40,000. It has 

almost as many total registered sex offenders as Marin County in the urban Bay Area, which has a population of 

more than 250,000 and 106 registered offenders. 

"Law enforcement has always known that there's been a high degree of sexual crimes within the city and the 

county," Crescent City Police Chief Doug Plack said. "It's always been like that." 

"People probably think that most offenders don't know their victims, but 90 percent know the victim 

and 50 percent are family members," Plack said. "It's a cycle." 

Among registered sex offenders who live in Del Norte, about 80 percent were convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, sex 

crimes against children 14 or younger. 


"I think it's because there are generations of sex offenders" in Del Norte, said North Coast Rape Crisis program 

coordinator Benita Cabrera. 

"It's either one person abusing generations of people or incest being repeated generation after generation." 

Most of the registered sex offenders in Del Norte County committed their crime here, said Del Norte County 

Sheriff's Detective Ed Fleshman, who heads up the department's sex crimes investigations and also tracks registered 

sex offenders here. 

"We don't get a lot of (registered sex offenders) moving into the county. Most of the registered sex offenders have 

been here for years," Fleshman said. 

Tasha Howe, a Humboldt State University psychology professor who specializes in family violence, said Del 

Norte's demographics could be a factor in the high number of sex offenders here. 

"Poverty is a huge risk factor. Poverty brings a lot of problems. Child sexual abuse is one them," Howe said. 

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 2000 the county has a poverty rate of more than 20 percent. 

"Poverty stresses parents so they are less able to monitor their children (allowing more access to predators)," Howe 

said. 

Trinity County, another poor rural county, had the highest per capita number of registered sex offenders statewide, 

with 49 registrants among a population of 13,455 for .a rate of .364, according to the Megan's Law web site. 

Even in a small town, families that keep to themselves get a degree of anonymity that can allow sexual abuse of 

children to go on and on, Del Norte County Sheriff Dean Wilson said. 

"Maltreating families tend to be more socially isolated and so the abuse has an easier time remaining behind closed 

doors," Howe said. 

Part of the problem, Cabrera said, is that sexual abuse no matter the age of the victim was for too long something 

that was kept quiet and not dealt with. Both offenders and victims were essentially being ignored. 

"It's either one person abusing generations of people or incest being repeated generation after generation," Cabrera 

said. "When people are not given the tools to heal they may harm others." 

According to Howe, research indicates that as many as 40 percent of those who are abused as children will grow up 

to become abusers. 

The effects of child sexual abuse can manifest themselves in many ways within a community. 

"You can see them in the schools, you can see them in clinics anywhere where you can find kids," Howe said. 

Risk factors for children who survive sexual abuse are many. 

"It affects every aspect of a child and adult's life," Cabrera said. 

Immediate effects range from digestive problems to substance abuse to suicidal thoughts and actions, Cabrera said. 

The most common symptom seen in Del Norte County schools associated with child sexual abuse is lack of 

concentration, according to Del Norte County Unified School District psychologist Tina Rhodes. 

"The most common symptom is difficulty concentrating. Their school performance starts dropping," Rhodes said. 

"There are a those that can't continue to go to school," Rhodes said. 

Child sex abuse victims are also more likely to become promiscuous and experience early pregnancy, she said. 

"One thing that I've noticed, especially in girls who have been molested, is promiscuity promiscuity in the way they 


dress, promiscuity in what they say," Rhodes said. "They don't maintain a healthy boundary." 

In 2002, teen mothers delivered over 18 percent of live births in Del Norte County. That's almost double the average 

for California, according to the Del Norte Center for Economic Development. 

When a sexually abused child grows up, the problems can grow if the person never gets help dealing with the abuse, 

Cabrera said. Some of them develop mental health issues such as post traumatic stress syndrome, bipolar disorder, 

and disassociative identity disorder, she said. 

Child sex abuse is likely to continue to be a problem in Del Norte County, Howe said. Since the offenders are 

already here the child sexual abuse will continue, she said. 

"The recidivism rate for sex offenders is very high. So the trend of sexual abuse in Del Norte County is likely to 

continue," Howe said. 

The best defense against the problem is an aggressive offense, according to experts. That means making sure kids 

have academic support and develop social skills. It also means reducing isolation of children who might be victims. 

Aggressive investigation of reports of child sex abuse or suspected cases by law enforcement is also important, as is 

prosecution of offenders, authorities said. Counseling for victims is also important, they said. 

Sex education is also a valuable tool in preventing sex abuse, Howe said. 

"A lot of these guys have never really had a healthy sexual relationship," Howe said. 

"They have really poor social skills and low self esteem. They don't have the skills to have a healthy sexual 

relationship with an adult female so they reach out to people that they can have control over," Howe said. 

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Carlson: Abuse victims' gut-wrenching stories end with signs of hope 

USA - Des Moines Register, IA - April 17, 2005 

By John Carlson 

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050417/OPINION01/504170340/1035 

The little girl, we'll call her Sarah, stands at the microphone, her smile so big, so sweet, it's hard to imagine what's to 

come. 

"Hi," she says. "My name is (Sarah). I was abused when I was 8 years old." 

The 100 people in the audience - prison wardens and guards, counselors, victims advocates, county and state 

prosecutors - spend their careers dealing with life's horrors. 

They've seen and heard it all. They thought. But nothing quite like this. Nothing so public, from a 10-year-old 

describing how she was affected by sexual abuse. 

[] 

Outside Mask: This mask shows "Sarah" on the outside. 

"When I was 9 years old, my mom caught the abuse. Now the person who abused me is in prison. I went to 

counseling, and during this time I made this mask. This mask shows my feelings about my abuse." 

A white screen on the wall shows a drawing of a child's face. Sarah drew it during therapy, and it was turned into a 

mask. The girl in the picture has a big smile, a face so happy it sparkles, and the most wonderful blue eyes. 

It's a self-portrait - a look at Sarah on the outside - the Sarah others saw. 

"The girl with the blue eyes got hurt by someone she trusted," Sarah says. "Nobody could tell she was hurt. She 

looked normal on the outside but inside she felt different. She needed to look the same, because she was told not to 

tell anyone or she would get in trouble." 


Sarah is speaking at a downtown Des Moines meeting titled "Collective Voices of Victims." It's sponsored by the 

Iowa Department of Corrections as part of National Crime Victims' Rights Week. Often, these events have no 

names and no faces. 

This time it has a face. Sarah's face. And the face of a 16-year-old boy sitting a few feet away, waiting his turn to 

speak. We'll call him Frank. 

He listens as Sarah talks about the girl with the blue eyes. He watches as the other picture Sarah drew flashes on the 

screen. It's the reverse side of the mask - Sarah on the inside - the Sarah nobody could see. 

"On the inside she felt dirty and ugly," Sarah says. "Her eyes are big, and she is scared her mommy will be mad at 

her. The sparkles on her face show excitement because these were times she got to go and get ice cream after he 

touched her. She felt sad because she had to do something she did not like to get the ice cream." 

The face is grotesque, the teeth are monstrous, the eyes and mouth are distorted. It's an almost unimaginable selfportrait 

of a child. 

"The girl was learning to live with happy days and days that might be cloudy," Sarah says. "And just when she 

thought she was through it all, her dad died and that added more trauma into her life. She felt sad, kind of depressed 

and lonely." 

Some in this tough crowd are crying as the child finishes her story. 

"I am the girl with blue eyes," she says. "And I finished therapy in October. I know I have plenty of support from 

family and friends. I can get ice cream from the best mom ever without doing a thing." 

Sarah looks at her mom, who is sitting a few feet away in the front row. The two leave the room as Frank, the 16year-old 

boy, begins to speak. 

Looking at his mom and dad, he tells a very different story. The words he speaks about the man who abused him are 

beyond anger. 

"Hi. I am (Frank) and I am an addict, alcoholic and former victim of sexual abuse," he says quietly. "I wrote a letter 

during treatment to the perpetrator, explaining myself and the feelings I have towards him." 

The letter is part of Frank's therapy. It's a shockingly profane example of how he's dealing with it through rage. 

"I (expletive) hate you so bad. I guess the worst fear would be growing up to be like your (expletive) ass. You 

screwed me over real bad. I have to live with this for the rest of my life. For your sick pleasure I get (expletive). It 

isn't fair. 

"You pulled me into a trap I can't get out of, played games with my mind. I am really (expletive) angry. I can't admit 

it on paper or to anyone the real emotion I used to have. I feel like a worthless piece of (expletive) just thinking 

about it. I hate myself for it and can't understand why." 

Frank's abuse began when he was 13. He said the abuser gave him a place to stay after he ran away from home and 

supplied him with drugs. 

"All I ever wanted to do was smoke weed, meth and snort pills," he says, reading from the letter. "My compulsion 

for sex with females grew to convince myself I wasn't gay. Then I quit going to school and a lot of the time was to 

go to (your) house. You took any chance of me being average. I'm not OK in my own house. I'm on the outside 

looking in, but I feel like the center with all eyes on me in my family." 

He's a fine-looking young man, poised, with a touch of confidence. And what he says next is astounding. The anger 

in Frank's letter turns to hope. 

"Now I am going to school, active in actually going somewhere with my life, with the help of therapy. And most of 

all, I am learning to accept me and sobriety. I have been sober since July 10, 2004, and for that I am grateful." 


Frank's mother is crying. His dad says later he's proud of the boy for speaking here today. Especially because the 

problem seems to be growing so much worse. Maybe this will help. 

Two adults take the microphone and talk about the abuse they suffered as children. They're examples it has been 

going on for decades. 

The man, now in his 30s, had been raped in a foster home and ran away. He was 10 years old when he was picked 

up while hitchhiking and taken to California, where he became part of a child prostitution ring. He later did time 

back in Iowa for killing a man in a bar fight. He thanked the prison counselors in the room for helping him turn 

things around. 

The woman's abuse started when she was 3 years old and lasted into her teens. She's in her 50s now, and 

professionally successful. She does all she can to help others deal with the trauma. 

The woman confesses she will never completely be OK, because victims of child sex abuse serve a life sentence of 

sorts. They'll never forget. 

It does not mean their lives are forever destroyed. 

It's a matter of a child - even an adult - understanding that the terrible thing that happened is not their fault, that they 

didn't do anything wrong, that they shouldn't be ashamed, that they're good people too. 

Sarah, who comes back into the room as the program ends, seems to understand. 

"Congratulations," a visitor at the meeting tells her. "You're a very nice girl. And very brave." 

"Thank you very much," she says. 

She's smiling. Her blue eyes are sparkling. She and her mom are going for ice cream. 

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Gallop backs cancellation of paedophiles' passports 



Western Australian Premier Geoff Gallop has backed a proposal by a national child welfare group for convicted 

paedophiles to have their passports confiscated. 

The Federal Government yesterday revealed a number of men listed on the national child sex offender data base 

tried to prey on children in areas affected by the Asian tsunamis. 

However, authorities stopped them entering those countries. 

Bernadette McMenamin, who is the director of Child Wise, says the register does not stop paedophiles travelling 

overseas and the Federal Government should cancel their passports. 

"The world is a very big place for these individuals and if we're pushing them out of our institutions in Australia we 

are pushing them over to very vulnerable communities overseas," she said. 

"Removing passports is a very sensible option." 

Dr Gallop says he would support any move that would stop sex offenders preying on young children here or 

overseas. 

"The Federal Government should closely monitor the activities of those that would wish to go overseas to prey on 

young people," he said. 

"If they're engaged in illegal activities they should be brought to justice and if those activities need to be constrained 


y looking at their passport situation, yes I would favour it." 

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Rapist 'married' 9-year-old victim 

United kingdom - ic Wales - April 17 2005 

Matt Withers 


=rapist--married--9-year-old-victim-name_page.html 

The victim of evil child rapist Benjamin Griffiths fears he will hunt her down to reclaim his 'bride' after he 'wed' her 

in a twisted marriage ceremony. 

The 14-year-old's family spoke out last night after the paedophile sex pervert was arrested in Germany this month, 

four months after vanishing on the last day of his trial. 

The former Aberystwyth teacher was jailed for 10 years in his absence after being found guilty of indecently 

assaulting and raping the girl when she was just nine years old. 

Last night, the family of the distressed girl told how she was struggling to rebuild her life after her hell at the hands 

of 63-year-old Griffiths, who is currently undergoing extradition. 

Today we can reveal: 

nReligious nut Griffiths cut the youngster with a broken cup and mixed their blood together in a macabre 'marriage'. 

nHe spent lunch breaks during his rape trial loudly preaching in a city centre. 

nHe managed to flee the country by applying for a passport DURING his trial. 

nThe girl's house was installed with police alarms after Griffiths swore to kill her and himself if he was caught. 

nAnd he was only snared by German police after using his real name to apply for a dog licence. 

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, now lives with her legal guardian, a member of her family, in 

England's East Midlands. 

Last night, the family member opened her heart about the trauma they had been put through. 

She said: "We've finally had the police alarms removed from the house. 

"He had told her if he ever got caught, he would take her down with him. He had made a suicide pact and would kill 

them both. He threatened to abduct her and make it look like suicide. 

"Until that man dies, we will not rest. 

"What happens if they think he's a nice old elderly gentleman and let him out early on parole? She doesn't trust him. 

She keeps asking what will happen if he escapes, if he comes back to her." 

Griffiths jumped bail before his final hearing at Chester Crown Court last December. 

He often spent up to an hour answering each question. 

Judge Roger Dutton said the trial would have been over much sooner if Griffiths had not wasted so much time. 

But it has now emerged he had applied for a passport and was dragging the trial out while he waited for it to arrive. 

On the final day, the court received a handwritten letter from Griffiths, postmarked Coventry, saying the rapist had 

"had enough". 


He had devoted his lunchtimes throughout the trial to preaching the Gospel to shoppers in Chester city centre. 

The bearded Welsh-speaker entered the girl's life after her mother died. 

He became obsessed with the nine-year-old, bombarding her with love letters and cards before raping and 

indecently assaulting her. 

The extreme Christian threatened her with the "wrath of God" if she told anyone and even carried out a bizarre 

'marriage' ritual, cutting her arms with a broken cup, mixing her blood with his and telling her they were forever 

"united in blood". 

He had previously been married to a Swedish girl decades his junior. 

He was finally tracked down on April 6 in a hotel in the south-west German town of Karlsruhe. 

German police sources said he applied for a dog licence and his name triggered an Interpol alert. 

The family member has now called for a massive overhaul in the bail system that allowed Griffiths to apply for a 

passport during the trial. 

She said: "I've lost my faith in the system. 

"I couldn't believe a man accused of rape was on bail." 

The girl herself is desperately trying to rebuild her shattered life at the age of just 14. 

She attends school and dreams of becoming a special needs teacher, but her marks have slipped dramatically since 

the two-week trial. 

While Griffiths was on the loose, the school was given a hotline to the police and she had to be escorted to and from 

the gates. 

She is still "very confused" by what has gone on, the family member said. 

"She's gone through a hell of a lot in her life," she said. 

"They were married. All she needed was him. That's what she's been taught. She's trying to return as much to 

normality as possible, but I don't think she knows what normality is. When you have something like that happening 

from an early age it's very, very hard for somebody to move on. 

"The word for him is evil. For somebody so deeply religious, the only place that man is going is Hell. He took away 

her childhood. He robbed it. But I will pull her through so she has a crack at adulthood." 

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Balancing civil rights and child protection 

USA - Argus Leader, - April 17, 2005 

Jon Walker 


A computer message that surfaced 17 days before Jessica DeLaTorre disappeared exposes a dilemma in American 

law when personal freedom collides with the need to protect children. 

The message, traced to Murray James Jones, the man who has confessed to raping and killing the 8-year-old Sioux 

Falls girl, might or might not have foreshadowed what was about to occur. But it does illustrate how, in some cases, 

the clues from psychology carry no weight legally until a crime is committed. 

And while the Jones case might fit a textbook pattern of pornography leading to violence, it also shows how Sioux 


Falls police must decipher hundreds of suspicious cases without trampling personal rights that are endorsed by the 

U.S. Supreme Court. 

"I don't think there was any shortcoming in the law. It was one of those horrible things," said Rob Regier, executive 

director of the South Dakota Family Policy Council, which tracks political and social issues that concern families. 

Jones, 41, was a customer in a Sioux Falls business March 23 when he used a computer to send a note to a Hill City 

woman logged onto the same Internet chat room. 

"We had a lot of fun raping your granddaughter," Jones' note said, according to Harlan Jacobsen, owner of Video 

Mania, 2019 S. Minnesota Ave., where the message originated. 

Within 21/4 weeks, Jones would be charged with raping and killing the granddaughter of Norma Carver, the woman 

with whom he lived. 

But the night of the original message, he could not have known to whom he was writing. He joined the chat room 

only because the computer's previous user had neglected to log off. 

He returned on other occasions to the Video Mania computer section - a corner of the store called a cybercafe - and 

twice was recorded looking at child pornography. The second time, April 8, was the evening before Jessica 

DeLaTorre disappeared and Jones led police to her body. 

The sequence appears to show a predictable progression of pornography, said David Miller, vice president of 

Citizens for Community Values, a Cincinnati-based organization. 

Exposure leads to addiction, then escalation, desensitization and then an increasing tendency to act out the behaviors 

exhibited, said Miller, quoting the work of Victor Cline, a clinical psychologist at the University of Utah. 

"Not everyone who looks at pornography becomes a Ted Bundy," Miller said. "Not everybody who takes a drink 

becomes an alcoholic. But some people are very negatively affected by these influences." 

Jacobsen, whose staff at Video Mania used a code phrase to notify police when Jones returned to the store, said he 

thinks police stumbled by not intervening. 

"He should have been pulled in for questioning so, if nothing else, he at least knew the police were on to him," 

Jacobsen said. "If the message is correct, he was having sex with a granddaughter and to back that up, we give them 

information that he's into child pornography. What more do they need?" 

'Not enough' 

Something more was needed, said Sioux Falls Police Chief Doug Barthel. The original chat room conversation was 

not specific, nor did it match any report of an unsolved crime. Subsequent viewing of child porn would not be a 

crime unless Jones had downloaded it or otherwise had taken possession. 

"That conversation - that was not enough," Barthel said. "That's barely getting near a disorderly conduct. It's 

certainly not enough to charge him with any crime for that. He had no idea who he was talking to." 

Hindsight is one thing, but before the girl's death, Jones was a man with no history as a sex offender and one more 

individual for police to monitor, Barthel said. Sioux Falls police handled 14,000 cases last year, including 5,500 

spread among seven detectives in the department's crimes against persons unit - an average of 785 cases for each 

detective. 

"Every detective has 30 to 50 active cases they're working on, whether child abuse, spousal abuse, assault," Barthel 

said. "You never know is that the one that's going to escalate to the next level. Especially when the victim and 

suspect know each other, they're difficult cases." 

Rights, safety in conflict 

Police work does include preventive enforcement, where an officer's visibility on a street, for example, can keep 

drivers from speeding. But privacy issues are a different story. Intervention on a personal level might help a porn 


addict before disaster strikes, but it's no-man's land for the law. 

"That type of thing is going to be called police harassment," said professor David Day, who teaches constitutional 

rights at the University of South Dakota. 

It's especially thorny as the growing volume of pornography in mass media bumps against the First Amendment's 

guarantee of free expression. 

"Congress keeps passing Internet regulatory schemes in the name of protecting children - at least three times in the 

last decade - and the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down all of it," Day said. 

The court makes a distinction by saying adult pornography is protected speech while child porn can be criminalized 

if it involves possession. 

That's a valid distinction for Jacobsen, whose movie rental business has two Sioux Falls locations. He said he has 

50,000 titles, including 2,000 or 3,000 adult titles in an upstairs section. 

"Call it what you want," Jacobsen said. "What you called pornography 10 to 15 years ago, they're showing in the 

theaters now. It's not the big, bad thing churchgoers make it out to be. It gets you interested and able to do what you 

might not be able to do otherwise." 

The porn Jones looked at could well have come from a foreign Web site, Jacobsen said. Jones used three different 

computers in his visits to the Video Mania cybercafe, a corner of the store next to the front window with seats for 

seven customers. Cybercafes are common in other countries, where fewer residents have home computers, but also 

pop up in American cities as a convenience for consumers wanting privacy or the use of high-speed Internet. They 

pay $2 an hour at Video Mania. 

No history of sex crimes 

Two employees detected Jones' activities. One received a return message after his initial visit to the chat room. A 

second employee, using a computer station in the store's basement, was able to review Jones's locations in the cafe 

and his actions. 

"I'm sure he was here by himself," Jacobsen said. "This is kind of a strange business. It's empty a good part of the 

time. Then everybody wants a computer at the same time." 

It's impossible to monitor the computers all the time. 

"We have a sign that says if you do porn, we'll bounce you," Jacobsen said. "But it's like a phone booth. You can 

make nasty calls and the phone company can't stop you. You can't have a $10-an-hour employee watch a $2-an-hour 

customer." 

Larry Long, South Dakota's attorney general, said he agreed with Barthel's assessment on Jones' use of child 

pornography. 

"Looking at the picture is different than possessing it," Long said. "The other e-mail is very interesting, but I'm 

having trouble coming to grips with how sending that e-mail in and of itself would constitute a crime unless you 

could combine it with other information" about another crime. 

"If you talk to the police, they'd point out people that, if they had their druthers, they'd follow 24 hours a day, seven 

days a week," Long said. "Tragically, our system doesn't work out that way." 

Long estimated that South Dakota has 1,500 sex offenders on record and that the system of monitoring them has 

prevented other crimes. 

"There are little girls who are alive and unharmed because we have been registering these people and leaning on 

them," Long said. "The difficult thing is, this guy didn't have a history. There's a percentage of these people who 

don't get caught and don't have that criminal history." 

Long said research links consumption of adult porn to other forms branded as more serious. 


"The people who sort through this stuff working in my crime lab almost invariably find adult porn with the child 

porn," he said. In looking at child porn offenses, "I don't think there's ever a situation where they don't find adult 

porn," he said. 

But it falls under protection of the Bill of Rights. 

"The Supreme Court says it's only because we're trying to protect children that we allow you to criminalize this 

conduct at all," Long said. 

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Some parents worried website could expose children up to pedophiles 

USA - KRNV-TV4, NV - April 15, 2005 

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3215464&nav=8faOYiH3 

With hundreds of online dating websites, more people are meeting through the Internet. 

There are dozens of websites where you can go to meet "friends." It may sound harmless for adults, but these friends 

may not be the type you want your children chatting with. 

Denise Wilson's daughter is a student at Mendive Middle School in Sparks, but to Internet users she's a very 

different person. "She put that she was 18, making $100,000 a year." 

The website is called myspace.com. Anyone can create a personal profile and when other users like what they see, 

they can ask to be your friend. Wilson got concerned when she found out her daughter got a lot of responses from 

older men. "Some of these responses where from men over 30 years old, I was out of my mind." 

The website requires users to be over 18, but that hasn't stopped middle school students from logging on. Users can 

do a search by school. A search for Mendive Middle School brought up more than 90 profiles. 

School officials say myspace.com is one of several online networks they may seem fun to kids, but can make them 

easy targets for Internet predators. 

Washoe County School spokesman Dr. Steve Mulvenon says websites viewed on school computers are closely 

monitored, but parents need to do the same at home. "We got filtering software installed in all the servers in schools, 

it automatically updates itself, we can add a specific address which is what we did in this case." 

Advice Denise Wilson takes to heart. "That was the part that startled me the most, that she was so oblivious to the 

type of person she exposed herself to, and her friends, and family." 

News 4 attempted to reach myspace.com for comment, but did not get a response. 

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Dauphin man facing child porn charges 

Canada - Canada.com - April 15, 2005 

http://www.canada.com/fortstjohn/story.html?id=de4b6046-2b0a-45f9-bf72-ebf4aa5ab24a 

Dauphin, Manitoba - A man in western Manitoba has been charged with possession of child pornography after his 

home was searched earlier this week. 

The Manitoba Integrated Child Exploitation Unit, with the help of the RCMP, carried out a search warrant at the 

home in Dauphin on Wednesday. 

Police say computer equipment and related items were seized for forensic examination. 

The 39-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene without incident. 


Robert Alan Stuart, who also faces a charge of accessing child pornography, will appear in court May 24th. 

Police say the arrest followed a joint international police investigation involving law enforcement agencies from 

Canada and the U.S. 

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Paedophiles "aiming for tsunami-hit areas" 

Australia - Swiss Info - April 17, 2005 

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5691284&cKey=1113649523000 

Melbourne (Reuters) - Convicted Australian paedophiles have been caught trying to travel to areas of Asia hit by the 

devastatingDecember tsunami, Australian Justice and Customs Minister Chris Ellison said on Saturday. 

The Australian newspaper said that about 20 convicted paedophiles had tried to travel to Indonesia and Thailand 

immediately after thetsunami, but they were refused entry after their details were forwarded by Australia. 

Ellison did not confirm the numbers involved, but said the paedophiles were on a national child sex offender 

register, which follows theirmovements. 

He said the Government, Australian Federal Police and Asian authorities were working to stop paedophiles from 

exploiting circumstancescaused by the tsunami. 

"There is no allegation as I understand it that anyone has committed an offence, but certainly this is about 

prevention," he told reporters. 

"It is of concern to me that paedophiles might use the current environment in Indonesia and Thailand, in fact the 

region, to prey upon childrenand Australia must do everything possible to stop what is an abominable activity." 

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Explosive Testimony Before Justice Committee on Sex Offenders 

Canada - News Release CND Justice Committee Member - April 14, 2005 

By Mark Warawa, MP Conservative 

http://www.markwarawa.com/PDF/71.pdf 

Today Conservative MP Mark Warawa revealed explosive testimony from the Justice Committee studying Bill C-2 

on child pornography. University of Toronto psychiatrist, Dr. Ron Langevin testified before the committee today 

regarding his recently completed intensive study on deviant sex offenders and recidivism in Canada, called Lifetime 

Sex Offender Recidivism. Dr. Langevin revealed some incredible statistics which shocked the committee members, 

says Warawa, BCs Justice Committee representative. 

According to the study, 88 percent of deviant sex offenders in a 25 year follow up have re-offended. Dr. Langevin 

also revealed that 44 percent of deviant sex offenders who were caught, charged and convicted of the crimes were 

never incarcerated, says Warawa. He told us that these offenders who serve their sentences at home present an 

extreme high risk to re-offend, he adds. This is exactly why a Conservative government would eliminate conditional 

sentencing for violent and sex offenders. 

Dr. Langevin further testified that picture takers are the most deviant and sadistic offenders of all. These offenders 

average 14 prior convictions before being declared a dangerous offender. Imagine how many offences these people 

have committed, if they have been caught and convicted 14 times? asks Warawa. The number of victims is 

staggering. 

Bill C-2 still allows for the defense of artistic merit for potentially pornographic photographs, says Warawa. The 

Conservative party would like to see that defense removed from the legislation. Dr. Langevin also testified that 

treatment has been shown not to be effective for those found to have a lifetime sexual disorder. The only effective 

assistance is a circle of support including intensive clinical professional treatment and support. This study has 

shown that offenders who possess a certain criteria of sex offending will re-offend and in my opinion should be 

declared a dangerous offender says Warawa. 


This study shows that Canadians are not being protected, and that many sex offenders living in the community will 

reoffend, says the Langley MP. No wonder communities across Canada have been adamantly saying no to having 

convicted sex offenders released in their neighbourhoods, he adds. This report justifies their fears. 

The study looked at the histories of 2,000 sex offenders from 1966-1999. It is the biggest Canadian study dealing 

with sex offenders and recidivism. 

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- PANDEMIC - Pedos & Child Porn in the News - Equal Parenting-BC

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