Classic coddling. Dad is identified as PETER CLARKE. No mention here as to whether his kids were involved or what his custodial relationship to them is.
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/13715657.Dad_of_two_had_almost_3_000____grotesque____child_abuse_images/
Dad-of-two had almost 3,000 ‘grotesque’ child abuse images
Sentencing: Judge Ian Pringle
Sentencing: Judge Ian Pringle
The Oxford Times:
Joe Gammie, Reporter / Monday 14 September 2015 / News
A FATHER-OF-TWO caught with a “grotesque” collection of indecent images of children on his computer was spared jail.
Police swooped on Peter Clarke’s home in January after tracing a file uploaded from his computer to the file-sharing program Dropbox.
Officers seized the 42-year-old’s laptop and found nearly 3,000 indecent images of children on it, a court heard.
Prosecutor Julian Lynch said that 594 of the files were of the most severe category, including images and videos of babies as young as 18 months old being involved in sexual acts.
Mr Lynch told Oxford Crown Court on Thursday that when first questioned about the images Clarke told police he was trying to understand sexual abuse but in a second interview admitted that the images were for his own sexual gratification.
Clarke, of Van Diemans, in Stanford in the Vale, admitted three counts of making indecent images of children between November 2010 and August last year when he appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court last month.
Lucy Ffrench, defending, said Clarke had been exposed to pornography from a young age and hated himself for what he had done.
She added: “He is mortified to be here today. He accepts the harm he has indirectly caused to the childwren involved.
“He has stopped his use of pornography and accepts that he needs to completely withdraw from that material forever .”
Judge Ian Pringle said it was staggering that a father had downloaded the “appalling” images of children being “grotesquely abused”.
But Judge Pringle said that because of Clarke’s guilty pleas and the fact he had made frank confessions when interviewed he could suspend a prison sentence.
He added: “Where there is sufficient prospect of rehabilitation it is right that the court take it.
“For those reasons I am going to take the exceptional course of making the sentence of 14 months suspended for two years .”
He gave Clarke a two-year supervision order and ordered him to undergo a 36-session sexual offender treatment programme.
Judge Pringle also imposed a sexual harm prevention order and Clarke will have to sign the sexual offenders’ register for 10 years.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Monday, September 7, 2015
Dad gets life sentence for sexually abusing daughter during visitation (Fort Worth, Texas)
Notice the use of the passive tense here: "he was granted regular visitation." WHO granted sick pedo dad DANIEL GARCIA JR. visitation when he had had no contact with this girl from birth to seven? Was any of his past history with the step children known at that time?
http://www.wfaa.com/story/entertainment/television/2015/09/05/fort-worth-father-abuse-sentence/71790138/
North Texas man given life sentence for abuse of daughter
Marjorie Owens, WFAA 9:37 p.m. CDT September 5, 2015
FORT WORTH — A young girl's desire to connect with her father led to a tragic case of abuse that prosecutors say ultimately led to her "stolen innocence."
Daniel Garcia Jr. was sentenced to life in prison by a grand jury for sexually abusing his daughter over four years after he was granted regular visitations.
At the age of 7, the victim asked her mother if she could meet Garcia, her biological father, read a statement from District Attorney Sharen Wilson. Soon after their initial meeting, he was granted regular visitations, and the abuse began.
Prosecutors say the child endured abuse that escalated over a four-year period. "The girl, now a tween, quietly recounted her memories of the abuse to the jury the first day of the trial," Wilson said.
During her testimony, the young girl recounted how in addition to the abuse, she was forced to look at graphic pornography, including images of bestiality. "
And investigators recovered graphic Internet searches on Garcia's laptop, such as 'sex with my young daughter,'" Wilson said. "His laptop also revealed evidence Garcia had installed software enabling online peer file-sharing, regularly utilized by those possessing child pornography."
Garcia's father also took the stand. Previous to the abuse, the elderly father and his wife were granted custody of two of Garcia's other children. He also told the jury the father of two of Garcia's previous stepchildren also accused him of sexual abuse. Angered, the man attempted to shoot Garcia, but instead shot Garcia's father, who attempted to block the gunfire.
"This case was an ugly glimpse into the mind of a pedophile," said prosecutor David Alex. "I pray that we can break the stronghold they have over their young victims and get more of them off the streets."
http://www.wfaa.com/story/entertainment/television/2015/09/05/fort-worth-father-abuse-sentence/71790138/
North Texas man given life sentence for abuse of daughter
Marjorie Owens, WFAA 9:37 p.m. CDT September 5, 2015
FORT WORTH — A young girl's desire to connect with her father led to a tragic case of abuse that prosecutors say ultimately led to her "stolen innocence."
Daniel Garcia Jr. was sentenced to life in prison by a grand jury for sexually abusing his daughter over four years after he was granted regular visitations.
At the age of 7, the victim asked her mother if she could meet Garcia, her biological father, read a statement from District Attorney Sharen Wilson. Soon after their initial meeting, he was granted regular visitations, and the abuse began.
Prosecutors say the child endured abuse that escalated over a four-year period. "The girl, now a tween, quietly recounted her memories of the abuse to the jury the first day of the trial," Wilson said.
During her testimony, the young girl recounted how in addition to the abuse, she was forced to look at graphic pornography, including images of bestiality. "
And investigators recovered graphic Internet searches on Garcia's laptop, such as 'sex with my young daughter,'" Wilson said. "His laptop also revealed evidence Garcia had installed software enabling online peer file-sharing, regularly utilized by those possessing child pornography."
Garcia's father also took the stand. Previous to the abuse, the elderly father and his wife were granted custody of two of Garcia's other children. He also told the jury the father of two of Garcia's previous stepchildren also accused him of sexual abuse. Angered, the man attempted to shoot Garcia, but instead shot Garcia's father, who attempted to block the gunfire.
"This case was an ugly glimpse into the mind of a pedophile," said prosecutor David Alex. "I pray that we can break the stronghold they have over their young victims and get more of them off the streets."
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Dad gets life in prison for raping, sodomizing daughter for five years (Johnson County, Missouri)
No mention of the mother anywhere. I suspect that this was a custody/visitation situation, very possibly involving full custody for the father. Sexual abusers very often prefer to have full access/possession of their victims with no possibly interference from "pesky" moms.
Dad is identified as DARRON J. CHAPMAN.
http://www.gasconadecountyrepublican.com/news/owensville/article_715fc8fe-4bfd-11e5-97c3-b3fc9170a328.html
Life sentence for Chapman in child sex abuse case
Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 9:19 am | Updated: 11:15 am, Wed Aug 26, 2015.
Posted on Aug 26, 2015
by Dave Marner
A former area resident was sentenced Thursday to 75 years in prison for sexually abusing his own daughter over a 5-year period which ended this past summer with the his arrest.
Rob Russell, prosecuting attorney of Johnson County, said Johnson County Circuit Judge Mike Wagner sentenced Darron J. Chapman, now 38, to four “life terms” of 30 years, to be served concurrently, and three additional 15-year terms — to be served consecutively to each other — following completion of the 30-year terms.
Chapman pleaded guilty in June to felony charges of statutory rape, three counts of statutory sodomy, first-degree child molestation, and two counts of possession of child pornography.
“There really wasn’t going to be probation in this case,” said Russell. “The true depths of this tragedy, the horrible and despicable nature, was not really made public. As a father, this is a case that’s almost unfathomable and you hope you never have one like this again.”
Chapman admitted to raping and sodomizing his own daughter on her fifth birthday in 2008. He was also charged with deviate sexual intercourse with her on a Father’s Day. Russell said the sexual assaults took place over a 5-year period until the girl was 10-years-old.
The allegations first came to light last summer, said Russell. The girl had been working on a history project about the Civil War during the school year. Russell said she told authorities she had been reading about how slaves were considered property and how females were often exploited by their owners.
“She put two-and-two together and though she was being treated like women in those textbooks,” said Russell.
When the girl questioned her father about his actions, Russell said investigators learned Chapman showed his daughter video clips of child pornography.
“He showed her adult on child pornography and told her this was normal father-child behavior,” said Russell.
Details of his crimes came to light in June 2014 when the girl underwent a forensic examination conducted by staff at ChildSafe of Missouri in Sedalia, Mo.
Chapman, who has been jailed in lieu of a $500,000 cash only bond since his arrest in July 2014, pleaded guilty on June 15 to all seven felony charges against him.
“I still can’t get my head around this,” said Russell who was glad the case was over and that the sentencing reflected the crime’s impact on the victim. “I think that’s reflected on how the court’s thought process was applied in sentencing. “It’s just despicable what he did.”
Russell said nothing in the Warrensburg police department’s year-long investigation indicated there were any other victims other than Chapman’s daughter. Chapman resigned his position of 13 years as information technology director for the Warrensburg school district only days prior to being arrested last summer.
“There’s no indication he had any other victims in this case,” said Russell.
Chapman was arrested June 24, 2014, attempting to enter Gasconade County.
Dad is identified as DARRON J. CHAPMAN.
http://www.gasconadecountyrepublican.com/news/owensville/article_715fc8fe-4bfd-11e5-97c3-b3fc9170a328.html
Life sentence for Chapman in child sex abuse case
Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 9:19 am | Updated: 11:15 am, Wed Aug 26, 2015.
Posted on Aug 26, 2015
by Dave Marner
A former area resident was sentenced Thursday to 75 years in prison for sexually abusing his own daughter over a 5-year period which ended this past summer with the his arrest.
Rob Russell, prosecuting attorney of Johnson County, said Johnson County Circuit Judge Mike Wagner sentenced Darron J. Chapman, now 38, to four “life terms” of 30 years, to be served concurrently, and three additional 15-year terms — to be served consecutively to each other — following completion of the 30-year terms.
Chapman pleaded guilty in June to felony charges of statutory rape, three counts of statutory sodomy, first-degree child molestation, and two counts of possession of child pornography.
“There really wasn’t going to be probation in this case,” said Russell. “The true depths of this tragedy, the horrible and despicable nature, was not really made public. As a father, this is a case that’s almost unfathomable and you hope you never have one like this again.”
Chapman admitted to raping and sodomizing his own daughter on her fifth birthday in 2008. He was also charged with deviate sexual intercourse with her on a Father’s Day. Russell said the sexual assaults took place over a 5-year period until the girl was 10-years-old.
The allegations first came to light last summer, said Russell. The girl had been working on a history project about the Civil War during the school year. Russell said she told authorities she had been reading about how slaves were considered property and how females were often exploited by their owners.
“She put two-and-two together and though she was being treated like women in those textbooks,” said Russell.
When the girl questioned her father about his actions, Russell said investigators learned Chapman showed his daughter video clips of child pornography.
“He showed her adult on child pornography and told her this was normal father-child behavior,” said Russell.
Details of his crimes came to light in June 2014 when the girl underwent a forensic examination conducted by staff at ChildSafe of Missouri in Sedalia, Mo.
Chapman, who has been jailed in lieu of a $500,000 cash only bond since his arrest in July 2014, pleaded guilty on June 15 to all seven felony charges against him.
“I still can’t get my head around this,” said Russell who was glad the case was over and that the sentencing reflected the crime’s impact on the victim. “I think that’s reflected on how the court’s thought process was applied in sentencing. “It’s just despicable what he did.”
Russell said nothing in the Warrensburg police department’s year-long investigation indicated there were any other victims other than Chapman’s daughter. Chapman resigned his position of 13 years as information technology director for the Warrensburg school district only days prior to being arrested last summer.
“There’s no indication he had any other victims in this case,” said Russell.
Chapman was arrested June 24, 2014, attempting to enter Gasconade County.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Dad offers to sexually abuse daughter on-line (Ireland)
UNNAMED DAD
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/father-offered-to-broadcast-abuse-of-daughter-online-1.2160607
Father offered to broadcast abuse of daughter online
Child Care Law Reporting Project publishes 30 new childcare cases
The cases reported by the Child Care Law Reporting Project today include stories of minors who were unable to find suitable treatment in Ireland when seeking to return home from facilities in other jurisdictions.
The cases reported by the Child Care Law Reporting Project today include stories of minors who were unable to find suitable treatment in Ireland when seeking to return home from facilities in other jurisdictions.
Ciarán D'Arcy Wed, Apr 1, 2015, 01:00
First published: Wed, Apr 1, 2015, 01:00
Care orders were issued earlier this year for infants who were offered for online sexual abuse and exposed to an environment where hard drugs were present, according to a new report.
The Child Care Law Reporting Project today published 30 new childcare cases, including stories of minors who were unable to find suitable treatment in Ireland when seeking to return home from facilities in other jurisdictions.
In a recent District Court ruling, a young child was ordered to be placed in care until the age of 18 after her father offered to sexually abuse her online.
The man said he would broadcast the abuse via a webcam when contacted by another user of an internet chatroom who turned out to be an undercover police officer from a different country.
The child’s mother had been groomed by his father from the age of 13 or 14 before eventually giving birth to the child at the age of 18, according to a submission by the Child and Family Agency.
Sexually exploited
She denied involvement in any abuse but admitted to being aware of child pornography images held on her husband’s computer and said it was possible that he had sexually exploited their daughter in the past.
The man was arrested by gardaà but has since left the jurisdiction. Another District Court sitting heard details of a young child who was taken away from his parents after gardaà discovered him in a car where heroin, needles and other drug-taking paraphernalia were present.
The child’s parents were homeless drug addicts who had admitted to taking drugs earlier that day and were preparing to do so again, gardaà said.
The child was discovered in the back seat of the car beside an unrelated adult male on a near-freezing night.
The toddler was subsequently taken to a hospital by a garda, who noticed a cut across his throat which the child said was a knife wound inflicted by his father.
Evidence suggested that his mother would usually sneak them into her brother’s hostel, but didn’t return on the night in question after he hit her over the head with a hatchet.
An interim care order for the child was granted.
“Some of the cases we publish . . . are very shocking and highlight the importance of the vigilance of international police forces’ specialist units monitoring such activity,” said project director Dr Carol Coulter. “However, most of the cases we report show, again, how most parents whose children come to the attention of social services are themselves vulnerable, may be suffering from cognitive or other disabilities, may have no experience of normal family life and have been in care themselves.”
The latest tranche of cases reveal how a child who was receiving psychiatric care abroad felt his human rights were being infringed as he could not return home due to a lack of suitable services.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/father-offered-to-broadcast-abuse-of-daughter-online-1.2160607
Father offered to broadcast abuse of daughter online
Child Care Law Reporting Project publishes 30 new childcare cases
The cases reported by the Child Care Law Reporting Project today include stories of minors who were unable to find suitable treatment in Ireland when seeking to return home from facilities in other jurisdictions.
The cases reported by the Child Care Law Reporting Project today include stories of minors who were unable to find suitable treatment in Ireland when seeking to return home from facilities in other jurisdictions.
Ciarán D'Arcy Wed, Apr 1, 2015, 01:00
First published: Wed, Apr 1, 2015, 01:00
Care orders were issued earlier this year for infants who were offered for online sexual abuse and exposed to an environment where hard drugs were present, according to a new report.
The Child Care Law Reporting Project today published 30 new childcare cases, including stories of minors who were unable to find suitable treatment in Ireland when seeking to return home from facilities in other jurisdictions.
In a recent District Court ruling, a young child was ordered to be placed in care until the age of 18 after her father offered to sexually abuse her online.
The man said he would broadcast the abuse via a webcam when contacted by another user of an internet chatroom who turned out to be an undercover police officer from a different country.
The child’s mother had been groomed by his father from the age of 13 or 14 before eventually giving birth to the child at the age of 18, according to a submission by the Child and Family Agency.
Sexually exploited
She denied involvement in any abuse but admitted to being aware of child pornography images held on her husband’s computer and said it was possible that he had sexually exploited their daughter in the past.
The man was arrested by gardaà but has since left the jurisdiction. Another District Court sitting heard details of a young child who was taken away from his parents after gardaà discovered him in a car where heroin, needles and other drug-taking paraphernalia were present.
The child’s parents were homeless drug addicts who had admitted to taking drugs earlier that day and were preparing to do so again, gardaà said.
The child was discovered in the back seat of the car beside an unrelated adult male on a near-freezing night.
The toddler was subsequently taken to a hospital by a garda, who noticed a cut across his throat which the child said was a knife wound inflicted by his father.
Evidence suggested that his mother would usually sneak them into her brother’s hostel, but didn’t return on the night in question after he hit her over the head with a hatchet.
An interim care order for the child was granted.
“Some of the cases we publish . . . are very shocking and highlight the importance of the vigilance of international police forces’ specialist units monitoring such activity,” said project director Dr Carol Coulter. “However, most of the cases we report show, again, how most parents whose children come to the attention of social services are themselves vulnerable, may be suffering from cognitive or other disabilities, may have no experience of normal family life and have been in care themselves.”
The latest tranche of cases reveal how a child who was receiving psychiatric care abroad felt his human rights were being infringed as he could not return home due to a lack of suitable services.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Dad charged with child pornography; promised to send images of newborn baby being sexually abused (Brisbane, Australia)
Dad is identified as ASHLEY DAVID HILL.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/man-charged-with-child-pornography-after-allegedly-promising-to-send-images-of-his-unborn-baby/story-fnn8dlfs-1227195824240
Man charged with child pornography after allegedly promising to send images of his unborn baby
Brooke Baskin The Courier-Mail January 25, 2015 12:00AM
IN A case that is set to shock the nation, a Brisbane man has been charged with child pornography after promising to send explicit images of his newborn baby via the internet.
Ashley David Hill, 23, a chef from the northside suburb of Chermside, allegedly promised to send images of his newborn baby being abused to an undercover FBI agent posing as a pedophile in the US.
Hill fronted the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday charged with using a carriage service for child pornography material and three counts of possessing child pornography, following his arrest by Australian Federal Police on Friday.
He was allegedly using a file-sharing service to send and receive child pornography images with another person via the internet.
It was alleged the man’s partner was just weeks away from giving birth when he allegedly brokered an online deal to supply images of his newborn baby being abused to the undercover agent in the US.
The Sunday Mail understands the soon-to-be-father provided a scanned copy of a recent ultrasound of his unborn child to the agent as proof of his preparedness to follow through with the plan.
It was not clear whether the man organised monetary payment for the abuse images of his newborn child or whether they were to be in exchange for further child exploitation images from the US contact.
Federal police searched the man’s home on Friday following a tip-off from authorities overseas and allegedly found a large number of child exploitation images on computers and hard drives in the man’s possession.
Lawyer Rhianna Batt applied for bail on the man’s behalf yesterday, subject to strict conditions requested by police.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Matt Kahler asked that the man be banned from using the internet, not have any unsupervised contact with children aged under 16, not attend any point of international departure and that he reside at a home in Chermside while on bail.
Ms Batt said her client was willing to comply with all conditions, adding that because he worked as a chef there was no reason for him to use the internet.
Magistrate Tina Previtera granted bail subject to onerous conditions, including that he surrender his passport to authorities.
No one was waiting for the man as he was released from the Brisbane City Watchhouse and he made no comment to waiting media.
He will front court again on February 13.
If convicted, the man faces up to 15 years behind bars under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/man-charged-with-child-pornography-after-allegedly-promising-to-send-images-of-his-unborn-baby/story-fnn8dlfs-1227195824240
Man charged with child pornography after allegedly promising to send images of his unborn baby
Brooke Baskin The Courier-Mail January 25, 2015 12:00AM
IN A case that is set to shock the nation, a Brisbane man has been charged with child pornography after promising to send explicit images of his newborn baby via the internet.
Ashley David Hill, 23, a chef from the northside suburb of Chermside, allegedly promised to send images of his newborn baby being abused to an undercover FBI agent posing as a pedophile in the US.
Hill fronted the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday charged with using a carriage service for child pornography material and three counts of possessing child pornography, following his arrest by Australian Federal Police on Friday.
He was allegedly using a file-sharing service to send and receive child pornography images with another person via the internet.
It was alleged the man’s partner was just weeks away from giving birth when he allegedly brokered an online deal to supply images of his newborn baby being abused to the undercover agent in the US.
The Sunday Mail understands the soon-to-be-father provided a scanned copy of a recent ultrasound of his unborn child to the agent as proof of his preparedness to follow through with the plan.
It was not clear whether the man organised monetary payment for the abuse images of his newborn child or whether they were to be in exchange for further child exploitation images from the US contact.
Federal police searched the man’s home on Friday following a tip-off from authorities overseas and allegedly found a large number of child exploitation images on computers and hard drives in the man’s possession.
Lawyer Rhianna Batt applied for bail on the man’s behalf yesterday, subject to strict conditions requested by police.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Matt Kahler asked that the man be banned from using the internet, not have any unsupervised contact with children aged under 16, not attend any point of international departure and that he reside at a home in Chermside while on bail.
Ms Batt said her client was willing to comply with all conditions, adding that because he worked as a chef there was no reason for him to use the internet.
Magistrate Tina Previtera granted bail subject to onerous conditions, including that he surrender his passport to authorities.
No one was waiting for the man as he was released from the Brisbane City Watchhouse and he made no comment to waiting media.
He will front court again on February 13.
If convicted, the man faces up to 15 years behind bars under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Dad charged with making, distributing child pornography involving 4-month-old baby still gets supervised visitation with 3-year-old son (Fargo, North Dakota)
Sickening and infuriating. I've known to many mothers who have lost all contact with their children for even alleging sexual abuse by others. Meanwhile, this piece of crap is caught red-handed with evidence that he sexually assaulted a 4-month-old baby and made and distributed child pornography based on this. And yet he gets supervised visitation with his 3-year-old son. Barf. The triumph of Fathers Rights.
Dad is identified CALEB STUART LOFALD.
http://www.inforum.com/news/crime/3657692-former-fargo-firefighter-now-duluth-used-work-computer-store-child-pornography
Former Fargo firefighter now in Duluth used work computer to store child pornography, investigators say
By Tom Olsen / Forum News Service Today at 8:36 p.m.
DULUTH - A Duluth - and former Fargo - firefighter who faces sexual misconduct and child pornography charges allegedly used a computer at a Duluth fire station to distribute pornographic images of a 4-month-old child, according to court documents.
Caleb Stuart Lofald, 32, of Hermantown already is charged with sexually assaulting the infant girl and surreptitiously recording a 6-year-old boy and an adult woman in various stages of undress in a guest room at his home.
But court documents and statements from authorities Friday suggested that he remains under investigation for possible additional charges related to the production, possession and distribution of child pornography.
“These are very serious allegations,” prosecutor Gary Bjorklund said. “The defendant is well aware that these charges are part of a much larger investigation that could be headed toward significant federal charges.”
Judge David Johnson set Lofald’s bail at $250,000 without conditions or $100,000 with conditions at an initial appearance Friday morning in State District Court in Duluth. Conditions of the lower bail would include a screening for intensive supervised release and no unsupervised contact with minors.
Lofald, lodged at the St. Louis County Jail since Tuesday, appeared in court wearing an orange jumpsuit. A half-dozen supporters, including his wife and father, sat in the courtroom.
Bjorklund, head of the criminal division of the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office, asked for significant bail, citing the serious nature of the alleged crimes and the possibility of additional state or federal charges.
“The state is concerned about the defendant being a flight risk and the well-being of the public,” Bjorklund told the judge.
Superior attorney Stephen Zuber represented Lofald at the hearing.
Zuber described Lofald as a lifelong resident of the Duluth and Hermantown area and said he has strong ties to the community. He said Lofald has been supported by family and has had numerous supervised visits with his own 3½-year-old son since the investigation was launched nearly two months ago.
“The search warrant in this case was executed on Nov. 20,” Zuber said. “The defendant has been free since that time with no issues.”
Court documents allege that investigators found numerous photographs and recordings on electronic devices seized from both Lofald’s Hermantown home and the Duluth Fire Department’s Fire Station 7.
The devices allegedly included 11 photographs of a partially nude 4-month-old girl, with several images depicting a hand manipulating the child’s genital area, according to the criminal complaint. The photos allegedly were taken in Lofald’s home in May 2013.
Investigators said that video recordings of a 6-year-old boy and adult female also were retrieved from the electronic devices. The videos were recorded by a hidden camera in a guest room at Lofald’s home on separate days in September 2014, according to the complaint.
Additional court documents allege that Lofald admitted to distributing child pornography from the fire station. Images of the 4-month-old were found on a hard drive seized from the station, according to a probable cause application filed this week by investigator Jeanine Pauly of the Lake Superior Forensic Technology and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
While the devices were seized in November, the images were not recovered from the hard drive until last week, Pauly said. Lofald remains under investigation for further child pornography charges as a forensic examination of the devices continues, according to the document.
After Friday’s hearing, Bjorklund declined to elaborate on the ongoing investigation. #Zuber also declined to comment, directing comments to Lofald’s primary attorney, Rick Gondik. Gondik, a Superior attorney, did not return a call requesting comment.
Zuber said during the hearing that Lofald has been a Duluth firefighter for seven years, and previously held the same position in Fargo.
He has been on paid administrative leave since November, but Duluth Mayor Don Ness on Thursday released a statement calling the allegations “beyond heinous” and stating that the city is in the process of firing Lofald.
Noting the nature of the alleged crimes, Bjorklund said he would file a notice of intent to seek a departure from sentencing guidelines should Lofald be found guilty. The most serious charged offense, second-degree criminal sexual conduct, carries a maximum of 25 years in prison.
Lofald’s next court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 4.
Dad is identified CALEB STUART LOFALD.
http://www.inforum.com/news/crime/3657692-former-fargo-firefighter-now-duluth-used-work-computer-store-child-pornography
Former Fargo firefighter now in Duluth used work computer to store child pornography, investigators say
By Tom Olsen / Forum News Service Today at 8:36 p.m.
DULUTH - A Duluth - and former Fargo - firefighter who faces sexual misconduct and child pornography charges allegedly used a computer at a Duluth fire station to distribute pornographic images of a 4-month-old child, according to court documents.
Caleb Stuart Lofald, 32, of Hermantown already is charged with sexually assaulting the infant girl and surreptitiously recording a 6-year-old boy and an adult woman in various stages of undress in a guest room at his home.
But court documents and statements from authorities Friday suggested that he remains under investigation for possible additional charges related to the production, possession and distribution of child pornography.
“These are very serious allegations,” prosecutor Gary Bjorklund said. “The defendant is well aware that these charges are part of a much larger investigation that could be headed toward significant federal charges.”
Judge David Johnson set Lofald’s bail at $250,000 without conditions or $100,000 with conditions at an initial appearance Friday morning in State District Court in Duluth. Conditions of the lower bail would include a screening for intensive supervised release and no unsupervised contact with minors.
Lofald, lodged at the St. Louis County Jail since Tuesday, appeared in court wearing an orange jumpsuit. A half-dozen supporters, including his wife and father, sat in the courtroom.
Bjorklund, head of the criminal division of the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office, asked for significant bail, citing the serious nature of the alleged crimes and the possibility of additional state or federal charges.
“The state is concerned about the defendant being a flight risk and the well-being of the public,” Bjorklund told the judge.
Superior attorney Stephen Zuber represented Lofald at the hearing.
Zuber described Lofald as a lifelong resident of the Duluth and Hermantown area and said he has strong ties to the community. He said Lofald has been supported by family and has had numerous supervised visits with his own 3½-year-old son since the investigation was launched nearly two months ago.
“The search warrant in this case was executed on Nov. 20,” Zuber said. “The defendant has been free since that time with no issues.”
Court documents allege that investigators found numerous photographs and recordings on electronic devices seized from both Lofald’s Hermantown home and the Duluth Fire Department’s Fire Station 7.
The devices allegedly included 11 photographs of a partially nude 4-month-old girl, with several images depicting a hand manipulating the child’s genital area, according to the criminal complaint. The photos allegedly were taken in Lofald’s home in May 2013.
Investigators said that video recordings of a 6-year-old boy and adult female also were retrieved from the electronic devices. The videos were recorded by a hidden camera in a guest room at Lofald’s home on separate days in September 2014, according to the complaint.
Additional court documents allege that Lofald admitted to distributing child pornography from the fire station. Images of the 4-month-old were found on a hard drive seized from the station, according to a probable cause application filed this week by investigator Jeanine Pauly of the Lake Superior Forensic Technology and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
While the devices were seized in November, the images were not recovered from the hard drive until last week, Pauly said. Lofald remains under investigation for further child pornography charges as a forensic examination of the devices continues, according to the document.
After Friday’s hearing, Bjorklund declined to elaborate on the ongoing investigation. #Zuber also declined to comment, directing comments to Lofald’s primary attorney, Rick Gondik. Gondik, a Superior attorney, did not return a call requesting comment.
Zuber said during the hearing that Lofald has been a Duluth firefighter for seven years, and previously held the same position in Fargo.
He has been on paid administrative leave since November, but Duluth Mayor Don Ness on Thursday released a statement calling the allegations “beyond heinous” and stating that the city is in the process of firing Lofald.
Noting the nature of the alleged crimes, Bjorklund said he would file a notice of intent to seek a departure from sentencing guidelines should Lofald be found guilty. The most serious charged offense, second-degree criminal sexual conduct, carries a maximum of 25 years in prison.
Lofald’s next court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 4.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Dad convicted of sexually abusing his five young kids, posting pictures of abuse on-line (Winnipeg, Canada)
They should just shoot this piece of sh**. UNNAMED DAD.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2015/01/20150116-181059.html
Winnipeg dad forced sex acts on his kids, posted photos online
6:10 pm, January 16th, 2015
DEAN PRITCHARD | QMI AGENCY
WINNIPEG ─ Justice officials are seeking a 20-year prison sentence for a Winnipeg man who sexually abused five of his young children and posted pictures of the abuse online.
City police were alerted to the man's activities early last year after Australian investigators posing as online child predators met him on an illegal image-sharing site.
The 28-year-old man posted pictures of himself abusing his daughter and a message reading: "If interested in seeing some homemade stuff with this cutie, email me."
The man posted a similar message alongside a picture of his four sons sitting in a police cruiser.
"This only stopped because police figured it out," Crown attorney Jennifer Mann said at a sentencing hearing Friday. "There were no (prior) disclosures by the children. This wasn't going to be detected for a long time, maybe never."
In an interview following his arrest, the man claimed he was a sex addict and mentally ill.
"He is both a manipulator and a liar," Mann said. "This was not an illness. This was planned, premeditated criminal behaviour on the part of (the accused) ... He essentially turned his children into on-demand sex objects."
The man told police he abused his children because they were "accessible."
According to an agreed statement of facts submitted to court, the man wasn't supposed to have any access to his children at all. In 2008, the man and his wife were living in Edmonton when Child and Family Services seized their three children after concerns were raised about the man's "interactions" with his daughter.
The man returned to Winnipeg in 2009 and Edmonton CFS agreed to return the children to his wife on the condition they have no contact with their father.
The woman later rejoined her husband in Winnipeg and the couple had two more children. The family settled into a living arrangement in which the three oldest children lived with the man's parents during the week and visited their parents on the weekend.
Police interviews with the accused and his children revealed a regime of weekly abuse that included oral sex and sex acts between siblings at their father's direction.
One child told police the man on one occasion took away his video game and only returned it after he had provided the man with oral sex.
The man admitted to grooming his daughter and in an email exchange with an online predator said he "hope(s) to break her cherry one day."
The man has sentenced his daughter "to a lifetime of wondering who has seen the pictures ... and whether someone else on the Internet is viewing them," Mann said.
The man's lawyers argued a 20-year prison term would be "crushing" to his prospects for rehabilitation and recommended he be sentenced to eight years.
Judge Kelly Moar will sentence the man at a later date.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2015/01/20150116-181059.html
Winnipeg dad forced sex acts on his kids, posted photos online
6:10 pm, January 16th, 2015
DEAN PRITCHARD | QMI AGENCY
WINNIPEG ─ Justice officials are seeking a 20-year prison sentence for a Winnipeg man who sexually abused five of his young children and posted pictures of the abuse online.
City police were alerted to the man's activities early last year after Australian investigators posing as online child predators met him on an illegal image-sharing site.
The 28-year-old man posted pictures of himself abusing his daughter and a message reading: "If interested in seeing some homemade stuff with this cutie, email me."
The man posted a similar message alongside a picture of his four sons sitting in a police cruiser.
"This only stopped because police figured it out," Crown attorney Jennifer Mann said at a sentencing hearing Friday. "There were no (prior) disclosures by the children. This wasn't going to be detected for a long time, maybe never."
In an interview following his arrest, the man claimed he was a sex addict and mentally ill.
"He is both a manipulator and a liar," Mann said. "This was not an illness. This was planned, premeditated criminal behaviour on the part of (the accused) ... He essentially turned his children into on-demand sex objects."
The man told police he abused his children because they were "accessible."
According to an agreed statement of facts submitted to court, the man wasn't supposed to have any access to his children at all. In 2008, the man and his wife were living in Edmonton when Child and Family Services seized their three children after concerns were raised about the man's "interactions" with his daughter.
The man returned to Winnipeg in 2009 and Edmonton CFS agreed to return the children to his wife on the condition they have no contact with their father.
The woman later rejoined her husband in Winnipeg and the couple had two more children. The family settled into a living arrangement in which the three oldest children lived with the man's parents during the week and visited their parents on the weekend.
Police interviews with the accused and his children revealed a regime of weekly abuse that included oral sex and sex acts between siblings at their father's direction.
One child told police the man on one occasion took away his video game and only returned it after he had provided the man with oral sex.
The man admitted to grooming his daughter and in an email exchange with an online predator said he "hope(s) to break her cherry one day."
The man has sentenced his daughter "to a lifetime of wondering who has seen the pictures ... and whether someone else on the Internet is viewing them," Mann said.
The man's lawyers argued a 20-year prison term would be "crushing" to his prospects for rehabilitation and recommended he be sentenced to eight years.
Judge Kelly Moar will sentence the man at a later date.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Father, adult son arrested for child pornography (Caledonia, Michigan)
Why children don't "need" a father, and may in fact be better off without contact.
Dad is identified as TIMOTHY ROBERT GUILFOYLE.
http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/crime/2015/01/07/child-pornography/21410739/
Dad, son charged in Kent County child pornography case
John Hogan, WZZM 6:36 p.m. EST January 7, 2015
CALEDONIA, Mich. (WZZM) – For more than three years, a Kent County man has been under investigation for trading child pornography, based on computer activity monitored by Homeland Security investigators.
Agents say the account holder, 65-year-old Timothy Robert Guilfoyle, was in cahoots with his 21-year-old son, Sean Michael Guilfoyle.
The pair this week were ordered to stand trial on child sexually abusive activity that could put them behind bars for 20 years. #Sean Guilfoyle may have it worse than his father: he pleaded guilty last fall to child pornography charges stemming from a separate investigation in Caledonia.
He's scheduled to be sentenced next week in Kent County Circuit Court for child sexually abusive commercial activity. Investigators say he posted to Facebook a topless image of a 16-year-old. The girl used to date his brother's girlfriend, court records show.
The younger Guilfoyle told the teen he was battling an addiction to child pornography, court records show. After his October arrest, Kent County detectives found at his Caledonia home several thumb drives containing images of naked children and children engaged in sex acts, court records show.
Timothy Guilfoyle, who lives on Grand Rapids' northwest side, has been under investigation since Aug. 2011, when Homeland Security agents signed into an undercover account and discovered child porn being offered by a subject with the screen name Windsage22.
The user was sharing more than 262 images of child pornography, court records show. The account was later linked to the Guilfoyles.
Father and son admitted to downloading, viewing and sharing child pornography on the Internet, according to a probable cause affidavit in Kent County Circuit Court.
Timothy Guilfoyle was arrested Dec. 23 and charged with four counts of child sexually abusive criminal activity and four counts of using a computer to commit a crime. The offenses are punishable by 20 years in prison. He's being held in the Kent County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
Sean Guilfoyle is charged with one count of each offense. He's been in the Kent County Jail since October, when he was arrested in the case involving the 16-year-old victim.
Dad is identified as TIMOTHY ROBERT GUILFOYLE.
http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/crime/2015/01/07/child-pornography/21410739/
Dad, son charged in Kent County child pornography case
John Hogan, WZZM 6:36 p.m. EST January 7, 2015
CALEDONIA, Mich. (WZZM) – For more than three years, a Kent County man has been under investigation for trading child pornography, based on computer activity monitored by Homeland Security investigators.
Agents say the account holder, 65-year-old Timothy Robert Guilfoyle, was in cahoots with his 21-year-old son, Sean Michael Guilfoyle.
The pair this week were ordered to stand trial on child sexually abusive activity that could put them behind bars for 20 years. #Sean Guilfoyle may have it worse than his father: he pleaded guilty last fall to child pornography charges stemming from a separate investigation in Caledonia.
He's scheduled to be sentenced next week in Kent County Circuit Court for child sexually abusive commercial activity. Investigators say he posted to Facebook a topless image of a 16-year-old. The girl used to date his brother's girlfriend, court records show.
The younger Guilfoyle told the teen he was battling an addiction to child pornography, court records show. After his October arrest, Kent County detectives found at his Caledonia home several thumb drives containing images of naked children and children engaged in sex acts, court records show.
Timothy Guilfoyle, who lives on Grand Rapids' northwest side, has been under investigation since Aug. 2011, when Homeland Security agents signed into an undercover account and discovered child porn being offered by a subject with the screen name Windsage22.
The user was sharing more than 262 images of child pornography, court records show. The account was later linked to the Guilfoyles.
Father and son admitted to downloading, viewing and sharing child pornography on the Internet, according to a probable cause affidavit in Kent County Circuit Court.
Timothy Guilfoyle was arrested Dec. 23 and charged with four counts of child sexually abusive criminal activity and four counts of using a computer to commit a crime. The offenses are punishable by 20 years in prison. He's being held in the Kent County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
Sean Guilfoyle is charged with one count of each offense. He's been in the Kent County Jail since October, when he was arrested in the case involving the 16-year-old victim.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Dad pleads guilty to possession of child porn (Thurston County, Washington)
Dad is identified as ALAN DALE BURNS.
http://www.chronline.com/crime/article_b229154a-95d0-11e4-bbe7-dbf982d75d17.html
Rochester Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Porn
Posted: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:21 am
By The Olympian
A Rochester man has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography after he was arrested in an undercover investigation.
Alan Dale Burns, 34, appeared in shackles Monday at Thurston County Superior Court. He pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Burns had initially been charged with 16 counts, but 14 of those counts were dismissed Monday as part of the plea agreement.
Prosecutors have recommended a sentence of 34 months in prison, followed by 36 months of community custody. Burns will be required to register as a sex offender and undergo sexual deviancy evaluation and treatment, according to the court. Sentencing is set for Feb. 9. In an undercover operation, the FBI Dallas Child Exploitation Task Force in Texas had obtained several images of child pornography from a computer with an IP address from Rochester, according to court documents.
The IP address was eventually linked to Burns. Thurston County Sheriff’s Office detectives obtained a search warrant and arrested Burns on Sept. 11 at his Rochester home. At the time of his arrest, Burns was actively deleting files from his computer and Internet browsing history, according to documents.
Many of the images depicted sexual assaults against infants and toddlers by adult males, according to documents, with the ages of the victims estimated between six months and 8 years old.
Burns is the father of twin 2-year-olds, according to detectives, and it is unknown at this time whether the children were involved in the images or abuse. Documents state that detectives had seized an external hard drive, three computers and thumb drives, and a forensic analysis is underway.
http://www.chronline.com/crime/article_b229154a-95d0-11e4-bbe7-dbf982d75d17.html
Rochester Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Porn
Posted: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:21 am
By The Olympian
A Rochester man has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography after he was arrested in an undercover investigation.
Alan Dale Burns, 34, appeared in shackles Monday at Thurston County Superior Court. He pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Burns had initially been charged with 16 counts, but 14 of those counts were dismissed Monday as part of the plea agreement.
Prosecutors have recommended a sentence of 34 months in prison, followed by 36 months of community custody. Burns will be required to register as a sex offender and undergo sexual deviancy evaluation and treatment, according to the court. Sentencing is set for Feb. 9. In an undercover operation, the FBI Dallas Child Exploitation Task Force in Texas had obtained several images of child pornography from a computer with an IP address from Rochester, according to court documents.
The IP address was eventually linked to Burns. Thurston County Sheriff’s Office detectives obtained a search warrant and arrested Burns on Sept. 11 at his Rochester home. At the time of his arrest, Burns was actively deleting files from his computer and Internet browsing history, according to documents.
Many of the images depicted sexual assaults against infants and toddlers by adult males, according to documents, with the ages of the victims estimated between six months and 8 years old.
Burns is the father of twin 2-year-olds, according to detectives, and it is unknown at this time whether the children were involved in the images or abuse. Documents state that detectives had seized an external hard drive, three computers and thumb drives, and a forensic analysis is underway.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Dad arrested for possessing, distributing child porn (Anchorage, Alaska)
Is JAMES LAPLANTE a single dad? Notice that his custodial status is not clarified in this article, but there is no mention of a mother in the home either.
http://www.ktva.com/anchorage-dj-faces-child-pornography-charges-295/
Anchorage DJ faces child pornography charges
By KTVA CBS 11 News 11:12 AM December 5, 2014
ANCHORAGE – A well-known Anchorage DJ is accused of possessing and distributing child pornography to dozens of people and for soliciting pornographic images from children directly, authorities say.
James Laplante — also known as “Jimmy O’Brien” on country station KASH 107. 5′s morning drive time show — was arrested late Thursday and charged with five counts related to distributing and possessing child pornography and online enticement of a minor, according to a statement from the Alaska Department of Law. He’s scheduled to be arraigned at the Anchorage Jail Court Friday at 2:30 p.m.
Laplante, a father with biological and adopted children, was taken into custody after the Anchorage Police Department Cyber Crimes Unit and the Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s Technical Crimes Unit served search warrants of his home and office at the Dimond Center, the DOL said.
APD learned of the 48-year-old’s alleged crimes Oct. 2 when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) filed two “Cybertip” Anchorage area reports, according to charging documents.
In one case, Instagram — a photo-sharing phone application — reported through NCMEC that user “thematthewwhartley” uploaded 13 images of child sexual exploitation to the account, the charges say. Authorities determined the account belonged to Laplante and that one of the IP addresses used to upload the pictures originated from his home address.
In a second instance, an image flagged by Google was linked to an IP address that originated at Clear Channel Communications, Laplante’s employer, located in the Dimond Center.
A search by authorities of Laplante’s home and office revealed more than 1,000 images of child sexual exploitation on the external hard drive connected to his work computer. Investigators also found evidence he used the social media texting app “KIK” to “solicit child pornography images from children directly,” charging documents said.
In a non-custodial interview with authorities in his work office, Laplante admitted to creating the Instagram account and allowing about 50 other users to also access it. He denied producing images of child exploitation involving his own children — biological and adopted.
“Investigation is ongoing as to any potential sexual abuse that may have occurred,” the charges say.
http://www.ktva.com/anchorage-dj-faces-child-pornography-charges-295/
Anchorage DJ faces child pornography charges
By KTVA CBS 11 News 11:12 AM December 5, 2014
ANCHORAGE – A well-known Anchorage DJ is accused of possessing and distributing child pornography to dozens of people and for soliciting pornographic images from children directly, authorities say.
James Laplante — also known as “Jimmy O’Brien” on country station KASH 107. 5′s morning drive time show — was arrested late Thursday and charged with five counts related to distributing and possessing child pornography and online enticement of a minor, according to a statement from the Alaska Department of Law. He’s scheduled to be arraigned at the Anchorage Jail Court Friday at 2:30 p.m.
Laplante, a father with biological and adopted children, was taken into custody after the Anchorage Police Department Cyber Crimes Unit and the Alaska Bureau of Investigation’s Technical Crimes Unit served search warrants of his home and office at the Dimond Center, the DOL said.
APD learned of the 48-year-old’s alleged crimes Oct. 2 when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) filed two “Cybertip” Anchorage area reports, according to charging documents.
In one case, Instagram — a photo-sharing phone application — reported through NCMEC that user “thematthewwhartley” uploaded 13 images of child sexual exploitation to the account, the charges say. Authorities determined the account belonged to Laplante and that one of the IP addresses used to upload the pictures originated from his home address.
In a second instance, an image flagged by Google was linked to an IP address that originated at Clear Channel Communications, Laplante’s employer, located in the Dimond Center.
A search by authorities of Laplante’s home and office revealed more than 1,000 images of child sexual exploitation on the external hard drive connected to his work computer. Investigators also found evidence he used the social media texting app “KIK” to “solicit child pornography images from children directly,” charging documents said.
In a non-custodial interview with authorities in his work office, Laplante admitted to creating the Instagram account and allowing about 50 other users to also access it. He denied producing images of child exploitation involving his own children — biological and adopted.
“Investigation is ongoing as to any potential sexual abuse that may have occurred,” the charges say.
Friday, December 5, 2014
Dad sentenced to 16 month for child porn--but only half of that is in jail (United Kingdom)
Notice that dad MARK STONEMAN has been separated from the mother of his kids "for some time." Wonder if he will be getting custody/visitation as soon as things "blow over" a bit. These slime balls seem to be pretty successful at getting access, you know.
http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/latestnews/11643465.Father_of_two_jailed_for_having__horrific__abuse_images/
Father of two jailed for having "horrific" abuse images
First published Wednesday 3 December 2014 in News
Last updated 05:35 Thursday 4 December 2014 .
by Dominic Jones
A FATHER-of-two has been jailed after being found with hundreds of "horrific" images of child abuse.
At Newport Crown Court Mark Stoneman, 34, of Porthkerry Caravan Park, Rhoose, had asked to be spared a jail sentence in favour of treatment in the community. Judge William Gaskell told him: "I'm afraid that is an approach that is not only not attractive, but not likely", before jailing Stoneman for 16 months.
The court heard how Stoneman - who has been separated from his children's mother for some time - was tracked down as part of Operation Notarise, a UK wide police incentive which targeted users of peer to peer websites trading in child pornography.
When investigations found Stoneman to be a subscriber to one such website, he was arrested and had his home computer, iPhone and tablet seized.
On these devices police found 235 photographs and 89 movies of children being abused. Of these, 38 photos and 54 movies were "Category A" - the worst and highest classification.
Police also recovered 71 images of "extreme pornography". Stoneman initially gave a "no comment" police interview but later pleaded guilty to all charges.
Tim Naylor, defending Stoneman, told the court: "There isn't much in the way of mitigation, given the horrific material on his computer, phone and tablet.
"This was a bad period of his life where he was using alcohol and drugs, both of which he has resolved his issues with."
The court heard how Stoneman claimed to have initially looked at the images "out of curiosity" and it "spiralled" from there. He said he had experienced a sense of clarity since.
Mr Naylor said: "He thought, 'What if it was his own children in those images?'. He realised that what he was viewing was actually real life abuse, something at the time he didn't recognise.
"He's ashamed and disgusted with himself."
Stoneman had hoped to avoid a jail sentence in order to complete a three-year course of treatment for sexual offenders in the community, but Judge William Gaskell declined.
He told him that if he wanted to seek treatment he could do so after his 16 month sentence, half of which will be served behind bars.
Judge William Gaskell described and detailed some of the horrendous images Stoneman had viewed before telling him: "You downloaded these images for the purpose of getting sexual pleasure.
"You gave no mind to the fact that you were watching children who were being raped, who were the victims of sexual offences. you watched these children being abused for your pleasure.
"You won't get any 'good character' credit, because you aren't one."
The court heard how Stoneman had a list of previous offences including burglary, ABH, drink driving and battery.
In addition to the 16 month jail term, Stoneman was ordered to register as a sex offender for the next 10 years, to have his internet and computer use monitored upon release and to pay a £100 surcharge.
http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/latestnews/11643465.Father_of_two_jailed_for_having__horrific__abuse_images/
Father of two jailed for having "horrific" abuse images
First published Wednesday 3 December 2014 in News
Last updated 05:35 Thursday 4 December 2014 .
by Dominic Jones
A FATHER-of-two has been jailed after being found with hundreds of "horrific" images of child abuse.
At Newport Crown Court Mark Stoneman, 34, of Porthkerry Caravan Park, Rhoose, had asked to be spared a jail sentence in favour of treatment in the community. Judge William Gaskell told him: "I'm afraid that is an approach that is not only not attractive, but not likely", before jailing Stoneman for 16 months.
The court heard how Stoneman - who has been separated from his children's mother for some time - was tracked down as part of Operation Notarise, a UK wide police incentive which targeted users of peer to peer websites trading in child pornography.
When investigations found Stoneman to be a subscriber to one such website, he was arrested and had his home computer, iPhone and tablet seized.
On these devices police found 235 photographs and 89 movies of children being abused. Of these, 38 photos and 54 movies were "Category A" - the worst and highest classification.
Police also recovered 71 images of "extreme pornography". Stoneman initially gave a "no comment" police interview but later pleaded guilty to all charges.
Tim Naylor, defending Stoneman, told the court: "There isn't much in the way of mitigation, given the horrific material on his computer, phone and tablet.
"This was a bad period of his life where he was using alcohol and drugs, both of which he has resolved his issues with."
The court heard how Stoneman claimed to have initially looked at the images "out of curiosity" and it "spiralled" from there. He said he had experienced a sense of clarity since.
Mr Naylor said: "He thought, 'What if it was his own children in those images?'. He realised that what he was viewing was actually real life abuse, something at the time he didn't recognise.
"He's ashamed and disgusted with himself."
Stoneman had hoped to avoid a jail sentence in order to complete a three-year course of treatment for sexual offenders in the community, but Judge William Gaskell declined.
He told him that if he wanted to seek treatment he could do so after his 16 month sentence, half of which will be served behind bars.
Judge William Gaskell described and detailed some of the horrendous images Stoneman had viewed before telling him: "You downloaded these images for the purpose of getting sexual pleasure.
"You gave no mind to the fact that you were watching children who were being raped, who were the victims of sexual offences. you watched these children being abused for your pleasure.
"You won't get any 'good character' credit, because you aren't one."
The court heard how Stoneman had a list of previous offences including burglary, ABH, drink driving and battery.
In addition to the 16 month jail term, Stoneman was ordered to register as a sex offender for the next 10 years, to have his internet and computer use monitored upon release and to pay a £100 surcharge.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Murdered boy told police he thought his dad was going to kill him (Tyabb, Victoria, Australia)
An absolutely appalling case from Australia we've been following for a while. This father should have been arrested and locked up LONG before he murdered his son in a public setting. The evidence of official bungling, incompetence, and corruption just grows higher and deeper.
Dad was GREG ANDERSON.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/29/luke-batty-thought-father-going-to-kill-him
Luke Batty told police he thought his father was going to kill him
Inquest hears that murdered boy had described to detective how Greg Anderson had held out a knife and prayed
Mother Rosie Batty told the inquest she never thought her ex-husband was capable of killing.
Melissa Davey Tuesday 28 October 2014 23.24 EDT
Eleven-year-old Luke Batty told a detective and a child protection officer he thought his violent father, Greg Anderson, was going to kill him but he would not call police if he felt in danger because “dad would get angry”.
But detective Deborah Charteris also told the inquest into Luke’s death that she did not believe Luke was frightened of his father or at risk of physical harm.
Anderson killed Luke on a cricket field in Tyabb, Victoria in February, hitting him over the head with a cricket bat and stabbing him with a knife. He had a history of physically assaulting Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty, but not Luke.
The inquest heard that in September 2013, Charteris and a child protection officer interviewed Luke because Anderson had held up a knife to him while they were in a car together, saying, “This could be the one to end it all”.
Luke told the interviewers his father had been praying when the incident occurred, and he felt his father was going to kill him, the inquest at Melbourne coroner’s court heard on Wednesday morning.
But Luke then backtracked, Charteris said, saying he had been watching horror films around the time of the incident and had scared himself into thinking his father was directly threatening him. It was an explanation she found plausible, she said.
Luke told them he was not frightened of his father. Charteris concluded a criminal offence had not occurred and Luke was not in danger, closing her investigation.
Charteris said she told Luke that if he was ever alone with his father and felt scared he could call his mother or police, the inquest heard.
Luke became upset and responded: “I couldn’t do that to dad, he would get angry,” the inquest heard.
Senior counsel Rachel Doyle challenged Charteris on her conclusion that Luke’s father was threatening self-harm with the knife and therefore Luke was not in danger.
“Have you received any training that a threat of suicide should be taken into account when considering if there is a risk of family violence escalating or continuing?” she asked.
Charteris said based on what Luke had told her in the interview, Anderson had implied that he might self-harm but never explicitly said he would.
“How does a knife settle it other than by harming someone else or oneself?” Doyle said. “What I am suggesting to you [is] if there’s an inference of suicidal ideation, that itself is a risk factor relevant to the risk assessment. Did it not occur to you that another reason he was retreating from his first report of being scared may have been for a reason, namely not to get his father in trouble?”
Charteris responded: “I believed his account was an honest one and I didn’t believe he was trying to protect his father.”
The inquest heard Charteris was not told before she interviewed Luke that he had told an art therapist he was seeing that he was worried his father was going to jail, and “I feel like my life is walking a tightrope all of the time”.
Charteris said she knew at the time that Anderson was facing charges related to child sex abuse images. But she told the inquest she was not aware Luke’s mother had signed an undertaking with child protection officers to keep Luke within her line of sight, and not to allow Anderson to take photographs of Luke because of the charge.
On Tuesday, Charteris broke down as her evidence began, saying she had thought about whether she could have done things differently “a thousand times” since Luke’s death.
She said she had been told by Luke and his mother that they did not believe Anderson would harm Luke.
Giving evidence last week, Rosie Batty told the inquest that she never thought Anderson was capable of killing.
“All I had known was he had loved his son, never laid a hand on him, was never verbally abusive towards him,” Batty said.
The inquest continues.
Dad was GREG ANDERSON.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/29/luke-batty-thought-father-going-to-kill-him
Luke Batty told police he thought his father was going to kill him
Inquest hears that murdered boy had described to detective how Greg Anderson had held out a knife and prayed
Mother Rosie Batty told the inquest she never thought her ex-husband was capable of killing.
Melissa Davey Tuesday 28 October 2014 23.24 EDT
Eleven-year-old Luke Batty told a detective and a child protection officer he thought his violent father, Greg Anderson, was going to kill him but he would not call police if he felt in danger because “dad would get angry”.
But detective Deborah Charteris also told the inquest into Luke’s death that she did not believe Luke was frightened of his father or at risk of physical harm.
Anderson killed Luke on a cricket field in Tyabb, Victoria in February, hitting him over the head with a cricket bat and stabbing him with a knife. He had a history of physically assaulting Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty, but not Luke.
The inquest heard that in September 2013, Charteris and a child protection officer interviewed Luke because Anderson had held up a knife to him while they were in a car together, saying, “This could be the one to end it all”.
Luke told the interviewers his father had been praying when the incident occurred, and he felt his father was going to kill him, the inquest at Melbourne coroner’s court heard on Wednesday morning.
But Luke then backtracked, Charteris said, saying he had been watching horror films around the time of the incident and had scared himself into thinking his father was directly threatening him. It was an explanation she found plausible, she said.
Luke told them he was not frightened of his father. Charteris concluded a criminal offence had not occurred and Luke was not in danger, closing her investigation.
Charteris said she told Luke that if he was ever alone with his father and felt scared he could call his mother or police, the inquest heard.
Luke became upset and responded: “I couldn’t do that to dad, he would get angry,” the inquest heard.
Senior counsel Rachel Doyle challenged Charteris on her conclusion that Luke’s father was threatening self-harm with the knife and therefore Luke was not in danger.
“Have you received any training that a threat of suicide should be taken into account when considering if there is a risk of family violence escalating or continuing?” she asked.
Charteris said based on what Luke had told her in the interview, Anderson had implied that he might self-harm but never explicitly said he would.
“How does a knife settle it other than by harming someone else or oneself?” Doyle said. “What I am suggesting to you [is] if there’s an inference of suicidal ideation, that itself is a risk factor relevant to the risk assessment. Did it not occur to you that another reason he was retreating from his first report of being scared may have been for a reason, namely not to get his father in trouble?”
Charteris responded: “I believed his account was an honest one and I didn’t believe he was trying to protect his father.”
The inquest heard Charteris was not told before she interviewed Luke that he had told an art therapist he was seeing that he was worried his father was going to jail, and “I feel like my life is walking a tightrope all of the time”.
Charteris said she knew at the time that Anderson was facing charges related to child sex abuse images. But she told the inquest she was not aware Luke’s mother had signed an undertaking with child protection officers to keep Luke within her line of sight, and not to allow Anderson to take photographs of Luke because of the charge.
On Tuesday, Charteris broke down as her evidence began, saying she had thought about whether she could have done things differently “a thousand times” since Luke’s death.
She said she had been told by Luke and his mother that they did not believe Anderson would harm Luke.
Giving evidence last week, Rosie Batty told the inquest that she never thought Anderson was capable of killing.
“All I had known was he had loved his son, never laid a hand on him, was never verbally abusive towards him,” Batty said.
The inquest continues.
Friday, September 26, 2014
11-year-old daughter shoots dad after he breaks into the house and stabs mom with protective order; had previously molested one of his kids and threatened to kill her by putting a gun to her head (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
This little girl is a hero, no doubt about it.
But if Daddy molested one of the kids WITH A WITNESS and threatened to kill the kid BY PUTTING A GUN TO HER HEAD, then why wasn't he locked up instead of roaming around town violating the protection order filed against him? But another example of abuser daddy coddling by the authorities.
Dad is identified as LEO HENRY.
http://www.newson6.com/story/26621040/child-11-shoots-suspect-attack-mom-in-se-okc
Child, 11, Shoots Suspect Attack Mom In SE OKC
Posted: Sep 24, 2014 7:31 PM EDT Updated: Sep 24, 2014 7:31 PM EDT
By Adrianna Iwasinski, News 9
Neighbors say 25-year-old Leo Henry broke into the house a few days back and took several things. He then came back Wednesday night, broke in again, and attacked his ex-fiancée with a knife, while both their young children were inside.
OKLAHOMA CITY - A horrible domestic dispute between a man and his girlfriend leads to her being stabbed, and him being shot by one of her children.
Neighbors say it was an 11-year-old girl who fired the gun.
It all happened just after 4 a.m. Wednesday near SE 89th St. and Bryant at the Burntwood Mobile Home Park. Those who live near the home are very shocked about what happened, but all of them are calling the little girl a hero.
“She saved her mom and her brothers and sisters, she really did,” said Carolyn Marsee, who lives next door to the mobile home where the stabbing and shooting happened.
Neighbors say 25-year-old Leo Henry broke into the house a few days back and took several things. He then came back Wednesday night, broke in again, and attacked his ex-fiancée with a knife, while both their young children were inside. She says the young couple had just moved into this home in July.
“I heard the shots. I heard screaming and yelling,” said Marsee. “And I was just praying that the kids were OK.”
News 9 discovered a protective order was filed a week ago by that mother against Henry. And it wasn't to protect her. It was to protect the children.
“He was mean to the kids,” said Marsee.
“He's a monster. He is a monster,” said her granddaughter Carolyn, who says she is a friend of the mother who was stabbed.
His stepsister still can't believe what happened.
“Never been like this. He's never been violent,” said Emma Spence, who says Henry is her step brother and claims the two are close. “He's always been there. We never thought that this would happen!”
But in the VPO filed Sept. 18, it states Leo Henry's own mother told the fiancée she witnessed Henry sexually molesting one of his children. It also states Henry threatened one of the children, held a gun to her head, and said he would kill her if she didn't keep their secret.
That secret was him taking photographs of her private parts; Disturbing news considering Henry's own father is currently in prison for possession of child pornography.
The mom wrote, “I am afraid he is going to hurt me and the children because I reported the abuse."
Police tell News 9 the young mother was stabbed several times and is pregnant, but is expected to recover from her injuries. Henry is also expected to recover from his injuries. And all the children have been placed in protective custody.
Henry also had another VPO filed against him by another woman back in 2006, but it was dropped.
But if Daddy molested one of the kids WITH A WITNESS and threatened to kill the kid BY PUTTING A GUN TO HER HEAD, then why wasn't he locked up instead of roaming around town violating the protection order filed against him? But another example of abuser daddy coddling by the authorities.
Dad is identified as LEO HENRY.
http://www.newson6.com/story/26621040/child-11-shoots-suspect-attack-mom-in-se-okc
Child, 11, Shoots Suspect Attack Mom In SE OKC
Posted: Sep 24, 2014 7:31 PM EDT Updated: Sep 24, 2014 7:31 PM EDT
By Adrianna Iwasinski, News 9
Neighbors say 25-year-old Leo Henry broke into the house a few days back and took several things. He then came back Wednesday night, broke in again, and attacked his ex-fiancée with a knife, while both their young children were inside.
OKLAHOMA CITY - A horrible domestic dispute between a man and his girlfriend leads to her being stabbed, and him being shot by one of her children.
Neighbors say it was an 11-year-old girl who fired the gun.
It all happened just after 4 a.m. Wednesday near SE 89th St. and Bryant at the Burntwood Mobile Home Park. Those who live near the home are very shocked about what happened, but all of them are calling the little girl a hero.
“She saved her mom and her brothers and sisters, she really did,” said Carolyn Marsee, who lives next door to the mobile home where the stabbing and shooting happened.
Neighbors say 25-year-old Leo Henry broke into the house a few days back and took several things. He then came back Wednesday night, broke in again, and attacked his ex-fiancée with a knife, while both their young children were inside. She says the young couple had just moved into this home in July.
“I heard the shots. I heard screaming and yelling,” said Marsee. “And I was just praying that the kids were OK.”
News 9 discovered a protective order was filed a week ago by that mother against Henry. And it wasn't to protect her. It was to protect the children.
“He was mean to the kids,” said Marsee.
“He's a monster. He is a monster,” said her granddaughter Carolyn, who says she is a friend of the mother who was stabbed.
His stepsister still can't believe what happened.
“Never been like this. He's never been violent,” said Emma Spence, who says Henry is her step brother and claims the two are close. “He's always been there. We never thought that this would happen!”
But in the VPO filed Sept. 18, it states Leo Henry's own mother told the fiancée she witnessed Henry sexually molesting one of his children. It also states Henry threatened one of the children, held a gun to her head, and said he would kill her if she didn't keep their secret.
That secret was him taking photographs of her private parts; Disturbing news considering Henry's own father is currently in prison for possession of child pornography.
The mom wrote, “I am afraid he is going to hurt me and the children because I reported the abuse."
Police tell News 9 the young mother was stabbed several times and is pregnant, but is expected to recover from her injuries. Henry is also expected to recover from his injuries. And all the children have been placed in protective custody.
Henry also had another VPO filed against him by another woman back in 2006, but it was dropped.
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Father, son arrested for child pornography (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Why having a father in your life is not always a good thing...
Dad is identified as KARL ALAN NEUENSCHWANDER.
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/leola-father-and-son-arrested-for-child-pornography/article_88d1b4fc-3547-11e4-a318-001a4bcf6878.html
Leola father and son arrested for child pornography
Posted: Friday, September 5, 2014 5:56 pm
By LARRY ALEXANDER | Staff Writer
A Leola father and his son have been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.
Karl Alan Neuenschwander, 44, and his 19-year-old son, Jack Thomas Neuenschwander, were charged with child pornography offenses by East Lampeter Township Police Detective Preston Gentzler on Aug. 27.
The offenses are alleged to have occurred between January and May of this year.
The investigation was initiated by police and the Lancaster County Computer Crimes Unit after information was provided to local police by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. As a result, the two were found to be in possession of numerous child pornography images and videos, police said.
Karl Neuenschwander was charged with three counts of sexual abuse of children – child pornography.
Jack Neuenschwander was charged with one count sexual abuse of children – dissemination of photographs videotapes, computer depictions and films and five counts of sexual abuse of children – child pornography.
Both men were arraigned before Magisterial District Judge B. Denise Commins and released on $50,000 unsecured bail each.
Dad is identified as KARL ALAN NEUENSCHWANDER.
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/leola-father-and-son-arrested-for-child-pornography/article_88d1b4fc-3547-11e4-a318-001a4bcf6878.html
Leola father and son arrested for child pornography
Posted: Friday, September 5, 2014 5:56 pm
By LARRY ALEXANDER | Staff Writer
A Leola father and his son have been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.
Karl Alan Neuenschwander, 44, and his 19-year-old son, Jack Thomas Neuenschwander, were charged with child pornography offenses by East Lampeter Township Police Detective Preston Gentzler on Aug. 27.
The offenses are alleged to have occurred between January and May of this year.
The investigation was initiated by police and the Lancaster County Computer Crimes Unit after information was provided to local police by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. As a result, the two were found to be in possession of numerous child pornography images and videos, police said.
Karl Neuenschwander was charged with three counts of sexual abuse of children – child pornography.
Jack Neuenschwander was charged with one count sexual abuse of children – dissemination of photographs videotapes, computer depictions and films and five counts of sexual abuse of children – child pornography.
Both men were arraigned before Magisterial District Judge B. Denise Commins and released on $50,000 unsecured bail each.
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Biological dad of Thai surrogate twins charged with 18 counts of indecent dealing, child pornography (Australia)
UNNAMED DAD. One of the many reasons I'm suspicious of surrogacy.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/biological-father-of-surrogate-twins-born-in-thailand-charged-with-10-counts-of-indecent-dealing-and-child-pornography/story-fni0cx12-1227044268222
Biological father of surrogate twins born in Thailand charged with 10 counts of indecent dealing and child pornography
The Daily Telegraph September 02, 2014 8:54AM
THE biological father of surrogate twins born in Thailand has been charged with 10 counts of indecent dealing and possession of child pornography.
The NSW man, aged in his 50s, and his older now ex-wife became parents to twins after their 23-year-old Thai surrogate gave birth several years ago. The revelation follows controversy surrounding West Australian couple David and Wendy Farnell, who had surrogate twins in Thailand and were accused of abandoning one, baby Gammy, because he had Down Syndrome.
In the NSW case, according to an investigative report by Nine’s A Current Affair, once the couple had arrived back in Australia the man struggled with fatherhood and the marriage ended soon after, with his ex-wife taking sole custody of the children.
Police will allege the man began sexually abusing the children from the ages of four to five years. He will appear in NSW court in December.
ACA claimed the woman was in hospital and had no other option but to ask her ex-husband to care for them in her absence.
The man also faces charges of possession of 53 child pornography images. He has denied all charges and will appear in court in December.
The Thai surrogate mother, now 30, — who has two children of her own — said her mother was paid $7000 through a Thai agency, which is about half the normal rate.
For legal reasons, the gender of the twins cannot be revealed.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/biological-father-of-surrogate-twins-born-in-thailand-charged-with-10-counts-of-indecent-dealing-and-child-pornography/story-fni0cx12-1227044268222
Biological father of surrogate twins born in Thailand charged with 10 counts of indecent dealing and child pornography
The Daily Telegraph September 02, 2014 8:54AM
THE biological father of surrogate twins born in Thailand has been charged with 10 counts of indecent dealing and possession of child pornography.
The NSW man, aged in his 50s, and his older now ex-wife became parents to twins after their 23-year-old Thai surrogate gave birth several years ago. The revelation follows controversy surrounding West Australian couple David and Wendy Farnell, who had surrogate twins in Thailand and were accused of abandoning one, baby Gammy, because he had Down Syndrome.
In the NSW case, according to an investigative report by Nine’s A Current Affair, once the couple had arrived back in Australia the man struggled with fatherhood and the marriage ended soon after, with his ex-wife taking sole custody of the children.
Police will allege the man began sexually abusing the children from the ages of four to five years. He will appear in NSW court in December.
ACA claimed the woman was in hospital and had no other option but to ask her ex-husband to care for them in her absence.
The man also faces charges of possession of 53 child pornography images. He has denied all charges and will appear in court in December.
The Thai surrogate mother, now 30, — who has two children of her own — said her mother was paid $7000 through a Thai agency, which is about half the normal rate.
For legal reasons, the gender of the twins cannot be revealed.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Custodial dad, step accused of horrendous acts of child abuse against two daughters, including child porn, beatings, rape, imprisonment, starvation (Manitoba, Canada)
In the vast majority of these kinds of cases, the media never reports how or why the father had custody. In this case, however, we are told that the mother died. Daddy apparently started abusing these grieving children almost immediately, one he had full control.
Can't help but wonder HOW the mother died, knowing how utterly sickening this man is in every way.
UNNAMED DAD
http://www.brandonsun.com/breaking-news/dad-stepmother-accused-of-abusing-kids-272834561.html?thx=y
Dad, stepmother accused of abusing kids
By: Mike McIntyre
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 at 7:25 AM
TWO young Manitoba girls have been rescued after police say they were exposed to horrendous acts of child abuse at the hands of their father and stepmother.
The victims, currently aged six and seven, endured sexual, physical and emotional trauma while living in the Parkland area of western Manitoba. Court documents show incidents allegedly occurred between Sept. 4, 2011 and Aug. 7, 2014, which is when RCMP and Child and Family Services were contacted.
The Free Press is not publishing the name of their small home community to avoid potentially identifying the children, who are now living with a relative after being seized by CFS. The names of the accused are also being withheld for the same reason.
RCMP say the girls were forced to perform sexual acts with the adults, including some that were captured on film. They were often starved and locked in their rooms for "most of the day" while being repeatedly assaulted with weapons.
Court documents show their 37-year-old biological father is facing a total of 18 charges, while his 24-year-old wife has 16 offences. They include making child pornography, making obscene matter, forcible confinement, failing to provide the necessities of life, sexual assault and assault with a weapon.
None of the allegations has been proven, and both are presumed innocent.
The children's birth mother died in 2011. It was just weeks later the alleged abuse began. The father then married the accused in 2013. Photos of the couple, along with the children, are posted on their Facebook sites.
RCMP say they first received information on Aug. 7 that "child abuse was occurring in the home and that two girls were being abused physically and sexually by their custodial parents." No other information was disclosed.
The Free Press has learned it was another family member who initially contacted authorities with concern about the state of the children.
RCMP immediately removed the girls, along with a younger sibling who was not allegedly abused, and placed them in CFS care. Officers with the child-exploitation unit carried out a search warrant at the home on Aug. 14 and seized a number of materials, including computer equipment, which is still being reviewed. Further charges could be laid as the investigation continues.
Both accused made their first court appearances Tuesday in Dauphin.
The father has had his case adjourned until Sept. 2 and remains in custody.
The stepmother made a bail application Tuesday afternoon and was released by provincial court Judge Don Slough under strict conditions.
The Crown was opposed to her release. A court-ordered ban prevents specific details of the hearing, including evidence and submissions presented by lawyers, from being published.
The woman's bail includes a $2,000 surety and an order she reside in Winnipeg with her mother. She is also banned from having any contact with her husband, her stepdaughters or any children under the age of 16. She is also on a nightly curfew of 6 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Can't help but wonder HOW the mother died, knowing how utterly sickening this man is in every way.
UNNAMED DAD
http://www.brandonsun.com/breaking-news/dad-stepmother-accused-of-abusing-kids-272834561.html?thx=y
Dad, stepmother accused of abusing kids
By: Mike McIntyre
Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 at 7:25 AM
TWO young Manitoba girls have been rescued after police say they were exposed to horrendous acts of child abuse at the hands of their father and stepmother.
The victims, currently aged six and seven, endured sexual, physical and emotional trauma while living in the Parkland area of western Manitoba. Court documents show incidents allegedly occurred between Sept. 4, 2011 and Aug. 7, 2014, which is when RCMP and Child and Family Services were contacted.
The Free Press is not publishing the name of their small home community to avoid potentially identifying the children, who are now living with a relative after being seized by CFS. The names of the accused are also being withheld for the same reason.
RCMP say the girls were forced to perform sexual acts with the adults, including some that were captured on film. They were often starved and locked in their rooms for "most of the day" while being repeatedly assaulted with weapons.
Court documents show their 37-year-old biological father is facing a total of 18 charges, while his 24-year-old wife has 16 offences. They include making child pornography, making obscene matter, forcible confinement, failing to provide the necessities of life, sexual assault and assault with a weapon.
None of the allegations has been proven, and both are presumed innocent.
The children's birth mother died in 2011. It was just weeks later the alleged abuse began. The father then married the accused in 2013. Photos of the couple, along with the children, are posted on their Facebook sites.
RCMP say they first received information on Aug. 7 that "child abuse was occurring in the home and that two girls were being abused physically and sexually by their custodial parents." No other information was disclosed.
The Free Press has learned it was another family member who initially contacted authorities with concern about the state of the children.
RCMP immediately removed the girls, along with a younger sibling who was not allegedly abused, and placed them in CFS care. Officers with the child-exploitation unit carried out a search warrant at the home on Aug. 14 and seized a number of materials, including computer equipment, which is still being reviewed. Further charges could be laid as the investigation continues.
Both accused made their first court appearances Tuesday in Dauphin.
The father has had his case adjourned until Sept. 2 and remains in custody.
The stepmother made a bail application Tuesday afternoon and was released by provincial court Judge Don Slough under strict conditions.
The Crown was opposed to her release. A court-ordered ban prevents specific details of the hearing, including evidence and submissions presented by lawyers, from being published.
The woman's bail includes a $2,000 surety and an order she reside in Winnipeg with her mother. She is also banned from having any contact with her husband, her stepdaughters or any children under the age of 16. She is also on a nightly curfew of 6 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Dad gets probation for child porn (County Down, Northern Ireland)
This headline and first paragraph are misleading. Dad MICHAEL STUART JACKSON didn't "just" collect or look at child porn; HE MADE IT. His own attorney admits he was "controlling" when it came to his wife and kids. Ya think?
And yet this scumbag only gets PROBATION. Typical of the coddling that sexually abusive father get in the UK and everywhere else in the world.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/probation-for-father-of-two-over-child-abuse-images-1-6264283
Probation for father-of-two over child abuse images
Published on the 27 August 2014 20:34
A 37-year old father of two from Co Down was today placed on probation for three years after he admitted possessing 258 indecent images of children.
As part of his probation Michael Stuart Jackson, from Craigarusky Road in Killinchy, will undergo the Internet Sexual Offenders Treatment Programme. In addition, he was made the subject of a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order.
Downpatrick Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, heard that police called at Jackson’s home with a warrant on February 28 last year and that during the course of a search, Jackson’s laptop was seized. When the laptop was forensically tested, a total of 258 indecent images of children were discovered in a file marked ‘Michael’s downloads’. Also present were several extreme pornographic images of bestiality.
Crown prosecutor Rosemary Walsh said that some of the images in the more serious categories included oral sex being performed on a baby by a female adult, and children as young as four being raped and forced to perform oral sex on adult males.
Ms Walsh also revealed that during police interviews, Jackson said he had been looking at over 18 porn websites, but that other images had popped up from websites he would not normally go to. He also admitted that some of these images that “inadvertantly” popped up were of children as young as ten.
The court heard Jackson was interviewed a second time last August, and on this occasion he claimed he had been under the influence of drugs during the first interview and had given “incorrect answers to police.” He did, however, accept he had viewed images of children on the Internet.
It also emerged that both Jackson’s wife and two children has access to the laptop used by him to view and download child porn images. They have since moved overseas.
Jackson - who worked for the family furniture business - subsequently pleaded guilty to seven counts of making indecent photographs of children, two counts of possessing indecent photographs of children and three counts of possessing an extreme pornographic image.
Defence lawyer Darren Duncan told the court that whilst on the surface Jackson had a good family background, there were “issues” between his client and his father. These problems, Mr Duncan said, led to Jackson having “issues about control”, especially concerning his wife and two children.
Regarding the offending, the lawyer said this also came down to control. He said that the pop-up images “intrigued” Jackson, who “acknowledged thereafter that he searched for other images”.
Mr Duncan added: “He felt this gave him an element of control in that he could look at whatever he wished.” Mr Duncan told Judge Geoffrey Miller QC that Jackson looked at these images whilst on legal highs. He also spoke of the “clear implications” his client’s actions have had both on him and his family - adding “he is far from proud at what he had done.”
Passing sentence, Judge Miller said that he accepted Jackson had displayed both a level of victim empathy and also embarrassment and remorse for his actions. He also acknowledged Jackson’s clear criminal record.
However, the Judge told Jackson that by viewing these images, he had “contributed” to the perpetuation of child sexual abuse where youngsters are subjected to acts of violence and depravity.
Placing Jackson under a three year probation order, Jackson was told by Judge Miller: “It is clearly apparent from your background and from the reports I have that programmes that exist are of a necessity for you to fulfil, in order that the underlying deviancy within your character which has led to these offences being committed needs to be addressed.”
And yet this scumbag only gets PROBATION. Typical of the coddling that sexually abusive father get in the UK and everywhere else in the world.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/probation-for-father-of-two-over-child-abuse-images-1-6264283
Probation for father-of-two over child abuse images
Published on the 27 August 2014 20:34
A 37-year old father of two from Co Down was today placed on probation for three years after he admitted possessing 258 indecent images of children.
As part of his probation Michael Stuart Jackson, from Craigarusky Road in Killinchy, will undergo the Internet Sexual Offenders Treatment Programme. In addition, he was made the subject of a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order.
Downpatrick Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, heard that police called at Jackson’s home with a warrant on February 28 last year and that during the course of a search, Jackson’s laptop was seized. When the laptop was forensically tested, a total of 258 indecent images of children were discovered in a file marked ‘Michael’s downloads’. Also present were several extreme pornographic images of bestiality.
Crown prosecutor Rosemary Walsh said that some of the images in the more serious categories included oral sex being performed on a baby by a female adult, and children as young as four being raped and forced to perform oral sex on adult males.
Ms Walsh also revealed that during police interviews, Jackson said he had been looking at over 18 porn websites, but that other images had popped up from websites he would not normally go to. He also admitted that some of these images that “inadvertantly” popped up were of children as young as ten.
The court heard Jackson was interviewed a second time last August, and on this occasion he claimed he had been under the influence of drugs during the first interview and had given “incorrect answers to police.” He did, however, accept he had viewed images of children on the Internet.
It also emerged that both Jackson’s wife and two children has access to the laptop used by him to view and download child porn images. They have since moved overseas.
Jackson - who worked for the family furniture business - subsequently pleaded guilty to seven counts of making indecent photographs of children, two counts of possessing indecent photographs of children and three counts of possessing an extreme pornographic image.
Defence lawyer Darren Duncan told the court that whilst on the surface Jackson had a good family background, there were “issues” between his client and his father. These problems, Mr Duncan said, led to Jackson having “issues about control”, especially concerning his wife and two children.
Regarding the offending, the lawyer said this also came down to control. He said that the pop-up images “intrigued” Jackson, who “acknowledged thereafter that he searched for other images”.
Mr Duncan added: “He felt this gave him an element of control in that he could look at whatever he wished.” Mr Duncan told Judge Geoffrey Miller QC that Jackson looked at these images whilst on legal highs. He also spoke of the “clear implications” his client’s actions have had both on him and his family - adding “he is far from proud at what he had done.”
Passing sentence, Judge Miller said that he accepted Jackson had displayed both a level of victim empathy and also embarrassment and remorse for his actions. He also acknowledged Jackson’s clear criminal record.
However, the Judge told Jackson that by viewing these images, he had “contributed” to the perpetuation of child sexual abuse where youngsters are subjected to acts of violence and depravity.
Placing Jackson under a three year probation order, Jackson was told by Judge Miller: “It is clearly apparent from your background and from the reports I have that programmes that exist are of a necessity for you to fulfil, in order that the underlying deviancy within your character which has led to these offences being committed needs to be addressed.”
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Dad with prior conviction for child pornography allowed to live with three young daughters in "nudist colony" now convicted of making child porn with daughters--who didn't see this coming? (Palm Beach County, Florida)
Once again, an article that manages to muddle the important issues--or ignore them altogether. Why was a father who had previously CONVICTED of possessing CHILD PORN allowed to live with 3 YOUNG DAUGHTERS in a NUDIST COLONY? And where was the mother in this? Did she live with the father, and have no previous knowledge of his child porn habit? Did the father have custody?
Notice that the girls went into foster care, but the mother has regained custody. A lot of back story is being omitted here....
Dad is identified as BRIAN MARTENS.
Note: In the comments section it is stated that this is a custodial father with the mother living out of state (Illinois). I suspect some serious corruption in family court allowed this crime to go forward. But watch all that get swept under the rug by the media.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/19/fl-ndist-dad-convicted-for-taking-sharing-n-photos-of-his-daughters-with-other-men/
FL nudist dad convicted for taking, sharing naked photos of his daughters with other men
By Tom Boggioni
Saturday, July 19, 2014 20:55 EDT
A Florida nudist pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography Friday after being accused of taking photographs of his three young daughters, aged 8 to 12, and sharing them with other men.
Brian Martens, 54, who lived with his children at a nudist colony in Palm Beach County, faces 10 to 17 years in prison for possession of child pornography, including images of children who were not related to him, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Martens had asserted that the pictures of his daughters were “family portraits” of a naturist family, however two judges who saw the photos did not agree.
Martens came to the attention of authorities last year after investigators discovered photos of his daughters on a computer belonging to a neighbor, Leslie Grey Vanaman, 45, now serving 60 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
Vanaman, a professional photographer and owner of A Shade of Grey Photography, had a prior 2004 state conviction in New Jersey for possessing child pornography.
Investigators discovered thousands of emails between Martens and Vanaman, including one containing a series of nude photos of children between the ages of 8 and 11 that were taken in a studio setting. According to prosecutors, the photographs showed their genitals and involved unnatural poses for children suggesting “sexual coyness” or “an apparent willingness to engage in sexual activity.”
The report states Martens, Vanaman and a third man had emailed discussions about “the sensuality and sexuality” of the images.
“[Martens] shared these photographs with an email group of approximately a dozen members,” prosecutors wrote.
When Marten was arrested by Homeland Security agents, he was carrying a computer thumb drive containing images of naked children. A search of his laptop turned up more child pornography, some of it downloaded from the Internet.
“He feels terrible about this,” Marten’s attorney James Eisenberg said.
According to Eisenberg, Marten’s three daughters were taken into foster care when their father was arrested and will be released to the custody of their mother.
Notice that the girls went into foster care, but the mother has regained custody. A lot of back story is being omitted here....
Dad is identified as BRIAN MARTENS.
Note: In the comments section it is stated that this is a custodial father with the mother living out of state (Illinois). I suspect some serious corruption in family court allowed this crime to go forward. But watch all that get swept under the rug by the media.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/19/fl-ndist-dad-convicted-for-taking-sharing-n-photos-of-his-daughters-with-other-men/
FL nudist dad convicted for taking, sharing naked photos of his daughters with other men
By Tom Boggioni
Saturday, July 19, 2014 20:55 EDT
A Florida nudist pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography Friday after being accused of taking photographs of his three young daughters, aged 8 to 12, and sharing them with other men.
Brian Martens, 54, who lived with his children at a nudist colony in Palm Beach County, faces 10 to 17 years in prison for possession of child pornography, including images of children who were not related to him, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Martens had asserted that the pictures of his daughters were “family portraits” of a naturist family, however two judges who saw the photos did not agree.
Martens came to the attention of authorities last year after investigators discovered photos of his daughters on a computer belonging to a neighbor, Leslie Grey Vanaman, 45, now serving 60 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
Vanaman, a professional photographer and owner of A Shade of Grey Photography, had a prior 2004 state conviction in New Jersey for possessing child pornography.
Investigators discovered thousands of emails between Martens and Vanaman, including one containing a series of nude photos of children between the ages of 8 and 11 that were taken in a studio setting. According to prosecutors, the photographs showed their genitals and involved unnatural poses for children suggesting “sexual coyness” or “an apparent willingness to engage in sexual activity.”
The report states Martens, Vanaman and a third man had emailed discussions about “the sensuality and sexuality” of the images.
“[Martens] shared these photographs with an email group of approximately a dozen members,” prosecutors wrote.
When Marten was arrested by Homeland Security agents, he was carrying a computer thumb drive containing images of naked children. A search of his laptop turned up more child pornography, some of it downloaded from the Internet.
“He feels terrible about this,” Marten’s attorney James Eisenberg said.
According to Eisenberg, Marten’s three daughters were taken into foster care when their father was arrested and will be released to the custody of their mother.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Police accused of not passing on killer dad's death threat; dad beat son to death just weeks later (Victoria, Australia)
We've posted on killer dad GREG ANDERSON several times. The apparent daddy coddling and incompetence just gets more and more apparent. Unfortunately, a little boy died a horrendous death because of these idiots.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/luke-batty-case-police-accused-of-not-passing-on-killers-death-threat
Luke Batty case: police accused of not passing on killer's death threat
Greg Anderson's former housemate tells Four Corners that Anderson threatened to cut his head off
theguardian.com, Monday 14 July 2014 07.17 EDT
Victoria police have been accused of not passing on a death threat made by Luke Batty’s father, who killed his son on a public cricket pitch just weeks afterwards.
A former housemate of Greg Anderson, Luke’s father, told ABC’s Four Corners on Monday night that Anderson had threatened to cut his head off.
The threat followed Anderson’s arrest for looking at child pornography on computers in a public library.
Rosie Batty, Luke’s mother and Anderson’s former partner, was not initially informed of the pornography arrest and was unaware of the death threat, even when police called her to ask where Anderson was living.
Just a week after the call from police, Anderson turned up at Luke’s midweek cricket practice in Tyabb, Victoria, on 12 February this year.
He killed Luke with a cricket bat and a knife in front of an eight-year-old child. Police shot Anderson at the scene and he died in hospital.
Rosie Batty said the police’s failure to inform her of the threat was “gravely concerning".
"A lot of us are very careless, saying, 'I could kill you, you know, you're driving me mad,' or throwaway angry comments, but to actually say ... to decapitate someone. They're not light comments."
Ken Lay, Victoria’s police commissioner, said a coronial inquest constrained what he could say about the case. “Look, if I put myself in the position of the victim, you want to be in possession of every bit of information you possibly can be,” he told Four Corners.
“I wasn’t aware of that, but again that may well be indicative of police members not being in possession of all the facts, once again.”
There were four warrants out for Anderson’s arrest at the time of Luke’s murder. He had previously been served an intervention order after threatening Rosie at her home, but was allowed to have contact with Luke away from the house.
Rosie said her son had told her of a conversation he had had with Anderson about a knife. She said Anderson had “said something like, ‘It could all end with this,’ and mentioned to Luke that he wished he could go into the next life, that he was tired of this life”.
She added: “And from my memory, I got the impression that that was a journey he’d like to go on with Luke. And I immediately felt sickened, and that all the years I’d defended my decision for Greg to be Luke’s father, and totally convinced that Luke was always safe with Greg, when Luke shared that with me I no longer had that confidence at all, ever again.”
A court ordered that Anderson have no further contact with his son. Anderson challenged the ruling and Batty learned of the child pornography charge against him at the hearing.
“I just thought, ‘Is there anything more that I’m going to find out about this man?’ ” she said.
Since her son’s death, Batty has become an advocate for family violence prevention, with the topic becoming an election issue in Victoria.
“I had a beautiful boy and in Feb something happened to take him away from me,” she said. “Greg won. He took him and he said to me I can make you suffer for the rest of your life. But inside all of us is amazing strength … he may have taken Luke but he hasn’t taken me.”
Dr Chris Atmore, senior policy adviser at the Federation of Community Legal Centres, said the issues highlighted by Luke’s murder needed to be met with urgent government action.
“Sadly, many women remain outside the system supposed to help them, while those within it are placed at often lethal risk by fundamental systemic flaws,” she said.
“Different parts of the system – police, courts and child protection – need to share information to enable proper risk assessment and management, including sharing all relevant information with women who have intervention orders.
“We also need to tighten the net around men who commit family violence by holding them to account when they commit violence and flout intervention orders, and work intensively with them where change is possible.
“Above all, however, we need to strengthen the supports for women and children facing family violence, including the free legal support that can be vital in securing their safety.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/luke-batty-case-police-accused-of-not-passing-on-killers-death-threat
Luke Batty case: police accused of not passing on killer's death threat
Greg Anderson's former housemate tells Four Corners that Anderson threatened to cut his head off
theguardian.com, Monday 14 July 2014 07.17 EDT
Victoria police have been accused of not passing on a death threat made by Luke Batty’s father, who killed his son on a public cricket pitch just weeks afterwards.
A former housemate of Greg Anderson, Luke’s father, told ABC’s Four Corners on Monday night that Anderson had threatened to cut his head off.
The threat followed Anderson’s arrest for looking at child pornography on computers in a public library.
Rosie Batty, Luke’s mother and Anderson’s former partner, was not initially informed of the pornography arrest and was unaware of the death threat, even when police called her to ask where Anderson was living.
Just a week after the call from police, Anderson turned up at Luke’s midweek cricket practice in Tyabb, Victoria, on 12 February this year.
He killed Luke with a cricket bat and a knife in front of an eight-year-old child. Police shot Anderson at the scene and he died in hospital.
Rosie Batty said the police’s failure to inform her of the threat was “gravely concerning".
"A lot of us are very careless, saying, 'I could kill you, you know, you're driving me mad,' or throwaway angry comments, but to actually say ... to decapitate someone. They're not light comments."
Ken Lay, Victoria’s police commissioner, said a coronial inquest constrained what he could say about the case. “Look, if I put myself in the position of the victim, you want to be in possession of every bit of information you possibly can be,” he told Four Corners.
“I wasn’t aware of that, but again that may well be indicative of police members not being in possession of all the facts, once again.”
There were four warrants out for Anderson’s arrest at the time of Luke’s murder. He had previously been served an intervention order after threatening Rosie at her home, but was allowed to have contact with Luke away from the house.
Rosie said her son had told her of a conversation he had had with Anderson about a knife. She said Anderson had “said something like, ‘It could all end with this,’ and mentioned to Luke that he wished he could go into the next life, that he was tired of this life”.
She added: “And from my memory, I got the impression that that was a journey he’d like to go on with Luke. And I immediately felt sickened, and that all the years I’d defended my decision for Greg to be Luke’s father, and totally convinced that Luke was always safe with Greg, when Luke shared that with me I no longer had that confidence at all, ever again.”
A court ordered that Anderson have no further contact with his son. Anderson challenged the ruling and Batty learned of the child pornography charge against him at the hearing.
“I just thought, ‘Is there anything more that I’m going to find out about this man?’ ” she said.
Since her son’s death, Batty has become an advocate for family violence prevention, with the topic becoming an election issue in Victoria.
“I had a beautiful boy and in Feb something happened to take him away from me,” she said. “Greg won. He took him and he said to me I can make you suffer for the rest of your life. But inside all of us is amazing strength … he may have taken Luke but he hasn’t taken me.”
Dr Chris Atmore, senior policy adviser at the Federation of Community Legal Centres, said the issues highlighted by Luke’s murder needed to be met with urgent government action.
“Sadly, many women remain outside the system supposed to help them, while those within it are placed at often lethal risk by fundamental systemic flaws,” she said.
“Different parts of the system – police, courts and child protection – need to share information to enable proper risk assessment and management, including sharing all relevant information with women who have intervention orders.
“We also need to tighten the net around men who commit family violence by holding them to account when they commit violence and flout intervention orders, and work intensively with them where change is possible.
“Above all, however, we need to strengthen the supports for women and children facing family violence, including the free legal support that can be vital in securing their safety.”
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Child porn found on dad's computer at least 17 months before dad killed two sons during "supervised" visitation; FBI "forgot" to tell anybody (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Child pornographer and child killer JOSH POWELL was just coddled from beginning to end, wasn't he? He was never held accountable for one single thing he did.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023795429_joshpowellpornxml.html
Originally published June 7, 2014 at 10:06 PM | Page modified June 7, 2014 at 10:51 PM
Child-porn discovery on Josh Powell’s computer might have averted death of boys
The FBI found child pornography while investigating Josh Powell in the 2009 disappearance of his wife, Susan Powell, according to documents. Josh Powell killed himself and his children in 2012.
Seattle Times
SALT LAKE CITY — Investigators found child pornography on Josh Powell’s computer at least 17 months before he killed his children and himself, according to FBI documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
The paper reported Saturday that documents show the FBI was investigating Powell in the disappearance of his wife, Susan Powell, who was last seen at her West Valley City, Utah, home on Dec. 6, 2009, as well as for possession of child pornography.
Anne Bremner, an attorney for Susan Powell’s parents, said the family was never told the FBI was investigating Josh Powell for child pornography. If the state of Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services had known about the suspected child pornography, Bremner said, it “never would have let him have those kids.”
When a state worker delivered 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden to Josh Powell’s rented home in Graham, Pierce County, on Feb. 5, 2012, Josh Powell locked out the worker and ignited a fire that killed him and his sons.
Powell for years had been considered a person of interest in his wife’s disappearance, and eventually he moved back to the Puyallup area, where both his father and his wife’s parents lived.
He lost custody of the boys after his father was arrested for possessing child pornography in another house they previously shared. The boys were in the custody of the state, but living with Susan Powell’s parents. However, Josh Powell was allowed supervised visitation.
Shortly before their deaths, Charlie and Braden Powell had begun talking to their grandparents about things they remembered from the night their mother vanished, a lawyer for the grandparents has said.
On the day of the fire, a state contract worker from Foster Care Resource Network brought the boys for a visit to Powell’s house. Powell answered the door, pulled the boys inside, slammed the door and locked it. The caseworker banged on doors and windows and called 911, but soon smelled gasoline and the fire erupted.
Josh Powell had been previously linked to child pornography, The Tribune reported. At hearings in Washington state to determine custody of his children, then-Assistant Washington Attorney General John M. Long said Powell was under investigation for child pornography after cartoon images of incest between mothers and children were found on his computer in late 2009 or early 2010.
The paper reported that the FBI appeared to be trying to discover what other images might be on Josh Powell’s computer, but the machine had been successfully encrypted by Powell.
Last month, a federal judge ruled that insurance proceeds from the fatal fire could be split between Josh Powell’s parents and sister and Susan Powell’s family.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023795429_joshpowellpornxml.html
Originally published June 7, 2014 at 10:06 PM | Page modified June 7, 2014 at 10:51 PM
Child-porn discovery on Josh Powell’s computer might have averted death of boys
The FBI found child pornography while investigating Josh Powell in the 2009 disappearance of his wife, Susan Powell, according to documents. Josh Powell killed himself and his children in 2012.
Seattle Times
SALT LAKE CITY — Investigators found child pornography on Josh Powell’s computer at least 17 months before he killed his children and himself, according to FBI documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
The paper reported Saturday that documents show the FBI was investigating Powell in the disappearance of his wife, Susan Powell, who was last seen at her West Valley City, Utah, home on Dec. 6, 2009, as well as for possession of child pornography.
Anne Bremner, an attorney for Susan Powell’s parents, said the family was never told the FBI was investigating Josh Powell for child pornography. If the state of Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services had known about the suspected child pornography, Bremner said, it “never would have let him have those kids.”
When a state worker delivered 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden to Josh Powell’s rented home in Graham, Pierce County, on Feb. 5, 2012, Josh Powell locked out the worker and ignited a fire that killed him and his sons.
Powell for years had been considered a person of interest in his wife’s disappearance, and eventually he moved back to the Puyallup area, where both his father and his wife’s parents lived.
He lost custody of the boys after his father was arrested for possessing child pornography in another house they previously shared. The boys were in the custody of the state, but living with Susan Powell’s parents. However, Josh Powell was allowed supervised visitation.
Shortly before their deaths, Charlie and Braden Powell had begun talking to their grandparents about things they remembered from the night their mother vanished, a lawyer for the grandparents has said.
On the day of the fire, a state contract worker from Foster Care Resource Network brought the boys for a visit to Powell’s house. Powell answered the door, pulled the boys inside, slammed the door and locked it. The caseworker banged on doors and windows and called 911, but soon smelled gasoline and the fire erupted.
Josh Powell had been previously linked to child pornography, The Tribune reported. At hearings in Washington state to determine custody of his children, then-Assistant Washington Attorney General John M. Long said Powell was under investigation for child pornography after cartoon images of incest between mothers and children were found on his computer in late 2009 or early 2010.
The paper reported that the FBI appeared to be trying to discover what other images might be on Josh Powell’s computer, but the machine had been successfully encrypted by Powell.
Last month, a federal judge ruled that insurance proceeds from the fatal fire could be split between Josh Powell’s parents and sister and Susan Powell’s family.
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