Numerous Unnamed Victims / Convicted: Jack E Gravenmier - St Louis, MO

Jack Gravenmier

West Virginia man, 79, traveled to St. Louis for sex with 'boy' who turned out to be cop

January 11, 2013 3:09 pm
Jack E. Gravenmier, 79, pleaded guilty to two counts of production of
child pornography, one count of attempt to persuade a minor to engage
in sexual activity, one count of travel with the intent to engage in
illicit sexual conduct, two counts of producing child porn and two
counts of possession of child porn.
He was arrested in February
after traveling to the area to meet and have sex with someone he thought
was a minor, charging documents claim. It was really a Troy, Mo.,
police detective.
During his communications with the detective
posing as the boy, Gravenmier boasted of his child porn collection and
spoke of other minors with whom he'd had sex, the charging documents
allege.
Gravenmier could face up to life in prison when he is
sentenced April 18. He also agreed to forfeit two vehicles and his home
in West Virginia.
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Man who abused children for 40 years gets 160 in prison

April 18, 2013 10:45 pm




ST. LOUIS • A
West Virginia man who sexually abused children for four decades was
sentenced in federal court here Thursday to 160 years in prison.

Jack E. Gravenmier, 80, wasn’t stopped until a boy in Missouri told his
mother what happened, and that he was still in contact with Gravenmier.
She told police, and they took over the teen’s correspondence with Gravenmier.

During those communications, Gravenmier talked about
his collection of child porn and boasted of the other minors with whom
he’d had sex, the charging documents allege. Gravenmier sent a detective
child pornography, including images he had taken of his other victims.

He had reserved a room at the Troy, Mo., Super 8 motel and had promised to
bring two memory cards with images and videos of child pornography,
$100 and sex-related materials, court documents say.
He was arrested in St. Louis last year while on his way to meet the teen.

At the sentencing hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rob Livergood said
Gravenmier had been abusing children since the 1970s, when he handed out
candy to kids in hopes of having sex with them. In some cases, he used
threats or intimidation to scare the children into submitting, Livergood said.
Gravenmier was investigated in 2001, but he didn’t stop
abusing children, Livergood said. It was not clear what happened in that
investigation.

Gravenmier’s former son-in-law Larry Mundy told
the Post-Dispatch that he found child pornography in a darkroom in
Gravenmier’s house in the 1970s and reported it to authorities in
Charleston, W.Va., but that the police cleared him. West Virginia
authorities contacted by a reporter said they could find no records from
that period.

At Thursday’s sentencing, relatives of a handful of
victims told U.S. District Judge John Ross about the pain Gravenmier
left in his wake. “This is one of the worst, most egregious cases I’ve
ever seen,” Ross said. “Your conduct is simply despicable.”
One victim wrote a letter in which she said she worried that others would see the pictures Gravenmier had taken of her.

“You destroyed me,” another wrote in a letter to him. “You took away my happiness.”
“There’s a lot of carnage sitting in this courtroom today,” said the father of one victim. “A lot of destroyed lives.”

Gravenmier pleaded guilty in January to two counts of production of child
pornography, one count of attempting to persuade a minor to engage in
sexual activity, one count of travel with the intent to engage in
illicit sexual conduct, two counts of producing child porn and two
counts of possession of child porn for crimes in Missouri and West Virginia.

As part of the case, the retired chemical engineer will
have to forfeit two vehicles and his home in West Virginia. The vehicles
have already been sold. The proceeds will go towards paying $160,000 in restitution to five victims in Missouri and two other states.

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