JACKIE ZUDIS (and others)- 5 yo (1972) - George England - CA and FL

The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California
prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child
porn and a woman's allegations that he bought her as a child in Asia and
subjected her to years of sexual abuse while molesting her young
friends.George Joseph England, 65, remained imprisoned instead of
being released on parole after serving three years for molesting three
girls in Southern California in the 1970s — a term he delayed for nearly
three decades by fleeing before he could be sentenced for the crimes.England
is now charged with transporting a juvenile from California to Florida
with the intent to engage in sexual activity, and possessing child porn
in computer files transported across state lines.A U.S.
magistrate judge in West Palm Beach, Fla., signed the criminal complaint
late Thursday and it was processed Friday morning, said Assistant U.S.
Attorney Jeffrey Neiman.England remained in the California
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran in the
Central Valley, but he was not in a treatment unit, said prison Lt.
Stephen Smith.England will be ordered to a federal court for
hearings on removal, identification and bond. It was not known if
England had an attorney. State corrections spokespersons were
unavailable due to a work furlough.The new charges were announced
a day after the Orange County, Calif., district attorney warned about
England's impending freedom and released a video in which Jackie Zudis,
42, told of years of forced sex starting at age 5 after England bought
her from her mother in Vietnam in 1972.An affidavit by FBI
Special Agent John J. MacVeigh IV said that he learned about England's
scheduled release from Orange County prosecutors last week and reviewed
images that had been found on England's computer in 2005 after an
attempt to obtain a passport under an alias led to his capture in
Florida.The computer was located when a lawyer for a man who had
employed England told agents that England's belongings would be removed
from a Miami storage unit and placed on a street as abandoned property,
the affidavit said.MacVeigh wrote that the computer files
contained such titles as "8 yo poor girl raped by an burglar."Zudis
gave the information on England's alias to the FBI in 2004, the
affidavit said. By then she had lost all contact with England after
getting married at age 21 and moving out of his home.The
affidavit said that England had repeatedly impregnated Zudis starting at
age 13, and after one birth and a series of abortions she finally
threatened to commit suicide to get him to stop molesting her. Orange
County prosecutors separately said that occurred when she was 16.At
the time of England's 1977 prosecution for molesting Zudis' 9- and
10-year-old friends she was only referred to as "Jane Doe" and never
reported sexual abuse. Prosecutors said England coached and threatened
her.In the video, Zudis urged the community to beware of England."Your
little girls are in trouble and you need to protect them, and you need
to listen to them," the district attorney's office quoted her as saying.District
Attorney Tony Rauckauckas said Zudis chose to go public, no longer
wishing to be "Jane Doe."According to prosecutors, England took
Zudis from Vietnam to Thailand and India before coming to California in
the early to mid-1970s. They lived in a motorhome in Costa Mesa where he
urged Zudis to invite neighbor and school girls for overnight stays,
watched them through a hole in a wall and secretly photographed them
bathing.In 1977 he was convicted of molesting three girls, but
fled before sentencing when the judge allowed him to remain free on bond
to settle his affairs. England took Zudis across the U.S. and ended up
in Florida.After his capture, England served a federal prison
term for passport fraud and in 2006 was sent to California to face the
molestation conviction.He was sentenced to three years to life in
state prison, but under the sentencing laws that existed in 1977 he
could serve no more than six years and his release was scheduled based
on prison credit for good behavior and work time, the district
attorney's office said.A conviction on the same crimes today
would result in a sentence of 45 years to life, prosecutors said.