SEXUAL ABUSE AGAINST CHILDREN

Wife Turns In Man For Having Child Porn

6:42 pm EDT October 15, 2010

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. -- A child porn suspect arrested in Osceola County worked for Disney months before he was turned in to officers by his wife.

James Wood's wife called the sheriff's office after catching him downloading child porn. The 56-year-old is in jail on 26 felony charges of child pornography possession and he soon could face more.

On Kingston Court in Kissimmee (see map), for neighbors, Wood's arrest is disturbing.

"That's just, that's just, I mean, you don't know who is on your right and left. I mean, it's pretty bad," neighbor Shahid Liaquat said.

Investigators found 26 images of downloaded child porn on his computer and they're now going through hundreds of additional images found on an external hard drive.

"It's an ongoing investigation and they are looking at additional evidence," Twis Lizasuain of the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said.

Neighbors say Wood cleaned out his garage a day before investigators arrived. They wonder what else may have been thrown in the trash that investigators didn't find.

Neighbors describe the family as quiet, the only people who didn't interact with neighbors. But they did see some bizarre behavior from Wood.

"Maybe just had underpants on, but peed in the front garden. I didn't know if he was just some kind of person, weirdo, going around the neighborhood," neighbor John Kennedy said.

Sources said Wood was a retail clerk for Disney until he was fired eight months ago. Disney confirmed he did work there, but won't say what type of store he may have worked in or how close to children.

"It's a terrible, terrible thing. I mean, there's lots of lovely children in the neighborhood," Kennedy said.

Wood is in jail on a $12,500 bond, but that will likely go higher if additional charges are added. He has no other criminal history.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Shame On You


The society is rapidly loosing moral ground. Teachers are regarded as leaders for the youth; they impart knowledge and contribute vastly to the development of society.

Hence, I find it unacceptable that teachers would rob teenagers their youth by engaging in sexual activities. Parents place children in the care of teachers because they are supposed to be trusted species and only advancing agenda to develop potentials for the young stars in the society.

I’m saying this because On the 15th October 2010 I read a shocking story from Sowetan online, written by Hendrick Mphande where by a 38 year old teacher was arrested after allegedly caught red-handed having sex with a 13 year old pupil. Can you imagine a 38 year old engaging in sexual activities with a 13 year old? It makes one to agree with the saying that says “Growing up is a compulsory, but maturity is a choice”

Education or (School) is one of the major institutions of society that determine kinship. Schools should be grooming children to become tomorrow’s better leaders. When school as a social institution is weaker it produces disorganised members of society and destruction in our country. Schools are one of the first places where kids’ behaviour and future educational success is shaped; children spend a lot of time with their teachers. Teachers are carriers of either positive or negative behaviour towards students. So we can not let this very institution that contribute so much in our lives be corrupted by the antisocial, the South African justice system must callously deal with paedophile teachers.

I also read a study published in the British Medical Journal (The Lancet) with a great dismay. The study reveals that a high proportion of rape in schools one-third of rapes of young girls in South Africa are carried out by school teachers. According to the survey, 85% of children who were raped were between 10 and 14 years old. That’s betrayal at its peak by teachers if you may ask me. I think DOGS are even better than THEM (Teachers) by far; because they do not have sex with their young ones at the tender age.

Rape or Sexual abuse is a big crime that can actually take the victims life away. Well, according to my observation, sexually abused children can resort to many things. It does not need an eagled eye to notice that children resort to prostitution, drugs, alcoholic etc. I perceived such things happening and I said to myself, we need tough laws for the paedophiles. Perhaps we can even go the Saudi Arabian way. Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam that demands the death penalty for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Why not if it can help us? Perhaps the perpetrators would think twice before committing a crime.

As a prospect parent, I’m tremulous in terror, I can not conceive the pain I would suffer if it was my daughter who was abused by people whom I thought were the one to save her from harm. Judging by the look of things, this world is coming to an end. We do not know who to trust anymore. It’s either your child is raped by a RELATIVE (the person who should always be there for you), a NEIGHBOUR (A person who can help when you require immediate help or emergency), PRIEST (a person who should give you counselling when such horrible things happens) and a TEACHER (a person who should look after your kids at school)

70-year-old charged with video voyeurism

Last Updated: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:16 PM

BUSHNELL

A 70-year-old man has been arrested by Sumter County deputies after it was discovered he was videotaping young girls in the bathroom.

Donald L. Stephens, 70, of Bushnell was arrested Saturday on a charge of video voyeurism. He is being held at the Sumter County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond.

"The ages of females involved are ages 16 and under and are not being identified due to the nature of the case," said Lt. Kevin Hofecker of the sheriff's department.

Hofecker said the girls had not been inapproriately touched by Stevens, but Sumter County detectives are continuing the investigation because additional charges may be filed.

A community care worker has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a five-month-old baby while her boyfriend took pictures of the abuse.


Tracy Dawber, 44, let convicted paedophile Colin Blanchard take the photographs as she attacked the child on her sofa, Winchester Crown Court heard.
Dawber was convicted of the sexual assault and allowing indecent pictures to be taken at her home in Southport, Merseyside, in 2008.The care worker, who dated Blanchard for about a year, had denied the charges - but he told the court she had taken the lead in the abuse.
Blanchard, 40, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, previously admitted being involved in the assault, the jury was told.
He also confessed he had been involved with other women in a paedophile ring, including Vanessa George.
George was convicted at Bristol Crown Court, in 2009, of abusing children while working at a Plymouth nursery.
Dawber mouthed: "Oh, no", as the jury delivered its first guilty verdict. She then wept as the other guilty verdicts were read out in court.
Tracy Dawber and Colin Blanchard

Mr Justice Royce remanded her in custody for pre-sentence reports before a date for sentencing is set.
He told her: "These are serious offences. A custodial sentence of some length is inevitable."
Dawber is the fifth member of Blanchard's paedophile ring to face justice.
Mother-of-two George, who was obsessed with Blanchard, was jailed indefinitely after she admitted giving him indecent pictures of children.
Paedophile ring: Vanessa George and Angela Allen

George and former prostitute Angela Allen, from Nottingham, were sentenced for a string of sexual assaults and making and distributing indecent images of children.
The two women carried out the offences with Blanchard, from Smithy Bridge, near Rochdale, after they all met on Facebook.
A fourth woman who fell under Blanchard's influence - Tracy Lyons, a mother of nine from Portsmouth - admitted two counts of sexually abusing a toddler.
Tracy Lyons was also in Blanchard's paedophile ring

Teachers Behaving Badly

by Anne Bremner




This post has been written by a dear friend of mine and a true talent, Katherine Kaufmann (pictured left), better known as "Coach Kitty." She has been my personal trainer for years, and she voraciously follows media regarding crimes and legal issues. She always has a sharp and witty opinion about everything she sees, and I'm honored to give her an opportunity to voice that opinion here. Take it away, Coach Kitty!

I heard a story today about a little girl, just 12 years old, and so cute. What happened to this young girl at the hands of someone who was charged with protecting and educating her is appalling and illegal. Upon entering the sixth grade, Vicki (not her real name) became quite a teacher’s pet. (In all fairness, she did come from a broken home and the teacher was just taking her under his wing, right?) This handsome sixth-grade teacher would invite her to his home for dinner, she joined him on family outings, and he showered her with gifts and attention. What Vicki didn’t know was that like any pedophile worth his salt, Mr. Larson (not his real name) was doing something known as grooming. Alas, he was preparing his young victim for an eventual sexual assault.



By the time Mr. Larson eventually raped Vicki, it seemed to her the natural progression of a close relationship. Although she did know that they were doing something wrong, she never thought it was illegal or really even bad. Remember, she was just 12 years old. Mr. Larson had invited her over for slumber parties with his kids and had shared a sleeping bag with her many times, so by the time he raped her, nothing really seemed amiss for Vicki. After all, Vicki had known Mr. Larson since she was in the second grade and he was her teacher,. She knew his wife and kids, and this must be how things work, right?

Mr. Larson was eventually charged with first-degree rape of a child and sentenced to 30 years in prison. You should have heard the radio and TV pundits in my city where this crime took place. The outrage and fury was palpable. One noted radio talk show host was ready to form a lynch mob to go after Mr. Larson and the people I heard discussing the case at Starbucks were beside themselves with horror. This poor little girl! And this pedophile in our schools--how could this happen? Now, everyone clings a bit closer to their little girls, and every real or perceived threat to them is swiftly investigated.


Okay, here’s the deal. That story is only partly true. The teacher’s name in the real story would have been Mary Kay LeTourneau and the student's name would have been Vili Fualaau. Oh ,and the other part that isn’t quite true is that Mary was only charged with second-degree rape and was sentenced to six months in the county jail and three years of treatment. She was not, however, forced to register as a sex offender. Then, two weeks after her jail sentence ended, LeTourneau was caught having sex with 13-year-old Fualaau in her car and was re-arrested. That time, she was sentenced to 7-1/2 years behind bars, and upon release required to register as a level-two sex offender.

The part where the radio pundits and public were outraged? Meh? Not so much. I actually heard Mary Kay referred to as a “dreammaker” and, if I had a dime for every time the song "Hot for Teacher" by Van Halen was played as an intro to a story about her, well, let’s just say I could quit my day job.

This double standard that society has with the way it reacts to female and male sexual predators is deep and complicated. On one hand, it appears to be rooted partly in the idea that women, unlike men, are incapable of sexual aggression. By the same token, it seems to many, that young boys are willing participants in these sexual encounters. Although both may or may not be true, it seems to me anyway, that it shouldn’t matter. If a child is unable to legally consent to sex before a certain age it is a crime for he, or she to have sex with anyone. If an adult has sex with a child, that act is considered rape. The punishment and social taboo associated with it should be the same for men and women.

Susan Strickland, a 
University of Georgia professor and social worker who treats sex offenders, surveyed 60 women 
serving time for sexual offenses. 
She found that women who have sex with boys:

a. lack the mature relationship skills to partner with men their age;

b. are also motivated by a need for power and control, and they see the boy as a blank slate they can turn into the partner they want;

c. may never have had relationship in which they felt safe.


You know what I say to that? So what? It’s either a criminal act or it’s not. I realize that the motivations between male and female predators might be different, but the outcome is the same. A child is stripped of his or her sense of security, autonomy, and ability to trust. And that is a crime. The society at large would do well to see children as children whether boys or girls. With the same developmental components and emotional capabilities.

In the case of Mary Kay LeTourneau, as well as Debra Lafave (a teacher charged with seducing a 14-year-old boy), the fact that both are blonde and stereotypically pretty has only added to the myth that they were fulfilling boyhood dreams rather than committing crimes. I did notice that the majority of media figures who had this impression were men. Perhaps they can’t see past sixth grade, and, lucky for them, they are now free to act on that hot-for-teacher fantasy they’ve been harboring all this time. However, as long as a child is under the age of consent, women and men who commit these crimes should be treated equally in the eyes of the law and society.

**Womenincrime

Ocoee man accused of having toddler-porn videos

Eric Perez faces five counts of possession of child pornography, each a third-degree felony, according to a statement from Florida Attorney General Bill Mc Collum's office

3:36 p.m. EDT, October 19, 2010

A 27-year-old Ocoee man was recently arrested after authorities said he had "multiple videos" of child pornography, including movies of children as young as 2, officials said today.

Eric Perez faces five counts of possession of child pornography, each a third-degree felony, according to a statement from Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's office.

His agency's CyberCrime Unit found the child porn "during a routine investigation and traced the images back to Perez's computer,'' a statement said.

"A search warrant was executed at his Ocoee home where one laptop and three SD cards were seized,'' the statement added. "The items removed from the home will undergo forensic analysis to identify any additional images of child pornography."

The statement noted that the Ocoee Police Department and the Seminole County Sheriff's Office assisted with the arrest.

72-year-old Florida Panhandle man arrested in Orlando online child sex sting

4:03 p.m. EDT, October 19, 2010

A 72-year-old man is in the Orange County Jail, accused of trying to line up sex with a 13-year-old girl by sending online messages to her father. The "father" turned out to be a cop.

James Frederick Nelson, of Pace in the Florida Panhandle, appeared before an Orange County judge this morning, who set bail at $12,500.

He was arrested midday Monday after he wheeled his 1996 Dodge pickup into the parking lot of a fast food restaurant on South Kirkman Road, where he expected to meet the father.

When confronted, Nelson admitted he'd driven to Orlando to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. Officers found a stuffed animal, condoms and sexual devices in his vehicle, according to his arrest report.

Nelson thought he was communicating a 35-year-old single father who lived alone with a daughter, according to the arrest report. Nelson and the officer began sending instant messages to each other Oct. 11.

That same day, Nelson wrote that he wanted to move in the the father and daughter. He would help pay the bills, he wrote, and share his Social Security check, he wrote.

He also wanted to have sex with the girl, he wrote. He would be, Nelson said, like a grandfather figure, according to his arrest report.
"I can not wait to get close very close to her" and see her naked, he wrote, according to the report.

He also, that day, sent a photo of himself and of a nude man, indicating it was him, according to the report.

Nelson is accused of three crimes: soliciting sex from a minor using the Internet; traveling to meet a minor for sex; and transmitting information harmful to minors.

Employees of the Orange County and Seminole County sheriff's offices as well as the Oviedo Police and FBI were involved, according to the attorney general's office.

Man accused of soliciting sex from a relative on Facebook

Updated 9:09 AM Tuesday, October 19, 2010

LEBANON — A Lebanon man is accused of soliciting sex from an underage distant relative on his Facebook account, according to police

Donnie J. Buckler, 45, of Lebanon was indicted Friday by the Warren County Grand Jury for importuning, a fifth-degree felony.

Assistant Prosecutor Matt Nolan said Buckler allegedly used a Facebook account to solicit sex from a distant cousin between November 2009 and February 2010. The cousin was 15 years old at the time the messages started to be sent, Nolan said.

Nolan said, “There were thousands and thousands of Facebook chats.”

No arraignment date had been set as of Monday.

Riverside Juvenile Hall employee facing criminal sex charges

MURRIETA, CA - A Riverside County Juvenile Hall employee is facing criminal charges for allegedly having sex with an underage detainee, court papers show.

Elizabeth Zarate Nolan, 39, of Indio is charged with three counts each of oral copulation with a person under 18, forcible rape and contributing to the delinquency of a minor; six counts of unlawful intercourse with a minor; and two counts of forcible oral copulation -- all felonies.

She was arraigned in court Oct. 4, at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta. The state Attorney General's Office, which filed the charges, is handling the case because Nolan is married to a Riverside County prosecutor.

Nolan, who was based in Indio, was arrested May 27 and freed on $50,000 bail.

Indio police received a report in May alleging that Nolan was sexually involved with a juvenile inmate, according to Ben Guitron of the Indio Police Department.

Nolan allegedly performed sex acts on the youth between June 2009 and March of this year, when the detainee was both in and out of custody in Riverside County, Guitron said.

Investigators served a search warrant inside Nolan's home and vehicle, according to Guitron.

She was placed on administrative leave, according to Alan Crogan, chief probation officer for Riverside.

Madera Pastor Suspected of Molestation

Date: 2010-10-18

A Madera Children's Pastor is being investigation for molesting children under his care.

Madera County Sheriff's Deputies say 48-year-old Alberto Rodriguez is accused of repeatedly abusing several children under the age of 14, over the last 20 years.

Rodriguez worked at the Valley West Christian Church for nearly 2 years from 2008 to 2010. Robert Leach, the lead pastor at the Church, tells KMPH that all of the sexual abuse allegations have been from within Rodriguez's family, and not from the church's congregation.

Some of those victim's are believed to have been foster children living under the care of Rodriguez.
Rodriguez was arrested earlier this month for the abuse, but since that arrest more witnesses have come forward.
"Based on these new allegations, there is reason to be there could be more victims," says Madera County Sheriff John Anderson. "We are asking the public to please contact our Department if they have any information on Albert Rodriguez, his association with the Foster Care System as well as his association with children through his youth ministry.

Anyone with information on this case is urged to call 559-675-7770.

Children in foster care with Alberto Rodriguez

Over a 20-year time period Alberto Rodriguez, a pastor for children's ministry at Valley West Christian Center in Madera, CA, allegedly sexually abused children in foster care with him. At the time of his arrest he had 3 adopted and 7 foster children living in his home.
Date: 2010-10-18
Placement type: Foster care
Type of abuse: Sexual abuse
Abuser: Foster father
Placement

Organizations: Valley Teen Ranch

Madera Pastor and Foster Parent Arrested for Child Molestation has Criminal Record

Date: 2010-10-19


Madera Police arrested Alberto Rodriguez for child molestation.Newly filed court documents show a criminal background. A felony conviction from 1985. In 1995 the CEO of Valley Teen Ranch Foster Family Agency in Fresno says Rodriguez came here. He's been a foster parent with this agency ever since.

When we contacted Valley Teen Ranch. The CEO sent this statement: "We take very seriously our mission, which is to provide children with safe and healthy homes, and have done so successfully for 23 years."

But Madera County Investigators say all the victims in the Rodriguez case were under Rodriguez's watch in the foster care system.

Valley Teen Ranch and The California Department of Social Services say, to become a foster parent, background checks are done.

Michael Weston with the California Department of Social Services says, "There is a very strict process for going to apply to be a foster parent we do finger print checks. We do child abuse checks through the state and FBI database. Home studies are done and it's a very through process and that's intended to insure the health and safety of the children in the foster system."

But court documents show a definite criminal conviction in Rodriguez's records.
"Certain offenses that you can apply for an exemption and the case will be looked at again and a determination will be made whether or not an exemption will be granted."

The Valley Teen Ranch CEO told KMPH news- The Department of Justice let Rodriguez through. But what about the church where Rodriguez "ministered to children"?

Pastor Roger Leach says, "Before we hire any type of staff person they have to go through fingerprinting. And we always check references. So he did go through fingerprinting and he passed."

Maybe everyone hoped for the good in Alberto Rodriguez.

Pastor Lance Leach says, "As far as Christians go, and you look at the deeds that people do, what he's been accused of is not what we would desire a Christian be known as."

Teacher Resigns Amidst Allegations Of 'Sexting' Students

October 22, 2010

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Seminole County teacher will not be in the classroom Friday after he is accused of having inappropriate communication with students and even sending sex-related text messages (sexting) to them for years.

Miguel Ventura resigned from South Seminole Middle School in Cassleberry on Thursday, and he has since been banned from the school district.

The district says Ventura had a serious issue with sexting. In one message he went as far telling one student, "I love you, you're pretty and beautiful."

Ventura was all smiles in his yearbook photo, but the serious allegations he is facing were surely enough to swipe the smile of his face.

Ventura is accused of inappropriately sexting students during his six-year tenure as a teacher at South Seminole Middle School.

Students WFTV spoke to appeared shocked.

"He was a very good teacher last year and was good with all the students. He was always very nice to everyone," said one student who did not want to be identified.

Ventura resigned Thursday before the school district's plan to fire him at its upcoming meeting next Tuesday. The complaints filed show the scandal began in 2007 with questionable messages on the social networking website MySpace. In 2009, the school received another letter referring to similar concerns about messages to students on Facebook.

In February, Ventura was suspended for insubordination over the same problem. Then, in October of 2010, the school received claims that he was sexting with a former student.

WFTV visited Ventura's home for his side of the story. He was not at the residence but his landlord angrily defended his tenant and called the allegations bogus.

"I am the owner, but I know him very well and I know the case," said the man claiming to be Ventura's landlord. "He is an honest man who was dedicating his life to teach and was giving a lot more than he was supposed to professionally."

Even though Ventura resigned from his teaching position, the school district says it will make certain to inform any prospective education employers that it planned on firing him.

Deputies: Sex offender arrested for removing ankle bracelet

Lawrence Boker, 27, of St. Cloud, is serving seven years probation on a charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a child between 12 and 15 years old.

Registered sex offender Lawrence Boker, 27, was arrested on Monday on charges that he removed a state-mandated ankle bracelet, violating his probation, Osceola County deputies said. (Osceola County Sheriff's Office / October 5, 2010)

A registered sex offender was arrested on Monday on charges that he removed a state-mandated ankle bracelet, violating his probation, Osceola County deputies said.

Lawrence Boker, 27, of St. Cloud, is currently serving seven years probation on a charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a child between 12 and 15 years old. State records show he was adjudicated guilty in April 2008.

Deputies said they were alerted by the state probation office on Friday that Boker might have removed a GPS ankle bracelet that he was required to wear as part of his probation.

Investigators said they later found Boker's ankle bracelet in Orange County. He was arrested in St. Cloud on Monday on a violation of probation charge and booked into Osceola County Jail.

Sentence of nearly 1,000 years handed down in child rape case

A man arrested in 2008 on child-sex charges by Palm Bay police will spend the rest of his life in prison, the police department said today.

Timothy Raymond Anderson, 51, was convicted by a St. Lucie County jury this past week for sexual battery charges. Judge Dan Vaughn sentenced him to 999 years, 99 months and 98 days in prison.

"At least he won't be able to victimize another child again," Palm Bay police Detective Jasmine Campbell, who investigated the case, said in a prepared statement.

Authorities arrested Anderson after learning that he had abused a girl from 1988 to 1991 on a nearly daily basis, beginning when she was 6 years old and in his care. Anderson was a truck driver, so the incidents happened in multiple jurisdictions, according to police.

The investigation, which involved the FBI and police from Palm Bay and Port St. Lucie, found probable cause to arrest Anderson for abuses that occurred in Palm Bay and St. Lucie County. He also was charged in connection with sexual battery on a child 20 years earlier in St. Lucie County.

Fayetteville police searching for 2 men who attacked teen girl at home

Police are looking for two men who broke into a home in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood Friday afternoon and attempted to sexually assault a teenager.

The incident was reported at 2:57 p.m. on the 6000 block of Kimbrook Drive, according to Lt. Chris Davis, Fayetteville police spokesman.
The 13-year-old girl was alone, Davis said, when the two men came into the house.

The girl said the men wore masks and gloves, Davis said. There was no report that either man was armed, Davis said.
The men tried to sexually assault the girl, but she managed to fend them off, Davis said.

The men ran out the side door, and the girl phoned for help, Davis said. The girl may have called her mother who then contacted police, Davis said.

It was not known whether the girl was hurt.

Autryville church youth minister charged with child solicitation

A part-time youth minister at an Autryville church is accused of trying to solicit a child for sex in Guilford County, a detective said.

Thomas Lee Elliott, 40, of the 700 block of Butler Island Road in Roseboro, was charged Thursday with attempted indecent liberties with a child and soliciting a child by computer, said Detective Tommy Sluder of the Guilford County Sheriff's Office. Sluder said he had online conversations with Elliott for more than 30 days while the detective was posing as a 14-year-old girl.

Sluder said Elliott wanted to meet, and a rendezvous was arranged for a Greensboro parking lot Thursday. Elliott was arrested when he arrived, Sluder said.

Elliott, who Sluder said is a part-time youth minister at Autryville Baptist Church, is in the Guilford County Jail. Bail was set at $25,000. Elliott was to make his first appearance in court Friday afternoon.

Former Fayetteville youth minister charged with sex crimes

A former Fayetteville youth minister has been charged with sex crimes involving two teenage girls.

Brandon Christopher Bradley, 26, of the 600 block of Bessemer Circle, was arrested early Friday, according to a news release from the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.

Bradley is accused of forcing two 14-year-old girls to perform sex acts with him against their will between August 2008 and October 2008 in his home, according to the release.

Bradley is charged with seven counts of statutory rape, five counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor, one count of sexual offense and one count of crimes against nature, the release said.

Bradley is in the Cumberland County Detention Center with bail set at $485,000. A first court appearance is set for 2:30 p.m. Monday.

Kidnapped girl reveals new details of her life as a 'domestic slave'

CNN


Natascha Kampusch pictured in a German TV studio during the recording of Beckmann, on September 4, 2010.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Autobiography entitled "3,096 Days," reveals new details of Kampusch's ordeal
  
• Describes being manacled to captor while they slept together
  
• She was held in a subterranean bunker equipped with a bed, toilet and sink
  
• Kampusch eascaped in August 2006, eight years after being abducted
  

London, England (CNN) -- Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian woman who was held prisoner for eight years in a basement, has revealed new details of her ordeal in an autobiography.

In the book, entitled "3,096 Days," Kampusch, who was abducted aged 10 in 1998 while walking to school, describes the relationship she fostered with her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil in order to ensure her survival and the bizarre routines she endured at his hands.
The serialization in the UK's Daily Mail newspaper details how Kampusch was locked inside a "hermetically sealed" concrete jail, beaten up to 200 times a week until she heard her own spine "snap" and was manacled to Priklopil while they slept together in his bed.

Kampusch escaped in August 2006 aged 18 and now lives in Vienna, Austria. Priklopil, 44, an engineer, committed suicide shortly after her escape.

Penguin, the British publishers of the English version, released a statement on behalf of Kampusch: "I now feel strong enough to tell the full story of my abduction for the first time."
--Natascha Kampusch

Describing her captor, Kampusch writes: "At 35, he had soft features and neatly parted brown hair. It was only when you observed him for a longer period that you noticed the traces of madness lurking beneath his conservative exterior."

During her captivity she was held in a subterranean bunker which was initially equipped with just a bed, toilet and sink.

She also recalls her first night in captivity. "I asked him to put me to bed properly and tell me a goodnight story," she writes. "I even asked him for a goodnight kiss. Anything to preserve the illusion of normality. And he played along."
Kampusch, now 22, goes on to describe how Priklopil would threaten her, saying: "If you're not good, then I'll have to tie you up."

"He told me my parents had refused to pay a ransom, 'Your parents don't love you at all... They don't want you back... They're happy to be rid of you.'"

She also describes the psychological games Priklopil played with her. "In all his visits he talked about the people who'd supposedly 'ordered" my kidnapping and would come and take pictures of me 'and do other things as well'. I lived in constant fear that at any moment a horde of evil men would come into my dungeon and attack me.

"And of course my fear of the 'true kidnappers' made the man who had abducted me seem caring and friendly by contrast."

Some psychologists have described this relationship as Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological condition when the victim of an abduction identifies with the kidnapper and becomes attached to him or her.

Kampusch recounts how Priklopil ordered her to call him "Maestro" or "My Lord" and to kneel in front of him. He also forced her to shave off her hair and work half-naked as a domestic slave, driving her to repeated suicide attempts.

Since her release Kampusch has become a media personality, appearing on television shows around the world. She worked for a while as a television presenter in Austria in 2007.

A spokesman for Penguin told CNN: "This is her first autobiography and the most detailed account of her life during captivity."

The English version of the autobiography is published on September 13 in the UK.

She was 10 years old when he kidnapped her, and was held captive for 8 years. I can't believe how well she weathered the ordeal.

NJ man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters

PATERSON, N.J. - A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators.

The nightmarish picture of a family subjected to more than a decade of threats and violence and largely cut off from the outside world is emerging in a state courthouse where prosecutors are preparing to have the man stand trial five times, one per child victim.

As the first case nears trial, questions have been raised about whether state authorities could have put a stop to the abuse sooner. Some of the crimes are alleged to have occurred while the family was under scrutiny by the state child welfare agency, and after the father had been arrested and pleaded guilty to assault and child endangerment.

At a hearing last week, the 51-year-old man's former wife described in a calm voice her marriage to a man whose visions she said drove him to try to create "pure" family bloodlines by impregnating several of his teenager daughters.

"He said the world was going to end and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen," the woman testified.

Arrested in 2006, he stands accused of raping five of his daughters, three of whom are believed to have given birth to a total of six children. He is being held on $1 million bond.

Having been ruled competent to stand trial earlier this year, he faces 27 charges including aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, lewdness, child endangerment, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact.

"We plan to proceed with all five trials if necessary," said Lisa Squitieri, the Passaic County prosecutor handling the case.

The Associated Press generally doesn't identify victims of sexual crimes and is not reporting the names of the husband and wife to protect the identities of their children, now all over 18 years of age.

Authorities say the assaults began in the mid-1980s and lasted until 2002, when the parents separated, and occurred at residences in Paterson, East Orange, Orange and Eatontown. The time period overlaps with the family's coming to the attention of the state's child welfare agency.

According to court records and published reports, the girls' father was arrested in 2000 and charged with kidnapping for allegedly trying to take three of his children from state custody at a Monmouth County medical center. He posted bail and later pleaded guilty to assault and child endangerment and was sentenced to a year's probation.

Prosecutors in Passaic County say one of the daughters, then in her early teens, was raped as late as January 2002.

New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services declined to comment, citing confidentiality requirements.

But the man's wife and one of his daughters testified that the agency had indeed removed at least one of the children from the family's home, and that the family had temporarily moved, first to Jersey City and then to Florida, to avoid the agency's investigation.

Prosecutors in Monmouth County, where the charges in the kidnapping case were brought, did not return phone messages.

In her testimony, his daughter described experiencing and witnessing beatings administered with wooden boards and steel-toed boots. She said minor transgressions often were punished by the withholding of food.

The girl's mother testified some of the babies were delivered at home and never received birth certificates, and said in at least two instances babies who died in the home were buried without authorities being notified.

The children were home-schooled, she said, and were discouraged from interacting with other kids.

"No one really asked questions of each other because somebody would tell on somebody and somebody would get in trouble," she said.

Even after she became aware of sexual abuse, she said she was too frightened to confront him.

"I was afraid to ever accuse him of being demented, or being a pedophile. I knew the word but I wouldn't dare use it because it would result in a beating," she said. "I'm sure my not standing up to him didn't help the kids. They felt disempowered also. There was just a lot of fear. Everybody was threatened."

Daryl Pennington, an attorney representing the defendant, did not return messages seeking comment.

Attorneys are scheduled back in court on Friday, when state Superior Court Judge Raymond Reddin is to rule on the admissibility of the wife's testimony. The first trial is scheduled to begin in April.

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NJ father accused of raping, impregnating daughter found guilty

PATERSON, N.J. - A New Jersey man whose apocalyptic visions allegedly led him to rape his five daughters and terrorize his family for years was found guilty Wednesday of sexually assaulting a daughter who testified that she bore him a child.


The jury deliberated for less than three hours over two days before finding the man guilty on all of the eight counts in the first of five separate trials — one for each daughter he is accused of victimizing.
The man showed no reaction to the verdict, other than keeping his eyes closed for extended periods while several of the counts were read.


Jurors endured more than three weeks of sexually explicit and often extremely graphic testimony from the man's former wife and one of his daughters.


The daughter, now 24, testified the man began sexually assaulting her when she was 8, and then regularly raping her until she bore him a child at 15.


Forensics experts testified earlier in the trial that DNA profiles showed the defendant was likely the father of his own grandchild.
The Associated Press doesn't identify victims of sexual crimes and is not reporting the names of the man or his former wife to protect the identities of their children, now over 18.


The jury got the case Tuesday. Shortly before leaving, they sent the judge a note asking for excerpts from the daughter's testimony that seemed to indicate they were trying to determine what age she had been when various alleged incidents took place.


The daughter's age was a central issue in the trial, as she did not obtain a birth certificate until later in life. She testified, as did the man's former wife, that the man had insisted his children be born at home so they wouldn't be documented.


The defence had argued that, as a result, no one could say with certainty what the daughter's real age is, a move that prosecutors criticized as an attempt to cast doubt in the jury's mind as to whether the daughter's age at the time of the alleged assaults actually fell within the statutes he's charged under.


The daughter, who prosecutors say obtained a court-ordered birth certificate a few years ago in order to enrol at Fordham University, testified that her father started beating her at age 3, escalated to sexual touching by age 8, regular intercourse by 12, and a resultant pregnancy shortly after she began menstruation at age 14.


Forensics experts testified earlier in the trial that DNA profiles showed the defendant was likely the father of his own grandchild.
The man's former wife and daughter also testified that he spoke of being a prophet who believed in keeping his bloodlines pure. They said he never let the children see doctors, kept them home-schooled and forced the family to adhere to strict vegetarian diets.


The man, who took the stand in his own defence, said his wife and daughter had been brainwashed by a former family spiritual adviser who was trying to steal the man's business ventures. He said all choices as to how the children were raised had been jointly made with his wife, in the interest of holistic child rearing.


Having been ruled competent to stand trial earlier this year, the man faces a total of 27 charges in all the cases, including aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, lewdness, child endangerment, aggravated criminal sexual contact and criminal sexual contact.


The first trial began Sept. 28 in state Superior Court in Paterson, about 15 miles west of Manhattan, where the family lived for several years.

Unreal!!! Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein Defending Chils Sex Predators, Says Child Porn Laws to Harsh … “We’re destroying lives unnecessarily”

“We’re destroying lives unnecessarily” … Yes we are and it is because judges like Jack B. Weinstein are allowed to serve on the bench. How will we ever protect children, the most defenseless among us with the likes of this as federal judges?

Say hello to LEFTIST Jack B. Weinstein, a 43 year federal judge …
The NY Times states, the judge has come to be identified by his efforts to combat what he calls “the unnecessary cruelty of the law.” What is his crusade this time … Child Porn laws. However, it’s not what you think … this judge things that the child porn laws are too strict and defends the child pornographers.

Judge Weinstein, who sits in the United States District Court in Brooklyn, has twice thrown out convictions that would have ensured that the man spend at least five years behind bars. He has pledged to break protocol and inform the next jury about the mandatory prison sentence that the charges carry. And he recently declared that the man, who is awaiting a new trial, did not need an electronic ankle bracelet because he posed “no risk to society.”
There is little public sympathy for collectors of child pornography. Yet across the country, an increasing number of federal judges have come to their defense, criticizing changes to sentencing laws that have effectively quadrupled their average prison term over the last decade.

That is correct, this judge stated that an electronic ankle bracelet was excessive for a sexual predator and child pornographer as he stated that this perv posed no threat to society. UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Eastern District of New York Judge Jack B. Weinstein has held unconstitutional the electronic monitoring of a Brooklyn pizzeria owner awaiting retrial on child pornography charges.
The judge found that the monitoring, mandated by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, constitutes unconstitutionally excessive bail and violates defendant Peter Polouizzi’s procedural due process rights.

Judge Jack B. Weinstein stated “We’re destroying lives unnecessarily.” However, he was not referring to the victims of child porn … he was referring to the child pornographers! I would agree with the Astute Blogger 100%, “I THINK THAT THESE LEFTISTS ARE EVERY BIT AS BAD AND DANGEROUS AS CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS.”
Just what we need to be soft on kiddie porn. What will the LEFT think of next to defend … child rapists? Guess where child rapists come from liberal judges … that would be the very kiddie porn criminals that you look to let off scott free.

Judge Weinstein has gone to extraordinary lengths to challenge the strict punishments, issuing a series of rulings that directly attack the mandatory five-year prison sentence faced by defendants charged with receiving child pornography.
“I don’t approve of child pornography, obviously,” he said in an interview this week. But, he also said, he does not believe that those who view the images, as opposed to producing or selling them, present a threat to children.
“We’re destroying lives unnecessarily,” he said. “At the most, they should be receiving treatment and supervision.”

Treatment and supervision … how LEFTIST, liberal can we get? Maybe we need to figure out why his parents did not get him a pony for his 6th birthday while we are at it. You know you have a problem with a judge when a child porn collector sees the man as not a judge, but a dad.

The man he has spent three years trying to save from a long incarceration is Pietro Polizzi, a married father of five who collected more than 5,000 graphic pictures of children. If prosecuted in a New York State court, he would have faced a maximum prison sentence of four years. Instead, in federal court, he faced a minimum of five years and a recommended sentence of 11 to 14 years. Because of Judge Weinstein’s intervention, he remains free as he awaits another trial.
“I don’t see Judge Weinstein as a judge,” Mr. Polizzi said during an interview as tears rolled down his face. “I see him as my father. He helps people. He doesn’t destroy lives the way the prosecutor has. He’s the one who is going to set me free from the court.”

It’s too bad that these liberal judges did not feel the need to protect the victims of child porn. News flash Judge Jack B. Weinstein … the pic is of an exploited child and the individual with that pic is a time bomb waiting to go off.
So judge, when this perv escalates his child porn pic collection to the real thing … what will you say then!!!

**ScaredMonkeys