Fall 2009 Issue 11 In This Issue: 2 Nashville Expo Partners 4 Updates from the Battle Against Child Exploitation 5-8 Dr. Frank Kardasz sends a powerful call Dr. Frank Kardasz, a law enforcement officer and member of the National Law Center’s to judges. Law Enforcement Advisory committee, sent an open letter to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. This letter was in response to media reports on Child Pornography sentencing concerns. This commentary presents the perspective from a law enforcement professional 9 Calendar of Upcoming who works in this area on a daily basis and we think needs to be heard. We are pleased to Training Events present this letter in its entirety and thank Dr. Kardasz for his permission to publish this important commentary. - The Editors I solemnly read a news report that began with the following troubling headline: Sentences for Possession of Child Porn May Be Too High, Judges Say (1). The story described a recent meeting of the U.S. Sentencing Commission where judges advocated softening sentences for possessors of child pornography. Not in attendance, and sadly unrepresented at the commission meeting, were thousands of anonymous victims of child sexual abuse whose tortured images and videos are being traded as you read this, by pedophiles, sex offenders, and the criminally sexually curious. As a law enforcement officer, having supervised thousands of investigations into unlawful images over the past ten years, it is disheartening to see some in the judiciary attempting to unravel years of pro- gressive legislation against this disturbing form of child abuse. Normally I am reticent to contradict judges because I am only a humble policeman, dutifully aware that judge-liness is next to godliness in the justice system but I must herein rebut some of the misin- formation from the report for the purpose of informing those in the judiciary who do not deal with this subject on a regular basis. Opinions expressed herein are personal and do not represent the thoughts of any government agency. According to the report, one judge said that he "doesn't condone possession of child pornography or understand it, but focused on the unfairness of treating one person sitting in his basement receiving videos over the Internet the same as a commercial purveyor of child pornography." Escalating Offenses: From Basement to Abomination Former criminal profiler John Douglas described the relationship between pornographic images and sex offenders. He said, "With most sexually based killers, it is a several-step escalation from the fan- tasy to the reality, often fueled by pornography, morbid experimentation on animals, and cruelty to peers (2)." Here in Arizona, my colleagues and I saw the beginning of this progression in a recent in- vestigation where an offender admitted that he no longer enjoys lawful adult pornography and that he now must use child pornography to gratify himself. Sometimes, experts say, the offender emerges from the proverbial basement described by the judge, emboldened by what he has seen and then, like an enthusiastic but twisted movie-goer emulating an on-screen hero, endeavors to re-enact the horrible video somewhere in real life. Dr. Chris Hatcher, Professor of Psychology at the University of California said, "It begins with fantasy, moves to gratifica- Letters to the editor may be sent to: tion through pornography, then voyeurism, and finally, to contact (3)." The Enforcer (Continued on page 5) 211 N. 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Now you can search Web data - social networks, blogs, chat rooms, news articles, watchlists, and much more - at the same time that you search public and proprietary records on CLEAR. See it in action - click here to view a short online demo. © 2009 National Law Center for Children and Families. 3 Updates from the Battle Against Child Exploitation FORMER TEACHING ASSISTANT FROM MURFREESBORO MAN ARRESTED FOR FRANKLIN CHARGED FOR DEALING POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Murfreesboro, TN, October 14, 2009: According to the Franklin, TN, September 28, 2009: The Tennessean.com Murfreesboro Post , a 63 year-old man has been arrested for released an article about a former teaching assistant being ac- alleged possession of child pornography. Glenn M. Little Sr. is cused of engaging in sexual activity with at least four boys as alleged to have ordered and purchased eight videos that por- well as sharing and distributing computer files containing child trayed young children engaging in sexually explicit activities. pornography. After executing a search warrant, law enforcement officers Scott Z. Myers, 27, worked as a teaching assistant at a confiscated the defendant’s computer as well as 150 DVD’s Franklin, Tennessee school for approximately three years. containing disturbing images of child sexual abuse. Little al- During that time he also worked at a morning and afternoon legedly confessed to investigators that he had been collecting care program for about 20 days. child pornography for 20 to 30 years. According to the Tennessee Department of Justice, officers This case was investigated by the Internet Crimes Against approached Myers’ home with a search warrant when they saw Children Task Force of the Franklin Police Department. the defendant leave his home with two young boys. After fur- However, this case could not have been solved without the ther examination of his residence, officers allege that they effective collaboration between the Franklin Police found computer files with inappropriate images of young chil- Department , the United States Postal Inspection Service and dren engaged in sexually explicit conduct. the United States Secret Service . The National Law Center for Children and Families will be holding its 19th PROTECTS seminar in Franklin, TN in order to train and educate local law enforcement, prosecutors and other agencies on such exploitation crimes. FORMER BAND TEACHER FROM ROBINSON MAN CHARGED FOR IOWA CONVICTED FOR ATTEMPTED POSSESSING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ENTICEMENT OF A MINOR Robinson, IL, September 29, 2009: A report issued by Clinton, IA, October 19,2009: Clinton (Iowa) Herald, a the United States Attorney’s office of the Southern District of local community newspaper,