Wisconsin man to spend life in prison for kidnapping Jayme Closs, killing her parents
Jake Patterson gets 2 life sentences without release for homicides,
25 years for kidnapping
The Associated Press 25 years for kidnapping
Jake Patterson, left, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release for the murders of James and Denise Closs, along with 25 years for kidnapping their 13-year-old daughter, Jayme. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)
A Wisconsin man will spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping Jayme Closs, 13, and killing her parents.
Jake Patterson, 21, was sentenced Friday in Barron County. He pleaded guilty in March to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping. He admitted to abducting Jayme in October after killing her parents, James and Denise Closs, at the family's home near Barron, Wis., about 145 kilometres northeast of Minneapolis.
Jayme escaped in January from Patterson's cabin near the small and isolated town of Gordon, Wis., some 97 kilometres from her home.
Patterson was sentenced to life in prison without release on each homicide count and 25 years in prison, as well as 15 years of extended supervision on the kidnapping count. The sentences will be served consecutively. Those were the maximum sentences the judge could impose, as Wisconsin does not have the death penalty.
Jayme didn't appear at Patterson's sentencing hearing Friday, but a family attorney read her first public statements about her ordeal to Judge James Babler.
"He thought that he could own me but he was wrong. I was smarter," the statement said. "I was brave and he was not. ... He thought he could make me like him, but he was wrong. ... For 88 days he tried to steal me and he didn't care who he hurt or who he killed to do that. He should be locked up forever."
The judge called Patterson the "embodiment of evil" before sentencing him. "There's no doubt in my mind you're one of the most dangerous men to ever walk on this planet," Babler said.
Patterson sat shaking his head during most of the hearing. Offered a chance to speak, he said he would do anything to take back what he did.
"I would die," he said. "I would do absolutely anything ... to bring them back. I don't care about me. I'm just so sorry. That's all."
'The girl he was going to take'
Patterson told authorities he decided Jayme "was the girl he was going to take" after he saw her getting on a school bus near her home, according to a criminal complaint. He told investigators he plotted carefully, including wearing all black clothing, putting stolen licence plates on his car and taking care to leave no fingerprints on his shotgun.
Jayme told police that the night of her abduction, the family dog's barking awoke her, and she went to wake up her parents as a car came up the driveway. While her father went to the front door, Jayme and her mother hid in the bathroom, clutching each other in the bathtub, the shower curtain pulled shut.
Jayme Closs managed to escape from Patterson's cottage on Jan. 10, three months after being kidnapped. (The Associated Press)
Patterson shot Jayme's father as he entered the house, then found Jayme and her mother. He told detectives he wrapped tape around Jayme's mouth and head, taped her hands behind her back and taped her ankles together, then shot her mother in the head. He told police he dragged Jayme outside and threw her in the trunk of his car, the complaint said.
At his cabin, Patterson forced Jayme to hide under a bed when he had friends over and penned her in with tote boxes and weights, warning that if she moved, "bad things could happen to her," according to the complaint. He also turned up the radio so visitors couldn't hear her.
Prosecutors in the county where Jayme was held decided not to bring charges related to anything that might have happened in the cabin, a move that was widely seen as aiming to spare Jayme further pain and keep details private.
Authorities searched for Jayme for months and collected more than 3,500 tips. Jayme escaped on Jan. 10 while Patterson was away and flagged down a woman who was walking a dog. Patterson was arrested minutes later.
Patterson was also ordered to register as a sex offender, which under Wisconsin law may be required both for an actual sex offence or an attempted sexual offence. Details of Jayme's time in captivity have not been released, and no charges were brought by prosecutors in the county where she was held.
No need to go there. The monster is put away for life; that's all that's needed, except prayer for Jayme.
Long Island day care owner arrested
for child sex abuse
Parents - please don't put your children into day cares
where men are present
BY AVA PITTMAN
BRENTWOOD, Long Island— The owner of a Brentwood day care facility has been arrested for sexually abusing a child who attended the day care, Suffolk County Police said Saturday.
Flores, 56, was arrested and charged with first degree sexual abuse degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
The Office of Family and Child Services shut down the day care center following Flores arrest, police said in a statement.
Flores was transported to a hospital for treatment of a prior medical condition
The investigation is continuing.
Lycoming County, PA man arrested
for child sex abuse
On May 24, 2019, Christopher John Grob of 66 Johnson Street Montgomery was arrested for the sexual abuse of a child.
He is currently charged with multiple felonies including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child and sexual assault.
Grob was denied bail and is currently committed to the Lycoming County Prison.
Seabrook, NH man charged with possession of
child sex abuse images
By Max Sullivan
msullivan@seacoastonline.com BRENTWOOD -- A Seabrook man is facing almost two-dozen charges for possessing images of child sexual abuse.
Justin Brown, 36, was indicted this month by a Rockingham Superior Court grand jury on 23 counts of possession of child sexual abuse charges. Each count carries a maximum of 15 years in prison.
An indictment means the grand jury found enough evidence to warrant a trial in the matter.
The indictments state Brown possessed images of children under the age of 18 involved in sexual acts with adult males. Files contained names with phrases including “Pedo - 11yo” and “Reelkiddymov.”
Seabrook police prosecutor Scott Mendes said Brown was first investigated a year ago through the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and that the investigation was eventually turned over to the Rockingham County attorney’s office. He was directly indicted this month, according to Mendes, meaning he was not previously arrested and would be notified by mail or a sheriff that he would need to turn himself in.
Brown is scheduled for a June 6 arraignment in Rockingham Superior Court.
Vernon County, MO man sentenced child sexual abuse, porn case
Jeff Lehr, Joplin Globe
NEVADA, Mo. — A Vernon County judge sentenced a rural Nevada man to 10 years in prison when he pleaded guilty recently to child pornography and child sexual abuse charges.
Nathaniel W. Gordon, 41, pleaded guilty May 17 in Vernon County Circuit Court to possession of child pornography and to two counts of second-degree statutory sodomy. Circuit Judge David Munton assessed Gordon concurrent terms of 10 years on the child pornography count and seven years on each of the statutory sodomy convictions.
Wow! Sodomy counts for nothing in Judge Munton's court!
The convictions stem from a joint investigation by the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force and the Vernon County Sheriff's Department in January of this year.
Gordon was interviewed by a task force investigator Jan. 15 and admitted using social media sites such as Kik and Tumblr and receiving links on Kik to child pornography. He told the investigator that he had not been online for two or three months but liked to look at boys in their early teens, according to a probable-cause affidavit filed in the case.
A sheriff's investigator went a day after the interview to the address where Gordon had been living and learned from another occupant that Gordon had been using her laptop computer prior to December 2018 and had more or less taken over the device, opening an account on it with a protected password and not letting anyone else use the laptop.
The detective obtained consent of the owner to take the laptop and a search warrant was obtained to examine it. According to the affidavit, at least 57 photos of suspected child pornography were discovered in its contents, primarily nude images of boys. During the course of the investigation, information was received that Gordon may have sexually abused a 14-year-old boy. During an interview at the Children's Center in Nevada, the boy told investigators that Gordon sexually abused him three times in the summer of 2018.
And all he gets is 10 years. 10 years and he will magically transform into someone who is not a danger to children! Good grief!
Arrest Made in Two Child Sex Abuse and Sexual Exploitation of Minors Offenses in DC
This is a news release from the Washington Metropolitan Police Dept., provided verbatim.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Youth and Family Services Division along with Special Agents from Federal Bureau of Investigation, Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force announced an arrest has been made in reference to two First Degree Child Sex Abuse offenses and a Material Involving Sexual Exploitation of Minors offense.
Between Thursday, September 1, 2016 and Wednesday, January 9, 2019, at the listed location, the defendant downloaded and accepted receipt of materials involving the exploitation of children. Additionally, the suspect engaged in non-consensual acts with two juvenile victims. All offenses occurred in the 800 block of Southern Avenue, Southeast.
On Thursday, May 24, 2019, 47 year-old Andrew Rodgers, of Southeast, DC, was charged with two counts of First Degree Child Sex Abuse and one count of Material Involving Sexual Exploitation of Minors.
Wisconsin man serving time for sexual assault of child
gets prison for assault of another child
Sophia Carson, Appleton Post-Crescent
APPLETON - A convicted sex offender serving time in prison for an assault of a Door County child was sentenced Thursday in another similar case.
Outagamie County Circuit Court judge Mark McGinnis sentenced Ronald L. Kupsky, 31, to 20 years in prison and 20 years of extended supervision after a jury found him guilty Wednesday of first-degree sexual assault of a child.
Investigators said a girl told police in 2018 that Kupsky sexually assaulted her when she was 11 years old. The girl said she was playing volleyball outside in Black Creek when her ball rolled toward the woods. Kupsky followed her and assaulted her.
The sentence handed down Thursday will follow the 20-year prison sentence Kupsky is currently serving for first-degree sexual assault of a 12-year-old in 2014 in Sturgeon Bay.
In that case, a jury found Kupsky guilty of assaulting the girl and showing her pornography while the two watching TV.
When police seized his phone in that case, they found sexually explicit photos and videos between Kupsky and a third, unidentified girl they believe is 13 or 14 years old.
Plea deals work great for pedophiles, not so much for kids
Kupsky was the subject of a 2015 Appleton Post-Crescent investigation about people accused of sexual assault who can walk free because of plea agreements and reduced bonds. The investigation detailed another child sexual assault case against Kupske in 2013 based on a report from a 13-year-old Kimberly girl.
A plea agreement dropped the initial charge of first-degree sexual assault of a child to fourth-degree sexual assault, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum nine-month jail sentence.
The charge of first-degree sexual assault of a child carries a maximum sentence of 60 years in prison.
There's a DA who doesn't have children, or care very much about them.
NM man faces life in prison for child sexual abuse convictions
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a San Felipe Pueblo man faces life in prison after being convicted by a jury of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for New Mexico says a life sentence is mandatory for 48-year-old Tyrone Coriz because he had a previous federal conviction for a sex crime in 1992 involving a different victim.
Federal court jurors in Albuquerque convicted Coriz in the latest case on Wednesday.
Former Homewood, AL city councilor faces
child sex abuse charges
By Jennifer Fortier WVTM
HOMEWOOD, Ala. —
According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, former Homewood City Councilman Vance Moody, 55, was arrested Thursday on charges of first-degree sex abuse and sex abuse of a child.
Moody was released from county jail on a $45,000 bond. Homewood police have not commented on this case.
Facebook messages prove child sexual abuse,
San Antonio, TX teen arrested
by SBG San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO — An 18-year-old has been arrested and is facing multiple charges after an investigation by police led to his Facebook page.
According to affidavits we received, DeAntay Marquise Shumpert, 18, was arrested Thursday.
It started when a 14-year-old girl was reported as a runaway in January.
The girl's mother came to police February 20, saying her daughter was pregnant after allegedly running away Shumpert.
The affidavit says her mother told police she ran away again in March, but returned home the next day after her mother picked her up from Shumpert's home.
Police interviewed the victim and mother in March, at this time the victim admitted to having a sexual relationship with Shumpert, but that it was consensual, only once and she did not want him to be in trouble.
When police say they reached out to Shumpert, he said he had no information to provide.
According to the affidavit, a few weeks later in early April, the victim's mother sent police screenshots of her daughter's Facebook conversations with Shumpert.
The messages allegedly include an admission from Shumpert.
Police say they then obtained a search warrant of Shumpert's Facebook page.
In Facebook messages on his Facebook page, police found sexually explicit photos, videos and messages, according to the affidavit.
Shumpert is now facing charges of sexual assault of a child, online solicitation of a minor, sexual performance by a child and possession of child pornography.
Missoula, MT man gets four 100-year sentences
for child sex abuse
SEABORN LARSON seaborn.larson@missoulian.com
A 65-year-old Missoula man was given four 100-year sentences Thursday for molesting a young girl and forcing her into sex acts with two boys.
A Missoula County District Court jury convicted Jack Eldon Jarvey in January of sexual intercourse without consent, three counts of sexual abuse of children and one count of intimidation.
"This sentence may well exceed your lifetime," Missoula Judge John Larson told Jarvey at the hearing on Thursday, "and I must say what you've done … will persist with them for their entire lives as well."
At trial, the victims who testified said their ages ranged from third grade to fifth grade when the abuse began several years ago. The abuse went on every weekend for two years, until a girl told her mother Jarvey was forcing her to perform sex acts on boys at the home.
Jarvey's attorney did not make arguments at Thursday's sentencing, opting to take the case to the state Supreme Court on appeal.
"Mr. Jarvey maintains that he's an innocent man," public defender Reed Mandelko told Larson. "He's confident in his chances on appeal."
Along with the four lengthy sentences on the rape and abuse charges, Larson handed down a 10-year sentence for the intimidation charge, the maximum penalty for such an offense. Each sentence will run concurrently, an arrangement offered by Deputy County Attorney Ryan Mickelson in light of Jarvey's age.
The psychosexual evaluation of Jarvey completed by sentencing reportedly showed "little or no empathy for the victims" and "projected blame onto the victims," Mickelson said. Jarvey will have to complete multiple phases of sex offender treatment before he is eligible for parole.
Larson also addressed the victims in the courtroom during his final statements to Jarvey.
"This sentence is intended not only to punish you but to express the remorse of the state and the value the state places on the victims," he said, then turned to the victims. "You should feel valuable, you should feel full, you should feel complete in living the rest of your lives, knowing the rest of his life will be in the Montana state prison."
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