Pedophile's Heinous Crimes Earned Him 1,000 Years Behind Bars, But State Law Allows Him To Walk After 7
By Jared Harris, The Western Journal
A pedophile seven years into a seemingly inescapable 1,000-year prison sentence is now walking free thanks to a state law on consecutive sentences.
Peter Mallory, convicted in Georgia in 2012 after investigators seized tens of thousands of child pornography files, was paroled on May 27, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The shocking reversal of fortune is made worse by the sheer number of times Mallory committed his heinous crimes, which landed him with a whopping 60 sexual exploitation of children convictions.
The initial investigation into a suspected case of child pornography began in 2011, and Mallory soon became the focus.
Authorities zeroed in on a television station operated by Mallory in LaGrange, Georgia, and the discovery of more than 26,000 pieces of the sickening material virtually sealed the pedophile’s fate.
According to District Attorney Herb Cranford, Mallory “knowingly and intentionally” hunted down child pornography that included images of rape and torture.
Unfortunately, it looks like Mallory’s release is a feature, not an error, of Georgia’s justice system.
According to the Southern Center for Human Rights, the release was made possible thanks to the consecutive nature of the sentences.
“People serving sentences aggregating 21 years or more become eligible for parole consideration upon completion of 7 years of the sentence,” the SCHR explains.
While this setup was likely intended to clear the prison system of small-time offenders who rack up multiple minor charges, it’s helping a man who’s been founded guilty of one of the most despicable crimes to go free.
The state’s system, as it now stands, is able to release a gross offender like Mallory despite the obvious message sent at his sentencing.
Mallory’s many victims have it even worse thanks to this law, and now have to continue living knowing their abuser is walking free. Cranford told the Journal-Constitution, two of those victims actively opposed Mallory’s release.
The final decision was made by Georgia’s State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
And they thought it was appropriate to release him? How stupid is that?
Cranford told the Journal-Constitution he was “powerless” to stop it.
While Mallory appears to have bested Georgia’s criminal justice system, his heinous crimes will never be forgotten by his community and his victims.
So, the obvious questions here are: 1) why is there a law protecting prisons from overcrowding at the expense of victims of child sex abuse? 2) Didn't the judge who sentenced him and the appeal judge who reviewed his case not know that this law exists?
This law has to be repealed!
Loveland, Co, man arrested for investigation of
sexual assault on infant
By CARINA JULIG | cjulig@prairiemountainmedia.com | Loveland Reporter-Herald
A Loveland man was arrested June 30 for allegedly sexually assaulting a child.
Andrew Rosas, 25, was arrested after Larimer County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a home south of Loveland on a report of a possible sexual assault of an infant on June 30.
The infant was taken by family members to Medical Center of the Rockies, where a sexual assault nurse exam was conducted on the baby and found evidence of injuries, according to an affidavit for Rosas’ arrest.
Rosas was located by patrol deputies and asked to go to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office for an interview, the affidavit said. In the interview he admitted to touching the child but denied that it was sexual in nature.
During the interview he made statements about finding young girls attractive, the affidavit said.
Another person interviewed by deputies said Rosas has acted inappropriately toward children in the past and that she was afraid to leave her children around him, the affidavit said.
Rosas is facing charges of sexual assault on a child, a class 3 felony.
Rosas has an ongoing misdemeanor child abuse case in Boulder County, to which he has pleaded not guilty, according to online court documents.
Rosas is currently in custody in the Larimer County Jail in Fort Collins on a $50,000 bond. He is scheduled to have his first appearance in 8th Judicial District Court on Thursday.
Mercer Co., WVa, (man) sentenced to federal prison
for child sex offense
for child sex offense
Beckley, W. Va. (WVVA) - A Lashmeet man was sentenced to federal prison for a sex crime against a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
Joshua Kevin Laxton, 29, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for travel in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor.
Following his release from prison, Laxton will be required to serve 15 years of supervised release and will have to register as a sex offender.
The other pandemic
“Horrific,” said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. “Crimes against children are the other pandemic."
In reality, Covid19 is the other pandemic. CSA has been around for thousands of years and getting worse bu the day.
"My prosecutors and our federal, state and local investigators are working tirelessly to protect West Virginia’s children from predators like Laxton. My office will prosecute child predators to the fullest extent of the law.”
Laxton previously admitted that on September 14, 2019, he began communicating via text messages with a minor he believed to be a 14-year-old girl located in Lewisburg.
Despite knowing her age, Laxton discussed meeting the minor to engage in sexual intercourse.
On November 1, 2019, Laxton drove through Virginia to meet the purported minor at an arranged meeting location in Lewisburg in order to engage in sexual intercourse.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s West Virginia Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, in partnership with the West Virginia State Police, conducted the investigation.
United States District Judge Frank W. Volk imposed the sentence. Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Rada Herrald handled the prosecution.
This case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative of the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Led by the United States Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute those who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
Woodbine, Ky, man gets 25 years for child sex charges
By Jennifer K. Perkins
WHITLEY COUNTY — A Woodbine man whose sentencing has been delayed multiple times was sentenced Monday to 25 years in Whitley County Circuit Court.
James LaForest was set to be sentenced in December 2019, but it was delayed when the court learned that LaForest had not been pre-evaluated before being placed on the state’s sex offender registry.
His sentencing was delayed again July 2, when LaForest requested more time to speak with his attorney.
LaForest was arrested in April 2017 following an investigation by Kentucky State Police into allegations made by an 8-year-old child that LaForest had subjected the child to sexual abuse. A recorded confession by LaForest was later obtained, according to an arrest citation.
After rejecting a plea deal offer in April 2019, LaForest agreed to a plea deal in October 2019. LaForest agreed to a 25-year sentence. Without a plea deal, LaForest could have faced anywhere from 85 years to life in prison since the victim was under the age of 12.
As part of the plea deal, LaForest pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree sodomy of victim under 12 years of age, one count of first-degree sexual abuse of a victim under age 12 years old and one count of incest with victim under the age of 12.
LaForest will not be eligible for parole until he has served at least 85 percent of his sentence or 20 years.
Child Sex Abuse in New Hanover Co., NC, Public Schools
By RACHEL LEWIS HILBURN, WHQR
Peter Frank, band teacher at Roland-Grise Middle School in New Hanover County, was arrested on charges of child sexual abuse.New Hanover County Public Schools is facing a crisis of public confidence. On Friday, Feb. 7th, Superintendent Tim Markley announced his resignation with a separation agreement that gives him $228,000. That’s slightly less than half the value of the remainder of his contract.
The move comes after three high-profile cases of alleged sexual abuse of children by teachers.
WHQR caught up with Board of Education Chair Lisa Estep.
RLH: People want some kind of answer to why Markley couldn't be fired when his contract lays out all kinds of reasons that he could be fired. One of those is immorality. Could you make an argument in a number of cases that he met that bar?
Lisa Estep: Well, we felt like this was just the best way for, as you know, I, I get the public concern and we could have gone through a protracted legal battle and ended this in a very, um, rather contentious way.
Arrested Kaysville, Ut, man contacted
more than 100 children on social media
By Pat Reavy, KSLKAYSVILLE — A man who told police he has contacted more than 100 children on social media, some as young as 12, has been arrested and accused of having explicit photos of children.
Aaron Joseph Vodden, 22, of Kaysville, was arrested Monday for investigation of eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
The investigation began May 30 when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a report of child pornography on Twitter. Investigators received from Twitter direct messages between the account of Vodden and other people, according to a police affidavit.
“The dialogue includes asking for trades, or a term of exchanging images/videos of child sexual abuse material, the context of the conversation is specific for underage (children),” the affidavit states.
Police traced the account to a home in Kaysville and investigators held surveillance on the residence from June 29 to July 1.
On Monday, the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force executed a search warrant at the residence and interviewed Vodden.
“Aaron further admitted that he had utilized popular social media applications to exchange images and videos of child sexual abuse; he also admitted to engaging in conversations with children as young as 12 years old, where he would send sexual images and coerce sexual images and videos in return,” according to the affidavit.
Vodden admitted to chatting with more than 100 children, the affidavit says.
Lawsuits Against Heartshare St. Vincent's Services Inc Under New York's Child Victims Act
By Greenstein & Milbauer, LLP; Heartshare St. Vincent's Services Inc;
NEW YORK, July 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenstein & Milbauer, LLP, a law firm based in New York City, has filed a lawsuit in Kings County Supreme Court (511645/2020), alleging that from approximately 1974 through 1978 Plaintiff, then a minor, was repeatedly sexually assaulted, molested, sodomized and abused while residing at the St. Vincent's Home for Boys located at 66 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, New York. Throughout the period in which the abuse occurred, Defendant Heartshare St. Vincent's Services was negligent in that it negligently employed and retained agents, servants, employees and/or representatives who sexually assaulted, molested, sodomized and abused minors, including, but not limited to the Plaintiff and gave them access to children. In addition to being abused by Defendants' agents, servants, employees and/or representatives, this lawsuit arises out of Plaintiff's significant damages from that sexual abuse.
This lawsuit was filed under New York's Child Victims Act which allows innocent victims of child sexual abuse, like this child, the opportunity to seek compensation and hold their perpetrators accountable. Prior to the enactment of the Child Victims Act last year, the statute of limitations would have already expired for this child sexual abuse victim. Greenstein & Milbauer, LLP has filed a lawsuit against Heartshare St. Vincent's Services Inc on behalf of this adult survivor of child sexual abuse.
GREENSTEIN & MILBAUER, LLP IS OFFERING FREE CONSULTATIONS
If you have information about child sexual abuse at Heartshare St. Vincent's Services, or you were sexually abused at Heartshare St. Vincent's Services Inc, contact Greenstein & Milbauer LLP by calling 1-800-VICTIM2 (1-800-842-8462). The call is free.
The compassionate New York Child Sexual Abuse Lawyers at Greenstein & Milbauer, LLP are there to listen. They understand that coming forward is very difficult. They can help. They will walk you through the process. They are committed to holding abusers and institutions like Heartshare St. Vincent's Services Inc accountable. The call is free. The consultation is free. You don't pay them unless they are successful.
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FBI Lead International Operation to
arrest 65 pervs and rescue 18 children
International Operation Targeting Individuals Sexually Abusing Children and Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Materials
Robert E. Hughes, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Milwaukee Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, have conducted a month long FBI-led operation to identify and arrest distributors and manufactures of child sexual abuse materials and to recover child victims of sexual abuse.
This operation has resulted in dozens of arrests across the country, as well as in other countries including Canada, United Kingdom, Romania, and France. More importantly, the operation has so far located and recovered 18 children from being sexually exploited.
The initiative occurring primarily in the month of June, dubbed Operation Kick Boxer, relied on more than 63 law enforcement agencies working on FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Forces in each of the Bureau’s 56 field offices and via the FBI's Legal Attaché Offices throughout the world.
The sweep included undercover operations and led to the opening of over five dozen federal and international criminal investigations. Agents and analysts at FBI Milwaukee worked closely with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to coordinate and de-conflict these law enforcement operations.
In all, approximately 65 suspected distributors, manufacturers and hands-on offenders have been identified by law enforcement, arrested, and/or are in the process of being formally charged.
One example of local impact as a result of Kick Boxer was the June 23rd indictment of Martin E. McKeever (age: 51) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who was charged with two counts of possessing and distributing child pornography in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252A(a)(2)(A) and 2252A(a)(5)(B).
“The FBI is fiercely focused on recovering child victims and arresting the individuals who exploit them,” FBI Milwaukee SAC Hughes said in a statement. “Through operations like this, the FBI helps child victims escape the abusive sexual exploitation occurring in their homes by people they trust.”
“Our nation is seeing a disturbing increase in reports of potential child exploitation,” said United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger. “Operation Kick Boxer shows the Justice Department’s commitment to working with law enforcement partners at all levels to confront child exploitation aggressively.”
A major element in all the FBI’s child exploitation cases is the placement of victim specialists on operational teams. Their mission is to provide victims with resources to help them in their situations. But they also frequently serve as intermediaries between victim-witnesses and investigators.
In his remarks, SAC Hughes said the FBI’s focus on the issue is not confined to a single week or month each year. The effort to find and stop pedophiles and recover kids is ongoing and continuous. “Our agents, intelligence analysts, professional staff, and victim specialists work tirelessly before, during, and after these operations to make sure that victims get the help, they need to reclaim their lives,” Hughes said.
Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz commented, “We are pleased to have our federal partners working with us on this priority operation. We recognize children are the most vulnerable population we serve and protecting them will always be of greatest importance to law enforcement.”
Great work, SA Hughes. God bless you.
Cleveland Co., Ok, Man Sentenced To
Over 400 Years For Child Sexual Abuse
By: Bonnie CampoCLEVELAND COUNTY - A 32-year-old Noble man has been sentenced to 415 years in prison by Judge Thad Balkman.
Prosecutors said the victim's testimony is what convinced jurors to issue the lengthy sentence. She sat for hours in the court, and even testified.
Records show in 2017, Noble police were called to a crime out on Maguire Road for a possible theft. However, when they got there, they took a report on something much worse.
The child was later interviewed over the course of two days, and said she was forced to have sex with Christopher Louive multiple times.
Rather than have each sentence run concurrently, meaning at the same time, Balkman ordered each count be stacked one after another.
"He shouldn't get credit for repeatedly abusing her. So, he shouldn't get punishment for each time he molested the child. The judge agreed, and ordered that he serve the sentences consecutive," said District Attorney Greg Mashburn.
He said cases like this one are common on the jury docket, and the conviction rate is extremely high.
"Almost exclusively, the cases we go to trial on are child sex crimes and homicides. We hardly try any other kind of case, said DA Mashburn. "In the past 10 years, I can probably count on one hand the number of not guilty's on these types of cases."
In the case of Christopher Louive he said it was clear that jurors did not want Louvie to be back out on the street.
Noble, Ok
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