Furious Protests Follow California’s Release of Violent, Unrepentant Child Predator From Mental Hospital
Heated protests and heavy police presence have followed the release of a violent, unrepentant child predator after being forcibly hospitalized in a California state psychiatric facility for 21 years.
According to ABC7, 59-year old Cary Jay Smith is a convicted sex offender and claims to have molested 200 young boys and killed three.
In 1985, Smith was convicted of a misdemeanor sexual offense involving a child, but his registration as a sex offender in the state expired in 2005.
In 2002, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office filed 20 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor against him, but the charges were dismissed having surpassed the statute of limitations.
Every six months that Smith was held by the state, he was entitled to a new trial to allow him the opportunity to demonstrate that he was no longer a danger to society.
“During those hearings, Smith has repeatedly testified that he fantasizes about raping and then killing young boys in order to avoid being identified. He claims that he has killed three boys and molested 200,” the DA’s office said in a statement last week.
“He prefers to go by the name Mr. RTK, which stands for rape, torture, kill,” the statement said, issuing a grave warning to county residents about Smith’s release.
“Psychologists have testified over the years that Smith posed an imminent danger and County Counsel has argued to keep Smith confined,” the statement noted. “The state hospital did not renew the 5300 hold against Smith, allowing it to expire on Saturday, July 11, 2020.”
Now, how can that be? He wants to rape and kill young boys and the hospital apparently didn't think that was an indication of insanity?
“The fact that he is being released back into our community is unconscionable,” said Orange County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Michelle Steel in the statement. “We must take this threat to our community very seriously and ensure that everyone in Orange County is aware of this individual’s grave threat to our children.”
“This sexual predator has repeatedly testified under oath that he will re-offend if he is released and we should believe him,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer.
To make matters worse, Smith will not be monitored by the parole system due to the medical, rather than criminal, nature of his hospitalization. Initially, Smith was not even required to re-register as a sex offender until more than 38,000 people signed a petition urging Governor Gavin Newsom to compel him to do so.
Since his release, Smith has been followed by heavy police surveillance and furious protests, forcing to have to relocate several times around Southern California. In Lake Elsinore, an angry group of citizens showed up at the motel where he was staying, with deputies fending them off and preventing them from going inside to confront Smith.
After the incident, deputies escorted Smith away from the motel. By Sunday night, ABC7 reports, he had settled at a motel in the northern part of San Diego County.
Although authorities in every city in which Smith winds up have warned the public about Smith’s presence and established surveillance of his whereabouts, they have also noted that he is not yet a registered sex offender, is not wanted for a crime, and is not on probation or parole and is, therefore, is free to move about as he pleases.
As of this writing, Smith’s information is still not available in the California sex offender registry.
According to ABC7, Smith was admitted to a psychiatric facility in 1999 after his wife provided a letter in which Smith described sexually abusive acts he wished to inflict upon a 7-year-old boy who lived in their neighborhood.
That boy’s mother, Lynn Vogt, is thankful that her son was never harmed but doesn’t doubt for a moment that Smith will hurt others.
“Realistically, I’d love to see him locked up but I know that’s probably not going to happen until he says or does something that shows, right now, today, that he’s a danger to people,” said Vogt. “The guy shouldn’t be roaming free. There’s just no way.”
I agree. There are serious loopholes in the law that allow that to happen. That society cannot realistically protect itself from this lunatic indicates that laws are far-more criminal-minded than for the protection of society, especially society's children.
Nine people in Ohio face federal charges over ‘involvement in drugs-for-child sex trafficking ring’
BY BRINKWIRE
A federal grand jury indicted nine people on a slew of federal sex trafficking and obstruction charges related to an Ohio child sex trafficking ring that allegedly bartered illegal drugs to drug addicts in exchange for access to their children.
A 10th person was also taken into custody in connection with the case, according to an arrest warrant unsealed in early July.
The child sex trafficking ring investigation first grabbed headlines in March (4th story on link), when Larry Dean Porter, 69, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, and several others, including three local mothers, were arrested in connection with allegedly sexually molesting several children between the ages of 3 to 13 years old.
According to a Department of Justice announcement, Larry Porter was arrested – with the help of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office – after a sting in which he allegedly offered, via Facebook messages, to pay $80 to get access to a seven-year-old girl.
During the sting’s pre-arranged meeting, the DOJ said, Larry Porter allegedly said that he would be ‘be done around midnight’ and could return the girl at that time.
The DOJ said that the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force first began investigating Larry Porter in April 2019, after receiving reports from sources alleging that he gave parents of male and female children illegal drugs in exchange for receiving their consent to sexually abuse their children.
Authorities said that victims and additional sources told the FBI and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI) that Porter had sexually abused children and produced child pornography, which he supposedly kept on flash drives and ‘used extreme methods to conceal.’
In addition to supposedly providing drugs to the underage, sexual abuse victims’ parents in exchange for their consent, Larry Porter was alleged to have told the parents to participate in the abuse of their own children so that he could record it to use as blackmail.
Following his arrest, the DOJ said in its June release, that Porter – while in jail – made numerous phone calls and sent three letters to relatives and associates in an attempt to have them lie under oath, convince other witnesses to lie to authorities or tell sources not to give information to police.
Among the nine people charged in connection with Larry Porter’s alleged child sex trafficking ring were two of his daughters, Denna Sue Porter, 32, and Crystal D. Porter, 39.
The DOJ said that it was alleged that in the days following their father’s arrest, Denna and Crystal were seen making multiple trips to Larry Porter’s property and digging holes in the ground of it.
When authorities searched the grounds where the women were digging, they found an SD memory card buried inside a glass jar. The DOJ said court documents allege that the memory card contained child pornography images that were shot in Larry Porter’s bedroom.
Authorities said that two of Larry Porter’s associates – Frank E. Andrews, 68, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, and W. David Cole, 62, of Portsmouth, Ohio – were also seen making trips to his property.
There is more to this story on Brinkwire.
Storm Lake, Iowa man arrested on sexual abuse charges with children
Bret Hayworth, Sioux City Journal
STORM LAKE, Iowa -- A Storm Lake man has been arrested on multiple charges of sexual abuse of a minor.
The Storm Lake Police Department in a Monday release reported the arrest of Pway Htoo, 41. Police had been contacted on July 20 about alleged abuse at a city residence, so an investigation was begun jointly with the Iowa Department of Human Services and MercyOne Siouxland Child Advocacy Center.
After the investigation, police said they determined Htoo had engaged in several acts of sexual abuse from 2017 to 2020 with two children under age 12.
He was arrested without incident and cited for the felony charges of six counts of second-degree sexual abuse and one count of incest, plus a few aggravated misdemeanors.
Htoo is being held on $134,000 bond in Buena Vista County Jail.
Florida man arrested for allegedly recording sexual abuse of children between 2 and 12 years old
FORT MYERS, Fla. (TCD) --
The Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida announced Fort Meade resident Steven Lacy DeVane, 36, was arrested on Thursday, July 23, and charged with three counts of using a child to engage in sex acts, and 70 enhanced counts of child-pornography possession.
Fort Myers Police Computer Crimes detectives received a tip in May from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that images/videos of child pornography were being downloaded from an address in Fort Meade.
Detectives executed a search warrant at DeVane's residence. According to the sheriff's office, detectives found items in a bedroom that appeared to be the same bedsheets, mirror and window coverings depicted in the homemade videos/images, as well as what appeared to be the same clothing worn by DeVane in the videos/images.
Detectives seized a cellphone belonging to DeVane and found 70 images/videos depicting child pornography, with victims between the ages of 2 and 12 years old being sexually abused.
“DeVane not only engaged in child pornography, he also committed lewd acts in the presence of a baby he had access to – and filmed it," said Sheriff Grady Judd.
DeVane was booked into the Polk County Jail without bond. The sheriff's office said additional charges are possible.
Waynesboro, Va, man arrested for alleged
child sexual abuse
By WHSV newsroom
WAYNESBORO, Va. (WHSV) — The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office arrested Brian L. Shorter, 49, of Waynesboro for the alleged sexual abuse of a male child over a two-year period, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
On July 17, the sheriff’s office received a referral regarding possible sexual abuse of a child from Child Protective Services. The alleged abuse occurred at Shorter’s home in the 400 block of E. Side Highway in Waynesboro.
Shorter was arrested on July 24 and is being held without bond at the Middle River Regional Jail. He has been charged with 10 felonies: three counts of sodomy, one count object sexual penetration, one count aggravated sexual battery, one count of taking indecent liberties with a child, one count of taking indecent liberties of a child by a custodian and three counts of carnal knowledge.
The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office asks that anyone with information about this case contact Investigator Ron Reid at 540-245-5333 or Crime Stoppers at 800-322-2017.
Jury selected Monday for 74-y/o Genoa, Ark, man,
accused of child sexual abuse
by Lynn LaRowe, Texarkana Gazette
TEXARKANA, Ark. — Opening arguments and testimony are expected to begin Tuesday morning at the Miller County courthouse in the trial of a 74-year-old Genoa man accused of child sexual abuse.
Under the supervision of Circuit Judge Carlton Jones, a jury was chosen Monday to decide the case of Willard Page. Jury selection was conducted at a local public school gymnasium to allow potential jurors to socially distance.
Page was arrested last February and freed on a $50,000 bond. He's charged with three counts of second-degree sexual assault alleged to have occurred from 2007 to 2011.
The alleged victim, now a teen, sent a message via social media to a friend in late 2018 in which she allegedly mentioned being sexually abused. An adult who saw the message in the girl's phone confronted her about it and the girl allegedly made an outcry of abuse against Page.
The girl reported to a forensic interviewer in Harris County, Texas, that when she was a young child she used to stay at Page's home in Genoa.
The girl said that when she was alone with Page he would have her sit in his lap and cover her with a blanket while he sexually assaulted her with his hands. The girl allegedly reported the abuse occurred when she was between the ages of 4 and 8 and that at the time it was occurring she did not know what was happening to her.
Page faces five to 20 years and a fine up to $15,000 on each of the three counts if convicted. Page is represented by Texarkana lawyer Tommy Potter. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Connie Mitchell and Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chuck Black are representing the state of Arkansas.
Mattoon, Ill, man sentenced to decade in federal prison for trafficking child pornography
Rob Stroud, JG-TC
URBANA — A Mattoon man described by federal prosecutors as an avid collector of extremely violent child pornography was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in federal prison.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois reported in a press release that Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm further ordered that Tyler L. Foote, 29, of Mattoon, remain on supervised release for a period of 10 years following completion of his prison sentence.
In court filings, the government represented that Foote is a collector of extremely violent child abuse images. These image and video files reportedly include acts of sexual violence against minor children, including infants, bestiality, bondage and urination.
On Dec. 20, Foote entered open pleas of guilty to five counts of trafficking child pornography. Foote was arrested on Aug. 16 on Coles County state charges, and was indicted by a federal grand jury in October.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Elly Peirson and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon O’Brien of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. The charges were investigated by the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Mattoon Police Department.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative by the U.S. Department of Justice to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Palermo, Ca, man arrested for guns, operating a meth lab,
and sexually abusing children
by Adam Robinson
PALERMO, Calif. — A Palermo man was arrested on July 23 for ongoing sexual assault of children, possessing assault weapons, and operating a meth lab.
Detectives with the Butte County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) received information on July 23 that Jason Ashby, 38 of Palermo, had molested a 13-year-old and later found evidence while investigating.
On the same day, detectives got a warrant for Ashby's arrest for three felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old. They also got a warrant to search Ashby's home on Occidental Avenue, according to BCSO.
Later in the evening, BCSO detectives and Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force (BINTF) served the search warrant at Ashby's home. According to BCSO, detectives found a secret meth laboratory, numerous firearms, three assault weapons, and two short-barreled shotguns.
Numerous firearms found during the arrest of Jason Ashby, 38, on July 23 in Palermo, including three assault weapons (termed by the Butte County Sheriff's Office), and two short-barreled shotguns. (Courtesy of the Butte County Sheriff's Office)
Ashby was found during the search of the home and arrested.
Parts of an operational methamphetamine laboratory found while searching Jason Ashby's home on July 23 in Palermo, CA. (Courtesy of the Butte County Sheriff's Office)
BCSO says multiple witnesses previously saw Ashby engage in inappropriate behavior with minors. Detectives also found another victim who had been sexually abused by Ashby over a five-year period when the victim was a minor.
Ashby was then taken and booked into the Butte County Jail for three felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14-years-old, one felony count of forcible rape, three felony counts of oral copulation with a child under the age of 14, one felony count of continuous sexual abuse of a child, two felony counts of possession of a short-barreled shotgun, three felony counts of possession of an assault weapon, one felony count of manufacturing a controlled substance, and one felony count of child endangerment.
Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Detect Jason Miller at (530) 538-7671.
Nashua Man Accused Of Trying To Solicit Boy For Sex In Manchester, NH
By Jeffrey Hastings, News Partner
MANCHESTER, NH — On July 22, 2020, Manchester Police received a report that a Manchester Taxi cab driver was attempting to solicit a 14 year old boy on the internet. The suspect was identified as Kenneth Simard, 34 of Nashua. Upon hearing the allegations, Simard's employer immediately terminated him.
Through their investigation, Manchester Police learned that Simard had been using a dating app to communicate and his messages were of a sexual nature.
After further investigation, Simard was arrested on July 26, 2020 and charged with two counts of Certain Use of Computer Services, 2 counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, one count of Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Images – Attempted, and one count of Felonious Sex Assault – Attempted.
Simard was also found to have active bail conditions out of Manchester Circuit Court for a Criminal Threatening charge dating back to February 2019. He was also charged with Violation of Bail Conditions.
At his arraignment Monday he was ordered held on preventative detention and denied bail.
KY man who forced girls to work, punished them for not making enough gets 30 years
BY BILL ESTEP, Herald Leader
A Kentucky man who made his girlfriend’s daughters sell items door-to-door and abused them when they didn’t bring in enough money has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
His girlfriend received a sentence of nine years in the case after acknowledging she benefited from the forced labor of her daughters.
U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier sentenced Jordan Allen Otis, 26, and Tiffany Louise Walsh, 34, last week.
“Protecting the most vulnerable, including children, from harm is a fundamental priority for law enforcement,” U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan, Jr. said in a news release. “The lengthy sentences imposed underscore the seriousness of the conduct and help ensure the defendants are not able to victimize others for the foreseeable future.”
Otis, Walsh and her four daughters moved to Hazard around March 2017.
Otis stayed home with the four girls, who were ages 12 to 15 when the abuse occurred, under the guise of homeschooling them, but only had them do writing assignments a few hours a day, according to the court record.
Otis used threats and force to make the girls make wooden plaques and other items and had them spend up to six hours a day going door-to-door to sell the items and cancer awareness bracelets.
If they didn’t bring in enough money, they had to draw a slip from a “punishment jar” to see what punishment they would face, according to the court record.
Otis made the girls do excessive exercise, eat condiments that made them sick and sprayed them with bleach.
A family member told a neighbor that the punishment jar also included acts of a sexual nature, and Wier concluded based on testimony from three of the girls that Otis used sexual abuse as a way to force them to work.
“The children each testified that fear of further sexual abuse increased their willingness to participate in the forced labor to avoid being at home alone with Otis,” Wier said in his sentencing order.
That was one factor in the sentence for Otis. Another was that when they lived in another state, Otis held down three of the girls against their will and gave them tattoos.
When they were in Hazard, Otis kept most of the money the girls brought in and used it to buy cigarettes, electronics, lottery tickets and food for him and Walsh, according to the court record.
The abuse came to light in May 2017 when the girls knocked on the door of a house while trying to sell bracelets. The house was a children’s advocacy center, according to the court record. The employees became concerned about why the girls weren’t in school and called authorities. Social workers and Kentucky State Police investigated.
Otis’ attorney, Greta Price Atherton, acknowledged Otis punished the girls in “vastly inappropriate ways,” but said he had been badly abused himself as a child and so had little knowledge of what was appropriate.
Otis’ aunt said in a letter that his parents used drugs and that his father was emotionally and physically abusive to him, beating Otis so badly he nearly died.
Atherton sought a sentence of no more than 10 years and one month for Otis.
However, the prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hydee R. Hawkins, asked Wier to sentence Otis near the maximum under advisory federal guidelines, which would have been 30 years and five months.
Otis’ “cruel and sadistic abuse of the victims over an extended time period warrants a significant sentence notwithstanding the defendant’s childhood difficulties,” Hawkins argued.
Otis also faces more than 100 charges in state court in Perry County, including first-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse and criminal abuse. Walsh faces nearly 100 counts of first-degree criminal abuse.
Otis and Walsh will have to serve at least 85 percent of the federal sentence.
Montana man accused of over 60 child sex abuse crimes gets one-year sentence
By Danielle Wallace
MtFOX News
GREAT FALLS, Mont. - A man in Montana who was initially charged with more than 60 counts of child sex abuse has received a deferred one-year sentence after agreeing to a plea deal, according to reports.
William Edward Miller Jr., 51, of Great Falls, was arrested in February 2019 after a 14-year-old high school student accused him of raping her at her home a year prior. She alleged that Miller allowed an 11-year-old boy to rape her while he watched in a separate encounter.
Later that August, state prosecutors filed 64 counts of sexual abuse of children against Miller after investigators allegedly found images of child pornography and bestiality on his phone and laptop, the Great Falls Tribune reported. Police received a search warrant on his home after Miller allegedly began calling people from jail asking them to destroy his phone, KFBB reported.
Miller would later accept a plea deal that involved prosecutors dropping the majority of the charges against him. He pleaded guilty to one count of felony sexual abuse of children and one count of misdemeanor unsworn falsification to authorities.
From 60 counts to two! Wow! He should have asked for a pension and a gold watch!
Cascade County District Judge Elizabeth Best on Monday sentenced Miller to six months in the Cascade County Detention Center for the misdemeanor. He received credit for 384 days of time served. On the felony charge, Miller was slapped with a one-year deferred sentence and was ordered to complete sex offender treatment in the community, according to the Tribune. Under a deferred sentence, the child sex abuse charge could be wiped from Miller’s record if he doesn’t commit a crime over the next year, according to KFBB.
OMG! Talk about a sweetheart deal! Was there a government attorney on this case or did Miller's lawyer write the whole agreement up herself?
The felony count for which Miller pleaded guilty came in connection to a photograph of then 17-year-old Shiloh Young. The woman, now 19, has been married to Miller for three months and testified that she took the photo herself two years ago to help her overcome body issues.
“William is a kind, compassionate, empathetic man. Never has he manipulated or controlled me,” Young told the judge, according to the Tribune. “I ask that we be free of this charge. I feel that we have suffered enough, and I am not a victim of my husband.”
Excuse my cynicism, but, I will be surprised if this marriage lasts more than another 13 months.
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