Horrific story of violence and injustice
Alabama woman, 32, who 'shot dead her rapist while he was trying to kill her brother' faces possibility of life in prison for his murder - in the state's latest case of women being prosecuted for defending themselves
By MEGAN SHEETS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
An Alabama woman who fatally shot her alleged rapist as he tried to kill her brother is facing life in prison for murder.
Brittany Smith, 32, claims she was brutally raped and beaten by Todd Smith, 38, at her home in Stevenson, Alabama, in January 2018.
Todd threatened to kill Brittany if she told anyone what had happened - but she managed to covertly inform her brother, Chris McCallie, who showed up at her home soon after and confronted Todd.
When Todd refused to leave, he and Chris got in a violent altercation which ended with Brittany fatally shooting her alleged attacker before calling police.
A rape kit showed severe injuries and indicated that Brittany had been raped, but she was still charged with Todd's murder two days later.
Brittany Smith, 32, is facing life in prison for murder after she fatally shot her alleged rapist as he tried to kill her brother at her home in Stevenson, Alabama, in January 2018
If convicted, Brittany will join countless other women imprisoned for violent acts committed against men they've accused of sexual abuse and domestic violence.
Brittany began her story by noting that in January 2018 she felt happier than she had in a long time.
The years prior had been hard on the newly-divorced mother-of-four. She lost custody of her eldest three children in 2013 while she battled substance abuse but had recently been awarded increased visitations and was hopeful that full custody would follow.
She had also just secured a new job at a flooring company which offered to pay her more than she needed to cover her expenses - a welcome change after years of low-paying jobs.
'I felt uplifted,' she told the New Yorker. 'Like, everything is going right. I have a job now, I'm going to get my babies back, and I have a home.'
Brittany claims she was brutally raped and beaten by Todd Smith (pictured) hours before she shot him dead on January 15, 2018
On January 16, Brittany was on her way home from McDonald's with her brother Chris when Todd, an old acquaintance who bred pit bulls, called and asked her to pick him up from a park.
Brittany said she had visited Todd's home in Jasper, Tennessee, the day before and took home a puppy.
She initially hesitated to comply with Todd's request as she'd previously rejected his romantic advances. Chris also advised her not to go. 'I just had a gut feeling that something was going to happen,' he told the New Yorker.
But Brittany ultimately agreed after Todd claimed he had been stranded in the heavy snow and had no one else to call. She would later learn that his father had kicked him out of the house after a violent altercation that resulted in Todd's arrest.
She told Todd that she and Chris would pick him up and that he could sleep on her couch that night. Chris dropped Brittany and Todd off at her home and the pair gave her new puppy a bath while talking about their mutual struggles with drug addiction.
She told him about how she'd managed to get clean while urging him to 'get his priorities together' and do the same. Brittany said her advice was not well received by Todd, who responded by asking if she thought she was better than him before calling her a bitch and head-butting her.
She fled into her bedroom and shut the door but Todd broke it down, threw her on the bed and then choked her until she passed out, she said. When she regained consciousness, Brittany found herself naked in a puddle of her own urine with Todd's hands around her neck as he raped her.
'We're friends,' she squeaked before Todd repeated the words back to her in a mocking voice and said: 'Don't say a ******* word or I'll kill you.' Brittany sobbed as she frantically tried to fight Todd off of her, digging her nails into him so hard that some of them ripped off.
She said he twisted her head sideways so far that she thought her neck would break before they both tumbled off the bed and he choked her again until she passed out. When she woke back up, Todd was still raping her, but she 'let him finish what he was doing', Brittany said.
After the assault was over, Todd allegedly threatened to kill everyone she loved if she told anyone what had happened. He then said he wanted to get some cigarettes, so Brittany offered to call someone to drive them to the store since she didn't have a car.
Todd held the phone as Brittany called her mother, Ramona McCallie, who lived nearby. She said she was subtly trying to convey that something was wrong without Todd realizing. Ramona later said that she thought Brittany sounded like she'd been crying.
She sent Chris over to Brittany's home, and he arrived soon after to drive her and Todd to a local gas station.
Brittany and her brother, Chris McCallie (pictured together) recounted the horror ordeal in an interview with the New Yorker published Monday
Chris and Todd waited in the car as Brittany went into the store, where a cashier who knew her noticed her disheveled appearance and asked what had happened.
Brittany quietly asked for a piece of paper. She wrote a message that Todd Smith had raped her and said that if she was found dead in the morning, he was responsible.
She begged the cashier not to call police because she believed Todd would kill her if he found out.
Chris drove Brittany and Todd back to her home, at which point she told her brother to go back and talk to the cashier. Chris said he went 'blank' when he heard what Todd had done and immediately drove back to Brittany's house.
Meanwhile, Brittany texted her mother: 'Mom Todd has tried to kill me literally. Don't act like anything is wrong . . . He will kill me if he knows.'
Chris entered Brittany's kitchen armed with a .22 caliber revolver he kept in his car and told Todd: 'You need to get your shit and leave.' Todd refused, so Chris set down his gun and tried to wrestle him out of the house.
Todd, who was high on a cocktail of Xanax, amphetamines, alcohol and meth, quickly got Chris in a headlock and began choking him. Brittany heard the commotion from the living room and ran into the kitchen. She picked up the gun and hysterically begged Todd to let her brother go.
Todd kept his grip on Chris' neck and said he would kill them both, prompting Brittany to fire a shot at him. When Todd still didn't let go, she fired two more rounds.
After Todd collapsed Brittany called 911 and told a dispatcher: 'Someone just got shot at 211 Sharon Drive. He tried to kill me. 'Just have an ambulance come, please, because I don't want this man to die.'
The operator coached Brittany on how to perform CPR and she administered mouth-to-mouth on Todd while Chris did chest compressions. It took about 30 minutes for officers to arrive at the scene, at which point Todd was dead.
Brittany described to investigators how Todd had attacked Chris after beating and raping her. A rape kit showed 33 injuries, including bruises all over her body, evidence of strangulation and bite marks on her neck and face.
She and Chris initially told police that he had been the one who killed Todd because they both believed that she wouldn't get a fair trial as a woman in Jackson County. Chris told the New Yorker that if police had known Brittany fired the fatal shots they would not have taken her for a rape-kit examination until it was too late.
'I hate to say this, but, Jackson County, they're a little bit behind on the times,' Chris said. '[Women] get the short end of the stick.' Jackson County has a devastatingly high rate of aggravated assaults per capita, which was more than double the state average between 2015 and 2017.
The New Yorker's Elizabeth Flock spoke to several other women in the area and said that nearly every one had experienced domestic violence. Flock also spoke to Jackson County Sheriff Chuck Phillips about what she'd learned from the women she talked to.
She said the sheriff insisted that domestic violence and sexual abuse weren't especially common in the county and told her: 'I don't know who you talked to, but I don't much believe that. I mean, our statistics are not outrageous,' Phillips allegedly said, adding: 'People get high, they get stupid.'
A grand jury indicted Brittany for murder in March 2018 and her bail was set at $100,000, which she and her family couldn't pay. Within days of being booked into the Jackson County jail, Brittany suffered a nervous breakdown which she believes was caused by withdrawal from the Xanax medication she was prescribed but not provided to her in lock-up.
An investigator for the sheriff's office testified at a pretrial hearing that he didn't believe Todd had tried to kill Brittany because she didn't have enough injuries to suggest that. The prosecution's case was largely based on their claim that Todd and Brittany were in a relationship - which she denies.
Brittany and her family felt the community turn against her in the wake of the attack as rumors swirled that she had rough sex with Todd willingly. 'All these people out here saying: "Oh, they were dating, and it was just rough sex,'" Chris recalled. 'No. I'm pretty sure we all know what rough sex is. I wouldn't wish being raped on my worst enemy.'
Todd had an extensive criminal record, having been arrested by local police about 80 times and accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife and another women years before the incident with Brittany.
A local criminal-defense and personal-injury attorney named James Mick, a former police officer, was appointed by the court to defend Brittany because she couldn't afford to hire her own lawyer. Mick - who typically represented people in low-level drug cases, burglaries, custody suits, divorces and evictions - advised Brittany to plead guilty to manslaughter, which would carry a sentence of between two and 20 years.
Brittany refused and asked Mick to enter a Stand Your Ground defense, invoking a statue that makes it legal to use lethal force to defend against threats or perceived threats. Mick initially requested a Stand Your Ground hearing but later changed course and pursued a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity in October 2018.
Brittany said Mick had not informed her of his plan to pursue that plea - which required her to undergo psychiatric evaluation. A state psychologist who met with Brittany described her as upset and anxious - noting that she cried excessively and had eaten 10 mini Snickers bar during their meeting - which he branded unusual. Brittany explained that she simply hadn't eaten that day because she was strapped financially.
The psychologist concluded that Brittany showed symptoms of a psychotic disorder. Brittany also saw another psychiatrist from rape-victim advocacy group Healing Bridge on multiple occasions. That psychiatrist determined that Brittany did not suffer from any mental illness aside from post-traumatic stress disorder.
However, the court apparently didn't hear the Healing Bridge psychiatrist's analysis and instead relied on that of the state psychologist.
At a pre-trial hearing, Jackson County District Attorney Jason Pierce asked the judge to send Brittany to Bryce Hospital, an inpatient facility for the seriously mentally ill. The judge agreed. Brittany was held at Bryce for several months, despite the state psychologist's estimation that she would regain competency within 90 days.
Six months into her stay, Brittany's mother called the hospital and asked why her daughter hadn't been released. She was apparently told that there was a backlog of patients to evaluate for release. Brittany was finally released from Bryce last September. She returned home and tried to put her life back together for the sake of her children as she waited for the trial to begin.
The following month prosecutors offered Brittany a deal which would see her serve 25 years in prison if she pleaded guilty. Brittany turned down the deal as she remained determined to claim self-defense.
She was appointed another attorney, Ron Smith, after Mick filed a motion requesting legal assistance. She said she considered firing Mick in December but later decided that it was too close to the Stand Your Ground hearing scheduled for this month.
If the judge denies her Stand Your Ground defense at the hearing, Brittany's case will go to trial. She faces 20 years to life in prison if convicted.
Flock visited Brittany and Ramona's apartment before her final pretrial hearing of 2019 last month and asked them about what they expected to happen. 'What kills us is that they think we're little nobodies,' Ramona said. 'I know they consider me a little nobody in Stevenson because they don't respect females. They don't respect you.'
Brittany responded: 'I don't know what you're talking about. I'm somebody,' before walking out the front door and heading to court.
The New Yorker piece calls attention to the treatment of women like Brittany who have been accused of violent crimes which they say were committed in self-defense.
There is no national data on how many women imprisoned for violent crimes claim they acted in self-defense, but the New Yorker cited a 2004 study by the Department of Justice which found that nearly half of female inmates at a maximum security prison in the Southeast said the had acted in self-defense or retaliation after being abused.
Another review published by researchers at the University of South Carolina and Yale University in 2008 found that women who used violence against male partners general did so after violence was inflicted on them.
That review - which was based on several earlier studies - emphasized that women's use of violence is more likely to be motivated by self-defense or fear, while men are more likely to be motivated by control. Evidence of abuse is often left out or overlooked in court proceedings.
Prosecutors can also argue that a self-defense claim is invalid because the female defendant didn't end a relationship with an abuser or report abuse to authorities.
The New Yorker brought in an expert from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, John Roman, to analyze FBI homicide data for differences in how men and women are treated in cases where the perpetrator claims self-defense.
Roman found that the likelihood of a case being ruled a justifiable homicide — carried out without malicious or criminal intent — was 10 percent greater when a man killed a man versus a man killing a woman between 1976 and 2018.
That gender disparity was even higher in Alabama, where women lost their cases 25 percent more often than men. Roman also found a gender disparity in how many defendants successfully used Stand Your Ground laws.
In Alabama, no women received justifiable-homicide rulings between 2006, the year the state's Stand Your Ground law went into effect, and 2010, the year it stopped reporting homicide data to the FBI.
Evelyn Yang reveals she was sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN while pregnant
By Dana Bash, Bridget Nolan, Nelli Black and Patricia DiCarlo, CNN
Washington (CNN) - Evelyn Yang was reading letters that voters had sent to her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, and suddenly stopped in her tracks.
A woman wrote that she had decided to press sexual assault charges against an investor in her company, because she had heard Yang talk on the campaign trail about how female entrepreneurs don't get enough support.
"That was enough for her to make this life-altering move, and that was just so powerful. I remember reading that letter and others and saying, 'I feel you. I wish I could reach out to you and tell you I understand. I have my own story,'" Evelyn Yang told CNN.
In fact, she says her own story of sexual assault was so secret that she never even shared it with most of her family, including her parents.
But Evelyn Yang says the overwhelming response -- and gratitude from voters -- that she and her husband receive when they talk openly about their son Christopher's autism made her feel newly empowered. So she reached out to CNN to go public for the first time.
"Something about being on the trail and meeting people and seeing the difference that we've been making already has moved me to share my own story about it, about sexual assault," she said.
Like the multiple accusations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, Yang's story is one where she says justice was delayed and mostly denied, adding to the pain she and other victims experience even after reporting and sharing their stories. Yang wants to change this.
"Everyone has their own MeToo story. It's far too prevalent," Yang added. "But not everyone can tell their story. Not everyone has the audience or platform to tell their story, and I actually feel like I'm in this very privileged position to be able to do that."
'I knew it was wrong. I knew I was being assaulted.'
It was the beginning of 2012. Yang, pregnant with her first child, had found an obstetrician-gynecologist who had a good reputation and worked at the world-renowned medical facilities at Columbia University. His name was Dr. Robert Hadden.
Initially, she says, she didn't see any red flags, but as the months progressed, Hadden started asking her inappropriate, unsolicited questions about sexual activity with her husband, which were unrelated to her health or the health of her unborn child. Looking back, she now believes he was prepping her for sexual abuse.
"There was absolutely no premise for that line of questioning, and it seemed like he just wanted to hear about me talking about sex. What I kept sticking to was this: 'OK, so my doctor is pervy. I have a pervy doctor, but I'm going to focus on having a healthy baby,' and the idea of changing doctors was overwhelming for me."
Going to the gynecologist is an experience that makes many women feel vulnerable and uncomfortable. Going when pregnant adds an entirely different level of anxiety, especially during a first pregnancy, when a woman may not know what to expect. Yang says Hadden took advantage of that.
"The examinations became longer, more frequent, and I learned that they were unnecessary most of the time," she recalled, but she told herself, "I suppose I just need to trust him."
Yang says Hadden violated that trust in an unthinkable way when she was seven months pregnant.
"I was in the exam room, and I was dressed and ready to go. Then, at the last minute, he kind of made up an excuse. He said something about, 'I think you might need a C-section,' and he proceeded to grab me over to him and undress me and examine me internally, ungloved," she recalled.
"I knew it was wrong. I knew I was being assaulted," she added.
Like so many survivors of sexual assault, Yang said she had always thought she would run away in a situation like this. But that's not what happened.
"I imagined myself as someone being, you know, like I would throw a chair at him and run out yelling bloody murder," Yang said.
"I just kind of froze like a deer in headlights, just frozen. I knew it was happening. I could feel it," she added. "I remember trying to fix my eyes on a spot on the wall and just trying to avoid seeing his face as he was assaulting me, just waiting for it to be over."
Hadden walked out of the room without washing his hands, Yang said. She left his practice and never returned.
Hadden gets off with early retirement and Columbia U, where he worked, got to keep it quiet, up to now. The Manhattan DA's Office appears to have been mixed up with another wealthy pedophile and a real, sweetheart plea deal (as per Acosta and Epstein).
The rest of this story can be read, or viewed at CNN.
California inmate kills convicted child molester
BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE
CORCORAN, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — Officials are investigating the death of a convicted child molester who was attacked Thursday by another inmate at the California State Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The inmates were taken to a medical center, CDCR said. One died on the way to the hospital, and the other remains in critical condition.
Watson was transferred to Corcoran State Prison from Humboldt County on Sept. 4, 2009 serving time for first-degree murder and intentionally discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury or death.
The inmate who died was identified as David Bobb, 48, CDCR said. He was serving a life sentence, with the possibility of parole sentence for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old.
30-Year Sentence Given To Austin, Tx, Man
For Child Sexual Abuse
By Tony Cantu, Patch StaffAUSTIN, TX — A man was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment this week after being convicted of sexually abusing a child, county prosecutors said.
A Travis County jury on Friday handed down the lengthy sentence for Jose Rodriguez-Navarette, 40, following his conviction on charges of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child and Indecency With a Child by Contact.
Rodriguez-Navarette was arrested in May 2018 after having been accused of abusing an 11 year old girl numerous times at a motel in Central Austin in the early months of 2018. The victim, who is now 13, testified and had given a detailed account of the crimes in an interview with the Center for Child Protection, according to the Travis County District Attorney's office.
"In the face of abuse and trauma, children can show how truly resilient they are," Travis County Assistant District Attorney Jessica Wolfe said in a prepared statement. "Due to unforeseen circumstances, this child had to testify on multiple occasions and she never wavered in telling her story and remained brave enough to face her abusers. That is a difficult thing to ask of adults, much less a 13 year old child. I'm thankful that the jury took the time to listen to the evidence and render a just verdict."
This should never happen! She should be interviewed once, maybe twice, and videos of thos interviews should be sufficient. Having to repeat herself 'numerous' times is cruel and unnecessary. If a defendant had to do that, don't you think a judge would throw the case out?
After testifying, prosecutors visited with the girl and asked her what advice she had for other children who might have to testify. The girl responded: "Tell them they can do it, and they need to hold their heads up high."
Rodriguez-Navarette was sentenced by Judge David Wahlberg in 167th District Court. The case was tried by Travis County Assistant District Attorneys Jessica Wolfe and Coulter Goodman.
Last May, a co-defendant in the case, Marian Miranda-Aguirre was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison for trafficking a person and indecency with a child by contact, prosecutors said. Miranda-Aguirre was a trusted family friend who picked up the girl from school without her parent's knowledge and took her to the motel where the child was abused, officials added.
Teachers, wives of the same convict husband, charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child in northern California
Kym Kemp Readheaded Blackbelt
Left to right: Kathy Fuson and Katlin Nole
One of the employees, a second grade teacher at Pine Grove Elementary, Kathy Fuson, age 60, is being held on $250,000 bail.
The other employee, a special education instructional assistant, Katlin Janice Nole, age 43, is being held on one million dollar bail.
According to a letter sent out by the principal of Pine Grove on Friday afternoon, as well as other sources, the Del Norte County Sheriff’s deputies showed up on the elementary school campus just after classes let out on Friday. There they arrested Fuson. The principal states in her letter that a substitute teacher will be brought to take over Fuson’s classroom “until further notice.”
We have also been told that Katlin Nole was arrested at the High School by Crescent City Police but we have not been able to confirm that with witnesses.
The two women both are in a relationship with a man they call their husband, Joe Nole. Fuson claims to have married him in a Facebook post. Below is a screenshot of Fuson’s Facebook page with that post. Screenshot of Kathy Fuson's Facebook.
Screenshot of Joe Nole's Facebook page.
In January of 2017, the same Joe Nole (full name Jody Allen Nole) posted a photo of himself and three women, two of whom are Kathy Fuson (center) and Katlin Nole (right). He states, “that’s me and the wives” with the photo.
Jody Allen Nole is currently incarcerated at High Desert State Prison located in Susanville, California. He entered the prison in June of 2019 and is scheduled for parole in June of 2021. We have not been able to learn the exact charges of which he was convicted.
The two women, Fuson and Nole, are still in the Del Norte County jail as of early Sunday, January 19.
Del Norte Co., CA
Man who killed Buffalo Mayor's convicted aide
charged with sex abuse of child
By Aaron Besecker, Buffalo NewsA man who went to prison for killing a convicted child molester almost 20 years ago has been charged with sexually abusing a child, according to Buffalo police and court records.
Tyes, 39, of Grider Street, also was charged by Buffalo police with child endangerment for a Jan. 4 incident. He was being held on a parole violation before being charged Thursday. He pleaded not guilty to the new felony and misdemeanor charges Friday before Buffalo City Court Judge Kevin J. Keane and was being held at the Erie County Correctional Facility.
Tatu, 42, a former Cub Scout volunteer and Griffin aide, was found shot to death on May 22, 2001, on a staircase leading to his Elmwood Avenue apartment. He had been shot in the eye and chest.
At the time of the killing, police said they found evidence of a sexual relationship between Tatu and Tyes, who was charged with murder.
Tyes pleaded guilty to manslaughter in May 2002, and was sentenced to 17 years in prison. He was paroled in May 2017 from Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Tyes was 22 when he was sentenced in State Supreme Court for Tatu's killing.
Tatu worked for the former mayor from 1982 to 1986. He served four months in jail after being pleading guilty in 1990 to sodomizing a 14- and a 16-year-old boy in separate incidents in 1988 and 1989.
Tatu also was a former Cub Scout pack volunteer and Buffalo Police Athletic League president. After his arrest in 1989, he was added to the Boy Scouts of America's "Perversion Files," otherwise known as the "Ineligible Volunteer Files." The documents, released following a court order in 2012, contained information about allegations of molestation or morals crimes involving children.
Catholic legacy?
In November 2001, six months after his death, The Buffalo News published a story about Tatu that revealed publicly for the first time that he alleged he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest in South Buffalo when he was 11 years old. Tatu had previously told his story to The News in 1994, but was only identified in that story by his middle name.
Tyes is scheduled to have a felony hearing in City Court on Wednesday.
Two South Carolina sex offenders face federal
child porn charges
Two registered sex offenders have been indicted on federal child pornography charges in separate cases, both related to pending cases in state court.
Those indictments were unsealed Jan. 14.
According to a two-count indictment, he “did employ, use, persuade, induce, entice, and coerce a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct ... for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct.” The indictment did not say how old the child was.
Investigators with the state Attorney General’s Office arrested Blair in November and charged him with three counts of criminal solicitation of a minor and two counts of disseminating obscene material to a person under the age of 18. Upon conviction, each count carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
The McCormick County counts stem from an investigation by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. In a release, the Attorney General’s Office said the man “solicited a minor for sex and distributed sexually graphic images to a minor.”
Blair is on the South Carolina sex offender registry for a 2009 conviction on third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
The indictment said “he did possess an HP Compaq dc8550 desktop computer on which were stored visual depictions of persons under the age of eighteen engaging in sexually explicit conduct.” The document noted that the explicit images included a child who had not gone through puberty.
Adams is facing 10 counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor in Edgefield County after his arrest in April 2018. The charges were filed by the State Law Enforcement Division.
Upon conviction, each count carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
Adams is on South Carolina’s sex offender registry after a 2012 conviction on a past count of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
Both men remain in jail on their state charges.
Canadian man brought to Hampton Roads, Va, to face sex crimes against children charges
BY MARGARET KAVANAGH, WTKRVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - 'Horrific', 'sadistic' and on the verge of 'torture' - those were the words a judge in Canada used to describe what an Ontario man is accused of doing to two sisters in Virginia Beach back in 2012.
Viscomi was brought back to Virginia and put into the Western Tidewater Regional Jail on December 23, 2019. He declined an interview with News 3 from jail.
According to Ontario court documents, Viscomi threatened a 17-year-old girl online, forcing her to first expose herself, and then had her sexually abuse her 13-year-old sister while he watched through a web-cam.
Court documents allege Viscomi got the 17-year-old Virginia Beach teen to download a link after telling her it could protect her computer, but then told her it was a virus and she must obey his commands.
Documents also state that Viscomi ordered her to speak with him on a Skype video call and told her to take her clothes off and get her 13-year-old sister to do the same.
Viscomi allegedly ordered them to engage in sexually explicit activities and threatened to have them raped if they didn’t obey. He also allegedly told them if they didn’t listen to his commands, their family would be notified and men would track them down.
The girl’s older sister came into the room and got their father who then called police, according to the documents.
Police identified Viscomi who was living in Ontario, Canada. Authorities say there was another 16-year-old victim in Wisconsin.
Viscomi increasingly 'coerced', 'threatened', 'extorted' and 'manipulated' the teen into engaging in 'sexually violent activities' with her little sister.
Though this happened in January 2012, the case had been held up in Ontario. The Toronto Sun reported that Viscomi is a former medical student.
U.S. attorneys were working to bring Viscomi back to the states to be tried in U.S. District Court Norfolk but Viscomi was fighting extradition.
He is facing two counts of production of child pornography, transportation of child pornography, and other related charges.
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