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Paraplegic US pedophile, 59, jailed for 50 years in Kenya
after pleading guilty to child porn distribution
By AFP REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 12:59 EDT, 2 December 2014
An American man accused of sexually abusing Kenyan children and circulating the images on the internet will now die behind bars after being sentenced to 50 years in jail.
Terry Ray Krieger, 59, was arrested in October after Interpol tipped off Kenyan police about an internet user in the country who went by the alias 'Babytoddler123' and was making and distributing pedophile material for overseas users.
His arrest came after Interpol investigations in Germany and the United States.
Krieger, from the state of Michigan, had initially denied the charges but then changed his plea to guilty last month.
Charged: The prosecutor reads out the charges to Terry Krieger in Nairobi court
His victims are aged between three and 10 and are from the area where Krieger lives in Olepolos in Ngong, Kajiado County, according to Daily Nation.
'Children occupy a special place in society and their rights must be protected,' Nairobi Magistrate Joseph Karanja told the court.
'The accused has robbed young children of their innocence and it is disturbing that these despicable acts have been going on undetected,' he said, dismissing the wheelchair-bound Krieger's contention that he was a paraplegic and should be shown some leniency.
Krieger allegedly exchanged 36 files between December 7, 2013 and May 18, 2014.
He would use online media platforms GigaTribe, Yahoo Chat and Skype to send the images.
Krieger was also identified as a repeat offender, having been convicted in 1992 in the United States for criminal sexual conduct with an under 13, for which he served three years in prison.
He was released in 1995.
The minimum sentence under Kenyan law is six years, but the judge ruled Krieger should face a maximum possible term of 50 years - meaning he will likely die behind bars.
Good judge!
36 years to justice
After a number of violent sexual assaults in Toronto in 1986, Raymond Burke escaped to the United States. Now, his victims finally see the potential for closure.
By Adam Carter
Mar. 23, 2022
WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it.
Nicole Murdock dropped to her knees and vomited when she heard the crack of a gunshot echo in the empty field behind her.
It was a September night in southern Ontario in 1986, and after being abducted, threatened and repeatedly raped by a man named Raymond Burke, staring down the barrel of a gun sent her over the edge.
It was at that moment that she told Burke if he was going to kill her, he should just do it.
“I couldn’t think of any way to get out of it, [I] was just done. I couldn’t do it anymore,” she later testified in court. “I sat on the ground and said, ‘Just kill me.’”
Murdock survived that night — and now, after more than three decades and a trail of victims Burke left in both Canada and the U.S., the two women he attacked in Ontario in the 1980s are inching closer to justice.
This is a long and disturbing story about two women who were kidnapped, raped multiple times, had their lives threatened, and were brutally assaulted. Toronto's police and justice system did little to bring them any kind of justice until more than 30 years later.
Please go to CBC for the story.
'It's highly disturbing': Courts 'scandal' robbing domestic
abuse victims of their children - sometimes to their abusers
Courts, councils are being accused of helping abusers land a huge psychological blow
on the victim and their child, by separating them and severely damaging their lives.
Jason Farrell
Home editor @JasonFarrellSky
Monday 27 September 2021 11:29, UK
Victims of domestic abuse are being discriminated against in the family courts and regularly lose custody of their children, sometimes to their abusers, according to campaigners, social workers and lawyers who've spoken to Sky News.
Courts and councils are accused of helping abusers to land a huge psychological blow on the victim and their child, by separating them and severely damaging their lives.
The situation is so bad, the domestic abuse commissioner says lawyers often advise clients not to tell the court they have been victims of domestic violence in case it is used against them.
Nicole Jacobs told Sky News that solicitors tell them: "The judge doesn't like it, it complicates things."
There seems to be a range of reasons why victims of domestic abuse fall foul of the courts
Barrister and advisor to the government on domestic abuse, Usha Sood, has described the situation as "scandalous", and is among many calling for greater transparency in the family courts.
One leading campaigner on child sexual exploitation (CSE), Sammy Woodhouse, says that victims of CSE who become mothers are facing similar problems with "hundreds of women" contacting her to say: "I wish I'd never come forward because now they're going to take my kids."
Sky News looked at the case of "Sally", whose daughter was removed from her care four years ago and given to her ex-partner, who she claims she had broken up with to escape from an abusive relationship.
Campaigners say that for the abuser, child custody is often part of a malicious game to gain control of the victim, who has otherwise escaped the violent behaviour.
Sally told us when her ex-partner applied for custody, that's how she viewed it.
She said: "I knew it was a game, I knew it was about control, I knew it was just going to be another abusive tactic to cause as much chaos and pain and drama as possible. And I just thought it was absolutely absurd."
There is much more on this very disturbing story at Sky News. Once again it is the children who suffer from the madness of men.
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