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January 29, 2004 Calif. man sentenced in sex case.

By KYLE HOPKINS

Aaron DeGlanville, 31, stared at the underage girl he's convicted of coercing into sex while recording the acts and delivered a lengthy apology at his sentencing hearing Friday at the federal courthouse.

U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline wasn't buying it.

"You are a pedophile. You are a predator. You cannot control (your) violent sex obsessions and you really don't want to," the judge said, later adding, "You speak of love, then inflict devastation."

Beistline sentenced DeGlanville, a San Francisco resident, to 30 years in federal prison for production of child pornography, use of the Internet to coerce a minor into sex and traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor.

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January 29, 2004 Janitor accused of videotaping students in restroom is found dead.

PHELPS, N.Y. -- A janitor accused of secretly videotaping female students and faculty in a restroom at a suburban Rochester high school has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

Allen Wemes, 52, was suspended from his job as chief custodian at Pittsford Sutherland High School last month after school officials found videotapes that surreptitiously depict a dozen students and faculty in restroom stalls.

Wemes, who was married, was found dead Monday night in woods behind his home in Phelps, 40 miles southeast of Rochester, said Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero.

An autopsy was to be performed Tuesday but "there does not appear to be any signs of foul play," Povero said.

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January 29, 2004 Pornographer gets 15 years for exploiting teen.

By STEPHANIE RICE

Former Brush Prairie resident and child pornographer Michael Aaron Wilson was sentenced Friday to 15 years in a federal prison for sexually exploiting a 17-year-old boy.

Wilson, 47, was sentenced in Tacoma by U.S. District Judge Franklin Burgess.

Wilson pleaded guilty July 11 to exploiting a teenager by posting photographs on the Internet of the boy undergoing sexual sadomasochistic abuse.

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January 29, 2004 Man Faces Charges Of Raping 7-Year-Old Boy.

DORNSIFE, Pa. -- A Northumberland County man imprisoned on child pornography charges is now charged with raping a 7-year-old boy.

Police said 47-year-old David Fetterolf of Dornsife is charged with child abuse, rape and other counts after the October assault of a boy at a home in Upper Mahanoy Township.

Fetterolf has been in the Northumberland County Prison since early November, after police allegedly found child pornography on his computer.

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January 29, 2004 Computer sleuths ply Internet.

By Ron Barnett

COLUMBIA - A 13-year-old girl sat at a computer in Orangeburg, making arrangements to have sex with an older man from Charleston. At least that's what the man thought.

When he arrived at the appointed place in Orangeburg, it was not a young girl who met him.

It was the law.

The "girl" was actually an agent at the South Carolina Computer Crime Center. The center, which brings together state and federal cyber crime experts, is one-year-old this month.

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January 29, 2004 U. S. tries to combat sexual abuse of children internationally.

By GEORGE GEDDA

WASHINGTON (AP) - It's the seamier side of the rise in international tourism: the sexual abuse of children, some as young as five. Many of the predators are American.

The United States and other governments worldwide are taking increased notice of the phenomenon.

A law enacted this year makes it a crime for any person to enter the United States or for any citizen to travel abroad for the purpose of sex tourism involving children.

The first indictment under the law occurred in September in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Michael L. Clark, 69, was charged with having sexual contact with young boys in Cambodia. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.

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January 29, 2004 Civil Air Member Sentenced For Child Porn.

A Sioux Falls man caught with images of child pornography on his computer is going to prison on a two-year sentence. Richard Buechler was charged as part of an investigation into credit card numbers used to buy porn over the Internet.

The Civil Air Patrol earlier ended his membership in the organization after he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.

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January 29, 2004 Man Cuts Deal In Child Porn Case.

By Jeff Arnold

A Greenwood man pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography Thursday in U.S. District Court in Fort Smith, in exchange for the government dropping a charge of coercion or enticement of a female.

Denny Eugene Goines Jr., 38, originally was indicted on both charges in August by a federal grand jury following an investigation by the FBI and Fort Smith police.

Law enforcement became aware of Goines in May when the sister of a 15-year-old Fort Smith girl told Fort Smith police that her younger sister was going to meet a 37-year-old man she met on the Internet and had expressed a desire sleep with him.

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January 29, 2004 Mexico shuts down 390 child-pornography websites.

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- The Mexican government shut down 390 Internet sites that distributed child-pornography in 2003, the local daily El Universal reported on Tuesday.

The authorities managed to capture 20 people suspected of distributing illicit material that promoted sex tourism and trafficking of minors through the Internet, the daily said. Of the 390 sites, 197 were created in Mexico City.

During investigations, seven websites that promoted cyber-terrorism were also discovered, the daily added.

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January 29, 2004 Federal appeals court sets aside child-porn sentence against Beine.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned a defrocked Roman Catholic priest's federal conviction of possessing child pornography and the ensuing prison sentence of nearly five years, ruling that investigators illegally seized key evidence against him.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel's ruling does not affect the 12-year state prison sentence imposed in September on James Beine, also known as Mar James, for exposing himself to three boys while working as an elementary school counselor.

Siding with Beine, the 8th Circuit ruled that investigators lacked a warrant needed to seize 10 compact discs, later found to contain child pornography, from Beine's friend Michael Laschober.

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