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FLORIDA
POLICE / DRIVERS / MEDICS/LAWYERS & PORN
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Florida prosecutor caught in child sex sting attempts suicide
By The Associated Press
SANDUSKY, Mich. (AP) - A Florida prosecutor
who authorities say flew to Michigan for an expected sexual encounter with a 5-year-old girl has tried to hang himself in his jail cell.
John D.R. Atchison was being held on federal child sex solicitation charges at the Sanilac County Jail, 75 miles north of Detroit.
A cell mate shouted when he saw Atchison trying to hang himself with a sheet. Guards stopped him.
Atchison is an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida.
Authorities say he went to Michigan to meet what he thought was the mother of a 5-year-old girl with whom he arranged to have sex. The woman was a detective working in an Internet sex sting operation.
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Man accused of leaving child porn at store
By The Associated Press
WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) - A Palm Bay man was arrested a week after police say he left behind explicit photos of a child at a Wal-Mart self-help photo machine.
According to police, Brian Neil Rozema was at the West Melbourne store when he used the machine to print out 140 photos. Authorities say some of the photos showed a child under the age of 12 engaging in various sexual acts.
Police say Rozema was apparently unaware that the machine had run out of paper without printing all of his photos. When a store clerk reloaded the paper, the machine printed more photos of the child.
West Melbourne Police retrieved the images off the hard drive and used them to identify the child and Rozema.
He was charged with four counts of sexual battery on a child under 12, 13 counts of lewd and lascivious molestation, 122 counts of child pornography and 140 counts of voyeurism. He is being held without bond.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Former
youth photographer gets 12 1⁄2 years for child porn
Bonita Springs man coached teams, was a big
brother with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of SW Fla. program
By Kristen Zambo - Tuesday,
October 24, 2006
A former Bonita Springs youth sports coach
and photographer wept while clutching a podium in federal court Monday,
before he was sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for passing
child pornography.
John E. Kutchmarek, of 27951 New York St.,
No. 4, was sentenced to 12½ years in federal prison after investigators
found a stockpile of child pornography in his trailer, some of it inside
of a safe by his bed. Investigators said he used peer-to-peer file-sharing
software, called Limewire, in which other Internet users with this program
could view his pictures and movie clips of child porn.
"I care about people. I care about
kids," a sobbing Kutchmarek said during the hearing in U.S. District
Court in Fort Myers. "I pray that nothing happens to these kids more
so than it has."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Yolande Viacava
said investigators found "well over 600 images" of child porn.
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FORT MYERS - LEE COUNTY
Bus driver found guilty on child porn
charges
By
Kristen Zambo ~ Friday, May 19, 2006
A U.S. District Court jury in Fort Myers came back today
in less than 2 1/2 hours declaring 59-year-old Donald Deverso guilty on
possession, transportation and manufacturing of child pornography.
Deverso, who used to work as a bus driver for the Lee
County School District, was accused of keeping child porn on his home
computer from May 11, 2002, through April 15, 2005. He also is accused of
transporting child pornography here in October 2004, after manufacturing
it by taking pictures of underage girls while in the Philippines on
vacation.
During the trial, prosecutors contended Deverso recorded
himself having sex with underage Asian girls, such as a girl, who lived in
Davao, a city in the Philippines, who testified earlier this week.
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NAPLES,
COLLIER COUNTY
Former school bus driver
gets 30 years in prison for lewd battery on school girl
By
Chris W. Colby - Friday,
June 23, 2006
Grotberg, 30, is charged
with having sex with a 14-year-old girl while he was working as a Collier
County school bus driver. His girlfriend, Lillian Brown, 27, also a former
bus driver, pleaded no contest to 19 felony charges alleging she also had
sex with the girl and videotaped many of the encounters among the
14-year-old, herself and Grotberg.
The 14-year-old girl was a
Pine Ridge Middle School student on Brown’s route. One of the sexual
assaults is alleged to have occurred on one of the buses while parked on
school property.
According to court records,
the sexual conduct involving the girl, whose name won’t be published
because of the nature of the case, took place 30 to 40 times in numerous
places, including in a hotel room at Sea World in Orlando and at
Grotberg’s residence. Court records describe Brown and Grotberg
repeatedly taking photos of the girl while she was having sex.
Grotberg, of 7655 Tara
Circle, confessed to the sexual conduct, according to court records. He
and Brown, 350 Buchanan St., were arrested Jan. 9, 2004. Brown will
receive credit for the more than two years she has been held in Collier
County jail awaiting trial.
Lawsuit
blames board for negligent hiring, retention
and supervision of the bus drivers accused of rape
By CHRIS W. COLBY, cwcolby@naplesnews.com
November 8, 2005
Naples
Collier County : Teen said she was raped repeatedly by two Collier school
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NAPLES - COLLIER COUNTY
Deputy
fired after charge of possessing child porn
By Jennifer Brannock - Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Possessing child pornography is the latest charge
facing a Collier County sheriff’s deputy, capping off what has
already been a tumultuous month for the Sheriff’s Office.
Charles “Jay” Jonas
Green, 54, served as a deputy
sheriff in Collier County for 27 years. He was fired Tuesday after being
charged with 69 counts of possessing child pornography, authorities said.
“Jay Green besmirched us all, and our reputations,”
Sheriff Don Hunter said Tuesday. “I cannot express the amount of
disappointment and sadness we feel about our reputation and what has
happened.”
The latest charge isn’t the first time
Green has gotten in trouble with the Sheriff’s Office because of
pornography.
Green was demoted from field lieutenant — a supervisor
position — to corporal after investigators discovered pornographic
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Veteran Lee deputy arrested on child porn charges
Daily
News staff - Thursday, May 11, 2006
A veteran Lee County sheriff’s deputy was arrested today in
connection child pornography charges.
The Sheriff’s Office said Sgt. Russell
Graham was charged with six counts of possession of photographs of
sexual performance by a child. Graham was fired today from the Sheriff’s
Office, authorities said.
He had been with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office for 24 years, most
recently serving as a sergeant in the K-9 unit.
“A situation like this is embarrassing and disappointing to all who
wear the badge of a law enforcement officer,” Lee Sheriff Mike Scott
said in a statement. “It's important to remember that the actions of one
individual should not cast a shadow on all of the other members who
represent our agency so well."
Lee County officials are working with the FBI to investigate the case. |
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NAPLES - COLLIER COUNTY
Collier
paramedic charged with possessing child porn on his computer
BRIGID O'MALLEY, bmomalley@naplesnews.com
- Saturday, October 15, 2005
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