Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

Steven R. Davidson, 37, of Bensalem, Pa., a former school principal, pleaded guilty in a child pornography case.  He was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to surrender his license to teach in New Jersey.  He was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and undergo mandatory sexual evaluation and counseling and is barred from seeking public employment in the state.  A school employee looking for a file in Davidson’s office found photographs and illustrations of children having sex.  He was arrested in February 1998 and charged with child

Charles Carlon, 41, a civilian employee of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, fired a bullet into his head while alone in a room waiting to be interrogated.  He was suspected of using his computer to download child pornography.  He apparently died instantly.  Carlon’s

body was discovered shortly after 11 a.m. in a training room on the 20th floor of the Roybal federal building with a 45-caliber weapon found beside him.  The gun was his personal property and registered in his name.  Federal law makes it a felony punishable by five

Dan Foley, submitted an order for five videotapes for a total price of $245 on February 24th, 1998.  The videotapes he received through the mail show sex between minors.  According to a search warrant, postal agents in Des Moines, Iowa, set up an Internet sting, offering on a message board to sell incest tapes.  In April, a package notice was place in his post office box, he was followed home with the package of tapes and arrested.  He has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges.

Steven Scott Koehler, 40, will spend 7 years in prison for sending child pornography over the Internet.  He was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to taking sexually explicit photographs of a young boy in his neighborhood and posting more than 20 photos on the Internet.  He is the first person in the state’s Middle Judicial District to be tried for actually posting Internet pornography.  His guilty plea in October and his cooperation in an undisclosed government investigation reduced his sentence by 25 percent, down to 7 years, the minimum federal

Albert L. Boudreau, 59, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to reduced charges of possessing and smuggling child pornography.  The former Vermilion Parish prosecutor handled juvenile cases as assistant district attorney in Abbeville between 1979 and 1991.  He entered a plea

after working out a deal with federal prosecutors in which he pleaded to only two of the original 13 counts in the indictment to which he had pleaded innocent last November.  Originally he faced a conspiracy to sexually exploit children charge.  He faces five years in prison on each

Robert Wallace Hudson, 48, was sentenced to 45 years in prison on 328 charges of possession and distribution of child pornography.  Before being sentenced he told a judge he was caught up in something but has learned his lesson.   The Sheriff’s Office calls this conviction Polk

County’s biggest online child-porn case.  According to the Ledger, Assistant State Attorney Brad Copley told Circuit Judge Donald Jacobsen that Hudson deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.  I had the experience of watching his jury’s reaction when they saw the