NOW can you imagine what MO would have gotten and why he HAD to go into HIDING in order to SURVIVE?!

PRAISE the LORD for this one VICTORY!>

Judge calls pedophile 'the worst I have ever
> sentenced'

> SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES

> 3:58 p.m. February 9, 2006

> SAN DIEGO – A pedophile who was part of the
> international child pornography ring that
> exchanged videos and photos of themselves
> molesting children was sentenced Thursday to
> more than 467 years to life in state prison.
> Paul Whitmore, a former counselor for
> autistic children, was convicted Nov. 30 of
> 51 felony charges, including committing a
> lewd act on a child, aggravated sexual
> assault on a child, posing a minor for
> pictures involving sexual conduct for
> commercial purposes and attempting to
> dissuade a witness from reporting a crime.

> The verdicts included special allegations of
> bondage, sodomy, sexual penetration, oral
> copulation and multiple victims.

> One of Whitmore's photos showed a tied-up
> 9-year-old drinking water out of a cat bowl,
> said prosecutor Jeffrey Dort.

> "He used children to satisfy
> himself," Dort told Judge Gale
> Kaneshiro. "His premeditated crime is
> worse than the person who murders on
> instinct."

> Whitmore's crimes included eight victims,
> none of whom were students at Stein
> Education Center in Grantville, where he
> worked.

> The victims who were forced to testify at
> trial were put through hell, Dort told the
> judge.

> He said Whitmore, 47, had shown no remorse
> for his crimes.

> "We can only assume from that ... the
> worst," the prosecutor said.

> Before she pronounced sentence, Kaneshiro
> denied Whitmore's motions for a new trial
> and to impose one life sentence.

> The evidence presented to the jury was
> "graphic, shocking and
> overwhelming," the judge said.

> Kaneshiro said the photos and videos
> produced by Whitmore was the most
> incriminating evidence to prove his guilt.

> She called Whitmore a sexual abuser, child
> molester and pedophile who documented his
> sexual assaults through video and
> photographs.

> "He is a pedophile by self examination
> and self declaration," the judge said
> of Whitmore. "He is the worst that I
> have ever sentenced."

> Whitmore acted on his sexual impulses,
> molesting children of both sexes, Kaneshiro
> said.

> In denying probation on some counts, the
> judge said rehabilitation for the defendant
> was not feasible.

> Kaneshiro said she imposed consecutive
> sentences on many of the counts because the
> degree of cruelty and callousness went above
> and beyond similar crimes of violence.

> Whitmore also induced others in the
> pornography ring to molest children, the
> judge said.

> Over several years, Whitmore
> "groomed" a number of children –
> including one he was a caretaker for – into
> a "circle of hell," in which they
> were molested and had their photos taken and
> posted on the Internet, Dort said.

> The defendant's desire to have sex with
> children was topped only by his passion to
> create a library of child pornography that
> was distributed around the world, the
> prosecutor said.

> Dort pulled out a pair of handcuffs, a black
> leather restraint and rope that Whitmore
> used on his young victims, calling the
> defendant a "monster."

> "He showed porn to children in his own
> house," Dort told the judge. "The
> crime fits the punishment."

> Another man, Brooke Rowland, pleaded guilty
> to two counts of child molestation and was
> sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

> Whitmore and Rowland, a 44-year-old former
> ad salesman from Poway, were among 25 people
> arrested in North America and Europe in
> April 2002 in connection with
> "Operation Hamlet."

> The child porn ring focused on individuals
> authorities said were distributing photos
> and videos on the Internet of themselves
> molesting children as young as 3 years old
> in 2000 and 2001.

> A watchdog group in Sweden surfing the Web
> identified an offender and notified police
> in Denmark, Dort said earlier.

> More than 100 children were identified as
> being abused during the investigation, and
> 45 of them were taken out of offenders'
> homes, the prosecutor said.

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