Yesterday, Dump Bachmann reported that Michele Bachmann's favorite punk preacher and AM 1280 radio host of the Sons of Liberty show, Bradlee Dean was accusing Federal law enforcement of not enforcing crimes against children and even covering up crimes. This is a quote:
We also know that this administration has no interest in persecuting... I'm sorry prosecuting those that are actually committing the crimes of being caught with child pornography.
Bradlee Dean is a liar.
This is from a press release (PDF) from the MN DOJ from Tuesday, July 27, 2010 titled "U.S. Department of Justice Announces National Strategy to Aid in Addressing the Sexual Victimization of Children, Particularly over the Internet".
Since Fiscal Year 2006, federal prosecutors nationwide have filed child-exploitation charges against a total of 8,637 defendants. During the past year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota opened nearly two dozen such cases, and 18 of them have resulted in indictments. Furthermore, 14 defendants in Minnesota have pleaded guilty to federal child exploitation charges during the past year, and 11 have been sentenced, with sentences ranging from 48 to 240 months.
Some of the most egregious cases of the past year here in Minnesota include the case against Gregg Alan Larsen, a former special education teacher for the St. Paul School District. Larsen, who was indicted in May of this year, pleaded guilty a month later to one count of production and one count of possession of child pornography. He admitted that in April of 2006, he took digital photographs of a child under the age of 12 and entrusted in his care, engaging in sexually explicit conduct. He also admitted that during June and July of that year, he produced digital photographs of a second child under the age of 12 engaging in sexually explicit conduct, with the intention of distributing those photos over the Internet. In addition, Larsen admitted that on July 1, 2009, he possessed eight video files and more than 600 images of child pornography. Then, on June 15, 2010, James Daniel Jaschke was indicted on one count of production of child pornography. The indictment alleges that Jaschke produced a video of an 11-year-old girl engaging in sexually explicit activity. Also on June 15, Kenneth Leon Wilcox, an over-the-road trucker, was indicted on five counts of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and five counts of production of child pornography. The indictment alleges that Wilcox transported the child for the purpose of illegal sexual activity, with those incidents purportedly occurring in Wisconsin in October of 2007, West Virginia in December of 2007, Virginia in February of 2008, Maryland in March of 2008, and Ohio in March of 2008. Moreover, on those same dates, Wilcox allegedly induced and coerced the child to engage in sexually explicit activity for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of that activity with an eight-millimeter video recorder.
Over the past several years, those sentenced for child pornography crimes in the District of Minnesota have been ordered to serve some lengthy prison terms. In June of this year, for example, 46-year-old Jason Dale Gordon, of Buffalo, Minnesota, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography. He admitted he sent, by way of computer, pictures of a minor in sexually explicit poses to someone he believed was a 14-year-old New Hampshire boy. The recipient of those pictures, however, was an undercover law enforcement officer. Other sentences have included 750 years, imposed against Bruce Betcher, of Burnsville, in 2007. Betcher was convicted of 24 counts of production of child pornography, one count of receipt, and one count of possession. Also in 2007, Lyle Paton, of St. Paul, was ordered to serve five concurrent life terms in federal prison for producingchild pornography. The federal prison system does not have parole, so when people, such as Paton, are sent to federal prison for life, that is where they remain for good.
All of these cases are part of Project Safe Childhood (“PSC”), a national initiative to combat the sexual exploitation of children, particularly as it occurs via the Internet. PSC was launched by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2006. PSC provides financial resources to investigators and encourages strong law enforcement collaboration. In 2009, the PSC project yielded 2,315 indictments nationally against 2,427 defendants. The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction announced earlier today by the Attorney General Holder will strengthen PSC and build on its success.
That's the facts.
Salem Braodcasting/AM 1280 should be helping the U.S. DOJ combat the sexual exploitation of children. Instead, Salem Broadcasting/AM 1280 would rather broadcast Bradlee Dean's lies.
Reporters should ask Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer if they support Project Safe Childhood or Bradlee Dean.
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