Navy officer on child porn charges

[emad]

London Evening Standard
10 May 2005

A top Naval officer viewed indecent images of children to satisfy his sexual fantasies of women and girls wrestling and boxing, a court heard today.

Commander Tom Herman faces 19 charges of making indecent photographs of a child under the age of 16 on November 14, 2004, and one count of possessing 168 indecent images of a child under the age of 16 between December 1, 2003 and November 25, 2004.

Herman, 48, was the Queen's Harbourmaster at Portsmouth Naval Base until the allegations came to light, when he asked to be placed on other duties while the case continues.

Police went to Herman's home in Coach Hill, Titchfield, Hampshire, on November 24 last year and seized his Packard Bell computer, Portsmouth Magistrates' Court heard today.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/18517321?source=PA

[UpInArms]

1. seems to be a lot of that going on these days

American nabbed with 500 photos of naked Thai boys

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8438010§ion=news

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police have arrested a 56-year-old American teacher after 500 photographs of naked teenagers were allegedly found during a raid of his Bangkok apartment, police said on Tuesday.

Police said the man, who they named as Steven Erik Prowler, had lived in Thailand for six years and taught English at a government school in Bangkok.

"During the raid, we found two teenagers who said they just had oral sex with him," Colonel Surat Udomrat told Reuters. The two were aged 15 and 17, police said.

In the apartment police said they found 500 postcard-sized photos of naked male teenagers, mostly Thais aged between 11 and 17. They also found journals detailing his alleged sexual exploits.

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[MADem]

4. PROWLER??? Jesus!!

Funny how sometimes names suit people...

He needs a date with a machete, the perv. Of course, the Thai police probably busted him because he didn't pay protection. That country has a rather indifferent record vis a vis the suffering of children.

[wakeme2008]

2. His WHAT

Packard Bell computer, ..... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[MADem]

3. BRITISH Navy....

By the headline, I wasn't sure...thought we might have yet another international incident brewing.

What a criminal putz. A kinky criminal putz, at that. On the bright side, the assignment as Harbourmaster for Portsmouth is a SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET job (if you like that sort of thing), so someone out there is leaping for joy at an unanticipated opportunity.

[chaumont58]

5. Packard Bell computer?

What is it? A 386?
What is the sense or news value of telling us what brand it is?

[Mizmoon]

6. The internet makes porn so accessible

I often think that many of these people would never have even had access to child and other illegal porn before the net.

[mikehiggins]

7. Not all information is good information

The ability of deviates of all stripes--Republicans, for example--to communicate with others who share their perversions can tend to reinforce the original persons deviance.

Thus, an individual who might lean ever so slightly towards pedophilia--or watching Tucker Carlson--finds others whose shared deviance reinforces and validates his/her own.

Thus, child pornography and other social ills such as Anne Coulter.

You may think I'm being ironic but I point out the case of the anti-gay GOPuke mayor who was recently exposed as a child molester. I am not saying all right wingers are pedophiles, but based on the record you really do have to wonder.

[Mizmoon]

8. lol

I like the way you think.