San Jose Police Say Sexual Predator May Have 36,000 Victims

[The Straight Story]

San Jose Police Say Sexual Predator May Have 36,000 Victims


San Jose police Thursday poured over the highly-detailed spiral notebooks of a man who may have molested more than 36,000 children over the past four decades in one of the largest child sex cases ever encountered.

Arthur Schwartzmiller, 63, was arrested May 23 in Washington. Authorities said Schwartzmiller fled San Jose one day after the parents of a 12-year-old boy told police they thought the home renovation contractor had molested their son.

Inside Schwartzmiller's home, detectives found seven spiral notebooks containing more than 36,000 entries, chronicling explicit sexual encounters with boys dating back 35 years. The youngest of the victims are believed to have been about age eight.

"We know that according to these records, some of these children have been molested multiple times," said San Jose Police Lt. and head of the sexual assault unit Scott Cornfield at a press conference today. "If any of these numbers are even close to accurate, then it is one of the most significant child molestation finds that we have ever encountered."

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[Swamp Rat]

1. ugh!

:puke:

No pushment is good enough... that I can print here. :mad:

[Kagemusha]

2. We don't know what % are fantasy if any.

That said, we'll see...

[GoBlue]

3. Almost 3 a day? For 35 years.

I don't think so.

[OneBlueSky]

4. that's ridiculous . . .

36,000 kids over 30 years is 1200/year, or 100/month . . . he did 3 kids a day (30-day month)??? . . . someone's makin' shit up, I guess to increase the shock value . . .

(edited to correct typo . . . twice) . . .

[TomClash]

6. Or to increase the fear value

Don't let your children be attacked by the sexual molesters! Give us more money and police power to stop this menace and make you free again! Big Brother loves you!

[Syrinx]

5. it just seems impossible mathematically

Life in prison. He'll get a death sentence anyway.

But that just seems like bullshit to me. Worse than Wilt, you know. Just not possible.

[mcscajun]

7. Home renovation contractor? How'd he manage to get Any Work Done?

If he was working on 3 molestations a day?

I'm sure some of the information in his journals are accurate, and a big whopping amount is just plain fantasy and reliving of the actuals.

He's still going down Big Time. And the true crime writers are salivating over the book deal that will grow out of this one.

[Pockets]

8. Well, he had a house mate...

He had a house mate, notebooks, and a computer server that may have distributed child porn, so that figure probably would include offenses in which he was indirectly involved.