Government Officials
Recently Charged with Child Sex Crimes (Highlights/Incomplete)
• Acting
Director of Cyber Security at the Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS), Timothy DeFoggi, age 56, was
sentenced, January 2015, to 25 years in federal prison for “participating in a
child pornography ring that sources say was so depraved, it even shocked
veteran investigators.” DeFoggi was a registered user of an on-line child rape
and torture, aka child porn, trading site. DeFoggi “expressed an interest in the
violent rape and murder of children. DeFoggi suggested meeting one member in
person to fulfill their mutual fantasies to violently rape and murder
children.”
• Former
Undersecretary of the Navy, 70 year old James
Daniel Howard, arrested on child porn possession and reproduction charges
in 2013. Howard had served as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. He
plead guilty to ten child porn counts and served only seven months in jail.
• Joint
Strike Fighter Program Navy officer, Bruce
Babchyck, arrested in 2014 for downloading “hundreds of gigabytes” of young
girls and bestiality on government computers. He received a one year sentence.
• Anthony Mangione, 50 year old Director
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for South Florida, was arrested on
“extreme child abuse” charges on 28 September 2011. He was sentenced, November
2012, to nearly six years in prison. Mangione is a 1982 graduate of the
University of Maine Orono (UMO) where former Senior Child Protection Services
(CPS) Cynthia Wellman claimed, at the time, CPS was operating a child sex ring,
on campus, with UMO’s involvement. “Little is known about Mangione’s time at
UMaine. Originally from Rhode Island, he arrived in Orono in August 1978.”
• David Bourque, formerly the 51 year old
Police Captain of Granby, Connecticut, was sentenced to ten years for child
porn possession and distribution. He had more than 328,528 images and 4,000
videos on his police department computer including “sadistic and violent acts”
against infants and toddlers. His “collection” was organized into more than 300
sub-folders named “photos — babies — men” and “6–10yo boys pics.” In this
excerpt Bourque is D for defendant.
Prosecutors
said the images were “extremely disturbing; some are especially horrific”
including: (1) a boy between 1 and 3 years old being raped by an adult male
penis in the child’s anus, (2) a boy between 3 and 6 years old with a “penis of
what appears to be an adult male pressed against the child’s anus” and (3) a
child, less than a year old, “performing oral sex on an adult male.” Bourque
showed “callous disregard” for the children being abused telling people to
“enjoy” themselves and “have fun.” Samples of his on-line chats include
extensive discussions of rape and bondage of children. Bourque was a decorated
officer with more than 31 years in law enforcement.
• Army
prosecutor and judge advocate, Daniel
Wollverton, father of two, convicted in 2011 for infant sodomy and
possession of over 30,000 images and 1,000 videos of brutal child sex abuse including
that of a three month old infant.
• Maine
Assistant Attorney General, 52 year old James
Cameron, was sentenced to just over 15 years in federal prison, December
2014, for seven counts of child porn possession, receipt and transmission.
Cameron, widely recognized as Maine’s “top drug prosecutor,” had been trading
in PTHC - pre-teen hard core. Images/videos that investigators seized included
“images depicted prepubescent children, sadistic and other violent conduct.”
• Army Colonel, 55 year old Robert Joel
Rice, a war game developer at Army War College, was charged with 130 child porn
counts. He had more than 30,000 images/videos of child sex abuse when his wife
discovered the files and notified local police. The Army War College had
continued to employ Rice, and allow him supervised access to Army computers,
while on bail pending trial. Col. Rice had been scheduled for a July 2013
arraignment; however, Rice’s federal hearing was delayed until February 2015.
Rice’s preliminary county hearing had been set for April 2013.
• David O’Brien, America’s chief
scientist responsible for monitoring global nuclear activity at Patrick Air
Force Base’s Technical Applications Center, which operates our Atomic Energy
Detection System, was arrested May 2013 and charged with ten counts of child porn
possession and distribution.
O’Brien had
a large child porn collection on his home and Air Force computers. On 17
October 2014 he was sentenced to five years in federal prison in exchange for a
guilty plea to one child porn count. O’Brien had download videos of the sex
abuse of children as young as three years old. He had taken pictures of his
granddaughter and placed images of her head over images of children being
sexually abused. He also had pictures of Air Force employees transposed over
sex abuse images.
US Department of State
• Carl Carey, a 54 year Senior Project
Manager in Information Technology (IT) at the US State Department, was arrested
on ten counts of child porn possession, April 2012, by the Fairfax County
Police.
• Gons Nachman, a 42 year old former US
diplomat “admitted taping his sexual encounters with teenage girls while
stationed in Brazil and the Congo” was sentenced, August 2008, to 20 years in
prison. Nachman also plead guilty to child porn possession. One of his videos
was titled “Congo 2004 Sexual Adventures.” His law degree is from the
University of Pennsylvania, where he was president of the Naturist Student
Association and “led demonstrations involving public nudity in 1995.”
• James Cafferty, 45 year old Special
Agent with the US State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, pleaded
guilty, 5 January 2012, to child porn charges and was sentenced, 26 April 2012,
to 7 years in federal prison. Upon his arrest he had more than 30,000 images of
child sex abuse. He “had shipped computer equipment containing many of those
images from London to the United States when he returned home from his last
official government assignment.”
• Timothy Towell, 75 year old former US
Ambassador to Paraguay, was charged with “sex crimes” against an 18 year old in
2009.
• Howard Gutman, former US Ambassador to
Belgium was accused of “routinely… soliciting sexual favors from both
prostitutes and minor children” according to an Office Inspector General (OIG)
investigation. Aurelia Fedenisn, a now former OIG investigator said her unit
had found widespread evidence of “sex and drug scandals” but “were told not to
look into it.” Fedenisn said “investigations into the allegations were called
off by senior officials to avoid political embarrassment.”
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• Andrew Warren, a 42 year old former CIA
Chief of Station in Algeria, was arrested April 2010. Warren’s neighbors called
Norfolk police when Warren exposed himself in public. “He had his genitals
hanging out of his pants, over the top of ‘em,” said one witness. Warren
reportedly said “Excuse me. I’ve had minor surgery so I get a little horny
sometimes.” He had been terminated from employment with the CIA in May 2009,
after he drugged the drink of a woman in Algiers and raped her. Warren plead
guilty and, June 2009, was indicted on sexual assault charges. Diplomatic
Security Service agents also found child pornography on Warren’s laptop
computer in 2008. When he was the CIA’s Chief of Station in Algeria, he
allegedly “drugged and raped multiple women before getting recalled home.”
Warren was sentenced, on sex assault charges, among others, to more than five
years in federal prison in March 2011. It appears Warren was not charged for
the child pornography on his government computer.
Federal Bureau of Investigations
(FBI)
• Donald Sachtleben, a 54 year old former
FBI Agent was arrested, 14 May 2012, and charged on child pornography charges.
He plead guilty to distribution and possession and was sentenced, 14 November
2013, to eight years in prison. He was also sentenced to unrelated charges of
one count of disclosing and one count of possessing classified information. At
the time of his arrest Sachtleben was Director of Training at the Center for
Improvised Explosives at Oklahoma State University. He served the FBI from 1983
to 2008 as a bomb technician and counter terrorism investigator. Sachtleben had
been using the handle pedodave69@yahoo.com when he was caught sending images of
child sex abuse in an on-line forum. He wrote, “Saw your profile on (a file
sharing network). Hope you like these and can send me some of ours (sic). I
have even better ones if you like.”
• Keith Dietterle, a 28 year old FBI
Analyst, was arrested, 23 November 2012, on child porn charges. He plead guilty
to child porn possession and was sentenced, September 2013, to more than three
years in prison. Dietterle was caught when he sent child sex abuse
images/videos to an undercover Metro DC Detective. The detective was posing as
a man sexually abusing his 3 year old nephew and 12 year old daughter.
Dietterle described the rape of the children as “So hot man … how’d it start?”
and discussed meeting the detective with the intention of sexually abusing the
three year old boy. Upon his arrest, the FBI terminated Dietterle’s employment.
Homeland Security
• Brian Doyle, Deputy Press Secretary for
the Department of Homeland Security, was arrested “for trying to seduce online
someone he thought was a teenage girl.” Doyle was charged with 23 felony charges
related to sexually graphic conversations with a person he thought was a 14
year old girl who, in reality was, an undercover detective. On 17 November
2006, Doyle was sentenced to five years in prison with ten years probation
thereafter. He is a registered sex offender and was released from prison on 11
January 2015.
• 31 year
old Eric Higgins, a Homeland
Security Customs and Border Protection agent in Michigan, plead guilty to child
porn possession. Over forty images of a child previously identified by law
enforcement were found on his laptop.
• Nicholas Bolden, a 40 year old Homeland
Security Customs and Border Patrol agent, was sentenced for child porn
possession on his government computer. Bolden had accessed a Russian child porn
website while at work from his work computer. A child porn CD was also found at
his workplace desk.
• Gilbert Lam, a 38 year old Homeland Security
Customs and Border Protection agent who worked at San Francisco airport, was
charged with child porn possession and distribution. Investigators said his
electronic resources were “elaborate” and included “a whole closet… independent
server, several computers, several hard drives…”
• Robert Rennie, a 43 year old Homeland
Security agent who worked in the National Protection and Programs Directorate,
was charged with attempting to solicit sexual acts from more than seventy young
girls using a fake Facebook account and pretending to be both a male student at
a Virginia middle schools as well as a college student at George Mason University.
• An unnamed Homeland Security agent with
Customs and Border Protection and Byungki
Koo an Air Marshal were arrested for trafficking “young women” from South
Korea in a sex-trafficking ring in Queens, New York.
National Children’s Museum
• Robert Singer, 49 year old father of
two and Chief Operating Officer for Washington DC’s National Children’s Museum,
was arrested, 6 November 2007, and charged on five child porn distribution
counts. He plead guilty and was sentenced, 16 July 2009, to five years in prison.
Singer was caught sending child sex abuse images of children as young as five
years old, including from his work computer, to an undercover New York Police
Detective who was posing as a 12 year old girl and her 33 year old mother.
Singer was pretending to be a 15 year old boy. He was using the online handle
badboy2. Upon his arrest, the museum terminated his employment.
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
• 48 year
old Scott Whitcomb, a former police
officer, at the time of his arrest a Drug Enforcement Agent, was sentenced for
child porn production. He had been producing and distributing sex abuse of boys
under sixteen years old since 2007. Whitcomb lured boys to his house with video
games and porn magazines and would turn violent if the boys didn’t submit to
the sex abuse. He had been an Air Marshal and a prison guard.
• DEA agent Darren Argento was arrested for
possession and distribution of child sex abuse of girls between seven and
fourteen years old his work laptop.
Department of Energy
• David Busby, 61 year old computer
technician who had worked for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing
Center for 30 years, was arrested on child porn charges. He was sentenced,
March 2014, to ten years in federal prison. He had been trading in child sex abuse
on his US government computer. He was previously convicted for “lewd behavior”
toward his 7 year old stepdaughter in 1990. At the time of his arrest,
investigators found some 1,400 child sex abuse images/videos. Busby was also a
Navy veteran who served in Vietnam.
Department of
Agriculture
• James Spargo, a 66 year old employee
with the Department of Agriculture in Florida, plead no contest plea to 20
felonies child porn counts and was sentenced, February 2015, to 10 years in
prison. Spargo was arrested when investigators found child sex abuse
images/videos on his government computer. Most of the children in the
images/videos were infants and toddlers. “The activity we uncovered here was
just was just horrible,” said Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services spokesperson Erin Gillespie. “It was horrifying, it was disgusting,
and we gathered all the evidence we could to make sure that this arrest was
going to happen.”
Forest and Park Rangers
• Bobby Kelly, a 31 year old US Forest
Ranger was sentenced to five years for more than two dozen child porn related
charges.
• Derek Alan Lee, a 44 year old US Forest
Service employee, was sentenced for child porn. Lee was sentenced with his 21
year old step-son Jeffrey McMillan. Their computers were found sending “several
hundred files” of child sex abuse on the internet. Lee said he had been
downloading child porn for ten years. At the time of his arrest his computer
had 111 videos and 116 images of child sex abuse. He also had a collection of
“incest stories.”
Department of Health
& Human Services (DHHS)
• William Shaffer, a Child Protection
Services (CPS) staff was arrested, July 2013, after he purchased nearly $7,000
of child rape and torture, aka child porn. According Shaffer’s criminal complaint
“a 1987 police report alleged Shaffer sexually molested a boy between the ages
of 8 and 9. The police report alleged the incident happened while Shafer was a
Child Protective Services employee.” Investigators also seized “sexual stories”
from Shaffer’s home. “One of them describes a seventh grade boy being abducted,
molested and sodomized. It is not clear if Shaffer wrote the story — but refers
to Michigan State University and 16 Mile Road. Shaffer’s residence is located
just south of Maple Road.”
• Stanley Dorozynski, a 53 year old Child
Protective Services (CPS) employee, was arrested, 21 December 2010, and charged
with two counts, one each, of possessing and receiving child porn. Upon his
arrest, Dorozynski possessed more than 2,400 child sex abuse images/videos
including the abuse of children as young as four years old. Investigators also
recovered 11 zip discs of child porn in a locked trunk, among other CDs.
Doroszynski had been trading in child rape and torture since 1990. Dorozynski
plead guilty, 27 July 2012, and was sentenced to six years in federal prison.
His girlfriend found the child sex abuse images/videos and notified law
enforcement. He had been a police officer in Utica, New York, before he went to
work for Health and Human Services.
Air Marshals
• Michael McGowan, a 41 year old Air
Marshal, was convicted for molesting three young boys, age eleven to thirteen,
and child porn possession. He had 1,300 videos and images, along with fake FBI
and CIA badges.
• Richard Castillo, a Houston Air
Marshal, was indicted for indecency with a child after his daughter’s fourteen
year old friend said he sexually assaulted her during a sleepover.
• Air
Marshal Byungki Koo, who was
mentioned under the Homeland Security section, received four years probation
for participating in the sex trafficking of young women from Korea in Queens.
Transportation Security
Agency (TSA)
• 59 year
old Boston TSA agent Jose Salgado,
charged with possession and distribution of child porn. As of this arrest April
2012, it was reported that a total of twelve child sex crimes in the previous
sixteen months had been brought against TSA agents across America.
• Michael Wilson, 41 year old Baltimore
TSA agent was indicated for child porn possession including videos “depicting a
prepubescent female engaged in masturbation and anal sex with an adult male.”
• Andrew Smeal, 39 year old Florida TSA
agent, was charged with twenty-five counts of child porn possession. An
investigator said “…the living room was loaded with electronics, storage
devices, hard drives.” I couldn’t locate information on how much child porn he
had or what it was depicting; however, given he was charged with twenty-five
counts, one can assume he had a large amount of child sex abuse videos and
images.
• Thomas Gordon, a 46 year old TSA agent
in Philadelphia, was sentenced for possession and distribution of child porn.
He had over 600 images and videos of child sex abuse including children as
young as six years old which were described as “horrific.” He had as many as
six fake Facebook accounts he was using to distribute child porn.
• TSA hired
65 year old Thomas Harkin, a former
Catholic priest who had been removed from the church for the sex abuse of an
eleven year old girl, among possible other victims, to work at Philadelphia
airport.
• TSA Agent,
38 year old Miguel Angel Quinones,
who worked at Manchester airport in New Hampshire, was indicted on twenty
counts of child porn possession. He had more than 1,000 child sex abuse images
and videos. He kept his child porn in his airport work locker.
Bureau of Indian
Affairs
• Jasper Neil Blair, a 27 year civil
engineer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was arrested for child porn
possession and plead guilty, 31 May 2012, “to knowingly possessing an image of
a six-year-old girl being sexually abused,” and was sentenced, 4 October 2012,
to two and half years in federal prison. Blair was using his government
computer to trade in child rape and torture, aka child pornography.
Corrections and
Probation Officers
• Former West
Virginia Corrections Center Officer, 35 year old Joseph Roush, plead guilty to child porn possession and
distribution. He had more than 500 image of child sex abuse.
• Leon Perry Brookes, a 39 year old a
Corrections Officer for Jacksonville (Florida) Sheriff’s Office was arrested
for child porn possession and distribution. Among others, he had child sex
abuse files called “pthc- freaky latin parents and 5yr daughter.mpg” and
“video-8yr orgasm and anal fuck hard ! new ! (ptch) 2007 new girl img.
• Gerald Silva, a 59 year old Rhode
Island State Probation Officer, was convicted of child porn for his $1,589 USD
purchase of 22 orders of child sex abuse from Azov Film’s website, spending a
total of $1,589 on 75 different videos. He was caught by USPS Inspectors and
Toronto Police investigation, Project Spade.
• Stuart Forrest, 62 year old Chief
Probation Officer of San Mateo County, California, was sentenced for child porn
possession that included the abuse of young bound boys. He had more than 400
images and videos of child sex abuse. This case was also part of Project Spade,
run by the USPS and Toronto Police.
• Supervisor
of Adult Probation and Parole and Sex Offender Unit in New Mexico, Larry Franco, 56 years old, was charged
two counts of fourth-degree felony sexual exploitation of a minor by possession
and one count of tampering with evidence. He had originally been charged with
26 new child porn counts. He was producing child porn.
• James Leone, a 50 year old Senior
Parole Official in New York who supervised officers who monitored paroled sex
offenders, was arrested for child porn possession. He had been downloading
child sex abuse images in online searches for “preteen hard-core” including ten
or twelve year old girls being sexually abused by their parents and a brother.
Leone was a Child Abuse Investigator with New York City Child Welfare Bureau
before he became a parole officer.
• Barry Porter Griffith, a 45 year old
Parole Officer from Flint Texas, was sentenced for child porn possession after
investigators noticed “significant Internet bandwidth being used by a
state-owned computer to view pornography” including child sex abuse from his
office computer.
• James Kriegner, a 43 year old
Corrections Officer with Mercer County, New Jersey, charged with downloading
more than 100 child sex abuse images.
