Rather spooked by this....
OK, for those of you who know me, it takes a LOT to make me flip out.
The following flips me out. The guy was the best man at our wedding.
Briefs for 05/05/2004
May 05,2004
BY STAFF REPORTS
DAILY NEWS STAFF
GREENEVILLE, Tenn.
Sex charge nets five-year sentence
A former Camp Lejeune Marine lured to Johnson City in an Internet ruse to have sex with a 12-year-old girl received a maximum sentence of 60 months in federal prison and a lifetime probation.
John Molendyk, 27, was caught in an undercover sting Dec. 5 when he arrived for a rendezvous at a Johnson City motel carrying 260 photographs and 11 videos of girls having sex with adults, authorities said.
At the time, Molendyk was a U.S. Marine drill sergeant stationed at Camp Lejeune. He since has been discharged from the service. At the time of his arrest he was assigned to Advanced Infantry Training Co., School of Infantry.
Although U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer sentenced Molendyk to the maximum penalty on Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Guy Blackwell said he wished it could have been more.
"I think the guidelines failed on this one," Blackwell said. "If this was not an undercover operation and there really was a 12-year-old girl, Molendyk would have had sex with her, photographed and taped it and sent it over the Internet for other pedophiles."
The arrest resulted from the undercover work of the Knoxville Police Department, which monitors the Internet for pornography. The department responded to a chat room message from Molendyk in October seeking parents in the Virginia and North Carolina areas willing to share their young children for sex.
Here is the link to the actual article.
http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=22350&Section=Briefs
Holy crap. I don't know what else to say.
The following flips me out. The guy was the best man at our wedding.
Briefs for 05/05/2004
May 05,2004
BY STAFF REPORTS
DAILY NEWS STAFF
GREENEVILLE, Tenn.
Sex charge nets five-year sentence
A former Camp Lejeune Marine lured to Johnson City in an Internet ruse to have sex with a 12-year-old girl received a maximum sentence of 60 months in federal prison and a lifetime probation.
John Molendyk, 27, was caught in an undercover sting Dec. 5 when he arrived for a rendezvous at a Johnson City motel carrying 260 photographs and 11 videos of girls having sex with adults, authorities said.
At the time, Molendyk was a U.S. Marine drill sergeant stationed at Camp Lejeune. He since has been discharged from the service. At the time of his arrest he was assigned to Advanced Infantry Training Co., School of Infantry.
Although U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer sentenced Molendyk to the maximum penalty on Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Guy Blackwell said he wished it could have been more.
"I think the guidelines failed on this one," Blackwell said. "If this was not an undercover operation and there really was a 12-year-old girl, Molendyk would have had sex with her, photographed and taped it and sent it over the Internet for other pedophiles."
The arrest resulted from the undercover work of the Knoxville Police Department, which monitors the Internet for pornography. The department responded to a chat room message from Molendyk in October seeking parents in the Virginia and North Carolina areas willing to share their young children for sex.
Here is the link to the actual article.
http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=22350&Section=Briefs
Holy crap. I don't know what else to say.