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rooting4redpillers ago

RELATED ARTICLES: I wondered what happened to the other child rapers involved in this horror show. I came up short on information about all the convictions and sentencing, but here are links to some related articles.

Man sentenced for using son in child-porn conspiracy | USA Today | June 28, 2013

Excerpts: INDIANAPOLIS -- A man who made his young adopted son available to at least eight other people for sex was sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday. Mark J. Newton, 42, an American who had been living in Australia, was handed the maximum sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to sexually exploit a minor and conspiracy to posses child pornography. Federal Judge Sarah Evans Barker said she accepted the plea agreement because the crime was too horrific for a jury.

Records in the case had been sealed since Newton was charged in February 2012. Also facing charges in the case are Peter Truong, 36, an Australian citizen identified in court records as Newton's "domestic partner;" John R. Powell, 41, of Florida; and Jason Bettuo, 36, a resident of Illinois. Truong has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing on charges of conspiring to sexually exploit a child, as well as charges of possessing child pornography. Bettuo has filed a petition in federal court expressing his intent to enter a plea of guilty, and Powell's case is still pending as he awaits trial.

Newton and Truong were arrested in California in early 2012.

Australian pair in L.A. convicted for making child porn with ‘adopted son’ from Russia | NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | Saturday, June 29, 2013

Excerpt: U.S. police raided the men's Los Angeles home and arrested them in October 2011.

Former Cape lawyer ring leader in global child porn case | NBC2 (Florida) | Updated: Oct 13, 2013 07:10 PM

Excerpts: John Powell - or "Rex" as people call him - had a dark side no one knew about. ... Court documents detailed the supposed global sex operation - revealing Powell would travel to foreign countries just to have sex with children. Indiana investigators are calling the former Cape Coral attorney a ring leader in the global child sex operation dating back to 2009.

"As a lawyer, I'm sure other attorneys [and] every other person in this community, you have to be shocked and sickened by this," said Cape Coral attorney Stuart Pepper. Pepper first heard about the child pornography charges against Powell in 2011. Powell was officially charged in 2012. "For about a year and a half, this case was completely under the radar for the entire country. ... what is even more surprising is that not even the attorneys who knew Powell best had any idea what was going on. ... Powell and the two other men used a high definition camera to video record the sexual acts. "This man was literally a criminal mastermind," said Pepper.

US lawyer John Rex Powell to plead on Aussie boy abuse | The Austrailian | January 2, 2014

Excerpts: If John Rex Powell, 41, does plead guilty in an Indiana court it will be the latest conviction in the US for an investigation that began in New Zealand in 2011 and involved law enforcement agencies across the world, including the Queensland Police Service's Taskforce Argos.

Powell went by the screen name "thebeav" ... Video evidence obtained by authorities allegedly showed Truong, Newton, Powell, the boy and another man, *Jason Bettuo, 36, visiting San Francisco Zoo and later Powell assaulting the boy on a hotel bed alongside the child's stuffed toys. Bettuo has been sentenced to 25 years' jail.

Broward man sentenced for role in international child porn ring | July 17, 2014 | Sun Sentinel

Excerpt: Investigators found numerous videos and photographs that showed both [Robert] Revay and Truong abusing the boy over time and Revay "can be heard narrating and directing Truong, as Truong engages in sexual abuse of [the child]. ... "It does the people I've harmed no good to say that I'm sorry, but I am," Revay told the judge in his only public remarks about the case. Under the terms of Revay's plea agreement, prosecutors and his defense lawyer David Seltzer recommended that U.S. District Judge Robert Scola Jr. sentence Revay to 15 years in federal prison. Scola told Revay that a compelling argument could be made to impose an even longer prison sentence on him but he agreed to follow the lawyers' recommendation.

Two Individuals Sentenced to Federal Prison for Participation in Long-Running Online Child Pornography Ring | [US] Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs | Thursday, June 18, 2015

Excerpt: John D. Gries, 48, of Bayshore, New York, and James McCullars, 56, of Huntsville, Alabama, were sentenced to 30 years and to life in prison, respectively, by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the Southern District of Indiana. In November 2014, the defendants were convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to distribute and receive child pornography, conspiracy to advertise child pornography and engaging in a child exploitation enterprise. ... Other defendants who have been convicted in connection with this investigation include:

  • John Edwards, 62, of Indianapolis, sentenced to 17.5 years;
  • Thomas Vaughn, 45, of Anderson, Indiana, sentenced to 11 years;
  • John Rex Powell, 43, of Fort Myers, Florida, sentenced to 30 years;
  • Donald Printup, 36, of Niagara Falls, New York, sentenced to 14 years;
  • Michael Fredette, 46, of Waterford, New York, sentenced to 27 years;
  • Robert Guillen, 43, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, sentenced to 14 years;
  • David Bebetu, 51, of Agoura Hills, California, sentenced to 12.5 years;
  • Stephen Harvey Dault, 48, of McKinney, Texas, sentenced to 17 years; and
  • Rick Ricardo Leon, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, sentenced to 12.5 years.

cult_of_philanthropy ago

Rooting4redpillers...thank you, again. Everyday I think it can't get worse yet it does.

rooting4redpillers ago

At the end of the video, one the good guys says, this boy is now in the care of relatives, and he is being inundated with support. At least that's a bit of hope to hold onto, for this one child.

We're devoting some portion of our time here, joining ordinary citizens, breaking big and small pieces of old and new ground EVERY DAY. It all adds up, and people are finally listening, and CARING. Recognition, belief, and support for ERADICATING pedophilia is making news worldwide, and the commentary about this, by ordinary people on social media and YouTube, is pretty outstanding.

We LIVE outside of here. And, it's okay to be happy, and positive, anywhere we are.

cult_of_philanthropy ago

Very well said and so true. I think we all need that positive reinforcement, thank you. Regarding the video, thankfully there were family members to step in and care for the little boy. I still maintain this is exactly what JA is doing with his "goddaughter". I sincerely hope I am wrong for that little girl's sake.