Posted on 11/24/2014 4:04:56 PM PST by Morgana
A Denver-area man who offered to pay for an abortion to cover up his seven-year-long abuse of a preteen has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Mervin Edy Wolf, who lived in Englewood, began abusing a California girl in 2007 when she was seven years old. He visited the girl up to three times a year, escalating his sexual contact and producing hundreds of pornographic images.
“During several of the molestations, Wolf’s other family members were in the room next door, but unaware of what was happening," Jeff Dorschner, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman, said.
Last January, she began to break free of Wolf's grip, telling him she did not want to see him and was afraid she had become pregnant from his molestation.
Wolf, who is now 62, sent her two home pregnancy tests, with an offer to pay for an abortion to conceal his years of exploitation.
In reality, she was not pregnant; she was afraid Wolf would begin molesting her younger sibling.
On March 5, FBI agents recorded a phone call in which they say Wolf admitted having sexual relations with the young teen and filming them, but told her that he had destroyed all the images.
They then raided Wolf's lair, where they found photographic evidence of his crimes.
Other family members and two former foster children – both younger than seven – have subsequently come forward to report being sexually abused by Wolf. Authorities filed no additional charges but revoked the family's foster license.
Wolf entered a guilty plea to three charges of producing child pornography.
On Friday, a federal judge sentenced him to 60 years in prison.
"The defendant manipulated and preyed on children over the course of many years," U.S. Attorney John Walsh stated after the sentencing. "He poses a permanent risk to other children and the community that fully warrants [U.S. District] Judge [Raymond P.] Moore’s severe sentence, which guarantees he will spend the rest of his life in prison."
Wolf's method of concealment – coercing the girl to have an abortion – is a favorite of sexual predators. Undercover investigators have repeatedly found abortion facilities willing to cover up for statutory rape in California, Arizona, Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina,Kansas, Louisiana, and all over the world.
Pro-life observers say the decision to sell the morning-after pill without a prescription makes it even easier for molesters and child pornographers to get away with the victimization of the vulnerable. Last November, Students for Life of America filmed pharmacists in Ohio, Virginia, New York, and South Carolina selling Plan B One-Step to a man who admitted he was using the drug to cover up the fact that he impregnated a 15-year-old girl.
Sure they could “not notice”.
The report says sexual incidents took place with people in the next room.
It does not say that either the pervert or the victim were unclothed.
The door is shut, the child is being groped or forced to do oral, and if the doorknob turns everyone will be sitting on the couch by the time the door opens. Looks like they were watching television.
Not enough. Why do they need to spend money on a trial and prison?
He is someone who is in the highest recidivism group.
Just execute/hang him and be done with it. if he get out he will just do it again.
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