Posted on 09/19/2007 7:31:19 PM PDT by arbooz
Gregory C. Kapordelis, authorities contend, is the personification of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde character.
In public, Kapordelis was a respected anesthesiologist from Gainesville, a commerce club member and a volunteer at youth summer camps.
In private, the U.S. Attorney's Office said, he was a "monster" who drugged, molested and photographed young boys left in his care and downloaded onto his home computers more than 10,000 sexually explicit images of children.
The 46-year-old doctor was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in federal prison for producing, receiving and possessing child pornography.
U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said he was "heartened" by the sentence, saying it would keep Kapordelis from "harming young boys again."
The doctor's lawyer, Don Samuel, said he would appeal.
Either way, the counts that prosecutors were able to convict Kapordelis on represent a significantly watered-down case compared with the allegations leveled against him three years ago.
Kapordelis was originally charged with traveling to a hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia, to have sex with children — making him one of the first people arrested under a new U.S. "sex tourism" law.
Those charges were eventually dropped. The government did not say why.
During the trial, prosecutors presented as evidence a grainy video of Kapordelis allegedly having sex with a skinny young male in the Czech Republic.
Jurors did not find him guilty of making the video.
The doctor said he wanted to be tried on the case built in Russia, saying it was so fraught with error that jurors would begin to question the current case. He accused agents of committing perjury, hotel employees of extorting him and witnesses of changing their stories.
"For three years, right up until the time of sentencing, the court and the government refused to consider any of the evidence from Russia that unequivocally disproved the allegations that spawned this prosecution," lawyer Samuel said Tuesday night.
The government focused, instead, on the images recovered from the doctor's three home computers.
He was convicted of pulling down the underwear of a 14-year-old boy and photographing him after he passed out from alcohol Kapordelis gave him.
A relative testified that Kapordelis took indecent pictures of his 11-year-old son during a trip to Greece.
At the end of the three-week trial, Kapordelis was found guilty of three counts of using a minor to produce a sexually explicit image, two counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing it.
Because he was tried in federal court, Kapordelis cannot be paroled. And unless he wins his appeal, he will remain behind bars until he is 81.
He deserves the death penalty.
Jeez, and the worst of it is we can only guess at how many of his victims will grow up to be sociopaths themselves.
Gays, molesters, etc. are not born, they are “made.”
Throw him in gen pop. That’s all I can say without language that would earn a suspension.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
When he finishes this thirty-five years let the trial begin.
Dont worry, he wont ever see 81. I doubt he will see 50.
“He deserves the death penalty.”
Agreed.
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