Posted on 07/17/2009 6:12:53 PM PDT by Larry381
A 43-year-old Sartell man was sentenced today in federal court to producing child pornography.
On July 16 in St. Paul, United States District Court Judge Donovan Frank sentenced Dennis Michael Lemke to 360 months in prison and supervised release for life on one count of production of child pornography. Lemke was indicted on July 14, 2008, and pleaded guilty on Jan. 16.
According to Lemke’s plea agreement, he admitted that on April 12, 2006, he did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice and coerce a minor who was then under the age of 12 to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of such conduct.
According to a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit, a search warrant was executed at Lemke’s then St. Cloud residence and authorities seized a computer, electronic storage media and a digital camera. An examination of the computer resulted in the discovery of a large number of sexually explicit images of children. Police also determined that some of the images were taken by the type of digital camera seized at the Lemke residence, and several of the images featured Lemke.
This case was the result of an investigation by the St. Cloud Police Department and the FBI. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan P. Petterson.
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a national initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about PSC, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Anybody know why the Feds announce their sentences in months? this is 30 yrs. why not say so?
Strange,isn't it? I've wondered the same thing myself.
It looks bigger when the prosecutor bucks for a pay raise... ; )
OMG!!! The Federal government has gone into the business of making kiddie porn, and they're using inmates to to help produce it! I can't believe this. Isn't that cruel and unusual punishment? What if doing this violates the convicts' religious beliefs?
Has the Obama administration actually sunk this low?
Is sentencing sometimes done in months that don’t neatly conform to a number of years (for example, someone is sentenced to 367 months)?
I don’t know. All of the states sentence in years. the Feds do it in months.
Uffda!
>>What is with the 360 months? Proper justice introduce him to sparky.. <<
Whereas I agree with you completely, someone should be prosecuting the biggest producers of visual kiddie porn — PARENTS.
I walk through a mall to get to and from work and see many prepubescent girls with their moms and both are tarted up (or down, I guess), wearing less than what you wear to go swimming.
I find it disturbing that this is encouraged in little kids.
Yeah i notice that a lot,it is like the mother is trying to relive her past the way it should have been by dressing up the kid in hot little outfits.
The new generation of parents have grown up in the Britney,Madonna world and think it is cool to have a hot kid.
Other states may do that, but Minnesota state District Courts announce all sentences in months. The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines are stated in terms of months. Where, as here, the sentence is 360 months, it may seem on the face of things that a pronounced 30-year sentence would be preferable. However, the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines factor the offender’s criminal history with the severity of the offense, resulting in sentences of 17 months (1.417 years), 20 months (1.667 years), etc.
What’s the problem with this? Ruth Bader Ginsburg, most republicans in the Senate voted for her, once wrote a paper advocating the age of consent for sex between an adult and a minor be lowered to 11 years old. */end sarcasm
I did not know that. It still makes no sense too me.
Eff off DU troll.
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