Benjamin Faulkner, 26, and Patrick Falte, 27.
Posted on 10/09/2017 9:16:23 AM PDT by Perseverando
Benjamin Faulkner, 26, and Patrick Falte, 27.
Two men who sexually abused a child and uploaded photographs to their child pornography website were each sentenced Friday to life in prison.
Benjamin Faulkner, 26, and Patrick Falte, 27, pleaded guilty in federal court in Richmond earlier this year to the aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
They were taken into custody after Faulkner, of Canada, and Falte, whose address is unavailable but is from out of state, traveled to an undisclosed address in Hanover County — which had no apparent connection to the offenses — and then to Northern Virginia where the crimes occurred.
Records indicate a third man charged in federal court in connection with the case has pleaded guilty to related state charges in Northern Virginia and is in jail awaiting sentencing.
Falte made three trips and Faulkner two to Virginia in 2015 and 2016 to sexually abuse the child, according to court documents. The abuse was filmed during at least two of the trips and uploaded to their website. Faulkner and Falte “groomed” the child with pizza, ice cream and toys.
Falte and Faulkner each faced a minimum term of 30 years when sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr., whose sentence was longer than that even sought by the government.
Under the plea deals, prosecutors agreed not to ask the judge for a term greater than 50 years and the defendants reserved the right to seek the minimum term of 30 years. Lawyers asked that Falte and Faulkner get 30-year terms citing, among other things, their projected ages when released and their amenability to treatment.
Both men, according to court documents, have attempted suicide since their arrests last October.
Their lawyers wrote in sentencing memorandums that each quickly admitted guilt after their arrest and pleaded guilty, sparing the victim the need to testify and a jury the awful duty of viewing images and hearing about the nature of the crimes.
In arguing for the 50-year terms, the government wrote of each man: “The defendant’s abusive, exploitative actions are those of a truly depraved individual. Our society places a great and justified importance on the safety of our children, and the defendant’s actions demonstrate, beyond any doubt, that he is a threat to our children.”
Court documents indicate the two are also facing related charges in federal court in Tennessee along with two other men.
I think capital punishment would cure this problem, at least for the convicted.
Boy, those two are in for a hell of a time in prison. Have fun boys...maybe try harder on your next suicide attempt and hope it works. I pretty much guarantee you are going to wish you were dead shortly.
Most homosexuals were sexually molested as children.
They seek to normalize their behavior to attain easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN.
I don't know. Prisons are full of child rapists quietly serving out their time. I think the whole notion of extrajudicial punishment being meted out to child predators by noble prisoners is mostly a Hollywood myth.
Do you know who gets raped in prison? White college boys busted selling ecstasy.
Hang the both of them, and be done with it. We need to make examples of child predators. After confessing their guilt, both of these scumbags should have been publicly executed the following day. There’s a real need for Americans to once again see what true justice looks like.
It would certainly cut down on recidivism...................
I’m not sure but can’t they get out with less time for a life sentence than they would with a 50 year sentence?
Public hanging - upping the ante may cause the next potential predator to reconsider.
“I pretty much guarantee you are going to wish you were dead shortly.”
They will be. Prisoners in the joint don’t like child molesters because they have families too. The length of time they stay alive will correlate with how long the prisoners want to torture them.
I remember a guy in my home town that raped a 14 year old girl. He was sentenced to life. The guards found him bled out in the shower after he was forcibly castrated about two weeks after he was incarceratred.
I knew this guy for about 10 years and left him alone. I’m not being very kind here but it couldn’t happen to a worse guy. He was trash, violent, and poison to many.
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Why is the author hiding what happened?
Like the failure to mention the race of a perp is a clear indicator of what race is involved, failure to mention the gender of the child is a clear indicator of the orientation of these perps.
Frankly, I find these weird celebrations of prison rape disturbing in and of themselves. This should be something that we don’t want happening.
Thank you.
Groomed with toys? Just how young was this kid??
I agree. It’s really weird to “wish” rape on men in prison.
Re: Groomed with toys? Just how young was this kid??
From the VG article source article I posted on FR - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3593338/posts
I believe it was a little four-year old girl in Manassas, VA.
That is so disgusting. I don’t have the right words.
Would the right words possibly be: capital punishment?
I wouldn’t say no, and I’m generally opposed to capital punishment.
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