John Mark Karr News & Discussion Thread

Mercury News/AP Wire ^ | 9/2/06 | MARCUS WOHLSEN

[stlnative]

Posted on Sat, Sep. 02, 2006

Karr hires new lawyer in child porn case

MARCUS WOHLSEN Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - John Mark Karr, exonerated as a suspect in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, has asked a San Francisco lawyer to represent him as he awaits extradition to California to face child pornography charges.

Robert M. Amparan is set to appear Tuesday in Sonoma County Superior Court to officially take over Karr's defense from the public defender's office, which has represented Karr in the case since it was first brought in 2001.

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Praying that justice will be served and that John Mark Karr is taken off the streets for some time. Karr may be facing federal charges depending what is found his laptop computer that he brought back with him from Thailand. (post was intentionally put into Chat, as I will post all other information that comes up on Karr on this thread)

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This is not a Ramsey/Karr ping list - you will not be pinged to media articles that only relate to or rehash Karr's false confession to the JonBenet case, unless Boulder's LE has found something to connect Karr to the JonBenet case (like if they finally learn of Karr's whereabouts for December 25th and 26th of 1996)

[stlnative]

Ping to the most recent Karr news...

Nancy Grace covered what Karr could be facing depending on what is found on his computer he brought back from Thailand with him. The transcript goes into detail about the PROTECT Act.

Transcript is here...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/31/ng.01.html

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This thread was set-up for future news reports and discussion on only John Mark Karr and the Child Porn Charges or any other charges Karr may be facing in the future. It is not a JonBenet Ramsey Case Thread.
Discussion of the JonBenet Ramsey case can be done on this FR Thread.

[stlnative]

I wanted to tell you that on another show I was watching on Saturday. They said Karr was working for another Thailand School and they fired him (dates unknown). When he was fired from this Thailand School he emailed child pornography to the Thailand School. So there is a good chance that Karr has child pornography on his computer since he was emailing it out at least to old Thai School employer.

From now on when I find a Karr article I will post the link to the article in this thread, so I do not have to start a new thread for each new Karr article that comes out. This is also a discussion thread to discuss Karr on.

[cherry]

please ping me about this little pig.....to me, and its only MHO, but I don't think he was "exonerated" just not chargeable.....

I still think he has some role....maybe only as someone who spook to the actual killer.....but if nothing else, the little creep is evil.....

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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2003/April/03_ag_266.htm

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/46618.htm

The PROTECT Act (put into effect in 2003)

An important aspect of the U.S. effort is to strengthen law enforcement’s ability to investigate, prosecute, and punish violent crimes committed against children, including child sex tourism and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The PROTECT Act (Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003) was passed by the Congress in April 2003 and signed into law by President Bush. The act serves as a historic milestone for protecting children while severely punishing those who victimize young people. Of particular note, the PROTECT Act allows law enforcement officers to prosecute American citizens and legal permanent residents who travel abroad and commercially sexually abuse minors without having to prove prior intent to commit this crime. The law also strengthens the punishment of these child sex tourists. If convicted, child sex tourists now face up to 30 years’ imprisonment, an increase from the previous maximum of 15 years.

The PROTECT Act made several other changes to the law with a focus on protecting children from sexual predators, including: extending the statute of limitations for federal crimes involving the abduction or physical or sexual abuse of a child for the lifetime of the child; expanding the potential reach of federal sex trafficking prosecutions by extending federal jurisdiction to crimes committed in foreign commerce; establishing parallel penalty enhancements for the production of child pornography overseas; and, criminalizing actions to arrange or facilitate the travel of child sex tourists.

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will do... Please know that you will pinged back to this thread when more is released about Karr. - I am hoping that he will end up facing Federal charges and will be sent away for at least 15 years in a federal prison.

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[A CA Guy]

Is he suggesting the State Penitentiary should be forced to complete his sex change?

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Not that I know of...

Karr owns 2 computers - 1 is still in custody in Sonoma from 2001. Sonoma County has sought a new warrant to research this computer with modern technology to see if Karr had emailed the child porn to someone before he was busted in 2001.

Then Karr brought back a laptop computer that he had with him in Thailand. Karr was not under arrest until he touched down on US soil (he brought the computer back with him willingly). Boulder CO still has this laptop computer and they have also sought a warrant to search this computer. The FBI is also interested in what is on Karr's laptop as they could get Karr on federal child pornography charges and the computer may led the FBI to child victims that Karr claims he molested while he was overseas. Karr was clearly after a 5 year old child before he was arrested, this was all caught on surveillance. So they know he is a pedophile and that he most likely has molested children.

[A CA Guy]

Wow, and there was NOTHING he was wanted for in Thailand?

[stlnative]

Nothing that they can prove at this point but the laptop might have something on it that leads the FBI so some child victims overseas. If they do then all this falls under the PROTECT Act if he has done something since April of 2003.

The old computer, that is if they find out he emailed the child pornography to someone back in 2001 or before then he could face felony charges.

Put it this way... they are trying to get what ever they can on this guy to put him away for a long time and I sure hope they find something one him and can add some new charges.

[A CA Guy]

He's not only criminal and dirty, but seems really deranged and mentally unstable.

[stlnative]

Oh... from the Karr/Tracey Emails Karr tells Tracey several times about his plans for the sex change and that once he completed it Karr would go back to the UK to be a nanny.

Karr lied about a lot of things and a lot things he did not lie about. He told Tracey things about his life overseas, even down to details about how decorated his "last" classroom. Karr went into great detail in the emails and sure enough when US LE went to pick him up they visited the school and it was decorated just as Karr explained in emails. Even the little girl in Thailand was described to Tracey. She was not a Thai child she was little blond Brit living in Thailand. Karr first saw the little girl over the summer while he was going in to decorate his classroom the little girl was there also in some type summer classes.

[Valpal1]

If he brought back a laptop full of criminal material, he will end up doing federal time, IF some stupid liberal judge doesn't throw it out as evidence.

I actually think he will end up taking down a lot of fellow pervs.

[stlnative]

I agree we really don't know yet just how big this could be. They may not find anything though but somehow Karr made money over there enough to pay for hair removal and travel expenses.

[Valpal1]

My husband brought home a horrible sci fi film last night called UltraViolet and the bad guy was named DAXIS. Interestingly, UltraViolet was trying to save the bad guy's clone child named Six.

It's a 2006 anime/film hybrid, but I wonder if the story and name has been around a while in comic books and asian anime and might have some relationship to JMK picking the name Daxis for himself.

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I believe the movie was made after a computer video game (but I could be wrong) - I looked up the movie info and it was cerified to play in Mayalsia. So he may have seen it. Also in the movie info they spell it Daxus.

[hoosiermama]

Robert M. Amparan? So what happened to the two "chick" lawyers that found him SO engaging?

[hoosiermama]

punishment of these child sex tourists?

Wonder if that was what his side trip to Cambodia was all about?