Posted on 11/15/2022 9:38:34 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
A Preston, Minn., man who was charged with 12 counts of child pornography last year won’t spend any time in prison.
Instead, he will do 10 years of probation and pay a $140 fine, KAAL TV first reported.
According to a criminal complaint, 49-year-old Rick James Gavin was charged in September 2021 with two counts of using minors in pornography and 10 counts of possessing child pornography.
The complaint says he took videos of two victims, one under the age of 10 and another under the age of seven, and then superimposed images of genitalia over screenshots of the videos. He also created a video of himself masturbating to images of the two victims, according to the complaint.
The victims referred to Gavin as “Pooh Bear” and one of them had been to his house, charges say.
In addition, Gavin was in possession of sexually-graphic images of nude children, the complaint says. The images included a victim as young as one year old, according to the complaint.
Under a plea deal, Gavin pleaded guilty to one possession count and the remaining 11 counts were dismissed, court records show. He was also granted a stay of imposition by Judge Matthew Opat, meaning his conviction will be reduced to a misdemeanor if he successfully completes his 10 years of probation. Opat was appointed to the bench in 2013 by former Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton.
Gavin is required to register as a predatory offender and must also complete 10 days of community service.
When Anything Goes - Everything is Done!
This is the Democrat way.................
Why such a lightweight sentencing?
This guy must have influential friends who have not yet been named.
10 days of community service seems a little harsh, at least for MN.
Pedophiles are the next group trying to get special protection status. They are the + in LGBTQ+.
It’s the way Minnesota is going these days.
Unless you’re a cop.
Mob justice is needed- the criminal needs a rope, but the prosecutor and the judge who did this need a fire.
The ultimate goal of the Media-Dem Party is to “normalize” pedophilia and bestiality as just “lifestyle” choices and not crimes.
You’re correct.
Separately, the Dem’s desire to legalize marijuana runs a same parallel.
It’s just dope, they say. It’s nothing bad. Recently, Colorado just legalized psychedelic mushrooms - albeit for medicinal purposes.
In all of this (whether it be pedophilia or drug use), we are on the slippery slope downward. And the ending won’t be good.
I’ve a tree and a rope........
Must be a friend of the court or sumpin...
Where’s the apology from the judge to the pedophile?
Satan is so happy these days. Dems winning, GOP splitting to pieces, gender changes forced on school children and soft on crime policies applied to all sorts of vicious criminals let out on the streets again.
Our fallen world.
He has a very high ESG score.
Perhaps the ‘Rat-appointed judge is a pedo ...
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