Posted on 03/11/2006 9:25:48 PM PST by ChessMan
Teacher faces trial in secret tapings By Malaika Fraley, STAFF WRITER
REDWOOD CITY — Investigators found images of 3-year-olds engaged in sex acts with adults on former Central Middle School teacher Neal Sato's computer, a San Carlos police detective said.
The detective's graphic testimony at the former middle
school P.E. teacher's preliminary hearing Friday caused the mother of one of 11 girls Sato is accused of covertly videotaping while they undressed to gasp in horror.
Detective Marti Overton was the only witness at the hearing where Judge John Runde ruled there is enough evidence to bring Sato, 34, to trial on 15 felony counts of lewd acts with a child and one misdemeanor count of possession of child pornography.
Overton said police confiscated two video cameras and two computers from Sato's San Bruno home after a 13-year-old girl reported in November that she discovered a video camera recording her changing into a sports uniform.
Overton said a sweep of the computers netted 13 images of child pornography and more than 100 images of undressed girls in Sato's school office. Overton was able to identify 11 girls, all Central students, by using a yearbook. The files, she said, were saved under each girl's name. None of them, except the young whistle-blower who found the video camera, knew they had been taped.
The victims told police that Sato would ask them to try on volleyball and basketball uniforms in his office, even if they didn't play for the team, because he was pondering what style to order. When the girls would challenge him and say they'd prefer to change in the girl's locker room, Sato told them it was locked and he couldn't find the key.
One girl said Sato promised her an A in his class if she tried on uniforms for him during the summer school break. In cases where the girls tried the uniform over their clothes, Sato ordered them back into the office to do it again.
Four girls reported that after they modeled a uniform Sato claimed he needed to check the size of the garment and pulled their waistbands so far out it made them uncomfortable, Overton said.
About a dozen spectators, representing two families, attended the hearing along with Sato's parents and sister.
Sato, free on $600,000 bail, was ordered to return for Superior Court arraignment on May 21.
Investigators have said they have no knowledge of any additional incidents involving minors at other schools Sato worked at in his career.
"Sato, free on $600,000 bail"
How does he make 600 grand in bail? I'm sure they thought it was enough to keep him in jail.
After conviction, a bullet to the back of the head would be just punishment.
No thanks. The boys in the front lines have standards.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
If it were my child, I would have a hard time not searching out this ******* and kicking his butt. And I better not type anymore - it'll just get ugly.
Yes that begs the question was there more to this than just one sicko? Perhaps he has been profiting from these pictures and videos? Either that or teachers are just paid way too much.
I'll bet when some of the parents find out it was their daughters who were taped he will wish he was under police protection.
One for the list?
When morality is scorned and rejected as "prudish" and "Victorian" this is what we get. This and worse.
Estimated value on his house in San Bruno, CA is $769K. And out here that's not even a spectacular house, either.
FYI Ping
He puts up 10% of it to a bail bondsman, usually. For people who don't have even 10%, family members or friends often put it up, especially if they are confident he won't skip.
Remember Scott Peterson? His parents put up their house. (Not sure if they lost it when he ran... I did not follow that case. Thank God for NOT having Fox News to be force-fed Scott and Lacie 24/7... same old story, creepy but attractive man attracts sweet but naive woman, marries her, kills her cold stone dead.
In this case, I feel some sympathy for Sato's parents and sister. They didn't make him what he is... imagine how creepy it must be to find out your brother or son is a kiddie diddler. Sato, though, I have no sympathy for. His hard wiring is defective. it would be a mercy to end him, not to mention, it's the only way to protect more girls from his depredations. California will let him out in 5 or 10 or 20 years and he will do it again.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
A bit extreme, IMO.
Do you have any daughters? Just curious.
FMCDH(BITS)
I have a 4 yr old myself, and it is not in the least bit extreme to me personally :)
The thought, even remotely, of someone seeing her as something sexual repulses me. I would kill such a creature and then have a good beer in celebration.
I just read in today's paper that a guy who killed two sex offenders was sentenced to 44 years in prison. A huge disparity in sentencing, if you ask me.
If anyone ever hurt my grandchildren I wouldn't hesitate to hunt them down and blow it/them away.
I've got a daughter and two granddaughters and I'd probably feel like it. Thinking about it though, maybe life in the joint in general population would be more appropriate.
"How does he make 600 grand in bail? I'm sure they thought it was enough to keep him in jail."
Guess it's possible that he was selling child porn on PC. For bail, he only had to come up with 10%, $60,000 possibly from equity loan on home or charge card. It always amazes me too how these criminals manage to come up with bail. Seem to always know people who will bail them out. Sometimes, it's parents who sell their homes for bail money.
Sometimes they have friends with similar interests who are rich enough to post bail like the serial killer who was suspected of killing children in seveal states not long ago. Had been released from prior murder charges. Then committed more murders of children.
That doesn't have crap to do with this situation, whatever they are paid in La-La land. The relevant factor is that they are all hard left liberal Democrats. Now just how did the entire country get this screwed up? (A few states might not be guilty of this, but I don't know of any- Utah may not have hard left liberals, but they have their own unique problems.)
I remember my 6th grade P.E. teacher standing in front of his back sliding door windows in the nude as I walked home from school one day. I was n denial though, I was so shocked at what I saw....if only I had the backbone to speak up. Unbelievable how common that is these days. :(
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