"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.
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.
Estimated value on his house in San Bruno, CA is $769K. And out here that's not even a spectacular house, either.
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
"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.