Posted on 06/16/2006 8:09:47 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
A former Children's Hospital nurse admitted to police that he sexually abused a terminally ill 4-year-old female patient “to see if he liked it,” according to court documents released yesterday.
Christopher Alan Irvin told police when they arrested him and searched his City Heights apartment in April that he molested the semi-comatose girl twice while she was under his care at the hospital, according to the documents.
After initially denying he ever touched patients at Children's Hospital in a sexual manner, Irvin told police he abused the dying child behind closed curtains in the intermediate care unit where he worked, according to a search warrant released by Superior Court Judge Frederick Maguire.
Maguire released another warrant Monday in which police reported finding a video clip on Irvin's home computer depicting a young girl performing a sex act on an adult man.
In the search warrant released yesterday, police said Irvin gave a detailed account of what he did to his patient at Children's Hospital.
Police also reported finding journals in which Irvin wrote of his urge to be with young children.
“This is killing me. The girl downstairs is playing and I want to go play with her, ahhh !!!,” Irvin wrote in one journal entry, police said in the warrant.
In another entry, Irvin wrote that he wanted “to lay down at night” with a little girl and that he wanted to be with her as she grew.
“Oh God, I've strayed,” Irvin wrote in a third entry cited in the search warrant.
Police in the warrant released yesterday said they found videos and images of child pornography in files Irvin shared online with others who were sexually drawn to children.
In addition to computers and documents dealing with child pornography and with organizations that deal with children, police seized six computers from Children's Hospital, Irvin's personnel file and patient records.
Irvin, 32, is charged with sexually abusing the Children's Hospital patient and multiple counts of trafficking in child pornography. He is being held in jail in lieu of $2 million bail. He has pleaded not guilty.
A police detective testified in court Monday that the investigation into Irvin's actions has spread to Florida, where Irvin worked before coming to San Diego in October 2004.
Detective Susan Righthouse said investigators want to interview six children in Tallahassee to see if Irvin had any involvement with them.
Irvin told police that the first time he molested the girl at Children's Hospital “that he was curious and a little excited at the same time,” according to the documents.
He said he molested the child a second time because “he wasn't sure what he was feeling and he wasn't sure if he was interested in children,” police detectives reported in the warrant.
Irvin told police that “he didn't get sexually aroused, so he decided he was not interested in children” but he admitted that he continued looking at pictures of children.
Prosecutor Laura Gunn had objected to the release of the warrants, saying it would hamper the ongoing investigation of Irvin's actions, make it difficult to find an unbiased jury and invade the privacy of the parents of the child Irvin is accused of molesting.
Defense attorney Dawnella Gilzean also objected, saying that Irvin would be at greater risk of attack from other jail inmates if what he told police became public.
The secrecy was challenged by Guylyn Cummins, a lawyer for The San Diego Union-Tribune and KGTV Channel 10. Cummins said the public's right to know what is going on in the court system outweighs the other concerns.
The judge said all of the information would become public eventually, and that there is a sufficient jury pool in the county to ensure a fair trial.
Irvin is the second Children's Hospital worker facing child molestation charges, although authorities said the two cases are unrelated.
Former respiratory therapist Wayne Albert Bleyle, 54, of Santee is charged with sexually abusing five patients and faces multiple charges of posing or modeling children to create child pornography and distributing or offering to distribute child pornography
I wouldn't need 30 minutes.
These guys (and gals sadly) are neither new nor more numerous. They are however, more likely to get themselves caught - due to their proclivities for making photographic reminders of their exploits, better forensic evidence, and a public that finally admits this is happening.
This P.O.S. should have his thing cut off! Then he should be put in prison naked with his wrists cuffed to his ankles! Let's see if he likes it.
I got a rope
I got a tree
All I need is.....Christopher Irwin
I don't think we really know if they are more common or not. Or, do you have info to back that up? I agree they are not really new, as there is nothing new under the sun.
susie
Chinese castration....
That's a personal fantasy of mine for child molestors and rapists....
Positively ghoulish. I wonder how many cons will be experimenting with his anus to see if they like it?
Neither would I but it's nice to be thorough.
(grin)
The primary blame belongs to this scum, who should indeed be executed.
But a great deal of blame belongs to our wonderful activist judges on the Supreme Court, who have basically made any form of pornography a first amendment right, while outlawing many forms of political speech--a complete reversal of what the founders intended.
I doubt whether this guy would have done what he did without having first soaked himself in pornography. The report seems pretty clear about that.
Well, it's hard to imagine anything lower than this guy.
But if he's too "short" to go to jail, he won't have to worry about incarceration right? Or does it depend on who the judge is?
Children's Hospital better get its act together, too.
Time for Rule 303
Worked before and can work again
Anyone who doubts the existence of evil in this world ... meet Christopher Alan Irvin. If evil has a face, then this is it!
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