Posted on 08/21/2006 2:29:07 PM PDT by texten
Gates Enoch admitted in March to gathering more than 150 images of children engaged in sex acts on his computer, and on Thursday he was scheduled to be sentenced for his crime in federal court in Austin.
But at the end of an hourlong hearing in which Enoch, the 20-year-old son of a former Texas Supreme Court justice, again admitted to gathering as well as distributing the illegal images, Senior U.S. District Judge James Nowlin said he was unable to declare him guilty.
Nowlin adjourned the hearing and invited lawyers in the case to bring him any evidence to show what effect medication Enoch took for attention deficit disorder may have had on his affinity for child pornography.
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Nowlin asked him if during the relapse he viewed only adult pornography.
"It progressed into an adolescent age," Enoch said.
"You are not talking 12 years old or under?" Nowlin asked.
"No, sir."
"You are talking about teenagers, all female?" Nowlin asked.
"Yes, sir."
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Already posted.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687579/posts
:O)
- So that is what those things at the rear of the computer are all about!
- So that is what those things at the rear of the computer are all about!
bwaahaha! I was thinking there really isn't that much room on my computer! Now that behemoth I had back in the early '90's. . .
Damn liberal judge! Oh, he's a Reagan appointee... ;>)
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