Posted on 07/17/2009 6:12:53 PM PDT by Larry381
A 43-year-old Sartell man was sentenced today in federal court to producing child pornography.
On July 16 in St. Paul, United States District Court Judge Donovan Frank sentenced Dennis Michael Lemke to 360 months in prison and supervised release for life on one count of production of child pornography. Lemke was indicted on July 14, 2008, and pleaded guilty on Jan. 16.
According to Lemke’s plea agreement, he admitted that on April 12, 2006, he did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice and coerce a minor who was then under the age of 12 to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of such conduct.
According to a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit, a search warrant was executed at Lemke’s then St. Cloud residence and authorities seized a computer, electronic storage media and a digital camera. An examination of the computer resulted in the discovery of a large number of sexually explicit images of children. Police also determined that some of the images were taken by the type of digital camera seized at the Lemke residence, and several of the images featured Lemke.
This case was the result of an investigation by the St. Cloud Police Department and the FBI. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan P. Petterson.
This case is part of Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a national initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about PSC, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
Yep, I saw a little girl probably 7 or 8 years old with "Sweet Cheeks" plastered across the seat of her short shorts.
Real cute huh.
Oh, you read his short posting history too. Looks and smells like one to me.
His account just ran into Post 3 above.
>> Yep, I saw a little girl probably 7 or 8 years old with “Sweet Cheeks” plastered across the seat of her short shorts.
Real cute huh. <<
Like GSP implied, women (and I use the term guardedly) think that hypersexualization of children is normal and to be encouraged.
There are lines that should not be crossed and “sweet cheeks” on a 7 yo’s seat is on the wrong side of that line. It is child abuse, pure and simple.
Worse, it is theft of the innocence of what a child should retain as long as possible. This is a theft of something that can never be returned.
Better yet, no appeals!
Cheers!
I think it depends to some extent upon whether the jurisdiction in question has a determinate or indeterminate sentencing system. Under Minnesota’s determinate sentencing system, the offender must serve 2/3 of the announced sentence, without exception. Many jurisdictions pronounce an “indeterminate” sentence which usually sounds exceedingly tough, but then the parole/pardons board has the authority to consider parole long before expiration of the pronounced sentence.
It is difficult to make comparisons between jurisdictions with different sentencing formulations.
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