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Former Manassas teacher to get 25-year term in child-porn case
Times-Dispatch ^ | 3/04/11 | Amanda Stewart

Posted on 03/05/2011 6:44:12 AM PST by Libloather

Former Manassas teacher to get 25-year term in child-porn case
By Amanda Stewart
Published: March 04, 2011

MANASSAS - A former Manassas teacher pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday to seven federal charges of producing and possessing child pornography.

Kevin Garfield Ricks, 50, will be sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to the terms of a plea agreement.

In court documents, Ricks admitted to sexually assaulting at least seven teenage boys over a 30-year-period. Prosecutors said Ricks was a "master manipulator" whose pattern was to befriend the boys, then ply them with alcohol and molest them after they passed out. The federal charges stem from pictures and videos Ricks took of several of the boys while they were unconscious, court documents state.

"Kevin Ricks admitted this morning … that he is a dangerous, serial predator that has sexually abused scores of young boys, for more than 30 years, literally across the globe," U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride said after the plea hearing in federal court in Alexandria.

MacBride said what made Ricks' crimes more disturbing was that he was in a position of trust, working as a teacher, tutor and foreign exchange host, when he abused the boys.

"This case is a chilling reminder to parents and kids that the face of evil is often the familiar and the everyday," MacBride said.

Ricks was arrested in February 2010, after allegations surfaced that he had sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy who had been his student at Osbourn High School.

Ricks was convicted of taking indecent liberties with a minor for that incident and sentenced to five years in prison, with four years suspended. He may face other charges in other states, prosecutors said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: arth; homosexualagenda; manassas; pederasty; pedophile; perp; porn; teacher
The teacher perps show no sign of slowing down.
1 posted on 03/05/2011 6:44:14 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I remember, as a kid, my father talking to others about the same thing. It’s been going on for a long, long time and nobody does anything about it.


2 posted on 03/05/2011 7:04:37 AM PST by RC2
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To: Libloather

He will get killed here in VA in prison.


3 posted on 03/05/2011 7:06:26 AM PST by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Libloather

Osbourn HS? Wow! Well, he should get plenty of sex where he’s going.


4 posted on 03/05/2011 7:12:13 AM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: DarthVader

Who says there’s no such thing as cosmic justice?


5 posted on 03/05/2011 7:37:11 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: Libloather
It would be cheaper to just hang him.
6 posted on 03/05/2011 8:06:27 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

He’s going to die behind bars... if some enraged father doesn’t stick a shiv in him first.


7 posted on 03/05/2011 8:13:03 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Libloather

Why hasn’t one of the boys’ fathers blown this pervert away??!!


8 posted on 03/05/2011 8:28:24 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: DarthVader

Bet on it, they will draw straws get the first beating.


9 posted on 03/05/2011 9:51:44 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: Libloather

Later.


10 posted on 03/05/2011 9:55:05 AM PST by sport
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To: Libloather

To see what a shining example some teachers sset for their students to emulate, one has to look no further than Madison, Wisconsin.


11 posted on 03/05/2011 10:21:01 AM PST by sport
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Porn is evil. Child porn is excessively evil. It aggravates vicious lusts.

12 posted on 03/05/2011 6:22:21 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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13 posted on 03/05/2011 6:31:24 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church

WHEN BOYS ARE MOLESTED BY TEACHERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY

Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests


14 posted on 03/05/2011 9:20:45 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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The secret the media will never tell.

And of course, “if only teachers were allowed to marry”.


15 posted on 03/05/2011 9:30:46 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Libloather

It’s really too bad that child porn producers and child molesters in general are not executed. In a country with justice, they would be.


16 posted on 03/05/2011 9:34:05 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: metmom

This guy got 25 years. Let’s hope he’s not let out early for ‘good behavior.’


17 posted on 03/06/2011 6:36:10 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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