SavannahStar
10-06-2009, 10:27 AM
Teacher Aide Pleads Guilty To Child Rape, Porn
French Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison
POSTED: 5:00 pm EDT October 5, 2009
UPDATED: 6:21 pm EDT October 5, 2009
BOSTON -- A Winchester middle school teacher's aide pleaded guilty Monday to child rape and child pornography charges in connection with alleged crimes against six underage female victims.
Christopher French, 28, who was a special education teacher's aide at the McCall Middle School, had previously pleaded not guilty to charges of child rape, child enticement, posing a child in a state of nudity, disseminating visual material of a child in a state of nudity, possession of child pornography and dissemination of matter harmful to minors.
French changed his plea to guilty on Monday and was sentenced to five years in the Billerica House of Correction and five years probation. The judge also said French could not have contact with children and restricted his Internet use.
On June 28, Winchester police executed a search warrant at the defendant's residence in Winchester, seizing computer equipment from the residence and from the defendant's room. The police investigation -- including the forensic analysis of the defendant's seized computer equipment -- revealed that throughout the years the defendant was employed at the McCall Middle School, he communicated with many underage females, some of whom had been students at McCall Middle School and some of whom he met online through social networking sites, officials allege.
He allegedly gave naked pictures of himself to many of them, requested and received naked pictures of some of the young females in return and enticed two of them to meet with him in person for sexual activity.
It is alleged that he committed child rape against one victim. The pictures the defendant sent of himself, the pictures he requested and received from his targets and many of the communications he had with his targets were stored in his computer, cataloged by names.
In one instance, a 14-year-old female victim was in ninth grade. The prior school year, she had attended McCall Middle School and knew the defendant as a teacher's aide at the school. French allegedly contacted the victim on her Myspace page, and they began instant messaging. After a period of time, he began inviting the victim to go into his hot tub. The victim declined to do this. Then, the defendant began to suggest that he could come to her house.
One night, when the victim was 14, she agreed to have the defendant over to her house. It was in the basement of the house that it is alleged that the child rape occurred. The defendant warned the victim not to tell her friends or family. The defendant is charged with child rape and enticement in connection with this victim.
In another instance beginning in April 2008, French is alleged to have initiated contact with a 13-year-old female who attended the school. The online conversations occurred on his Myspace page, and he used online names such as "Frenchy" or "Frenchy 1024." In June, the conversations became more overtly sexual, with French allegedly indicating that the victim could be invited to his hot tub, emphasizing that "naughty things" happen in the hot tub.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/21208684/detail.html
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5 years is all he gets for this???????????????? :shock:
French Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison
POSTED: 5:00 pm EDT October 5, 2009
UPDATED: 6:21 pm EDT October 5, 2009
BOSTON -- A Winchester middle school teacher's aide pleaded guilty Monday to child rape and child pornography charges in connection with alleged crimes against six underage female victims.
Christopher French, 28, who was a special education teacher's aide at the McCall Middle School, had previously pleaded not guilty to charges of child rape, child enticement, posing a child in a state of nudity, disseminating visual material of a child in a state of nudity, possession of child pornography and dissemination of matter harmful to minors.
French changed his plea to guilty on Monday and was sentenced to five years in the Billerica House of Correction and five years probation. The judge also said French could not have contact with children and restricted his Internet use.
On June 28, Winchester police executed a search warrant at the defendant's residence in Winchester, seizing computer equipment from the residence and from the defendant's room. The police investigation -- including the forensic analysis of the defendant's seized computer equipment -- revealed that throughout the years the defendant was employed at the McCall Middle School, he communicated with many underage females, some of whom had been students at McCall Middle School and some of whom he met online through social networking sites, officials allege.
He allegedly gave naked pictures of himself to many of them, requested and received naked pictures of some of the young females in return and enticed two of them to meet with him in person for sexual activity.
It is alleged that he committed child rape against one victim. The pictures the defendant sent of himself, the pictures he requested and received from his targets and many of the communications he had with his targets were stored in his computer, cataloged by names.
In one instance, a 14-year-old female victim was in ninth grade. The prior school year, she had attended McCall Middle School and knew the defendant as a teacher's aide at the school. French allegedly contacted the victim on her Myspace page, and they began instant messaging. After a period of time, he began inviting the victim to go into his hot tub. The victim declined to do this. Then, the defendant began to suggest that he could come to her house.
One night, when the victim was 14, she agreed to have the defendant over to her house. It was in the basement of the house that it is alleged that the child rape occurred. The defendant warned the victim not to tell her friends or family. The defendant is charged with child rape and enticement in connection with this victim.
In another instance beginning in April 2008, French is alleged to have initiated contact with a 13-year-old female who attended the school. The online conversations occurred on his Myspace page, and he used online names such as "Frenchy" or "Frenchy 1024." In June, the conversations became more overtly sexual, with French allegedly indicating that the victim could be invited to his hot tub, emphasizing that "naughty things" happen in the hot tub.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/21208684/detail.html
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5 years is all he gets for this???????????????? :shock: