American Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison For Child Porn

[sriracha john]

William Constable

Nantucket man sentenced to 25 years on child porn charges

A Nantucket [Massachusetts] man who admitted he filmed himself sexually assaulting at least 30 young girls during annual trips to Southeast Asia over more than a decade was sentenced today to a 25-year prison term.

U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole Jr. also ordered 54-year-old William H. Constable to serve a life term of supervised release, pay a $50,000 fine, and forfeit property used in his crimes.

The sentence was in line with recommendations in an agreement reached before the self-employed contractor pleaded guilty in March to seven counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of child pornography.

Constable was arrested in October when he tried to retrieve a camera he left in a Cape Cod hotel room. A hotel employee who found the camera called police after seeing images of a man having sex with young girls.

Prosecutors say the camera and about 80 cassettes and compact discs later seized from Constable’s home showed him sexually assaulting young girls as young as 5, sometimes two at a time.

In his guilty plea, Constable admitted paying to sexually assault children, and filming himself with at least 30 underage girls. Passport records show he traveled to Thailand, Cambodia or Vietnam each year for the past 14 years, except for 1995. The videos were produced in Asia, including Bangkok.

In one clip, Constable was seen sexually assaulting a girl aged about 7 as she screamed and cried, prosecutors said. Another 7-year-old was assaulted while she had a sheet or rag stuffed into her mouth.

Constable, who was also a volunteer coach for the sailing team at Nantucket High School, initially told police the images on his digital camera were "old-fashioned" and might offend them. He later said he videotaped himself having sex with the girls so that he could later "re-create the moment," federal prosecutors said.

When first questioned by police, he said the girls were between the ages of 12 and 17, but later admitted some of the girls were as young as 7. Authorities who viewed the videos believe the vast majority of the girls were under 12.

"He told the police that he knew what he had done was illegal, that he had a problem and that he needed help," Assistant U.S. Attorney Dana Gershengorn said at Constable’s plea hearing.

Federal prosecutors and the FBI have been working with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement and Asian authorities to try to identify the girls in the video clips.

- Associated Press (today)

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Nantucket Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Producing, Transporting and Possessing Child Pornography

WASHINGTON – William H. Constable, 54, of Nantucket, Mass., was sentenced today in Boston to serve 25 years in prison for producing, transporting and possessing child pornography, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan for the District of Massachusetts announced. U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. also ordered Constable to pay a $50,000 fine, forfeit various items of property used in his crimes and serve a life term of supervised release.

Constable pleaded guilty on March 11, 2008, to an indictment that charged him with seven counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. The charges stemmed from videos Constable made of sexual assaults he committed upon children while visiting Southeast Asia. In his guilty plea, Constable admitted that he filmed himself numerous times having sexual intercourse with at least 30 pre-pubescent girls during these visits. Passport records reflect that he traveled to Thailand, Cambodia or Vietnam every year for the past 14 years, with the exception of 1995.

Constable’s crimes were discovered when personnel from a Barnstable, Mass.-area hotel where Constable had stayed reported finding suspected child pornography on a digital camera. Constable later returned to the hotel to reclaim the camera, identifying himself as the owner and was subsequently arrested by local authorities. He admitted that he had traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, paid to have sex with children, and then preserved his crimes on video. Constable has been in federal custody since Oct. 25, 2007, when he was charged in a federal complaint and arrested by federal authorities after being held by local authorities.

Authorities reviewed the camera found in the hotel and identified numerous digital video clips in which children are engaged in sex acts with an adult man whom they confirmed was Constable. In one instance, a clip depicts Constable raping an approximately seven year old child who is screaming and crying. Another clip captures Constable raping a different child, also approximately seven years old, who has a sheet or rag stuffed in her mouth. Pursuant to a search warrant, authorities also recovered from Constable’s home more than 79 camcorder cassettes and DVDs containing child pornography he produced of himself raping Asian children.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dana Gershengorn and Trial Attorney Elizabeth M. Yusi of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. The case was investigated by the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Barnstable Police Department and the Nantucket Police Department.

- CRM (today)

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As this was a federal and not a state conviction, there is no early parole and he will serve his full 25 year sentence.

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