When a University of North Dakota professor was arrested on child pornography charges, The Dakota Student asked “We can’t help but wonder if this type of thing is common in other schools around the nation?” The answer is, unfortunately, yes. A concerning number of higher education employees are being investigated, arrested and prosecuted for sexual crimes against children.

From Assistant Dean Michael Morris at University of Virginia who downloaded infant anal rape to a Creative Writing Professor Kirk Nesset at Allegheny College who possessed over half a million videos/images of child sexual abuse material (CSEM) in folders called “kidsfuck,” the organized crime of child sex trafficking, child pornography and other forms of child sexual abuse appears to be common in higher education sector. Often committed in the workplace — offices, classrooms, summer camps on campus, work computers and electronic infrastructures — creating additional concerns related to campus safety, and potentially fraud, the higher education has been reluctant to discuss in a transparent manner.

This research-in-progress details 220 professors and staff investigated, arrested and/or prosecuted on child sexual abuse related charges. This data set does not represent the total number of higher education employees investigated for participating in these crimes — just a sample.

Professors, Presidents, Provosts & Deans

(1) Niles Edward Lehman, 57-year-old chemistry professor at Portland State University,

was arrested and indicted, 21 February 2019, on 35 child pornography related charges of encouraging child sexual abuse.

In a deal, Lehman pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse and the judge dismissed the remaining 33 counts. He was sentenced, 8 July 2019, to 2.5 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release.

He was caught posting images to a public media account Tumblr. At the time of his arrest, he had “hundreds” of images of children, as young as three-years-old, being raped and sexually abused.

Lehman’s Criminal Complaint

The university placed Lehman on paid leave upon news of his arrest and then allowed him to resign in May 2019.

Lehman’s Ph.D. is from UCLA. He had been employed with Portland State University since 2001 and was awarded Oregon Scientist of the Year, 2018, by the Oregon Academy of Science. Lehman posted $250,000 bail and was on supervised release pending his sentencing. Lehman must register as a sex offender.

(2) Roland L. Higgins, 72-year-old professor of East Asian History & Global Studies, Keene State College

was arrested and charged, 4 May 2018, on ten felony child pornography counts. In November 2018, he indicted on 26 child pornography charges. He was trading in the rape of children as young as 5-years-old.

Higgins was known for his work on Mongolia and his extensive travel to “East Asia… and study tours to China.” He is a member of the Asian Studies Association and the Association for Ming Studies and has spoken about organ trafficking. His wife, Lynn A. Higgins, is a professor at Dartmouth College with published work on rape.

Higgins Criminal Complaint

Higgins had been employed at Keene State for 36 years. As of 2016, he earned $105,000. Keene State placed him on leave upon his arrest and terminated his employment on 30 June 2018. Higgins has been free on $30,000 bond. His next court date is set for 1 January 2021.

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

(3) Peter R. Kiwitt, a 59-year-old assistant professor of film at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT),

was arrested, 21 December 2016, on child pornography related charges and convicted of child pornography possession on 13 April 2017. Kiwitt was sentenced to 180 days to be served on weekends at Monroe County Jail and 10 years of supervised released.

In August 2019, Kiwitt was arrested again and charged with sex trafficking of a minor, sex trafficking of a minor using force, fraud, and coercion, and possession of child pornography. The second arrest included links to an overdose of a female child that Kiwitt has been charged with trafficking. He was indicted, 9 July 2020 on these second federal charges and is being held in federal custody during the legal process-still pending.

When Kiwitt was employed at RIT, prior to the second arrest, although Title IX complaints were reportedly filed against him and the student paper reported “many students reported submitting teacher evaluations including comments and accusations about Kiwitt’s inappropriate behavior in and outside of the classroom,” the university awarded Kiwitt tenure status. Kiwitt is no longer employed at RIT. RIT will not disclose if Kiwitt was on paid or unpaid leave after his arrest or if he was allowed to resign with full benefits or was terminated.

Prior to joining RIT Kiwitt was a professor at Elon University in North Carolina and before that he worked in Hollywood as a director, writer and producer including as Director of Creative Affairs at MGM Television. Kiwitt won awards for a film he directed called Silent Lies which Variety described as “a tale of brutal sexual abuse” of a young girl produced by Baby Head Productions. As of 21 November 2017, he retained his membership with the Directors Guild of America despite being a registered sex offender. After his second arrest he is, reportedly, no longer a Guild member. In Los Angeles (LA) Kiwitt also volunteered with inner-city children in the LA school system.

(4) David D. Blasczak, 69-year-old Assistant Clinical Professor Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

David Blasczak

and clinical preceptor in the Physician Assistant (PA) Program in Family Medicine, was arrested, 18 January 2018, on child pornography related charges. He pleaded guilty, 14 August 2018, to three counts of receipt, and was sentenced, 21 November 2018, to 21.8 years in federal prison.

At the time of his arrest, Blasczak had over 8,000 CSEM images/videos including of infants and toddlers and a dog raping a prepubescent girl. He drugged and sexually abused children, aged 7–12 years-old, at his daughter’s sleep over parties. He also sexually abused his own daughter. She later committed suicide. Blasczak created child pornography of this abuse of at least 40 different incidents involving approximately 8–10 children. Although he had been reported to the police, three times, local prosecutors consistently declined to prosecute.

Blasczak had been employed at RIT for nearly twenty years and had been awarded RIT’s Outstanding Clinical Preceptor of the Year. He also worked as a family medicine physician at Clyde Family Health Center and in Clyde-Savannah Central School District as their school physician and emergency health care provider. Blasczak surrendered his New York medical license soon after his arrest and was terminated by Clyde Family Health Center.

(5) Stephen James Kilpatrick, a 63-year-old Professor of Mathematics at Liberty University, was arrested,

27 June 2018, on six charges; three counts of indecent liberties of a child younger than 15-years-old and three counts of the use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children.

Kilpatrick’s charges were sent to a grand jury in November 2018. He was found guilty, 5 June 2019, on five counts of child sex solicitation. Kilpatrick was free on $125,000 bond until June 2019 when he was taken into custody while awaiting sentencing. A judge affirmed his 35 year prison sentence on 26 November 2019.

Kilpatrick was traveling to meet, what he thought was a 13-year-old child for the purposes of exploitation and abuse (in reality an undercover investigator) when he was arrested. Liberty University suspended Kilpatrick upon news of his arrest and later terminated him. This is, at least, the third arrest of a Liberty University employee on related charges. See (38) Jeremey Cole Whorley in the staff section of this list.

Kilpatrick taught Bible lessons, in his home to children. He filed an appeal to his conviction in February 2020.

(6) David Blair DeHaven, 49-year-old Adjunct Business Professor Liberty University

was arrested, 7 August 2019, on child pornography related charges and indicted, on the same day, on six charges of “filming and photographing minors in a state of undress.”

DeHaven was found guilty, 16 July 2020, in a jury trial of three counts of unlawfully filming or photographing a non-consenting person and four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. His sentencing date is set for 22 October 2020.

DeHaven had installed hidden cameras in his home bathroom, in addition to elsewhere in his house, which captured people using the bathroom. These cameras were discovered by a teenage girl who was at DeHaven’s house for a party his teenage son hosted which included alcohol.

Liberty suspended DeHaven pending the outcome of the case. DeHaven was also James River High School’s Parent Teacher Student Association (PTA) president.

(7) George Coleman Baker, 43-year-old Adjunct Professor Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian

University (TCU) was arrested, 23 March 2018, on child pornography charges. He was sentenced, 20 July 2018, to 10 years in jail per each of 33 counts and 10 years supervised release for one count. His projected release date from Texas prison is 2038.

Baker was the Program Manager for “Soul Repair Center” at Brite Divintiy School. As Baker is currently in jail, he is no longer employed at TCU, although the terms of his separation are not clear. Baker was a “life-coach” and had been, according to the Burleson Star, a pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Stamford, Texas, Calvary Baptist Church in Seymour, Texas and First Baptist church in Weinart, Texas. His Huffington Post account, under the name Coleman Baker, is still live. He called himself a Scholar of Religion.

(8) Scott Cameron Lowe, 57-year-old Philosophy Department Chair, Bloomsburg University,

was arrested, 15 February 2018, and charged with five child pornography related counts.

Lowe was arraigned on 5 April 2018, and was free after posting $250,000 bail. He pleaded guilty, June 2018, to four counts and was sentenced, 27 September 2018, to 1–2 years in jail.

Lowe was trading in child sex abuse on his university computer including children as young as seven years old. University officials immediately reported Lowe’s activities to the Attorney General.

Lowe was allowed to retire after his arrest. He had been employed by Bloomsburg University for 30 years. On 11 September 2019, Lowe began his 15 years as a registered sex offender.

(9) Harrison Ben Smith, 37-year-old Associate Professor of Engineering, Otterbein University,

was arrested, 11 May 2016, on child pornography related charges including of a “ of a “prepubescent” girl being raped by a man.” Smith pleaded not guilty to all ten charges and filed to suppress evidence. He was indicted on all ten counts, 8 November 2017.

Harrison Ben Smith Indictment

Smith has been free on personal recognizance since his 2016 arrest. His next court date is 23 March 2020. Smith’s wife, Sarah E. Buckley, is a local lawyer.

Otterbein, a private college, placed Smith on paid leave upon news of his arrest and then allowed him to resign on 20 May 2016. Smith was a lecturer at Ohio State University for three years prior to being hired by Otterbein in November 2015.

(10) Jack Edgar Harclerode, 71-year-old Herbert L. Spencer Professor of Biology (emeritus)

Bucknell University, was arrested in 2007, on child pornography charges and found guilty of 20 possession charges. Harclerode also pleaded guilty to another 11 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.

On 18 March 2009, he was sentenced to 13.9 to 27.5 years on the child pornography charges and sentenced (in Union County), January 2011, to 5 to 10 years in jail followed by 10 years of probation on child sex abuse charges. Harclerode was also found guilty (in Columbia County) for the rape of a ten-year-old boy and sentenced, in 2009, to another 9 to 30 months in prison concurrent with the 2011, sentencing in Union County. In 2016, his motion for early parole was denied. On 4 June 2020, Harclerode was released on parole. The parole board failed to notify the prosecutor, Union County District Attorney, who had previously opposed Harclerode’s parole.

Over a period of years, Harclerode repeatedly raped, at least, two young boys in his Bucknell University office. At the time of his arrest, he had hundreds of images of child rape on his computer including children as young as five-years-old and possible abducted children. These images included the above mentioned sentencing in Columbia Country for the rape of a 10-year-old boy at a campground in 2006. Although Harclerode is listed as a professor emeritus on Bucknell’s archived course catalog, his emeritus status was revoked by Bucknell. The course catalogs are “historical documents” and are not edited.

Harclerode is a registered sex offender.

(11) Ronald Anthony Usiewicz, 69-year-old President of International College of Hospitality Management, Everest College and Anthem College,

was arrested, September 2017, and charged with 144 counts of child pornography charges. He was trading in the rape of infants as young as six-months-old and dogs raping children.

Usiewicz pleaded nolo contendere to all 144 charges and was sentenced, 2 November 2018, to eight years in jail followed by 5 years of supervised release for count one served concurrently with 16 years jail and 10 years supervised release for counts 2–144.

Usiewicz was a professor at various universities including University of Wisconsin-Stout, University of Akron, Pennsylvania State University, University of New Haven,

Rondald Usiewicz’s Criminal Affidavit

Sierra Nevada College, San Jose State University and the College of Boca Raton. His LinkedIn profile listed him as president of: (1) International College of Hospitality Management, (2) Everest College and (3) Anthem College.

He is a registered sex offender in Florida where he is incarcerated.

Auburn University

(12) Michael Glenn Rich, 56-year-old (former) Assistant Professor of Journalism Auburn University,

was arrested, 16 November 2017, on three counts of child pornography possession.

Rich was indicted on all three counts, 16 November 2017, and sentenced, 1 February 2018.

Rich was free on $45,000 bail throughout the legal process. Rich was an Episcopal priest in Birmingham, Alabama and no longer employed at Auburn University when he was arrested.

Rich is a registered sex offender in Alabama.

(13) William Matthew Carter, 52-year-old English Professor, Auburn University,

was arrested, 10 May 2019, on possession of child pornography charges in Blacksburg, Virginia and five additional child pornography related charges in Auburn, Alabama on 13 May 2019.

Carter was detained in Virginia, awaiting extradition to Alabama, on $50,000 bond. He pleaded guilty to the Virginia charges and on, 19 March 2020, was arrested by Alabama police on the original five counts of child pornography possession and then held on $125,000 bond.

Investigators found CSEM in Carter’s home and workplace. Auburn University terminated Carter’s employment on the day of his arrest, 10 May 2019.This is, at least, the third arrest at Auburn University, details for Auburn University Police Lt. Dennis Rae Ledbetter are the staff section.

(14) Nathan A. Madsen, 37-year-old Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, University of Tampa (UT) & Director of UT’s community orchestra,

was arrested, March 2016, on child pornography related charges. On 3 February 2017, he pleaded guilty to possession and to enticing a child to produce child pornography and was sentenced, 26 May 2017, to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by lifetime supervised release. He must register as a sex offender.

Madsen was caught responding to Backpage.com advertisement from a man who said he was a “step-father” sharing his 14-year-old daughter for rape placed by an undercover Homeland Security agent. Madsen agreed to pay $140 dollars to rape the child. He was also exploiting a 16-year-old girl to produced child pornography for him including “sadistic or masochistic” abuse and sexual torture.

Madsen has a Master’s degree from Bard College and was a doctoral candidate at Texas Tech University. He was Music Director of the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Texas Tech University Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and staff of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra. He also served on Mormon missions. University of Tampa placed him on paid leave after his arrest and then terminated his employment.

(15) Steven Phillip Brey, 53-year-old Dean, School of Arts & Humanities, Associate Professor of Religion, Methodist University,

was arrested, 25 October 2017, on campus on 18 counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and indicted on 28 November 2017.

Brey pleaded guilty, 15 December 2017, to six counts of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor and was sentenced to 2–7.5 years in jail, 100% of which was suspended with 52 days credit for time spent in jail and 3 years probation. He must register as a sex offender for 30 years. Brey was caught when he sent rape videos of children as young as 3-years-old to undercover law enforcement.

Steven Phillip Brey’s Arrest Warrant

Brey’s research included “Biblical studies and the history of Christianity.” He holds a Master’s degree from Yale and a Ph.D. from Notre Dame. Brey had been employed at Methodist University for 17 years. He is no longer employeed at Methodist University.

(16) Billy John Lockhart, 36-year-old Physiatrist University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Department of Psychiatry, was arrested, May 2017, on child pornography charges. He pleaded guilty, 18 July 2018, to one count and was sentenced, 27 November 2018, to three years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release. Lockhart must register as a sex offender.

At the time of his arrest he had more than 1,500 images and 280 videos of children being raped including infants as young as 6-months-old and masochistic sadistic and violent conduct. Lockhart also had “stories about children being raped, information on how to do it and conversations with others about exploiting children.”

Lockhart used the university’s internet network to trade in child rape. The university placed Lockhart on leave upon news of his arrest and terminated him on 31 August 2017. The Medical Board of California revoked his medical license 30 January of 2019. Lockhart is a graduate of Yale University’s School of Medicine. He is also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer having served in Senegal. Lockhart’s partner, an adult pornography actor, Benjamin Alfred Martin (aka Blu Kennedy) was arrested at the same time as Lockhart, May 2017, and charged with multiple child pornography offenses. Martin pleaded guilty June 2019.

Central Michigan University

(17) Mark Ranzenberger, 61-year- old Professor of Journalism, Central Michigan University (CMU),

was arrested and charged, 20 May 2016, and pleaded guilty, 27 September 2016, to one federal count of child pornography possession and four (of which three were dropped in a deal) state counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for repeatedly raping a girl younger than 13 over a 7 year period.

On 19 January 2017, Ranzenberger was sentenced in federal court to 14 years in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release. On 26 January 2017, he was sentenced to 14 to 45 years in prison in Michigan State’s Isabella County Court to be served concurrently with his federal sentencing. He remained in custody pending sentencing.

Ranzenberger was caught when he mistakenly showed child pornography to his students. A student reported the crime, triggering university police to open an investigation. At the time of his arrest, Ranzenberger was in possession of over 1,000 images/videos of child sex abuse, including the rape of infants. He also had a “grooming” document instructing pedophiles how to manipulate children from birth to age 11 “to participate in sexual acts.”

The girl whom Ranzenberger raped for years, testified at his sentencing calling him a “psychopath, monster.” She said “He’s smooth, charming, and manipulative… He was able to hide the monster he was in every word he spoke. His coworkers and family didn’t know he was a child molester.” The victim described Ranzenberger as “a slug of man” and “a pathological liar.”

Ranzenberger was vice president of the teaching faculty union and had been employed at CMU since 1999. He was placed on leave and then resigned his position 21 March 2016, before his May 2016 arrest. His, now former wife, Katherine Ranzenberger, remains employed at CMU. His blogsite and Twitter accounts are still live. He also worked as a local journalist and was awarded Michigan Associated Press Managing Editors Association Award in 2012, and served on the local city planning commission.

(18) William Lord Merrill, 58-year-old Chair Department Teaching Education & Professional Development, Central Michigan University (CMU),

was arraigned, 13 November 2012, on four state child pornography related charges later dropped in lieu of one federal possession charge on 20 November 2012.

Merrill was indicted, December 2012, on two counts of receipt and pleaded guilty, 21 March 2013, to one count of receipt with the other charge dropped. He was sentenced, 23 July 2013, to 5.8 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender.

Merrill was trading in child rape on his work computer on campus. He was caught when IT staff noticed large amounts of data downloading. CMU immediately notified federal law enforcement, suspended Merrill and issued a statement. At the time of his arrest, Merrill had “more than 100,000 images and 60,000 videos involving bondage, bestiality and children in noticeable anguish.”

In addition to his employment at CMU, he was field director of the Michigan Mathematics Service Project for Elementary and Middle School Teachers (1990–94), a fourth-grade teacher in the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida (1979-1984) and a substitute teacher in the Columbus, Ohio City Schools. Merrill was free on $50,000 bond (originally $500,000) prior to sentencing.

American University

(19) Thomas Jackson Minar, 56-year-old President, Franklin College, was arrested, 6 January 2020,

on three charges of child enticement, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and exposing a child to harmful material. In March 2020, 12 additional child pornography possession charges were filed.

Thomas Minar’s Criminal Complaint

Minar belonged to a CSEM group trading CSEM on KIK. He was trading in CSEM of children as young as 7-years-old and discussed raping the 4-year-old child of a man who offered to “share his son” with Minar. Animal rape was also discussed.

Thomas Minar’s Criminal Complaint

Minar was caught attempting to meet a 15-year-old boy. The child was an undercover law enforcement officer. Minar told the arresting officer that he, Minar, is a “distinguished person” and works in “higher education.”

Thomas Minar’s Criminal Complaint. Minar is “suspect.” Details from on-line chat Minar believed he was having with a 15-year-old boy.

Franklin College immediately terminated Minar upon his arrest, released a statement, cooperated with law enforcement’s investigation and opened their investigation “concerning Dr. Minar’s conduct while President.” The college also opened a hotline and on-line access to anonymously report any “communications with Minar that may have violated the Franklin College sexual misconduct policy.” Reports may be made by calling +1 (855) 858–3344 or online at www.integrareport.com. Franklin College also held a campus-wide community meeting to discuss Minar’s arrest and arranged for additional off-campus counseling for anyone in need.

Minar was Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations at American University from 2008 to 2015. American University has not open an investigation into Minar’s conduct, offered a hotline or other anonymous reporting mechanisms. Minar is free on $7,500 cash bond. His most recent court hearing was set for 30 July 2020.

(20) Charles Victor Kopfstein-Penk, 74-year-old Adjunct Music Professor, American University,

Mount Vernon College and Montgomery College, was arrested, 23 May 2019, on 10, state-level, child pornography possession charges later dropped in lieu of federal possession charges which he was indicted, 10 October 2019. He pleaded guilty, 14 January 2020, to one possession charge with sentencing scheduled for 11 September 2020.

Kopfstein-Penk told investigators was engaged in child trafficking via child pornography “collection” for over 20 years — 10 of which he conducted on the internet. He had more than 1,000 CSEM files with over 1 million images and over 6,800 videos which included sadistic abuse of young children.

Charles Victor Kopfstein-Penk Plea Agreement

Kopfstein-Penk taught music lessons to children in his home. He is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), and the Friday Morning Music Club (FFMC). His wife, and duet-partner, Dr. Alicia Kopfstein-Penk, is an adjunct professor at American University.

Kopfstein-Penk is currently under house arrest during the legal process. His arrest was part of Operation Broken Heart. Prosecutors are asking anyone with additional information to contact Maryland Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1–800–637–5437.

(21) Richard Berendzen, (now former) President, American University, was caught, 1990, by law

enforcement calling local day cares seeking to sexually abuse children. In a deal, Berendzen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor obscene telephone calls. Fairfax County Judge J. Conrad Waters Jr. issued 30-day suspended jail sentences per charge. Berendzen committed these solicitations from his campus office. He was never charged for the possession of, in his own words, an “extensive” child pornography collection in his AU office.

Carol Castaneda, USA Today 30 November 1990

Berendzen was caught when he called Susan Eva Allen, a mother operating a home-based day care. Her husband, David Allen, was a detective with Fairfax County Police Department.

A search warrant was obtained and Susan Allen recorded more than 30 hours of calls with Berendzen during which he “described going to sex slave auctions in Chicago and Detroit,” bragged about his abuse of children, his child pornography collection, the four-year-old girl who was his “sex slave,” and strapping his wife to a wheel in their basement. Berendzen asked Susan Allen if “she and her husband included their children in sex” and asked to have sex with Allen’s children. He told her he masturbated while talking with her and offered to procure a child for her to use as a “sex slave.”

Berendzen’s calls to Susan Allen followed “a pattern” of similar calls. Investigators “had been trying to identify the caller on the tape for a year.” From January to April 1990, he called 10–15 other local day cares. He also admitted to calling “as many as 15 women.” Media reports noted other witnesses, including a retired South Carolina police officer, but no one, except Allen, came forward. The Washington Post reported at the time “charges were not brought in a second case.”

Richard Berendzen remains a professor emeritus at American University.

(22) Elliott Morse McGinnies, 94-year-old Psychology Professor (emeritus) & former Department Chair, American University,

was charged, 9 October 2015, for sex crimes against children. He had previously been arrested in 1986, for sexual assault of a nine- year-old girl.

Elliott McGinnies Police Report

Prosecutors, repeatedly, dropped charges. American University continued to employ McGinnies after his 1986 arrests and allowed McGinnies to retain emeritus status after the renewed 2015 charges.

(23) Langley Frissell, adjunct psychology professor and Director of Distance Education, Hawaii Pacific University (HPU), was reportedly

Langley Frissell

served and search, 16 November 2017, for child pornography related charges. Frissell, apparently, committed suicide the following day on 17 November 2017.

Frissell received an award for “Excellence in Mentoring” of the on-line teaching program. The student paper reported he was available “days, evenings, and even weekends” and “ ‘lurks’ on chats until students are comfortable with technology.”

He had published research articles about student on-line chat rooms and was employed at HPU since 1999.

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University of Hawaii

(24) Beei-Huan Chao, 61-year-old Graduate Chair Mechanical Engineering Department University

of Hawaii (UH), was indicted and arrested, 3 August 2016, on two charges, one per, of possessing and transporting child pornography. In a deal, he pleaded guilty, 30 May 2017, to one charge, with the other charge dropped.

He was sentenced, 27 December 2017, to 6.6 years in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release and a $35,000 fine. Chao had been trading in pre-teen hard core (PTHC) — the brutal rape and torture of young children.

The university placed Chao on paid leave upon his arrest. He was earning $114, 312 at the time and had been employed at UH since 1992. He had received the Board of Regents’ Medal of Excellence (2002) for his teaching.

Chao was free on $50,000 bond in the custody of his wife during the legal process. He is a registered sex offender and is no longer employed at UH.

(25) David Allan Stegenga, 63-year-old Professor of Mathematics University of Hawaii, was arrested

17 September 2009, on 12 state-level child sexual exploitation charges. He pleaded guilty, 18 February 2011, to all 12 counts and was sentenced, at the state-level on 4 May 2011, to five years probation with no jail time.

Stegenga raped a 7-year-old girl over a six year period. The child was a neighbor and family friend. He “used his finger and mouth to sexually assault her, and also allegedly fondled her using his hands and mouth” several times a week. He also produced child pornography of the victim.

Stegenga had been employed at UH since 1980. In 2009, he received the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. UH placed him on paid leave after his arrest and then allowed him to retire in 2010. He was arrested on campus. Stegenga was also the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Honolulu Zoo Society and maintained the zoo’s website. He had been featured on a local news show as a “hero” for his volunteerism at the Honolulu Zoo.

Stegenga is a registered sex offender.

(26) Theodore Ken Ishida, 63-year-old Assistant Professor Psychology, California State University,

was arrested, 8 December 2017, on child pornography possession charges and pleaded, 19 September 2018, no contest to one count of possession. Ishida was sentenced to three years probation, 1,000 hours of community service and a lifetime on the sex offender registry.

Ishida was trading in CSEM from his university computer including infants, toddlers, rape, bondage and beastiality. At the time of his arrest he possessed over 90,000 CSEM images/videos.

The university issued a statement and placed Ishida on paid leave, after his arrest, from January 2017 to 15 March 2018, and retired upon his sentencing. The California Board of Psychology revoked Ishida’s license on 9 February 2020. Ishida has a profile on myteachinghouse.com an on-line site for ESL teachers and CELTA instructors. His profile on this site says he will retire in Japan.

(27) Christopher Blake DeZutter, Chemistry Professor University of Minnesota, was arrested,

12 September 2016, for the second time on four new counts of child pornography possession. In a deal, he pleaded guilty to one count, with the other three counts dismissed, and was sentenced, 27 February 2016, to four years in jail.

DeZutter was first arrested, 5 February 2015, on ten possession and one distribution child pornography counts and was sentenced, 16 September 2015, to 4 months in jail followed by five years probation.

DeZutter told investigators he had been trading in child sex abuse images/videos since 1996. Investigators said his University of Minnesota laptop was “full” of child sex abuse files.

Investigators said DeZutter told them, upon his arrest, “You are not going find a lot of this at home. I do most of this at the office.” The university barred DeZutter from campus and placed him on paid leave. He was terminated, for cause, on 13 February 2015.

(28) Justin X. Carroll, 67-year-old Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs & Interim Athletic

Director at Washington University (St. Louis), was indicted, 30 January 2017, on one federal charge of access with intent to view child pornography. He pleaded guilty in July 2017 and was sentenced, 26 October 2017, to 4.6 years in federal prison and supervised release for life. He is reported deceased as of 27 July 2019.

Carroll had been using university computers to trade in child rape with the handle “MOperv.” His twitter account was @WashUDeanoFun. Carroll was trading in the rape of children as young as one-year-old and potential “child snuff” videos, i.e., the violent abuse and murder of children. He was also trading in the rape and torture of boys between three and six years. He had videos of children as young as three-years-old forced to handle adult erect penises and subjected to anal rape. One video was called “boybending,”

Justin Carroll’s Criminal Complaint

a how-to guide for child sex abuse and grooming, “the art of remotely directing a boy on webcam, through typing text and displaying videos, to achieve a desired pose or behavior.”

Carroll submitted his resignation after his arrest and was allowed to retire. He had been at the university for 36 years. University staff, including Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth and current Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, used university letterhead to send the court letters of support for Carroll. This is, at least, the second child pornography arrest at Washington University. George Wright Sessen (detailed in (25) in the staff section) a 42-year-old Research Technologist at the law school was arrested, 14 May 2019, on child pornography charges.

(29) Steven James Devlin, 60-year-old Vice Provost, Leigh University,

was arrested, 10 July 2007, on child sexual exploitation charges. He was sentenced, 30 September 2008, to 3–6 years in jail followed by 10 years of supervised release.

Devlin was arrested in a parking lot meeting a “mother” offering her 7-year-old and 9-year-old daughters for rape. The “mother” was, in fact, undercover law enforcement.

Devlin used university computers to arrange the meeting and to participate in on-line chats. “Phillyguy5,” Devlin’s on-line name, described a “love of teaching young girls about sex” and detailed plans for raping children — from his work computer. Devlin wrote “we get there and girls run upstairs, your follow, they come back in tshirts and nothing else, little butts sticking out, the adults are naked already, your girls sit next to me…” Devlin bragged about raping children trafficked by their mothers and claimed he and his wife, Bonnie Devlin, who was at the time a Vice President at Lehigh University, sexually abused their own children and had “groomed” them for the “lifestyle.” Bonnie Devlin was not charged and there was, apparently, no evidence she or her children were involved in abuse.

Lehigh University placed Devlin on leave and then allowed Devlin to resign. Devlin was, at least, Lehigh University’s second employee arrested on similar charges — John Early is listed in the Staff Section- entry (47).

Devlin is a registered sex offender.

(30) Matthew J. McEnany, 60-year-old President of Keiser University, was caught, August 2015, by

police attempting to solicit three girls, as young as 13-years-old, for sex in exchange for money, food, clothes and cigarettes. He also asked the children to produce child pornography for him. The 15-year-old girl was nine months pregnant. McEnany told her “he could not wait for her to have the child so that they could “play,” i.e. sexually abuse the baby. He had been in contact with the 15-year-old girl at least 50 times.

Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood asked the State Attorney to bring three criminal charges against McEnany of using a computer to seduce/solicit/lure a child, travel to seduce/solicit/lure a child and lewd lascivious molestation; however, prosecutors refused to bring charges.

McEnany was caught when two of the girls and an older man car-jacked McEnany when he showed up for a meeting for sex with the children. The university suspended McEnany after the incident and, later, his employment with the university ended. In October 2018, funeral services were held for him in Port Orange, Florida.

(31) Clyde Edward Fant, 83-year-old Dean of the Chapel, O.L. Walker Professor of Christian Studies, Institute for Christian Ethics,

Stetson University, was arrested on one child pornography possession charge. Fant pleaded guilty, 7 March 2013, to the one count and was sentenced, 15 August 2013, to time served plus one day followed by five years of supervised release.

Fant was trading in “ultra hard” preteen hard core (PTHC) child rape, which means extreme torture and violence committed against very young children.

At the time of his arrest, Fant was a retired emeritus professor. He did not inform Stetson of his arrest and subsequent conviction. Upon learning of Fant’s conviction, 9 March 2017, Stetson University’s Board of Trustees Executive Committee unanimously voted to rescind awards Fant had previously received and strip Fant of his “professor emeritus” status citing “his actions and admitted guilt are not consistent with university values, mission and history, nor with the honor the designation confers.” Fant is also prohibited from university property.

Clyde Edward Fant’s Plea Agreement

In 2007, Fant was quoted by Stop Baptist Predators, saying “There’s no central database to help local churches, and some churches are less than forthcoming with information about their former pastors… the system is so loose that a criminal conviction does not necessarily end the career of a Southern Baptist preacher.”

Fant is a registered sex offender in Florida.

(32) William T. Garner, 66-year-old Dean of Education University of San Francisco (USF),

William Garner’s Sentencing Memo

was arrested on child pornography charges and pleaded guilty, 12 December 2006, to one count of possession. Garner was sentenced, 27 March 2007, to just over five years in jail followed by three years of supervised release. He must register as a sex offender.

At the time of his arrest, he had 15,000 images/videos of brutal child rape including of children as young as two-years-old. The prosecuting attorney said, “The children depicted in these images are the victims of horrible abuse.”

William Garner’s Sentencing Memo

At the time of his arrest he was an emeritus professor and USF stated “William Garner no longer has any affiliation with the University of San Francisco. His relationship was terminated without privileges.” Garner had been employed by USF, a Jesuit Catholic University, since 1979.

(33) Alan Atalah, Associate Dean Bowling Green State University’s College of Technology

Architecture and Applied Engineering, was investigated, starting in September 2015, for child sex abuse material on work computers. Atalah was not arrested or charged.

Atalah was caught when he mistakenly gave the Ohio Department of Transportation (DOT) a “first-person” account of child rape, descriptions of child rape by adults and bestiality saved among other documents he was working on as a DOT consultant.

There was evidence of deleted videos and files. Atalah claimed the file, “Conversations.doc,” was “erotic literature” and said he “might sometimes copy erotic stories from the Internet.” He said “I don’t do anything that is illegal… . I don’t consider this illegal. … For me, it’s just entertainment for a short period of time or entertainment for whatever.” He also wrote an email to Ohio’s Inspector General claiming he is “not that kind of a person who would do anything awful like that.”

Bowling Green temporarily suspended Atalah with pay for misusing state property and violating university policy.

Villanova University

(34) Christopher Haas, 60-year-old Professor of History Villanova University,

was arrested, March 2016, and charged with 415 child sexual exploitation related charges — these Delaware County charges were later dropped in lieu of federal sentencing.

In September 2016, Haas pleaded guilty to one count of accessing the internet with the intent to view child-exploitation images and was sentenced in December 2016, to 1.6 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release. Haas died of suicide, 28 January 2017, two day prior to starting his prison sentence.

Haas was caught by university IT staff using a Villanova computer to search for child rape. At the time of his arrest he had more than 400 images of child sexual exploitation on his computer. Haas had been under Homeland Security investigation in 2012 for child pornography crimes on his home computer. It is not clear why he was not arrested in 2012. Upon Haas’ arrest Villanova released the following statement: “The university is horrified by the behavior of this individual and has relieved the faculty member of his teaching duties. He is not permitted to return to campus. The university has an unwavering commitment to a safe campus for all community members, and illegal, offensive and dangerous behaviors will not be tolerated.” Haas had been employed at Villanova for 28 years.

(35) Timothy O’Connell, 51-year-old Associate Director Campus Ministry for Latino Outreach, Villanova University,

was arrested, July 2018, on child pornography charges.

He pleaded, 11 June 2019, guilty to one receipt count and was sentenced, 21 November 2019, to 6.5 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release and $10,000 in special assessments and fines.

O’Connell was using Kik “to communicate with others about the exploitation of children” including images of an 18-month-old toddler of whom O’Connell said “she is cute,” “very hot,” “very nice,” and “get me hard.” O’Connell was trading in child rape images in his campus office and at home. He also told law enforcement he was “sexually attracted to a third grader he once babysat.” Upon news of the arrest, Villanova suspended O’Connell and barred him from campus and later terminated him.

(36) John Patrick Shannon, 44-year-old Dean, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, was

arrested, in 2006, on child sex abuse related charges. Shannon pleaded no contest and was sentenced, November 2007, on two counts of child abuse (with no sex) to house arrest for two years and eight years of probation. Shannon was ordered to forfeit his law license but not required to register as a sex offender.

He was caught by police “engaging in Internet chat or online messaging where he encouraged another person to engage in the exploitation of a child” and offered advice about how to drug children for rape. Local media reported his arrest was part of a child sex abuse/trafficking ring. The university allowed Shannon to resign, July 2006, after law enforcement searched his home.

Ball State University

(37) Melvin Lee Sharpe, 78-year-old Professor Emeritus, Ball State University,

was arrested, 11 March 2015, on two charges, one each, of child molestation and solicitation relating to the abuse of a seven-year-old boy over a five year period starting in 2006, when Sharpe was full-time faculty at Ball State. In a deal, Sharpe pleaded guilty, February 2018, to one felony count of battery resulting in bodily injury and was sentenced, 5 April 2018, to 1.5 years probation with no jail time. He is not required to registered as a sex offender.

In 2016, a woman also said “was subjected to “sexual, physical and emotional abuse” by Sharpe from the age of four-years-old and continuing for almost a decade. Ball State awarded Sharpe more than 30 honors. He remains in Ball State’s Journalism Hall of Fame and is listed as an emeritus professor. The Dean of the College of Communication, Information and Media, Roger Lavery, reportedly said Sharpe’s legacy would “not be tarnished.” Sharpe had been free on $35,000 bond pending trial.

Several other Ball State University employees have been arrested on similar charges. In 2016, Brian Siebenaler, Randal Ray Schmidt, Robert Yadon and Brian Koby (involved with a student club and not employed directly by Ball State) were arrested on child sex abuse related charges. In October 2018, residence hall director Braden Robinson was arrested on child pornography charges that included the rape of a 4-year-old girl.

(38) Brian Kenneth Siebenaler, 49-year-old Math Professor, Ball State University,

was arrested, 13 May 2016, on 22 counts of child pornography possession and 14 counts of child exploitation.

He was convicted, 2 April 2018, on eight possession and exploitation counts and sentenced, 30 May 2018, to four years per five counts of probation (concurrent) and two years jail time per 3 counts entirely suspended, i.e., no jail time. In April 2019 the appeals court reversed three counts.

Siebenaler had been trading in child sexual abuse on university computers. In addition to possessing thousands of child abuse images, including children as young as five-years-old, Siebenaler maintained a website to store and distribute the images/videos. Siebenaler was employed with Ball State since 1992, and was terminated after his arrest. He is a registered sex offender until June 2028.

(39) Robert Earl Yadon, 69-year-old Professor of Information and Communications Sciences, Ball State,

was arrested, June 2016, on ten child pornography related charges. He pleaded guilty in a deal to one charge on July 2017 and was sentenced, 10 April 2018, to a suspended sentence of two years in jail (i.e., no jail time) and two years probation.

Yadon was trafficking in child sex abuse from university computers, including children as young as eight-years-old. Yadon had been employed with Ball State since 1987, and said he had been trading in child sex abuse images for at least three years. His employment with Ball State was terminated after his arrest. He must register as a sex offender until April 2028.

University of North Carolina

(40) Robert Lewis Herman-Smith, 55-year-old Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work

University of North Carolina (UNC) Charlotte, was arrested, 27 October 2017, and charged with six counts of child exploitation. Smith was indicted, August 2018, on five charges. On 21 October 2018 Smith died. Due his death, the court dismissed the case on 19 November 2018. He had been free on bond prior to his death.

Herman-Smith was UNC’s Coordinator of North Carolina Child Welfare Education Collaboration which “prepares and trains students for practice in public child welfare.” He researched “early childhood intervention for young children at risk for developmental problems due to trauma, maltreatment, and poverty” and had access to newborns to five-year-old children via his work with the North Carolina Child Welfare Education Collaboration. UNC suspended Herman-Smith with pay upon news of his arrest and then allowed Herman-Smith to resign. He had been employed at UNC since 2008.

(41) Gilbert Kenneth Sams, 73-year-old Archaeology Professor and Classics Department Chair

University of North Carolina (UNC) was arrested and charged, 28 February 2017, with ten felony of second-degree exploitation of a minor.

UNC terminated Sams upon his arrest.

As of 17 September, 2018, Sam was listed as deceased.

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(42) Kuo Hsiung Yang, 33-year-old Research Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina

(UNC), Eshelman School of Pharmacy, was arrested, 12 November 2015, on 10 state-level charges of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. He was arrested and indicted, 26 April 2016, on federal child pornography charges of two counts, one per, of possession and receipt.

Kuo Hsiung Yang’s Criminal Complaint

In a deal, Yang pleaded guilty, 7 June 2016, to one count of receipt and was sentenced, 15 September 2016, to 9.16 years in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release. He was in custody on $500,000 bond throughout the legal process.

Yang was a member of “Play Pen” an on-line child sex trafficking site which the FBI seized in 2015. He was trading in Girls-HC (hard core) — brutal rape and torture of small children. Upon his arrest, Yang had more than 50,000 videos/images of child rape and torture. He had been employed at UNC since 2012. UNC declined to report how Yang’s employment was handled after his arrest. He is no longer employed at UNC. His research focused on HIV and AIDS. In addition, Yang was also secretary/treasurer of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

University of Cincinnati

(43) Holt N. Parker, 59-year-old Classics Professor, University of Cincinnati (UC), was arrested,

15 March 2016, on one count of distribution and receipt of child pornography as well as destruction or removal of property to prevent seizure. He pleaded guilty, 29 August 2016, to one count of possession and was free on bail pending sentencing. On 26 January 2017, he was sentenced to four years in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender.

Parker told investigators he traded child rape almost “every day” for the past five or six years. He used the email “daddy.cruel@yahoo.com” to trade in child pornography. Parker “bragged about having sex with an 8-year-old girl” and responded to the rape of a 4 year old child with “love that,” “show me,” “please!” He collected “thousands” of images/videos of child rape and torture including of an infant.

Parker’s Ph.D. is from Yale. He published on sexuality, slavery and sadism. He was allowed to resign from UC a month after his arrest.

(44) Brian T. Meadows, 76-year-old professor (retired) University of Cincinnati (UC),

was arrested, 4 November 2016, on two counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and three counts of voyeurism.

Meadows pleaded guilty to all five counts and was sentenced, 12 September 2017, to half a year in jail followed by 5 years of supervised release. Meadows was free on $115,000 bail/bond during the legal process.

Meadows set up a hidden camera in locker rooms at Cincinnati Sports Club, a health club he belonged to, and filmed women and “children in the nude” and “using the restroom.”

Brian Meadows Criminal Complaint

Meadows was employed at UC for 48 years. Although retired in May 2016, prior to his November arrest, Meadows filed court documents, in 2018,

requesting permission for international travel as a UC faculty member.

Prior to his employment at UC, Meadows had been an Assistant Professor of Physics at Syracuse University from 1967–1972.

Brian Meadows is a registered sex offender.

(45) Charles M. Jones, 59-year-old Department of Psychology Chair, Union College (Kentucky),

was arrested, 22 January 2017, and charged with child pornography distribution and possession and indicted, 24 February 2017, on eight counts. Jones pleaded not guilty to all counts. On 4 May 2018, all charges were dismissed by a prosecutor claiming it could not be proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, the images were of children.

Local police were notified when child sex abuse images were found on a college printer, in 2014, that Jones used — a colleague reported to campus police. IT staff worked with police and discovered hundreds CSEM images on Jones’ college computer. Jones had been at Union College for 16 years when he was arrested. He was the college advisor for Psi Chi, the psychology honor society, and involved in study abroad programs. Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University (1996/97). According to his LinkedIn profile, he is now a professor at Lindsey Wilson College, a private Methodist College in Kentucky.

College of William and Mary

(46) Michael Daniel Wilson, 46-year-old Senior Biologist, College of William and Mary,

was arrested, 19 February 2016, on four child pornography possession charges.

He pleaded guilty to all four counts on 2 November 2016 and was sentenced, 1 March 2017, to 3.4 years in jail followed by 20 years of supervised release.

Wilson had been trading CSEM for 35 year and is, at least, the second William and Mary professor arrested on similar charges.

The College placed him on leave after his arrest. He is no longer employed at William and Mary with the status of his separation unknown.

Michael Daniel Wilson is a registered sex offender in Pennsylvania.

(47) Justin Bradley May, 34-year-old Assistant Professor of Economics, William and Mary,

was arrested, 1 July 2010, on three counts of child pornography production. He pleaded guilty, on one count of production, 18 October 2010, and was sentenced, 3 February 2011, to 15 years in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release.

May was producing child pornography on his college computer at William and Mary.

Justin Bradley May’s Statement of Facts

May was posing as a talent agent for a “modeling company” and coerced a 13-year-old girl into producing child pornography for him. He also offered the child 300 “professional photographs” in exchange for anal sex.

Justin Bradley May’s Statement of Facts

The prosecuting attorney said, “It is shocking that a college professor manipulated a young girl for his own sexual gratification. This case is a wake-up call to parents and kids alike that the face of evil is often the ordinary and the familiar, including people in positions of trust.” The college placed May on administrative leave after his arrest. He is no longer employed at William and Mary and the details of his separation are not known.

(48) Kenneth Martin Kyle, 47-year-old Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Administration

California State East Bay, was arrested on federal charges on, 15 March 2010, on one count each of child pornography possession and exploitation. Later, he was charged with statutory rape and sodomy and one count of child pornography transportation.

Kyle pleaded guilty, 8 March 2012, in federal court and was sentenced to 37.6 years in jail. In October 2013, a federal appeals court set aside Kyle’s guilty plea and on remand, 30 December 2015, Kyle pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse with children and was sentenced to 30 years in jail to be served concurrent with a sentence imposed in Missouri’s circuit court for the crimes he committed in Missouri.

Kyle’s on-line name was “cruelsob.” At the time of his arrest he had “hundreds” of child rape images/videos on his home computer. Kyle traveled, almost monthly, to St. Louis to rape a five-month-old baby until the infant was just over one-year-old when Kyle was caught. He produced child pornography of himself raping the baby. The infant was offered by the child’s mother, Tessa VanVlerah. St. Louis police arrested, VanVlerah, a college student, at her parents’ home in Ballwin. Kyle met VanVlerah on-line. VanVlerah carved “Lord Nikon,” (Kyle called himself) on her skin at Kyle’s request. He also choked, burned and urinated on her and requested bestiality. She was sentenced to two life sentences in prison.

California State East Bay allowed Kyle to resign. Previously, (1998–2007) he was an Associate Sociology Professor at Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Science and Education, teaching behavioral sciences and women’s studies. Kyle was the Chair of the Educational Problems and Juvenile Delinquency division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

(49) Adam C. Cobb, 48-year-old Director of the Mahan Advanced Research Project, Naval War

College, was arrested, 3 April 2015, on two counts, one per, of child pornography receipt and distribution. He pleaded guilty, 24 February 2016, and was sentenced, 13 February 2017, to five years in federal jail followed by 10 years of supervised release and a $25,000 fine. He must register as a sex offender.

Cobb was caught uploading CSEM to Tumblr. His on-line name was “ddlg-obey-daddy” and “Daddy Mike 69.” Cobb sexually abused several children and produced CSEM of the abuse. He told a 16-year-old girl he wanted to anal rape her and hurt her, saying “Daddy wants to see your teen tears.”

United States V Cobb C.A. №16-cr-6-JJM-PAS

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND

Cobb violated terms of his pretrial release by contacting one of the child victims and obtaining unauthorized electronic devices. The court revoked his $1,000,000 surety bond release at that time and he was held in custody until his sentencing. He is no longer employed at the Naval War College.

(50) Robert S. Berardo, 56-year-old Adjunct Instructor, Department of History & Social Sciences

Middlesex County Community College, was arrested, 1 September 2016, and charged with one count each of endangering a child due to possession and intent to distribute child pornography.

Berardo pleaded not guilty and was indicted, 25 June 2018, on all three counts. In a deal he changed his plea to guilty to one charge of distribution with the other charges dismissed. He was sentenced, 22 March 2019, to three years in jail, with no supervised release, $2,305 in fines and $1,000 to a Sex Crimes Victims Treatment Fund. Bearardo had been held on $10,000 bail. He must register as a sex offender.

Robert Berardo’s Criminal Complaint

One thumb drive, alone, in Berardo’s possession, at the time of arrest, had an estimated 7,000 CSEM with folders organized with a children’s age, name and locations.

Robert Berardo’s Criminal Complaint

Berardo coached girls softball (2001–2009), including the travel team, and was a resilience and recovery coordinator at AmeriCorps VISTA. He was active in New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NJVOAD) and worked in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the utilities industry He was GIS Coordinator for Monmouth County, New Jersey where he had influence/reported on the development/methodology of registering sex offenders under Megan’s Law.

After May 2016 Berardo was no longer employed at Middlesex. Previously, he had also been employed at Brookdale Community College (where his wife is also employed) Raritan Valley College and Monmouth University.

(51) John Martin Favor, 49-year-old African-American Studies Chair, Dartmouth College,

was arrested, 3 September 2015, on five felony child pornography charges. All state charges were dropped in a deal when Favor pleaded guilty, 31 March 2016, to one federal count child pornography possession and was sentenced, 11 July 2016, to five and half years in federal prison followed by six/seven years of supervised release.

Upon his arrest he had more than 500 videos and 300 images of child rape, including of infants and toddlers. His user name on Tumblr, where he was trading in child rape, was “lustyjourney.” Favor said he had been trading in child rape for 15 years.

After his arrest, Favor remained on faculty and paid leave (although prohibited from campus) until his sentencing when he resigned. Favor’s husband, Michael Blumenauer, was Associate Registrar for Curriculum and Graduation at Dartmouth from 2012 until March 2016. Favor’s mother had been Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bridgewater State College and Chancellor at University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

University of Virginia

(52) Walter Francis Korte Jr., 72-year-old Chair Film Department, University of Virginia, was arrested,

2 August 2016, by university police, on two counts of child pornography possession and indicted, 5 December 2016, on both counts.

He pleaded guilty January 2018 and on, 2 October 2018, was sentenced to five years in jail with all but one year suspended and, as of March 2019, Korte was allowed to complete his jail sentence under house arrest.

Korte was caught by campus police when he printed CSEM images on university computer/printers and disposed of these in a trash can near his campus office. UVA placed Korte on leave upon his arrest and he resigned in November 2016.

Korte is a registered sex offender.

(53) Michael G. Morris, 50-year-old Assistant Dean, University of Virginia (UVA)

Michael Morris

was arrested, 6 November 2013, on child pornography charges and indicted on two counts of distributing/receiving child pornography and one count of possession.

Morris pleaded guilty to all three charges on 21 April 2014 and was sentenced, 14 July 2014, to 8.8 years in federal jail and 20 years supervised release. He must register as a sex offender.

Morris was an “ultimate” member of Gigatribe — a peer-to-peer (P2P) program he used to trade pre-teen hard core (PTHC). His on-line name was “funshooter2006.” At the time of his arrest he had some 4,000 images/videos of child sex abuse including of toddlers and used his UVA email address when making a payment to, at least, one P2P CSEM account.

Michael Morris Sentencing Memo

Morris also posed, for at least five years, as a teenage boy or girl, and enticed 14 to 16 year old girls to perform sex acts for him live-streamed and had been trading in CSEM for 15 years. While he was was under investigation he accessed, more than 192 times, child sex abuse from his home and UVA computer. UVA suspended Morris, after his arrest and he later resigned. While at UVA he also led student trips to Asia and Europe. He was an expert in information technology and an Air Force veteran with a master’s degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Michigan State University

(54) Lawrence Gerard Nassar, 53-year-old Associate Medical Professor Michigan State University (MSU)

and USA Gymnastics doctor, was arrested, 16 December 2016, on two federal counts of receipt/attempted receipt of child pornography and one count child pornography possession.

He was sentenced, 7 December 2017, to sixty years in federal prison, followed by a life-time of supervised release, to be served consecutively with state charges in Ingham and Eaton counties, on a total of 10 child sex assault charges — to which he plead guilty. Ingham County sentencing included victim-impact statements from 156 survivors and sentenced Nassar to 40 to 175 years in state prison. In Eaton County Nassar was sentenced on three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a six-year-old child to an additional 40 to 175 years in state prison on 24 January 2018. Nassar was held in federal custody throughout the legal process. He must register as a sex offender. Nassar’s federal appeal was denied on 22 August 2018.

Upon his arrest, Nassar had, at least, 37,000 CSEM images/videos including PTHC and “sexually abused hundreds of women and girls over more than 20 years, many of them at his MSU office. For decades, MSU employees ignored reports of sexual abuse and attempted to prevent victims from coming forward. MSU, ultimately, terminated Nassar. Three MSU employees were charged and two were sentenced for their role in covering-up Nassar’s crimes.

Kathie Klages, MSU gymnastics coach, was convicted, 14 February 2020, of two counts of lying to law enforcement about Nassar’s crimes. She was sentenced, 4 August 2020, to 3 months (90 days) in jail followed by 1.5 years of probation. She is no longer employed at MSU.

William Strampel, MSU Dean at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Nassar’s direct supervisor, was sentenced, 7 August 2019, to 11 months for one felony misconduct in office charge and one year each for two misdemeanor willful neglect of duty charges to be served concurrently. A jury found Strampel guilty of all three charges. He is no longer employed at MUS.

Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU president, was charged, 20 November 2018, with four counts of lying to law enforcement investigators about Nassar’s crimes. In May 2020, a judge dismissed all charges. She was forced to resign 24 January 2018, as a result of her handling of the Nassar case.

The State of Michigan has revoked Nassar’s medical license. Michigan’s Attorney General opened, January 2018, an investigation into MSU’s conduct and MSU agreed, May 2018, to settle suits with hundreds of victims for $500 million. In 2019, the US Department of Education fined MSU $4.5 million for failure to protect students. As of August 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) is examining the FBI’s failure to investigate Nassar’s abuse in a timely manner. In June 2020, over 120 survivors called for DOJ’s IG report to be released.

Saginaw Valley State University

(55) Jason John Kahler, 41-year-old Assistant Professor of English Saginaw Valley State University,

was arrested, 16 August 2016, on one child pornography possession charge. He was indicted, 9 August 2016, on the charge and pleaded guilty 17 March 2017, to the charge. Kahler was sentenced, 9 August 2017, to 3.4 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release.

Kahler was caught in Operation Pacifier when FBI seized control of Playpen — a child trafficking site -including infant rape.

Jason Kahler’s Plea Agreement

Kahler was free on $20,000 bond pending sentencing. The university suspended Kahler without pay immediately upon his arrest. He is no longer employed at the university. Previously he had been employed at Teacher’s Discovery, a children’s textbook company calling itself “Walt Disney of teaching aids.” Kahler is a registered sex offender in Michigan. He served his prison term and currently works for a comic book company.

(56) Robert James Thaler, 71-year-old Assistant Professor Sociology Saginaw Valley State

University, was arrested and charged, June 2013, with nine counts of child pornography possession. In a deal, Thaler pleaded guilty to one count of possession with other charges dropped. He was sentenced, 24 February 2014, to five years probation with no jail time. Thaler had been free on $18,000 bond pending sentencing. Thaler is a registered sex offender.

Thaler used university computers to trade in child rape and was caught by SVSU in 2012. University officials reported Thaler’s CSEM activity to local prosecutors and sent Thaler’s work computer to the FBI. The university placed Thaler on unpaid suspension, banned him from campus and released a detailed statement. His plea deal included a stipulation that he resign his university position. Thaler had been a professor at SVSU since 1974.

University of Alabama

(57) Massimiliano (Max) Bonamente, 46-year-old Professor of Physics, University of Alabama,

was arrested, 10 February 2017, and charged with two counts of sexual abuse of a child under 12 years old. Bonamente was held on a $60,000 bond. The charges were later dropped. Bonamente remains a professor, teaching, at University of Alabama.

(58) Nikos Alexander Pappas, 41-year-old Assistant Professor of Music, University of Alabama,

was arrested, 23 May 2017, on two federal possession and receipt child pornography charges.

He pleaded guilty, 20 July 2017, to both counts and was sentenced, 30 November 2017, to six years in federal prison followed by lifetime supervised release.

Pappas was trading CSEM on his university computer. At the time of his arrest he possessed hundreds of images/videos. The university placed Pappas on leave, 22 September 2016, and terminated him on 15 May 2017. Pappas’ Ph.D. is from the University of Kentucky.

(59) Alyssa Azotea, 37-year-old Adjunct Professor Psychology, Simmons College,

was arrested, 28 August 2015, on four counts of child pornography and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Charges were later dropped and the case was closed on 12 November 2015.

She, and her boyfriend, discussed raping a five-year-old child. She told her boyfriend “he should allow himself to become aroused by young girls that he sees in public and that he should then report back to her.”

Upon news of her arrest, Simmons College placed Azotea on paid leave. She is no longer employed at Simmons. Prior to her arrest, she worked/volunteered for New Hampshire Children’s Trust Fund. She is one, of two, people listed with New Hampshire Congress of Parents and Teachers; a non-profit with revoked IRS tax exempt status for failure to file. She has been employed with Franklin Pierce University, North Shore Community College, and listed, at New England College, teaching a course on “Human Sexuality” (2017–2018).

University of North Texas

(60) James Francis Quinn, 59-year-old Professor of Criminology, University of North Texas (UNT),

was arrested, 5 May 2014, on nine child pornography counts. He was indicted, on all nine counts, 24 July 2015, pleaded guilty to all nine charges and was sentenced, on 17 November 2016, to four years in jail and a lifetime on the sex offender registry. He was free on $10,000 bond during the legal process.

Since 1999, Quinn was also Director of the Addictions Program in the Department of Rehabilitation, Social Work and Addictions. His research focused on the “One-Percenter Culture,” on-line child sex trafficking and motorcycle clubs including: (1) Red Light Districts on Blue Screens: A Typology for Understanding the Evolution of Deviant Communities on the Internet; (2) Societal reaction to sex offenders: A review of the origins and results of the myths surrounding their crimes and treatment amenability; (3) Sex roles and hedonism among members of “outlaw” motorcycle clubs.

Quinn resigned from UNT on 4 June 2015 after his May arrest. He had been employed at UNT since 1998. Prior to, he was employed at Louisiana State University (1983- 1987).

(61) Alan Philip Marchand, Regents Professor of Chemistry University of North Texas (UNT),

was arrested on campus on child pornography charges in 2003. Marchand pleaded guilty, August 2004, to four counts of possession and was sentenced, to six years of probation with no jail time, 250 hours of community service, a $2,500 fine and must register as a sex offender.

Marchand had been using his university computer to trade in CSEM. UNT placed Marchand on paid leave after his arrest and he later resigned. He appears to be offering tutoring services to children on-line via takelessons.com/profile/dr-alan-m#reviews. He is listed as a registered sex offender in Texas.

(62) Kevin M. Sullivan, a 60-year-old Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University,

was arrested, 15 June 2015, on child pornography charges. He was indicted, 5 August 2015, and pleaded guilty, 1 December 2016, to one count of receipt. He was sentenced, 1 March 2017, to six years in jail followed by seven years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine. He must register as a sex offender.

Sullivan was trading in child rape, including children as young as four-years-old, and children being raped, bound and sadistically abused on university networks. At the time of his arrest, he had over 11,000 images/videos of child rape. Emory University’s Information Technology Department assisted law enforcement in the investigation.

Kevin Sullivan’s Sentencing Memo

Sullivan had been employed at Emory University since 1991, and also employed, since 1987, at the Center for Disease Control (CDC). His work included a focus on vulnerable children in the developing world and autism. In addition, he volunteered for “Songs for Kids,” humanitarian relief organizations like CARE and raised money for orphanages. His wife, Enid L. Sullivan, is employed at Emory as a Senior Administrative Assistant.

University of Michigan

(63) Clifford Raymond Bingham, 56-year-old, research professor, University of Michigan (UM),

was arrested, 2 October 2017, on three child pornography possession charges and one charge of using a computer to commit a crime. In a deal, Bingham pleaded guilty, 28 November 2017, to one count of possession with the other charges were dropped and was sentenced, 13 February 2018, to 90 days in jail and five years probation.

Bingham had been trading in, what prosecutors called “terrifying” child rape on his university computer including of children as young as two-years-old. He was suspended from the university, January 2017, when Department of Homeland Security and University of Michigan Police conducted a search at his university office, and resigned 15 September 2017. Bingham was employed with University of Michigan since 1998. His research examined adolescent development, including youth driving and alcohol use. He is now a registered sex offender.

(64) Mark Franklin Hoeltzel, 46-year-old Associate Professor Pediatric Rheumatology, University of

Michigan (UM) was arrested, 12 February 2018, on two federal child pornography charges and indicted on five more counts. He pleaded guilty, 13 September 2018, and was sentenced, 13 December 2018, to ten years in federal prison followed by six years of supervised release. He must register as a sex offender.

Hoeltzel was also convicted, January 2019, on two state-level counts of criminal sexual misconduct. On 25 February 2019, the Washtenaw County Trial Court ordered Hoeltzel to pay $10,000 to one victim. He was sentenced to 5-15 years in state prison for the second-degree charge and, concurrently, 13 months to two years for the fourth-degree charge. State sentencing is to be serve concurrent with federal.

UM allowed Hoeltzel to resign, 12 January 2018, “in lieu of dismissal” after state licensing authorities investigated his sexual abuse and exploitation of a teenage patient who had a mental health disorder. Hoeltzel provided pain medication in exchange for sex and alcohol with this teenage patient. In 2004, Hoeltzel groomed an 11-year-old girl attending the UM Arthritis Camp Dakota. Hoeltzel told her she had “pretty long legs,” invited her for ice cream and conducted a two-year long abusive and exploitative “cyber relationship” with her. UM was aware of this conduct but did not alert authorities and kept Hoeltzel employed. Hoeltzel subsequently groomed, at least, three other girls using a fake Facebook account pretending to be a teenage boy.

Prior to his employment at UM, beginning in 2013, Hoeltzel worked at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri from 2007. The State of Michigan has revoked his medical license. At the time of his arrest, Hoeltzel was also a father of three children under the age of six-years-old.

(65) James Daniel Cavalcoli, 51-year-old Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

James Daniel Cavalcoli

(UM), was arrested, 7 August 2015, attempting to meet a father trafficking his 13-year-old son — in reality undercover law enforcement.

Cavalcoli pleaded guilty, 13 January 2016, and was sentenced, 30 March 2016, to ten years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender.

Cavalcoli traveled from Michigan to Florida with the intention of raping a child and discussed this in detail with the undercover officer posing as a father trafficking his child. Cavalcoli had posted, at least twice, requests to meet fathers trafficking their children on travel to Indiana and Ireland.

James Cavalcoli’ Criminal Complaint “Jim” is Cavalcoli inviting the “father” of the child to join in or watch

UM placed Cavalcoli on an unpaid leave and terminated him upon sentencing.

(66) Stephen Douglas Jenson, pediatric oncologist resident, University of Michigan (UM), was

arrested, 16 December 2011, by UM police and charged with four child pornography counts in Washtenaw County, Michigan. On 14 February 2012, two federal child pornography receipt and possession were added.

In a deal, 13 September 2012, all local and one federal receipt charges were dropped. Jenson was sentenced, 21 March 2013, on one possession count to three years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release. He was released from federal prison on 28 April 2015, and applied for early release of supervised release, after 3.5 years, which was granted on 7 December 2018. He is a registered sex offender in Utah.

In 2011, Jenson left his thumb drive in a computer in UM’s Pediatric Emergency Department where he was a resident. A female resident found, 23 May 2011, the memory stick which contained images of a child, aged 5–10 years old, bound and being raped.

Stephen Jenson’s Criminal Complaint

The female resident reported to university supervisors. UM lawyers said her “concerns” were “unfounded” declined to alert law enforcement. University administrators then acted to silence the reporting female resident. Six months later the incident was “re-reported” and campus police were notified. Campus police notified state and federal law enforcement. Jenson continued to have access to children in the pediatric unit during this delay. UM terminated Jenson on 16 December 2011.

Lee Higgins of The Ann Arbor News broke the story that “university officials waited 6 months” before reporting Jenson’s workplace crimes to law enforcement. The Ann Arbor News’ extensive reporting prompted: (1) an internal university review — released in February 2012; (2) a Board of Regents external review, and (3) a federal Department of Education review.

(67) James Lesner Query, Jr., 55-year-old Director Institute for Health and Environmental Communications, James Madison University (JMU),

was arrested, 22 April 2010, on child pornography charges. He was indicted, 18 November 2010, on possession and distribution — one count each.

In a deal, Query pleaded guilty 3 August 2011, to one count of distribution and was sentenced, 19 July 2011, to 11.25 years in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release. He must register as a sex offender.

Query was placed on leave without pay in September 2010 and later terminated. Prior to, Query was an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Houston with a joint appointment at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Neuro-Oncology. He had also been employed at Indiana University School of Nursing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Ohio University East, University of Tulsa, and Loyola University Chicago. From 1998–2002, Query was a Contributing Editor for the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives and served on two editorial boards and was an Editor of Communication Studies.

University of North Dakota

(68) Robert William Beattie, 55-year-old Family and Community Medicine Department Chair,

University of North Dakota, was arrested on campus, 6 August 2015, on ten child pornography possession state charges. On 22 August 2015, Beattie was federally charged on one count distribution/receipt and two possession counts. Beattie was indicted, 19 August 2015, on all federal charges. State charges were dismissed in lieu of federal charges.

In a deal, Beattie pleaded guilty, 28 March 2016, to two federal charges — one count per possession and distribution — and was sentenced, 12 July 2016, to 12 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release. He must register a sex offender. He was also ordered to pay $200 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund, $5,000 special assessment in Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act and $10,000 in victim restitution. Beattie was free on state-level bond, $25,000, throughout the legal process.

Beattie was trading in CSEM from his university computer in his campus office and at his home. At the time of his arrest he had 3,233 images and 100 videos of child rape and torture including of infants and toddlers. The prosecutor said, “These images are… really horrific acts.” Beattie also sent “non-pornographic” pictures of his grandchildren to “individuals with sexual interest in children” in chat rooms about incest.

The university placed Beattie on paid leave and later terminated his employment. Beattie was hired by UND in 2006. In 2014, his public salary was listed as $330,086. Previously, Beattie was head of the family medicine and obstetrics-gynecology services and chief of staff at West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger, North Dakota. He has also been president of the North Dakota Medical Association. Immediately after his arrest, August 2015, North Dakota Board of Medical Examiners’ suspended his medical license.

(69) Eric Hewitt Basile, 37-year-old Assistant Professor of Aviation, University of North Dakota

was arrested, 8 September 2016, on eight state child pornography charges. State charges were later dropped in lieu of one receipt/distribution and three possession fedreal charges.

Basile was sentenced, 5 September 2017, to 16.5 years in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release and a fine of $24,000 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. He must register as a sex offender.

UND students reported inappropriate behavior by Basile to university police who, in turn, seized Basile’s work computer which contained the violent rape of children between the ages of one and three-years-old. Basile was arrested by university police and UND immediately issued a statement detailing Basile’s on-campus arrest and placed him on administrative leave. He was later terminated. Basile had been employed with UND since 2014. He was a Visiting Assistant Instructor at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) (2000–2002) and a private corporate pilot (2003–2014). UND awarded Basile the 2015 Aviation Faculty Member of the Year.

(70) Richard J. Keller, 56-year-old Adjunct Instructor, Harvard University’s Medical School &

Adjunct Faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital — the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School — was arrested, 13 September 2012, on three child pornography charges.

Keller was indicted, 11 December 2012, on two receipt and one possession counts and pleaded guilty, 5 November 2013, to all three counts. He was sentenced, 12 March 2014, to 6.5 years in federal prison followed by 5.5 years of supervised release. He must register as a sex offender.

Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital suspended Keller upon news of his arrest. The state of New Hampshire suspended his medical license on 20 September 2012. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine asked Keller, also in 2012, to voluntarily withdraw his license.

Keller had been Medical Director at Phillips Academy for 19 years, teaching sex education, before resigning in 2011 — the year prior his arrest. At Phillips he: used a school computer to access adult pornography; was reprimanded for sharing an “inappropriate cartoon” with students; put on administrative probation for “poor management and poor judgment;” sent an “inappropriate voice-mail” to a colleague; and had over 100 DVDs of child pornography sent to his workplace address.

Richard Keller’s Indictment

Keller had been involved, for years, with two residential summer camps — Camp Joslin, for diabetic children, and Camp Mah-Kee-Nac in the Berkshires. His research included a focus on “Children and Adolescents With Eating Disorders.” Keller completed his residency at Yale New Haven Children’s Center. He told investigators he had been “sexually interested” in children since the 1970s and had been involved with child pornography for years. At the time of his arrest, he was also the father of a toddler.

Ohio State University

(71) Christopher Edward Pelloski, 42-year-old Director of Pediatric Radiation Oncology,

Ohio State University (OSU) and joint appointment with Nationwide Children’s Hospital, was arrested, 16 July 2013, on one count of child pornography receipt. He pleaded guilty, 15 November 2013 and was sentenced, 11 July 2014, to one year in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and lifetime on a sex offender registry.

Pelloski was trading in child rape on his university computer, including of a six-year-old-girl and a “girl no older than 12 being anally raped by an adult man.” Pelloski told investigators he been trading in child rape and torture for, at least, ten years.

OSU released a statement immediately after his arrest: “These types of allegations are wholly inconsistent with our institutional values, and we are deeply disturbed to learn of the allegations against Christopher Pelloski. Upon learning of the investigation, we immediately severed Dr. Pelloski’s access to all medical center facilities, patient records, email and hospital computer networks. He has resigned from his position at the medical center, effective July 24, 2013. Continuity of care for our patients is important to us. We are contacting each of Dr. Pelloski’s active patients and assigning other radiation oncology experts to care for them. Since this is a law enforcement matter under active investigation, we are not at liberty to comment further.”

The state of Ohio suspended Pelloski’s medical license in August 2013 and permantly revoked it in March 2016. Prior to his employment at OSU, Pelloski was on faculty at the University of Texas — MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is now a registered sex offender in Kentucky. At the time of his arrest, he was a father of five-year-old twins.

There have been several other high profile cases of related crimes by OSU employees including by the late Richard Strauss and Nathan Charles Fassnacht, child care staffer, detailed in entry (50) in the staff section.

(72) David Harold Scanlan III, 38-year-old pediatric oncologist, Pennsylvania State University

(Penn State) Hershey Children’s Hospital, was investigated and charged, July 2011, on one count of child pornography distribution.

In a deal, Scanlan pleaded guilty, 12 February 2014, and was sentenced, 2 September 2014, to five years in federal prison followed by 20 years supervised released and $20,000 in victim restitution.

Upon Scanlan’s arrest, investigators recovered two laptops and seven external hard drives with “a lot of child pornography images.” State Police said, “When I say a lot, we’re talking a very substantial amount” with children as young as ten-years-old. Penn State placed Scanlan on leave after his arrest. He also surrendered his medical license. Scanlan was free, pending sentencing, under electronic monitoring in his Virginia home. He is a registered sex offender.

(73) Bradley Robbert, 41-year-old Adjunct Professor Tulane University,

was arrested, 15 October 2014, on 51 child pornography charges and one charge of cocaine possession.

In a deal, Robbert pleaded guilty, 30 November 2016, to possession of cocaine and two counts of indecent behavior with juveniles with all other charges dropped and was sentenced, 30 November 2016, to a seven year suspended jail sentence, seven years of probation and sex offender registry for 25 years.

Robbert was trading in CSEM of children as young as five-years-old. He had been director of the Tulane University Shakespeare Festival from 2001 to 2009. Through his employment he had access to “several thousand middle and high school students” attending Tulane Shakespeare Festival.

George Mason University

(74) Alan Clyde More, 76-year-old Adjunct Professor and Employer in Residence, George Mason

University (GMU) was arrested and charged, 3 October 2014, on 10 child pornography possession counts.

He pleaded guilty to all 10 counts and was sentenced, 31 July 2015, to 5 years in jail (with 3.8 years suspended) followed by five years of supervised release and registry as a sex offender.

George Mason University Police Response to a Freedom of Information Request

More had been trading in CSEM from university computers and was caught on campus by university police. He is a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer and taught Introduction to The Intelligence Community at GMU in 2012. He was also an Employer in Residence for GMU’s Career Service Staff. More is no longer employed at GMU. He is a registered sex offender in Virginia.

(75) Joshua Jesse Robert Gessler, 41-year-old Adjunct Professor George Mason University

was arrested, 9 August 2010, on one count of child pornography production and five counts of possession. On 16 September 2010, he was arrested again and charged with an additional ten related counts. He was indicted, 28 March 2011, on five counts.

In a deal, Gessler pleaded guilty to seven counts, with the other charges dropped, and was sentenced, at the state level, on five possession charges, 27 May 2011, to three months in jail followed by two years of probation and a $1,000 fine to a victim restitution fund.

Gessler purchased on-line (for $300 dollars) a run-away 15-year-old girl. He raped and abused her, including sadomasochism, in the woods and produced CSEM of this abuse which he traded on-line. Gessler was caught when the child’s mother notified police her daughter was missing and in danger. Police accessed the child’s email account and located communication with Gessler.

Gessler was also an with attorney with a prestigious Washington DC law firm — Arnold and Porter. The Commonwealth of Virginia revoked Gessler’s law license 21 June 2012 and disbarred in the District of Columbia 28 November 2012. He is a registered sex offender in Virginia. He is no longer employed at GMU.

(76) Diego Fasolini, 42-year-old Professor of Italian Language, George Washington University (GWU)

was arrested, 28 October 2010, on two federal child pornography possession charges. He pleaded guilty, 13 April 2011, to one possession count and was sentenced, 1 July 2011, to 3.6 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release.

Faolini was caught by GWU’s IT staff. At the time of his arrest he over 100,000 images/videos of child rape including children as young as three-years-old and young children duct-taped and bound.

GWU suspended Fasolini upon his arrest and later terminated him. He was, at the time of his arrest, also an adjunct professor at George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia. GMU dismissed Fasolini immediately after his arrest. He had been a Visiting Professor at the University of Miami in Florida (2008–09) and a Lecturer at Gettysburg College. Fasolini was sued by the mother of one of the children whose father abused them and traded images/videos of their rape which Fasolini also traded.

(77) Noel D. Campbell, 45-year-old Professor of Economics, University of Central Arkansas (UCA),

was arrested, April 2015, on 361 state-level child pornography charges.

In a deal, 7 August 2017, Campbell pleaded guilty to 13 distribution, possession or viewing charges and no contest to an additional 213 counts with 84 counts dropped. Campbell was sentenced, 31 August 2017, to 75 years in state jail.

Campbell was trading in CSEM campus and his home. He was caught by an IT employee who alerted campus police. Campbell was arrested on campus. Campbell had been employed at UCA since 2006. The university placed him on paid leave immediately after his arrest and two weeks later he resigned. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy and won Journal of Private Enterprise Best Paper Award in 2008. Prior to UCA, he was employed at North Georgia College & State University (1998–2006) and Gordon College (1997–1998).

(78) Gary S. Spring, 61-year-old Civil Engineering Department Chair, Merrimack College

was arrested, 19 September 2014, and charged with one federal child pornography possession charge.

He was indicted, 16 October 2014, on this charge and pleaded guilty, 10 September 2015, and was sentenced, January 2016, to two years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and 400 hours of community service. Spring was free on $30,000 bail pending sentencing.

Spring was the administrator for a federally-funded residential children’s summer camp at Merrimack College.

He was caught at the summer camp when IT staff discovered he was using his work computer and wi-fi networks to trade in child sex abuse. During a 16-day period he accessed at least 300 CSEM images. IT staff notified campus security and, in turn, local and federal investigators were notified. Merrimack terminated Spring’s employment on the same day he was arrested by federal investigators. He had been employed at Merrimack since 2003.

(79) Christopher Steven Haynes, 64-year-old Geography Lecturer, Humboldt State University,

was arrested, 29 August 2014, on four child pornography counts. He pleaded guilty, 8 January 2015, to one possession count with the other charges dismissed and was sentenced, 24 February 2015, to 90 days in jail and three years probation. He posted $100,000 bail and was free pending sentencing.

Haynes was caught when a local web-hosting company noticed CSEM on their servers and contacted Homeland Security. At the time of his arrest, Haynes possessed “thousands” of CSEM images/videos.

Haynes was retired from full-time employment at the university when he was arrested. Humboldt released the following statement: “Humboldt State University police have been assisting the Department of Homeland Security and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office with an investigation of Christopher Haynes, who was arrested today on charges related to child pornography. Haynes is a former geography instructor at HSU. The University will continue to cooperate with local and federal authorities as needed.” Haynes received California Geographic Society’s Outstanding Educator Award in 2007. He had been employed at HSU for decades.

Haynes is a registered sex offender in California.

(80) Micah James Maurio, 28-year-old Adjunct Music Instructor University of Southern Maine (USM),

was arrested, 5 December 2014, on dissemination of sexually explicit material of someone under the age of 12. It is not clear what/when Maurio was sentenced as Maine has not released the public court records. Maurio is currently a registered sex offender with a possession charge and ten years on the sex offender registered.

At the time of his arrest he possessed “hundreds of images of child pornography.” Maurio was released on personal recognizance and was free pending sentencing. USM suspended Maurio, without pay, “pending a decision on his continued employment with the University of Southern Maine.” It appears he is no longer employed as USM. He was, prior to his arrest, listed as a staff sergeant with the National Guard 195th Army Band. Maurio is advertising himself as a music teacher on Take Lessons https://takelessons.com/profile/micah-m5

University of Maine professors were reportedly involved in child trafficking ring, including abusing children on campus, in 2001, as reported by senior child protection staffer Cynthia Wellman. The State of Maine has steadfastly refused to open a criminal investigation of these allegations.

(81) Larry Gene Peppers, 67-year-old Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Clemson University,

Larry Gene Peppers

was arrested, 12 February 2015, on two counts second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and four counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.

Peppers pleaded guilty and was sentenced, 2 March 2016, to 5 years suspended in state jail (i.e. no jail time) and 3 years probation. Peppers was free on $60,000 surety bond during the legal process. Peppers was trading in pre-teen hard core (PTHC) - the rape and torture of children as young as eight-years-old.

Larry Gene Peppers’s Indictment

Peppers had been employed at Clemson since 1973. At the time of his arrest he was retired. As of 2019, he is still listed as an emeritus professor at Clemson University. Peppers ran a leadership program called SimSoc. His research areas included elder abuse, infant death and maternal grief due to infant mortality and/or abortion. Peppers is a registered sex offender in South Carolina.

(82) Robert Joel Rice, 55-year-old Director Strategic War Gaming (Lt. Col.) Army War College,

was arrested and charged, 4 April 2013, on 120 state-level child pornography counts. An additional 10 related charges were added later for a total of 130 counts. State charges were then dropped in lieu of federal charges made in 2014.

In federal court, Rice was convicted, 6 May 2016, on two counts — one possession and one receipt/distribution. He was sentenced on one count of receipt/distribution, with the possession charged dropped, on 28 December 2016, to 11.8 years in federal prison, 10 years of supervised release, a $5,100 fine and must register as a sex offender. In military court, he pleaded guilty, 24 October 2016, to three child pornography charges and was sentenced, to four years in military jail to be served concurrent with his federal sentence. Rice appealed both judgements. On 18 December 2018, his appeal in military court was denied.

At the time of his arrest, Rice had more than 30,000 images/videos of child sex abuse. His wife discovered his crimes and notified police. Rice had been employed at the Army War College since 2010. Upon his arrest the college continued to employ Rice and allowed him supervised access to Army computers. He was free on $100,000 bail pending sentencing.

(83) Kirk Jeffery Nesset, 57-year-old Professors of English and Creative Writing, Allegheny College,

was arrested, 1 October 2014, on one count per child pornography distribution, receipt and possession and indicted, 14 October 2014, on all counts. He pleaded guilty, 6 April 2015 and was sentenced in federal court, 8 February 2016, to 6.4 years in prison followed by ten years of supervised release and ordered to pay $78,900 in victim restitution and register as a sex offender. Nesset was free on $10,000 bond during the legal process.

Nesset was caught by an undercover federal agent and told investigators he had been involved in CSEM crimes since at least 2005. At the time of his arrest, Nesset had over 500,000 CSEM videos/images organzied in thirty folders with titles like “kidsfuck” including the torture of young children — with more than a thousand images/videos of infants and toddlers. In October 2018, Nesset settled a civil law suit for damages to the child victims in the CSEM he traded.

Allegheny College cancelled classes within 48-hours of Nesset’s arrest for “the community to meet and express concerns to administrators” and offered grief counseling for students, staff and faculty. The college president terminated out-of-state travel and returned to campus to take part in these discussions. Allegheny is the only higher education institution to have taken the compassionate approach of providing campus-wide grief counseling after a CSEM arrest of an employee.

Nesset resigned the day after his arrest. He had been employed at Allegheny since 1995 and was highly awarded. Prior to he was an assistant professor, for four years, at Whittier College.

(84) Travis Jay Brown, 45-year-old Assistant Professor Graphic Design, University of Arkansas,

was arrested 6 February 2014 on four counts of child pornography receipt and one possession count. He had been indicted 29 January 2014.

In a deal, he pleaded guilty, 30 April 2014, to one receipt count with the other charges dropped and was sentenced in federal court, 14 October 2014, to five years in jail followed by five years of supervised release. Pending sentencing, Brown was under house arrest, $5,000 bond and his father’s custody.

Brown’s investigation was triggered by a “tip” to the state police. Investigators found some 629 images of children, ages 10–12 years old