Saturday, March 29, 2008

Steven Wesley Yates -Child Porn images of images being raped.

1,759 images of child pornography which included adult men having sex with infants.....Police also found a plastic baby doll with the legs bound by duct tape beneath Yates' bed.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte

Yates admitted to sharing sexually explicit pictures of children as young as 6 months old with about 20 people over the Internet

A La Mesa man will spend nearly four years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography which involved infants and pre-teens.

Steven Wesley Yates, 38, was sentenced Tuesday by Superior Court Judge Herbert J. Exarhos to 3 years and eight months in prison. The term was part of a Feb. 14 agreement in which Yates pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography and one count of distributing it.

Yates admitted to sharing sexually explicit pictures of children as young as 6 months old with about 20 people over the Internet, Deputy District Attorney Claudia Grasso said at a prior court hearing.

Police discovered Yates' activities after he sent child pornography over the Internet in March 2007 to a 15-year-old Berkeley boy he met through a teen chat room, according to court records.

In April 2007, the boy brought his computer to an Emeryville shop for repairs and a technician found sexually explicit pictures involving children on the boy's computer. The technician contacted police, who tracked the images down to Yates, records show.

Judge Exarhos ordered Yates to pay $1,493 to replace the boy's computer, which was confiscated by police during in the investigation and $1,300 to cover counseling costs for the boy.

Police searching Yates' La Mesa home found seven video discs with 1,759 images of child pornography which included adult men having sex with infants and pre-teen boys and girls having sex with each other and adults, according to the records. Police also found a plastic baby doll with the legs bound by duct tape beneath Yates' bed.

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