"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte
A convicted sex offender who dropped his mp3 player, which police say was laden with child pornography, now faces a federal charge.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Utah filed one count of possession of child pornography against Paul Lawrence Briggs, 58.
According to the charging document and police, a man matching Briggs' description left the Denny's restaurant, 250 W. 500 South, when he dropped his portable digital device. This action was captured on the restaurant's security video system.
A customer discovered the device and turned it over to the manager, who in an attempt to discover who its owner was, ran across images and videos of adults having sex with minors and minors having sex with minors. Two memory cards found in the device case also contained child pornography.
Leads from the surveillance video lead to Briggs' arrest Tuesday. Court records show Briggs has a lengthy criminal history, including a 1998 conviction of attempted sex abuse of a child.
According to charging documents, Briggs told FBI agents he had downloaded the pornography onto his computer before he went to prison and had recorded the files onto a data CD. He then picked up the CD among his personal possessions when he was released from the state prison. He later downloaded the files onto his portable player, which he bought at a pawn shop.
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Paul briggs is a name that I wish we could forget. He molested my daughter off and on for a year and a half. We came forward with the information after our daughter told us that someone had touched her at 6 years of age. He didn't just touch her he did awful things to her. He wasn't even convicted until she was 12 how sad is that she's now 21. I knew he never changed his family members came to us when I opened up the can of worms and told us there sick storie about paul briggs and the things he did to there children. What a sad past he has left behind on all of these kids. Child molesters don't just wake up one day and try it and it doesn't just stop there they just keep going and going. When this going to stop.
I am the mother of the child that was molested and conected to the charges back in 1998. He has been molesting kids for a long time I was the first person to come forward in the family. I married into the family back in 1982. I always thought he was strange. His daughters offered to take care of my kids during the christmas season at my home and paul made it over to our house without our knowledge. He is a very sick man when I came forward and pressed charges it was crazy because half of the family came to me telling there stories about paul but no one did anything about it. He needs to stay in prison. All during the trial we felt like the criminals and he was the victim. It made me sick so sick the day they sentenced him my daughter and I stayed home and family went in our place. My daughter was molested from the age 4 to 5 and he wasn't sentenced until she was tweleve and he finally was put in prison. The system needs to keep these people off the streets molestation isn't something that you just try it keeps going and going.
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