Neighbors angry in time taken to charge in porn cases
People watch the FBI raid a house but it takes two years for prosecutors to file charges. It's only then they learn the target was charged with viewing child pornography.
A bus driver is arrested on the same charge, but had been suspected 10 months earlier when police raided his house and seized his computer.
Both cases have left people wondering why the suspects were left on the streets. It's become an outrage in Montgomery County, where an unsuspecting school system allowed the bus driver to continue making rounds with students.
Police and prosecutors say the cases are tougher then many people think, and they can't go around naming people before formal charges are filed, potentially ruining the lives of innocent people. I explore these tough cases in today's Crime Scenes.
Categories: Baltimore County, Crime elsewhere
Comments
It's interesting.
Some people murder, kill, rob.
While others molest children, who grow into damaged adults, some becoming the unwed mothers of unstructured children, who grow into damaged adults who murder, kill, and rob.
Posted by: Odd | April 10, 2011 10:24 AM
Wow, a story consisting of nothing but gossip from a bunch of anonymous neighbors. Bravo, Hermann. Expect your Pulitzer any day now.
Posted by: AB | April 10, 2011 12:17 PM
thats pathetic why would people do thay\t it shouldnt take that long for them to be arrested
Posted by: andrew perry | April 10, 2011 11:35 PM
If it is true that the FBI controls websites containing child abuse images, this means that they are permitting the depicted children to be re-victimised each time their image is viewed.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 11, 2011 1:48 AM