Dad headed to prison for making child porn involving daughter (Kaysville, Utah)

UNNAMED DAD has been convicted of producing child pornography with his adopted daughter, with the abuse starting right after he and his wife "rescued" her from Russia. The daughter is now in state custody. Where the adoptive mother was during the months this was going on is not explained. This daddy is one reason American parents have developed such a bad reputation in Russia.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700074601/Kaysville-dad-headed-to-prison-for-making-lewd-videotape-of-his-daughter.html

Kaysville dad headed to prison for making lewd videotape of his daughter
Published: Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 5:33 p.m. MDT
By Dennis Romboy, Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — A Kaysville man recalled in court Monday how happy he and his wife were to rescue their adopted daughter eight years ago from deplorable living conditions in Russia that he described as unfit for animals.

Now, he's headed to federal prison for creating a fake e-mail account from a modeling agency to convince the girl that the lewd videos and photos he took of her was not only a normal father-daughter activity but in demand by others.

U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart Monday sentenced the 45-year-old man to 15 years in prison for production of child pornography. He also will be under federal supervision for the rest of his life upon his release.

The victim told the judge the sexual abuse started shortly after her arrival.

"Do you call that a home? I don't," she said. "I feel like I was brought from a bad environment to worse."

Over a period of months in 2009, the father videotaped and photographed his then 16-year-old daughter initially with her clothes on but then in various states of undress until she was naked. He provided and positioned her with sexual objects during photo sessions. Prosecutor Trina Higgins said he convinced the girl that the sexually explicit photos were normal and created an e-mail account through which he sent images to himself posing as a modeling agent to further convince her that others were interested. He also paid his daughter as if the money had come from the agency.

The girl eventually contacted police on her own.

"He calls it misguided. It is not misguided. It is a federal felony," Higgins said.

In his statements to the judge, the Kaysville man — whose name is being withheld by the Deseret News to protect the identity of his victim — apologized to his friends and family in the courtroom for his "mistaken actions" but did not directly apologize to his daughter. He lamented that he would miss out on his children growing up. He said he's taken steps in jail the past few months to better himself and that he wants to do humanitarian service after prison.

"I know that I have to pay a price for my mistakes," he said.

Attorney Sidney Unrau said his client knows he did wrong.

"The line he shouldn't have crossed was so far behind him he couldn't see it," the prosecutor said. "He crossed every conceivable line he shouldn't cross with his daughter."

The girl, who is now in the care of the state Division of Child and Family Services, found her father's statements to the judge disingenuous.

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks," she said. "I feel like this is all a show. … I feel sick to my stomach to know he's going to be out in 15 years."

She has undergone extensive counseling and told the judge she is doing well in school. The judge will decide later whether to order him to pay her $28,000 therapy bill.

Said Higgins, "She will rise above this attempt to degrade her and demoralize her."