District Attorney Kratz Is an Ass!

Calumet County,Wisconsin District Attorney, Kenneth Kratz (pic) is an asshole. 

If reports of Kratz' behavior are true, the DA sent numerous text messages in an effort to begin an affair with a domestic abuse victim while he was suppose to be prosecuting the perpetrator, her ex-boyfriend, according to a local police report.  The victim, Stepahanie Van Groll, 26, filed a complaint with the police after receiving 30 text messages from the Calumet County DA Kenneth Kratz over a three day period, according to media reports. 

"Are you the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA ... the riskier the better?" Kratz, 50, wrote in a message to Stephanie Van Groll in October 2009 according to the Associated Press. Another said: "I would not expect you to be the other woman. I would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you'd be THE woman! R U that good?"  He also sent the text:  "I'm serious! I'm the atty. I have the $350,000 house. I have the 6-figure career. You may be the tall, young, hot nymph, but I am the prize!" he texted.

Miss Van Groll went to the police three days after the messages started becoming "kind of vulgar." She provided copies of 30 messages and her responses, which the department released in response to an AP request.

The randy District Attorney was in the process of prosecuting Van Groll's ex-boyfriend on charges that the ex-boyfriend strangled Miss Van Groll. DA Kratz chaired of the Wisconsin Crime Victims' Rights Board, a quasi-judicial agency that can reprimand judges, prosecutors and police officers who mistreat crime victims.  According to media reports Kratz is not denying that he sent the texts but he indicated that he is concerned that the publication of the messages would unfairly embarrass him personally and professionally. He says the Office of Lawyer Regulation had found that he did not violate the rules governing attorney misconduct.! According to the AP, he shouted "This is a non-news story," but he added, "I'm worried about it because of my reputational interests. I'm worried about it because of my 25 years as a prosecutor."

Miss Van Groll told police in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, that she was pressured to have a relationship with Kratz, lest Kratz would not pursue the charges against her attacker.  After the charges were lodged, Kratz withdrew from that prosecution and the Wisconsin Department of Justice took over. Kratz resigned from the crime victims board, which he helped create, after more than a decade as chair. Kratz who was married has since divorced and he has remained the top prosecutor based in Chilton, where he has served since 1992 and earns a $105,000 salary.

Kratz, a Republican, intends to run for re-election in November 2012.
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Yeah, this guy is the dream of all battered 26, year old women! 

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?  If Kratz did this to one victim, how many other domestic violence victims did he come on to over the years?  Bet you...lots.  Others will turn up.  Why?  Because like all perpetrators this guy knows that these women's are vulnerable and Kratz trusts that they can be discredited if they complain.  Kratz and other perpetrators count on their sense that victims won't come forward to object to being revictimization.
What a peach.

Maryland State Trooper Facing Child Porn Charges

Crime reporter Peter Hermann of the Baltimore Sun reports that this guy (pic, left), Maryland State Trooper, Bruce Tucker is charged by prosecutors with possessing thousands of pornographic images of children:

"A Maryland State Trooper faces felony charges of possessing child pornography after more than 3,000 images were found on his computer, a Baltimore County Police spokesman said.  Investigators say Bruce Allen Tucker, 47, of Esplanade Court in Owings Mills, had received and exchanged images of child pornography, including male and female children performing sex acts, posing nude and performing oral sex. He was arrested July 16 and released after posting $50,000 bail.

State Police spokeswoman Elena Russo said Tucker has been suspended without pay.  According to the statement of charges, the investigation began in March. All the exchanges occurred while Tucker was off-duty, said Lt. Robert McCullough, a Baltimore County Police spokesman.

Here are more details from county police, who did not mention in a release that Tucker was a state trooper:

Baltimore County Police arrested Bruce Allen Tucker, 47, of Esplanade Court in Baltimore County. On July 16, he was arrested and charged with numerous child pornography charges to include possession of child pornography, possession of child pornography with the intent to distribute, and the distribution and possession of obscene matter.   Police investigation revealed that Tucker received and exchanged numerous images of child pornography over a period of several months. he images depicted pubescent male and female children nude performing sex acts, posing nude in a state of arousal, performing oral sex, and posing nude.

Tucker used the screen names Poledeepin@aol.com and LONGPOLEIN@aol.com. [charming]

Bruce Allen Tucker was released after posting bail in the amount of $50,000.
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If you get a strange email, beware, Trooper Tucker is on the loose. 

I now only feel obligated to send along the accounts of these child porn arrests if there is something particularly unusual in  the story.  The purpose of continuing to pass along these stories it to marshal the evidence for the proposition that the compulsion to look at child pronograpy, knows no boundary.

Be disgusted.

Child Porn--Even the Police Do It

The Bakersfield.com website has this report ont he arrest of a Bakersfield Police officer snared in a chld porn sting.  This is from the report by Jason Kotowski:

"A Bakersfield police officer who admitted to engaging in online chats describing rape and murder fantasies involving children was arrested by the FBI Friday on a criminal complaint alleging possession and receipt of child pornography, detectives said in the criminal complaint.Christopher Kent Bowersox, 38, was removed from duty and placed on administrative leave when the allegations first surfaced, and he resigned earlier this week, a Bakersfield Police Department news release said. Bowersox had been a detective in the department and worked there since 2002."

[. . . ]On Nov. 6, 2009, Bakersfield police served a search warrant at Bowersox's residence, according to the criminal complaint. Two computers and two external hard drives were seized as evidence, and detectives found digital images and digital video containing child pornography, the complaint filed in federal court saidThere were also five digital images of what appeared to be surveillance photographs of students on the Bakersfield High School campus, the criminal complaint said.

Detectives interviewed Bowersox, who told them he had a Yahoo! account with the username 'cbowersox' and he used the name 'Colby' as his identity on the Internet, the criminal complaint said. It also says Bowersox 'reluctantly described' sharing fantasies with others in online chat rooms about 'things between men and boys and violence between men and boys.'"
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I made the claim, last week that even law enforcemnt get caught in this crime.  I knew I would be able to show you anecdotal evidence (I see news accounts regularly) without looking very hard.  This story came in the ordinary course of looking at local websites, not a search.