No Punishment Is Fitting

Okay, here is the headline that got my attention.

GA woman admits taping sex with 8 year old.

My first thought was it was another teacher gone wild, but the real story is far more insidious. She was taping her boyfriend attempting to or actually having sex with an 8-year old girl.

Federal prosecutors say 53-year-old Laura Culver who lives in Gray, Ga., is facing up to 20 years in prison after her guilty plea Thursday.

Court documents dating back to 2001 show that Culver allegedly worked with 52-year-old Edgardo Sensi to videotape him having sex with an 8-year-old girl.

This, of course led me to go look into the boyfriend, at which time I found this.

The indictment alleges that, from approximately 2001 to 2004, while living in Connecticut, SENSI conspired with another individual (“Jane Doe”) to coerce a minor victim girl (“M.V.#1”), who was eight-years-old at the time the conspiracy began, to engage in sexually explicit conduct. The Indictment alleges that SENSI encouraged M.V.#1 to be filmed while SENSI and Doe engaged her in sexually explicit conduct, engaged in a lengthy grooming process that involved trickery and desensitizing M.V.#1 to accept the sexual abuse that MV#1 was subjected to, and enticed M.V.#1 to engage in sado-masochistic sex acts.

Jane Doe is the aforementioned Laura Culver and "M.V.#1 is the child.

But what really caught my eye was this.

This matter is being investigated by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) in New Haven, with the assistance of ICE in Atlanta and Fort Pierce (FL), the Martin County (FL) Sheriff’s Office, the Jones County (GA) Sheriff’s Office, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Now why is ICE involved? There doesn't seem to be any immigration issues involved but there is this.

In January 2004, the indictment alleges that Sensi traveled to a rural town outside Managua, Nicaragua, where he befriended a 23-year-old woman, working as a maid, who was the mother of the 4-year-old girl.

In all there are 76 tapes that were seized when Sensi was arrested. Parachuting him into the Swat region of Pakistan right now with a Bible and a Star of David necklace seems to be about the best punishment.