Dustin Post Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison

Warning: this story accommodates disturbing particulars of kid sexual abuse.

A 26-year-old man from Western New York was sentenced to 50 years in jail on Monday for manufacturing and possession of kid pornography, crimes that federal prosecutors mentioned had been a part of a “reign of terror” that spanned from when the defendant was 15 till 24.

Throughout that point interval, Dustin Put up, of Fredonia, N.Y., “led a life characterised virtually completely by predatory sexual conduct […] leaving 9 kids and one grownup girl in his wake and a complete group reeling,” the federal government mentioned in a sentencing memorandum.

Whereas the federal government requested for Put up to be sentenced to a statutory most of 1,920 months (160 years) for the aim of exhibiting the “defendant’s crime warrants a life sentence,” the protection requested the courtroom to provide Put up one other probability with a 15-year obligatory minimal sentence.

Put up’s sentencing memo mentioned that the defendant was by no means given a lot of probability in life, noting that he was molested when he was youthful and abused by relations; skilled psychological well being struggles; was raised by a neglectful mom with no father within the image; took baths as a toddler with an older man whereas his mother was within the room; and didn’t even know how one can bathe himself as a teen — believing what his mom had mentioned about showers being unhealthy for the pores and skin.

Put up “basically raised himself with no steering in anyway,” the memo mentioned. The defendant included as an exhibit a letter from a person recognized as Randy Truax, who mentioned he supervised Put up in a piece program. Truax mentioned that Put up, on the age of 18, “had by no means been taught to brush his tooth.” Truax additionally mentioned that Put up’s “maturity stage was beneath regular.” As an example, Put up watched the Disney Channel to be taught to speak to folks, Truax wrote.

Now, Truax famous, Put up is the daddy of a 5-year-old son. Put up says he has transformed to Christianity since being detained for his crimes and now understands how a lot hurt he has carried out.

However prosecutors repeatedly famous of their sentencing memo that Put up was matter of truth moderately than repentant when confronted by investigators:

[T]he defendant used threats, grooming, and deception to supply baby pornography depicting himself forcibly abusing a 12-year-old lady (“MV1”) on two events. Particularly, in accordance with the defendant, whereas the defendant and his wife had been babysitting MV1 and her siblings he concocted a ruse wherein he instructed MV1 that his younger son had been kidnapped, and that the one solution to get him again was to ship a video of her “doing one thing naughty.” PSR ¶ 37. His objective was to document himself sexually abusing MV1. He flippantly described his ruse to investigators as “how [he] set it as much as get [his] expertise.” Id.

MV1 instructed a much more disturbing story. Based on MV1 the defendant beforehand tried to {photograph} her nude or in her underwear after he got here into her bed room uninvited. Id. ¶ 46. He propositioned her for intercourse by telling her—a 12-year-old lady—that he and his wife had “an open relationship.” Id. Ultimately, when these makes an attempt failed, the defendant tried the ruse described above.

The federal government mentioned that Put up dedicated such sexual abuse repeatedly towards women as younger as an toddler and as previous as 12 years previous, relations included:

On the contrary, the PSR [pre-sentence report] particulars years of sexual deviancy and abuse by the defendant, together with intercourse with animals, enticement of minors through the web, a group of kid pornography, and the hands-on sexual abuse of at the least 9 kids between the ages of three months and 12 years.

The defendant seems to have began abusing kids when he was 15 years previous. By his personal admission, he grew to become sexually aroused whereas altering the diapers of two of his toddler relations, would sexually abuse them, and “approximated that he had ejaculated on them 100 occasions.”

Prosecutors mentioned that Put up tried to attenuate his actions by claiming he “blacked out” when he pressured a 12-year-old lady to “carry out oral intercourse on him on a college bus in entrance of his mates,” paperwork mentioned. Prosecutors additionally mentioned that Put up downplayed his actions in different methods:

When discussing how he anal raped his wife’s minor relative, he claimed that she “got here onto” him.

He described his forcible sexual abuse of MV1 as “simply oral.”

The memo signed by Assistant U.S. Legal professional David Rudroff went into much more disturbing and graphic element concerning the extent of Put up’s criminality:

Having sexually abused three kids earlier than the age of 18 can be unhealthy sufficient, however the defendant didn’t cease there. He successfully kidnapped an 8-year-old lady whom he was imagined to be taking to a celebration and sexually abused her at a residence in Fredonia. He blindfolded the younger lady and instructed her that he was placing a sucker in her mouth so she might guess the flavour. As an alternative, he pressured his penis in her mouth—a ruse he known as “the sucker sport.”

The defendant additionally anally raped an 11-year-old feminine relative of his wife after soliciting her to ship him baby pornography, orally sodomized a three-year-old lady whereas her mom was recovering from a seizure, tried to rape a 13-year-old lady at knifepoint, and sure 4 and six-year-old sisters with a cut-up lamp twine so he might play the sucker sport, then drugged them with sleeping drugs, anally raped one, and tried to anally rape the opposite.

Prosecutors additionally mentioned that Put up’s “sexual depravity” included the anal rape of at the least one grownup girl sufferer ( “I principally raped you anally,” he allegedly instructed her) and intercourse with together with his household’s canines.

Ultimately, U.S. District Decide Lawrence Vilardo handed down a 50-year sentence that’s a lot nearer to the federal government’s life sentence suggestion than the obligatory minimal sought by the protection.

The Division of Justice mentioned that the investigation started in 2019 after New York State Police obtained a report from a mother or father concerning the sexual abuse of a kid.

[Image via Chautauqua County District Attorney’s Office]

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