Florida

Porn suspect charged with sexual battery of 4-year-old girl:

Reason to Blow Up the World...

BARTOW - Polk County Sheriff's Office detectives have arrested a Bartow man on charges that he sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl in the process of creating child pornography.

Daryl James McClelland, 55, was arrested Friday on the child pornography charges, according to a Sheriff's Office report.

Detectives added to the list of charges after their investigation revealed that a little girl the suspect reportedly knows was molested while some sexually explicit images of the child were being created.

After detectives and investigators with the sheriff's Computer Crimes Unit served a search warrant Friday and found several images of child pornography, McClelland was charged with 60 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of accessing a computer without authority.

According to the Sheriff's Office, as detectives worked to identify the children in the images, they identified one of the victims as a 4-year-old girl who had been left in McClelland's care while the little girl's mother worked.

A Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit accuses McClelland of sexually abusing the girl multiple times in 2008 and 2009 and creating the child pornography using her image.

During an interview with detectives and after being read his rights, McClelland admitted that he engaged in sexual activity with the girl on multiple occasions, according to the affidavit. The suspect told detectives he stopped the activity "with the victim when she reached the age at which she had verbal capacity and might disclose this activity," the affidavit stated.

In addition to the pornography charges, McClelland is charged with eight counts of sexual battery on a victim under 12 years of age, five counts of lewd molestation and one count of battery on a child by contact with bodily fluids.

Now when I post a story like this over at PBB the question that is usually asked is why would the mother leave their child with someone like this? Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who is one of my favorite Sheriffs, provides us with the answer...

Detectives say McClelland encouraged the child's parents to allow him to babysit rather than trust child care organizations.  It's being called a classic case of a child predator grooming a parent to get access to a child.

"This man needs to be put away for ever and ever and we need to find the other victims," he said.

The sheriff went on to say McClelland admitted to detectives that he first sexually abused a child when he was 12 years old.

So basically this scumbag, McClelland, thinks that he didn't do anything wrong since his victim would supposedly forget any of this ever happened to her. For the love of God I hope he's right.

I don't want to open a can of whupass points on Florida because of this story but they leave me no choice.

60 points for the child porn charges, eight points for the sexual battery charges, five points for the molestation charges, one point for the charge of battery on a child by contact with bodily fluids which I don't even want to know what that is, another point for saying the victim won't remember what happened to her, one more point for saying that you stopped before the victim could communicate to her parents what you did, and 43 more points for the amount of years that you've allegedly been molesting children.  That's 119.

Congratulations, you're the first scumbag to break the 100+ point barrier. You're the Wilt Chamberlain of News of Doom. Not something to be proud of.

Nod of Doom to Claudia.