Crimes against Children 6-12-12

Washington, DC
MacArthur Taylor, 36, of Dale City, Virginia, pled guilty today to producing child pornography.

Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office; and Charlie T. Deane, Prince William County Chief of Police, made the announcement after the guilty plea was accepted by United States District Judge Anthony J. Trenga.

Taylor was identified by law enforcement after he provided his Dell Streak Tablet to an acquaintance to repair. While attempting to repair the tablet, the acquaintance saw still images of a female minor in various states of undress. A video produced by Taylor was also recovered from the tablet depicting the minor victim engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Law enforcement interviewed the minor victim, and she admitted to engaging in sexually explicit conduct with Taylor for the past two years.

Philadelphia, PA
Jon J. Lackner, 48, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for traveling from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to have sex with a minor and for manufacturing and possessing child pornography. On June 17, 2011, a federal jury determined that between August 2008 and March 2009, Lackner, a practicing dentist, used his computer, a web camera, the Internet, the mail, and a cell phone to attempt to induce a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity; he traveled with intent to have sex with a minor; and he attempted to transfer obscene material (of himself) to a minor in Pennsylvania.
Lackner also pleaded guilty today to two additional counts of manufacturing and possessing child pornography. Those charges were contained in a superseding indictment. Lackner admitted that, in 2007, he used a minor to produce visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct.

Beckley, WV
United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Beckley federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jack E. Gravenmier, 79, of Charleston, with producing child pornography.

The indictment charges Gravenmier with two counts of producing visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving three minors. The indictment alleges that Gravenmier induced the minors, who are referred to only by their initials, into engaging in the sexual conduct so he could produce a visual depiction of that conduct. The indictment also includes a third count charging Gravenmier with possessing hundreds of images and videos of child pornography on his computer.
The indictment seeks the forfeiture of Gravenmier’s house located at 833 Beaumont Road in Charleston as well as a Cutaway van (RV) which were used to commit the alleged crimes set forth in the indictment.

A second federal indictment handed down today charges Steven Russell Helton, 20, of Beaver, Raleigh County, with receiving and possessing hundreds of computer images and videos of child pornography.