Dakota Valkyrie
March 9th, 2009, 08:17 PM
http://i41.tinypic.com/15rfecx.jpghttp://i41.tinypic.com/11llqbd.jpgThe man ordered the 5-year-old boy to perform a sex act on the woman. Then the woman told the boy what to do to the man. The couple also molested the child.
That's what occurred at least three times in a home in Naples Park in 2004. And it was all on video.
"It was the worst case I have ever seen, but it is probably not the worst case I've handled," said Collier County Sheriff's Detective Scott Peterson said of the video, adding that he'd investigated children as young as 2 being molested and others living with herpes due to being sexually abused. "What makes this one so different is to actually see the video of the abuse while it's happening. It's very, very disturbing."
On Monday, the day the two faced back-to-back trials on capital sex charges -- and the possibility of life in prison -- Genny Lynne Simmons, 31, pleaded no contest to six counts of attempted capital sexual battery on a victim less than 12 years old and promoting a sexual performance by a child, a second-degree felony, for abuse that occurred between Feb. 15, 2004, and July 31, 2004. She agreed to testify against her former live-in boyfriend, James Bernard McClenithan, 47.
But within an hour, as 30 potential jurors waited upstairs, McClenithan pleaded no contest to capital sexual battery on a child less than 12 and promoting a sexual performance by a child. Three other capital sexual battery charges were dropped as part of the plea agreement.
"The court cannot, by law, struggle with this sentence," Collier Circuit Judge Frank Baker said of the automatic sentence for a capital conviction. "I sentence you to life."
If he were ever released, Baker told him, he'd serve sex-offender probation with an ankle monitor.
Then Baker brought Simmons back in. She'd changed from a demure olive green suit and black heels to an orange jail uniform, expecting to testify against McClenithan at his trial.
Baker sentenced her to two consecutive terms of 30 years in a state prison on two of the capital charges, with a consecutive term for another capital charge, making a total of 70 years in state prison. He imposed concurrent 30-year terms for the remaining capital offenses, and a concurrent 15-year sentence for the second-degree felony involving the video.
The judge ruled both were sexual predators and ordered them to have no contact with each other or the child.
Both already were serving prison time -- Simmons, five years and McClenithan, 15 -- after pleading to a related case in Pinellas County in 2005.
It was Simmons' mother, Diane Simmons, who reported the allegations to the Collier County Sheriff's Office. The couple had moved to Largo, where Pinellas County Sheriff's Detective Tony Stevens arrested them in June 2005 after the boy and Diane Simmons were interviewed here. The video was found during a search of the couple's closet in Largo and other video clips -- all showing abuse on one day in Naples Park -- were found on McClenithan's computer.http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/mar/09/couple-sentenced-molesting-child-naples-park/
Sounds like it may have been their son... or at least hers. :dong:
That's what occurred at least three times in a home in Naples Park in 2004. And it was all on video.
"It was the worst case I have ever seen, but it is probably not the worst case I've handled," said Collier County Sheriff's Detective Scott Peterson said of the video, adding that he'd investigated children as young as 2 being molested and others living with herpes due to being sexually abused. "What makes this one so different is to actually see the video of the abuse while it's happening. It's very, very disturbing."
On Monday, the day the two faced back-to-back trials on capital sex charges -- and the possibility of life in prison -- Genny Lynne Simmons, 31, pleaded no contest to six counts of attempted capital sexual battery on a victim less than 12 years old and promoting a sexual performance by a child, a second-degree felony, for abuse that occurred between Feb. 15, 2004, and July 31, 2004. She agreed to testify against her former live-in boyfriend, James Bernard McClenithan, 47.
But within an hour, as 30 potential jurors waited upstairs, McClenithan pleaded no contest to capital sexual battery on a child less than 12 and promoting a sexual performance by a child. Three other capital sexual battery charges were dropped as part of the plea agreement.
"The court cannot, by law, struggle with this sentence," Collier Circuit Judge Frank Baker said of the automatic sentence for a capital conviction. "I sentence you to life."
If he were ever released, Baker told him, he'd serve sex-offender probation with an ankle monitor.
Then Baker brought Simmons back in. She'd changed from a demure olive green suit and black heels to an orange jail uniform, expecting to testify against McClenithan at his trial.
Baker sentenced her to two consecutive terms of 30 years in a state prison on two of the capital charges, with a consecutive term for another capital charge, making a total of 70 years in state prison. He imposed concurrent 30-year terms for the remaining capital offenses, and a concurrent 15-year sentence for the second-degree felony involving the video.
The judge ruled both were sexual predators and ordered them to have no contact with each other or the child.
Both already were serving prison time -- Simmons, five years and McClenithan, 15 -- after pleading to a related case in Pinellas County in 2005.
It was Simmons' mother, Diane Simmons, who reported the allegations to the Collier County Sheriff's Office. The couple had moved to Largo, where Pinellas County Sheriff's Detective Tony Stevens arrested them in June 2005 after the boy and Diane Simmons were interviewed here. The video was found during a search of the couple's closet in Largo and other video clips -- all showing abuse on one day in Naples Park -- were found on McClenithan's computer.http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/mar/09/couple-sentenced-molesting-child-naples-park/
Sounds like it may have been their son... or at least hers. :dong: