AUGGGHHH!
Posted on 07/18/2011 11:09:02 PM PDT by Tom87
A Perth man faces extradition to the United States after being considered "a big part" in the brutal spanking torture of two underage girls that was recorded by a disgraced Florida policewoman.
Christopher Donald Lobban, 53, of Mullaloo is alleged to be the online boyfriend of Polk County Sherriff's detention deputy Robyn Leigh Pagoria, after meeting her on a fetish website.
The 45-year-old divorcee, who served 20 years in the marines, has been accused of abusing her position over the girls - described as being aged between 10 and 18 – by subjecting them to multiple torture sessions at her house and then sharing with her online boyfriend video taken using her mobile phone. Advertisement: Story continues below
The woman, who is also the mother of five daughters and one son, has been charged with three counts of aggravated child abuse, three counts of producing child pornography, three counts of the promotion of child pornography and three counts of possessing child pornography.
In her arrest report, it said that on May 20 of this year, Pagoria made an unnamed girl get naked in a special room in her house and bend over a desk, which had two legs sawn off so that her head was close to the ground and her wrists could be handcuffed to the desk and her ankles bound to the remaining table legs.
She then used her mobile phone to record her spanking the girl 50 times "for being disrespectful", the report said.
It was the second time the girl had allegedly been spanked by Pagoria and the other girl told a child protection investigator that she too had been subject to the same treatment on the same day. The girls received injuries including haemorrhaging and minor lacerations due to the beatings, the report said.
The report went on to detail the Perth man's alleged involvement in the crime. "...Robin's online boyfriend, ..., 'is a big part' in the disciplining process. Robin and [he] ... decide together what the punishment should be." While he played no part in the actual beatings, it was alleged he influenced the events through his internet relationship with Pagoria.
During a taped interview with two fellow officers, Pagoria admitted to the spankings and said that regular spanking had not changed their behaviour so "she needed to do something to embarrass them".
She initially denied to investigators that her online boyfriend, whom she has never met in person, saw the videos or requested the videos of the spankings. But in a second interview, she admitted she uploaded the videos of the two girls to her vimeo.com account for her boyfriend to download.
Pagoria was arrested "without incident" on May 26 and when she appeared in a county court shortly afterwards, she told the judge that she would not fight the charges and had every intention to plead "guilty or no contest".
Yesterday Mr Lobban made a brief appearance in the Perth Magistrates Court after being arrested on a provisional extradition warrant to face child-exploitation charges in the US.
Wearing a striped polo shirt, Mr Lobban sat quietly in the dock and showed no emotion on his face. He was remanded in custody to await extradition papers, which are expected to take five weeks, and will face court again on August 4.
Mr Lobban had yet to be officially charged by US authorities. His fiancée told reporters she was in her partner's house when officers raided the property, seizing computers, phones, DVDs and other electrical devices.
"I support him through all this. I am in shock," she said outside court.
Florida still permits corporal punishment in schools and a number of books on child-rearing advocate spanking, with the more extreme "Christian" ones recommending doing it on bare buttocks.
Wot? Oh, it's in quotes, so it must mean not-really-Christian.
I’m afraid to look at the woman’s photo.
I did. Your fears are well-founded.
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