Man pleads guilty to *** with girls
By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press Writer
46 minutes ago
BOSTON - A man who filmed himself ***ually assaulting young Asian
girls pleaded guilty Tuesday to child ****ography charges.
William Constable, 54, a self-employed contractor, was arrested in
October when he tried to retrieve a camera he left in a Cape Cod hotel
room. A hotel employee who found the camera called police after seeing
images of a man having *** with young girls.
Prosecutors said the camera and dozens of cassettes and compact discs
later seized from Constable's Nantucket home showed him ***ually
assaulting girls as young as 5, sometimes two at a time.
During a hearing in U.S. District Court, Constable pleaded guilty to
seven counts of ***ual exploitation of children and one count of
possession of child ****ography. According to a plea agreement filed
with the court, the recommended sentence will be 25 years in prison
and a $50,000 fine, with restitution to be determined when Constable
is sentenced on June 10. He also faces lifetime supervision after his
release.
Constable told investigators he videotaped himself having *** with the
girls so that he could later "re-create the moment," Assistant U.S.
Attorney Dana Gershengorn said.
A review of Constable's pass****t showed that since 1993, he visited
Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam every year except one, Gershengorn
said. Constable told police he had *** with about 30 underage girls in
Asia.
When first questioned by police, he said the girls were between the
ages of 12 and 17, but later admitted some of the girls were as young
as 7. Authorities who viewed the videos believe the vast majority of
the girls were under 12, with some as young as 5, Gershengorn said.
Constable did not speak at the hearing, except to admit the
allegations recited by the prosecutor and to enter guilty pleas. He
faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison on the ***ual
exploitation charges.
Gershengorn said the FBI has been working with U.S. Customs and
Immigration Enforcement and Asian authorities to try to identify the
girls in the video clips.
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