Briton with dungeon who plotted to kidnap and eat child jailed in US

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37. Good work, all.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/09/17/worcester-man-who-wanted-cannibalize-children-sentenced-years-federal-prison/KesjSC95x0k1M4F9fbDG4L/story.html

Worcester man who wanted to cannibalize children sentenced to 27 years in federal prison

09/17/2013 5:01 PM
By David Abel and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff

WORCESTER - Child pornographer Geoffrey Portway, who asked a Kansas man to kidnap a child for him so he could torture, kill, cook, and eat the child in a sound-proof dungeon he built in his basement, today was sentenced to nearly 27 years in federal prison.

Portway, a 40-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom, was also ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution to five children he victimized as part of his participation in the dissemination of child pornography that included 5,700 documented times he shared images with others, according to court records.

In court, Assistant US Attorney Stacy Dawson Belf said Portway was a man determined to torture and cannibalize children, but defense attorney Richard Sweeney said the Worcester resident was a man with “issues’’ who only engaged in fantasy role-playing on the Internet.

But Belf told US District Court Judge Timothy Hillman that investigators from the US Department of Homeland Security were fortunate to have discovered Portway through a sweeping child pornography investigation when they did.

“The seriousness of these crimes cannot be overstated,’’ she said in court. “He sought to kidnap, rape, cannibalize and murder a child. He makes clear that he is not about role playing. He was caught by investigators in the nick of time.’’

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