Child Porn Charges Filed Against Former Stepdad July 7, 2008
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Federal authorities in Alabama have filed child pornography charges against the ex-stepfather of a Vermont girl who was found dead last week.
Raymond Gagnon, 40, is charged with having child pornography at his former home in Cullman, Alabama, federal prosecutors said in a statement Monday.
According to the statement, Gagnon also tried to access ex-stepdaughter Brooke Bennett’s MySpace account “on or about” June 26 from a library computer in Cullman.
June 26 is the day after Brooke, who was 12, was reported missing in Randolph, Vermont. She was found in a shallow grave a week later. Her uncle, Michael Jacques, has been charged with kidnapping her.
The charges in Alabama were announced as Gagnon was in court on another charge, obstructing justice, in federal court in Burlington, Vermont.
Gagnon, 40, did not contest his continued detention during the hearing in U.S. District Court. He is charged with obstructing justice and will be held in custody until his trial.
Gagnon is accused of having someone throw out his laptop computer a week ago while authorities were searching for Brooke Bennett.
Police say Gagnon lives in Texas but often visits Vermont.
ccording to an affidavit, Gagnon told police he accessed his former stepdaughter’s MySpace page from a computer at his San Antonio home after getting login information from the girl’s uncle, Jacques.
A 14-year-old girl reported that she last saw Brooke alive walking upstairs with Jacques in his home in Randolph in central Vermont on June 25, according to court papers.
It was the 14-year-old’s understanding that Brooke was going to be initiated into a “program for sex” — the same one the teenager had been involved with since she was 9, the papers said.
Since then, Brooke has turned up dead near Jacques’ home, prosecutors have charged Jacques with kidnapping her and Gagnon has sat in.
The affidavit says Gagnon acknowledged that he had downloaded child pornography onto a laptop computer and hard drives he kept in a safe. Gagnon’s lawyer did not a return a call Thursday.
Jacques is listed in Vermont’s sex offender registry. He was convicted of rape and kidnapping in 1993.
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