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Teacher charged with possessing child porn to be placed on house arrest
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 | 3:20 p.m.
Charles Richard "Rick" Rogers
Garrett Junior High School
A Boulder City science teacher charged with possession of child pornography is expected to be released from jail and placed on house arrest after a judge reduced his bail today.
Boulder City Justice of the Peace Victor Miller reduced bail for Charles Richard “Rick” Rogers, 46, to $75,000 and said once bail is posted, Rogers can be released from the Clark County Detention Center and placed on house arrest.
He must remain in Clark County but outside Boulder City, Miller said. Bail on the 64 counts of possession of child pornography initially had been set at $192,000.
“It is better for the community and for Mr. Rogers that he not live in Boulder City,” Miller said.
Rogers’ attorney Bill Terry said after today’s 1 p.m. hearing that he expected Rogers to be out of the county jail tomorrow. Rogers is the recipient of a kidney transplant and has special medical needs, Terry told Miller in arguing for house arrest.
Rogers, a teacher at Garrett Junior High School and a youth soccer coach, was arrested Thursday as he was about to leave school.
Rogers was picked up after Henderson police received an anonymous letter the previous day claiming he had sexual images of minors, Boulder City Police Chief Thomas Finn said. Included with the letter was a thumb drive and two digital memory cards containing pornographic videos and images of young boys in sexual acts with men, according to an arrest report.
The letter alleged that the digital storage devices came from Rogers’ home, the report said. The storage devices also included photographs of Rogers, his vehicles, children in soccer uniforms and Rogers’ school lesson plans, the report said.
Police obtained warrants and searched Rogers’ car, classroom and home in Boulder City. They confiscated computers, photographs, VHS cassette tapes, cameras and digital storage devices from the home and the classroom, according to the arrest report.
As of today, the district attorney’s office did not have formal charges prepared. Deputy District Attorney Jeff Rogan told Miller at the hearing that, because of the amount of information gathered during the searches, the district attorney’s office needed a few more days to prepare the charges.
“It’s a very involved case,” Rogan said. “Detectives have to view each piece and describe it.”
Rogers’ attorney told the judge that Rogers has lived in the area since 1980 and owns two homes in the county, one outside Boulder City. He has worked for the Clark County School District since 1992.
After his arrest, Rogers was placed on paid administrative leave from his teaching job, pending investigation of the case, a Clark County School District spokeswoman said.
Rogers, who was also a part-time soccer coach for the Boulder City Department of Parks and Recreation and worked for the city for 24 years, will no longer coach a city soccer team, Roger Hall, director of parks and recreation said.
Rogers was scheduled to return to Justice Court April 7.
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This is happening all over the country. Go to www.schoolteachernews.com and click on the Scandal page. This year they have documented over 135 of these types of incidents. In 2008 they found 479 of these kinds of cases.
"Detectives have to view each piece and describe it." Looks like the police are the child porn criminals now. And not a word about how credible the anonymous tipster is -- you know, the one who had possession of the actual "evidence" to give to the cops -- and why he/she/it isn't also being charged.
triumph110 -- give it a rest. False accusations against men like Rogers are everywhere, and plenty of them are victims of blackmail attempts like this.
ok do you people not watch the news.. channel 3. rick admitted to the crime and told police where to find more photos!! keep up on the news people
Despicable person.
Thank you BC123: I am glad to know he is taking responsibility for his deranged actions. 64 counts of KIddie Porn is pretty damning at best. I will never, ever understand how a grown man can want to watch children have sex, that is so disgusting on so many levels. There is nothing more deplorable than adults preying on children. I mean, could you imagine being married and finding your husband's collection of sicko kiddie porn on the computer? I would vomit on the spot! What a sad, pathetic little man this former teacher is to have such filth in his life.
Anyone, any age, anywhere that looks at kiddie porn is disgusting and vile. I hope they keep this man locked up for a very long, long time.
Aveteran: I agree with you!!!
Killer: False accusations are a very few and far between, the prisons, however, are filled with men that claim to be innocent. Usually when someone is accused of a sexually deviant act, such as kiddie(sicko) porn lover, or child monster( molester) they are very guilty. Not only are they guilty, but they have been engaging is the freakish behavior for years, before they are finally caught and brought to justice. In the meantime, child are being molested, violated and objectified at the expense of a deranged pervert.
I strongly urge parents to check out different sexual predator websites and see what kind of sex offenders are in your neighborhood. The 8 year old girl that is missing lives by no less than 80 sex offenders in her trailer park. Had her mother checked the websites, she never would have let that girl go out of the house alone in that neighborhood. http://www.nvsexoffenders.gov/
http://www.klaaskids.org/st-nev.htm
starry -- you base your false accusations opinion on what?
Over the years I've worked with several people who had been falsely accused of rape. One of them was James Anderson, founder of Society Against False Accusations of Rape (SAFAR), who spent years in prison for something he did not do. The motive for the false accusations was an inadvertent benefit of "victims" legislation -- his accuser received a bounty of about $25,000 from the state once he was pronounced guilty. You can find him by Google.
In every case the accusation carried the guilt with it -- court, all that, was just a formality for a verdict that had already been made. So much funding comes down on the side of "victims" as soon as the accusation is made the presumption of innocence usually isn't even given lip service. Before any court or jury has examined the evidence of the accusation the media and crusaders like you are already looking to lynch the accused by endlessly repeating "victimvictimvictimvictimvictim ..." For there to be a victim there must be a victimizer.
One of the "child molesters" I helped along the way was a 12 year old boy seduced by a younger boy who was sexually precocious and already had a juvenile record. Because a stupid law said since he was older, even though he was the innocent one, he was treated as a child rapist from the very beginning. So far as I know he still has to register wherever he goes, just from that one incident of childhood experimenting.
And teenagers, especially girls, are among the most prolific accusers. If you don't give them what they want they start telling lies. The recent Duke University athletes case comes to mind. A good start for this point would be http://abuse.suite101.com/article.cfm/fa...
Rape and child molesting are the same class of crimes, and the guilty get lifelong sex offender status.
My objection to the crap you spew, starry, is you speak in such unqualified absolutes. Your opinions show up here without cause or reasoning, and they have no credibility with me.
In the meantime the truly innocent, the falsely accused, have no recourse, and their lives are over. Especially if the falsely accused is a teacher.
I'll try to phrase this in a way that won't get removed this time.
No one will deny that interest in kiddie porn in just plain wrong. But the attraction to it may be stronger than you suspect. Simply ask yourself why the practice of "waxing" and other hair removal techniques are so popular. Those who are attracted to the resulting appearance may well have an inclination they would prefer not to admit to.
Killer: MY objection to your constant defense of child molesters and sick pediphiles is what disgust me the most. You constantly defend sexual predators and insist that they are all falsely accused. Your thoughts and opinions of me don't move me in the slightest. You are just as bad as the fifth you defend on a daily basis. You base your opinions on a few, random cases that you may or may not know to be true. The majority of all people who are raped, or molested, do in fact have a valid case against the pervs that have assaulted them, and THEY will never be the same after being molested by some sick, freak.
They will have to live with the damage and go to therapy etc to rebuild themselves after they have been violated.
Teen girls are the ones that have the highest percentage or rapes. And many, many, many rapes go unreported because the women are ashamed or humiliated and don't want to stand trial.
You go on and defend the scum of the universe all you want. You are not going to bully me off these boards. If you don't like what I have to say, then just don't read it...(duh)
And FYI: The teacher admitted he had the porn and showed the police where to find the rest of it... Geez, get a freakin clue.
Professor Anderson's conclusion is noteworthy in light of the often repeated claim of advocates that this information is known definitively: "false accusations account for only 2% of all reported sexual assaults. This is no higher than false reports for other crimes.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimpro...
According to the 1999 United States National Crime Victimization Survey, only 39% of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement officials. For male rape, less than 10% are believed to be reported. Female-male and female-female rape are ignored altogether in this survey. The most common reasons given by victims for not reporting rapes are the belief that it is a personal or private matter, and that they fear reprisal from the assailant. A 2007 government report in England says "Estimates from research suggest that between 75 and 95 per cent of rape crimes are never reported to the police."[6]
Amen starry. I'm reminded about how I used to watch Law and Order episodes. I would root for the criminal, thinking he was falsely accused. Later I caught on that that's not the show's format. While this isn't entirely an apples to apples comparison, it does hold. While some people are falsely accused, to go on the offensive against the accused is perverse. And yeah I do find it hard to believe a guy was framed when so much evidence was found. It would be like an annonymous tipster with a vial of crack saying there's a big crack house nearby. The police go in and find, cocaine, baking soda, various resonated paraphranalia used in the manufacture of crack as well as pieces used to smoke said crack. Well that was an obvious frame up, right?
starry -- Your slogan should be "Ignorance is strength."
The problem with you and your ilk is you make the leap straight from accusation to conclusions. All without considering facts or the possibility of innocence. By then you are ready to execute and mitigating facts/truth have become irrelevant. I question you and then become a guilty partner with the accused. You then have plenty of speculation and equally baseless falsehoods to hurl at me.
Doesn't that sound like a lynch mob to you?
What we know of this man (at least from the Sun articles, all I go on since I don't have a TV) is he's respected by those who actually know him, and whom he's taught. Nothing indicates he's actually done anything harmful to anyone. Everything so far is just speculation on what he does in private, what's in his head, and what he MIGHT do.
Some of us call that what it is "thoughtcrime."
As far as "he broke the law" goes, that carries little weight with people like me. Those involved in the Salem witch trials -- accusers, judges, even some of the accused -- were convinced of their guilt. Yet we know now they were guilty of nothing but religious zeal and the hysteria of young women.
On one thumb drive, investigators found several photos and 10 pornographic videos, which included scenes of men with boys about 7 to 10 years old, the report said. The same drive contained lesson plans and other school materials with Rogers' name on them and some family snapshots including Rogers, according to the report.
Police searched Rogers' home and found a photo album with more than 50 pictures of child pornography in a drawer under his bed, the report said. Rogers admitted to having the photos at his house, the report said.
I believe the boys in the pictures found in his home are being violated:scenes of men with boys about 7 to 10 years old are not just children in a harmless photo. According to you, "a thought crime"
Someone, somewhere took these sick photos and exploited these young, young boys.
How low can you stoop to WANT to look at boys that are 7 to 10 years old having sex with deranged men?
Child porn is not a victimless crime as you would have us believe.
I believe that 7 years old is when kids start FIRST GRADE, next time you see a young child with a front tooth missing, carrying home his very first pictures to mom, you remember this is the age of the boys involved with men in these photos...little, innocent FIRST grade boys who should be playing with cars and swinging on the playground.
Transplant prisoners cost the prison system a lot of money, tons!
Hey starry, I guess he's just FOR kiddie porn. If the guy admitted that he has kiddie porn and came clean, throw him in the slammer and make sure he doesn't teach any more kids.
Starrynight, don't put words in his mouth. I don't recall him defending child porn collectors and molesters. He was defending people who have not been proven guilty but are seen as such due to the nature of the accused crime.
Since Rogers admitted to the crime and gave more evidence there's not much more to be said about false accusations, on his behalf.
This man probably won't get the help he needs and will rot in a prison cell. I just hope he never took advantage of his own students.
I wander if school districts across the country are asking the Vatican how to manage damage control on this one.
mr rogers is a wonderful man!!!!
none of you lame-os know him i had him as a teacher he was my favorite teacher in middle school!!! i cant imagine he would do something like this and i think he was framed!!!!theres a conspiracy going on here man! and screw you starryfag! i dont like wat ur saying! and stevecan2...wtf why would we ask the vatican for anything???? theyre catholic they molest little boys alllll the time!!!! and besides the church(especially the vatican) has nothing to do with school!!!