Man accused of child rape allowed to watch child porn in jail.

[ohiosmith]

TACOMA, Wash. — A man accused of child sex crimes is being allowed to watch child pornography inside the Pierce County Jail in Tacoma, Wash.

Marc Gilbert, 50, is accused of sexually assaulting young boys and videotaping the abuse. Because he's chosen to act as his own attorney, he has unlimited access to that pornographic footage, which is considered evidence in the case.

"Make no mistake — I don't like it,"  Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor told komonews.com. "But it is not my choice whether to do it or not to do it. There's no question that I don't like it. There's no question that this makes me grind my teeth."

Gilbert, who appears in several of the videos, was charged with child rape, child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor in 2007, after the brother of two alleged victims called police.

Link: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43745650/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[hobbit709]

1. Stick a fork in him, he's done.

[ohiosmith]

4. We can only hope.

[RedCloud]

2. Once the general prision population catches wind of this, expect some "thinning".

[ohiosmith]

5. Considering the charges, he'll stay in protective custody until the trial.

[CaliforniaHiker]

3. So they have him on tape

committing the crime, and they can't stop him from viewing it? Even if he is acting as his own attorney, something seems wrong about this.

[ohiosmith]

6. Since he is representing himself, if convicted he will have a lifetime of child porno as he goes

through the appeals process.

[LiberalAndProud]

11. That can't be true.

Appeal courts can't reconsider evidence, they evaluate the trial and evaluate new evidence not presented in the original trial. This will come to a swift and just end, I hope.

[ohiosmith]

12. True. He could base appeals on video evidence not presented at the original trial could he not?

[LiberalAndProud]

13. I'm no lawyer, but I seriously doubt it.

[freshwest]

7. @#$%&*!!!

[ohiosmith]

8. HEY! Language.

:wtf:

[freshwest]

9. You deciphered that?

[ohiosmith]

10. It's my gift.

[freshwest]

14. Uh, what did I say?

Oh, that's right, language...

[ohiosmith]

15. @#$%&*!!!

[freshwest]

16. I can't decipher it, though. Although I meant it in the worst possible way.