Alabama man raped, videotaped his son with other man in interstate child porn ring: prosecutors
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Carl Philip Herold subjected his 9-year-old son to the abuse while Charles Dunnavant participated, cops say. The disturbing allegations could be part of a larger, interstate child porn ring, prosecutors fear.
Charles Dunnavant was charged with sodomy, sexual torture, aggravated child abuse and exposing person to an STD for his connection to the Huntsville child sexual abuse and pornography case.
Two Alabama men kept a 9-year-old
boy captive for months as they sexually tortured him and filmed it as part of a
larger child porn ring, prosecutors in Huntsville say in a disturbing case.
So disturbing were the more than 100
photographs police found that officers could not even positively identify the
boy because they could not bear to look, cops said in court on Monday,
Charles Dunnavant is charged with
sexual torture, sodomy, aggravated child abuse and exposing a person to an STD.
Carl Philip Herold, the boy’s
father, is charged with sodomy, sexual abuse, aggravated child abuse, child
pornography production, distributing child pornography and with allowing his
child to be depicted in pornography.
"He has the means of travel,
family out of state and some of the allegations are there was much travel in
the lives of Dunnavant and Herold," Madison County Assistant District
Attorney Gabrielle Helix said at a bond hearing Monday. "They held the child
captive for eight months and there are no standards, taboos or lines this
defendant and his co-defendant hesitated to cross."
Carl Philip Herold held his 9-year-old son captive for months, sexually torturing him and filming it as part of a larger child porn ring, prosecutors say.
Herold, originally from Wyoming, had only lived in Huntsville for about eight months. During that time, he allowed Dunnavant to move in, a partnership prosecutors say spawned the child porn ring.RELATED: BODY PULLED FROM POTOMAC RIVER IDENTIFIED AS DISGRACED D.C. COP
Evidence shows the men took the child across state lines for “criminal sexual purposes,” AL.com reported.
Herold has a computer programming background and runs a popular YouTube channel where he livestreams programming lessons. Prosecutors say his son was not enrolled in school in Huntsville and that they think he was kept in the home without interaction with the outside world.
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Dunnavant, who grew up near the northern Alabama and southern Tennessee border, was arrested at a family member’s home in Tennessee.
Prosecutors have requested $1 million bond for both men.
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