Scum convicted of traveling to the Philippines to rape children

[Jollygoodfellow]

There certainly are some scum bags out there. Hope he gets a long time in jail. 

 

Man convicted of traveling to Philippines for sex with children

A Sacramento man who worked as an airline pilot has been convicted of traveling to the Philippines to have sex with minors.

A federal jury in Sacramento on Tuesday found Michael Carey Clemans guilty of attempted travel and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, conspiracy to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and buying of children, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office news release. On the first day of his trial, Clemans, 57, pleaded guilty to three additional counts: conspiracy to produce child pornography, attempted production and production of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography.

Beginning in June 2014, Clemans conspired with a woman in the Philippines to produce child pornography, according to court documents. Clemans was temporarily living in Bangkok, where he worked as an airline pilot.

In April 2015, Clemans returned to his Sacramento residence and continued the overseas conspiracy using his online account to chat with the Filipino woman. He discussed with the woman various strategies to obtain minor girls whom he could rape, the news release said. He told the woman how to find vulnerable youngsters, directing her to look for orphans and typhoon victims.

Clemans paid the woman nearly $6,000 so she could buy photographic equipment and find discreet locations for sexually explicit photo shoots of the victims, who were as young as 7 years old. He gave the woman specific instructions on how to photograph the children to he could determine which one he would travel to the Philippines to rape, the news release said. On some occasions, Clemans paid a co-conspirator to obtain temporary custody of children in the Philippines and produce child pornography for him.

Evidence was presented during Clemans’ trial that he participated in another scheme with other individuals in November 2013 in which he traveled from the United States to Manila to engage in sexual conduct with minors, including an 11-year-old, after requesting pornographic images of the minors.

He is to be sentenced Dec. 12 by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez. Clemans faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years in prison for the charge of “buying children,” a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine, the news release said.

The case was brought as part of the Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the by the Department of Justice in 2006 to combat child exploitation and abuse.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article171459757.html

[Jake]

Hopefully, the Filipina (and others like her) was also given the opportunity to rot in jail.  

[mogo51]

Hope the scumbag gets the crap belted out of him when he is in the 'joint'  He will be as popular as a pork chop in a synagogue when he gets there.

[earthdome]

He should be sentenced to serve his time, hopefully the rest of his life, in a philippines prison rather than a club fed prison.

[Gator]

3 hours ago, earthdome said:

He should be sentenced to serve his time, hopefully the rest of his life, in a philippines prison rather than a club fed prison.

Fully agree! And not be given any soap on a rope too!

But from all I've ever read about he won't have it easy in an American prison. Even among the worst of the worst offenders, pedophiles those who rape/abuse the elderly are looked down on. 

[Jollygoodfellow]

6 hours ago, earthdome said:

hopefully the rest of his life, in a philippines prison rather than a club fed prison.

I think its is the US that brought the charges so thats where he will be staying. 

[marine6357]

Yes it is US federal courts that are trying him, JGF. and also he will be a very popular man with all the ones that are going to make his life a living Hell in there. Unless they put him in protective isolation. We can only hope that the authorities allow justice to be done.

[Mike J]

7 hours ago, Gator said:

But from all I've ever read about he won't have it easy in an American prison. Even among the worst of the worst offenders, pedophiles those who rape/abuse the elderly are looked down on. 

When I lived in Washington state I knew a guy who had served "hard time" in Walla Walla state penitentiary for robbery.  He learned his lesson, had gone straight, and turned his life around.  Over lunch one time he explained to me how rapists were considered the low life in prison, and those who rape children the lowest of the low.  He went on to tell me about a pedophile rapist at Walla Walla who was found beaten to death, his "member" cut off, put in his mouth, and his lips then sewn shut.  When fellow prisons were asked what happened, every prisoner told the investigator that it was a clear case of suicide.

[mogo51]

8 hours ago, Gator said:

Fully agree! And not be given any soap on a rope too!

But from all I've ever read about he won't have it easy in an American prison. Even among the worst of the worst offenders, pedophiles those who rape/abuse the elderly are looked down on. 

Same in Oz.  They have to be kept in 'protection' there as the crims bash them. I find that rather ironic as they did not 'protect' the children they abused.

[Reboot]

They should put him in with the general population and let nature run its course.