OK for suspect to view child porn in Tacoma jail

A man accused of child sex crimes is allowed to view child pornography in the Pierce County Jail in Tacoma.

The sheriff and the prosecutor don't like it. But Weldon Marc Gilbert is acting as his own lawyer in the case and that means he's allowed to review the evidence.

More than 100 videos were seized from Gilbert's Lake Tapps home after his arrest in 2007. Gilbert worked as a pilot and is accused of using money and alcohol to lure more than a dozen boys to his home where they were molested.

KIRO-FM reports that when Gilbert views his videos in the jail he's with an investigator in a separate room visible to jail guards.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015591611_apwachildpornjail.html

being used against him. So, just not this defendant?

he is a sick fuck.

and he is continuing his sick fuck behavior.

It sounds like this guy video-taped himself molesting and raping all those boys, according to the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014393/Suspected-paedophile-allowed-watch-child-porn-prison-thanks-sickening-legal-loophole.html

Is he really going to deny it was him on all the recordings?


What is there to be gained by him personally reviewing every minute detail of the evidence? Couldn't they just provide him a description of what's on the recordings? I mean, they are going to show it all in court anyway, does he really need to go over every second of the footage and sexually excite himself over his collection of victims again and again?

I'm all for a defendant being able to review the evidence against him, but just as they don't have to produce a physical "bloody knife" for the defendant to physically hold and examine in jail, I don't see why they have to let actual porn in there as well. A one-paragraph description of each DVD should be plenty.

But I'm sure jail staff is monitoring him to make sure he isn't masturbating to the material again and again... :eyes:

:puke: