Petite Pimp from Bartlett Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

This poor girl was abused by everyone in her life, even one of her attorneys.  This is one of the harshest sentences I've seen in a while.  She has been abused since twelve ad the judge sentences her to 14 years in federal prison.  READ ON...................


Petite Pimp from Bartlett Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

A petite pimp is heading to prison. A Bartlett woman, 19-year-old Kala Bray, was sentenced Thursday for forcing minors to have sex for money. Bray will serve 14 years in federal prison. She pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges in November 2011. The defense painted her as a victim, not as a sexual predator, but the prosecution says she's a danger to the public.

Prosecutors claim Bray has been involved in prostitution since she was 14 years old. First as the victim, sexually abused and exploited, and then later as the attacker doing the same thing to the people she called her friends. The judge says he believes she's remorseful but her choices in life have serious consequences.

"It's mind boggling. Words can't describe it. It's just an unbelievable, an upsetting situation,” said Bray’s defense attorney, Michael Scholl, after the sentencing Thursday afternoon.

Bray, a 100 pound, blue-eyed, blond haired girl of Bartlett was labeled a sexual predator and victim.

"Ms. Bray has gone through an extremely traumatic history of abuse, both through strangers and people she trusted,” said Scholl.

One of the people she trusted was her former attorney, Mark Saripkin. According to court documents, Saripkin was accused of having sex with her in exchange for his legal fees. He gave up his law license a few months ago because of those allegations and she was assigned a new lawyer, Michael Scholl.

"He took advantage of her sexually, mentally, physically and that's just a repulsive, unbelievable set of circumstances,” Scholl told ABC24 News.

Prosecutors say Bray's life started to spiral out of control when she was 12 years old. She abused drugs like marijuana, cocaine, Oxycontin, Xanax and alcohol. Eventually, she started pimping girls online using Backpage.com, a website infamous for prostitution and child trafficking.

"I would say it's akin to modern day slavery and particularly when you prey upon our most vulnerable victims, in this case children, minors, that is something society won't tolerate," said U.S. Attorney for the Tennessee Western District Edward Stanton.

Prosecutors say in the summer of 2011 Bray lured two Memphis girls, ages 15 and 16, to Houston with promises of a trip to a water park. Bray and her co-defendant, Vincent "Pistol Pete" Jones, drugged the girls and forced them to have sex for money.

Bray has been behind bars since she pleaded guilty to the sex trafficking conspiracy on November 4, 2011. On Thursday, October 11, 2012, the judge sentenced her to 14 years in federal prison and 5 years supervised release. The judge also ordered Bray into a drug treatment program and she has to register as a sex offender.

As for Jones, he also pleaded guilty to the same charge of child sex trafficking on July 7, 2012. He will be sentenced on December 14, 2012.

Azov Film Production

A debate between “naturalist” photos and child porn.

A few years ago, Federal agents raided and closed Azov Film Company in Canada.  Azov was well-known in the porn business as a distributer of “nearly-porn” movies of your Crimean boys wrestling and frolicking together.  The idea was that if the movies were not “sexual” than they would not be kiddie-porn.  The videos were referenced in the on-line boy porn chat rooms as “naturalist” videos and not as pornographic.  Well the Feds have disagreed.

The first in what may become a pathetically painful mass arrest related to Azov Films occurred today when Dr. Richard Keller, a 56-year-old pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital was arrested for possession of child pornography. The arrest affidavit appears to have been made on the basis of Azov Films DVDs.  See, http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/keller-affidavit.pdf

Azov was a company from Crimea (Ukraine) which filmed boys in non-sexual naturist situations, mostly outdoors or in sporting facilities. Its main impresario, Igor Rusanov, was arrested in early August 2011 by Ukrainian authorities. He was accused of manufacturing pornography, which in Ukraine, is illegal no matter what age group is involved. He had made at least two pornographic films featuring males over 18.

Rusanov's ostensibly legal films of under-18's became objects of legal scrutiny in the U.S. just before Rusanov was arrested. A distribution plant was raided and records were seized. Since then, many customers of the studio have been waiting to see what would happen.

Anonymous boychat.org poster Vallhund was able to identify the film titles in the Keller affidavit as pertaining exclusively to Azov. Here is a quote from his posting today (September 14, 2012). Azov Films posted material about the legality of its products on its website, and sold its non-sexual nudist DVDs, mostly showing sports scenes, showers, saunas and swimming, in the understanding that U.S. law in all but a few states allowed the portrayal of ‘nudity only’ for all age groups. The classification of the material as child-pornographic represents a marked cinching-up of the interpretation of existing laws, rather than the appearance of new legislation. Keller is thus the victim of an experiment in conservative legal change put forward by prosecuting authorities, rather than a conscious lawbreaker.

Since victims of such psychosexual assaults by law enforcement agencies nearly always capitulate to their humiliation, there is a danger that Keller may plead guilty and thus enable the establishment of this legal change. Professionals working with children are typically the earliest victims in campaigns of this nature. Based on the pattern shown in the takedown of the boylover.net website, the many who are not legal offenders in any heretofore known way then become sullied in press releases with the crimes of the small minority who were contact offenders.

Given the probable number of people who ordered Azov DVDs, the indictment are going to start coming fast and furrous.  Look out if you believed the on-line discussions about the legality of the videos. 

As we have just started into our Avoz case, we cannot determine if the videos

are legal or not.