Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Travis Cook, who wished 11-year-old girls could be strippers, pleads guilty to child porn charges

Posted by Peter Rugg on Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:15 AM

click to enlarge Travis Cook tried to fry his computer's memory card in a skillet.
  • Travis Cook tried to fry his computer's memory card in a skillet.

"I wish that 11-year-old girls could work at strip clubs," Travis Cook wrote once on an Internet forum dedicated to child porn. The 37-year-old Kansas City man admitted this when he pleaded guilty in

federal court yesterday to receiving child pornography over the

Internet and the story gets twisted and desperate from there.


According to U.S. Attorney's Office, federal agents went to Cook's apartment on March 13, 2009, to have a chat but Cook refused to talk and wouldn't let them in his apartment or look at his computer. As the feds stood in the hallway calling for a search warrant, they heard him busting CDs in half.

The feds pounded on Cook's door but he wouldn't answer. An agent

found a maintenance man to unlock the door and inside they found CDs

all over the apartment, a laptop monitor ripped off its hinges and a

burning RAM memory card on a skillet on the stove. s melting RAM memory

card.

Cook couldn't destroy everything. Agents seized:

  • 59 CDs
  • 13 DVDs with child porn images and movies
  • a backpack with about 80 destroyed CD ROM disks with handwritten labels notating child porn series
  • shredded child porn pictures
  • ripped up erotic fiction featuring sex with kids.
The computer hardware Cook didn't melt contained thousands of images and movie files of children as well as child porn.

Investigators then searched the Lee's Summit home of Cook's father, who told them his son sometimes used his computer. That machine also had images of child porn and videos. Cook had also attempted to subscribe to a child porn Web site on his father's computer, but his credit card was rejected.

Cook faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison without parole, up to 20 years in federal prison without parole, a fine of up to $250,000 and an order of restitution.

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Superb read, I just passed this onto a friend who was doing a little researching on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him.... smile.. So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!But yeah Thank you for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful for me.

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Posted by wangqw on 05/25/2010 at 4:12 AM

Life in prison for looking at pictures? That's insane. If anything, they should just put him on probation and force him into counseling. Sending people to prison for looking at pictures doesn't do anybody any good.

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Posted by KansasVoter on 03/02/2010 at 12:19 PM

Why not life in prison without parole

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Posted by Anonymous on 03/02/2010 at 12:09 PM
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