Man, estranged wife charged with filming themselves raping girl, 4

[Blue_Tires]

Source: Seattle Times

A Kent man and his estranged wife filmed themselves raping a 4-year-old girl and traded Web images of the abuse with a man facing child-molestation charges in Southern California, King County prosecutors allege.

Brian Beston, 36, and Hollie Beston, 31, of Burien, were arrested by Seattle police last week after the FBI learned of the couple from the child-molestation suspect in San Diego, according to the charges filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court.

The Bestons have each been charged with first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor and depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. They are being held at the King County Jail on $500,000 each.

King County prosecutors say the unlikely tipster is a 38-year-old man, who San Diego authorities say is facing 42 years in prison for years of abusing a boy he was mentoring. The man, Richard Hockaday, reported the Bestons' alleged abuse "as part of his therapy," according to King County charging papers.

The San Diego man told federal investigators that he met the Bestons on Craigslist. Hockaday advertised himself as a single mother looking for parents in Seattle and San Diego with whom to carry out some sort of "fantasy," charging papers said.



Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010163108_webabuse29m.html

[aquart]

1. I don't even know how to imagine wanting to do that.

[Louisiana1976]

45. Me, neither.

:puke:

[cosmicone]

2. Sick fucks n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. +1000

[rpannier]

3. looking for parents in Seattle and San Diego with whom to carry out some sort of "fantasy

That'd be a tip-off for me that something was up

Not married couple...parents

[Name removed]

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[LeftishBrit]

5. How sick

Poor little thing. I hope she gets the help she needs, and the abusers are put in prison and the key thrown away - I wonder if they've abused others?

[fasttense]

6. I can not understand these people's sickness and I don't want to.

They are simply torturers of children.

There has got to be a special place in Hell for such sadistic torturers.

[proteus_lives]

7. Vermin like this make me pine for the days of hangings in front of the courthouse.

:mad:

How could anyone even think of doing something like that? :puke:

[indimuse]

8. Most disturbing! n/t

[carlyhippy]

9. Why hasn't craigslist been shut down yet?

Or at the very least, monitored? Ads like this should have never been allowed!

[harmonicon]

13. so a new free ads site could just be put up somewhere else?

How could they be monitored? Your argument is like saying hotmail should be shut down if someone exchanged illegal information through that service.

[shadowknows69]

10. Ok, I give up. I'm for capital punishment.

[Piewhacket]

12. er... after a fair trial?

[shadowknows69]

19. Well yes. Actually I prefer what happened up here recently.

A guy busted with thousands of pics of child pornography offed himself before trial. I think all convicted scum bags should be offered a cyanide tablet if they want it.

[SharonAnn]

36. Several years ago here, a grandfather killed himself the night before his trial

on charges of molesting his granddaughters. Come to find out, he'd molested his daughters, their friends, the neighbors' children and their friends over the years. He'd been doing it since he was a young man. At least 70 years of molesting young girls. Over and over and over again. He'd been confronted a couple of times and told "Jeb, you just got to stop doin' that." But until a teacher acted on information from his granddaughter, no formal charges were filed.

Best assessments were that this one man molested nearly 100 young girls during his lifetime.

The damage one molester can do is incredible.

[shadowknows69]

20. ETA: Also only in the case of indisputable evidence.

[Piewhacket]

22. what is 'indesputable' evidence?

[shadowknows69]

24. DNA or a confession would be nice.

[Piewhacket]

29. DNA has its limits, and confessions can be false. These are disputable. Yes?

[shadowknows69]

31. Yeah, ok, you win Serpico. I don't have the energy for this boredom.

[Piewhacket]

40. hey, come back , I was just getting warmed up....

:evilgrin:

hard questions, huh?
that's the 'death penalty debate', my friend.
exactly it (part of it).

a person of conscience and integrity may find it
hard to work through. especially when every nerve
has been rubbed raw by a horrific crime.
I believe that is the case for you.

But perhaps you will consider that when next you
see the death penalty advocated.

you're a good sport shadowknows69.
catch you later.

[Pavulon]

58. I am happy for them to die in Florence or whatever has superseded it

as the most isolated hardest time in the US. No tv, no direct sunlight, ever. That, my friend is crushing, "look up buddy, that is the last time you will ever see blue sky or sunlight". No prisoner contact. No ambient sound, except a florescent light ballast. I bet those turds would pay you to blow their brains out after 10 years. Complete isolation.

So they can die there climbing the walls and eating their own shit to get attention of some guys with a high pressure hose to spray them off.

On the other hand the grave is an escape proof cell.

I see NO VALUE in a person who has been proven by dna or video to have done this. Their only value is in the organs that could go to those in need.

[axollot]

59. This is so true. Justice is the best we can hope for - that the system works

correctly, avoiding it's worst faults. I was for the death penalty before I was against it. Yep, facts hit me in the face upon moving back to the US where despite being born here never lived here as an adult so my 'view' while living in a country that had stop death penalty decades before. I was young when I supported it, and formed an opinion, without the facts.

Example of the morality and ethics at issue within me, for lack of better term. Somer Thompson's death happened very close to home, we knew their family but only casually, our kids played some sports together. I remember Somer and her twin Sam as lovely kids and their family as average, normal and decent. Much like millions of other Mothers any where in the US. It could have been any of our children in that area. Somer's death will never be in vain for our community.

It's a tight community and Im a parent myself of a girl her age. Admittedly, I wish the horrific on the monster/s involved, reverting to my basic instincts internally. Yet, we have to trust and support the police to do their jobs, follow the law and given the circumstances they had to work with, are doing a fantastic job. Deserving of credit, they've handled the criminal aspect very well and have even set new procedures for missing endanged children, being implimented around the country. (or will be at some point, sadly) After seeing many cases go on with nothing here in Florida - the several unsolved abductions all in bordering counties with each other (Somer's in Clay county) Cummings (Putnam) and Duckett (Lee or Ocala County, cant remember which atm), all made mistakes early in the case (dealing with the media mostly) still LEO gave their all and continue to work these cases, each very similar, but different cases involving the life of very young children.

Trust me, this community would love to get vigilante on the murder/s, delivering our own cruel and unusual punishment, calling it 'justice'. That fine line between civility or brutality. Democracy.

We know as a community that Sheriff Bessler works like a pro, his officers, deputies are good guys. Never seen them in say - riot gear or hear tales of abuse of police powers. They've also not up-trained by Blackwater, which I pray never happens. They've been playing their cards close to their chest. Giving excellent advice.

If there is a chance that 1 innocent person is put to death it's not worth it. Then there is the cost, not to mention is it serving justice? Dealing with keeping innocent people out of jail, is hard enough and should be more important than putting them to death, Appellate court etc. We need to focus on reducing those numbers, divert money in that direction rather than death.

Cheers
Sandy

[Ter]

44. Making a false confession is their own stupidity

N/T.

[Piewhacket]

47. Its not about them. Its about you. Death penalty based only on false confession... or not?

[Heidi]

52. The Innocence Project disagrees with you. Innocent people confess for many other reasons.

Why do innocent people confess?
A variety of factors can contribute to a false confession during a police interrogation. Many cases have included a combination of several of these causes. They include:

* duress
* coercion
* intoxication
* diminished capacity
* mental impairment
* ignorance of the law
* fear of violence
* the actual infliction of harm
* the threat of a harsh sentence
* Misunderstanding the situation

In about 25% of DNA exoneration cases, innocent defendants made incriminating statements, delivered outright confessions or pled guilty.

The Innocence Project: False Confessions

[EOTE]

66. Have you ever seen an interrogation session?

Police can lie their asses off with no repercussion. They can make to person being interrogated think they've got an air tight case against them and that only by confessing do they have a chance to get off with a lighter sentence. It's really a form of mental torture what they do to some people. And there have been many innocent people who have made confessions under these circumstances. Doing so doesn't make them any less innocent. I saw a documentary about a young boy who was accused of killing members of his family. Initially he knew he didn't do it, but during the several hours long interrogation, the police showed him all of their "incontrovertible" evidence, the bulk of which was made up. Eventually the boy cracked and confessed to everything, he actually began to believe that he must have been responsible and blacked out while doing it. Confessions don't mean all that much.

[EndersDame]

63. Were these people not on film?

I would say that is pretty indisputable.

[Uben]

11. Death by horror

That's what they should get, just like the poor girl got!

Chainsaws, lions, or sumpim really horrible

[TheWraith]

26. If it helps, they likely won't last long in prison.

Child molesters in prison are disproportionately likely to be raped and tortured to death.

[Mariana]

55. Are they? Why so many repeat offenders, then?

Obviously an awful lot of them not only survive their sentences, but the experience isn't even unpleasant enough to put them off doing it again.

[Odin2005]

15. Death Penalty!

:grr: :cry:

[Indenturedebtor]

16. I'm with you n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

21. +1

These people are disgusting excuses for human beings. That poor child...

[Brickbat]

17. I despise vigilante justice and think the horror of prison rape needs to be ended. Having said that,

I have trouble being 100 percent sorry that people like this will meet the fate so many child molesters get when they go to prison.

[chatnoir]

18. Ugh, I don't know what to say anymore....

And this is someone who, in her Google profile, says:

"I have a problem with caring for people too much, which leads to people trying to use me. I enjoy doing a variety of things and have hopes and dreams that will someday come true. It is a lot of fun meeting new people but I am careful because I have a young one to take care of."

http://www.google.com/profiles/103375333371182965958

[earcandle]

23. What have some people come to, to wish this on a child?

[rasputin1952]

25. These are not "people", they are animals...

no one whom could do this to a child can be considered human.

Life w/o parole if convicted. We have prisons filled with non-violent offenders that smoked pot....and monsters like this roam the street.

[paulsby]

46. oh please. not this crap again

people who go to prison (note that there is a difference between prison and jail) for pot, almost always have multiple prior felonies AND had some kind of bust involving either major weight, or a major sales/distribution case.

the reality is, that if you simply smoke pot (iow, you aren't a dealer, etc.) your chances of going to JAIL, let alone prison are very slim. as a first offense, they are practically non-existent.

i've called people out on this before, and asked them to provide specifics, and they never do

because it's a total myth.

many jurisdictions, it is not even a crime to possess small amounts of pot. it's a civil infraction (california comes to mind).

fwiw, i strongly believe pot should be legalized or at least decriminalized.

but this constantly repeated lie does not get any truer because it keeps getting repeated.

there are NOT prisons filled with offenders who are there merely for smoking pot.

it's simply not true.

fwiw, i have followed many cases in the court database, and find that the VAST majority of people who are arrested for pot (and notice many people who are caught with pot by the cops are told to dispose of it on scene. it never even GETS to court), are given a small fine and the chance to have the case wiped (iow, no conviction) if they don't get in trouble for the next year.

that's par for the course.

you REALLY have to work very hard to get to prison for smoking pot

note also, that technically speaking, in all or nearly all jurisdictions, SMOKING pot is not a crime. possessing it is.

generally speaking, you gotta possess it TO smoke it, but it is a technicality.

[JNelson6563]

48. It's different everywhere.

Here in northern MI where there isn't much crime, believe me, a couple of kids with a joint will likely result in a bunch of cop cars showing up and they'd act like it was a major crime. It is so out of control it's pathetic.

Yeah, caught with pot here, even just a very little, you're looking at lots of fines, expensive programs and probation if you want to stay out of jail.

Julie

[paulsby]

61. that may very well be true

my argument was with PRISONS filled with people who were there for smoking pot claim.

that's just laughably false.

i am sure there are some jurisdictions, where a few days in the clink (local jail) for pot possession is not uncommon.

that's a big distinction from PRISONS (note you can't even GET to prison w/o at least a year sentence) filled with people there for smoking pot.

it is very difficult to get sent to prison for merely smoking pot.

i'm not going to say it's never happened, but it's swimmingly rare

[rasputin1952]

50. Everywhere is different....

A kid in TX got LIFE because his brother left a roach in the ashtray. Might have been other mitigating circumstances, but point is, the kid's in prison. Even after his brother in open court admitted to leaving the roach there.

Here in NE, under an oz it's a $100 fine/infraction, legislature trying to "re-criminalize" it though.

Just a thought here, but prison should be for violent criminals that need to be kept off the streets for the safety of the public. (Like those mentioned in the story above).

You can believe anything you want, I know of people in prison for little more than entering a plea agreement under duress. People have been incarcerated and executed because they were innocent of the crime they were found "guilty" of. The ONLY place on earth that has more people in prison than the US is Russia, and China might, if they didn't execute as many as they do, (we might have actually surpassed Russia at this point).

"Drug enforcement" is big money, huge sums pass through hands and yet the "problem" rises each year.

One other thought, if even one person is in prison for possession of pot, it's one too many...Just ask Tommy Chong.

[paulsby]

62. let's not get off topic

the tommy chong case was a travesty (and typical of federal vs. local justice), but he did not go to jail or prison for SMOKING pot.

again, i notice no evidence is provided.

the reality is this. the prisons are NOT full of people who were put there for smoking pot.

that's laughable.

and everytime this stupid, nonsensical, counterfactual meme comes up, i will call it out and ask for data.

which is NEVER provided, because it's false.

[bertman]

27. WTF. WTF could make someone sick enough to do something like that to a child??

I really want to know the answer. Were they abused as children? Are they people who had a brain injury that precipitated this type of behavior? Were they doing some drugs that fucked their minds up so badly that they thought that raping a four year old child was even a possibility?

This is what makes me believe that some people should be culled from society. Permanently. Not put into a prison or a mental institution, but killed for the good of society. We are animals. Some of us cannot control our baser animal instincts and deserve to be "selected out" for the benefit of our species.

Give them a fair trial and if the charges are true and they are found guilty, take them out and destroy them.

[Flaneur]

28. I really don't understand why we always post the crime of the day here.

It's sick shit, doesn't have anything to do with politics, and just lets us get our hate on.

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. It's news and some of us like to read it

I've been a news junkie most of my life and read stories like this because to me they are less depressing than reading political stories.

I also think we can learn from crimes like this. If we hadn't published stories of children missing, would we have an Amber Alert system in place? Would sex offenders have to register if their crimes weren't reported?

Bottom line - you don't have to kick on the thread if you don't like the subject.

[Blue_Tires]

35. it is news, imo... and i post a lot in LBN that isn't crime...

[JNelson6563]

49. Same reason vanity bullshit stands in GD

Supply & demand friend, it's the American way. While this shit didn't fly back in the early days of DU we've got a whole new animal here today, as in large revenue increases. I'd go so far as to wager that the lower the standards get the more lucrative the endeavor gets.

Julie

[Blue_Tires]

51. please elaborate....am i breaking some kind of unwritten rule or something?

and are you saying that this web site's balance sheet somehow relates to the LBN stories I post??

[JNelson6563]

57. ...

Well, DU is a political website and this story doesn't relate to politics. It is sensational though.

Frankly I don't know who you are or what you generally post and I certainly wasn't talking about any one individual in my comments. Think big picture.

Julie

[libodem]

30. I can't read this

but were they Republicans? Why else would I have to read this headline at DU? That poor baby. I hope those sub-human abusers get life because that child has a life sentence of mental and emotional anguish to stuff into unconsciousness.

[maglatinavi]

34. child abuse

What has happened to the child? How was she related to those demons? Will she get meaningful therapy? :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[harry_pothead]

32. They should be given life at hard labor in a gulag in Alaska.

[wordpix]

39. that's too good for these criminals

[harry_pothead]

41. I dunno, the Soviets thought fit to punish in this manner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc_jYAtfDis

[EndersDame]

64. After the castration. these fucks need to be disarmed of their weapons

[marshall]

37. How do these freaks find each other?

Reminds me of the Duke professor who was offering out his adopted son for dalliances under the pseudonym "pervdad".

[Endangered Specie]

38. These are the sort of crimes capital punishment needs to be reserved for

[Love Bug]

42. All the DUers whining about the 2-year-old on a plane should come here and read about a REAL

problem.

[Darth_Kitten]

43. How dare you.

:eyes:

Two entirely different issues, sad that you would misuse it.

[AspenRose]

56. WORD

[nini]

60. So, you're comparing this heinous crime to a bratty kid on a plane????

You diminish the crime against this child and all children who suffer at the hands of child molesters and think you can pass judgment on those who disagree with you and a completely different issue???


:wtf:

[Love Bug]

65. You misunderstand me.

My comment is about the reaction on DU about a disruptive 2 year old on a plane that attracts umpteenth posts complaining about children in general yet this thread attracts few posts in support.

What happened here is a heinous crime. I'm not comparing the two and should have written my post better. For that I do apologize.

[samsingh]

53. disgusting. the punishment should be severe

[Xenotime]

54. At least this takes 2 more repugs off the street.