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Saturday, March 06, 2010
Ind. Decisions - "Sex exploiter to serve 10 years on 9 felony counts"
Aaron Organ reports today in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel in a story that begins:
When Allen Superior Judge Fran Gull finished methodically reading down her sentencing terms to convicted sexual exploiter Bradley J. Kowalczyk in court Friday afternoon – “10 years on count one, 10 years on count two, 10 years on count three…” – to the cumulative tune of 55 years, she paused.Gull then turned to Kowalczyk and said, “It pains me greatly, Mr. Kowalczyk, but I’m ordering them to be served concurrently.”
Gull noted the Indiana Court of Appeals making it known through recent rulings consecutive sentences are to be reserved for the worst of the worst, and rather than risk Kowalczyk winning an appeal and ending up back before her bench, she compromised.
So despite his possession of some 4,000 images of child pornography, including over 1,000 depicting a 14-year-old in lewd poses taken during a two-week sexual relationship between the two, the 39-year-old Kowalczyk will serve 10 years in prison on nice felony counts.
“You’re not the worst of the worst, Mr. Kowalczyk,” Gull said. “You rank up there, but you’re not the worst I’ve seen.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 6, 2010 11:01 AM
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