School official caught in Regpay case to be resentenced

Sunday, 16 September 2007 19:00

One of the most heavily-reported child pornography cases in recent years was the investigation of Regpay in 2004, a criminal ring with operations in the former Soviet republic of Belarus.

Regpay processed millions of dollars in credit card transactions for child pornography websites. The vast majority of Regpay customers will never be investigated or prosecuted, but one who was is Stefan W. Goff, a teacher and director of development for a New England private school for over thirty years.

What happened to Goss? He pled guilty in 2005 to possession of images of very young children being sexually assaulted. But, in a development familiar to readers of the Newswire, Goss' hired guns, friends and apologists rallied around him, "including parents and faculty at the Chapin School," reports The Times of Trenton, New Jersey. Incredibly, U.S. District Court Judge Anne E. Thompson sentenced Goss to just four months.

Now a federal appeals court has overturned Thompson's sweetheart sentence, saying it was unreasonably weak. Three years after one of the most notorious global child exploitation networks was uncovered by law enforcement, the justice system is still struggling to take commercial trafficking in images of child rape seriously.

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