Former Medical Student Gets Life For "Kitty Porn"

Former Medical School student sentenced to 45 years in child porn case.

Ex-Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine student Jeremy Noyes told the judge Thursday that he spent his life trying to help others.

Noyes said he did not understand how the child pornography sentencing guidelines that were about to be applied to him could call for a sentence of "30 to 45 years of somebody's life when they have actually physically done no harm."

He disputed a federal prosecutor's contention that the images of child rape found on Noyes' computer amounted to torture. In some of the photos, Noyes said, the children were smiling.

"The sentencing guidelines are crazy," he said.

U.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin listened patiently Thursday to Noyes' objections to guidelines. The judge then offered a blistering assessment of the evidence presented against Noyes at trial and sentenced him to the maximum sentence allowed under the law -- 45 years in federal prison -- followed by lifetime of probation.

The sentence is, in effect, a life sentence for Noyes, 33.

"Anyone who sat through this trial would realize this defendant is the worst nightmare of every child and parent," McLaughlin said.

"Evidence demonstrated that he is a dangerous predator and sadist who took pleasure in viewing abuse of children and was fully prepared to do so himself, if given the opportunity," he said.

The sentence marked a victory for Assistant U.S. Attorney Christian Trabold, who argued Noyes must serve the maximum for the protection of the community.

A federal jury deliberated about 90 minutes Feb. 22 before convicting Noyes of receiving, possessing and transporting child pornography and obscene material on his own two laptop computers between 2004 and 2008.

The obscene material charge pertained to Noyes' possession of lifelike cartoons depicting the rape and molestation of minors.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said hundreds of images of child pornography and obscene material were found on Noyes' computer equipment in August 2008 after a former girlfriend warned the FBI that she feared Noyes planned to start a colony of sex slaves with a New Zealand woman and her 4-year-old daughter.

Some of the images depicted infants being sexually assaulted.

McLaughlin said the evidence at trial proved Noyes was working actively on the Internet to bring the woman from New Zealand to the U.S. so he could begin the sex-slave colony with her. Noyes wanted to impregnate the woman's 4-year-old daughter once she was at least 8 years old, he said, quoting from one of Noyes' e-mails.

"The overwhelming evidence presented at trial revealed that the defendant is a predatory pedophile and sadist with an interest in the sadistic brutalization and torture of children," McLaughlin said.

Noyes showed no remorse, McLaughlin said. Instead, Noyes told the woman who prepared his pre-sentence report that he planned to seek his own death certificate and apply for Israeli citizenship under a new name, the judge said.

The recommended sentence for the four counts that Noyes was convicted of might have been less.

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Trabold argued, and McLaughlin agreed, that at least three aspects of the case qualified Noyes for the most severe sentence recommended by sentencing guidelines:

- Noyes threatened the life of the former girlfriend who first reported him to authorities.

- Noyes lied repeatedly to the jury in the trial, during which he represented himself.

- Noyes possessed images that portrayed behavior that qualified as sadistic torture under the law.

Noyes' pretrial report indicated he attended a prep school in Vermont and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in biology. He worked for Pennsylvania State University before enrolling at LECOM, the judge said.

Noyes said Thursday his work at a hospice as a teen led him to go to medical school.

He maintained at trial and on Thursday that someone had planted the material on his computer.

He told the judge he wanted to go home and see his mother before she died and take care of his sister and nephew.

Trabold expressed disbelief at Noyes' continued claim of innocence. Noyes' own computer expert had testified there was no evidence that his computer was hacked or tampered with, Trabold said.

"Mr. Noyes for a long period of his life spent his free time entertaining himself by watching little kids be raped, tortured and mutilated," Trabold said.

Noyes, Trabold said, was not fighting what was wrong in the world.

"He is what is wrong with society," Trabold said.

THE PROBLEM IS THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE TO LOCK UP THE INTERNET PERVERTS. THIS PROBLEM IS THE CURRENT "MORAL PANIC" AND IS TANTAMOUNT TO AN INQUISITION. I CAN'T BELIEVE NOYES HAS NO REDEEMING SOCIAL VALUE HE WAS ESSENTIALLY GIVEN A DEATH SENTENCE - TO AWAIT DEATH IN PRISON.