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Porn 'king' escapes from desert prison
BORON: The head of an international pornography ring has vanished from an Isolated desert prison camp Just six months after he started serving his sentence. He may have fled the country, authorities said Wednesday, reports AP
Reuben Sturman. 68. was missing at a Monday night bed chdck at the minimum security federal Boron Prison In the Mojave Desert, associate warden Jim Stade said
Sturman, who prosecutors said ran one of the world ■ largest pornography rings, was convicted In 1990 In federal court in Cleveland of evading 3.2 million dollar In income taxes and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He remained free for two years while unsuccessfully appealing the convictton
Federal prosecutors In Cleveland, who spent 20 years trying to put Sturman tn Jail, called h1s escape extremely frua-t rating.
"It's unbelievable, Just unbelievable," said Assistant US attorney Craig S Morford, a member of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force.
The FBI, the Marshal s Service, the Kern County Sheriffs Department and other law enforcement agencies were searching for Sturman, Slade said,
He refused to say If investigators suspected Sturman had help escaping. No other prisoners were reported missing.
Slade said Sturman worked in the garage, maintaining prison vehicles. No vehicles were reported missing
The prison, which does not have fences, is In the middle of an isolated area of sand dunes, mesquite bushes and Joshua trees. The nearest town, Boron, with a population of 2.000. is 12 miles (19 kilometers) to the southwest. Los Angeles is about 75 miles (120 kilometers) to the southwest.
The prison holds about 560 non-violent white-collar crim-
Congressivomen seek steps on sex harassment
Heighictiod concern about sexual, impropriety on Capitol Hill prompted congresswomen to ask Wednesday for an investigation of whether congressional employees are protec ted from sexual harassment, reports AP.
The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues made the request to the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress. It wants to know the effectiveness of the office created in 1988 to resolve House employee complaints of sexual harassment and other forms of Illegal discrimination.
Recent allegations of sexual harassment against members of Congress have increased concern that more employees may be subject to improper advances and other forms of sexual harassment by thetr powerful employers. Employees on Capitol Hill range uom high-paid aides to young male and fe male pages who carry messages for members.
The action came as Democrats and Republicans continued holding organizational meeting for the 103rd Congress, which convenes January 5.
The congresswomen asked the GAO to determine how well the Office of Fair Employment Practices works in handling complaints, and whether congressional employees have the same protection as private workers.
"In the four years since the (office) was established, there has been little to no information about how the office is functioning and whether it is providing adequate protection to congressional employees,” the caucus co-chairwomen wrote to GAO comptroller general Charles Bowsher.
'Mastermind of a master lie'
MINNEAPOLIS: A woman who testified that a former Roman Catholic priest molested her when she baby-sat his children five years ago could not have made up the graphic details she provided, a prosecutor argued Wednesday.
"Evidence came to you from the month of the 21 -year-old woman whose trust in a neighbourhood parent figure was torn, violated and shattered," prosecutor Richard liodsdon told jurors.
In order to believe James Porter’s Innocence, Jurors would have to conclude that the women is a "mastermind of a master lie." There is no middle ground," he said.
The woman's allegations also were supported by testimony from her parents and sister that she did baby-sit for Porter’s family at the time. Hodsdon said.
Closing arguments by the defence were to follow, and jurors were expected to get the case Wednesday afternoon. The defence, whose only witness was Porter’s wife, Veriyne. rested its case Wednesday morning.
Mrs forter testified Tuesday that the woman did not babysit for the family after 1984. And Porter's 16 year-old daughter, who was called by the prosecution, testified that her father was never home when the family had baby sitter*.
Porter, the father of four children, also face* criminal charges for allegedly molesting 32 people tn Massachusetts before he left the priesthood in 1974. He faces 16 civil lawsuit* in Minnesota and two filed on behalf of four people in