Magier Jan Rouven in Las Vegas: Verurteilt - das Ende einer Karriere

Award-winning Las Vegas magician Jan Rouven kept over 3,400 child pornography videos on computers in his pool house, FBI officials said Wednesday.

Rouven, 38, the star of a Vegas Strip show called “The New Illusions,” sent an undercover agent videos of men having sex with boys in an online file sharing exchange in August, according to a federal complaint unsealed Wednesday at his detention hearing.

Investigators who traced Rouven’s IP address later searched the casita at his Las Vegas mansion, uncovering 3,486 kiddie porn videos and 111 pictures on Rouven’s iMac and external hard drive, FBI agents said. Rouven’s husband told agents he was angry because his partner looks at porn “24/7,” the complaint said.

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FBI agents said an inspection of Rouven’s computers showed files and chats under the screenname, Lars45, the same name of the user who shared the files with the undercover detective from the agency’s Buffalo, N.Y., office. One of the three videos Lars45 gave the agent showed a man having anal sex with a boy no more than 3 or 4 years old, the complaint said.

Rouven told investigators he had seen child pornography before but had no need for it, according to the document. His lawyer Jess Marchese said in an interview with KVVU-TV that his client “knows nothing about it” and has “nothing to do with it” when asked about the hardware in Rouven’s pool house.

“During the time frame in question, in August, there were several individuals that were coming and going, sometimes residing in the residence overnight, so it is our position that Rouven did not make contact with this child pornography,” Marchese said.

doan schrieb:Investigators who traced Rouven’s IP address later searched the casita at his Las Vegas mansion, uncovering 3,486 kiddie porn videos and 111 pictures on Rouven’s iMac and external hard drive,

http://www.bunte.de/tv-show/magier-jan-rouven-jetzt-spricht-sein-ehemann-270931.html

(a) Any person who—

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(2) knowingly receives or distributes—
(A) any child pornography that has been mailed, or using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce shipped or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer; or

(B) any material that contains child pornography that has been mailed, or using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce shipped or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer;

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(5) either—
(A) in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or on any land or building owned by, leased to, or otherwise used by or under the control of the United States Government, or in the Indian country (as defined in section 1151), knowingly possesses, or knowingly accesses with intent to view, any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, computer disk, or any other material that contains an image of child pornography; or

(B) knowingly possesses, or knowingly accesses with intent to view, any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, computer disk, or any other material that contains an image of child pornography that has been mailed, or shipped or transported using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, or that was produced using materials that have been mailed, or shipped or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer;

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(b)
(1) Whoever violates, or attempts or conspires to violate, paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), or (6) of subsection (a) shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 5 years and not more than 20 years, but, if such person has a prior conviction under this chapter, section 1591, chapter 71, chapter 109A, or chapter 117, or under section 920 of title 10 (article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), or under the laws of any State relating to aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, or abusive sexual conduct involving a minor or ward, or the production, possession, receipt, mailing, sale, distribution, shipment, or transportation of child pornography, or sex trafficking of children, such person shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not less than 15 years nor more than 40 years.

(2) Whoever violates, or attempts or conspires to violate, subsection (a)(5) shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both, but, if any image of child pornography involved in the offense involved a prepubescent minor or a minor who had not attained 12 years of age, such person shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or if such person has a prior conviction under this chapter, chapter 71, chapter 109A, or chapter 117, or under section 920 of title 10 (article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), or under the laws of any State relating to aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, or abusive sexual conduct involving a minor or ward, or the production, possession, receipt, mailing, sale, distribution, shipment, or transportation of child pornography, such person shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not less than 10 years nor more than 20 years.

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grizzlyhai schrieb:Danke für deine Arbeit aber besonders für die Klarstellung, dass in den USA auch die Unschuldsvermutung gilt.
Ich glaube die Unschuldsvermutung ist wichtig für ein gutes Rechtssystem.

TatzFatal schrieb:In Deutschland muss einem Angeklagten seine Schuld bewiesen werden, in den USA muss ein Angeklagter seine Unschuld beweisen.

Rick_Blaine schrieb:Auch in den USA gilt die Unschuldsvermutung und die Bundesanwaltschaft muss jeden einzelnen Punkt beweisen. Rouven wird Gelegenheit erhalten, seine Sicht der Dinge darzustellen! Und dann erst wird evtl. ein Urteil gefällt werden!

Carietta schrieb:aber dass man seine Unschuld beweisen muss war mir doch irgendwie fremd.