After Revera told the officer he intended to have oral sex with the children, he was arrested. Revera pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated sexual assault and was sentenced to 36 years 86 in prison. Valida Davila's contacts among well-known pro-pedophilia activists were widespread. Included in the material seized by San Diego County Sheriff's deputies were several letters from David Techter, publisher of a Chicago-based pedophile newsletter. Wonderland, which will be discussed later in this report. Also closely associated with Davila was an Austin, Texas, man named David Sonenschein, whose writings about pedophilia have appeared in numerous pedophile publications here and abroad. In the August, 1983, issue of the CSC Nusletter, Davila announced that Sonenschein had been named associate editor. (Sonenschein also will be discussed later in this report.) A typical issue of the CSC Nusletter contained rambling articles endorsing incest and pedophilia in general, anti-circumcision treatises, legal notes from the United States and foreign countries, book reviews and essays both scholarly 87 and amateurish - on child development and sexuality. In February, 1985, Davila appeared on a KFMB-TV (San Diego) news report and stated that CSC was going out of business due to 88 her failing health. Parts of her mailing list have been distributed to investigators around the country, who continue to investigate former CSC members. David Techter and the Lewis Carroll Collectors Guild In 1983, a Chicago man named David Techter formed the Lewis Carroll Collectors Guild. The organization was named for the author of Alice in Wonderland, who is widely regarded in pedophile circles as an early practitioner of nude children's 89 photography. Techter, 53, is an articulate pedophile activist who has written extensively Edwards 90 - often under the pseudonym of David -- about the world of pedophilia, including his own sexual activities with children. In a chapter of his uncompleted book entitled, "The Child Lovers: America's Most Despised Minority," Techter wrote: "I am sexually attracted to children and find nude photographs of them immensely erotic. In short, I am a pedophile...I am a member of America's most despised, and least understood, sexual minority. #91 Techter was sentenced to 30 months probation in 1983 by an Illinois state court for distribution of child pornography. Techter also was featured in a segment of the 1984 NBC documentary "The Silent Shame, 92 in which reporter Mark Nykanen, posing as a pedophile and working with a hidden camera, lured Techter to an Indiana motel room with the promise of possibly meeting children and exchanging child pornography. After Techter showed Nykanen wallet photos of children whom he claimed to have molested, Nykanen disclosed that he was an NBC reporter. Although momentarily startled. Techter quickly regained his composure and continued talking on-camera about his interest in children. The Guild newsletter, Wonderland, which Techter estimated in 1985 had about 225 subscribers, is a quarterly publication featuring news articles and essays about pedophilia and the collection of child pornography. The newsletter also contains numerous carefully worded ads offering to buy, sell or trade photos of children or to correspond and meet with people of similar interest. Although the ads carry clear messages to pedophiles. Techter says he edits them to ensure that they do not appear to be advertising an illegal act. As previously noted, however, current federal law does not prohibit more specific 93 advertising. Some of the ads found in a recent issue of Wonderland read as follows: I WANT TO BUY VHS VIDEOTAPES OF PRETEENS AND TEENS DOING ANYTHING NUDE. CONFIDENTIALITY ASSURED." (Nashua, NH) GIRLS 7 to 14 WANT TO PURCHASE PHOTOS OF GIRLS IN SWIMSUITS, PANTIES, SHORT SLEEPWARE OR SHORTS. BACK, FRONT, YOUNGSTERS -- WANT TO CORRESPOND WITH COLLECTORS, In Techter told Subcommittee investigators that he is aware many Wonderland advertisers actually are undercover police 95 officers. Many successful prosecutions of child molesters have been initiated through undercover ads in Wonderland. most issues Techter warns his readers about certain advertisers or correspondents with whom they may have dealt. "I must apologize to trusting readers that might have replied to a recent ad by a 'W.J.W., Techter wrote in one issue. "William J. Ward is...an undercover police agent... Have nothing whatever to do with this man!"96 In the same issue Techter warns his readers about a Rochester, New York, correspondent who "has yet to produce any concrete evidence to support any of his rather wild claims."97 Fear of the police is a constant theme in all pedophile newsletters. Techter admits to running his own "counterintelligence" operation against police officers hoping to use Wonderland to trap pornographers and molesters. Techter told Subcommittee investigators that he knows the identity of several undercover advertisers who actually are police, but that he doesn't expose all of them, choosing instead to use their correspondence to unravel more police undercover programs. In 98 a conversation with a Subcommittee investigator in 1985, Techter named other advertisers whom he believed were postal inspectors. Due to its inflammatory slogan "Sex Before Eight, or Else It's Too Late" the Rene Guyon Society of Beverly Hills, - California, has become widely publicized in news articles about pedophiles. Having taken its name from a French psychiatrist and associate of Sigmund Freud, the Rene Guyon Society claims 5.000 supporters, including psychiatrists, parents, and physicians. 100 - But Det. William Dworin of the Los Angeles - Police Department told the Subcommittee this is a wildly inflated figure, and the organization is probably little more than one flamboyant pedophile's attempt to gain national attention. Dworin said police surveillance of the group's eccentric leader, "Tim O'Hara" whose real name is Jonathan Evan Edwards indicates that he does not have regular contact with children and that the amount of correspondence he receives hardly seems 101 indicative of an organization with 5,000 supporters. Edwards, 64, strongly advocates sex with children and publishes an irregular newsletter endorsing anal and vaginal penetration of children as long as condoms are used. "We are composed of citizens who have never broken any child sex laws, even if never caught," said "O'Hara" in a letter to the Subcommittee dated November 30, 1984. "We work for child sexual freedom if condoms are used for anal and vaginal penetration to age 18. We work for kid porn laws to make illegal any show of penetration of the vagina or anus without a condom being shown used. "102 As repugnant as this organization may be, most experienced investigators believe it has little influence on the pedophile community. Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and Paedo Alert News (PAN) These two European organizations have been popular with American pedophiles. As a rule, the pedophile movement in Europe has been better organized and subjected to less police scrutiny than its American counterpart, according to U.S. investigators. The July, 1984. issue of the PIE Bulletin, which was based in London, announced that the 10-year-old organization was closing down due to impending prosecution of its members, internal dissension and various problems that had left its 103 executive committee "exhausted and despondent." But history shows that similar death notices were premature for such organizations. In the same issue. PIE's leaders assured the membership that a core group of pedophiles would remain active in the cause and encouraged fellow pedophiles to contact them. The issue listed 23 other pedophilia support groups in Europe and the United States that its members should contact in PIE's PIE, founded in 1974, was, like NAMBLA, composed mostly of pederasts and was active and visible in Britain. Its publications. Magpie and Contact, were similar to the NAMBLA Bulletin in that they rarely contained explicit sexual photos and instead concentrated on discussions of pedophilia and treatises justifying this behavior. PIE's principle aim was to eliminate age-of-consent laws, and to "campaign...for the legal and social acceptance of pedophile love."105 PIE had wide support among American pedophiles, according to its own members. In a letter dated August, 1980, from a PIE official to an Indianapolis pedophile -- a copy of which was reviewed by the Subcommittee - PIE said its recent appeal for help received the greatest response from American subscribers. "I should like to see a chapter of PIE developed probably in California," the PIE official wrote, "where it may be a feasible project (because) a large proportion of our members live there." The slickest of all pedophile publications is the English-language Paedo Alert News (PAN), published five times a year in Amsterdam by the Coltsfoot Press. Issues are professionally typeset, feature some color printing and usually run more than 30 pages. Like virtually all pedophile newsletters of this type, PAN does not print child pornography. Instead, it |