United States v. Roux, No. 10-2192 (7th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseIn 2002, Roux moved in with Roberta and her daughters, seven to 14 years old. In 2003, CC, reported that Roux was sexually molesting her. Although the Illinois DCFS determined the charge to be unfounded, CC was removed from the household. Roux began molesting nine-year-old EV. . Roux acknowledged the abuse to Roberta in 2008 and Roberta evicted him. Roux returned and again began abusing EV. EV told school officials and the police that Roux had taken sexually explicit photographs. Investigators seized a computer and digital cameras and recovered deleted images, including sexually explicit photographs of EV and photographs of a man’s penis. No male face was visible. Roux was convicted of knowingly employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of such conduct, using interstate commerce, 18 U.S.C. 2251(a). Roux was sentenced to 360 months. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting challenges to the admission of testimony about sexual abuse of EV’s sisters and of mug shots reflecting that Roux was heavier when arrested than at trial and based on the prosecutor’s reference to “jail phone calls” and, while cross-examining Roux, asking about records and witnesses that might corroborate his testimony but which had not been produced.
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