2016/2017 child abuse arrests

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In 2016 and 2017, eight people were arrested in Pennsylvnia and Virginia, USA, during an investigation which started in relation to the alleged sexual abuse of an underage boy. Most, if not all, of the arrestees were members of the [[furry fandom]].

==Arrestees==
[[File:KennethFenskeMugshot.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Kenneth Fenske.]]
[[File:JeffreyHarveyMugshot.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Jeffrey Harvey.]]
[[File:CraigKnoxMugshot.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Craig Knox.]]
[[File:DavidParkerMugshot.jpg|right|thumb|200px|David Parker.]]
[[File:PhillipStallsworthMugshot.png|right|thumb|200px|Phillip Stallsworth.]]
[[File:StephenTaylorMugshot.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Stephen Taylor.]]
The eight arrestees were:
* '''Anna Lynn Durbin''' (born April 6, 1992),<ref>[http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Illinois/Coles-County-IL/Anna-Lynn-Durbin.154303869.html Anna Lynn Durbin's details] on mugshots.com. Retrieved July 15, 2017.</ref> of Coles County, Illinois. Known as Mikasha or Mika
* '''Kenneth C. Fenske''' (born January 25, 1960)<ref>[http://lupine-fox.livejournal.com/profile LupineFox's profile] on [[LiveJournal]]. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref> of [[w:Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Milford Township]], Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He is known in the furry fandom as '''[[LupineFox]]'''.
* '''Jeffrey Alan Harvey''', of [[w:West Wyoming, Pennsylvania|West Wyoming]], Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
* '''Craig Michael Knox''', of [[w:Henrico, Virginia|Henrico, Virginia]]. He is known in the furry fandom as '''Diego''' or '''[[Diego_900]]'''.
* '''David R. Parker''' (born October 8, 1978)<ref>[http://rebelwolf79.livejournal.com/profile RebelWolf's profile] on LiveJournal. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref> of [[w:Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania|Saylorsburg]], Pennsylvania. He is known in the furry fandom as '''[[RebelWolf]]'''.
* '''Phillip Matthew Stallsworth''' of Milford, Pennsylvania. He is known in the furry fandom as '''[[Icepaws]]'''.
* '''Paige Wren Tasker''' (born born July 13, 1989)<ref name="FA">[http://www.furaffinity.net/user/lunawildwolf/ LunaWildWolf's profile] on [[Fur Affinity]]. Retrieved May 17, 2017.</ref> of [[w:Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania|Mechanicsburg]], Cumberland County. She is known in the furry fandom as '''[[LunaWildWolf]]'''.
* '''Stephen M. Taylor''', also of Henrico, Virginia.

==Chronology==

===2001===
The victim was born in this year.<ref name="MorningCall">[http://www.mcall.com/news/local/police/mc-bucks-county-child-abuse-animal-arrest-20170129-story.html "Quakertown man charged as part of child sex ring in which he wore furry fox costume"] - article in ''The Morning Call''. Dated January 30, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref> Newspaper reports would describe one of the offenders as "a relative of the boy, who had been living with a grandmother",<ref name="WashingtonPost"/> and described a [[tiger]] costume he wore to furry events,<ref name="WashingtonPost"/> leading to members of the furry community identifying him as '''Skarr''', the son of David Parker/RebelWolf.<ref name="Lulz">[https://lulz.net/furi/res/3430284.html Thread] on [[Lulz.net]]. Started January 29, 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2017.</ref>

===2003-2004===
Parker would later tell authorities that he tried to perform sexual acts on Skarr when he was 2 or 3 years old, and engaged in sexual acts with males in front of him.<ref name="MorningCall"/>

===2009===
Beginning in 2009, Parker would transport Skarr to a house, where, as the victim described, men donned full-body animal costumes.<ref name="WashingtonPost">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/31/prosecutors-boy-sexually-abused-at-furry-parties-by-man-who-wore-fox-costume/ "Prosecutors: Boy sexually abused at ‘furry parties’ by ‘network’ of men"] - article in the ''Washington Post''. Dated January 31, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref> One of the men was Kenneth Fenske, whose fox costume consisted of "full long sleeves and pants, a zipper in the back, paw gloves, and a fox head with pointy ears".<ref name="WashingtonPost"/> Skarr, in the meanwhile, was made to dress in a [[Tony the Tiger]] outfit.<ref name="WashingtonPost"/>

According to the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office, Fenske would abuse Skarr at these furry parties. It is alleged that Fenske took the boy upstairs from the party, undressed him, and forced him to have sex.<ref name="WashingtonPost"/> This occurred on possibly three or four occasions.<ref name="WashingtonPost"/>

===2010===
Investigators allege that in this year, Parker and Skarr went to a house on Butler Street, [[w:Pittston, Pennsylvania|Pittston]], Pennsylvania, to visit the home’s resident, Craig Knox.<ref name="CitizensVoice">[http://citizensvoice.com/news/monroe-county-man-charged-with-raping-juvenile-1.2113070 "Monroe County man charged with raping juvenile"] - article on ''The Citizen's Voice''. Dated November 4, 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref> According to Knox's later testimony, he met Parker in 2009 or 2010, and the men discussed their mutual attraction to young boys and [[dog]]s.<ref name="CitizensVoice"/> Knox also stated that Parker offered to let him have sexual relations with Skarr, and both men engaged in sex acts with the boy that day.<ref name="CitizensVoice"/>

===2015===
Prosecutors allege that Paige Tasker had a brief relationship with Parker, and over Christmas 2015,<ref name="DM20150515">[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4507500/Woman-27-SIXTH-person-arrested-raping-boy.html "Woman, 27, who 'likes cats' becomes the SIXTH person arrested for sexually abusing boy, 14, who was 'raped by animal fetish gang of pedophiles who dressed up in furry costumes'"] - article in the Daily Mail. Dated May 15, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.</ref> went to Saylorsburg to visit him in his trailer.<ref name="LVL20170514">[http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/pa_woman_is_6th_accused_in_biz.html "Pa. woman is 6th accused in bizarre 'furry party' sex ring"] - article on Lehigh Valley Live. Dated May 14, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.</ref><ref name="DM20150515"/>

It is further alleged that, during the visit, she slept in Skarr's bed and assaulted him.<ref name="LVL20170514"/> Authorities allege Tasker on more than one occasion performed a sex act on the teen victim.<ref name="LVL20170514"/> She is accused of having sex with him three times and performing oral sex on him while the pair shared a bed in Parker's trailer.<ref name="DM20150515"/>

===2016===
====May====
On Tuesday May 31, 2016, Jeffrey Harvey posted an advertisement on [[w:Craigslist|Craigslist]], soliciting sex:<ref name="CitizensVoiceWestWyoming">[http://citizensvoice.com/news/west-wyoming-man-charged-for-allegedly-soliciting-sex-from-minor-1.2061594 "West Wyoming man charged for allegedly soliciting sex from minor"] - article on ''The Citizen's Voice''. Dated June 30, 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref>
{{q|any boys wanna play — m4m.}}
Special Agent Daniel Block, of the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, responded to Harvey (then only known as a string of numbers attached to a Craigslist address), saying that he was 13, and asked if that was too young.<ref name="CitizensVoiceWestWyoming"/> Harvey responded, "I’d love to meet but not at the risk of jail," but continued the conversation, which gradually became more graphically sexual.

====June====
On June 6, Harvey wrote: "If we meet we can never unmeet".<ref name="CitizensVoiceWestWyoming"/> By the next day, he replied to a message using a personal Yahoo email address. Special Agent Block sent Yahoo Inc. a subpoena for more information about the address, and had Harvey’s phone number and name by June 13.

On June 14, Harvey messaged: "Still wish u wud let me come and knock on yur door n u answer in ur briefs".<ref name="CitizensVoiceWestWyoming"/>

Harvey and the fictitious boy made plans to meet at 1 p.m. on Tuesday June 28, on the 500 block of Moosic Street. Harvey arrived five minutes late and was arrested, charged with unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of communication facility, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years old and statutory sexual assault.<ref name="CitizensVoiceWestWyoming"/>

Harvey was confined to the Lackawanna County Prison after failing to post $100,000 bail.<ref name="PAhomepage">[http://www.pahomepage.com/news/two-charged-in-child-sexual-exploitation-investigation/495836966 "Two charged in child sexual exploitation investigation"] - article on PAhomepage. Dated July 1, 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref>

During an interview with agents, Harvey stated he had met a number of individuals, through online advertisements, who were interested in sexual contact with minors,<ref name="PAhomepage"/> and the investigation showed that Parker was in contact with Harvey trying to procure a child for both men to sexually assault.<ref>[http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/11/monroe_man_faces_more_child_se.html "Monroe man delivered boy to adult for rape, AG charges"] - article on Lehigh Valley Live. Dated November 16, 2016 (updated January 30, 2017). Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref>

The information Harvey provided led agents with the Office of Attorney General’s Child Predator Section to execute a search warrant at the home of Parker. The warrant was executed in the early morning hours of Wednesday June 29.<ref name="PAhomepage"/>

A preliminary review of Parker’s cellular telephone by the Office of Attorney General’s Computer Forensics Unit revealed numerous images of "apparent child pornography".<ref name="PAhomepage"/> He was placed under arrest and charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.<ref name="PAhomepage"/> After failing to post $50,000 bail, Parker was confined to the Monroe County Prison.

====November====
On Tuesday November 1, Knox was located at his residence in Virginia.<ref name="CitizensVoice"/> He had moved from his home in Pittston (where he had lived from approximately 2005 to 2012)<ref name="CitizensVoice"/> "to get away from all that negativity that surrounded me out there."<ref name="WashingtonPost"/>

Knox’s roommate in Virginia, Stephen M. Taylor, was also arrested during the raid.<ref name="WashingtonPost"/> Debra Kendall, one of Knox’s neighbors, described the raid: "I came to the door and I saw a mass of police and other vehicles with blue lights ... I heard them break the door in and I heard the young man [Stephen Taylor] yell at his roommate, ‘What have you done?’ That was Craig."<ref name="WashingtonPost"/>

Knox was taken into custody and agreed to be interviewed.<ref name="CitizensVoice"/> Taylor was charged with bestiality and animal abuse.<ref name="WashingtonPost"/> A warrant for his arrest indicated that he had sexual contact with a dog.

===2017===
On Friday January 27, 2017, Fenske was arrested and charged with child rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and unlawful contact with a minor.<ref name="NBCPhiladelphia">[http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Pennsylvania-Arrest-Sex-Abuse-Rape-Boy-Furries-Bucks-County--412099143.html "Men Dressed Up as Animals Sexually Abused Boy During 'Furry Parties' in Bucks County: Officials"] - article on NBC Philadelphia. Dated January 29, 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2017.</ref> He was arraigned and was held on $750,000 bail.<ref name="NBCPhiladelphia"/>

On Sunday January 29, Fenske made a posting on his Fur Affinity page:<ref name="Lulz"/><ref>[https://img.lulz.net/src/double-welp.png screencap of LupineFox's Fur Affinity page] on lulz.net. Retrieved February 3, 2017.</ref>
{{q|I have been accused of something horrible but my lawyer says I can't talk about it. You will hear about it. At this point I can only say that I did not do what I am accused of and will defend myself to the best of my abilities. If you are wondering if you believe me and you know me then you should have your answer.}}
Shortly thereafter, Fenske disabled access to his Fur Affinity account and deleted his Twitter account. Around February 5, the Fur Affinity account was reopened with the administrators reminding people of the principle of "innocent until proven guilty", and warning people not to post malicious shouts on the page. By February 9, the page was again disabled.

In late January, 2017, investigators in the case searched the house of Phillip Stallsworth, and found photos on a digital storage device that showed he had engaged in sexual acts with several dogs.<ref name="IntApril">[http://www.theintell.com/news/crime/police-milford-man-who-lives-in-home-where-child-rape/article_c420eb80-1fbf-11e7-918f-c3c463dd1c68.html "Police: Milford man charged with having sex with dogs"] - article on ''The Intelligencer''. Dated April 12, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2017.</ref> Upon noticing police cars parked outside his home, Stallworth performed a "factory reset" on his phone, wiping its memory.<ref name="IntApril"/> Stallsworth said the device contained about 20 videos and images depicting him having sexual contact with dogs,<ref name="IntApril"/> and admitted during a January 27 interview that he had sex with four dogs, doing so most recently with a dog in Doylestown some three months before his arrest in February.

Although arrested as part of the wider child-abuse investigation, defense attorney John Fioravanti, representing Stallsworth, said his client has no involvement with those events.<ref name="IntApril"/> Stallsworth was not charged in connection with that case, and was instead charged with sexual intercourse with an animal and tampering with evidence.<ref name="IntApril"/> He was freed on $25,000 unsecured bail and prohibited from contact with animals as the case proceeds.<ref name="IntApril"/>

====May====
On the morning of May 8, 2017, Kenneth Fenske underwent a preliminary hearing before District Judge Charles Baum in Perkasie, and was ordered held for trial.<ref>[http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Bucks-County-Quakertown-Furry-Party-Furries-Sexual-Abuse-Boy-Pennsylvania-Ring-Predator-421671663.html "Man Accused of Raping Boy While Dressed as Animal During 'Furry Parties' to Stand Trial"] - article on NBC Philadelphia. Dated May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-quakertown-area-furry-party-fox-boy-rape-hearing-20170508-story.html "Quakertown area man held on charges he dressed as a red fox as he raped a boy at 'furry parties'"] - article on The Morning Call. Dated May 9, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2017.</ref>

On Sunday May 14, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office announced charges against Paige Tasker.<ref name="LVL20170514"/> She was arraigned on $250,000 cash bail and ordered to Monroe County Prison, on charges of statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault.<ref name="LVL20170514"/><ref>[http://wnep.com/2017/05/14/woman-arrested-as-part-of-child-sex-abuse-investigation/ "Woman Arrested as Part of Child Sex Abuse Investigation"] - article on wnep.com. Dated May 14, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.</ref> A preliminary hearing was tentatively scheduled for May 22.<ref name="LVL20170514"/>

====July====
After being identified by David R. Parker, Anna Lynn Durbin, 25, is charged with statutory sexual assault, corrupting a minor and indecently assaulting a person under age 16.<ref>[http://www.poconorecord.com/news/20170710/woman-charged-with-sex-with-minor "Woman charged with sex with minor"] - article in the ''Pocono Record''. Dated July 10, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.</ref> Durbin was placed in Monroe County Correctional Facility in lieu of $250,000 bail and, as of mid-July, 2017, is awaiting a district court hearing.

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