Source: Madison.com. The following is an excerpt.
Perry was sentenced in federal court in Madison Wednesday to 180 years in prison after pleading guilty to six counts of sexual exploitation of children. The sentence is, in essence, a life term. There is no parole option in the federal system.
FBI agents say Perry repeatedly forced two young girls into sexual acts with him, often filming the assaults and arranging for another man to join in. On one videotape, prosecutors say Perry can be seen having sexual intercourse with an 8-year-old girl as she cries and says, "Mommy, mommy, I want my mommy."
Other tapes show him assaulting girls at a Madison motel, in his Stoughton home and on a jungle gym at an elementary school. U.S. District Judge John Shabaz, who sentenced Perry, called the acts horrific and depraved.
Perry also faces 41 counts in Dane County Circuit Court. Those charges include child pornography, kidnapping and sexual assaults. Police say Perry abducted a 13-year-old girl at gunpoint from a Madison hotel, raped a 16-year-old Marshall girl, sexually assaulted four young children and randomly attacked lone female store clerks over several years.
Police also say they have tapes of Perry using a small hand-held video camera to record himself masturbating around young children in dozens of stores in Wisconsin and Illinois. No charges have yet been filed for those acts.
'He masked it well' Phil Perry sat numb in the courtroom Wednesday as his son was sentenced. In a telephone interview Friday from his home in Franklin, he said he and his wife knew James had a drug problem growing up, but they didn't see a darker side.
"We keep asking ourselves, 'Was it something we missed? Was it something we did' He masked it very well."
Phil married James' biological mother, Brenda, in 1975, when the boy was 5, and he legally adopted James and his sister in 1977.
"To me, he's not my stepson, he's my son," said Phil Perry, who manages a produce section at a grocery store. "I raised him from the start. I love him. We don't understand what he did, but I still love him. That won't go away until I die."
Article comments
1 - RJ
This is some of the sickest shit I've ever heard. Why don't we have the death penalty for scum like this?
2 - Eric Olsen
I am opposed to the death penalty but am in favor of severe measures like the sexual disabling of repeat sex offenders, including prison rapists