Then, Evin Daly (pictured) got mad. Sickened by the salacious lyrics which alluded to Glitter’s sexual predilections, Daly began a letter writing campaign that quickly turned into a worldwide, fist-shaking, fire-storm.

Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, had no reason to believe his stream of income would be cut off by a web savvy gadfly from Boca Raton. He was free to do as he pleased in his native Great Britain despite his 1996 conviction for possession of child porn. H.P’s national ad campaign would bring in a pretty penny, and Daly’s initial complaints were brushed aside by corporate heads.

In October 2008, Daly turned up the heat. His web-based group Child AbuseWatch.net, called for an international boycott of Hewlett Packard products. A few weeks later, H.P. withdrew the ad campaign, and ceased paying Glitter. The National Football League also banned Glitter’s song: “Rock and Roll Part II, otherwise known as the “Hey” song.

All in a day’s work for Evin Daly, a Guardian Ad Litem for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach. The program provides legal representation for neglected and abandoned children who are before the court. His web site, “ButlerReport.com”, maintains a rolling commentary on a host of issues, particularly those concerned with child abuse. He is the founder of the AbuseWatch network that sent shivers up Hewlett Packard’s corporate spine.

In August, Protect Our Children picked Daly to receive the 2009 “Junny Award”. The annual award goes to the Floridian who has done the most to advance the American Child-Protective Movement. Daly, who was born in Sligo County Ireland, will be in Brevard November 21, to accept the award at the “Celebration In The Park”, in Cocoa.

“It is an unexpected honor…” he writes, “I am grateful to your board for their vote of confidence.”
Daly was the unanimous choice this year. Members of Protect Our Children were in awe of his activism. Executive Director Mark Wigley nominated Daly for the accolade:” It was a no brainer…” said Wigley, “his tenacious campaign to right a wrong inspired all of us.”

In 2008 Daly formed “Child AbuseWatch.net” as a compliment to the Guardian AdLiten movement. It is proving to be a potent force for pressing the agenda of child protectors. The group decries the use of children in reality TV shows, its website is filled with child safety information and links to useful sites on the internet.

“It has blossomed into an international mouthpiece for the protection of children and the education of parents,” says Daly. He asked that we recognize the organization on the award, a testament to his selfless commitment to the cause.

Daly’s restless activism moves on to the next issue. He was disgusted by the reaction of some members of the international film community after the arrest of pedophile director Roman Polanski.

Polanski had been on the run since his sentencing for assaulting a thirteen year-old in 1977. He was picked up by police in Switzerland in September and is being held for extradition to the United States. Prominent members of the film industry signed a petition protesting the arrest.

Daly has some words for them: “Shame on you and on the egocentric mentality that thinks that anything, any standing, any career, any contribution no matter how noble, can get you a free pass to the crime of child rape. It can’t, it won’t and it never will!”

Melbourne resident Dave Hardman (pictured) has added a new wrinkle to his kiddie-erotica business. Now his customers can buy swimsuits along with movies of young girls wearing them. (Photo Courtesy of WFTV, Orlando)

A Melbourne man who peddles sexy movies featuring preteen girls, appears to be back in business after a seven-month break. David Hardman is on the hunt for fresh talent, according to a Deltona mother whose eleven year-old daughter was scheduled for a photo shoot at Hardman’s home in June.

“I can’t believe I almost fell for this…” says Suzanne Mark, “…my daughter was asked to do a photo shoot for Dave Hardman.”

Mark said she responded to an online ad for children to model swimsuits for sale on the net. Hardman sent her a link to site operated by an actual swimsuit manufacturer. The catalogue has benign photos of children modeling swimwear with one frontal picture and one rear. Beneath each graphic is the item name and price.

“It was presented to me that it was a swimsuit site…as in a purchase site…not the purchase the DVD site I found after some research.”

Mark E-mailed the Guardian on June 10th – the same day her daughter was scheduled to report to Hardman’s house for her session.

She discovered his “near-porn” site: “DHPro”, only the night before. After searching Hardman’s name, she found news coverage posted by local TV stations last Fall.

Hardman’s quiet, Melbourne neighborhood was rocked by media attention last year when he posted sexy pictures of preteen girls on his site. The images are teasers to get customers to purchase movies of the scantily- clad girls. The youngest models, age ten and twelve, were interviewed by a news team from WSVN in Miami. The mother of the ten year-old, said she was shocked to know Hardman was selling movies of her daughter Kyra.

Hardman offers parents $500 dollars to sign a release granting him unlimited rights to the movies and pictures of the children. Most material is shot in his house on Mt Carmel Lane, which is equipped with a homemade performance stage. Some of Brevard’s beaches have also been used as settings for the movies which Hardman sells directly to consumers.

The soft-core porn is legal because Hardman is careful not to show exposed genitalia. But legislation sponsored by Sen. Mike Fasano (R) of New Port Richey, could change that. Governor Crist signed a new law July 1st, allowing prosecutors to charge teen modeling producers under an expanded definition of “obscenity”. Now, manufacturers of material deemed “obscene” according to community standards, can be charged with a felony in the third degree.

The new law enhances penalties for erotica vendors who pose as modeling agencies. It also restricts a parent’s ability to sell unlimited rights to images of their children.

A nimble businessman, Hardman seems determined to press on with his venture. As if to answer critics who say he’s peddling porn, not modeling swimsuits, he has opened a new site: “Dayla Bay Swimwear” is a web store that actually sells bathing suits along with the salacious DVD’s.

Although his current models appear to be in their teens, and movies of the ten year-old are no longer available, the new catalogue offers his slobbering clientele a hint as to his intentions. He notes that his sexy garments, can be sized for “progressive teens and preteens”.

The General Counsel for Wuesthoff Health Systems called the office of Protect Our Children May 5, to ask the group to stop trying to contact Johnette Gindling the corporation’s Vice President of Public Relations. The request came after an eighteen-month effort to determine why Gindling ordered the local charity to stop distributing their publication The Guardian Brevard, at all Wuesthoff facilities.

The Guardian was given the boot, days after Wuesthoff Nurse Joanne Pratt went before the Palm Bay City Council, to protest proposed ordinances aimed at restricting sex offenders. Wuesthoff’s Marketing Director Stephanie Bacon called P.O.C. in October 2005 asking that we stop distributing the Guardian at Wuesthoff. The notification newspaper has been made available to staff and patients at the corporation’s Rockledge hospital for over eight years.

Bacon denied that the request was connected to Pratt’s molester rights activities. She said all publications were being removed except Florida Today Newspaper, which is provided free of charge to Wuesthoff patients.

However, Guardian staff received an anonymous call in July 2006, from a woman who said she was a Wuesthoff employee. The caller said hospital officials had not removed any publication but the Guardian.

Bacon was contacted again to ask about the call, and said only publications that had advertising for Wuesthoff were allowed to distribute under the new policy. Later that day, a volunteer visited the lobby of Wuesthoff’s Rockledge facility and found six publications on display – none contained an ad for Wuesthoff.

Protect Our Children sent a fax to Gindling in August 2006, offering to run a free ad for Wuesthoff in order to reinstate the publication in their lobby. The offer was rejected.

Bacon said the removal of the Guardian was the result of a memorandum published by Gindling and said we would have to speak directly to her. Guardian staff left more than fifty messages with Gindling’s secretary over a two-month period, but the V.P. refused to return our calls.

Wuesthoff’s Attorney said The Guardian was harassing their staff and asked us to stop inquiring about the publication’s removal. Davila phoned the group one day after Wuesthoff lawyers were rebuked in their attempt to block construction of a new hospital in Viera, after the contract for the facility was awarded to a competing company.

Protect Our Children continues to receive calls from Wuesthoff employees asking why the notification newspaper is no longer available. Davila said Wuesthoff had a right to disallow distribution of any printed materials, and was not compelled to give any reason for its decision.

However, Wuesthoff employees who have contacted The Guardian insist the ban was the result of Nurse Pratt’s highly publicized activities in the Fall of 2005. Pratt appeared before the Palm Bay City Council on October 10, 2005, wearing her Wuesthoff I.D. badge, after helping to assemble a cadre of pedophiles and sex offenders to protest city ordinances restricting their movement. Pratt left a voice message on Protect Our Children’s main line, in which she identifies herself as “a nurse at Wuesthoff Health Systems Melbourne.” She asked for a return call and gave the number for her office in the hospital’s Wickham Road facility. The next day, Director Bacon said that the call was not official, and that employees were not allowed to use hospital facilities to conduct personal business.

Pratt lied on a nationally televised program when she was questioned about her husband’s offenses. She appeared on the television program “The O’Reilly Factor”, along with her husband, sex offender William Pratt Jr., on the eve of the molester rights march . The Pratts answered simultaneously, when O’Reilly asked about Bill’s victim. They said his victim was a twelve year-old boy.

Guardian volunteers researched Pratt’s criminal record, and found he had been sent to prison in New Jersey for molesting two children, a boy and a girl. Both were age nine at the time of the assaults. He was indicted by a grand jury on twelve counts of child sex offenses. Nurse Pratt told O’Reilly that her husband was a “kind and loving man…”

A spokesman for Wuesthoff’s Human Resources Department said Joanne Pratt is employed in their Medical Education Section. She said employees who are caught passing out The Guardian Brevard would be subject to disciplinary action, and repeat offenders could be fired, pursuant to Gindling’s order.

The Guardian Brevard is still available in other hospitals in Brevard. Health First makes the child-protection newspaper available to staff and patients in two places at their Cape Canaveral Facillity. Wuesthoff’s Rockledge employees can pick up a copy of the quarterly paper at the Rockledge Police Department on Barton Boulevard, as well as the Public Safety Center, on Florida Avenue.

Former teacher Daniel Cliatt (pictured), age 30, was sentenced January 16th, to serve seventy years in prison for the sexual abuse of a twelve year-old male student. Prosecutors say Cliatt may have a total of six student victims.

On January 16th, the packed courtroom in Viera fell silent as a thirteen year-old boy took the stand in the sentencing hearing for Daniel Cliatt, his former elementary school teacher. Sporting a dreadlock hair cut, and wearing a dark “T” shirt, he sat calmly in the witness box waiting for Cliatt’s attorney Michael Dwyer to cross-examine him.

“You said you want Mr. Cliatt to go to prison forever. Is that right?”

“Yes.” He answered.

Dwyer retrieved a sheaf of paper from the defense table. “But when Detective Mathews asked you why you didn’t report this, you said you didn’t want him to go to jail… is that correct?”

“That’s what I thought then…but I don’t think that now,” the boy replied.

Judge David Dugan sentenced Cliatt to seventy years in prison for abusing his former elementary school student beginning when the child was twelve.

The molestation was discovered by accident in May 2005, when a teacher at Endeavor Elementary School happened to walk into the classroom as Cliatt was assaulting the child.

Cliatt had been a classroom teacher for only five years, but police say he may have abused as many as six of his male students.

Assuming he could have taught for another fifteen years, the fortunate fluke that brought him to justice, may have prevented the molestation of another twenty students.

As we can see by the response Cliatt’s victim gave to the defense attorney, children who are being abused rarely come forward because they are under the spell of a predatory adult.

The whole nation is currently baffled by the case of the Missouri boy who was kidnapped by a suspected pedophile and lived for over four years in the home of his alleged abductor.

Why didn’t Shawn Hornbeck simply knock on the neighbor’s door, and tell them he had been kidnapped by Michael Devlin in 2002? Neighbors reported seeing the boy riding his bike and even spending time with his girlfriend. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Hornbeck spoke to local police in 2003, at age twelve, telling them that his bike had been stolen from outside Devlin’s apartment.

How can an institution like our school system locate victims and perpetrators without relying on children to extract themselves from their tormentor?

“First of all, we should allow school counselors to actively question students about any abuse that may be occurring,” says Criminal Investigator Jerome Hudepohl. He said current policies prevent counsellors and teachers from doing so, because the schools fear a law suit.

“They are set up to take a report from the student, but they may not actively question students.” Hudepohl said an affirmative response should be turned over to sex crimes investigators immediately.

Hudepohl is currently a private investigator and a past member of Protect Our Children’s board of directors. He retired from the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office after a thirty-year career with the department.

He said fear of litigation also affects the way school systems check the backgrounds of perspective employees: “They contact the personnel department and ask for a recommendation. If the employee hasn’t been arrested and convicted of something they give the person a clean report. The employee may have had two hundred complaints filed against him, but if none of the complaints has resulted in a criminal sentence, they say nothing. This is due to fear of litigation.”

Two law suits have been filed to date, against the Brevard County School District, on behalf of Cliatt’s alleged victims.

Hudepohl says school security people should talk with former co-workers of any prospective employee.

“There is no replacement for good old leg work and good investigative procedure. That always includes talking to people who know the person being investigated.” He said the current method used by schools relies primarily upon computer searches of the F.B.I. Fingerprint Database and the National Sex Offender Registry.

Hudepohl says school security people should do a “residential inquiry” of every place the prospective employee has lived. He said local, county and state police agencies should be contacted,checking to see if the subject’s name is in the agency’s “Intelligence File”, a data base of names known to the police for various reasons.

“They should ask if the person’s name appears in the intelligence file as a victim, complainant or suspect. This would help to direct a further investigation.”

He said the background investigation should be conducted on any adult employee who has contact with children including coaches, volunteers and non-instructional staff.

School officials said Daniel Cliatt passed both the F.B.I. and F.D.L.E. background checks. Until his arrest in 2005, he had no prior criminal record.

Hudepohl says there should be a statewide clearinghouse containing all the data collected in the background check. This would prevent a duplication of effort should a rejected employee apply for a school position elsewhere in the state.

He said adults in the school system should be checked and rechecked on an in-house, rotating basis: “People are people…things come up. The model citizen on Monday can be uncovered as an abuser on Tuesday”

When told about the recent proposal made by a local polygraph examiner, that adults in schools should be polygraphed on random basis, he had mixed feelings: “I’m not a big fan of polygraphs, because sociopaths can beat it. Most sex offenders are sociopaths or psychopaths.”

He does agree that the tests can be useful in bringing forth suspicions that people have about other employees: “When good people are confronted about suspicions they may have, or even about direct knowledge of abuse perpetrated by others, they usually tell the examiner before the test commences. This can be valuable in directing an investigation,” he said.

State Representative Mitch Needleman, co-sponsor of the Jessica Lunsford Act, will be on hand to discuss the dynamic legislation in the works in Tallahassee.

Scheduled between the 2006 legislative sessions, the conference is an opportunity for law enforcement to present a laundry list for state law makers.

“Certainly, there will be some tweaking to do.” says Sheriff Jack Parker, “these laws have changed the landscape for local law enforcement.” Parker who is earning a reputation for his agressive posture toward policing sex criminals, will take his turn at the podium to outline his goal of creating a “Child Safe” community.

Parker will be joined by Chief Phillip Ludos of the Cocoa Police Department. The veteran cop is president of the Association of Chiefs of Police: “In some cases, these local ordinances are running ahead of existing state law.” Chief Ludos spoke to THE GUARDIAN by telephone March 14.

Melbourne-based attorney Michael Kahn, will discuss issues concerning civil liberties at the workshop. An expert in constitutional law, Kahn’s presentation will be aimed at anticipating challenges to this radical new legislation.

Activist and Author Claire Reeves (pictured), will keynote the event along with Mark Lunsford. Her organization Mothers Against Sexual Abuse (M.A.S.A) spearheaded some of the fundamental laws of the American child-protection movement. She was a prime mover behind the elimination of the statute of limitations for sexual assault on young children. The adoption of the law allows victims to file charges many years after their abuse. Reeves was instrumental in forcing adoption of California’s chemical castration law. She is the author of “Childhood: It Should Not Hurt”.

Host Mayor, Rocky Randells of Cape Canaveral will welcome the conferees at the Radisson-Resort at the Port. The one-day event begins at 9:00 AM, May 19th and registration can be made by calling Protect Our Children at 321-638-3711. To register on-line visit the website at www.uspoc,org. The cost of registration will increase after May 5th, and group discounts are available. Luncheon will be provided by the Radisson’s banquet staff.

Nervous parents called THE GUARDIAN last week complaining that sex offender William Pratt (pictured) was frequenting Ralph Williams Jr. Elementary School in Rockledge. Pratt, was the subject of an article by FLORIDA TODAY staff writer John Torres, published September 13. The story focused on the offender’s opposition to a proposed Palm Bay ordinance which would effectively banish both predators and offenders from the city.

School resource officer John Hudgens says parents who come to the school to visit their children must enter their name and their child’s name in a computer at the front office. The computer prints out a bright yellow tag which is to be worn by visitors at all times.

“No parent is allowed to be off by themselves,” says Hudgens, “They are usually in a common area like the lunchroom, and are not outside the view of other adults.” He said any parent or visitor without a yellow tag is stopped and questioned.

Parents are allowed to come on campus to eat lunch with their children and attend functions in the group setting. Volunteers who work “one-on-one” with students are required to pass a background check. Tutors and Apple Corps volunteers are fingerprinted and screened before they may access school grounds.

Principal Cynthia Ford said she has received inquiries periodically from parents asking about Pratt’s access to the campus.

Viera resident Terry Ramey thinks the system is not adequate; “There are no real safety precautions, you put a name in the computer, get a sticker and walk. No one really checks you in.”

Ramey whose children attended Williams Elementary last year, was shocked when she noticed Pratt on campus; “I had seen him at the school at various functions…a science fair among other things.” she told THE GUARDIAN in a telephone interview. “In my opinion sex offenders should not be allowed on school grounds regardless of whether they have children attending the school. Common sense dictates that people who have hurt a child that way should not be there at all.”

Andrea E. Alford, Director of District and School Security says when her department receives an inquiry about a sex offender, the staff checks to see if the person has been released from any restrictions imposed by the state: “If they have completed their sanctions, there is no reason to take additional action.” she said.

Alford says people who are classified as predators are not allowed on school campuses. State law however, places no restrictions on adults who have been classified as sex offenders and have completed their sentences. “They have civil rights,” she said “and we can’t place sanctions on them that the state has not.”

Director Alford spoke to THE GUARDIAN in a telephone interview September 29th. She said the school system does not keep a list of parents who are released sex offenders.

The subject of child molesters visiting their children in schools was the topic of an article in the Summer 1997 issue of THE GUARDIAN. Convicted molester John W. Daniels was reported to be entering the campus of Atlantis Elementary School to eat lunch with his child. At the time Daniels was still on probation, after being convicted of committing a lewd act on a child in 1987. The article whose headline reads “Campus Molester Gets Detention” explained that Daniels was barred from being present on any school property by the conditions of his sentence. Atlantis Principal Vickie Mace reported Daniels to probation officers who arrested him for violating his probation. Daniels eventually completed his probation, and because his conviction occurred before 1995, he is not required to register with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Florida schools are just beginning to grapple with the problems of maintaining safety standards when convicted sex criminals are given access to school grounds. This month, Brevard schools began implementing state procedures requiring vendors who service schools to undergo a background check. Some school systems in Florida now have student sex offenders in the upper grade levels.

New technologies promise to improve on the “make your own label” system currently in place at Williams Elementary. Sophisticated scanners are coming on line which verify the identity of the visitor automatically. The new systems match the face of the visitor with the photo on the drivers license which is inserted in the device.

E. Allan Measom, President of Raptor Technologies says, “Seventy-three percent (73%) of all of the Registered Sex Offenders logged at our Texas school installations had previous convictions of sexual crimes against children—with the victim’s average age being eleven (11). The most disturbing part of this is that most of these (offenders) are parents or guardians with children at that school. And even worse than that, many of them visit the school on a regular basis.”

Meason’s company markets visitor I.D. systems to schools in Texas and Florida.

Drowning in the hellish pit of Parental Survivorship of murdered and sexually abused children, Mr. Lunsford has managed to focus on the root of the evil that propelled him there. For him it is the miracle of his daughter that keeps the rage within from consuming every fiber of his being. As it is for many other parents of a victimized child, the proactive stance he has taken in honor of Jessie is the lifeline out of that hellish pit. This pain and anguish is all too familiar. In 1999 my daughter, then 11 yrs old, was a victim of a man who, to date, remains un-prosecuted therefore unrecognized as a sexual offender. This monster was arrested then released, only to be rearrested weeks later for the 1985 murder of a 15yr old Connecticut boy.

Founder and President of a local grassroots, non-profit organization Protect Our Children Inc. and editor of the Guardian Brevard Newspaper, Kevin Gillick offered me a medium in which I was able to vent my frustrations and affect change on a local level. It was on! I climbed out of that pit and jumped into the battle to protect and save our children. Over the past seven years I have served this small organization with the powerful voice as Secretary, Founder of the Internet Sting Team, Member of the organization’s Court Room Monitor Program and now as Executive Director. “The Guardian Brevard” is published by Protect Our Children and released quarterly. It identifies Brevard County Sex offenders by photo, mapped address and the crime they committed against somebody’s child. The victims are never identified. We drive infinite miles delivering countless copies of The Guardian to the driveways of residents in neighborhoods where these sex offenders live. This system works but it is not enough.

Current registration and tracking methods of these sex offenders are failing our children and their families. There are far too many offenders for our already taxed system to keep up with, and the numbers are growing. Legislation must be passed in which these individuals are tracked by Global Positioning Satellite Systems. Bracelets or Ankle Monitors are only effective if the offenders keep them on. Once removed, though an alarm would alert in the monitoring system, the offender would have ample time to disappear. A surgically implanted chip strategically placed beneath the skin of the offender would rectify this issue and would allow for consistent effective monitoring of these dangerous offenders. In addition to registration, if insertion of these devices were imposed as a condition prior to release, we would not have to rely upon sex offenders to notify law enforcement of a change of address or their movement through out our communities. This legislation should also allow for free public access to map and trace the offenders’ beacons via the Internet.

Protect Our Children’s Court Room Monitor Program boasts of diligent conspicuous adults who advocate for the greatest possible prosecution and sentencing of sex offenders of children. These advocates attend the bond hearings, trials and sentencing of the sex offenders who harm children of Brevard County. Their purpose is to ensure the offender is prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent allowed by law. Your participation is needed! Call 321-638-3711.