Judge, Prosecutor Stunned By Depravity Of Child Molester

By ELAINE SILVESTRINI | The Tampa Tribune Published: August 14, 2008 TAMPA - A veteran prosecutor says he is the worst sexual offender she has seen in 22 years. A man who collected and traded sexually explicit photographs of infants, who repeatedly raped his three daughters when they were infants and children, was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. A judge said if she could have, she would have sentenced Robert Metz to a longer time behind bars. But U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew noted that the 40-year-term probably amounts to a life sentence for the 54-year-old Bradenton man. One of the 20,000 images Metz traded over the Internet – images of infants and children being sodomized, urinated on and defecated on – depicted Metz performing a sex act on his infant daughter. Metz... [read full story]