Rick Torrey Judgement Day

[skiadikt]

Whats going to go on with the store?

Oh im sure its business as usual...

Too many here seem to think he made a "mistake" you forgive mistakes so why not shop at the store????

now that the truth is out, i doubt it'll be business as usual. shortski has already expressed his feelings. i'm suspecting that many folks who supported him based on what he told them will now reconsider. unfortunately most folks outside the k community will continue to have no idea.

[johnny the jibber]

600 pics, 20 videos, 3 1/2 yrs?

wow...

[Stormchaser]

FMC DEVENS

The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens is an administrative facility housing male offenders requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. FMC Devens also has a satellite camp housing minimum security male inmates.

FMC Devens is located in north central Massachusetts, approximately 39 miles west of Boston and 20 miles north of Worcester, on the decommissioned military base of Fort Devens.

[KMartman]

FMC DEVENS

The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens is an administrative facility housing male offenders requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. FMC Devens also has a satellite camp housing minimum security male inmates.

FMC Devens is located in north central Massachusetts, approximately 39 miles west of Boston and 20 miles north of Worcester, on the decommissioned military base of Fort Devens.

See what all the money those of you who shop at the Basin can buy...it bought him a country club for 3 years......

If this was you or me...we'd be in a "regular" prison.......

sh*t!!!!

EFF RICK TORREY AND EFF THE BASIN SKI SHOP...

Man I hope typing that helps when people search and that they dont shop there anymore!!!

M

[mogulmouse]

Yea sounds like fool got lucky

[Nikoli]

FMC DEVENS

The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens is an administrative facility housing male offenders requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. FMC Devens also has a satellite camp housing minimum security male inmates.

FMC Devens is located in north central Massachusetts, approximately 39 miles west of Boston and 20 miles north of Worcester, on the decommissioned military base of Fort Devens.

See what all the money those of you who shop at the Basin can buy...it bought him a country club for 3 years......

If this was you or me...we'd be in a "regular" prison.......

sh*t!!!!

EFF RICK TORREY AND EFF THE BASIN SKI SHOP...

Man I hope typing that helps when people search and that they dont shop there anymore!!!

M

Now your blaming the people that shopped there in the past? I don't know Rick and I don't go to the Basin but I highly doubt he made all of his defence money in the past year.

[KMartman]

FMC DEVENS

The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens is an administrative facility housing male offenders requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. FMC Devens also has a satellite camp housing minimum security male inmates.

FMC Devens is located in north central Massachusetts, approximately 39 miles west of Boston and 20 miles north of Worcester, on the decommissioned military base of Fort Devens.

See what all the money those of you who shop at the Basin can buy...it bought him a country club for 3 years......

If this was you or me...we'd be in a "regular" prison.......

sh*t!!!!

EFF RICK TORREY AND EFF THE BASIN SKI SHOP...

Man I hope typing that helps when people search and that they dont shop there anymore!!!

M

Now your blaming the people that shopped there in the past? I don't know Rick and I don't go to the Basin but I highly doubt he made all of his defence money in the past year.

I kinda just meant the ones that continued to shop there after the original arrest was made...not every patron the store has had in the past...

But since he's obviously been doing this for years those patrons have been contributing indirectly to his crimes...not that they couldve known...

Again its really anyone whos stepped foot in that place since his arrest...

Thanks for playing though.

M

[shortski]

So the state won't come in and liquidate everything? I don't know but a friend of mine said that could happen.
Our house won't shop there anymore. Sad. as i've said before alot of the people who work there are very cool. I wonder will they stay working there? I feel bad for them.

As I said in the opening post in this topic Torrey could have been fined between $12,500 - $250,000, I think this is what the judge said, he then started to mumble and speak away from the microphone, not sure it this was on purpose, but he continued with what I heard as "no means" so I'm not going to imposed a fine...then more mumbles and talk away then something about a "special assessment of $100.000.

I've heard opinions, though several different conversations, that the business was transferred to Christine shortly after charges were filed. If Rick got the right lawyers together maybe the business is safe from attachment, don't know but I wouldn't be surprised if Rick was trying to protect his assets, nothing against the law.

[Ruttlander]

600 pics, 20 videos, 3 1/2 yrs?

wow...

And how many informational counts? One? Two? Why not 600 counts? Because the US Atty's office are liars. He may have had 1 or 2 illegal pictures and that's enough to justify the sentence, but he may have had 598 erotica pics. Erotica are pictures that are not illegal but are of minors. The AUSA will say, "I am charging him with two counts. He had over 600 pictures on his machine!" If they had that many pictures then he'd have gone up for 100 years.

These laws were put in place before the digital revolution. These laws were made long ago to punish the underground element that used to make illegal publications and sell them through the dark networks. People who would buy these magazines and videos had to go into the dark network to get this stuff. It was not as easy as getting a cable modem connection and signing into Newsgroups. These laws are draconian and excessive. And they keep the public screaming "burn witch burn" with the "600 pics and 20 video's BS. If all those were illegal, they'd send him to GITMO. I wish he got off with probation.

[Coydog]

Did the crime, do the time. It sounds like the judge considered all the factors and a 3 year sentence appears to be fairly typical though one can always argue not enough or too much. I also hope Rick gets the help he surely needs.

I will continue to shop at the Basin and have a beer or three at the Lookout. Rick’s family, business associates, suppliers and employees have nothing to do with this. Nothing.

I may stand alone, but I certainly understand why some feel differently.

Time to move on.

[RENO]

Wonder about all the stuff that he downloaded (pics and video) that they didn't find? Maybe an old computer that he threw away years ago? Old VHS/DVD's? Who knows how long he's really been doing this before getting caught? I feel sorry for the people working at the Basin. Hopefully everything is under his daughter's name now and she's the one getting the money and not him. Who knows. There must be a way to find that out? I never bought a thing at the Basin. Place is a ripoff. I stopped in to get a derailer fixed at True Wheels and bought some tubes a couple years ago. I bought boots and gloves several years ago at the Out of Bounds snowboard shop. Vin's a good guy. I've also eaten at the Lookout many times. Good people all around that he screwed over.

F'n pervert! Any chance for early Parole? Didn't see mention of it...

[boston_e]

See what all the money those of you who shop at the Basin can buy...it bought him a country club for 3 years......

If this was you or me...we'd be in a "regular" prison.......

sh*t!!!!

EFF RICK TORREY AND EFF THE BASIN SKI SHOP...

Man I hope typing that helps when people search and that they dont shop there anymore!!!

M

Well, I'm with you on that I'll never shop at the Basin as long as he is associated with it in any way, and yes I think the guy is scum... however, it does not sound like his sentence is light in any way..... 3 years, plus 5 years probation and $100,000 (if that is indeed the case) is no small deal, regardless of weather it is a maximum or minimum security facility, and certainly not what I would consider a country club.

Not everyone is getting thrown into Walpole...

[hyegirl]

I think that the terms used to describe what he was enjoying watching have been candy coated, violent sexual kiddy porn. Children being assaulted and violently raped, he was watching this, and buying this so that he could continue to watch it. I find it hard to comprehend that someone would enjoy that but certainly understand that this man will have problems trying to reenter a village like Killington, where many of the people who considered him a friend have children. This guy's bad news. No sympathy here for someone who in buying, perpetuates this horror.

[Coydog]

Rutland Herald, 10/2/2008

With his hands shaking and eyes blinking rapidly, Richard Torrey, 57, the owner of Basin Ski Shop in Killington, hung his head low as Judge J. Garvan Murtha sentenced him to three years in prison on a federal charge of possessing child pornography.

"It's no secret I have great difficulty in these types of sentences," Murtha told Torrey in U.S. District Court in Rutland on Wednesday. "The offense to me is horrendous."

Torrey's three-year prison sentence precedes five years of supervised release, when the longtime Killington businessman must register as a sex offender, submit to periodic drug tests and searches of his computer software and hardware, undergo sexual offender outpatient treatment, and refrain from living with or having contact with anyone under the age of 18.

Torrey, who previously pleaded guilty to the 2007 charge of possession of child pornography, must report to prison Dec. 2. He faced a maximum of 97 months in jail under the federal sentencing guidelines.

"I'm sure you're not happy with it," Murtha told Torrey of the three-year sentence. "But that's my job."

Federal prosecutors in Vermont charged Torrey in June 2007 after agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement determined that he had purchased a one month, $99 subscription to a Web site called "Home Collection," a compilation of child porn images.

The agents linked an online payment account Torrey used to gain access to the Web site to a computer at the Basin Ski Shop.

According to a press release issued by U.S. Attorney Thomas Anderson, investigators confiscated several computers and other software, revealing Torrey possessed 19 compact discs containing approximately 1,300 images and 30 videos. The material, according to prosecutors, contained pornography of children younger than 7, maintained by Torrey from September 2003 through January 2007.

Robert O'Neill, Torrey's defense attorney, argued in court Wednesday for an option other than jail for Torrey, who operates the oldest business in the Killington region, established in 1958, according to the shop's Web site.

"The defense and government has the same goal in this case — to make sure he never does this again," O'Neill said in his closing statement. "The government wants him in jail and we think house arrest is better."

According to O'Neill, "what you have is someone who was a victim and became a perpetrator."

Two sex offender evaluators said Torrey suffered from depression and his actions may have been the result of physical and emotional abuse he endured as a child. Both evaluators, called by the defense, said Torrey was a "low risk" sexual offender and they believed jail time would be an excessive punishment.

Torrey pleaded with the judge to allow him to continue his recovery outside a prison cell.

"I spent the last 16 months searching my soul to find out why I would do such a repulsive thing," Torrey said.

"I need to deal with the mental pictures of the physical and sexual abuse from my childhood," he said. "Never in my life have I looked and thought of touching another child in a sexual way and if I did, I would kill myself."

[icedtea]

600 pics, 20 videos, 3 1/2 yrs?

wow...

I wish he got off with probation.

Do you have kids? Are you close to any children?

What the hell is wrong with you?