Child porn victim makes gut-wrenching case for restitution

SALT LAKE CITY — Child pornography victim "Vicky" has nightmares about images of her playing endlessly on a television she cannot turn off.

Pictures and videos of her being bound, raped and sodomized at age 10 are widely distributed on the Internet.

"I live every day with the horrible knowledge that many people somewhere are watching the most terrifying moments of my life and taking grotesque pleasure in them," Vicky, now 21, wrote in a victim impact statement filed in federal court.

She suffered panic attacks, insomnia and paranoia, forcing her to drop out of college in 2009. A psychologist who treated her describes the continued downloading of her images as “a form of psychological acid drip” on her well-being.

"I feel totally out of control. They are trading around my trauma like treats at a party, and it feels like I am being raped all over again by every one of them," Vicky wrote. "So many nights I have cried myself to sleep thinking of a stranger somewhere staring at their computer with images of a naked me on the screen. I have nightmares about it often."

One of those men is Michael Loren Dunn, a decorated former Utah National Guard member and middle school teacher.  (more...)

Child porn victim makes gut-wrenching case for restitution