Bad Bad Teacher

Christopher Eng, 23, owner and former operator of Critters Childcare at Beacon Hill and Kimball elementary schools, in Seattle, Washington who pleaded guilty last month to molesting two young boys in his care has been sentenced.

King County Superior Court Judge William Downing sentenced Eng to at least 16 1/2 years in prison. In sentencing Eng the judge said, “It’s a crime against all society.”

Eng could end up locked up for life as his release date, if any, from prison will be determed by the state’s Indeterminate Sentence Review Board, which acts as a parole board for certain sex offenders.

Eng came to the attention of authorities when a then 10-year-old boy told his mother that Eng had been molesting him for two years and had done so at Eng’s home and in the schools, including in the teachers lounge at Beacon Hill Elementary. Eng admitted molesting the boy more than a dozen times between September 2004 and August 2006.

After Eng was arrested a second alleged victim came forward. Eng denied having sexual contact with the second boy, who was 7 at the time. Eng indicated he pleaded guilty because of the likelihood of being convicted at trial and to take advantage of a plea deal offered by prosecutors.

The mother of the first victim call Eng “this predator” and said that her son, once happy, confident and extroverted, became sad, silent and withdrawn while in Eng’s care, too traumatized to tell her what was wrong.

The boy’s mother indicated that the only worse act that Eng could have committed was to murder her child. But in a sense, he did that to her son, too. She said , “He murdered his innocence, he murdered his self-esteem and trust in adults in general.“.

The victim’s mother also said, “The day my child told me what this pedophile did to him, my world ended and I wanted to die. I wanted to crash the car we were both in so we wouldn’t have to feel the pain, the shame, the confusion and the horror of the knowledge of what had happened to him.”

The victim, now 11, told the judge that Eng, “messed up my life“. “He’s changed the future“. “Give him the maximum number of years, because when he gets out, he’s probably going to mess up more lives.“.

References:

Seattle day care operator sentenced to prison (9/29/07)

Child molester gets long sentence (9/29/07)

Former day care operator sentenced to prison (9/28/07)

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