Inside the torture dungeon where British man planned to rape, murder and EAT children beneath his Massachusetts house 

Prosecutors are pushing for would-be cannibal Geoffrey Portway, 40, of Worchester, to be sentenced to 27 years in prison next Tuesday 

Investigators found child pornography and photos of children who appeared to be dead on his computer 

They also found a child-size coffin, a steel cage and a brand new set of butcher's knives 

Portway pleaded guilty to soliciting the kidnapping of a child and to the distribution and possession of child pornography in May 

By NOEL YOUNG IN BOSTON and HELEN POW 

PUBLISHED: 13:35 GMT, 11 September 2013 | UPDATED: 19:18 GMT, 11 September 2013 

The first pictures of a stomach-turning torture chamber where a British-born Massachusetts resident planned to rape, murder and eat children have emerged. 

Prosecutors are pushing for would-be cannibal Geoffrey Portway, 40, to be put away for 27 years after he confessed to plotting the heinous crimes. He will be sentenced next Tuesday. 

Photographs taken by investigators of Portway's Worchester home in 2012 show an eerie staircase leading to a hidden basement room containing a 'child-sized homemade coffin,' a steel cage, handcuffs and a set of butcher's knives. 

 Creepy: Pictures of the stomach-turning torture chamber where British-born Massachusetts resident Geoffrey Portway planned to rape, murder then eat children show a makeshift coffin and a cage, left 

Coffin: The homemade child-size box, pictured, was soundproofed 

Evidence: Investigators also found handcuffs, pictured, in the horror basement torture chamber 

[Пройдя по ссылке на оригинал статьи, можно увидеть гораздо больше фото - Ред.] 

'Portway has pled guilty to some of the most vile and heinous crimes known to our society, namely participating in the sexual exploitation of young children through the possession and distribution of child pornography and soliciting the kidnapping of a child for the purpose of killing and consuming that child,' federal prosecutors wrote in court documents, obtained by the Boston Herald. 

The sentencing papers, filed yesterday, include frightening excerpts from online chats Portway had with like-minded child pornographers and potential killers, including Florida puppeteer Ronald Brown who planned to kidnap children he knew through his local church.  

According to the Herald, Brown went as far as to send Portway a photograph of a young boy 'with lines drawn on him to identify the different cuts of meat.'  

The two chatted about kidnapping the boy, taking him to a rented house and eating him over several weeks before feeding the 'leftovers' to alligators. Brown has since been convicted.
In May, Portway pleaded guilty to solicitation to kidnap a child and to distribution and possession of child pornography. As a British national, he will likely be deported after serving his sentence. 

Portway had numerous chats with individuals about a 'mutual interest in abducting, raping, murdering, and eating children,' an agreed statement of facts released by the U.S. attorney in Boston in May stated.   

In July last year, federal agents searching Portway's residence in Worcester discovered the terrifying locked dungeon in the basement of his home. 

It contained a chair, television, and what appeared to be cable access to the Internet. 

The room also contained the child-sized homemade coffin that had large speakers covering wire mesh at one end and an exterior locking devices. 

They also found a steel cage approximately 3' wide, 2'high and 4' long with multiple locking devices, and a steel table top with steel rings at six points, presumably for restraints. 

Outside was a cabinet freezer, an upright freezer, disposable scalpels, butchering kits, and castration tools. 

This dungeon was described in detail by Portway in recovered chats as a place he intended to use to keep kidnapped children while he sexually abused them and as a place to eventually murder and cannibalize the children. 

Many of these conversations were accompanied by the trading of child pornography. 

These chats also included images of children known to them, accompanied by discussions of desire to sexually abuse, murder and cannibalize those children. 

As stated both in court filings from May, through his online chats, Portway solicited several people for their help in abducting a child, including Brown and another man called Michael Arnett of Kansas. 

At least as early as 2010, Portway utilized Skype and other programs to communicate with Arnett, trading child pornography including images of injured, mutilated and deceased children while chatting about the sexual abuse, rape, abduction, murder, and cannibalism of children. 

Over months, Portway repeatedly solicited Arnett to kidnap a child for him, with the intent that Portway would ultimately rape, kill and eat that child. 

These solicitations for help in abducting a child included discussing real children, by name and photo, that Arnett claimed to know and have access. 

In the chats, Portway and Arnett discuss different ways to kidnap children and the age range that Portway prefers. 

During the time that Portway was soliciting Arnett, Portway had been told that Arnett had helped others with such requests before and that Arnett had experience with the abduction and sexual abuse of children. Arnett has since pleaded guilty in Kansas to the sexual exploitation of a child for the purposes of producing child pornography. 

A forensic examination of the computers uncovered evidence of over 4,500 trades of child pornography between Portway and others. 

Many of these trades involved Portway distributing child pornography to others based on their stated specific preferences, including images and videos appearing to depict dead children and the cannibalism of children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417572/Geoffrey-Portway-dungeon-First-pictures-torture-dungeon-British-man-planned-rape-murder-eat-children-beneath-Massachusetts-house.html

В итоге Портуэй получил приговор чуть меньше, чем изначально требовала сторона обвинения - 26 лет и 8 месяцев вместо 27 лет и 3 месяцев:

Geoffrey Portway Sentenced: Man Who Planned To Kill And Eat Children Gets 27 Years In Prison 

By DENISE LAVOIE 09/17/13 04:06 PM ET EDT 

WORCESTER, Mass. — A Massachusetts man who chatted online with other men about their desire to kidnap, rape, kill and eat children was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 27 years in prison after prosecutors showed photos of a basement dungeon he built, a child-sized coffin, butchering tools and metal restraints. 

Geoffrey Portway, 40, of Worcester, was sentenced to 26 years and eight months behind bars, just under the 27-year, three-month sentence sought by prosecutors. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stacy Dawson Belf said chats recovered from Portway's computer show he solicited people for help for a kidnapping with the intent of raping, killing and eating a child. She disputed claims by Portway's attorney that he was merely fantasizing and did not intend to do the things he described online. 

Belf read from one of his chats and said Portway had assembled everything he needed to carry out his plan, except for a child. 

"I want to eat ... the two boys you will bring me," Belf quoted Portway as writing. "Perhaps not today, but it will happen. That is all I live for. ... I am serious. It is the only thing that gets me up in the morning."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/geoffrey-portway-sentenced-torture-kill-eat-children_n_3942049.html

(О том же самом в Daily Mail - с менее заметными подробностями касательно приговора, зато с вынесенными в заголовок инструментами для кастрации, найденными в подвале у героя статьи)