Ex-teacher convicted of sexual abuse dies
Rogers, 55, convicted of molesting several boys
A former Boulder City and Henderson teacher, imprisoned in 2010 for producing child pornography and sexually assaulting young boys, died in prison on Monday, the Nevada Department of Corrections said.
Charles Richard Rogers, 55, died in the infirmary of High Desert State Prison outside Las Vegas, the department said in a news release. Rogers was sentenced on June 8, 2010 to 60 years to life for producing child pornography and sexually assaulting children over a decade.
According to an indictment, Rogers sexually assaulted several boys from 1999 to 2009, including some as young as 6 and 7. Rogers also took pornographic videos and pictures of the victims.
The Henderson Police Department began investigating Rogers on March 25, 2010, when someone anonymously left police a zip drive containing hundreds of images of Rogers assaulting his victims. When police arrested Rogers the next day, they found thousands of photos and videos depicting children in his home.
Rogers taught at Garrett Middle School in Boulder City before his arrest. He previously taught at Mccaw Elementary School in Henderson from 1992 to 2002, and at Henderson’s Taylor Elementary School from 2002 to 2006. He also worked with the Boulder City Police Department
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In a courtroom packed with police Tuesday, Chafoya asked which officer had wrapped him in a tourniquet, then looked toward Hebb.
“Thank you very much,” he said. “I appreciate that, and I’m sorry for putting you and your family through this.”
Chafoya admitted that he was high on methamphetamine at the time.
“I do deserve whatever I’m going to get,” he said. “I’m not making any excuse because I smoked meth or because I’m an addict. I’m not saying that’s an excuse. I’m not asking for that.”
Defense attorney Michael
Schwarz, a former Chicago police officer, said he had never represented anyone as remorseful as Chafoya.
“I have never ever stood in a courtroom and turned around and
thanked two police officers for arresting my client,” Schwarz said. “They didn’t have to do what they did. And the only reason Mr. Chafoya is here to be sentenced instead of buried for the past several months is because of them. And I thank both of them.”
Hebb, a training officer, and Foster had spotted a stolen Honda believed to have been used in a prior shooting. They attempted a traffic stop before the car sped away.
Foster, who had graduated from the police academy about a month before the shooting, said Chafoya was driving upward of 100 miles an hour along residential streets before he stopped and fired at police.
Foster called Hebb “one of the most courageous officers” he has met.
Footage from a home security system and body cameras captured the shooting outside a home in North Las Vegas.
Hebb, an 11-year veteran of the force, told District Judge Douglas
Herndon that he has known officers who were shot and killed in the line of duty.
“I fully understand the dangers of the job,” he said. “But nothing really prepares you for that 16-second interaction you have where someone is shooting at you … when you see the muzzle flashes 15 feet from you, and you’re, for the first time in your life, wondering am I going to die.”
Herndon, who imposed a prison sentence of up to 21 years, also praised the officers.
“You probably don’t view yourself as heroic as is being bandied around,” the judge told Hebb. “At the very least, it’s an incredibly decent act of humanity.”
Chafoya will be eligible for parole after spending a little more than seven years behind bars.
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