Ex-police sergeant’s husband pleads guilty
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ATLANTA (AP) — The husband of a former Atlanta police sergeant pleaded guilty Thursday in a child porn case that led to the firing of a police official, who was later reinstated.
Terrill Marion Crane, 49, of Atlanta pled guilty in federal court to one count of producing child pornography. Crane faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced March 27.
Federal prosecutors said that starting in 1999, Crane had photographs made of sexual encounters with young girls. In 2003, his wife found and burned some of the photos, but it was not until 2007 that Atlanta officers advised the FBI of photographic evidence involving 11 girls, mostly middle school age, that were provided to the department by a film development store in 2000.
In a search of Crane’s home, FBI agents found undeveloped film depicting Crane engaged in sexual activity with girls and nude photos of some of the girls alone, prosecutors said. Some of the girls still have not been identified.
Crane claimed some of the girls in the photos were 20 years old. Some of the photos seized were identical to pictures initially provided to Alanta police in 2000.
Allegations of a coverup led to an internal investigation that concluded the case was mishandled. Maj. Cerelyn Davis was demoted to lieutenant and then fired. She was reinstated last fall by the city’s Civil Service Board. The board found that two detectives implicated supervisors to cover for themselves.
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