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CEDAR RAPIDS — One of the most prolific sexual predators charged in Iowa was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 31 years and one month in federal prison.

Donald W. Rager, 41, a former part-time Gurnee, Ill., police officer, sexually abused 14 male victims between the ages of 14 and 16 in four different states over a two-year period, according to federal prosecutors. His activities also led to the arrest of four men in England, prosecutors said.

Rager produced video recordings of multiple sexual sessions with the victims, prosecutors say. Many of the victims were abused as many as 10 times during a session.

Rager pleaded guilty in June 2007 to interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sex with a minor, production of child pornography and interstate transportation of child pornography.

Deegan said investigators also discovered Rager traveled to Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin where he sexually abused 13 other boys.

Through this investigation police also helped law enforcement in London, England, arrest four other sexual predators, Deegan said. A man in London sexually abused a 10-year-old boy while Rager watched it live by webcam. Rager gave police information that led to the arrest of the London man.

Rager told federal Chief Judge Linda Reade before she sentenced him that he didn't know how he had became the man who committed such crimes.

Rager said he was a former president of the Fraternal Order of Police and his entire life was devoted to protecting the safety of others. He was a part-time police officer in Gurnee, Ill., and owner of a security business, Millcreek Protection Service, in Grayslake, Ill.

He told Reade he'd had personal and professional setbacks in his life that caused him emotional stress and led to his crimes. But he said that was background information for the judge, not an excuse.

http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080423/NEWS/928394184/1001/NEWS

I know most people call it Club Fed...but I'm glad this guy is getting put away.
 
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