In mid-August 2015 Matthew David Kuppe - a twenty year old jewish camp councillor and an 'A* student' of psychology at Michigan State University 0 was arrested by police after a tip to an agent at Homeland Security about someone posting images online of young children undressing under the unimaginative handle of 'jcclockerroom'. (1)
Reportedly the vile images focused heavily on the genitalia of the boys most of whom were around five years old. (2) At least one of the images included sexual acts being committed on the children; however there is no evidence that Kuppe actually sexually assaulted any children but he seems to have just taken posed nude photos of them. (3)
It turned out that Kuppe had been security checked and cleared before he began working at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Metropolitan Detroit camp. In addition to the fact that the JCC received warnings in the summer of 2014 that Kuppe had tendencies to paedophilia, which were then ignored and he was promptly rehired for their 2015 summer season. (4)
It turns out that Kuppe was rather fixated on his jewishness since he titled the folders on his computer holding the child abuse things like '5 year old Jewish Boy' (5) and 'Jewish Boys', (6) which suggests that Kuppe saw the jewishness of his victims - like his own heritage - as being an important factor in his behaviour and may well have been part of his motivation. At his arraignment the court was presented with a seven page criminal complaint against him, which was - by all accounts - an extremely lurid and disturbing document laying out the sordid extent of Kuppe's vile conduct. (7)
The JCC of Metropolitan Detroit immediately began to desperately try to control the damage by firing at least three of its employees involved in hiring - or working with - Kuppe. (8)
Kuppe was incidentally also claiming that he isn't a flight risk, but yet after he pled guilty to child pornography charges via a plea deal - when he got ten years in prison (plus seven years of supervised probation) rather than twenty years - (9) and in June 2017 - the day before he was due to report to prison to begin his custodial sentence - Kuppe tried to commit suicide via taking an overdose but was rushed to hospital and survived. (10)
As soon as he was well again; he was promptly dragged off kicking and screaming to prison to begin his sentence. (11)
Quite frankly; it is a shame we don’t apply the death penalty - preferably greatly expedited - to such creatures.
References
(1) https://www..detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2015/08/13/jewish-camp-counselor-charged-child-porn-case/31649805/; https://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20150814/west-bloomfield-camp-counselor-accused-of-taking-nude-photos-of-campers ; https://www.stljewishlight.com/news/world/article_86bf3fdb-c296-5d9f-9eea-603bb5515fde.html
(2) https://www..detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2015/08/13/jewish-camp-counselor-charged-child-porn-case/31649805
(3) https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/06/16/child-porn-camp-counselor-survives-drug-overdose/102924164/
(4) http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/west-bloomfield-jcc-camp-counselor-charged-with-child-porn-pleads-not-guilty/34951578
(5) https://www.inquisitr.com/2348031/matthew-kuppe-michigan-day-camp-counselor-accused-of-producing-child-porn-judge-deems-him-threat-to-community-video
(6) https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2015/08/28/fired-camp-counselor-faces-child-porn-arraignment/32477699/ ; https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/08/18/matthew-kuppe-jewish-community-center-jcc/31929265/
(7) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suburban-detroit-camp-counselor-arraigned-on-child-pornography-charges/
(8) https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2015/08/27/west-bloomfield-jcc-camp-counselor-charged-with-child-porn-pleads-not-guilty/
(9) https://patch.com/michigan/westbloomfield/camp-counselor-accused-child-porn-reaches-plea-deal; https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2017/04/11/former-west-bloomfield-jcc-camp-counselor-sentenced-to-10-years-in-child-porn-case/
(10) https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/06/16/child-porn-camp-counselor-survives-drug-overdose/102924164/
(11) https://www.dailytribune.com/2017/06/17/former-west-bloomfield-camp-counselor-taken-into-custody-after-overdose/