(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Perkins man has been given two concurrent 10-year prison terms for sexually abusing a friend’s 8-year-old son and using him for child pornography.
Gregory Joseph Winnie, 27, pleaded guilty last week to lewd proposal to a child and procuring child pornography, court records show.
An additional count of downloading obscene material on his cell phone was dismissed by the prosecution.
On his release, Winnie must serve two concurrent probationary sentences of 15 years and 10 years, Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler told him.
Perkins Police Investigator Charles Danker had been contacted on Jan. 29, 2015, by the boy’s mother, who said her son had been sexually assaulted by Winnie, a close friend of her boyfriend, an affidavit said.
She said that Winnie was a good friend of the family and stayed the night at her residence quite a bit, the affidavit said.
She said that at 5:10 a.m., about 10 minutes after she awoke to get ready for work, she heard a phone alarm go off in the living room and went to turn it off, the affidavit said.
She said that “the alarm was on Greg’s phone and when she swiped her finger across the screen, a photograph of her son’s private area was on the phone,” the affidavit said.
She said she woke her boyfriend and his brother, who have been Winnie’s friends for about 15 years, and “informed them of the incident,” the affidavit said. She said when they questioned him, Winnie denied it, the affidavit said.
She said as she was on her way to work, “she received a phone call from Greg and he admitted he took the pictures on Monday,” the affidavit said.
She said “Greg also stated he was on painkillers while consuming alcohol,” the affidavit said.
She said that Monday night, her son and Winnie were playing video games in her bedroom, the affidavit said.
She said she was home except for a short time sometime after dark when she had to run to a local store while her boyfriend was in the living room feeding their toddler, the affidavit said.
She said “when she saw the pictures, she knew they were taken in her bedroom because she recognized her sheets on her bed,” the affidavit said.
She said the cell phone also contained pictures of Winnie’s private area, the affidavit said.
The Perkins police investigator said that at about 2:40 p.m. he and Chief Bob Ernst started to interview Winnie, the affidavit said.
Winnie disclosed that on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, he and the boy were in the back bedroom playing video games when pictures were taken on the cell phone, the affidavit said.
“Greg stated he agreed and felt so guilty afterwards,” the affidavit said.
“Chief Ernst asked how the photographs turned into nude photographs and Greg stated that was the thing from the get go,” the affidavit said.
Winnie claimed that it was the boy’s idea, the affidavit alleged.
“Greg stated he had similar incidents happen to him when he was younger. Greg stated it started as a game – he tried to minimize by saying boys will be boys,” the affidavit said.
“Greg gave Chief Ernst permission to look through the phone. Gregory stated that the phone he had taken the pictures with is a loaner phone because his other phone is broken,” the affidavit said.
“Gregory stated he immediately went today and enrolled to get help to do inpatient treatment,” the affidavit said.
“Gregory stated that he has been on a slippery slope the last year and a half to two years…Gregory stated that he had lost some close friends and relatives,” the affidavit said.
“Chief Ernst informed Gregory that it is hard to believe an 8-year-old can manipulate a 25-year-old, but it is easier to believe a 25-year-old can manipulate an 8-year-old and Gregory said that is a true statement.
“Gregory stated he could try to minimize it, but the fact of the matter is I did do it. I took the pictures and just sat here. He touched him,” the affidavit said.
“When asked why he was touching him, Gregory stated he didn’t know,” the affidavit said.
The following day, the boy was interviewed at the Saville Center in Stillwater, the affidavit said.
The boy disclosed that Winnie touched him in his genital area, which the boy called his bad spot, and he told him not to, the affidavit said.
The boy said that Winnie took pictures of him with his pants down with a cell phone while the boy was asleep, the affidavit said.
He said he knew this “because Gregory (Winnie) showed him the pictures,” the affidavit said.
The boy said “he feels mad about the pictures,” and that he never sleeps with his clothes off, the affidavit said.
Investigator Danker received a search warrant that day for Winnie’s cell phone and saw what appeared to be two photographs of a genital area, the affidavit said.
“When I accessed Google Chrome on the cell phone, there were multiple pornography sites that appeared,” an adult porn site, a homosexual porn site, multiple sites of apparent animated pornography of children doing obscene acts, and multiple sites to view and chat about child pornography, Danker alleged in his affidavit.
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