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SAN FRANCISCO � An East Bay professor who is accused in Missouri of
raping a 1-year-old girl now faces new federal charges in San Francisco
of crossing a state line for sexual abuse of a child and producing child
pornography. 

Kenneth Kyle, 46, of San Francisco, an assistant professor of public
affairs at California State University East Bay, was indicted by a
federal grand jury in San Francisco on Thursday. 

The indictment charges him with four counts.

The first count is crossing a state line for purposes of aggravated
sexual abuse of a child. If Kyle is convicted of that charge, it would
carry a sentence of a minimum of 30 years to life in federal prison. 

He is also accused of three other counts of producing, possessing and
transporting child pornography. 

Kyle and the child's mother, Tessa Van Vlerah, 20, of Ballwin, Mo., also
both face four state court charges in Missouri of raping Van Vlerah's
1-year-old daughter, sodomy, promoting child pornography and committing
or promoting incest. 

Van Vlerah is in jail in St. Louis County, Mo., with a bail requirement
of $2 million in cash. 

Kyle is in federal custody in the Bay Area. He is due to be arraigned on
the new federal charges at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Bernard
Zimmerman on Monday. 

The federal indictment replaces a previous federal criminal complaint in
which Kyle was accused of a single count of international transportation
of pornography. 

That charge stemmed from Kyle's arrest at San Francisco International
Airport on March 15 as he arrived on a flight from Germany. 

Federal investigators allege they found at least 529 child pornography
photos and 33 videos on a laptop computer he was carrying. 

Missouri prosecutors have said they were contacted by federal
prosecutors on March 23 and told that Kyle had met Van Vlerah on the
Internet and may have traveled to Missouri to contact her and her
daughter. 

The investigation led to Van Vlerah's arrest and the filing of Missouri
charges against the pair on March 24. 

Van Vlerah is charged in the federal indictment with one count of
producing child pornography depicting her own child between August and
October 2009. 

The federal indictment does not name the state to which Kyle allegedly
traveled for the child sexual abuse and other crimes, but it gives the
same dates, between August and October 2009, that are given in the
charge against Van Vlerah. 


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Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New York's
million dollar tax evasion.  On February 25, 2010, the House ethics
committee has concluded that Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles
B. Rangel knowingly accepted Caribbean trips in violation of House rules
that forbid hidden financing by corporations.  Democrat criminal Nancy
Pelosi is deliberately ignoring the million dollar tax evasion of
Democrat Charles Rangel. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to be forced to remove Charles B. Rangel
from the House Ways and Means Committee. 


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