A Nashville window washer who became locally known for dressing up as Spider-Man while working at a children’s hospital has been sentenced to more than a century in prison for producing and distributing child pornography.
Jarratt Turner, 36, previously pleaded guilty to all counts of producing and transporting child pornography involving a toddler boy and an infant girl. On Monday, he was sentenced to 105 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $31,104 in restitution to the victims.
According to court documents, Turner befriended two families with young children that he offered to babysit.
He’s no hero: Jarratt Turner (left), 36, who made headline in 2014 by dressing up as Spider-Man while washing windows at a Nashville children’s hospital (right), has been sentenced to 105 years in federal prison for making child pornography
Pervert: Photos and videos produced by Turner between 2014-2015 showed him molesting his friends’ two children, who were between the ages of 12 and 31 months old
Between October 2014 and May 2015, the window washer took sexually explicit images and videos of the toddler girl on ten different occasions and of the infant boy on six different occasions while in his basement apartment in Nashville.
The photos and recordings showed Turner molesting the two children, who were between the ages of 12 and 31 months old at the time.
Turner later disseminated the pornographic videos and photos via the Internet to others, writing at one point, ‘I looooove (sic) little ones. I love little one’s the most and hope you love them too.’
In an attempt to avoid detection by law enforcement, he only used public Wi-Fi networks.
According to the complaint, Turner emailed two images to an undercover police officer in Australia, which allowed US Department of Homeland Security officials to track the IP address of the sender to Sip Cafe on Gallatin Pike in Nashville.
Spider’s web: The US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee wrote that Turner dressed as the Marvel Comics superhero in an attempt to ‘access other vulnerable children’
Investigators said Turner would go to the establishment every day and use its Wi-Fi network to send out X-rated photos and videos of children over a cup of coffee and two scoops of ice cream.
With the help of the manager of the cafe, law enforcement officers were able to identify the suspect and arrest him.
‘Children of this community are a little safer today with this sexual predator behind bars,” said Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robert Hammer, who oversees Homeland Security Investigation’s operations in Tennessee.
‘The fact he would film, and then upload to the Internet, videos of himself molesting an infant and toddler, then take elaborate steps to conceal his activities, represents the extreme danger he posed to the community,’ said Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robert Hammer.
Officials say Turner would sit ever day at Sip Cafe in Nashville (pictured) and send child pornography to others using the eatery’s public Wi-Fi
Back in October 2014, Turner made headlines in Tennessee when he was filmed washing windows at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital while dressed in a full Spider-Man costume.
‘These kids are pretty sick and anything we can do to make their day a little bit better, I’m all for it,’ he said in an interview with the station Fox 17. ‘It makes it even better if I can do my job and help some people out at the same time.’
The US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee wrote that Turner dressed as the Marvel Comics superhero in an attempt to ‘access other vulnerable children,’ reported Charlotte Observer.
‘The sentence imposed by the Court should insure that this defendant will never have another opportunity to inflict his perverted sexual desires upon another innocent child,’ said US Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.