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DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER DECEMBER 30, 1984 5B Alleged 'snuff films' never confirmed in FBI records Mary Lecher, oldest lovan, dies at ago 169 i A tFcOLOR TV have sex with children. There are sex junkets just like there are gambling junkets. It's a sad state of affairs, but it exists." The sexual disorders clinic at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is the world's largest center for the study of pedophilia. Its co-director, psychiatrist Fred Berlin, said childhood prostitution often involves children who run away from home and then turn to prostitution to support themselves. Dr.

Berlin said violence among pedophiles is very rare. "One can certainly disagree with their views, but they are not people who advocate violence," he said. "It's very important that they not be seen as a bunch of child murderers and kidnappers. That's simply not the case in the vast majority of the cases." At the Bloomington, office of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Barickman, the vice president, said the group was organized about a year ago by volunteers to protect children. "We think that SO percent of the people are abused as young children and that children have a right to grow up unmolested," he said.

Barickman, 39, includes himself among the abuse victims and said he was 13 years old when a clothing store owner in his hometown of Truman, pulled him into a back room and attempted Continued from Page One 35,000 missing persons, 70 percent of whom are juveniles. Bonner said the first match, a 23-year-old man, was made only recently. If there were more abductions and killings, there would probably be more matches, be suggested. Currently, there are about 65 juveniles in the nation including Gosch and Des Moines newspaper carrier Eugene Martin, 14, who disappeared suspiciously and are still missing, according to FBI estimates. Most missing children are runwaways who return within 30 to 60 days, says the FBL but the percentage of missing children who are runaways isn't known.

Widespread attention to the possibility of child-abduction rings began in 1979 while law officers were investigating the disappearance of Elan Patz, 6, who vanished from the streets of New York City. Like Gosch and Martin, no trace of Patz has been found. In trying to locate the boy, law officers seized membership lists from the New York-based North American ManBoy Love Association in a raid on the apartment of Bob Rhodes, a spokesman for the association. In a recent telephone interview, Rhodes said the FBI also used the lists to find approximately 12 members in Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana, whom they questioned about the disappearance of Johnny Gosch. "It was pure harassment," he said of the raid.

"It came to nothing and shouldn't have been started. It was completely frivolous." Said Rhodes: "There has been a great mythology built up around missing children, and when a case is solved it invariably turns out to be a local person." In one of its bulletins, Rhodes' association headlined an article, "John Gosch Phone Home!" and the group asked its members to urge runaways to call a national missing-child hotline. In the same issue, the group said members do not have to talk to the FBI, and it recommended that they not submit to questioning. A New York City Police Department spokesman said the Patz disappearance remains under investigation, but nothing has been found that would indicate what happened to the youngster. The spokesman said the North American ManBoy Love Association has not been linked to the child's disappearance.

Sgt. Ron Kirkpatrick, who heads the pornography task force of the Ontario (Canada) Provincial Police, said he has seen a "shopping catalog" of children. But, he added: "The children weren't abducted. They have already been used as a sexual plaything by somebody, and they're saying here's one of my toys; they are available to you." Said Kirkpatrick: "You can even get chartered flights to the Philippines to By WILLIAM PETROSKI MONTICELLO. IA.

Mary Locb-er, 109, Uw oldest person in Iowa, died quietly at 4:30 a.m. Saturday io the neat-ai-pin, two-story fcome the shared with her sister on the north side of town here. Dr. H.A. Gearhart of Hopkinton, Miss Locher's physician, said she had some heart problems and hardening of the arteries, but he said she died of natural causes attributable to old age.

"Her body just wore out," be said. Miss Locher, who was born June 13, 1175, had been ill since being injured in a fall around Thanksgiving, according to Lillian Strittmatter, a niece who lives in Monticello. Her aunt had not tost her pluck, Strittmatter said. "She was a remarkable lady," she said. "Last week, she said she was looking forward to going to church in the spring.

That was always normal for her to be looking forward." Miss Locher, whose status as Iowa's oldest person was recognized by the Iowa Commission on the Aging, was born in Monticello with a twin sister, Minnie, at the time Ulysses S. Grant was president. The sisters were the oldest of It children born to Anthony Locher, a blacksmith, and his wife, Caroline. After graduating from Monticello High School, Miss Locher became a school teacher. She joined the U.S.

Postal Service in Monticello about 1915 as a clerk and remained thereuntil retiring in 1940. Miss Locher was an ardent Democrat who, even in the last years of her life, made a point of staying attuned to current events. The home she shared with her sole surviving sister, Bertha, 92, is lined with more than 1,500 books. Although Miss Locher needed a magnifying glass, every day she read The Des Moines Register, and she subscribed to to Time, Reader's Digest and other publications. She was a longtime stamp collector and an expert at needlework, as well as a crossword puzzle buff.

But Miss Locher's biggest love was corresponding with dozens of nieces, nephews and friends. Before she was hurt in the fall she already had addressed 60 Christmas cards, many containing messages, Strittmatter said. In a 1983 interview, Miss Locher said she was happy and considered herself fortunate. "I have loved people and I never worry," she said. "I don't ever remember worrying much, even when I was short of money." Besides her sister, Bertha, Miss Locher is survived by a brother, Leo Locher, of Columbus, and many nieces, nephews, and grandnieces and grandnephews.

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"They were mostly pictures of children playing or in shopping malls. If it wasn't spelled out what the catalogs were, it was implied that it was a mail-order service of children." Barickman said he saw a "snuff film" one that supposedly shows an actual murder in a Minneapolis adult bookstore. "If it wasn't the real thing, then it looked very real," he said. Barickman said the operation of the abduction rings the picture-taking, the messengers, the abductions were spelled out by an FBI behavioral scientist, Ken Lanning. But Bonner, the FBI press officer, said the agency would not make Lanning available for an interview because he had been approached too often by reporters.

"I have talked with him extensively, and he said there's no ring going around this country abducting children," Bonner said. "It has been blown out of proportion." About so-called snuff films, Bonner said: "There's been a lot of hype about child pornography and abductions where there were actual murders on film. We don't know of any case where it actually happened. We found in every case these things were acted out." PETERSEN EARNED 170NMATJR Reg. $15 to $90.

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