CA Man Published Obscene Stories Of Child Rape, Murder On Website: Authorities

SANTA ROSA, CA — A Santa Rosa man was sentenced to more than three decades in prison after running a website that disseminated stories about the rape, murder and torture of young children, authorities said.

Ron Kuhlmeyer, 65, pleaded guilty to five counts of importation or transportation of obscene matters and one count of distributing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. He was sentenced Thursday to 33 years and nine months in prison, authorities said.

Kuhlmeyer operated the website from Belize and globally distributed obscene stories about prepubescent children, according to the department. He wrote many of the stories himself but also published the writings of other offenders, authorities said, adding the stories were sometimes accompanied by lifelike computer-generated images of children being sexually abused.

Kuhlmeyer was convicted in 2008 of continuous sexual abuse of a child in Sonoma County and served six years in state prison, authorities said.