For your mid-day Read the Lead, we’re going to take you into the realm of some of our regular fare…regular to us, but not to mainstream media, which doesn’t generally cover this kind of material.
There are all kinds of crimes being charged on a daily basis in our coverage area, and we like to feature the really strange ones. This particular incident fits that description…and it’s one that we’ve received a LOT of inquiry about since the moment it happened. Here now is your first Read the Lead for the day, Nurse charged with Child Porn for allegedly photographing developmentally disabled patient.
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Kerry Rutherford
SALINE CO.— A Harrisburg nurse has been charged with Child Pornography after authorities say she took questionable pictures of one of her patients.
According to police reports, on April 14, at 10:36 a.m. Harrisburg officer Zach Popetz was dispatched to Tri-County Services, a multi-services agency for developmentally disabled individuals, on a call that an employee had taken nude photos of a resident.
“When I arrived I spoke with assistant administrator Belinda Mortag who advised she had learned of the incident just prior to calling dispatch,” Popetz wrote in his report. “She stated that Amber Farris reported to Tabitha Tanner that she witnessed Kerry Rutherford take a picture of (name withheld, here referred to as NW)’s genital area with her cell phone. She stated that NW is a non-verbal, profoundly disabled patient at Coleman Tri-County.”
Mortag told Popetz the incident had taken place the night before between the hours of 8-10 p.m. and that Amanda Satterfield reported that she witnessed the picture on Rutherford’s…
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