Bestiality charges filed - Monroe, WA

Friday, Oct 1, 2010

County: Snohomish

Disposition: Convicted

Defendant/Suspect: Robert Allen Anderson

Case Updates: 2 update(s) available

In October of last year a 48-year old Monroe man was arrested for investigation of voyeurism after Snohomish County Sheriff's officers served a search warrant at Robert Allen Anderson's home - following a tip from a woman a week earlier - that Anderson was in possession of videos of the woman having sex with him.

The woman told officers she did not know those private moments were being recorded for posterity.

A woman who knew Anderson allegedly found the sex recordings and she in turn contacted another woman -- the woman in the video - whose phone number she found in Anderson's residence.

Officers looked at DVD's seized at Allen's residence and said they showed Allen adjusting a camera toward a bed and then having sex with the victim.

Anderson allegedly told officers he had recorded many women in sex acts and that he assumed he had tacit permission to tape the encounters since the women, in his view, should have noticed the camera.

This week in Everett county prosecutors filed an animal cruelty charge against Anderson, having to do with bestiality, and he was also accused of possessing child pornography in addition to three earlier counts of voyeurism and illegally possessing a firearm.

Anderson pleaded not guilty to the new charges and was released on bail.

The additional charges Wednesday came after police say they found more videos belonging to Anderson on a computer hard drive that was seized at his home last year.

Since seizing the computer equipment police have identified more women on the videos, beyond the first one who contacted police, who said they were unaware that Anderson had been running a video camera and recording them during acts of intimacy.

The child pornography charge has to do with a decades old video allegedly showing Anderson having sex with a then 13-year old girl investigators say they have since been able to identify and verify was underage at the time the video was made.

Anyone who thinks they might have been a victim of Anderson or who has information about him should call the Sheriff's Office tip line at 425-388-3845.

Case Updates

A Monroe man who secretly taped his sexual encounters with dozens of women is headed to prison where he'll likely be on camera around-the-clock. A Snohomish County judge gave Robert Allen Anderson a stern dressing-down Friday before sentencing him to five years behind bars for multiple counts of The defendant has no respect for the law and preyed on people no matter the cost, the judge said. He seems to believe he is smarter than everyone else and can get away with breaking the rules, Krese added. "I suspect you can't be reformed. You seem to think that you're entitled to victimize people and do what you want," Krese said. Snohomish County sheriff's detectives began investigating Anderson in October 2010 after his girlfriend found a cache of his tapes, court papers said. She turned some of the tapes over to Anderson's ex-girlfriend. That woman told investigators she had no idea Anderson recorded their sexual encounters. Sheriff's Detective Lee Malkow discovered that Anderson had taped more than 50 women and likely had been making secret tapes for more than a decade. Malkow spoke at Friday's hearing, commending the women for stepping forward. Some were afraid to talk, fearful about what society was going to say about them, Malkow said. Some of the women attended the sentencing. One told the judge that she is a modest person and was horrified to learn that others had viewed intimate moments that she believed were private. She is working to regain her dignity, she said. Many of the women were concerned that Anderson had more secret video stashes that police hadn't found, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Lisa Paul said. They are concerned that somehow the videos will be distributed over the Internet, subjecting them to further embarrassment and anguish, she said. The prosecutor asked that Anderson, 49, turn over any additional videos he may have. She also wanted him banned from computers or the Internet without approval from his community corrections officer. His attorney argued against those conditions, saying that Anderson needs a computer for his business selling hardwood. Anderson said nothing to the judge Friday. Krese sided with the prosecutor. She agreed to other restrictions, including banning Anderson from bars and not owning any animals. Krese spent extra time going over the conditions that Anderson must obey while he's on community supervision. She said she was confident that if the rules aren't specific enough, Anderson would find a loophole. Krese reminded Anderson that he had lied to her when she earlier agreed to allow him to post bail. Anderson initially was released pending trial. Krese, however, later found that Anderson violated the terms of his release because he drank alcohol, went to a casino and met with his girlfriend. The woman was a witness in the case and Anderson was banned from having contact. Krese at the time allowed Anderson to be on electronic home monitoring after he posted $80,000 bail. Anderson ended up cutting off his home-monitoring bracelet and and brought him back to the Snohomish County Jail. He was sentenced last month to a year in jail for bail jumping and escape. That time will be served consecutive to the sentence he received Friday. Anderson will have to register as a sex offender.

Source: heraldnet.com - Jul 15, 2011 Update posted on Jul 16, 2011 - 9:05PM

A judge has signed a $500,000 arrest warrant for a Monroe man who jumped bail while awaiting trial for allegedly making secret tapes of his sexual encounters with women. Prosecutors say Robert Allen Anderson cut off his home-monitoring bracelet last week and they now don't know his whereabouts. Anderson, 48, is charged with three counts of voyeurism, illegal gun possession, animal cruelty and possessing child pornography. He allegedly made secret videos of sex with more than 10 women over the years without their permission. He initially was released on bail but later was placed on electronic home monitoring. A judge at the time found that Anderson had violated three terms of his pre-trial release because he consumed alcohol, went into a casino and met with a woman he was prohibited from having contact. Anderson also was on probation for a drunken driving case out of Issaquah. His probation on that matter was revoked last Friday in part because of the drinking allegations in Snohomish County. A six-month sentence was imposed. Anderson was given until 4:30 p.m. that day to report to jail. That's when he cut off his home monitoring bracelet and disappeared, officials said. "It would be nice if somebody could give us some information about where he is," deputy prosecutor Lisa Paul said. Prosecutors asked for $250,000 bail. Superior Court Judge Linda Krese doubled that amount on Monday. Anderson previously argued for a light bail, saying there was a compelling reason for him not following the court's order. Anderson said the woman he met with contacted him and was having problems. He also said he is engaged to be married to her and that she is pregnant with their child. The woman earlier this week pleaded guilty to attempted animal cruelty in a case that involved Anderson. She was sentenced to 10 days in jail. In that case, Anderson allegedly told her to rub a dog in a sexual manner. Anderson came to the attention of police in October after the same woman found some of his tapes, according to court papers. She sought out Anderson's ex-girlfriend, whose name was on some of the tapes. That ex-girlfriend told police she had dated Anderson off and on from 2006 until September, court papers said. She has alleged that she had no idea her sexual encounters with Anderson were being recorded. The woman Anderson says he is engaged to marry already is married to a homeless sex offender now under state Department of Corrections supervision, according to court papers. They were married after the man became a registered sex offender.

Source: heraldnet.com - Mar 18, 2011 Update posted on Mar 18, 2011 - 10:43PM

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