Joseph Gobrick, 45 year old convicted sex offended from Michigan claims he identifies as an eight-year-old girl had argued that the child porn stash he was caught with on his computer is protected by free speech.
He’s been sentenced to up to 20 years in prion after dozens of child porn images, including some of the children being raped, were found on his Grand Rapids home computer.
WLTX reports, that he tried to argue that the images were computer-animated and protected under the first amendment.
Police said the images from his computer identified eight child victims.
Images showed victims ranging from infants to about five years of age being sexually assaulted.
‘I would no sooner have sex with a child than you would with a rattlesnake,’ he told the judge during the trial.
‘It’s just not safe.’
He also bizarrely claimed that he was an eight-year-old girl.
‘I’ve always been an eight-year-old girl,’ Gobrick said. ‘And even my drawings and fantasies, I am always an eight-year-old girl.’
During his trial, prosecutors called him a ‘danger to the public’ and said he had been bragging in prison about raping babies.
Gobrick already had a prior sexual abusive conviction in New York from back in 2001.
He was sentenced in the child porn case to between 10 and 20 years in prison.
