Barlow was a full member of Fraternity Snoqualmie Nudist Camp beginning in 1991 when Georgia Morrow worked there and her family lived at the camp.  

ALAN BARLOW, ASA MEMBER AND FORMER FRATERNITY SNOQUALMIE MEMBER, HAS BEEN ARREST MULTIPLE COUNTS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR 9.68A.040 

(BARLOW WAS CONVICTED IN JUNE, 1995.)


YOUNGSTERS FALLING PREY TO SEDUCERS IN COMPUTER WEB
Kim Murphy Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, Sunday June 11,1995 

CRIME: Once candy was the lure. Now strangers are using cyberspace e-mail to attract minors into harm's way. 

On May 26, 51 year old Alan Paul Barlow, a Seattle postal worker, was sentenced to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of having sex with a girl as young as 10 and making graphic, sexually oriented e-mail contacts with adolescent and teen-age girls in several states.    
     In several cases, Seattle prosecutors allege, Barlow talked the girls into sending him naked photos of themselves and sent them nude photos of himself. Barlow was arrested last year in Mamaronack, N.Y. after he arranged a personal meeting with a 14 year old girl with whom he had corresponded by e-mail, at first posing as a 13 year old boy. The girl's mother happened to see her daughter talking to Barlow at a suburban shopping mall and contacted police.    
     The case has prompted a New York state senator to propose legislation making it a felony to conduct sexual communications with minors via computer. Existing federal law makes it illegal to lure a minor into sexual activity through computer chat lines, and Congress has been debating legislation to toughen penalties for allowing minors telecommunications access to indecent materials. But legal analysts say the broad reach of free speech protection that applies to on-line communications makes it difficult to police these contacts.    
     "You're dealing with an information superhighway, where people can remain so anonymous that trying to track it is virtually impossible." said Dyuanne Greer, recently of the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse.    
     "Of course, there's been a lot of debate as to how do you apply existing law to a new arena ...In terms of privacy issues, First Amendment rights, all of those issues have yet to be addressed. There's virtually no way of monitoring what goes on, and it really comes back to parents having to monitor their kids when they're on-line because there's no way of tracking it." Greer said.    
     Even when parents or law enforcement officials are able to trace an on-line contact, she said, the anonymity and brevity of e-mail communications provide safe cover. "A lot of these guys are very cagey. They're not going to put anything in there that's going to make them susceptible to any charges, but they're going to make things look so attractive that the kid's going to want to run away on his own, without any soliciting."  

[This was excerpted from a larger article about the internet.] 

 

MAN WHO PREYED ON GIRLS FOR 30 YEARS SENTENCED
May 27, 1995, Seattle Times

SEATTLE - A 30 year history of sexually preying on young girls brought a sentence of more than six years in prison yesterday for a Seattle man who began using a computer in 1991 to find victims nationwide.   
     The sentence was imposed on Alan P. Barlow, 52, who pleaded guilty to seven counts of statutory rape, possession of printed sexual material showing minors and communicating with children under 16 for immoral purposes.   
     Sentences ranging from a year to 75 months were imposed on each count of the charges, to which Barlow pleaded guilty March 23, with the terms to be served concurrently.   
     Barlow was arrested in June l994, in Mamaroneck, N.Y., after he flew there and met a 14-year-old girl he had communicated with by computer.   
     The girl's mother became concerned and contacted police. Seattle police used a search warrant to obtain access to Barlow's South Seattle home nine days later and found computerized records and nude photos of a 17-year-old girl. 


Alan P. Barlow pleaded guilty on March 23, 1995 to the seven counts of statutory rape, possession of printed sexual material showing minors and communicating with children under 16 for immoral purposes. He was sentenced to six years in prison.   
     Barlow was a member of Fraternity Snoqualmie Nudist Park in Issaquah, Washington. It is unknown, at his time, whether any children of members at Fraternity Snoqualmie were victimized. Barlow is not on the American Association for Nude Recreation's computerized "Caution List"   
     Here is what Stuart E. Brown, Ed.D, Clinical Coordinator, Alderwood Psychological Associates, State of Washington certified Sexual Offense Specialist (Number FC-14) said about Barlow 

On treatment, there can be no argument that Mr. (Alan) Barlow's history is extensive, impulsive, very damaging, predatory in seeking out victims through a "skillful grooming process", and warranting of prison based on the behaviors alone. The issue of whether the client "deserves" a chance at treatment is an issue that of course rests solely with the sentencing judge. From this professional's standpoint, it is clear that his past history certainly warrants and would merit severe punishment such as prison given the very extensive damage that he has done.


E-Mail suspect faces new charges Seattle Post-Intelligencer Friday, July 22,1994 (pg. C3) 

A Seattle postal worker accused of using computer e-mail to solicit sex with teen-age girls in at least five states was ordered jailed yesterday on $100,000 cash bail in a separate investigation of statutory rape.
     King County District Judge Eileen Cato doubled the bail prosecutors had requested for Alan Barlow, 51. 
     "I'm particularly concerned about the possible threats to the safety of minors because of the prior charges," Cato said. 
     Prosecutors charged Barlow on July 5 with two gross misdemeanors and one felony, alleging that he used an on-line computer service to solicit adolescent girls for sex and lure them to meetings, and that he engaged in child pornography. 
     A computer repairman for the U.S. Postal Service, Barlow also has been charged in Mamaroneck, N.Y., with endangering the welfare of a minor, a misdemeanor. 
     Barlow's attorney, Donovan Bigelow, said he has not seen formal charges on the new allegations, but said they were made by a relative. Bigelow described the claims as "wholly unsubstantiated" and ''five to 10 years old." 
     "I haven't seen any evidence to back them up," he said. 
     Barlow was freed earlier this month when he posted bond to cover the $100,000 bail set on the previous charges. He was arrested a second time Wednesday and booked into the King County Jail. 
     In arguing against the new bail, Bigelow told the judge that Barlow's extensive collection of computer equipment had been seized by police. He also said Barlow has canceled all of his on- line computer memberships and has not contacted any of the alleged teen-age victims since his arrest. "He is no threat to the victims and there are no proven offenses," Bigelow told the judge. 
     The attorney said Barlow, who has no previous criminal record, is under a lot of stress and has been placed in protective custody. 
     "He's scared to death," Bigelow said. "Any time you're in custody with any kind of sex abuse allegation, the prison population looks down on that case. The fear is there will be some assaults." 

Alan Paul Barlow
Case No. 94-2930226
DOB: 12/09/42
Booked into King County Jail
Sexual Exploitation of a Minor 9.68A.040
June 30, 1994

SUPPLEMENTAL CERTIFICATION FOR DETERMINATION OF PROBABLE CAUSE 
No. 94-1-04208-1

That Rebecca J. Roe is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for King County and is familiar with the police report and investigation conducted in Seattle Police Department case No. 94-293026; 
     That this case contains the following upon which this motion for the determination of probable cause is made; 
     Susan Kramer (name of child has been changed) is now nineteen years of age (date of birth July18, 1974). She is the niece of the defendant, Alan Paul Barlow. After the defendant's arrest and charging for the Communicating with a Minor and Sexual Exploitation cases, Susan disclosed several years and many instances of sexual abuse by the defendant. 
     These incidents started when Susan was seven or eight years old. The defendant lived at 6921 55th Avenue South, Seattle, in King 11 County, Washington. Susan stayed at the defendant's residence regularly, twice a week. Initially, these regular stays fell on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, when Susan's mother had meetings. 
     Susan and the defendant would rent movies or go to dinner and return to the defendant's place. He showed her pornographic movies and gave her body massages and had her do the same to him. On many, many occasions, the defendant had Susan perform fellatio on him, and/or he performed cunnilingus on her. On numerous of the occasions, he fondled her, and at times masturbated in her presence. Most of these contacts occurred at the defendant's Seattle home, but a few acts occurred at a family beach house in Island County. 
     On at least one occasion, the defendant took sexually explicit photos of Susan. She doesn't know what happened to the photos. The defendant also used various "sex toys" with Susan. 
     The abuse stopped when Susan was in approximately the eighth grade, or age fourteen. Susan was becoming increasingly distraught about the acts, and finally threatened the defendant with a gun if he didn't stop. 
     The defendant also communicated with Susan via E-mail, pretending to be a younger, peer-age boy, and discussing sexual fantasies. Susan was aware the defendant was going to Arizona to meet the other girl. 
     The State requests a bail increase to $200,000. The full extent of the defendant's sexual assault history is unknown, but what is known is extensive. He also sexually [abused] his daughter for many years. The number of 'hands-on' offenses is growing. Further, the defendant obviously has an extensive number of computer contacts. He has purchased a new computer, and police feel he may be trying to use his vast computer knowledge to impede their investigation. Finally, the defendant tried cajoling and intimidating Susan and her mother to keep them from reporting the extensive abuse. 
     Under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington, I certify that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed and dated by me this 22 day of July, 1994, at Seattle, Washington. 


COUNT I

I, Norm Maleng, Prosecuting Attorney for King County in the name and by the authority of the State of Washington, do accuse ALAN PAUL BARLOW of the crime of Possessing Depictions of Minor Engaged in Sexually Explicit, committed as follows: 
     That the defendant ALAN PAUL BARLOW in King County, Washington during a period of time intervening between July 5, 1991 through June 22, 1994, did knowingly possess visual or printed matter depicting a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct; 
     Contrary to RCW Conduct, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Washington. 

COUNT II

And I, Norm Maleng, Prosecuting Attorney aforesaid further do accuse ALAN PAUL BARLOW of the crime of Communication with a Minor for Immoral Purposes, a crime of the same or similar character as another crime charged herein, which crimes were part of a common scheme or plan and which crimes were so closely connected in respect to time, place and occasion that it would be difficult to separate proof of one charge from proof of the other, committed as follows: 
     That the defendant ALAN PAUL BARLOW in King County, Washington during a period of time intervening between June 1, 1993 through June 22, 1994, did communicate with Christine Burack (name of child changed), a child under the age of 16 years, for immoral purpose of a sexual nature; 

COUNT III

And I, Norm Maleng, Prosecuting Attorney aforesaid further do accuse ALAN PAUL BARLOW of the crime of Communication with a Minor for Immoral Purposes, a crime of the same or similar character as another crime charged herein, which crimes were part of a common scheme or plan and which crimes were so closely connected in respect to time, place and occasion that it would be difficult to separate proof of one charge from proof of the other, committed as follows: 
     That the defendant ALAN PAUL BARLOW in King County, Washington during a period of time intervening between November 1, 1993 through June 22, 1994, did communicate with Karen Smith (name of child changed), a child under the 16 years, for immoral purpose of a sexual nature; 
     Contrary to RCW 9.68A.090, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Washington. 

NORM MALENG
Prosecuting Attorney 

Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney 


CERTIFICATION FOR DETERMINATION OF PROBABLE CAUSE NO. 94-1-04208-1

That Rebecca J. Roe is a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for King County and is familiar with the police report and investigation conducted in Seattle Police Department case No. 94-293026; 
     That this case contains the following upon which this motion for the determination of probable cause is made; 
     The defendant, Alan Paul Barlow, is a fifty-one-year-old man who resides at 6921 55th Avenue South, Seattle, in King County, Washington. On June 20, 1994, the defendant was arrested in the town of Marmaronack, New York, where he was meeting a fourteen-year-old girl. The investigation in Marmaronack revealed that the defendant had been corresponding with the fourteen-year-old girl via E-Mail. The substance of the E-Mail correspondence was extremely sexually descriptive. The defendant is charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child based on this correspondence. 
     The New York investigator discovered at least two other fourteen-year-old girls, in Montana and New Jersey, with whom the defendant was also communicating. The content of the E-Mail messages suggested that the defendant had encouraged the young girls to take sexually explicit photos of themselves, and he also sent photos of himself (such as photos of his penis). Based on this information, Seattle Police executed a search warrant at his residence on June 29, 1994. 
     Among the many items recovered were two sexually explicit photos of a young girl. In one photo, the girl is displaying her bare breasts. In the other photo, she has photographer her genital area while urinating. Police were able to identify the victim. She is seventeen-year-old Dawn York (name of child changed), who lives in Minnesota. Dawn has verified to Seattle Police that at the defendant's request, she took the photos with a Polaroid camera the defendant sent her. The defendant also sent pictures of himself, nude, with an erection. The correspondence was initiated through E-Mail. The defendant knew her age. 
     The other two young girls to whom the defendant sent graphic sexual E-Mail messages describing his sexual fantasies about them and encouraging meetings are XXXXXXX, age fourteen, from Montana, and XXXXXX, age fourteen, of New Jersey. 
     There is correspondence with at least four additional adolescent girls, and other seized materials for investigators to review. The full extent of the defendant's activity is unknown. 
     Because of the nation-wide range of the defendant's activities and the seriousness of the crime, the State requests bail of $100,000. 
     Under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington, I certify that the foregoing is true and correct. 
     Signed and dated by me this day of July, 1994, at Seattle, Washington. 

Norman Maleng
Prosecuting Attorney 

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