Thread: How well do you know the people who work in YOUR haunt?

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Just a heads up to those of you who rely on outside volunteers or work in professional haunts. I came across this article earlier today and it certainly gave me something to think about.


Suspect in child porn case advises other defendants to fess up

By Tresa Baldas
Free Press staff writer

A 19-year-old haunted house worker charged in a child pornography case says he has no idea how he’ll ever pay back society for his actions.

Nor does he know what possessed him, an older teenager, to possess and distribute child pornography, which is what the government has charged him with in federal court.

But 19-year-old Adam Kyle Burk of Concord believes he has some sound advice to offer other defendants who wind up the subjects of a child pornography investigation: Fess up.

“Be honest with everybody. If you lie, it can’t help you in this situation,” Burk said today in a phone interview from his home, where he remains tethered while his case is pending.


Read more: Suspect in child porn case advises other defendants to fess up | freep.com | Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/2010101...#ixzz12S5dVUb2

Yeah. I had a real-life brush with this earlier this year.

http://www.kctv5.com/news/23099185/detail.html

I work for another media outlet in Kansas City (a newspaper), and what that television report doesn't say is this guy was an avid home/charity haunter and former pro haunter. I know because I did a feature article on his home haunt in 2008 and spent several hours at his house. I met the daughter, too. At the time, he was looking for other haunters to form a group and/or create a new pro haunt in the city and my husband and I were possibly interested in partnering up. We went to his home haunt in 2009 and talked to him and his wife, then were going to hook up at Transworld.

He wasn't at Transworld, and shortly after I found out it was because he was under investigation...

Scared the crap out of me and makes me leery of just going to people's homes for work, plus it's disappointing as it puts haunting in a bad light.

OMG Slarti! Thanks for sharing that. Very creepy, and glad you didn't have any further contact.

I'm normally a pretty safety-conscious type, but it somehow wouldn't have occurred to me that these folks might need to be screened - for the safety of the kids and adults patronizing the haunts, and also to protect the haunt owner from liability.

Wow! Bullet dodged there Slarti!

this is why i don't take my 5 year old to places like Chuck E Cheese, and i watch her like a hawk and hold her hand the entire time we're at an amusement park or carnival. Predators are everywhere (i get notices in my mailbox) but some places are a magnet due to the amount of kids they draw. I would think haunted houses are more a worry for those with pre-teens but still.

Yeah, no kidding. He's currently in jail on a quarter-million bond awaiting trial in January. His wife was also charged later.

A very creepy footnote to that is that the surveillance system he used to record his daughter standing in the corner of her bedroom was the night vision system he’d bought and shown me to record his haunt. Eep. The detective said they had hours and hours of the girl standing there, and in court they showed clips, time compressed, and they looked just like Paranormal Activity with her just standing there, almost motionless, for hours.