Dr. Roger Levin, Menlo Park doctor who was charged with possession of child porn

[Wilson]

Dr. Roger Levin, a Menlo Park doctor who was arrested and charged with possession of voluminous amounts of child porn, had his license revoked in the 1990s. Alas he only did a pitiful work/prison furlough and is still out and about. Since 2006 Jewish Survivors Blogspot has posted articles about Levin. A number of posters have reported that Levin is very heavily involved with www. sfredbook, a site for prostitutes and johns. Some have become alarmed at his activities and have been trying to blow the whistle on him. The San Mateo County sheriff's office has posted on jewish survivors, asking for any victims to come forward.


This was posted a few weeks ago in the comments section over at Jewish Survivors:

If you are victim or have any pertinent information please contact:
San Mateo County Sheriff's Office
Detective J.Chong 650-363-4050
Det. Sgt. B.Raffaelli 650-363-4058
jachong@co,sanmateo.ca.us
braffaelli@co.sanmateo.ca.us


See comments section on Dr. Roger Levin: an old case that should not be forgotten:

Second story down, in comments section:
http://jewishsurvivors.blogspot.com/search?q=Roger+Levin

[Wilson]

http://www.xanga.com/CoolPinkKitty?nextdate=8%2f24%2f2006+4%3a5%3a39.09 0&direction=n

See middle of the page.

[Wilson]

http://forums.techguy.org/civilized-debate/536536-myspace-sued-enabling-sexual-predators-3.html


Note: Swordflesh and Astroglide are names Levin uses on www.sfredbook.com



Join Date: Jan 2009
14-Jan-2009, 05:22 PM #36
Roger Mason Levin
Is this the same guy? (aka Swordflesh, Astroglide, Dr Roger M Levin, Dr Roger Levin)

Case Type: Sexual Molestation/Child Abuse
DOCKET NUMBER: 320022
STATE: California
COUNTY: San Mateo
TRIAL: 3-4-91 to 3-14-1991
JUDGE: Hon. Harlan K. Veal
ATTORNEYS:
Plaintiff: CHARLES H. KAVALARIS, (Poel & Kavalaris), P-San Jose
Defendant: NIS A. BABBITS, (Office of Robert E. Gyemant), D- San Francisco
SUMMARY:
Demand: $750,000; Suggested Verdict: None Given
Offer: -0-; Suggested Verdict: -0-
Verdict: Plaintiff
Vote: Unknown
Jury Out: 1 days
Amount: $180,000; $90,000 (D), $90,000 (A)
Range: $100,000-199,999
SYNOPSIS: The Plaintiffs, 12 and 15 respectively, Caucasian, students, alleged the Defendant digitally penetrated their anuses on four to seven occasions from 1978 to 1986, while they were in the shower. There was no allegation of any purpose of sexual gratification.
The Defendant, 44 years old, Caucasian, divorced, physician, denied any digital penetration and asserted he touched the boys only for purposes of cleaning them.
INJURIES/DAMAGES: Plaintiffs alleged emotional distress from sexual assault and battery.
Trials Digest
SAN MATEO COUNTY
38 Trials Digest (TD) 12189 (Cal.Superior)

http://jewishsurvivors.blogspot.com/...r-m-levin.html

http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/Levin_Roger.html

http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WL...1&P_LTE_ID=790

[Taylor]

Dr. Hugh Ridlehuber,(deceased) treated Dr. Levin's sons. In a court case that is public record, Levin's sons told Ridlehuber that their father had molested them. Levin tried to sue Ridlehuber but the case was dropped when Levin was arrested.

Law enforcement who specialize in child abuse say that most molesters do not operate alone. Do Ayres and Levin know each other? Have they exchanged photos of children?

[St. Clair Baxter]

http://cyberstars.com/rogerlevin/

[St. Clair Baxter]

http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Computer.Solutions.650-224-2472

[Wilson]

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This man makes me sick. Thank you so much for putting out info. on him. I am a former patient of his and 10 years later I am still plagued by what he did to me. Please, please keep updates coming. Does anyone know if he is able to practice medicine today? It seems he may be in practice in Menlo Park, but I'm not sure. How can I find out more?

November 07, 2006 9:44 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He can not practise medicine. He runs a computer business, servicing Menlo Park and Palo Alto.

January 15, 2007 9:18 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I too was a victim of this snake. I was lured into his web as he was very charming and engaging. He had a great sense of humor, and even made jokes about pedophiles and other predators...what a cover! If you follow your gut, however, you will soon discover he has a perverted, psychopathic mind. He is paranoid, so when he meets you, he eventually manipulates you into doing something kind of shady (or even illegal)as ammunition against you if you ever threaten to go to the authorities. Lesson: If someone seems too good to be true,
its likely you've just met someone like this man.

May 08, 2008 7:55 PM

Link to quotes under story "Where in the World is Dr. Roger M Levin Today? What's He Been Up to Lately?

http://jewishsurvivors.blogspot.com/search?q=Roger+Levin

[St. Clair Baxter]

Three years ago, a victim of Levin posted a warning about Levin on the Merchant Circle website. Since then, other victims posted about Levin, who is a convicted felon and who can never practise medicine again.

Somehow, Levin managed to go in and get the comments erased-except for one. Levin has replaced the warning comments from his victims with his own bogus reviews of his computer business. All of the names like "Carrie DiMeinhold" and "Mike Slausen" are shams.

http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Computer.Solutions.650-224-2472/review/list

Just as a reminder:

If you are a victim or have any pertinent information please contact:
San Mateo County Sheriff's Office
Detective J.Chong 650-363-4050
Det. Sgt. B.Raffaelli 650-363-4058
jachong@co,sanmateo.ca.us
braffaelli@co.sanmateo.ca.us

[Taylor]

on "Dangerous Men of the California Bay Area" site

http://coolpinkkitty.xanga.com/?nextdate=8%2F24%2F2006+4%3A5%3A39.090&direction=n

Scroll about halfway down the page.

Dr. William Ayres is also listed on this site.

Roger Levin has been a longtime member of www.sfredbook.com. Because of his arrest record, the site banned him from posting in the regular section on female "escorts." However, he is still commenting over at the medical forum on redbook.com under the name "Astroglide."
Link to site:
http://forum.myredbook.com/cgi-bin/dcforum2/dcboard.pl?az=list&forum=health&conf=DCConfID4


Dr. Hugh Ridlehuber, Dr, William Ayres' former partner, treated Levin's two sons after they came forward to say that their father had molested them in the shower.

[Wilson]

Could that partner work for the Santa Clara Civil Service Commission? Were the initials of that partner's handle on www.sfredbook.com "SVG"?

[Jack Kirkpatrick]

[QUOTE=Wilson]Could that partner work for the Santa Clara Civil Service Commission? Were the initials of that partner's handle on www.sfredbook.com "SVG"?[/QUOTE

Concerned?

If you think there is something untoward - start with asking the SCCCS Commission; then seek the assistance of the appropriate police departments, District Attorneys offices and then have an award winning writer do the "scut" work you should be doing.

Better yet, ask the partner and the doctor yourself! Now that is a seed of real courage Just think of the value of courage and conviction if you are so interested in the accomplishment of these men against your own or the publics' interests. It is always about the other person or leaving it up to them to report suspecious activity. Nearly all I hear in here are excuses by victims, witnesses, investigators, and supposed people in the loop that deferred to others what they should have done. These weaknesses are nothing new since we stop have stopped speaking softly or carrying a big stick" where it counts. The social interpersonal relationships are easier to discard than maintain and family communication have destroyed long marriages and children....

That lack of convictions here is a personal indictment and a convictiion of omission about what people are saying in here and why we are 1 or 2 decades of letting other do what was alleged and what was the intent Dr. Ayres case is nothing short of an indictment of several of our institutions.

Before I was a mandated reporter, I had no problem reporting behavior that bordered on illegal activities - now all you have to do is assume the risk. The last thing many violators want to do is draw attention to themselves so they often reduce their risk even if they are unsuccessful! Why should there even be a mandated reported if that untoward activity should be reported. Weak values start with your character or lack of character and blaming others; not steping forward.

So what is it you are willing to do to as your civic duty beside asking an innocuous question from people that don't know without being the spear tip or do you just want to be part of the shaft that rarely gets much done?

Let's face it, people intimidate us; we don't like confrontation and there are a lot of individual cowards in our society - that reduces our individual risks unless we organize a posse or vigilantes.

If nothing else comes from this threat, it should challenge you to examine your own character and values and allow the criminal justice system to play out and to examing your own relationship as to personal integrity, maintaining meaninful social relationshipst that enhance marriage and what it mean to be a family that communicates effectively with one another and our institutions.

This blog is a lot like emotional vigilantism that are not balanced with an offsetting or moderate point of view and we don't even have a lawful conviction of Dr, Ayres and others that has withstood the appeals that yet have been waived. Where there are convictions of others, that alone does not mean they are repeat offenders or should be "dogged" to the point that rehabilitation is interferred with when it just may be occurring. Don't be a treat to others that may be rehabilitated - it can happen in high risk cases, but it won't happen if we dog a person to reoffend!

[Jill]

Please translate, English is my preference.....:confused:

[St. Clair Baxter]

Four law enforcement agencies have also been contacted.

SVG=Silicon Valley Guy.

As seen on sfredbook.com

http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=%22SiliconValleyGuy%22&fr=yfp-t-157&u=www.myredbook.com/showpro.aspx%3Fid%3D9740&w=siliconvalleyguy&d=V3F1gd29TpxJ&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=hzR9nCzpVJiPZibq36xyFA--

[St. Clair Baxter]

says Roger Levin used to go by the handle "Longschlong" over at sfredbook.

http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=%22Longschlong%22+sfredbook&fr=yfp-t-157&u=www.sfredbook.com/escort/22/28482.html&w=longschlong+sfredbook+%22sf+redbook%22&d=Bc4GBt29Tk8s&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=CUnbZFoe0spFfKefwhDgaQ--

He now posts under the name "Astroglide."

[Jack Kirkpatrick]

"Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination." — Ariel Dorfman

Although not a direct quote, one should never downplay success when discussing the distinction between bragging and attributes of personal achievement to social order over social dysfunction. If you are uncomfortable acknowledging personal accomplishments how can you possible discuss the attributes of social dysfunctions in a pool of failures. Even the accomplished has failures; they usually don't drown in them or repeat the failure many times over.

You have the power not to drown in personal or group failure as you or the group has the power to maintained moderation that accomplishes more to bring about balance and harmony and fairness even in a world that is rarely fair in all things at all times. When embracing balance and harmony, fairness will seek its own level. If you are absorbed by the need for fairness, that single dimension loses the rationality of other important dimension in life! When you say, "Life is not fair", you are quite right, it is not and never will be. That is why harmony and balance, as personal attributes, will get you through life and offers a buffer to level out the bitterness you may be feeling when things just don't go according to your beliefs or wishes. It sabotages the greater good - better to let a guilty person goes free than to allow an innocent person to lose there freedom.

Who among us are perfectly guiltless? We have all committed felonies - petty theft with a prior is quite common; yet we have not had that court experience, but if we had, would it throw the fear of retribution in you? At what point does it become a serious felony against another or a business?

It takes courage to do the right thing and to do things right - life is full of sound bites; sometimes, if reflected upon, it may have an impact or create an epiphany later in life when we least expect it. Rarely will we ever come forward to pay the pauper or the rich.... Don't Create a Crime Against Your Own Imagination - "create the ability to confront and deal with your problems," but not through half truths, embellishments or vigilantism!

[Taylor]

There are some of us who have very credible knowledge of the history of the Levin case. I can add to your information, St. Clair.

In 2006, Jewish Survivors posted a story from the San Jose Mercury News about the police finding thousands of images of child porn on Levin's computers. The folks over at www.sfredbook - a site for johns and prostitutes -saw the story and ran with it. They knew Roger Levin very well over there. He had been basically running the site by that point for several years. Indeed, he had his own private forum called "Longschlong's Secret Forum". A reporter at the Palo Alto News was investigating, and he found that in order to belong to the forum, you had to pass a "questionnaire" designed by Levin. Some of us have seen that questionnaire. It is gross and disgusting. The reporter discovered that among other things, Levin "bragged" in his "secret forum"about certain things he had done to his young sons.

Although www.sfredbook is a site for johns and prostitutes, when the folks there saw that Levin was a convicted felon and with their knowledge of his current criminal activities they decided to boot him off the site. They didn't want a convicted felon "running" their site and they were afraid of getting busted. They tried to boot Levin off. He wouldn't go easily. He kept changing his handles on the "Underground" the most disgusting part of sfredbook. Finally, he seems now to only be posting on the Medical Section of sfredbook under the name Astroglide.

If anyone thinks that Levin is not up to his old tricks, we have a bridge to sell you.


Finally, we don't need to be lectured by a fool who doesn't do his homework and knows nothing. There are many out there who know what Levin is up to currently these days, but the previous poster does not.

It hasn't hit the previous poster that this year the detectives from the San Mateo Sheriff's office posted a "Looking for Victims" of Roger Levin on a website. Gee, that doesn't sound like they're making things up out of whole cloth. Could it be that law enforcement knows something the previous poster doesn't? Like maybe they have some new evidence against Levin?

[Wilson]

Only ten months of a work furlough. He was allowed to plead guilty to possessing illegal substances and in exchange they dropped all those child porn counts. Michele McKay McCoy was the prosecutor then. Now she's a judge in Santa Clara County.

What were they thinking then ? Today he would have received a more severe sentence.

[Taylor]

http://www.malesurvivor.org/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=277809#Post277809

It's good they posted the request from the San Mateo Sheriff's office too.

If you are a victim or have any pertinent information please contact:
San Mateo County Sheriff's Office
Detective J.Chong 650-363-4050
Det. Sgt. B.Raffaelli 650-363-4058
jachong@co,sanmateo.ca.us
braffaelli@co.sanmateo.ca.us

[Jill]

Sounds like very thorough investigative skills.

[Jack Kirkpatrick]

Sounds like very thorough investigative skills.


I am aware for sometime of the Dr. Levin's case and the recent call to arms to find victims! Everyone needs to keep perspective and let this case unfolds, if there is anything illegal going where anything is going on with minors or non-consenting adults

The Dr. Levin's case goes back to 1991 and yes he was given a common sentence for a serious offense not so different than the light sentences given by the county court this year to a martial arts instructor several months ago and where he was with a 13 year old female having overt sexual relations or the San Bruno womans overt relations with a 14 year old male. Sex registration was waived in one or both of these cases. There are several more headed in the same direction as Levin's case or the 2 cases cited are the model.

If Dr. Levin is up to his old illegal behaviors that have been known for 18 yrs since that conviction, do you really think that we are having a through investigation or is there a lack of skills similar to the mishandled duplication of the current Dr. Ayres case that is older than Levin's? I don't think we are having a through investigation or if it is a through investigation, maybe he is not doing anything illegal. Some behaviors that are gross and disgusting are not always illegal....

I would think that if Dr. Levin is a danger, the DA would close in on him now and take him out of circulation rather than risk minors to more danger. Sometimes you have to take action quickly and hope you have your ducks lined up. Sometimes you can't make things happen even though you want to! It is a good thing defendants waiver their rights to their Miranda warnings and a speedy trial or the DA would lose a lot more cases and look worse than the SF conviction rate. Throw out negotiated pleas and the CJS will not need more prisons and would fall apart or you'd need more police, lawyers, judges....

What has been written in the Levin case has not accomplished much in the public's mind as it now stands - that is what is meant that maybe we are creating "emotional vigilantism that are not balanced with an offsetting or moderate point of view" may elicit a better investigation and Don't Create a Crime Against Your Own Imagination posts. They will leave you hollow, angry and ill if you don't get what you truely believe is an injustice! Being right is not usually rewarded - it is an expectation; a duty to do your best and there are many solutions to many problems and the outcome may not be as eligent as your own but it was achieved.

Even though the court pass judgement, the DA and the probation officers carry a lot of weight. It seems to me that neither are very persuasive with the court when the suspects are given light sentences and no registration requirement where there is overt sexual contact as in the martial arts teacher's case or consider the 31-year-old San Bruno woman who lured a 14-year-old boy into her minivan and had sex with him who avoided state prison time, but still faces up to a year in county jail as part of a plea deal with prosecutors ( see my comments in the Ayres or Wigstaffe threads).

Posting mere comments from past news articles is hardly a substitute to good investigative procedures where interviewing and interrogation and other forensic science can really validate the direction of a investigation.

For now - relax; no one really wins as much as they think in any of these cases.... a spurt of euphorian rarely lasts long until the next crying spell of a victim or a rage of anger that last a life time.

[Taylor]

Thanks for keeping on top of the Levin case. Waddya bet he's reading this forum on a daily basis?

[St. Clair Baxter]

That's what I'm hearing.

[Taylor]

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:W0yLpB3_qt8J:sites.google.com/site/predatorlist/rogermasonlevin+%22Roger+Levin%22+pornography&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[Larry King]

Apparently everywhere. For a while someone was posting a link to Roger's "history" in a lot of Readers' Comments on stories in The San Jose Merc. They were pretty regular, and then they abruptly stopped. Haven't seen one since. I'm actually surprised that he hasn't been able to bring these postings to a stop as well.

And who is this apologist Jack Kirkpatrick? An amoral attorney who would take either side in an arguement? Bet he would be singing a much different song if one of Roger's victims was his mother, wife, or sister or children, but then, maybe not.

Stay away from Computer Solutions on El Camino in the Baron Park area of Palo Alto as it is Levin's business.

[Wilson]

Actually, back in 2006, two sites called Jewish Survivors and the Awareness Center (for Jewish victims of sex abuse) posted some old stories on Levin from back when he was arrested. The site posed the question "What is Roger Levin up to these days?" To their surprise, people from www.sfredbook.com started giving updates to Levin's activities at redbook.

That's when the woman who runs the Awareness Center got an angry anonymous phone call from a man whom she believes was Levin, threatening he would take action if she didn't take the news stories about him down. As she has been threatened on numerous other occasions by pedophile rabbis, she stood her ground and did not remove the news stories.

As a result, throughout August and September 2006, the people who posted on www.sfredbook.com started postiing about Levin and his activities there. There was even a poll asking whether someone who had a felony conviction should be booted off the site. Apparently even the people at redbook were appalled by Levin's activities- and that's saying something.

This also emboldened a person to put up a site called "Bay Area's Most Dangerous Men" on the cool pink kitty site. This person even posted a picture and wrote up what Levin was doing to women over at sfredbook.com.
Excerpt on Levin from "Bay Area's Most Dangerous Men"

5'6 to 5'10, Caucasian, balding,blue eyes,no tattoos, chubby to overweight. Usually wears casual clothes to dressy clothes.

Personality traits recognized: Very pushy, well try to take pictures of you and use them against you later to blackmail you with friends, co workers or family members, uses prior medical education to try and lure you into believing he is a practicing Doctor, when in fact his license was revoked due to allegations of rape,child molestation and domestic violence.

Read rest of the Levin story here:http://coolpinkkitty.xanga.com/?nextdate=8%2f29%2f2006+13%3a55%3a14.717&direction=n

[Michael Stogner]

That's what I'm hearing.

Our Sheriff and Under-sheriff are customers (Operation Dollhouse 4/21/07).

Our Top 2 District Attorneys support that idea. (Fox and Wagstaffe e-mails).

REACT TASK FORCE

I would like to know if any women have reported Roger Levin to any law enforcement agency in San Mateo County.

Michaelgstogner@yahoo.com

650-921-7001

[Jack Kirkpatrick]

Apparently everywhere. For a while someone was posting a link to Roger's "history" in a lot of Readers' Comments on stories in The San Jose Merc. They were pretty regular, and then they abruptly stopped. Haven't seen one since. I'm actually surprised that he hasn't been able to bring these postings to a stop as well. And who is this apologist Jack Kirkpatrick? An amoral attorney who would take either side in an arguement? Bet he would be singing a much different song if one of Roger's victims was his mother, wife, or sister or children, but then, maybe not. Stay away from Computer Solutions on El Camino in the Baron Park area of Palo Alto as it is Levin's business.


I learned long ago, not to take too many things personally or seriously, King Larry!

Pedophilia is not a very serious problem from a professional level - doctors, lawyers, teachers and their aides...! Now if you want to talk moral and serious pedophilia and sexual misadventures....

Now from an amoral national & international perspective, adult and young children in our communities, pedophilia and unwanted sexual behavior committed by relatives is a serious problem - parents and their children, grandparents, uncles and aunts and their children molestations); then there are the neighbors and acquaintances who who are high offender pedophiles and then there are the general run-of-the-mill sex offenders who perpetrate unwanted sexual advances on others in the form of date rape, alcohol and "roofies" (Rohypnol...) to get their jollies...! Oh, and there are the adoptive parents, significant others like boyfriends... or live ins - the combinations are as outrageous as the misplaced behaviors and relationships are astonishing! There is nothing hysterical about what constitutes a major social problem underreported. Fear and poor communication in families are often the second crime of people regardless of age.

After all, the achieved professions are made up of many of these ascribed relationships and genders! You just know that many offenders are members of the family secret or not so family secret profiles...! Now that you can take to law enforcement and the courts!

Judge Susan Etezadi handed down eight months to a female sex offender of a 14 year old male and gave her] three days [credit for time] served. She must surrender Feb. 6 and spend three years on supervised probation, register as a sex offender, complete sex offender treatment and have no contact with the victim. She is prohibited from congregating in places where minors loiter, like schools and video arcades and cannot date anyone with physical custody of a minor without probation approval. The sentence is indicative of a double-standard for sex offenders who are female rather than male."

“No offense to the judge but there is a societal difference,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. (AND HE WANTS TO BE OUR NEXT DISTRICT ATTORNEY.) I don't think so; he is not change we can trust, (TDJ, "Mom jailed for sex with teen," Michele Durand, Dec. 24, 2009)! We only have this cultural double standard because law enforcement, the DA's attorneys and the courts are sexist and culturally challenged!

Thanks for the acknowledgement, King Larry; I hope you become a senior member while I try to balance out the perspective in this thread with my own thoughts. Remember, windage and elevation means nothing if you take too much personally or too seriously! It is always about the bigger picture.

[Taylor]

found on his computer.

From news story in 1996:

Police Comb Internet For Suspect's Porn Source

By Bill Workman

Chronicle Peninsula Bureau - September 10, 1996

Police are hoping to track down the Internet sources of hundreds of images of child pornography allegedly downloaded from a Palo Alto doctor's personal computers following his arrest on sex and drug charges, investigators said yesterday.

Dr. Roger M. Levin, 51, an internist and surgeon, was arrested late last week and is free in lieu of $ 250,000 bail, pending his arraignment on September 20 in Palo Alto Municipal Court.

He is charged with eight felony and misdemeanor charges, including possession of obscene material depicting children under 14, providing drugs to an addict, prescribing drugs before an examination, obtaining narcotics by fraud and falsifying drug prescriptions.

-------

Additionally, it was Levin's own two sons who came forward to say that their father had molested them. They told this to Dr. Hugh Ridlehuber, one of William Ayres' former partners. Ridlehuber reported Levin to the police. Then Levin tried to countersue Ridlehuber. This was before the police found all of the child porn on his computer... when he was arrested he had to drop his suit against Ridlehuber.

If anyone wants to see the horrific details of the Levin child molestation case, and his suit against Ridlehuber, it's all there at the Redwood City court house.
Case CIV000327032 - ROGER M. LEVIN, M.D., ET AL. against Dr. Hugh Ridlehuber and Peninsula Psychiatric Associates. The files are voluminous. If you go to www.sanmateocourt.org, you will see other cases involving Levin.

Ridlehuber called Levin "polymorphous perverse."

The people over at sfredbook.com also know about Levin's activities, and they got scared. After the news stories on Levin were reprinted over at Jewish Surivors and the Awareness Center, Levin was kicked off www.sfredbook.com.

What is shocking is how lax his sentence was in San Mateo County. A six month work furlough?? Sure Levin can never practise medicine again, but according to the Bay Area Pink Kitty site, he's still trying to pass himself off as a doctor to unsuspecting women.

Let's hope they're tougher on child porn collectors these days in the County. Because that lame sentence was a mockery of justice and a disgrace.

[Taylor]

I sent you a private message here at the forum. Check your inbox.

[Michael Stogner]

Talyor, I thought his conviction and light sentence was from Santa Clara County not San Mateo County.
"What is shocking is how lax his sentence was in San Mateo County."

found on his computer.

From news story in 1996:

Police Comb Internet For Suspect's Porn Source

By Bill Workman

Chronicle Peninsula Bureau - September 10, 1996

Police are hoping to track down the Internet sources of hundreds of images of child pornography allegedly downloaded from a Palo Alto doctor's personal computers following his arrest on sex and drug charges, investigators said yesterday.

Dr. Roger M. Levin, 51, an internist and surgeon, was arrested late last week and is free in lieu of $ 250,000 bail, pending his arraignment on September 20 in Palo Alto Municipal Court.

He is charged with eight felony and misdemeanor charges, including possession of obscene material depicting children under 14, providing drugs to an addict, prescribing drugs before an examination, obtaining narcotics by fraud and falsifying drug prescriptions.

-------

Additionally, it was Levin's own two sons who came forward to say that their father had molested them. They told this to Dr. Hugh Ridlehuber, one of William Ayres' former partners. Ridlehuber reported Levin to the police. Then Levin tried to countersue Ridlehuber. This was before the police found all of the child porn on his computer... when he was arrested he had to drop his suit against Ridlehuber.

If anyone wants to see the horrific details of the Levin child molestation case, and his suit against Ridlehuber, it's all there at the Redwood City court house.
Case CIV000327032 - ROGER M. LEVIN, M.D., ET AL. against Dr. Hugh Ridlehuber and Peninsula Psychiatric Associates. The files are voluminous. If you go to www.sanmateocourt.org, you will see other cases involving Levin.

Ridlehuber called Levin "polymorphous perverse."

The people over at sfredbook.com also know about Levin's activities, and they got scared. After the news stories on Levin were reprinted over at Jewish Surivors and the Awareness Center, Levin was kicked off www.sfredbook.com.

What is shocking is how lax his sentence was in San Mateo County. A six month work furlough?? Sure Levin can never practise medicine again, but according to the Bay Area Pink Kitty site, he's still trying to pass himself off as a doctor to unsuspecting women.

Let's hope they're tougher on child porn collectors these days in the County. Because that lame sentence was a mockery of justice and a disgrace.

[Taylor]

He was charged in Palo Alto court.

But he was charged in San Mateo Superior Court for child molestation. Excerpt from story:

In 1987, Levin was accused of sexual molestation by his two sons, ages 9 and 11 at the time, but later pleaded no contest in San Mateo County Superior Court to a reduced charge of willful cruelty. He was sentenced to three years probation and served a 90-day work furlough sentence.

Detectives from both San Mateo and Santa Clara County have investigated Levin. I believe he still lives in San Mateo County. Hence, the " Looking for Victims" post this year by the San Mateo County Sheriff's office. Sounds as if new people must have come forward??

[Wilson]

"Bob Roberts" wrote under the post "Dr. Roger Levin: Cops Looking For Victims http://www.malesurvivor.org/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=277809#Post277809:

I guess he now pays to meet his perverted needs. In a general discussion about this guy, his name came up as a key participant in a johns/prostitution site sfredbook.com. He goes by the name Astroglide and acts as a moderator of their "Medical Forum."

It was also noted that there were numerous postings in the readers comments of the San Jose Mercury to various news stories with links to sites regarding Mr. Levin's proclivities. Amazingly they ceased and they have probably all been deleted.

This creep is up to no good and he's whistling away as he walks the streets of Palo Alto, thumbing his nose in contempt because he beat the system.

[Jack Kirkpatrick]

Better to know more than less, but safer to have offenders working and not homeless to assit in the tracking program.... It is far better to contain than to isolate any felony and misdemeanant offenders who has served their time.

"Critics of Jessica's Law agree, saying that with or without GPS, the rise in homelessness raises the risk sex offenders will commit new sex crimes. A 2008 report from the state board — whose appointees include law enforcement, treatment providers, victim advocates and others — cited homelessness among several causes of instability that add to the risk.

"We're finally at a point where we just have to acknowledge this is actually a problem, and it's not one for lack of trying. It's actually a public safety issue," said Robert Coombs of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, a victim-advocacy group that opposed Jessica's Law.

"I don't care if these guys have a nice lifestyle. But if you look at the research, it actually says if you reduce their stability you increase the risk of re-offense," he said. "I think we'll start to see there really is that link. The way we find that out is through more victims."

Backed by 70 percent of voters in 2006, Proposition 83 stiffened penalties for some sex crimes, required lifetime GPS monitoring of newly released sex criminals and set the 2,000-foot "predator-free zones." Including parolees, the number of sex offenders registered as transient has grown to nearly 4,500, up from 2,300 before the state began enforcing the law.

The author of Jessica's Law downplayed the impact of the rise. State Sen. George Runner, R-Lancaster, said critics have yet to prove that a homeless sex convict strapped with a GPS anklet — which Runner called a deterrent — runs a greater risk than one at home.

"I think sometimes they're homeless by choice, simply because it's a little harder to find a place that meets their criteria. ... I'm more concerned about the safety of children and families," Runner said. "I certainly do not believe taxpayers should be paying for housing of sex offenders."

Some counties, such as San Francisco, have scant habitable areas outside the 2,000-foot zones. Parole officials set a new policy to keep sex offenders from flouting the law by staying extended periods with friends. The policy limited to a few hours their stay at any address, with exceptions for treatment and work. Transient sex offenders also were ordered to check in more often with their parole agents."

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_14153327

Law enforcement will be there to sort out details that you may provide, but don't let personal hysteria make more work for law enforcemnt, especially if it is contrived by those that will do anything to settle a dispute whether they have a dog in that fight!

[St. Clair Baxter]

for their interest in the Roger Levin and William Ayres cases.

Newest post on Levin over at Male Survivor:

http://www.malesurvivor.org/board/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=213466&page=13

Victims of Roger Levin should contact Detective Jackie Chong at the San Mateo County Sheriff's office - 650-363-4050 or jachong@co.sanmateo.ca.us or Detective Sergeant Bryan Raffaelli 650-363-4058, braffaelli@co.sanmateo.ca.us

Meanwhile, the Ayres story continues to be the most popular news story- ever over at Male Survivor. 61,488 hits and counting... Good work.

[St. Clair Baxter]

Here's one:

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:bRD6koYFKHYJ:forums.siliconvalley.c om/topic/silicon-valley-police-blotter-16+%22Roger+LEvin%22+molested&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Didn't Levin also work at Fry's at one time?

[St. Clair Baxter]

We need an update of Levin's other "handles" over at sfredbook. In the past, there's been an expert who's been pretty good at giving updates on his everchanging handles. Levin seems to have dropped "Astroglide" for the time being.

Why don't you start a blog on Levin? You seem to have an arcane knowledge of the former "Doctor" and his current activities.

[St. Clair Baxter]

Roger Levin, aka "Astroglide" is still active as of yesterday over at sfredbook, the website for prostitutes and johns:

http://forum.myredbook.com/dcforum2/health/2969.html

He's probably got another handle for the " Underground" section over there, where all the really perverted stuff is posted.

[Wilson]

to be quite the photographer these days.

Just sayin'.