UH-OH, MORE FORTIN-OH...

Uh-oh, this isn't looking good for our Mr. Friendly from Pittsburgh, Michael "The Molester" Fortino, our poster boy this week.

Seems he went and really peeved the courts in Arkansas, especially Judge Jimm Hendren, and you know you're not supposed to do that. Anyway, Fortino has simply gone and made a bad situation worse...Our man Ron Wood at the Morning News has the details.

Fortino, 46, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison last week, the minimum recommended, based at least in part on those letters. He could have gotten 20 years.



"I think it was done at the behest and obviously with the knowledge of Mr. Fortino," Hendren said. "A court must be able to sentence a person based on accurate information."



One letter was allegedly from a Jonesboro woman with whom Fortino had a relationship and a child unbeknownst to his wife and family. She testified Tuesday she didn't write the letter, which didn't spell her name correctly and had the wrong birth date of their child.



The woman, who was five months pregnant when Fortino was arrested, said Fortino told her he'd broken up with his longtime girlfriend, that he'd never been married and lived on a yacht on Lake Erie. He and his family lived in Pittsburgh.



Fortino met the woman's family, they traveled together and he said he wanted to get married, she said. The woman found out Fortino was already married the day after he was arrested. He lied all the way through about the charges against him, she said.



The signature on the letter looked like Fortino's, she testified. And, the birthdate was one he'd mistakenly used before.



Someone identifying herself as Fortino's sister called and asked the woman to say the letter was legitimate. She refused.



Fortino also faked a letter of apology to the family of a victim and an e-mail, allegedly from the father of that child to the judge, was also forged, police said. That letter said the family had forgiven Fortino; they were praying for Fortino; and, that Fortino's actions were an isolated incident that had not "placed the family in harm's way," according to Detective Mike Parks of the Fayetteville Police Department.



Fortino told Parks a computer virus was making child porn pop up on his computer. There was no such virus.



Further, Fortino told Parks he had no idea what materials were on the computer. But, Fortino was shown on video placing a hidden camera in a changing room on his boat. Fortino later edited the video to produce a video clip of a naked 11-year-old girl changing clothes.

We at Arkansas Tonight think Molester Mike will think 11 years would have been a cakewalk when Judge Hendren gets through with him. No word yet on the re-sentencing.




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