By Mike Gellatly
Aiken Standard
June 18, 2008
http://www.aikenstandard.com/0619Brumit
An Aiken native and former school teacher and pastor was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison Wednesday on child pornography and child sex charges.
Timothy Lynn Brumit, 48, was sentenced for attempting to entice a person he believed to be a 13-year-old boy to engage in illicit sexual conduct and for transporting child pornography via the Internet.
According to information presented in court, Brumit, who was arrested Jan. 24, used "Hello.com," a website operated by Google, Inc., to communicate with a person whom he believed to be a 13-year-old boy located in Stafford, Va.
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Using the screen name "charmingtim75," Brumit was actually communicating with an undercover detective.
The Google Hello online service enables users to trade and view digital pictures and videos while chatting in real time about the images.
During the course of more than 15 online chats, Brumit distributed more than 600 files containing graphic images and movies of child pornography to the undercover detective. The images included depictions of boys under the age of 12 engaged in sexual acts with other minor boys or with adult males. Some of the images that Brumit distributed to the undercover detective depict violence and sadistic and masochistic abuse of young boys.
The former teacher instructed the undercover detective to engage in sexual acts and encouraged him to obtain a webcam. He also discussed traveling from his South Carolina home to Virginia where he would meet the fictitious boy, take him to a motel room and engage in sexual activity with him.
Brumit also wanted the fictitious boy to leave his family and live with Brumit in his South Carolina home.
In one of the last chats prior to his arrest, Brumit instructed the fictitious boy to bring his original birth certificate and social security card when they met in Virginia.
In an effort to cover his tracks, the former Aiken resident instructed the fictitious boy to bring the laptop that he had been using to communicate with him. Brumit planned, the federal authorities believe, to destroy his connection to the fictitious child.
A forensic examination of Brumit's computer revealed that he had used the Google "Hello" program to trade more than 44,000 images of extremely graphic child pornography with 110 different individuals located in 31 states and seven foreign countries.
When arrested, Brumit was employed as a high school English teacher at Batesburg-Leesville High School. He also had served as a minister in various churches.
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