10-23-2014 New Jersey:A former Boy Scout troop master, allegedly killed by a former scout who claims the man molested him decades earlier, had child pornography on his computer at the time of his death, according to court testimony.
Dennis Pegg, a 68-year-old Stillwater man who was stabbed to death on June 12, 2012, had numerous photos of child pornography on his computer, prosecutors said in court this morning, according to John Vazquez.
Vazquez is an attorney for Robert Reynolds, one of the two suspects charged with first-degree murder in connection with the killing.
Vazquez said that that Gregory Mueller, first assistant Sussex County Prosecutor, listed the photographs of child pornography as part of the evidence in the case.
Mueller did not comment.
Clark Fredericks, the man accused of stabbing Pegg, and Reynolds both had brief court hearings on their cases today. Fredericks has a new court date set for Jan. 15, 2015, Mueller added. Reynolds’ case was scheduled for trial in March – and has a deadline for a plea deal by the end of January.
Fredericks has claimed that he killed Pegg because Pegg had molested him as a teenager while he was in Pegg’s Boy Scout troop. Reynolds is alleged to have driven Fredericks to the house that night.
In the weeks after Pegg's death, a computer and a box containing pictures had been seized from his home in Stillwater. ..Source.. by Seth Augenstein
Courtroom applauds New Jersey man who admits killing former cop, Boy Scout leader - and pedophile
June 2015:
When Clark Fredericks pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stabbing a former sheriff's deputy, a New Jersey courtroom full of people broke out in applause.
Fredericks pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the June 2012 stabbing death of Dennis Pegg, a retired corrections officer, a respected Boy Scout leader and, according to Fredericks, a pedophile.
"From the time I was 8 years old until I was 12 years old, I was sexually assaulted and raped by Dennis Pegg," Fredericks stated in his emotional plea.
CBS New York reports that Fredericks pleaded guilty in a deal that reduced his charge from one of murder.
"We feel it is a fair and appropriate result given all the circumstances," Sussex County Assistant Prosecutor Gregory Mueller told the television station.
Fredericks told the court that Pegg, a family friend, admitted to him around the time of the abuse that he'd also had sex with one of Fredericks' young friends, who he identified only as Jeff.
Jeff committed suicide in 1983, Fredericks said.
Pegg also showed him Polaroid pictures of other naked young boys that he had abused. NJ.com reported last October that child pornography was found on Pegg's computer after his slaying; the computer and a box of photographs were seized from his home.
Other men have also come forward saying that Pegg abused them as children, CBS New York reports.
Fredericks said Pegg also tortured and killed animals and told him as a child that he would do the same to him if he told anyone about the abuse. His parents began to suspect something was awry, but he always denied the abuse when they'd ask if Pegg had hurt him.
Ultimately, more than 30 years later, it was the case of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky that made him snap, Fredericks said.
"My reaction to seeing Sandusky get out of that car with his lawyer is that Dennis Pegg would never be held accountable," Fredericks said in his statement. "The next day — June 12, 2012 — my shell cracked. My mind flooded with images, memories, anger, and mostly shame."
Fredericks told the court a friend drove him to Pegg's house in Stillwater, N.J. The door was open, and he went in and stabbed Pegg more than 20 times in the neck, chest and stomach.
"At the end, I slit his throat," Fredericks said.
See Fredericks' entire statement to the court below.
Fredericks faces between five and 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in September, CBS New York reports. His friend, Bob Reynolds, still faces a murder charge for driving him to the scene of the crime. by Crystal Bonvillian
New Jersey Man Who Killed His Alleged Abuser Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison: 'He Is Not a Criminal,' Judge Says
12-15-15
A New Jersey man was sentenced Thursday to five years in state prison for killing the Boy Scout leader who allegedly abused him, PEOPLE confirms.
Earlier this year, Clark Fredericks, 50, admitted to stabbing 68-year-old Dennis Pegg in 2012, describing the brutal killing in detail:
"I said over and over to [Pegg], 'How does it feel raping little kids now?'" Fredericks said in court when he pleaded guilty in June, according to The New Jersey Herald. "I also repeated, 'It's not so fun raping little kids now, is it?' At the end I slit his throat."
Fredericks said that Pegg allegedly abused him from when he was 8 until he was 12 years old. "It started with him wanting to touch my scar that I had through open-heart surgery at the age of 6," Fredericks said in June, CBS News reports. "It progressed to wrestling matches and eventually led to him raping me."
He never told anyone about the alleged abuse because Pegg was a "respected law enforcement officer."
"No one would believe my word over his," Fredericks said.
Fredericks says lived with the shame for decades – until the trial for convicted serial child molester and former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky began in 2012.
"My reaction to seeing Sandusky get out of that car with his lawyer is that Dennis Pegg would never be held accountable," Fredericks said. "The next day – June 12, 2012 – my shell cracked. My mind flooded with images, memories, anger, and mostly shame."
Fredericks' friend, Bob Reynolds, drove him over to Pegg's house and watched from the door while Fredericks stabbed his alleged abuser 30 times. (Reynolds also faces charges, including first-degree murder, in connection with Pegg's death. He has pleaded not guilty and will go trial in 2016.)
No direct evidence of childhood abuse by Pegg ever emerged, but other men came forward with similar allegations.
That was enough for Judge Thomas J. Critchley, who imposed the minimum sentence for passion/provocation manslaughter, the crime to which Fredericks pleaded guilty to June. "He is not a criminal," Critchley told the court. "I am mindful of the fact that the man who is here being sentenced today did this because of what was done to him."
He added that while tempted to "liberate Fredericks at this moment," there is a "need to deter" by the court.
Sussex County First Assistant Prosecutor Gregory Mueller read a statement on behalf of Pegg's family that acknowledged there may have been some wrongdoing, but chided Fredericks for taking the law into his own hands, NJ Advance Media reports.
"You chose to savagely end his life with your unlawful action," Pegg's family said. "Ironically, you asked for justice only after you killed the person you say harmed you."
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