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AT THE CENTER
REPORTING THE PRONOGRAPHY
By the time Archer was ready to be released from prison, on April 30, 1999,
the Jimmy Ryce Act had gone into effect.
He was among the first to enter the center.
Archer showed some progress in treatment at the civil commitment center, records
show, but when child pornography began arriving at the center, he succumbed to
the urges that drove him for most of his adult life. He began looking at some
of the pictures.
"Take a piece of crack cocaine and put it in front of a crack addict. What
do you think he's going to do?" Archer asked.
Eventually, he realized what he was doing was wrong. Because of the treatment
he was receiving, he recognized his old patterns coming back and wanted to break
free. So, he decided to turn himself into the center's internal investigator,
according to records and interviews.
"What I wanted to do was get away from that bunch," he said, adding that he
has benefited from counseling. "I've been able to go back and see what makes me
tick. Now, I have ways to stop it."
Though he voluntarily gave himself up, he was removed from treatment for possessing
the pornography in February 2005, and later charged in federal court with possession
of child porn.
Meanwhile, Archer's probation officer is seeking to send him back to state
prison for violating probation -- if he's not convicted of the federal charges.
The violation: failing to undergo sexual offender treatment.
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