»Child molester kept diary: Did he molest 36'000 kids?«

A convicted child molester jailed in California may have sexually assaulted hundreds of young boys in the United States, Brazil and Mexico.
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Calling the man, Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller, a "serial child predator," the police in San Jose said they had been holding him in the Santa Clara County Jail without bail since June 7, pending a preliminary hearing. Mr. Schwartzmiller, 63, has been charged with seven counts of child molestating of multiple victims, including one count of aggravated sexual assault on a child under 14 and six counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child under 14.
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The police had already searched his home, where they said they found seven wire-bound notebooks with names, mostly of boys ages 8 to 18, listed on the front and back of each page. The police said that in total, the ledgers contained 36,000 entries, each listing a name, hair color, age and sexual act, often noted in an elaborate code that the authorities are trying to unravel.

"The most astonishing and disturbing part is the number of names he has listed in these spiral notebooks," said Lt. Scott Cornfield of the San Jose police sexual assault investigations unit.

The police have yet to determine how many of the journal entries are duplicates. "If you assume 10 percent of them are actual cases, that's 3,600 acts," Lieutenant Cornfield said. "Even if you assume 1 percent, that's 360 victims."