A former Price Hill man has the dubious distinction of receiving one of the longest child pornography sentences in this area’s history. Earlier this week 39 year old Kenneth Rose received a 51 year federal sentence, on top of the 30 years of state prison time he’s already serving. Rich Jaffe found that while the case is closed, prosecutors are still worried about what they don’t know.
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People who lived around Kenneth Rose in Price Hill, called him Kenny. “He acted like a nice, clean cut young man. He wasn’t very old.”
Kids were common visitors at Roses’ Elberon apartment. “From all sizes little to… and we all just thought they was friends of his sons from school. I hope he don’t get out of jail.”
Neighbors say they always saw the “nice neighbor” in the company of a boy they thought was his son…they were wrong. “There was always one child or another in his home. It was very attractive to a child. He had video games, he allowed them to play…there were essentially no rules, so to a child it was very attractive and eventually it would lead to some kind of sexual contact.”
The boys seen with Rose over the years were his victims. Prosecutors say he actually became a guardian for two of them-molesting them until they became too old and lost their appeal. In July of 2009 Rose plead guilty to 20 counts of rape and other crimes against three 12 year old boys. Sentenced to 30 years, he has now also been sentenced on federal charges of child pornography involving five young boys. “The photographs he plead guilty to are different crimes than what he plead guilty to in the state system.They were either taken at different times, different boys or involved different acts and they in and of themselves required a separate punishment.”
While Kenneth Rose is safely behind bars and will remain there for a very long time, one of the troubling aspects of this case continues to be the fact that at least two of his victims remain unidentified. Photographs of those boys or at least parts of their bodies were taken in a bath tub…they could be friends of the known victims, or just additional victims. “I wasn’t willing to say enough is enough because I think the victims deserved more than that.”
Prosecutors believe Rose was molesting young boys as far back as 1996. They believe the images and photographs they confiscated were for his personal use and not circulated over the internet. They sent those images to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and so far they have not turned up in any other investigation.
