In addition to the latest charges – 144 counts of possession of child pornography, records show that 45-year old Orville Bullitt has a previous conviction for molesting a child. However, it occurred just before Florida legislation was changed, mandating molesters to register.
When he wasn’t molesting children, or inviting the young girls who lived behind him over, neighbors say he kept a low profile. By the way, the girls Bullitt invited over to swim are 7 and 9.
Police caught up with Bullitt on February 13 at his mother’s house in Kissimmee, where he had gone to visit. He was booked into the Osceola County Jail, but will be prosecuted in Broward. His bond is set at $1.4 million. Bullitt had no job, police said, and likely lived off a trust fund or his family.
Though police arrested Bullitt on the 13th, the investigation into Bullitt’s child pornography activities began “a couple of years’’ ago, said Addy Villanueva, special agent in charge of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Miami operations center.
FDLE investigators, working with a multi-agency task force that included Pembroke Pines and Davie police, first took notice of Bullitt when he “advertised’’ child pornography images on an online file-sharing site, said Will Hernandez, an FDLE special agent. Police traced the images to Bullitt, who was living in Pembroke Pines at the time.
About one month later, FDLE agents executed a search warrant at Bullitt’s Pembroke Pines house in the 7600 block of Northwest 12th Street and found at least 144 images of child pornography stored on a laptop, thumb drives and external discs.
“Investigators found pictures that showed child victims in various sexual depictions,’’ Villanueva said.
Police say the children in the images appear to be under the age of 10, and include boys and girls. It is unclear, and police would not elaborate, whether Bullitt produced the images himself, or obtained them from a third-party source. They do believe, however, at least some of the images are of South Florida children.
Prosecutors took more than a year to bring charges, Hernandez said, because the FDLE’s cyber crimes division is understaffed and Bullitt had an extensive amount of files.
Bullitt’s previous arrest and criminal charges date back to 1985, when he was convicted in Miami-Dade for sexual molestation of a child younger than 12. He was sentenced to probation for 10 years.
Bullitt did not qualify as a sexual offender because he completed his sentence prior to October 1997, the date when Florida law began to require persons convicted of child sex crimes to register and be listed on the FDLE’s sexual offenders and predators list, which is a public record accessible online at fdle.state.fl.us.
Bullitt also was charged in 2003 with two counts of sexual battery on a minor in Miami-Dade, but the charges were later dropped, according to case records.
For the past year or so, Bullitt has rented a home in the 6200 block of Southwest 38th Court in Davie, about two blocks from Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary and Nova Blanche Forman Elementary schools.
One of the neighbor’s daughters told authorities she often saw Bullitt sitting in his back yard, with the French patio doors to his house open. What she saw inside gave her “the creeps,’’ she said.
“He has all kinds of children’s toys,’’ she said. “Legos and other things.’’
Police ask that anyone with information about Bullitt’s activities call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-843-5678.
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