2013 -Robin Leigh Pagoria, a female sheriff’s deputy in Polk County, Florida is charged with recording vicious beatings of girls between the ages of 10 and 18 on a “spanking bench” with leather paddles and then sending the videos to her boyfriend. The New York Daily News reports:
One of the girls told investigators she twice received “50 spankings within a session for being disrespectful.”
Pagoria “has had a spanking fetish for most of her life,” the report says. “She is sexually gratified by spanking herself.”
Detectives say Pagoria recorded the beatings on her cell phone, uploading them to the Internet so her online boyfriend could watch.
On Thursday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd called Pagoria’s alleged behavior “outrageous.”
“There aren’t words to describe my anger with her,” he said. Judd, noted for his well-publicized focus on sexual predators, said no one should be more aware of that focus that his own employees.
She’s seen us walk hundreds of them into the Polk County Jail,” Judd said.
Judd said the arrest came “out of nowhere.” Aside from a domestic violence incident and some minor disciplinary issues, he said Pagoria was considered a good worker.
Judd said Pagoria worked in housing at the jail, and was a 22-year veteran of the Marines. He said his office reviewed the psychological and polygraph tests from when she was hired, and they were clear.
“We do extensive background investigations on anyone we hire,” Judd said.
When interviewed by investigators, reports state that Pagoria explained that she used to spank the girls, but “the spankings had not improved their behavior.”
She switched to the table and handcuffs after “she decided she needed to do something that would embarrass them so they would learn not to break the rules again,” the report states.
Investigators say Pagoria claimed she videotaped the sessions so she could review and “‘fine tune’ her technique” — leading her to modify the table, and to put a delay between blows for “maximum burn.”
After the whippings, Pagoria explained that the girls were forced to stand naked in the corner “so that they could reflect on what they had done wrong,” according to the report.
Deputies say Pagoria later admitted to having a lifelong spanking fetish, and to meeting her boyfriend on SpankFinders.com. Officials said the boyfriend, who lives in another state, is also under investigation.
Investigators said they found evidence of two videos on Pagoria’s phone. In both, deputies said the victims’ genitals and buttocks were the clear “focal point.”
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the videos were about 10 minutes long, and showed the children suffered “substantial” wounds. They could be heard screaming in the videos, investigators said.
The victims names were redacted from arresting documents, it’s not clear how or why Pagoria had access to them. However, officials said it was not through her employment with the Sheriff’s Office.
Officials said Pagoria, a deputy for nearly six years, resigned Tuesday, in lieu of being fired.
A former Polk County sheriff’s detention deputy was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for beating two teenage girls with a leather sex paddle, filming the abuse and sending the footage to her online boyfriend in Australia.
Rather than go to trial, Robin Pagoria accepted a plea deal with prosecutors.
The 47-year-old Auburndale woman pleaded no contest as charged to two counts of aggravated child abuse, two counts of lewd or lascivious battery and two counts of using a child in a sexual performance.
Circuit Judge Catherine Combee also ordered Pagoria to serve 20 years of sexual offender probation.
Under the terms of her plea deal, Pagoria agreed to testify against her online boyfriend, Christopher Lobban. Authorities still are trying to extradite Lobban on criminal charges.
