Father of Coralrose Fullwood Arrested For Child Porn, FL
Please note this is unrelated to Coralrose's Murder Father Of Slain Girl Charged With Having Child Porn POSTED: 5:30 pm EDT October 11, 2006 NORTH PORT, Fla. -- The father of a 6-year-old girl taken from her bed and killed last month was arrested Wednesday and charged with having child pornography on his laptop computer. Police Chief Terry Lewis said the arrest of Dale Fullwood was unrelated to the investigation into the Sept. 17 slaying of his daughter Coralrose. No one has been arrested in Coralrose's slaying, and no suspects have been named. The child pornography was found on a laptop computer investigators took from the family home after Coralrose's body was found near a construction site two blocks away from the house. "This is an independent charge and investigation," Lewis said. "The pornography was uncovered by the murder investigation, but officers are not jumping to any conclusions that Fullwood is involved in (the slaying)." Dale Fullwood turned himself in at around noon Wednesday and was jailed. He is charged with two counts of possession of child pornography. John Coleman, the Fort Myers attorney who represented the family when their remaining children were removed from the home, said Fullwood did not yet have legal representation and it hadn't been determined if Coleman would represent him. Coralrose Fullwood's body was found in the woods hours after her parents reported her missing from her bed. She had died from "homicidal violence," Lewis said. She had been reported missing around 7 a.m. that day, and her father said he last saw her around 2 a.m. when he came home from his bartending job. http://www.wftv.com/news/10054957/detail.html

Fullwood says bail too high Sunday, November 19, 2006 Dale Fullwood, the father of a slain North Port girl who was arrested on child pornography charges last month, said his bail was set too high. A judge set Fullwood's bail at $50,000. An appeals court Friday ordered the judge who set the bail to explain why $50,000 is reasonable or set a new amount. Fullwood pleaded not guilty to two counts of child pornography possession. Bail for those charges is usually set for $1,000 per count. Fullwood's daughter, Coralrose, was found dead two months ago. She would have turned 7 next week. No suspects have been named in her murder. http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2006/11/19/200468.html?title=Fullwood%20says%20bail%20too%20high

Fullwood's bail reduced again A judge lowers bond for Coralrose's father from $10,000 to $2,000 By GINNY LAROE and HEATHER ALLEN ginny.laroe@heraldtribune.com heather.allen@heraldtribune.com SARASOTA -- Dale Fullwood, the father of a slain North Port girl, moved a step closer to getting out of jail Wednesday when a judge again reduced his bail. Wearing a jail-issued orange uniform, Fullwood, 46, who is charged with two counts of possession of child pornography, stood before Circuit Court Judge Charles E. Roberts and described his ties to family in Lee County and his attempts to make bail by reaching out to his in-laws, who were unable to come up the funds. Roberts reduced the bail from $10,000 to $2,000 -- an amount Assistant Public Defender Adam Tebrugge said may still be too high for the bartender and father of four to come up with. "It means he will make some more phone calls and see if that will be posted," Tebrugge said after Wednesday's hearing. When Fullwood was arrested Oct. 11, bail was set at $50,000, an amount Tebrugge called illegal and unconstitutional. Roberts lowered the bail to $10,000 after the 2nd District Court of Appeal ordered him to justify the high bail or set a "reasonable" amount. Fullwood's wife, Ellen-Beth Fullwood, has recently moved from the family's Calabash Lane home and was not able to be reached for comment. Her mother, Doreen VanderWoude, would not comment on whether she or other family member's would help her son-in-law post bail. Police arrested Fullwood on Oct. 11, saying they found on his laptop two videos of a girl under 12 years old being raped. The arrest came three weeks after his 6-year-old daughter, Coralrose, was found dead two blocks from the family's home. No one has been arrested in connection with her death. Fullwood was asked specifically about child pornography when he was interviewed by investigators the day Coralrose was found, records show. Fullwood told detectives he had downloaded a "couple" of child porn files from the file-sharing program Limewire, according to the arrest report. Tebrugge says he wants to know in what context Fullwood, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, was asked about the pornography and what else his client said during hours of interrogation. Roberts ordered North Port police to make that evidence available by Dec. 15. Police say Fullwood was in possession of the child pornography between Aug. 24 and Sept. 16. Files with child pornography titles were deleted in the days immediately before Coralrose was found dead, according to the state's discovery exhibit, which includes search warrants and a list of evidence seized from the family's Calabash Lane home. The records indicate Fullwood's computer had dozens of videos with images or titles depicting child pornography. Some of the titles contained graphic language about sexual acts and young girls. Some suggest rape and incest, according to the report by the U.S. Secret Service's Miami Electronic Crimes Task Force. Assistant State Attorney Steve Zimath said the investigation into the pornography is ongoing. "You can be sure that there is work being done on trying to determine the origins of that video," he said of the file of the 12-year-old. Documents released this week by the state attorney's office also indicate police believed at least early in their investigation that Coralrose had been sexually abused. In a search warrant dated Sept. 17, the day the first-grader was found in a wooded area near a construction site, a judge wrote that there was probable cause of "sexual battery." But preliminary autopsy results later showed no evidence that the girl was sexually abused, North Port Police Chief Terry Lewis said. And the warrant, which is part of the state's discovery exhibits in the child pornography case, does not explain why police suspected sexual abuse at the time. A judge has sealed documents that could contain more specifics, and Zimath declined to comment on the warrant Wednesday. Last modified: December 07. 2006 6:39AM http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061207/NEWS/612070387/1060