{"id":2451769,"date":"2019-12-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316962"},"modified":"2019-12-02T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:00:00","slug":"aspen-man-pleads-guilty-to-sending-child-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-man-pleads-guilty-to-sending-child-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen man pleads guilty to sending child porn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A former Aspen restaurant manager pleaded guilty Monday to sending child pornography to a woman he was chatting with online this summer.<\/p>\n

Blair Gibsone, 48, could have faced as many as 12 years in prison for the guilty plea to sexual exploitation of a child but will serve only a possible local jail sentence followed by probation as part of a plea deal with the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Gibsone will have to register as a sex offender, though his lawyer said he will almost certainly be deported to his native New Zealand because of the plea. He is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 3.<\/p>\n

Gibsone was arrested in June<\/a> after a female acquaintance on Facebook told Aspen police that during late-night chat sessions Gibsone admitted to molesting and raping a young girl he frequently babysits. He then sent the woman a picture of the girl sitting at a local Aspen restaurant, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

During a later chat session monitored by an Aspen police detective, Gibsone allegedly named the girl and said the sexual abuse had been going on for two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I\u2019d rather she do it with me so she is safe,\u201d he wrote, according to court documents. \u201cI let her do whatever she wanted only if she liked it and wanted it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibsone included pictures of two naked female children and one naked male child in the Facebook chats he sent to the woman.<\/p>\n

However, the story about babysitting the girl turned out to be untrue. Gibsone told police he\u2019d never done any babysitting and didn\u2019t know the girl in the Aspen restaurant picture. He said he was drunk during the Facebook chats and didn\u2019t remember them.<\/p>\n

On Monday, he elaborated on his life at that time, saying he\u2019d been working 14-to-16-hour days in the hospitality business and drinking heavily.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d been blacking out for the last year,\u201d Gibsone said. \u201cI\u2019m still a bit confused about things because I don\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said he\u2019d been dealing with a lot of family members dying the past five years, including his sister-in-law who died by suicide this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last five years, I\u2019ve had quite a bit of death,\u201d he said, adding that he\u2019s been sober in recent months.<\/p>\n

Gibsone admitting sending the child pornography but said he didn\u2019t remember doing so.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Don Nottingham pointed out that police found numerous other items of sexually exploitative material in Gibsone\u2019s home. Gibsone also admitted to a detective in June that he\u2019d been having sexual fantasies about children and had watched child pornography, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

Gibsone, who will undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation before his sentencing in February, faces an undetermined jail sentence or probation sentence or both.<\/p>\n

However, Monday\u2019s plea \u201cwill result in almost certain deportation,\u201d said Jeffery Weeden, Gibsone\u2019s Denver-based lawyer.<\/p>\n

jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former Aspen restaurant manager pleaded guilty Monday to sending child pornography to a woman he was chatting with online this summer. Blair Gibsone, 48, could have faced as many as 12 years in prison for the guilty plea to sexual exploitation of a child but will serve only a possible local jail sentence followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2451769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 04:39:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}