Matthew was in an awful predicament, and he tried to keep his house arrest a secret.
I didn't know why it was happening," Matthew recalled. As soon as Matthew was charged, he was put on virtual house arrest, and an electronic bracelet was attached to his ankle to monitor his movements 24 hours a day. He's never been a problem, never stayed out late and gotten into trouble or anything like that."Īrizona child pornography laws are among the harshest in the country. They were shocked at the serious charges against him and frightened by the prospect of such a serious sentence. Greg and Jeannie Bandy knew their son well. He would have served time until he died." In other words, he would have been sentenced to 90 years in prison. "If Matt was convicted, those sentences would have to be served consecutively. "We faced 10 years per count, there were nine counts," said Novak. "20/20" correspondent Jim Avila asked Novak what the family was up against. The family hired Ed Novak, a well-respected attorney from a large law firm in downtown Phoenix. The Bandys would soon find out just how serious the charges against Matthew were. "I said, 'What do we do now? Should I contact a lawyer?' said, 'Well, they are felonies that the state takes very serious.'" "I still remember when they were cleaning up and leaving and of course I was still in my pajamas and my bathrobe and my fuzzy slippers," Jeannie Bandy said. Still, it didn't look good for Matt, as police confiscated the computer and left the house that December day. just adult pornography…Playboy-like images."ĭifficult to admit, but not illegal - or so it seemed. "I got the Web site from a bunch of friends at school. He had been sneaking peaks at adult erotic photos on the family computer. Nevertheless, Matthew did have an embarrassing confession. "When they asked me have you ever looked up or uploaded or downloaded erotic images of minors, I was just taken aback and…I said, 'No,'" says Matthew. Yahoo monitors chat rooms for suspicious content and reported that child porn was uploaded from the computer at the Bandys' home address. According to the warrant, nine images of young girls in suggestive poses were found on the Bandy family computer. Greg Bandy was handed the search warrant and informed that the central suspect was Matthew. "And then there police officers with guns pointed at me, telling me to get downstairs." "The first thing I thought was, someone's trying to break in our house," Matthew said. It is proposed that the age at the first conscious ejaculation be used as an index of maturation in male puberty.Police officers stormed into the house with guns pointed. There was no correlation between the age at first ejaculation and testicular volume, pubic hair or penis length. Despite a wide range in the chronological age at occurrence of the first conscious ejaculation, the mean bone age in all groups, including that with delayed puberty, was 13 1/2 +/- 1/2 years (SD), with a range between 12 1/2-15 1/2 years. (2) A group of 135 boys examined and questioned at their school served as additional controls. All underwent a complete physical examination at intervals of 3 to 6 months, and in most a wrist X-ray was made within three months of the first ejaculation. The age of occurrence of the first conscious ejaculation was registered in 263 boys belonging to two categories: (1) 128 boys (70 normal controls, 22 boys with unilateral cryptorchidism with normal puberty, and 36 boys with delayed puberty) who had been under regular follow-up throughout puberty.