tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761748611414416096.post-36771275670530507592008-04-02T15:18:00.000-07:002008-04-02T15:19:01.150-07:00<span style="font-style: italic;">October 25, 2003</span><br />A musician who eluded authorities on three continents for more than a year was sentenced Friday to more than 16 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.<br /><br />Eric Franklin Rosser, who was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List, pleaded guilty to child pornography and international conspiracy charges in July. He confessed to producing a sexually explicit video with a preteen Thai girl and trading it for pornography involving two young girls from Bloomington.<br /><br />Before he was sentenced, the former keyboardist for rocker John Mellencamp told the court, "I am an addict of viewing the images of children. I committed acts for which I'm deeply ashamed and will haunt me for the rest of my life."<br /><br />Rosser, 51, was arrested in February 2000 in Thailand on various charges, including possessing child pornography. But he jumped bail and disappeared. A federal grand jury in Indianapolis indicted him in March 2000.<br /><br />Thai police said Rosser underwent liposuction, had cosmetic surgery to his face and then traveled to the Netherlands, England and France before returning to Thailand, where he was arrested again in August 2001. He served time in Thailand before he was returned to the United States.<br /><br />Rosser, who ran a music school in Bangkok, has been held in an Indiana jail since he was extradited in 2002.WSACPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15537118184300320665noreply@blogger.com