KOOTENAI COUNTY — A man convicted in Kootenai County’s largest child pornography case has been denied parole, according to his daughter Rebecca Brady. Brady campaigned for the continued imprisonment of her father, Edmund Bergeman.
Bergeman served 20 years in an Arizona prison and had a parole hearing this month. The Twin Lakes man pleaded guilty in 2007 to drugging and sexually abusing three young girls, raping an unconscious woman and possessing 15,000 pictures and videos of child pornography.
He won’t be eligible for another parole hearing until 2036, according to Brady.
She fears her father poses a continued threat if he were to be released.
“The community, I feel like, wouldn’t be safe no matter where he’s at,” Brady said. “I don’t feel like any female child, adult, it doesn’t matter. I don’t feel like anybody would be safe if he was to be released.”
Brady encouraged community members to contact Idaho’s parole victim services to oppose her father’s release. She says 50 letters were sent in.
Brady, who lives in Arizona, wrote her own letter to the Idaho Department of Corrections expressing she would not feel safe by herself if her father was released.
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