George Paul Bishop

Meet George Paul Bishop, a convicted and currently incarcerated 49-year-old pedophile in Fairfax Adult Detention Center located in Virginia. Arrested on August 19, 2005 for child pornography, he was due for release on March 2008, but was apparently incarcerated again for not registering as a sex offender. He is listed as "violent".

Most people know him as Paul Bishop, a profound figure central to the early investigation into the disappearance of Johnny Gosch. Noreen Gosch says within six months of Johnny Gosch's disappearance on September 5, 1982, a young man named Paul Bishop had contacted her, arrived in Des Moines, Iowa, and claimed he was a CIA asset reachable via a phone number connected to Langley Air Force Base. Most notably, Paul had informed Noreen Gosch of an agency-acknowledged pedophile ring he claimed had kidnapped her son Johnny Gosch, and then drew her a detailed map supposedly outlining the planned kidnapping in question. According to Noreen Gosch, Paul Bishop was also the instrumental figure in securing her trip to Washington D.C. for the purpose of testifying before Congress about her son's case for Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), as well as personally accompanying her with two unknown men to the U.S. Capitol building.

After the disappearance of local newspaper boy Eugene Martin in 1984, Paul Bishop had informed Noreen Gosch that a local private investigator in contact with her, Sam Soda, was in the West Des Moines area and somehow involved with the kidnapping. Apparently Sam Soda held a high distrust and suspicion of Paul Bishop from the beginning, and Noreen Gosch claims there is an audio tape brought to law enforcement (she claims they simply refused to listen to it) of Sam Soda warning of an impending second kidnapping in Des Moines shortly before Eugene Martin disappeared. As a side note, there is exactly zero evidence of the existence of such a tape. Since then, Noreen Gosch has claimed Paul Bonacci positively identified Sam Soda as being involved in photographing Johnny Gosch shortly before his kidnapping.

After Paul Bishop had told Noreen Gosch that Sam Soda was involved in the disappearance of Eugene Martin, Noreen claims Sam was instrumental in subpoenaing Paul Bishop to testify to a federal grand jury hearing about his whereabouts and activities in Des Moines. This comes after Paul Bishop supposedly visits Sam Soda's office where he is promptly kicked out. Noreen further claims that she had questioned Paul Bishop after he had taken a taxi to her home in West Des Moines, interrupted by Sam Soda's phone calls demanding to know where Bishop was, and then Noreen organizes Paul's overnight stay at a friend's residence. After he had supposedly traveled back to Washington D.C. two days later, apparently under the false identity "Robert LaVeck", she had received two phone calls from him and has since never heard from him again. Lastly, she claims the phone number Paul Bishop had given her to Langley Air Force Base was no longer valid.

So what happened to George Paul Bishop since then?


Police arrest two on child porn charges by Matthew Perrone

Richard Evans
A complaint about excessive comings and goings of teenage boys at a Chantilly house led, this week, to the arrest of two Fairfax County men for child pornography offenses. Richard Evans, of Annandale, and George Bishop, of Chantilly, who co-manage a literary Web site, were both arrested by Fairfax County Police on Friday, Jan. 28.

Police started investigating Bishop, 46, after they received a complaint that he was allegedly inviting teenage boys to come to his house, to drink alcohol and to take illegal narcotics.

On Jan. 7, Detective Peter Charles, of the Fairfax County Police Department, served Bishop with a search warrant at his home at 4156 Pleasant Meadow Court in Chantilly.

According to the warrant, in their search, Charles and other officers seized computer hard drives, letters, pictures and a videotape showing a young man posing nude while dressed in bondage gear.

Police identified the young man in the video as a 16-year-old resident of Centreville. Bishop appeared in the video with another older man who was bald and with a long, bushy white beard.

After examining e-mails that refer to a man who "looks a lot like Merlin," police identified Richard Wendall Evans, 66, as the second man in the video. When police searched Evans' home at 4327 Ravensworth Road in Annandale, they found various sex toys, digital cameras and a leather hat and vest.

According to the search warrant, following his arrest Bishop told officers he and Evans were co-creators of the Web site deweywriter.com. Bishop was actually working on the Web site when
police came to his house on Jan. 7.

The search warrant described Deweywriter.com as primarily a literary Web site with online books posted by authors with names like "Dewey," "Graeme," "Ryan Keith," "Sterling," "Grasshopper" and "Carolina Scribbler."

One of the books by "Dewey" is titled "For the Love of Pete" and bears a dedication in its middle chapters. The author writes: "I'd like to dedicate this chapter to all the boys out there who were never allowed to be children when they were kids. May you find the child in you long before I found the child in me."

As of Feb. 1, the Web site had more than 270,000 hits and featured links to several chat rooms.

Both men were released the day of their arrests.

Bishop, who was charged with six counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of manufacturing child pornography, was released on an $8,000 bond.

Evans was charged with one count of manufacturing child pornography and was released on a $2,500 bond. (c)Times Community Newspapers 2007

Paul Bishop's child pornography associate, Richard Evans, can be read about here.


Child Porn Charges
Bishop pleads guilty to producing and possessing.

By Bonnie Hobbs
Thursday, June 30, 2005

After being indicted by the grand jury in May for producing and possessing child pornography, a Chantilly man pleaded guilty as charged, Monday morning, in Fairfax County Circuit Court. He is George Paul Bishop, 46, of 4156 Pleasant Meadow Court.

"DO YOU FULLY understand the nature of the charges against you today?" asked Judge Leslie Alden. "Yes, your Honor," replied Bishop. "Are you entering your pleas of guilt because you are guilty of these charges?" she asked. Again, he replied affirmatively.

Bishop's illegal doings first came to light in January, when police Det. Peter Charles, of the Child Services Section, presented details in two affidavits for search warrants. He sought possible evidence in Bishop's home, as well as in the home of Richard Wendall Evans, 66, of Annandale. On Jan. 28, both men were arrested.

In a Jan. 7 affidavit, Charles stated that illegalities were allegedly occurring at Bishop's Rockland Village home between July and October 2004. He said he'd obtained his information, Dec. 20, 2004, from a now 17-year-old boy — who Charles called "Victim One" — who'd frequented Bishop's home on the lower level of a townhouse.

The detective wrote that the boy was a high-school student and, after school, he and other students had gone to Bishop's home numerous times reportedly "to drink alcohol and ingest illegal narcotics."

He stated that the teen called Bishop "Paul" and told police that Paul had, on occasion, "videotaped and photographed the juveniles in his residence. Victim One remembers seeing one of these pictures used as a screen saver on Paul's personal computer."

In the Jan. 19 affidavit requesting to search Evan's home, Charles noted that, among items seized by police, Jan. 7, at Bishop's home were computer hard drives, pictures and videotapes. "On these videotapes are images of naked individuals — one of which appeared to be underage," wrote the detective. "The acts depicted on these videotapes by this juvenile include posing naked and being fondled and dressed in bondage apparel by two adult males."

He stated it was a VHS tape and was "clearly labeled 'Paul's'. One of these individuals in the tape is identified as Bishop." Charles wrote that Evans' driver's license photo reportedly matched the other adult on that tape.

HE ALSO NOTED that, on Jan. 18, the teenager depicted on the tape was positively identified as Victim One. During an interview with himself and other detectives, wrote Charles, "Victim One admitted to being naked in the pictures and in the video. [He] remembers Bishop filming him as he was being dressed in bondage apparel."

On Jan. 28, police charged Bishop with six counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of manufacturing child pornography. They charged Evans with two counts of manufacturing child pornography. Later, in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, five of Bishop's possession charges were dropped.

And on May 23, the grand jury indicted Bishop on the remaining possession charge, plus the two manufacturing offenses. Evans was indicted on one manufacturing charge.

In court Monday, June 27, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Julie Mitchell said Bishop became acquainted with the teen in fall 2004, while providing alcohol and marijuana for him and other teenagers in his Chantilly home.

"Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, 2004, they visited Evans' apartment," she said. "[There], the 17-year-old was photographed in various stages of undress — including in leather bondage gear." Mitchell said the original tape was 8 mm and Bishop transferred it to VHS tape. She also noted the evidence police seized at his home, Jan. 7.

Defense attorney Dawn Butorac told Judge Alden that Bishop protested Mitchell's statement about him hosting gatherings providing alcohol and drugs for teen-agers. Furthermore, said Butorac, "The two productions of pornography were the exact same image, so it was really just one production." As for the 17-year-old, she said, "His was a consensual act. He voluntarily took part in the actions."

ALDEN THEN accepted Bishop's three guilty pleas and officially found him guilty. Following his arrest, Bishop had been released from jail on $8,000 bond and, after his conviction, the prosecutor asked the judge to revoke his bond and incarcerate him. Said Mitchell: "He's a danger to the community, and especially to the juvenile members of the community."

But Butorac stressed that her client's "been present at four previous court appearances." She said he'd already been ordered by the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court judge to have no contact with minors. She also said he's lived in this area for 15 years, works for a towing company and, at his sentencing, she intends to request probation for him.

Earlier, Alden ascertained from Bishop that no plea agreement had been made in his case. She also made sure he understood that he could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison on each of the production charges and five years behind bars for the possession charge.
In the end, though, she continued Bishop's bond and set his sentencing for Aug. 19. Evans is slated to enter a plea July 5 in Circuit Court.


Evans Pleads Guilty: Porn Charge

By Bonnie Hobbs
Thursday, July 14, 2005

In June, a Chantilly man pleaded guilty to videotaping a 17-year-old boy wearing nothing but bondage gear. Last week in Fairfax County Circuit Court, an Annandale man who appeared in that video — and at whose home it was filmed — pleaded guilty to one count of manufacturing child pornography.

POLICE ARRESTED both men Jan. 28. The Chantilly man, George Paul Bishop, 46, of 4156 Pleasant Meadow Court, will be sentenced in August. The Annandale man, Richard Wendall Evans, 66, of 4327 Ravensworth Road, No. 323, is set for sentencing in September.

Police Det. Peter Charles, of the Child Services Section, detailed the criminal cases against them in Jan. 7 and Jan. 19 affidavits for warrants to seek evidence in their homes. In the first document, Charles stated that illicit deeds had occurred at Bishop's Rockland Village home between July and October 2004.

He said he'd obtained his information, Dec. 20, from a now 17-year-old boy — who Charles called "Victim One" — who'd often visited Bishop's home. "Victim One attends a high school in Fairfax County," wrote the detective. "After school, [he] and other students go to [Bishop's address] to drink alcohol and ingest illegal narcotics."

The teen called Bishop "Paul" and told the detective that Paul had "videotaped and photographed the juveniles in his residence." And in the Jan. 19 affidavit, Charles noted that items seized by police, Jan. 7, at Bishop's home included videotapes.

"ON THESE videotapes are images of naked individuals — one of which appeared to be underage," wrote the detective. "The acts depicted on these videotapes by this juvenile include posing naked and being fondled and dressed in bondage apparel by two adult males." He stated it was a VHS tape and was "clearly labeled 'Paul's'. One of these individuals in the tape is identified as Bishop." Charles wrote that the other adult on that tape was Evans.

He also noted that, on Jan. 18, the teen-ager depicted on the tape was positively identified as Victim One — who, say police, was 16 when he was filmed. During an interview with himself and other detectives, wrote Charles, "Victim One admitted to being naked in the pictures and in the video. [He] remembers Bishop filming him naked as he was being dressed in bondage apparel."
According to the affidavit, an older white male who was approximately 60 years old, bald and had a long white beard was on the video. "Victim One identified [him] as 'Rick from Annandale,'" wrote Charles. "Furthermore, [he] stated that the scene was videotaped at 'Rick's apartment.' Victim One stated that the video camera and bondage apparel were at Rick's when he arrived there with Bishop. [He] estimated the date of this recording to be in fall 2004."

Charles noted, as well, that Evans' driver's license photo "matches the other male in the seized videotape." Therefore, he concluded, "It is evident that both Bishop and Evans were complicit in manufacturing an illicit video depicting a juvenile in a sexual manner."

ON MAY 23, the grand jury indicted Bishop on one count of possession of child pornography and two counts of manufacturing child pornography. Evans was indicted on one count of manufacturing child pornography.

Bishop pleaded guilty, June 27, in Circuit Court and is scheduled for sentencing Aug. 19. Last Wednesday, July 6, Evans pleaded guilty to his crime before Judge Arthur Vierreg Jr. Before accepting his plea, Vierreg made sure Evans was entering that plea, freely and voluntarily, and because he was, indeed, guilty as charged. He then set Evans' sentencing for Sept. 16.


Prison for Child Porn
Teen in bondage gear was videotaped at man's home.

By Bonnie Hobbs
Thursday, October 20, 2005

In August, Chantilly's George Paul Bishop was sent to prison for videotaping a 17-year-old boy wearing only bondage gear. Last week in Fairfax County Circuit Court, an Annandale man who appeared in that video — and at whose home it was filmed — received 2 1/2 years behind bars for his part in the crime.

ON JAN. 28, police arrested both men — Bishop, 46, of 4156 Pleasant Meadow Court, and Annandale's Richard Wendall Evans, 66, of 4327 Ravensworth Road, No. 323. Bishop was charged with both manufacturing and possessing child pornography, and Evans was charged with one count of manufacturing child pornography.

Police Det. Peter Charles, of the Child Services Section, explained the allegations in Jan. 7 and Jan. 19 affidavits for warrants to seek evidence in their homes. In the first document, Charles stated that illicit deeds had occurred at Bishop's Rockland Village home between July and October 2004.

He said he'd obtained his information, Dec. 20, from a now 17-year-old boy who Charles called "Victim One." Calling Bishop "Paul," the teen said Paul had "videotaped and photographed juveniles in his residence." And on Jan. 7, police confiscated videotapes from Bishop's home.

"On these videotapes are images of naked individuals — one of which appeared to be underage," wrote the detective in the Jan. 19 affidavit. "The acts depicted on these videotapes by this juvenile include posing naked and being fondled and dressed in bondage apparel by two adult males." Charles wrote that both Bishop and Evans were on the tape.

He stated that police said the teen depicted on the tape was 16 when he was filmed. During an interview with himself and other detectives, wrote Charles, "[This] victim admitted to being naked in the pictures and in the video [and] being dressed in bondage apparel."

The affidavit noted an older white male about 60 years old, bald with a long white beard, was on the video. "Victim One identified [him] as 'Rick from Annandale,'" wrote Charles. "Furthermore, [he] stated that the scene was videotaped at 'Rick's apartment.' Victim One stated that the video camera and bondage apparel were at Rick's when he arrived there with Bishop. [He] estimated the date of this recording [as] fall 2004."

CHARLES STATED that Evans' driver's license photo "matches the other male in the seized videotape," adding it was "evident that both Bishop and Evans were complicit in manufacturing an illicit video depicting a juvenile in a sexual manner."

Bishop pleaded guilty in June and, on Aug. 19, Circuit Court Judge Leslie Alden sentenced him to three years in prison and 12 years probation for two counts of manufacturing child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

On July 6, Evans pleaded guilty to one count of manufacturing child pornography and was to be sentenced Sept. 23 in Circuit Court. At that time, defense attorney Corinne Magee said her client knew he was wrong for not checking whether the victim was of legal age.

Saying Evans played a "relatively minor role," compared to Bishop, she told Judge Arthur Vieregg Jr., "This is not the kind of case that cries out for a long period of incarceration."

But Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Katherine Stott said Bishop and Evans had preyed on young boys previously and Evans needed to "stand up and take responsibility for his part in [this crime]." Stott also noted his "prior history of this type of offense."

Evans taught 22 years at Hayfield High and coached spring track and cross country. He was convicted of a 1983 offense of attempted sexual battery against a 16-year-old and was sentenced in 1984 to five years in prison, with all but five days suspended. He also pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in 1984 and resigned from the school system, that same year.
"The law protects minors because they are vulnerable," said Stott. "The court should inflict a great deal of punishment on adults who prey on minors, especially for sexual crimes."

EVANS' SENTENCING was continued until last Friday, Oct. 14, and Magee told Vieregg that Evans' only contact with the current victim was on the date the video was made. Then Evans said he should have verified the boy's real age, instead of taking Bishop's word that he was of legal age.

"Because of that, a lot of people besides me have suffered," said Evans. "I apologize to the young man [and] to his parents. I wish I could take it back, but I can't." Still, replied Vieregg, "You had a past history pertaining to young men. I can't know what you knew and what you suspected. Considering your past history, I conclude you should be incarcerated." He then sentenced Evans to five years in prison, suspending all but 2 1/2 years. He also placed him on 10 years probation and ordered him to register as a sex offender.

Reporter Ken Moore contributed to this story



Child Porn Charges: Three Years in Prison

By Bonnie Hobbs/Centre View
Friday, August 26, 2005

Before Chantilly resident George Paul Bishop was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for possessing and producing child pornography, the parents of one of his victims testified against him.

Bishop, 46, was convicted in connection with a tape and video he made of a teen-age boy in bondage gear. And the parents testifying in Circuit Court were the ones whose son originally alerted the police to what was going on.

"It was my husband and son who brought this case to Det. Charles," said the mother. "I was made to go into a world that I only saw on TV. I didn't know this kind of depravity existed in suburbia."

The criminal case against Bishop first came to public view in January, when Fairfax County Police Det. Peter Charles, of the Child Services Section, presented details in two affidavits for search warrants. He sought possible evidence in Bishop's home, as well as in the home of Richard Wendall Evans, 66, of Annandale. By the end of that month, on Jan. 28, police arrested both men.

In a Jan. 7 affidavit, Charles stated that illegal activities were allegedly occurring at Bishop's Rockland Village home, at 4156 Pleasant Meadow Court, between July and October 2004. He said he'd obtained his information, Dec. 20, 2004, from a 17-year-old boy — who Charles called "Victim One" — who'd frequented Bishop's home on the lower level of a townhouse. This is the boy whose parents testified Friday in court.

The detective wrote that the boy was a high-school student and, after school, he and other students had gone to Bishop's home numerous times reportedly "to drink alcohol and ingest illegal narcotics."

He stated that the teen called Bishop "Paul" and told police that Paul had, on occasion, "videotaped and photographed the juveniles in his residence. Victim One remembers seeing one of these pictures used as a screen saver on Paul's personal computer."

In the Jan. 19 affidavit requesting to search Evan's home, Charles noted that, among items seized by police, Jan. 7, at Bishop's home were computer hard drives, pictures and videotapes. "On these videotapes are images of naked individuals — one of which appeared to be underage," wrote the detective. "The acts depicted on these videotapes by this juvenile include posing naked and being fondled and dressed in bondage apparel by two adult males."

He stated it was a VHS tape and was "clearly labeled 'Paul's'. One of these individuals in the tape is identified as Bishop." Charles wrote that Evans' driver's license photo matched the other adult on that tape.

He also noted that, on Jan. 18, the teenager depicted on the tape was positively identified. During an interview with himself and other detectives, wrote Charles, "[This] victim admitted to being naked in the pictures and in the video. [He] remembers Bishop filming him as he was being dressed in bondage apparel."

On Jan. 28, police charged Bishop with six counts of possession of child pornography and two counts of manufacturing child pornography. They charged Evans with two counts of manufacturing child pornography. Later, in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, five of Bishop's possession charges were dropped.

And on May 23, the grand jury indicted Bishop on the remaining possession charge, plus the two manufacturing offenses. Evans was indicted on one manufacturing charge. He pleaded guilty July 6 in Circuit Court and is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 16.

Bishop pleaded guilty to his three charges, June 27, in Circuit Court. At that time, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Julie Mitchell said Bishop became acquainted with the teen he later videotaped, in fall 2004, while providing alcohol and marijuana for him and other teenagers in his Chantilly home.

"Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, 2004, they visited Evans' apartment," she said. "[There], the 17-year-old was photographed in various stages of undress — including in leather bondage gear."

Bishop returned to court Friday, Aug. 19, for sentencing before Judge Leslie Alden. This time, the prosecutor was Tara Mooney; public defender Dawn Butorac represented Bishop.

The mother testifying told the court her son, now 18, was also Bishop's victim. She said he met Bishop in summer 2004, and the Chantilly man insinuated himself into her child's life as a "friend, confidant and pal," driving a wedge between him and his parents.

She said her son went from 160 to 138 pounds in six weeks and his personality changed drastically. "He became more defiant, more aggressive," said the mother. "I didn't like my son's demeanor, attitude and who he was hanging around with. I didn't think it was appropriate for a 46-year-old man to be involved with a 17-year-old boy."

In explaining the impact Bishop's actions had upon her family, she said her son's gone through counseling, her husband had to be hospitalized because of depression and even her 11-year-old has felt the tension in their house.

She said her son and the boy who was videotaped in bondage apparel were good friends at school and would meet at Bishop's house. Devastated about what happened to her son, she said, "I thought that, since I'd talked to him about safe sex and not talking to strangers, it was enough."
Mooney then called the boy's father to the stand and asked him to tell the impact of Bishop's actions on him. "A year of blaming myself for an environment I allowed my son to be a part of," he said sadly. He was so upset when he found out what had been going on, he said, that he was absent from his job for three months and suffered a loss of pay. "And I'm still receiving counseling and medication," he said.

He, too, noticed the change in his son. "He spent nights away from home and would come home disheveled, disoriented and aggressive," said the father. "He was an angry person. We sought help subsequent to his stealing a car."

Last August, the father said, he found Bishop's card in his son's wallet, so he called the man. "We had a discussion about how he understands what these boys need and that he understands them better than their parents do," he said. "Bishop's divisive ploy was to get between parents and their kids."

Then, after seeing Bishop at two of his son's swim meets, the father addressed him in person. "I confronted him and told him he had no business being there and I knew what he was doing to my son and I was going to get to the bottom of it," he said. "My son is still in and out of counseling and on a bit of a rollercoaster ride. He graduated from high school; several boys he met at Bishop's did not."

The whole time the parents testified, Butorac objected to their being allowed to speak, at all, since their son wasn't the person on the videotape for which Bishop was convicted. But then Det. Charles took the stand and, when Mooney asked him if there "could have been other charges involving [their son]," he replied, "Yes." After that, Alden denied Butorac's motion to disregard the testimony.

"This is a troubling case," said Mooney. "Look at the pre-sentencing investigation and what the defendant says about his account of what happened. He wants the court to believe the minor was dressed up as a male slave because he wanted to dress that way for Halloween. He says it was consensual and he was just being a nice guy and providing the outfit and environment."

"He denies giving minors drugs and alcohol and takes no responsibility for it," she continued. "And he says making the tape was stupid and a simple mistake. He was 46, and he has prior criminal convictions. He'd be more believable if he didn't have them."

Mooney revealed that, in 1988, Bishop had two felony convictions in California for "oral copulation with a minor," plus an assault conviction in Fairfax County after "he lifted a 12-year-old paperboy's shirt and kissed his stomach."

"This man has a history of sexual behavior with minors and he takes pictures of naked boys for his own gratification," she told the judge. "He's a threat to our community and to our children, and I ask you to punish him appropriately to send a message to the community that this type of behavior will not be accepted."

Butorac said that, just because her client hasn't shown remorse doesn't mean he hasn't accepted responsibility. "Clearly, this shows a bad error in judgment," she said. "I ask you to sentence him to probation." Butorac said Bishop didn't make two different tapes, but made an 8 mm and transferred it to video. "The tape wasn't mass-produced," she said. "It was in a bag in the back of his closet and wasn't for other people to see."

She noted "character letters" his friends had written on his behalf, calling him a "helpful and caring" person. As for the teen-age boys, she said, "He wasn't preying on these individuals — he was trying to be a positive role model in their lives."

Butorac said Bishop only received probation for his prior convictions and, now, he'll have to register every 90 days as a sex offender and people will know his address, and that, alone, would be punishment.

Then Bishop stood and said he regretted the three charges and had pleaded guilty to them. "I am not a predator or a pedophile," he said. "I don't have a proclivity for 17-year-olds. When I had a problem 20 years ago, I resolved it then. I don't feel I'm a threat to the community."

But Alden believed otherwise. She told him that, after considering all the evidence, testimony, letters and the arguments of both attorneys, "I conclude that you really are not taking responsibility for what you did and have a certain level of denial and are a danger to the community."

She then gave him the maximum punishment for each charge, but suspended most of it. On each count of manufacturing child pornography, Alden sentenced Bishop to 10 years in prison, suspending eight years from each sentence and running the two sentences concurrently. She also placed him on eight years probation.

For the child pornography possession charge, she gave him five years in prison, suspending four years, and running this sentence consecutive to the others. She also placed him on four years probation. That means he has three years to serve — which will actually be 2 1/2 years if he behaves, since inmates only serve 85 percent of their time.

Bishop will be on probation a total of 12 years, after his release, and Alden ordered him to receive sex-offender and mental-health treatment and any other treatment deemed necessary by his probation officer. He must also register as a sex offender and undergo polygraph tests.

George Paul Bishop was arrested between September 1984 to September 1985 in Alexandria, Virginia for having sex with a 12-year-old boy at an Oak Wood apartment complex. Soon after, he fled to California, but returned to Virginia after charges were filed against him there before disappearing again up to his arrest and incarceration in 2005.

Let's summarize what is going on here: A longtime pedophile and child pornographer, George Paul Bishop, approaches Noreen Gosch shortly after her son's kidnapping to inform her he is a CIA asset and has information about an underground network and conspiracy that kidnapped Johnny Gosch. According to Noreen, he supposedly can be contacted at a phone number traced to Langley Air Force Base, and organized her testimony to a Congressional hearing about her son's case in Washington D.C.. What is rarely mentioned was that George Paul Bishop was a child molester and admitted pedophile during all of this, associating with other pedophiles like Richard Evans, who had a record of aggravated sexual assault toward a minor in 1984 up to producing child pornography of his victims in 2005.

What do the disturbing latter facts have to do with Noreen Gosch? Apparently Noreen and her camp aren't shy at all about endorsing George Paul Bishop as a heroic whistleblower of sorts, a CIA asset who provided facts that they claim proved true in their ensuing private investigations into the kidnapping of Johnny Gosch. How do they answer George Paul Bishop's obvious record of child molestation, pedophilia, and child pornography charges since the 1980's? They don't - or sometimes they claim it's some sort of CIA operation to frame Mr. Bishop for uncovering the sordid conspiracy theories that Noreen and her foundation stand by regarding the circumstances of Johnny Gosch's disappearance to this day. Perhaps they should tap either of their likeminded conspiracy theorist private investigators to investigate Mr. Bishop's victims, such as the 12-year-old boy who had his shirt pulled up and stomach kissed by Mr. Bishop, and point their fingers at him for being on in this conspiracy. Perhaps they should investigate Mr. Bishop's pedophile associate Richard Evans and his history of sexual assault and predatory crimes against children that can be found on his record. Perhaps they should investigate the evidence Virginia law enforcement has, such as the various videotapes featuring Mr. Bishop fondling his underage victims. Perhaps they should investigate the parents of these children. What does this mean? It's either a ridiculously elaborate grand conspiracy against one man with an obvious and admitted predatory appetite against underage boys, or it means he is in fact a pedophile as law enforcement and the Virginia judicial system have convicted him of being. Why would someone like Noreen Gosch not throw this man under the bus, considering she stands firmly against people exactly like Paul Bishop for their sexual crimes against children? If he really did provide solid and independently corroborated information, where is the evidence of such? Apparently it is nowhere to be found except from Noreen Gosch's mouth.

You can read a lot about George Paul Bishop and his profound role and connection to Noreen Gosch and the investigation of her son, but there are so many questionable claims about the story that confirming anything eventually seems like a fruitless effort. Where is the audio tape Noreen claims she submitted to law enforcement of local private investigator Sam Soda preemptively informing her of an impending kidnapping before Eugene Martin disappeared? What, if anything, were the supposed results of the grand jury hearing that Bishop was purportedly subpoenaed to regarding the disappearance of Eugene Martin? What evidence is there that George Paul Bishop was connected to Langley Air Force Base or Iowa Senator Grassley in negotiating the FBI's participation in finding Johnny Gosch? Is there any actual hard evidence to back up any of this?...

The questions are innumerable, and the story of George Paul Bishop spirals in every direction. There are simply way too many questions and extraordinary claims from Noreen Gosch that are seemingly impossible to actually be substantiated. However, common sense tends to creep in our heads when we ask the most basic question of this article: What was a longtime pedophile and "CIA asset" supposedly doing with Noreen Gosch, and why does she still endorse his history with the investigation of her missing son and the claims she bases it on? Why publicly stand by a predatory pedophile and child molester if you can't put the evidence on the table that vindicates his help on the case? It matters because George Paul Bishop was the catalyst that prompted Noreen Gosch to believe her son was kidnapped by an elaborate, underground pedophile network that takes children and forces them into careers of pornography, prostitution, and drug running. She still believes this story today, and if you asked her about George Paul Bishop, Noreen Gosch won't be shy to say he "checks out". Read Noreen's own written words about her association and endorsement of Paul Bishop.

If you know something about George Paul Bishop that we don't, please let us know.