Former Barrow County Alabama Deputy Sheriff David Jason Gaub Indicted On Child Pornography Charges
April 16th, 2008
BARROW COUNTY, ALABAMA - Former Barrow County sheriff’s Deputy David Jason Gaub was indicted on 20 counts of sexual exploitation of children Friday by a called Barrow County grand jury.
Gaub, who worked as a road patrol deputy, was arrested in October after a three-month probe by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office found he had multiple pornographic images of children on computers at his home southwest of Winder. He was released on $50,000 bond on the condition that he not possess any computers or firearms and stay 300 feet away from any child.
No court date has been set, said Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney Richard Bridgeman, but he wouldn’t comment further.
Gaub’s case is one of more than 100 that the specially called grand jury considered over two days last week to try to catch up on a backlog of cases left over from former District Attorney Tim Madison’s administration, said Bridgeman, who was appointed to Madison’s post after the longtime prosecutor resigned last spring.
A lengthy investigation into Madison’s misuse of funds in the district attorney’s office in 2007 and subsequent employee turnover left prosecutors in Barrow, Banks and Jackson counties with more than 1,000 backlogged cases at the end of December, Bridgeman said.
Prosecutors have indicted about 900 of those cases so far, and Bridgeman believes that prosecutors will have all but 20 or 30 of the cases indicted by the end of next week.
Many of the cases the Barrow County grand jury considered late last week dated back to 2006, and about half were domestic violence cases, Bridgeman said
