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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. A Dickson woman admitted to burning a computer that contained more than 100 images of child pornography and was sentenced to 8 years in prison on Tuesday.
Mary Alice Vossler, 31, a former French major at APSU, was indicted in the Dec. 2010 term of grand jury on 107 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated arson and vandalism.
She pleaded guilty to three counts of a lesser charge, facilitation of possession of child pornography, one count of arson and felony vandalism and was given a total of 8 years to serve in the Tennessee Department of Corrections.
On Oct. 12, 2009, Vossler set fire to a computer inside of her and her husband, Nathan Vossler’s Emerald Hills apartment. The fire was suspicious from the beginning as the cause of it could not be explained and it was not plugged in or connected to any heat source.
Mary Vossler was indicted on aggravated arson and vandalism charges in Dec. 2009.
The arson came at the crux of a criminal case her husband was involved in. On Oct. 3, 2009, days before the fire, a woman said Nathan Vossler forced her 6-year-old daughter into his Emerald Hills apartment on Patrick Street. According to an arrest warrant, he pushed the child inside, locked the door and took off her jacket and shoes. He later released her unharmed.
Nathan Vossler was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping in Montgomery County.
After a lengthy investigation, child pornography was found on the burnt computer’s hard drive. The graphic titles of the images suggest the images showed children — boys and girls, newborns to 10-year-olds — engaging in sex acts with other children and adults. Some titles suggest rape and incest. Most of the images involve children ages 4 to 8.
In Oct. 11, 2010 Athens Police arrested Nathan Vossler, 35, and charged him with the sexual abuse of a 3-year-old girl he was baby-sitting. Athens Police and the Limestone County, Ala., Department of Human Resources started the investigation after receiving a complaint from the child's mother. After a physical exam and interview with the child, police caught Vossler in Huntsville and brought him back to Athens.
Nathan Vossler was on bond at the time of his second arrest.
He is now listed as an inmate in the Alabama Department of Corrections and will be released in 2014.
The plea agreement was reached by Assistant District Attorney Art Bieber and defense attorney Jacob Mathis.
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