June 21, 2007 - David Cobb, 71, a teacher at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, who was sentenced for attempted sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy and possessing hundreds of images of child porn is being released from prison after serving 11 years.
He was arrested in 1995 and dubbed "Pumpkin Man."
Cobb taught English at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., for three decades until his arrest in August 1995, when he was caught walking near his Farmington summer home with the boy, the backpack containing the porn, the pumpkin mask and a list of prices for sexual acts titled "Pay Scale for Helping Pumpkin."Cobb later pleaded guilty in Maine to unlawful sexual contact with a 9-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy in 1985. Eligible for parole in 2003, he refused to enter a sex offender program and because of that, he was denied parole.
He became infamous as the "Pumpkin Man," because he wore the mask while soliciting children.
Cobb will be required to register as a sex offender within five days of his release.
See Eagle Tribune coverage. Union Leader has a picture of him.
City and State are locations of the school.
Nov 26 - A Superior Court judge granted the defense's motion to dismiss the state's motion to impose a deferred sentence.
