Man held on porn charges
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP
THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
By Ron Fonger, Kim Crawford and Bryn Mickle
JOURNAL STAFF WRITERS
GRAND BLANC TWP. - A registered sex offender who has made a career of taking photos of young male
models is in jail on 22 criminal charges related to child pornography.
Robert C. Lamb, 50, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager almost two decades ago, was
arraigned on the new charges Thursday.
Lamb was arrested last week after Grand Blanc Township police alleged found child sexually abusive
material during a search of his home. He is being held in the Genesee County Jail in lieu of cash bonds
totaling $440,000.
In their warrant, police said they went to Lamb's home in May as part of an investigation into a murder this
year. Lamb was not charged in connection with the slaying, but the search of his house led to his new
arrest.
In the four-page warrant prepared by the county prosecutor's office at the request of Grand Blanc Township
police last week, Lamb is charged with one count of possession of child sexually abusive material, 11
counts of using a computer to commit crime and 10 counts of producing child pornography.
Though Lamb was convicted of a sex crime in 1988, that hasn't prevented him from earning a living working
with young males. His photos of bare-chested boys are a mainstay on his Web site, where Lamb offers
would-be photographers "one-on-one" modeling sessions with teens for $525.
Township police and County Prosecutor David Leyton would not say if the charges are connected to Lamb's
Web sites or his photography business.
But Lamb's father, Bill - once the most popular radio disc jockey in Flint - said Monday his son did nothing
wrong. The elder Lamb, who hosted a radio show dedicated to workers at Buick City for 26 years, called the
charges against his son "ridiculous" and "hogwash."
Bob Lamb operated his business from the basement of his father's home on Apple Creek Trail.
"I have an audio studio and he had a photo studio in the basement," Bill Lamb said. "He worked about 15
feet away from me. He wasn't doing anything illegal."
This is not the first time that Bob Lamb has come under police scrutiny.
He was arrested on charges of producing child pornography in 1986.
In that case, police said Lamb had sex with boys and videotaped young boys performing sex acts. One boy
told police Lamb paid him about $30 to pose naked and perform a sex act on videotape. The boy said Lamb
promised the tape would be sent to New York, where it would be sold for upward of $1,500, according to
police reports.
Another boy told police a similar story but said the film would be sold in Florida or California.
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An assistant county prosecutor at the time said Lamb created an "almost ingenious way of becoming in
contact with young people" by managing baseball teams, taking pictures and approaching boys at fast-food
restaurants, according to court files.
Lamb eventually pleaded guilty in 1988 to third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a teenager
between the ages of 13 and 15. He was sentenced to a year in jail and 5 years' probation.
He never served a day in prison because then-Circuit Judge Thomas C. Yeotis sentenced him to a
combination of jail and probation. When a state appeals court ruled in 1992 that the law required Yeotis to
give Lamb a prison sentence, the judge sentenced him to 6 months in prison. But because Lamb had
already spent 292 days in the county jail, he wasn't required to actually serve the prison sentence.
Victim advocacy groups were outraged at the time by the sentence, but Yeotis defended his actions, saying
that Lamb would have better hope for rehabilitation if he stayed in Genesee County, where he had family
support.
When he was sentenced, Lamb said he was "offended" by the prosecution's charges and argued that they
were never proved in court.
Lamb was ordered not to associate with anyone under 18, but he again began to work with boys and teens
when his probation ended in 1993.
He produced "The American Boy, A Photographic Essay," a self-published 80-page paperback book last
November that sells for $29.87 and is available at Amazon.com.
Three years ago, Lamb registered the names of two businesses in Genesee County - American Teen Video
Magazine and Intermedia Partners. The American Teen Web site lists Lamb as publisher and focuses on
teen boy models and entertainment.
Lamb's self-named site features 15 teen boy models - each with linked Web sites - whom he has
photographed, often bare-chested. CDs "packed with images" are sold for $29.99. All of Lamb's models
have ads appearing on the American Teen site.
Township police confirmed last year that they were aware Lamb was running a model and photography
business that specialized in teenage boys, but they concluded some of his photos of young boys were
suggestive but legal.
In August 2001 and March 2002, Mundy Township police received separate complaints about Lamb's
recruitment of boy models, according to police reports.
In 2001, a woman told police that Lamb on three separate occasions approached her son at the Meijer
store on Hill Road, where the boy worked.
Lamb left business cards with the boy, who was 17 but looked younger, his mother told police.
A Mundy Township police report said police talked to Lamb's old parole officer, who stated Lamb's previous
approach had been to approach boys 13 to 15 years old and ask them to model for him.
In 2002, an employee at the Kessel's store on Fenton Road in Mundy Township also contacted police about
Lamb "coming in the store and approaching young men to young boys and handing out a card stating that
he is a photographer looking for models."
Lamb was arraigned Thursday before Mt. Morris District Judge Larry Stecco , who set a total cash bond of
$440,000 - $20,000 on each count against him.
He faces a preliminary examination on the charges Nov. 21 in Central District Court in Flint.

did you reprint this with permission?

are we supposed to know this guy...why is he infamous ?

...why all the referances to "bare chested boys" ?
...what about all those college swim meets? Oh oh.
I hope bare chested girls and women isn't considered a crime.

What did he do to you?

They have never seen my grandfather walk around the house in his boxers.

What, another one?? Was this guy on MM? The other one quit.

I shot with Bob when I was only 15...thank you for posting this so that others may see it and be advised of the charges and/or convictions.
Gotta be safe folks!
peabo

BTW, my mom WAS there and we left when I started feeling uncomfortable...