By Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff

THE U.S. Air Force captain and his wife who were earlier charged for taking nude photos of their minor children pleaded not guilty yesterday to several charges of child abuse.
Michael Eric Dunlop, 36, and Kendall Rachelle Dunlop, 30, were in the courtroom of Judge Alberto Lamorena for arraignment.
The Andersen Air Force Base bioenvironmental officer was charged with three counts of child abuse while his wife was charged with six counts of child abuse, all are misdemeanors.
Through their lawyer, Howard Trapp, they pleaded not guilty to all charges, waived a speedy trial, and requested a jury trial.
The Dunlops will be back on May 22 for a criminal trial setting in the courtroom of Judge Katherine Maraman.
The couple was originally charged with felony crimes after they allegedly took pictures of their two minor sons, aged 5 and 4, who were immediately placed under the custody of the Healing Heart Crisis Center.
They were jailed with a $100,000 bail each after local law enforcers raided their Yigo residence and seized some 1,700 nude photos of adults and children, primarily their minor children.
The Guam Police Department also confiscated numerous sexually oriented videos and magazines, as well as sex devices at their Perez Acres house.
However, the defense was able to prove that the pictures were taken in their previous residence in Texas, prompting the Attorney General’s Office to dismiss all the felony charges and revise the complaint to involve lower charges.
The Dunlops were eventually released from jail on $5,000 bail last Friday.
An amended complaint made by Assistant Attorney General Basil O’Mallan stated that GPD obtained a written statement from Kendall’s mother, Mary E. Semays.
According to Semays, she stayed with her daughter’s family for nine days in October 2006 in their Yigo house and observed that the two minors had sustained welts and bruises all over their bodies as a result of the airman’s striking his sons.
She said the blows were hard enough to leave hand prints all over the bodies of the minors.
Semays also indicated in her statement that her son-in-law would grope and fondle her daughter’s breasts in front of the two minors and that she observed him looking at photos of nude men on her computer and allowed his 5-year-old son to look at the photos.
GPD officers who raided the couple’s house observed four photos of Mrs. Kendall lying on her back naked from waist up exposing her breasts with her two sons. One picture shows one of the sons placing his mouth on her left breast.
A subsequent investigation determined that those particular photos were taken in Texas in 2005 and in early 2006 prior to the Dunlops’ arrival on Guam in June 2006.
During an interview at the Healing Hearts Crisis Center, the 5-year-old son said that he, his brother and his parents usually do not wear any clothing at home and that he had witnessed his parents’ sexual acts.