Vereniging MARTIJN
Association for acceptance of adult-child love relationships
2007
[All the comments between square brackets are made by MARTIJN.]
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The real more general problem [compared to pedophilia] is the excessive power that parents have over their children, beginning with their desire to mold them in a certain image (generally narcissistic) and then in controlling their wayward behavior. [...] Empowering younger people should be a libertarian issue. More than once I've argued that the Libertarian Party should advocate extending the vote to twelve-year olds (if only to get their political attention and perhaps loyalty before others do). It follows that anyone old enough to vote should be old enough to purchase alcohol and decide about sex. [...] I'm also old enough to recall when adult homosexuality was regarded as universally despised - even among putatively enlightened people, much as pedophilia is now, and been libertarian long enough to recall that an early presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party was gay. That historical perspective makes me wonder whether general attitudes about intergenerational sex might change as well. Remember that general libertarian principle that no voluntary sexual act between consenting adults is objectionable. This gets us back to the question for which there is no firm numerical answer - what is the age of consent? Beyond puberty, which is medically measurable, only individuals can decide. [...] Similarly, the anti-pedophiles are exploiting a negligible fear for comprehensive agendas that are Luddite and authoritarian. [...] Are anti-pedophilia activists going to campaign to get the state to forbid American teens the access to the Internet? I think that is finally the motive behind their criticisms. Can you imagine anything more economically and culturally subversive? Anything more likely to incite unnecessary generational revolution?
source: Article 'Pedophilia, the Internet and the Law' by by Richard Kostelanetz; manhattanlp.org/SerfCity/ serfcity_vol3_iss1.pdf; Serf City; Vol. 3 Issue 1; Serf City is published periodically by the Manhattan Libertarian Party; 2007
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Is it possible that the capacity for adult male homosexuality has been present for all of recorded history, but until recently rarely has been expressed? This seems highly unlikely, for the other major sexual options - heterosexuality and pedosexuality - have been visible to a greater or lesser degree in all cultures and societies throughout all of recorded history. One hypothesis is that adult male homosexuality is in reality sublimated and longitudinally displaced male pedosexuality, or ''boylove,'' wherein one party assumes the role of ''loved boy'' and the other that of ''mentor/lover.'' [...] Male homosexuality, whether one holds that it is a genetic or sociobiological trait, has no such reproductive advantages. In fact, since it is a physical impossibility for two males to reproduce, this trait would be strongly ''selected against,'' and should be eliminated from the gene pool in short order. [...] Conversely, however, an evolutionary case can be posited that the tendency for boys to be sexually attracted to older males is adaptive (Feierman, 1990). In prehistoric times it is likely that many children, due to violence, disease, poor nutrition, and life spans that were considerably shorter than what we have considered ''normal'' for the past couple of centuries, found themselves without adequately functioning parents or guardians. A boy in this situation who was bright, attractive, and sexually androphilic (Vanggaard, 1969) would have a higher probability of connecting with an older male whose sexuality included a pedosexual component, and who would protect, provide for, and teach the boy the skills necessary for survival. Studies have identified such secondary boy-attracted pedosexual tendencies in 20 to 30% of self-identified heterosexual adult males (Freund, 1970; also cf. Briere & Runtz, 1989, Quinsey, 1984, West, 1980, etc.), and these tendencies would not be selected against so long as the bearers were primarily heterosexual, and only secondarily pedosexual. [...] Only when cultural and religious disapproval, criminalization, and demonization had forced such consensual relationships underground would there have been cause for the development of a sublimated and longitudinally displaced form of this ''boylove,'' which may be the source of what we know today as homosexuality.
source: 'We were NOT abused!' by David R. Riegel; SafeHaven Foundation Press; Philadelphia; Second printing: 10/07; First printing 2007
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This story hasn't been getting much press in the United States, but it's been a topic of interest in Europe. Kenneth Richey of Scotland has spent 20 years on death row in Ohio, exhausting round after round of appeals for a crime he insists he didn't do. Finally, a plea bargain has been reached in which he will plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter and be home in time for Christmas. Europeans had been outraged at the conditions of Richey's confinement, which are ho-hum here in the prison nation. Said one Scottish official who visited Richey: ''The reality of somebody who is kept locked up in a cell for 23 hours a day for 19 years is quite mind-blowing. It is a dreadful, inhumane and dehumanising system. If one man is off it, then remember there are hundreds {sic!} of people in America still enduring that dreadful situation.''
source: 'Scot freed after 20 years' by Karen Franklin; forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/ 2007/12/news-roundup.html; 20 December 2007
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A former top official from the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Olympic Committee has resigned from an IOC commission following his arrest on child pornography charges. John Krimsky is a former marketing chief for the USOC. He pleaded not guilty in Danbury, Connecticut last week to four counts, including promoting a minor in an obscene performance, criminal attempt at possession of child pornography, and third-degree possession of child pornography.
source: 'Child porn charge leads to IOC panel resignation'; fox21news.com/Sports/sports_ story.aspx?id=75060; FOX21 (Associated Press); 12 December 2007
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A former teacher serving house arrest for having sex with a 14-year-old student was arrested Tuesday on charges of violating her probation, state records show. According to a Department of Corrections report, Debra Lafave discussed her personal life and other subjects with a teenage waitress at a restaurant where both worked. One of the terms of her probation was that she was not allowed to have unsupervised contact with minors without permission. Lafave, 26, is serving three years of house arrest and seven years of probation after pleading guilty to having sex with the boy in a classroom and her home in June 2004. [...]
source: Article 'Teacher Who Had Sex With Teen Arrested' by Mitch Stacy (AP); news.aol.com/story/_a/ teacher-who-had-sex- with-teen-arrested/2007 1204163009990001; 5 December 2007
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While past research has linked early sexual activity to health problems, a new study suggests that waiting too long to start having sex carries risks of its own. Those who lose their virginity at a later age -- around 21 to 23 years of age -- tend to be more likely to experience sexual dysfunction problems later, say researchers at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute's HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. [...]
source: Article 'Losing Virginity Later Linked to Sexual Problems - Those Who Have Sex Later, Particularly Men, Seem to Experience More Sexual Dysfunction' by Dan Childs; abcnews.go.com/Health/ Sex/Story?id=3932047 &page=1; ABC News; 29 November 2007
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Police chose not to lay charges against a 21-year-old who fathered a child with a 13-year-old girl - even though he confessed to police he had been having sex with a minor. The pregnancy was highlighted last week by Children's Commissioner Cindy Kiro, who used the case to illustrate ''the wall of silence'' protecting people who committed child abuse. The girl had started having sex from the age of 11 and Kiro claimed that no one in her family would come forward and shed any light on who was responsible. However, the Herald on Sunday understands the father turned himself in to police but was given only a verbal warning by officers.
source: Article 'Minor has baby: no charges laid' by Stephen Cook; www.nzherald.co.nz/section/ 1/story.cfm?c_id=1& objectid=10478186; The New Zealand Herald; 25 November 2007
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The absurdity of describing erotic attraction to adolescents as a mental abnormality is that most normal heterosexual men are sexually attracted to teenage girls (who happen to be at the peak of their reproductive fertility). This fact is well established by multiple research studies over the past several decades. Such findings are certainly no surprise to the moguls of popular culture or to the advertising industry, which uses provocative images of teen girls and boys to sell everything from clothes to cars.
source: Article 'Sex offender industry sees invasion of ''hebephile'' hunters' by Karen Franklin, Ph.D.; American Chronicle; 12 December 2007; forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/ 2007/10/invasion-of-hebe phile-hunters.html; Online: 31 October 2007
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In this book, Martin Guggenheim, one of the country's leading child advocates, challenges many of the basic premises of the proponents of ''children's rights.'' He convincingly shows that legal policies claiming to protect the interests of children frequently reflect only adults' interests. His sweeping review of family law policy over the past forty years casts both case law and legal practice in an entirely new light.
--Michael Wald, Reynolds Professor of Law, Stanford University
source: About the book 'What's Wrong with Children's Rights' by Martin Guggenheim; www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ GUGWHA.html?show=reviews; Harvard University Press; 2007
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Perhaps we were the victims of new laws that forbade the persecution of those old favourites, gays, blacks and Jews; we boy-lovers, bunched together with child rapist and murderers, had become society's new scapegoats. Perhaps it was because we were seen to be attacking society at its very roots, for the dominant ideology saw children as the world's future, to be protected at any cost; we were accused of undermining the power of state and parent over their most prized possession. These were dangerous times. Reactionary right-wingers had been 'screaming like banshees' in the USA, calling for a pogrom on all of us. Experts in child abuse came out of the woodwork as governments began to set up agencies across the world with millions of dollars to finance their campaigns. Those desperately fierce laws, passed unanimously against us in outraged and incensed parliaments, sent men to prison for decades. And who in their right mind would have dared to stand and contradict them? [...] Grooming, they call it. I was introduced to that word only after I went to prison and discovered the wonderful world of Sex Offender Treatment Programmes. I needed to be resocialised; that was another one of those words they used on me. I had been grooming the boy to be my victim, they told me, with a confidence born of textbook evangelism. I was labelled cunning and manipulative for keeping our relationship covert. As if they had given us any alternative. The ironies abounded; if I had beaten him regularly the law would have paid scant attention, but the fact that I had been kind to him and treated him well, especially when we were at our most passionate, condemned me as unutterably dangerous; for what could possibly be worse than a man who loves a boy?
source: 'Legend' by 'an Australian prisoner'; Taken from 'Freedom of Thought - an anthology of creative works by prisoners'; Wallace Hamilton Press New York; 2007
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A top woman tennis coach was caught in bed with a 13-year-old girl after starting a lesbian affair with the child star, a court heard yesterday. Claire Lyte, 29, allegedly took advantage of the youngster while coaching her at one of the Lawn Tennis Association's academies for talented children. The relationship was revealed when the girl's mother found her daughter and Lyte naked in bed together, a jury was told. Lyte, who is accused of sexual activity with a child, denies any sexual contact with the girl, who was described as one of the leading tennis talents of her age. Instead, she claims the girl's 'ambitious and pushy' mother concocted the allegations to spite her when her daughter failed to reach her potential and left the Loughborough academy. Liverpool Crown Court heard that the girl became infatuated with Lyte and sent her intimate text messages, claiming she loved and wanted to marry the blonde coach. She wrote a love 'contract' to Lyte, referring to herself as the coach's 'babyface' and promising to love her for ever. Her feelings, the jury were told, were reciprocated. Lyte and the girl shared hotel rooms when away at tournaments and were seen using the same toilet cubicle. [...]
source: Article < Top lesbian tennis coach 'found in bed with girl of 13' >; www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ article-23414586-details/ Top+lesbian+tennis+coach+ %27found+in+bed+with+girl+ of+13%27/article.do; This Is London; 1 October 2007
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A photograph at the centre of a child pornography investigation belongs to Sir Elton John, his website states. ''Klara and Edda belly-dancing'' by Nan Goldin was seized by police from Gateshead's Baltic Centre on 20 September, the singer's spokesman said. The image of two naked young girls is part of an exhibition owned by Sir Elton, which is on loan to the Baltic. A spokesman for the singer said the photograph had been exhibited around the world without objections. Northumbria Police were alerted by Baltic managers the day before five collections were due to be unveiled. A statement on the singer's website said the image, part of the Thanksgiving exhibition, was from a monograph of the American photographer's works entitled ''The Devil's Playground''. It was offered for sale at Sotheby's New York in 2002 and 2004, and exhibited in Houston, London, Madrid, New York, Portugal, Warsaw and Zurich. The statement added: ''Elton John is known as one of the world's foremost collectors of photographic art and has several thousand photographs in his collection, including works by Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus and Ansel Adams.'' Goldin, 54, who is well known for using semi-naked models, was not available to comment.
source: 'Sir Elton owns 'porn probe' photo'; news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/ england/tyne/7013806.stm; BBC NEWS; 26 September 2007
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[Will McBride, artist:] How then do states all over the world get boys to become soldiers? How is it that they are perfectly willing to go to war, to kill and be killed? From the very beginning the will to fight is developed through games. And the boys are enthusiastic about these games to the greatest degree. Attacking, defending, fighting and killing are the ultimate fun experience, and in games, this can go indefinitely. Computer games offer the opportunity to kill without end. At a certain point some of these boys decide to be soldiers. They are selected, they are set apart, they are robbed of their sex life and they become aggressive monsters. Then they are ready to go to war. [...] I think that this suppression of boys' sexual selfawareness has a direct relationship to war. The boy's core is stamped with self-realization, drive towards freedom, a large portion of curiosity and a great interest in sex. The urge, the need to have orgasms is extreme. Much earlier than Freud supposed does sexual tension overcome the boy, who releases this generally through masturbation. This practice is as natural as the antagonism produced among the general public. The penis, especially when erect, is one of society's most abhorred taboos. The state thrives on this. The state needs the growing boy for the most part without his sex. It replaces the (lost) penis with tools and weapons. The results can be freely displayed: the penis may not, and the resulting shame, frustration, fear and anger are what the state uses. Naturally, the boy is expected to have sex (under covers), especially with girls. But he can't show his cock. In the media, the penis is just non-existent, even in TV pornography. To this date, no one has been able to explain to me why this should be so - as the penis is absolutely necessary to keep mankind on the planet, it should be praised and exhalted, shown all over rather than remain hidden. The procedure of confirming to society's wish that boys be molded into feebleminded, dulled and dimwitted, optically castrated people, capable at any time of blind aggression, makes me sick. Love, tolerance, understanding and feeling for others are necessary for a peaceful society! If these positive attributes were furthered in society's education of boys, war could be annihilated altogether. [...] When I consider that all the games boys play have to do with combat, competition, and winning, then I think this makes a sensible future for mankind impossible. But we shouldn't give in. We only have to learn to achieve peace without fighting. Because that is the real goal we are looking for - peace and happiness for everybody.
source: Article 'The Artist & The Boy II'; Destroyer #5; September 2007
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On Friday a judge modified a restraining order against McClellan and ordered him to stay at least 10 yards from places where children congregate, including schools, playgrounds and child care centers over the next three years. [...] McClellan has said he is sexually attracted to children but has never tried to molest a child because it is against the law, and that the restraining order is like prosecuting him for a ''thought crime.'' He says the order also violates his First Amendment right to free speech, and that he's been threatened as a result of the publicity surrounding his case.
source: Article 'Says If He Stays, He's Likely to be Arrested Again'; www.knx1070.com/pages/ 861035.php?contentType= 4&contentId=842455; KNX 1070 News; August 2007
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The Child [book by Sarah Schulman, 2007] was inspired by the tragic case of Sam Manzie, a New Jersey teen who sexually assaulted and strangled an 11-year-old boy who came by his house selling candy. In court, Manzie's parents claimed their son was ''pushed over the edge'' by his sexual relationship with Stephen Simmons, a 43-year-old man the 15-year-old boy had met online. In The Child, 15-year-old Stew Mulcahey murders his young nephew after David Ziemska, his older lover, is arrested for pedophilia. The book takes an unvarnished look at violence, desire, homophobia, teen sexuality and the age of consent. In a lengthy and unusual author's note that accompanies the book, Schulman explains that though she finished the novel in 1999, it took nearly a decade to get it into print.
source: Article 'Outside the Lines: Sarah Schulman's Truth' by Linda Villarosa; www.afterellen.com/column/2007/ 8/outsidethelines-schulman; AfterEllen.com; 21 August 2007
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An actor who once played a lieutenant on NBC's ''Law and Order: Special Victims Unit'' has been charged with possession of child pornography, authorities said Tuesday. Albert Insinnia, 57, of Bloomfield, turned himself into the Passaic County Sheriff's Department in Wayne on Monday and was released on bail Tuesday morning, said sheriff's spokesman Bill Maer. Insinnia was charged with two counts of possession of child pornography after authorities allegedly discovered 180 images of child porn on the hard drive of the actor's laptop computer. Reached at his home Tuesday afternoon, Insinnia told The Associated Press he had no comment, but his lawyer, Joseph Portelli, said he planned to plead not guilty at an arraignment Tuesday afternoon. ''I understand what he's been charged with, but I do have to say that based on my conversations with him and the authorities involved, I sincerely believe he's not guilty,'' said Portelli, who mentioned that his client also works as a real estate agent. According to Portelli, the hard drive on Insinnia's computer has been transferred various times in the last few years and a variety of people have had access to it. [...] The investigation began after Insinnia took his computer to a Best Buy electronics store in West Paterson for repairs. A technician found the images, police said, and alerted a police detective working security at the store. According to his biography on a Web site for the film ''Over the GW,'' Insinnia has been acting for more than 30 years. He's appeared on Broadway and played Lt. Pizelli on a couple episodes of ''Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.''
source: Article < 'SVU' actor, Insinnia, charged with child porn possession >; www.newsday.com/news/ local/wire/newjersey/ny- bc-nj--actor-childporn 0814aug14,0,3 187262.story; newsday.com (The Associated Press); 14 August 2007
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Self-proclaimed pedophile Jack McClellan was arrested at UCLA twice Monday, first in the afternoon outside a child development building on suspicion of violating a statewide restraining order prohibiting him from coming within 10 yards of any child in California. He was detained again about 10:20 p.m. after UCLA police saw McClellan, 45, being interviewed on a TV newscast while standing in a campus parking lot. A university spokesperson said McClellan was booked for trespassing. In the earlier incident, McClellan was observed in the area of the university's Infant Development Program. Officers with the University of California Police Department took him into custody without incident, and he was released on his own recognizance, according to UCLA. Lawyers in Santa Clarita are seeking a permanent injunction barring McClellan from getting near children in the state. McClellan has no criminal record, but he has spoken publicly about enjoying watching little girls.
source: 'Pedophile arrested outside UCLA child development building'; www.latimes.com/ news/local/la-me-arrest 14aug14,0,580585.story; latimes.com; 14 August 2007
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Some girls now enter puberty as early as six - with toxic chemicals widely held to blame. But are new drugs to hold back the years really the right answer?: [...] The normal age at which puberty starts in both boys and girls has dropped by about two years since the 19th century, to 14 for boys and 12 for girls. This is largely due to improved nutrition - onset of puberty is believed to be triggered by physical size. Another theory is that the epidemic of obesity is to blame. But modern social conditions may also be a contributory factor. Research suggests that children from broken homes experience earlier puberty. The stress of family breakdown apparently alters the balance of growth hormones and other chemicals in the body, speeding up a child's physical development. Absent fathers may be another cause. American researchers have found that biological fathers send out chemical signals that inhibit their daughters' sexual maturity. Girls whose fathers had left home started their periods earlier. Early puberty has even been linked to watching too much television. A few years ago, Italian scientists found that children who watched three hours a day produced less of the sleep hormone melatonin - low levels of the hormone play an important role in the timing of puberty. But perhaps more worrying is the theory that it's exposure to environmental chemicals which is causing the drop in the age of puberty. These chemicals mimic the effect of hormones, disrupting the normal timing of sexual maturing. [...] In Britain, it is now estimated that up to at least one in six children under ten is affected. Indeed, there is a belief that schoolgirls as young as six are entering puberty. [...] Meanwhile, as highlighted in a forthcoming BBC radio programme, a debate is raging in the medical profession about what should be done about this trend: should powerful drugs, normally used to treat cancer, be routinely prescribed to young children to block the hormonal changes taking place in their bodies; or should the medically defined normal age range for onset of puberty simply be adjusted downwards so that the increasing number of children reaching sexual maturity while still at primary school are no longer viewed as abnormal? Not surprisingly, the drugs industry supports the first approach. In the past four years, drug manufacturers have alighted on this expanding market for premature puberty treatment. The hormoneblocking drugs Gonapeptyl and Decapeptyl have been licensed for use in children, although the manufacturers refuse to say how widely they are being prescribed. [...] A different approach is being suggested by experts such as the American Academy of Pediatrics which wants to lower the age of 'normal' puberty to as young as seven.
source: Article 'Girls entering puberty by the age of six - but are drugs the answer?' by Lois Rogers; www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/ live/femail/article.html? in_article_id=473584&in_ page_id=1879; Daily Mail; 8 August 2007
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Florida statutes Chapter 948 probation requirements for certain sex offenders: * Mandatory curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. * If victim was under 18, prohibition against living within 1,000 feet of a school, day care, park, playground or other place where children regularly congregate * Take part in a sex offender treatment program * No direct or indirect contact with the victim * If victim was under 18, generally all contact with anyone under 18 is prohibited * If victim was under 18, prohibition against working (for pay or volunteer) any place where children congregate, including schools, day cares, parks, playgrounds, pet stores, libraries, zoos, theme parks and malls * No possession, viewing, accessing or owning of any pornographic material, including computer programs or services, telephone, and electronic media. * If the crime was committed on or after July 1, 2005, no accessing the Internet or other computer services until completing the sex offender treatment program and access is approved. * Submit a blood sample or other specimen for the state DNA data bank. * Pay restitution to the victim for necessary medical, psychiatric and psychological care. * Submit to warrantless search of the person, residence and vehicle. For crimes committed on or after Oct. 1, 1997, additional conditions include: * Submit to an annual polygraph exam * Keep a driving log, and a prohibition of driving alone without approval of the parole officer * Prohibition against obtaining or using a post office box without parole officer approval * If there was sexual contact, submit to an HIV test with results released to the victim, or the parents or guardian * Electronic monitoring if deemed necessary by the probation officer * Electronic monitoring is mandatory for crimes committed on or after Sept. 1, 2005, when the victim was 15 or under and the offender 18 or older, or when the person is designated a ''sexual predator,'' or when the person was previously convicted of a child-related sex crime and the activity involved a victim 15 or under and the offender is 18 or older. To find out whether any sex offenders are living in your neighborhood, visit the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Web site at offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/ and click on the red ''Offender Search'' button near the top. There you can search by address, ZIP code and other criteria.
source: Article 'Sex offenders have tough parole terms' by Susan E. Hoffman; www.sun-herald.com/Newsstory.cfm? pubdate=080507&story=tp3n p2.htm&folder=NewsArchive2; SUN-Herald.com; 5 August 2007
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A self-described pedophile who says he is attracted to young girls but does not actually molest them was ordered Friday to stay at least 30 feet (9 meters) away from every person under age 18 in California. [...] In Santa Monica, a mother saw McClellan in a restaurant and called police, who arrived in time to talk with him and ask if they could take his picture. He agreed, saying he thought it would allow them to quickly clear him of any sex crimes in their city. But he was unhappy when they posted it on the Internet along with his driver's license photo and a warning to parents to call them if they see him.
source: Article 'Court orders self-described pedophile to avoid California kids'; www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/ 08/03/america/NA-GEN- US-Pedophile-Blogger.php; International Herald Tribune (Associated Press); 3 August 2007
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I was physically assaulted today outside of my home. I do not know how or why it occurred. The incident was videotaped. I will go to the prosecutor next week. What did I do that was so offensive? My status as a fucking new-Jew? Be careful what you sow. Reaping always follows.
source: Kevin Brown (pedo activist); www.boychat.org/messages/ 1086585.htm; Boy Chat; 21 july 2007
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Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday. NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children's laptops. ''Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials,'' NAN said. A representative of the One Laptop Per Child aid group was quoted as saying that the computers, part of a pilot scheme, would now be fitted with filters.
source: 'Pupils browse porn on donated laptops'; news.yahoo.com/s/nm/ 20070720/od_nm/nigeria_ pornography_dc;_ylt=A0WTUfF 176FG8XwBExgZ.3QA; Yahoo! News (Reuters); 20 July 2007
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ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama [...] told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is ''age-appropriate,'' is ''the right thing to do.'' ''I remember Alan Keyes... I remember him using this in his campaign against me,'' Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama's work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate. '''Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergarteners,''' said Obama mimicking Keyes' distinctive style of speech. ''Which - I didn't know what to tell him (laughter).'' ''But it's the right thing to do,'' Obama continued, ''to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools.''
source: Article 'Sex Ed for Kindergarteners 'Right Thing to Do,' Says Obama'; blogs.abcnews.com/ politicalradar/2007/07/ sex-ed-for-kind.html; Political Radar; 18 July 2007
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There is today in our country a growing threat to our legal system, to the rights of all of us, to the quality of life of children, and to common sense. This threat has been fanned by prosecutors, nurtured by the media, and ignored by those who usually speak out against such dangers. In its most narrow sense this threat can be defined as the particular approach to sexual deviance embodied in ever-more-draconian laws against all behaviors labeled ''sex offenses'' - including those committed by minors - and in the sex offender registries of every state and the Federal government. In this approach to sex offenses slander, hysteria and demonization often replace reason, solid research and proportionality. But more broadly, the danger consists of an all-out assault on fairness, on the reputations of some of our most caring people, on necessary social relationships and on our critical ability to confront the deepening social paranoia of 21st century America. [...]
[Article about a petition signed by psychiatrists, writers and other people.]
source: Article 'It's Time to Reform Sex Offender Laws - An Urgent Call to Support the Well-Being of Children and the Rights of Us All' by Paul Shannon; www.counterpunch.org/ shannon07102007.html; Counterpunch; 10 July 2007
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Mainstream legal scholars are debating whether pedophiles should receive death or life-time incarceration in camps. One wonders why all this doesn't raise red flags at least among human rights advocates, since this is so similar in nature to previous panics aimed at other groups.
[You can sign a petition for the reforming of the inhuman sex offender laws. Laws not to protect people, but in the first place to use people as new scapegoats in a fascistic society.]
source: Petition 'Reform Sex Offender Laws Now! - A Call to Protect American Society, our Children and our Liberties'; reformsexoffenderlaws.org/statement.php; ReformSexOffenderLaws.Org; 2007
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A notorious pedophile has been arrested for allegedly writing child pornography while in prison. He was arrested earlier today by Sexual Crime Investigation Branch detectives. It is alleged he wrote a story that described fictitious boys performing sexual acts. He is the second South Australian prisoner to be charged as part of a police investigation into pedophiles producing child pornography in the state's prisons. The state's most notorious pedophile, Bevan Spencer von Einem, appeared in court late last month on similar charges. Both men have been accused of handwriting pornographic stories about boys, which were found during searches of their cells. He appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court this afternoon and was remanded in custody. He has been charged with one count of possessing child pornography, which carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment. Police said the pornography was restricted to hand written material and did not include photographs. Their investigation is continuing.
source: 'Prisoner child porn charge' by Colin James; www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/ story/0,22606,22028108- 5006301,00.html; News.com.au; 6 July 2007
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Fairfax County middle school student Hal Beaulieu hopped up from his lunch table one day a few months ago, sat next to his girlfriend and slipped his arm around her shoulder. That landed him a trip to the school office. Among his crimes: hugging. All touching - not only fighting or inappropriate touching - is against the rules at Kilmer Middle School in Vienna. Hand-holding, handshakes and high-fives? Banned. The rule has been conveyed to students this way: ''NO PHYSICAL CONTACT!!!!!'' School officials say the rule helps keep crowded hallways and lunchrooms safe and orderly, and ensures that all students are comfortable. But Hal, 13, and his parents think the school's hands-off approach goes too far, and they are lobbying for a change. ''I think hugging is a good thing,'' said Hal, a seventh-grader, a few days before the end of the school year. ''I put my arm around her. It was like for 15 seconds. I didn't think it would be a big deal.''
source: Article 'Va. School's No-Contact Rule Is a Touchy Subject' by Maria Glod; www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/17/ AR2007061701179_pf.html; Washington Post; 18 June 2007
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Peru's Congress has voted overwhelmingly to lower the age to 14 for participating in consensual sex, a move some activists said could expose children to sexual abuse. Lawmakers voted 70-10 on Thursday to approve the measure lowering the age at which criminal law recognizes the legal capacity of a person to consent to sexual activity. It was previously 17. The age of consent for sex in many U.S. states is 16 or older. The Peruvian measure was written by a member of President Alan Garcia's center-left Aprista party and Garcia is expected to sign it into law. One supporter of the measure, lawmaker Raul Castro, said the law will bring Peru in line with ''the progress and development of a modern society.'' ''There are young people who get pregnant but they don't go to health centers, fearing that their partners will be arrested and charged,'' he said. Some organizations cheered the law, saying it would keep young people out of jail on statutory rape charges. [...]
source: 'Peru Congress Cuts Age of Consent to 14'; Guardian Unlimited; www.guardian.co.uk/ worldlatest/story/0,,- 6730220,00.html; 23 June 2007
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When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision. Fast forward to 2007 and Mr Thomas's eight-year-old great-grandson Edward enjoys none of that freedom. He is driven the few minutes to school, is taken by car to a safe place to ride his bike and can roam no more than 300 yards from home. Even if he wanted to play outdoors, none of his friends strays from their home or garden unsupervised. The contrast between Edward and George's childhoods is highlighted in a report which warns that the mental health of 21st-century children is at risk because they are missing out on the exposure to the natural world enjoyed by past generations.
source: Article 'How children lost the right to roam in four generations' By David Derbyshire; www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/ live/articles/news/news.html? in_article_id=462091; Daily Mail; 15 June 2007
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Currently Japan and Russia are the only counties among the G-8 members where mere possession of child pornography is legal.
source: Article 'U.S. officials meet Diet members over 'loophole' in Japan's child pornography law'; mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/ national/news/20070611p2a 00m0na001000c.html; Mainichi Daily News; 11 June 2007
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In 1979 the average time a ''lifer'' spent in prison in the UK was nine years. Now it's around 15 or 16, although minimum terms of 30 years plus are regularly handed down by the courts to those who commit the most serious offences. As a consequence, ''doing life'' in a British prison has never been more arduous. Nobody outside is complaining, however, although the lord chief justice, Lord Phillips, did comment a while ago that the increasingly long fixed terms given to those whose crimes merit a life sentence means that we are in danger of creating a whole generation of ''geriatric lifers''. [...] This was brought to the attention of the Italian public recently when more than 300 of their countrymen serving life co-signed a letter from a convicted gangster urging Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, to bring back the death penalty. The letter, written by 52-year-old Carmelo Musumeci who has been in prison for 17 years, was candid. Musumeci said he was tired of ''dying a little bit every day''. We want to die just once, he said, ''and we are asking for our life sentence to be changed to a death sentence''. [...] For those who keep going, the struggle not to give in to despair is a tough one. And I think it is going to get worse. In 1979 there were fewer than 2,000 lifers in the system. Now there are 8,000-plus, a figure set to rise spectacularly due to the introduction of the new ISPP (indeterminate sentence for public protection). [...] Home Office predictions suggest there will be upwards of 20,000 people in prison serving ISPPs by 2015. It should come as no surprise if, sooner rather than later, we hear words similar to those of Carmelo Musumeci and his associates coming from British prison cells.
source: Article 'Journey to nowhere' by Erwin James; www.guardian.co.uk/society/ 2007/jun/11/1; guardian.co.uk; 11 June 2007
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Tony was 12 when he sexually assaulted the 10-year-old sister of his best friend. Now 20, he's about to be released following eight years of treatment. Sixteen-year-old George had never been in trouble before he was caught sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl last year. He'll remain locked up until at least 2009, and like Tony he'll likely be required to register as a sex offender for life. [...] ''A man who has a deviant sexual arousal to children, he would rather have sex with a child. Adolescents don't generally have deviant sexual arousal. ... They've been abused, they feel insecure, immature, unwanted,'' explained Marti Fredericks, who runs seven juvenile sex offender treatment facilities serving about 400 children in California. ''We're not dealing with the same problem. Are they less dangerous? Yes. They have shame. They don't understand why they did it. They want help.'' [...] ''I'll find a community to embrace me,'' he said confidently during a recent therapy session. ''I committed my sex offense when I was 12. If people don't accept me for who I am or what I did, I can handle that. This isn't something I want to do again,'' he said. ''I don't want to molest another kid.''
source: Article 'Inside a youth sex offender treatment center' by Kim Curtis; www.lompocrecord.com/ articles/2007/06/08/ap-state-ca/ d8pkreog0.txt; The Lompoc Record; 8 June 2007
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A website which defends paedophilia is being hosted by a Swedish web hosting company. The site also plans to make space available for individual paedophiles' personal websites. Hosting company PRQ has been hosting the site for a few days, since a Danish hosting company closed it down, according to Dagens Nyheter. PRQ's owners told the paper that they do not share the site's values, but defended the decision to host the pages, citing the principle of freedom of speech. The hosting company is co-owned and operated by Fredrik Neij and Gottfried Svartholm Warg, two of the founders of internationally-notorious file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
source: Article 'Swedish company hosts paedophile site'; www.thelocal.se/7504/; The Local; 5 June 2007
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Beginning with puberty (average age around 12), sexual thoughts and urges become increasingly stronger and more frequent. [...] But the age of consent, which varies somewhat from state to state, is out of sync with normal sexual development in every state. Consequently, adolescents are increasingly being charged with felonies for ordinary, consensual and developmentally normal behaviors. [...] Utah Supreme Court justices acknowledged Tuesday that they were struggling to wrap their minds around the concept that a 13-year-old Ogden girl could be both an offender and a victim for the same act - in this case, having consensual sex with her 12-year-old boyfriend. [...] Criminalizing normative teenage sexual behavior has the unfortunate outcome of placing sexually active teens on the same sex offender registry as predatory pedophiles. For example,18 year old Joshua Lunsford, the brother of Jessica Lunsford, for whom Jessica's Laws are named, was recently arrested [...] for ''unlawful sexual conduct'' with a 14 year old. If convicted, he will be required to register under the same laws as John Couey - his sister's murderer. Or, ponder the fate of Genalow Wilson, who at age 17 had consensual oral sex with his 15 year old girlfriend. For this ''felony'' he is presently serving 10 years without possibility of parole in a Georgia prison. [...] We watch ''To Catch a Predator'' and feel comforted to know that Chris Hanson and Perverted Justice have already exposed 200 potential child abusers. But the producers don't ask us to consider what it says about human nature that so many men, even with the notoriety of the show, will seek out a sexual encounter with a teen. The audience would probably shrink away with the first mention that male sexual interest in teenage girls is normal or that research does not support that teens are always harmed by sexual experiences with an adult. Movie legend Kirk Douglas [...] became a willing victim of statutory rape when he lost his virginity to a school teacher aged just 15. In his forthcoming autobiography LET'S FACE IT - 90 YEARS OF LIVING, LOVING AND LEARNING, the veteran actor confesses he didn't realise (sic) his lover could face prison for their affair, but still doesn't regret a thing. Recalling the tryst he writes, ''I had been a ragamuffin kid of 15 coping with a neighbourhood (sic) filled with gangs... Under her guidance I became a different person. I am eternally grateful. By today's standards she would have gone to jail. I had no idea we were doing something wrong. Did she?''
source: Article 'Age of Consent - Criminalizing Teen Sex' by Niki Delson; www.americanchronicle.com/ articles/viewArticle.asp? articleID=28524; American Chronicle; 31 May 2007
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Our education system, too, is undergoing the effects of our toughened society, which even elaborates protocols for interaction between students ans teachers. I recently read in a school protocol that a teacher who wants to speak to a student in private should do so with the classroom door wide open, and keeping several metres' distance between himself and the students. An unhealthier situation is barely imaginable! In my experience, children always used to have an excuse to stay on for a while after schooltime. Cleaning the board, watering the plants, straightening the books and so on. Their real aim was to get the schoolmaster's (or schoolmistress's) attention for a while, to romp with them a bit. They wanted to be touched a while, within their own limits. In other words, not to be 'grabbed' by people with evil intentions, who abuse their power and position to satisfy their own lust. Pedophilia usually isn't one-way traffic from an adult towards a child. In my experience as a teacher, there were children who felt strongly attracted to their male or female teacher and who actually fell in love. Teenagers, too, showed such feelings. Dealing with this as an educator is an art.
source: Article 'Religion and raising boys - Pedophilia deserves a more humane view' by Jac Gerlofs (retired teacher and principal of a school); Koinos nr. 53; 1st quarter 2007
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The talk will center upon two major points: (1) the emerging global hegemony of morality that has quantum-leaped its assault on queer representations and queer interaction by bringing into place new legislations and litigations against them, as well as mobilizing and transforming conservative vigilance into an active surveillance network against any non-normaive sexuality; (2) the construction of child protection as a universal imperative that in actuality works both to re-enforce heterosexual monogamy and to debunk cultural diversity as inherently confusing and thus harmful for children. While global governance, as its proponents claim, may signal the weakening of state power and domination in certain national contexts; global governance, envisioned as a benign network of collaboration among the various segments of civil society, has more often than not instigated a new form of power and surveillance which has proven to be especially inimical to queers. And it is in relation to this new global development that Asian queer theory and queer activism must reconfigure their scope and engagement.
source: 'Queer Existence under Global Governence: Or, Is Global Governance Bad for Asian Queers ' by Prof. Josephine Ho (National Central University, Taiwan); Abstract from Mosse Lecture; Amsterdam; 24 May 2007
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Former Miami City Attorney Barry Kutun won't be forced to live under The Julia Tuttle Causeway. He won't be required to register as a sex offender, wear a GPS tracking device, nor will his neighbors be notified of his presence at work or in the community. Apparently, that treatment is reserved only for us ''common folk''. Mr. Kutin was alleged to have paid to have sex at least eight times with an underage prostitute and somebody took pictures. Instead of being held to a higher (or at the very least equal) standard as a member of public office, Kutun, age 65, was allowed to plead guilty to one single count of child abuse, with no sexual designation whatsoever. A super sweet plea deal that amounts to a mere slap on the wrist considering the allegations against him. The only other man in Florida who has been anywhere near that lucky is disgraced former Republican Congressman Mark Foley.
source: Article 'Justice...Florida Style' by Amanda Rogers; www.americanchronicle.com/ articles/viewArticle.asp? articleID=27764; American Chronicle; 23 May 2007
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New Jersey is conducting a study on sex offender registration. The information released thus far shows that a decrease in such crimes began in 1990, four years prior to Megan's Law, and has continued a steady decline. Complete results are due out early next year. England has recently concluded a 10-year study and found registration to be detrimental to the safety of children so such information will be available only to specified people. There is no proof that the American registration system has saved a single child but there is ample proof that it has cost lives. We must decide what we expect of the registry. It works for minding your neighbor's business. It does nothing for keeping children safe. It is a shame that a registered sex offender killed a little girl in Florida. It is also said that an adult beheaded a 4-year-old girl using hedge clippers. Both are equally dead and both died under rather rare circumstances. Few have heard of one child while the other is nationally exploited to instill fear, garner votes and achieve fame and fortune. Why is one tiny life so much more valuable than the other? There are more than 600,000 registered sex offenders in our country. If they acted the way you expect them to act we would not still be talking about a case that happened 2 years ago. Less than .05% of sex offenders are capable of abducting and killing and you think they are going to seek out your child? We give harsher sentences for touching a child than for murdering one. [...] Social security is going to hell, many Americans can't afford health care, education sucks, we have a huge immigration problem, a war in Iraq that we can't afford and terrorists blowing us up in our own land. The public brushes all of that aside to live in fear of one scrawny, registered sex offender who lives down the street. This is truly pathetic.
source: Article 'Sex, Lies and Exploitation' by Shirley Lowery; www.americanchronicle.com/ articles/viewArticle.asp? articleID=27107; American Chronicle; 14 May 2007
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An Oxford man is expected to spend 20 years in prison after pleading guilty this morning to twice fondling a 9-year-old girl last November. Through a plea agreement, Royce Monroe Stephenson, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of lascivious acts with a child. Prosecutor Rachel Zimmermann said the plea agreement calls for Stephenson to serve two consecutive 10-year terms on the charges. Three second-degree sex abuse charges would be dropped. A sentencing date was not immediately set. Zimmermann said Stephenson's sentence would run concurrent to pending lascivious acts with a child charges in Cedar County. He will be sentenced on those charges May 18, online court records show. According to Johnson County Sheriff's reports: Stephenson, who was 17 at the time of the crimes, fondled a 9-year-old girl on Nov. 2 and Nov. 8 at his residence. Upon release from prison, Stephenson would be required to register on the state's sex offender registry. He also would be placed on parole for the rest of his life.
source: 'Man pleads guilty in fondling case'; www.press-citizen.com/apps/ pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2007 05100954/NEWS01/ 70510002&template=printart; Press-Citizen; 10 May 2007
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R&B singer Akon has apologised to teenage fan Danah Alleyne following their raunchy dance at a Trinidad concert last month (Apr07), insisting he had no idea how young she was. The Smack That singer hit controversy when he performed a sexy sequence with 14-year-old Alleyne at a gig on 12 April (07), prompting the Caribbean country's Prime Minister to order a formal investigation into the incident.
source: 'Akon Apologizes For Teen Dance Scandal'; www.postchronicle.com/news/ entertainment/tittletattle/article_ 21279854.shtml; The Post Chronicle; 10 May 2007
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One of the first acts of New York's newly-elected ''liberal'' governor, Eliot Spitzer, was to secure passage of the nation's most far-reaching civil confinement law. With its passage, New York joined nineteen other states that permit the continued imprisonment of sex offenders after they have completed their prison sentence. These inmates are defined as suffering a mental disorder and, thus, posing the threat of committing new crimes upon release. Civil confinement permits the state to transform a criminal sentence with a specified duration into an indeterminate life sentence. Convicted sex offenders are joining a growing list of what can only be called ''the new disappeared.'' Latin American dictatorships (under CIA and U.S. military supervision) pioneered ''disappearance'' as a government practice to deal with radical opposition during the tumultuous '70s and '80s. Today, both U.S. federal and state governments are instituting a less barbaric, but no less effective, means to ensure the disappearance of a variety of unacceptable citizens. In effect, once a person is convicted, sentenced and imprisoned, he or she can be disappeared from civil society for life. [...] The new disappeared also includes those swept up in the CIA practice of ''extraordinary rendition'' or identified as ''enemy combatants'' and imprisoned in the American gulag, Guantánamo; those, like Sami Al-Arian, the Palestinian educator, and Josh Wolf, the indie video journalist (recently released), being held for an indeterminate sentence for contempt of a grand jury subpoena to testify under a questionable (if illegal) order; those, like Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier, the former Black Panther journalist and American Indian Movement activist, respectively, serving a life sentence or are on death row with no likelihood of release; those given extraordinarily punitive prison sentences reaching to 100 and 200 and even 900 years; and the nearly 6 million ex-felons and those awaiting trial who have been disenfranchised from civil society. America is practicing disappearance with a bureaucrat's smirk. [...] Although the current Christian conservative, get-tough climate can make the fixation on sex offenders appear as a joke, such offenders are really not a laughing matter. According to CSOM, sex offenders commit many crimes for 16 years prior to finally getting caught. At yearend 2005, approximately 2.3 million people were imprisoned by federal and state authorities throughout the country. At yearend 2003 (the last available data), sex offenders accounted for approximately 12 percent (61,300 rapists [most of them aren't rapist...] and 87,500 other sex assaults) of the 1.3 million of those incarcerated in state prisons; the federal system does not separate out sex offenders. [...] Today's evil is symbolized by the terrorist and the sex offender. These ''evil doers'' have become highly politicized, each serving to instill fear whether of international or local threats. [...] In Pennsylvania, Gregory Benner, who had in 1994 pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an underage girl, was recently arrested for possessing more than 115,000 pornographic images of minors; he was charged for 2,237 of them and each image representing an individual criminal count; local officials believe he could be sentenced to more than 900 years. This trend is in line with last year's Supreme Court decision to decline to review the 200 year sentence that Arizona handed down to Morton Berger; the state imposed separate, consecutive 10 year sentences for each of the twenty pornographic images of minors in Berger's possession. [...] It is a politically-dug black hole that more and more Americans are being disappeared into.
source: Article 'The New Disappeared - Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement and the Resurrection of Evil' by David Rosen; www.counterpunch.org/ rosen05102007.html; Counterpunch; 10 May 2007
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Former New South Wales crown prosecutor Patrick Power was sentenced today to a maximum of 15 months in jail for possession of child pornography. Power sat with his head bowed as NSW Chief Magistrate Graeme Henson ordered him to serve at least eight months behind bars. Downing Centre Local Court was told that 433 images of child pornography, and 31 child pornography videos, were found on Power's personal computer. Some of them depicted sex acts involving children under the age of 10. The collection was discovered on July 4 last year when Power took his computer to work at the office of the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions for repairs. The 54-year-old Senior Counsel stood down from his position as a deputy senior crown prosecutor and on July 6 was charged with one count of possessing child pornography. He pleaded guilty to the charge in January and resigned two weeks later.
source: Article 'Former crown prosecutor jailed for child porn'; www.news.com.au/story/ 0,23599,21700040-1702,00.html; NEWS.com.au; 9 May 2007
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Now for the hypocrisy. Of the three Nebraskans arrested after using Photobucket to store their child porn, one is a 16-year-old child. Remember that as far as federal child porn law goes anyone under 18 years of age is considered a child. This child is being charged... yes, you guessed it... as an adult.
source: Article 'Shoddy Journalism... and Hypocrisy'; cpexplosion.wordpress.com/ 2007/05; CP Explosion; 7 May 2007
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America seemingly has always had a need to hate. All throughout history there have been certain groups of people which have been singled out as targets of hate, anger, discrimination and even death. Native Americans, Salem ''Witches'', African Americans, Homosexuals, and now Sex Offenders. While people cannot change their skin color or perhaps their sexual preference ALL have suffered or are suffering from the same irrational hate. A hate born of ignorance and fear. What does this say about us as a society? What is it about us that drives this need for hatred? More importantly, how does this hatred make for a better world? [...] I have covered in other articles and on my video blogs the litany of offenses that requires one to register as a sex offender. From prostitution, to consensual sex with someone under the age of 18, to children caught playing doctor. It literally runs the gamut. Laws make no distinction between forcible acts and consensual ones, between dangerous habitual offenders and one time, one crime offenders. To adult offenders whose victims were 6 years old or teenagers caught having consensual sex. All are treated in the same manner and all have to live out their lives under the child molester label (i.e. registered sex offender).
source: Article 'Do We REALLY Want There To Be ''No More Victims''?' by Amanda Rogers; www.americanchronicle.com/ articles/viewArticle.asp?article ID=26259; American Chronicle; 5 May 2007
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Three members of a gang have been jailed for life for murdering a Hampshire man after one of them falsely accused him of being a paedophile. Brian Kitching, 68, from Portsmouth, suffered brain damage in the attack in a rock garden on Southsea seafront in September 2005. Mr Kitching never recovered and died in a nursing home six months later. The gang included two teenage girls, one of whom was pregnant at the time of the attack.
source: Article < 'Paedophile' taunt gang convicted >; news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/ hampshire/6624237.stm; BBC NEWS; 4 May 2007
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Asuka Izumi was modeling for a DVD in July 2005 when the director asked her to put on a string bikini. She was just 12 years old. She agreed to pose in the sexy bathing suit and now, nearly two years later, that DVD is credited with starting the popularity of ''T-back junior idols.'' Izumi, now 14, went on to pose in thong bikinis in four photo books and several DVDs. She looks back on that first time in a revealing bikini and said she had no reason not to do it. ''It wasn't a big deal. The director asked me to do it, and I did it because I wanted to,'' [...] From pornographic animation to raunchy dolls, Japan leads the world in eccentric products and media that sometime push the boundaries of what people consider to be decent - or even legal. This latest trend of preteen girls striking provocative poses in slinky bathing suits has some people questioning whether this is child pornography and if the parents are actually selling their children for sex. The large number of shops with Junior Idol and U-15 (Under 15) signs in Tokyo's Akihabara district, the country's subculture capital, is just one indication of how quickly the new market has grown. The controversial industry has been reluctant to reveal figures, but reports suggest that more than 3 million photo books were sold in the past year alone. Junior idol DVDs and photo books are commonly sold right next to hard-core pornography, and two years since Izumi's DVD, the models have grown even younger. Last month, 9-year-old Rei Asamizu appeared in ''Melty Pudding,'' a photo book that includes shots of the little girl lying on a bed wet in a thong bikini. Although there is no full nudity, the scantily clad children are often pictured seductively blowing on the end of a flute or licking an ice cream cone. Koji Maruta, the author of ''Enko-shojo To Loli-con Otoko'' (''Girls Who Sell Sex and Men with Lolita Complex'' - a reference to Vladamir Nabokov's novel ''Lolita'' about pedophilia), said that unlike in the West, Japan has tended to be more open about sex and sex culture. ''Japan has slowly been implementing legal measures against child pornography, but the ambience, culture and religion of the country makes people less uncomfortable about such issues compared with Western societies,'' said Maruta, who is also a lecturer in the international communications department at Okinawa University. [...] ''Many in the industry feel that the junior idol boom was intended to be an underground trend,'' she said. ''It was never meant to be accepted by the masses like it is now.''
source: Article 'Photos of preteen girls in thongs now big business' by Jun Hongo; search.japantimes.co.jp/ cgi-bin/nn20070503f1.html; 3 May 2007
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Paedophiles who abuse children of 12 or under may receive shorter jail terms if their victims ''consent'' to sex, according to sentencing rules published this week. The law currently considers such youngsters incapable of giving consent - so sexual intercourse is automatically classed as rape. However, judges have now been told that it may be ''material in relation to sentence'' if the child agreed to intercourse. The guidelines, which are binding on crown courts in England and Wales, astonished and outraged children's campaigners who warned they risked becoming a ''paedophiles' charter'' - enabling child abusers to escape with lighter punishments. They claimed the rules gave credibility to the idea that a 12-year-old girl could properly decide whether to have sex with an adult. [...] ''In such circumstances presence of consent may be material in relation to sentence.'' The rules state that this would apply particularly where the offender was also very young, but they also leave it open to judges to give the benefit when sentencing adult paedophiles.
source: Article < Paedophiles could get lighter sentences if victim 'gives consent' > by Matthew Hickley; www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/ live/articles/news/news.html? in_article_id=451851&in_ page_id=1770; Daily Mail; 1 May 2007
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Sleeping with someone on a first date can increase chances of a long-term relationship, a biologist claims. Dr Barry Gibb rejects the belief it is best to wait before having sex. His new book, The Rough Guide To The Brain, says love-making sparks chemical changes in the brain that lead to love and commitment. Dr Gibb said yesterday: ''Behind all those romantic coy looks is a brain on chemical rampage.''
source: < First-date sex 'is the best' >; www.thesun.co.uk/article/ 0,,2-2007190505,00.html; The Sun Online; 27 April 2007
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A Boy Scout leader accused of fondling two children in his troop pleaded guilty to the crime Thursday morning -- and as he was sentenced, the judge had some harsh words for him. Thursday's hearing dealt only with the abuse of one of the child because the other boy moved away from the area and the solicitors office was unable to track him down, so they dismissed that charge. James Brian Rhinehart pleaded guilty to the other charge and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
[Twelve years for fondling. Who will stop this witch hunt?]
source: Article 'Judge Blasts Scout Leader Convicted Of Molestation'; www.wyff4.com/news/ 13197762/detail.html; WYFF4.com; 26/27 April 2007
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Do you have an interest in lolitas? According to a survey of 500 adult men. 33% say they have an interest in it.
source: Filmclip on youtube.com; 'Japanese ''lolita complex'' boom'; www.youtube.com/ watch?v=OLrO0am5j54; YouTube; Added 26 April 2007
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The Australian men arrested in a police crackdown on internet child pornography were unlikely to commit offences against children, the psychiatrist who has interviewed many of them says. Olav Nielssen, a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, said giving the men access to ''virtual'' child pornography, in which computer-generated images rather than real children were used, would do no harm to society. Dr Nielssen and two colleagues have interviewed about 30 men arrested during Operation Auxin in 2004 for possessing thousands of pornographic images of children. Dr Nielssen, who interviewed the men for court reports, said most were heterosexual with no criminal past. They had no history of anti-social behaviour, and no psychiatric disorders other than their abnormal interest in child pornography. Most had not, and probably would not act out their fantasies, he said. [...] Most of the men had begun with viewing adult pornography and then ''slid down the slippery slope to pre-pubescent material''. They were no longer interested in normal sexual relationships.
source: 'Child porn unlikely to trigger act: doctor' by Adele Horin; www.smh.com.au/news/ technology/child-porn- unlikely-to-trigger-act-doctor/ 2007/04/16/1176696757630.html; The Sidney Morning Herald; 17 April 2007
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The college student responsible for yesterday's Virginia Tech slaughter was referred last year to counseling after professors became concerned about the violent nature of his writings, as evidenced in a one-act play obtained by The Smoking Gun. The play by Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old English major, was submitted last year as part of a short story writing class. Entitled ''Richard McBeef,'' Cho's bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father. A copy of the killer's play can be found below. The teenager talks of killing the older man and, at one point, the child's mother brandishes a chain saw at the stepfather. The play ends with the man striking the child with ''a deadly blow.''
source: 'Virginia Killer's Violent Writings'; www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ years/2007/0417071vtech1.html; 17 April 2007
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Former New South Wales Aboriginal Affairs minister Milton Orkopoulos has been refused bail in Newcastle Local Court. The extra charges of homosexual intercourse with a child, indecent assault and supplying a prohibited drug brings the total number of charges against the former minister to 54. [...] Sergeant Hahn said the three alleged victims did not know each other so there was no evidence of any collusion between them. Magistrate Richard Wakely agreed that due to the strength of the case and the number of new charges, bail should be refused.
source: 'Orkopoulos refused bail on latest charges'; www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/ 200704/s1898509.htm; 16 April 2007
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He's not old enough to buy a beer, join the military, vote or drive a car. He's barely old enough to get into a PG-13-rated movie. At 14, he's most concerned about seeing the birth of his child and rebutting any mention that he is a victim of a crime. The woman who police said is carrying his child, Angela Nicole Rudy, 23, of Lewisberry Road in Fairview Twp., is due to deliver this month, court records state. She's been charged with one count of statutory sexual assault against the boy and pleaded not guilty last week in Perry County Court. If she's found guilty, she could be sentenced to up to a year in jail. ''I made a choice. I had sex,'' the boy said. ''I decided to do it. It's not like I was raped or anything.'' [...] But the boy's mother believes her son is the victim of a crime. She contacted Newberry Twp. police, who later turned the case over to state police at Newport.
source: Article 'Boy, 14, doesn't feel like a victim'; www.pennlive.com/news/ patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/ 1176519329210610.xml&coll=1; The Patriot News; 14 April 2007
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A convicted sex offender is forced to continue living under a Miami bridge after a judge turned down his request to go back to jail.Kevin Morales, who has served his time and is on parole, asked a judge Thursday if he could go back to jail instead of living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, but a judge denied his request. [...] The conditions are a consequence of laws passed to bar sex offenders from living near schools, parks and other places children gather. Miami-Dade County's ordinance said sex offenders must live at least 2,500 feet from schools.
source: Article 'Judge Orders Sex Offender Back Under Bridge'; www.local10.com/news/ 11826349/detail.html; local10.com; 13 April 2007
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A cruel father who has admitted brutally abusing his three-year-old son - including burning him with a cigarette lighter and using pliers to pull off a fingernail - was today jailed. Jason David Ogier, 38, who pleaded guilty to burning his son with a cigarette lighter, pulling out a fingernail with a pair of pliers and rubbing chili powder on his back, was jailed for two years and seven months.
[Had he caressed the boy's penis then the sentence would be much higher. Nice things are being punished much much harder then torturing.]
source: Article 'Father jailed for brutal abuse'; www.news.com.au/story/ 0,23599,21551739-2,00.html; news.com.au; 13 April 2007
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In an emerging revolt against abstinence-only sex education, states are turning down millions of dollars in federal grants, unwilling to accept White House dictates that the money be used for classes focused almost exclusively on teaching chastity. In Ohio, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland said that regardless of the state's sluggish economic picture, he didn't see the point in taking part in the controversial State Abstinence Education Program anymore. Five other states - Wisconsin, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Montana and New Jersey - have dropped out of that grant program or plan to do so by the end of this year. California has refused all along to participate in the program, which is managed by a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services. [...]
source: Article 'States abstain from federal sex-ed funds' by P.J. Huffstutter; www.latimes.com/news/ education/la-na-abstinence 8apr08,1,4821225.story? ctrack=1&cset=true; LATimes; 8 April 2007
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An anti-paedophile group have been forced into hiding after violent clashes with suspected sex offenders. The Society Against Paedophiles, who launched three years ago, have taken their highprofile patrols off the streets. Now they say they plan to continue working underground after claiming members were being put at risk by identifying themselves. SAP hit the headlines last year when the Record revealed supermarket giants Lidl had provided them with night-vision goggles for their operations. The group had a squad of blacked out people carriers bearing their logo which they used to monitor convicted and suspected paedophiles living in communities. The vans were frequently seen parked outside housing where they believed a sex offender was living. However, while SAP claimed to have the backing of the public, their presence in communities led to a string of attacks. The vans' windows were smashed, doors glued and SAP members threatened during stand-offs with the people they targeted. [...] Jobless Paul, a single dad of two boys, from Edinburgh, said: ''There have been a number of incidents where people have attacked our vehicles and fights have broken out between our members and friends of known paedophiles. ''We've taken the vehicles off the streets and shut down our website. But the society feel we have achieved significant results in forcing paedophiles out of Edinburgh.'' [...] A police source said: ''Sometimes these kind of groups can target the wrong person and innocent lives are ruined. They don't have the full facts and this creates problems.''
source: 'Paedo Hunters Go Into Hiding' by Kevan Christie; www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ news/tm_headline=paedo- hunters-go-into-hiding-- &method=full&objectid= 18871276&siteid= 66633-name_page.html; The Daily Record; 7 April 2007
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Is it okay to have laws that mean child sex offenders cannot live anywhere legally?
Yes 46%
No 54%
Total: 68943 votes
source: Poll by the article 'Florida housing sex offenders under bridge'; www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/ 04/05/bridge.sex. offenders/index.html; CNN.com; 6 April 2007
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A Hillsborough County Circuit Court Judge sentenced a 38-year-old Temple Terrace man to 85 years in prison Thursday for a variety of sex related charges involving a minor. Steven Patrick Schurgard was arrested by officers with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Temple Terrace Police Department in June 2002 for possessing over 600 images of child pornography. His troubles began after his father, who lives in Arizona, filed an injunction against Schurgard claiming his son threatened to kill him. According to arrest reports when police went to serve him with the injunction he admitted to having the illegal items on his computer. He also reportedly operated a website promoting pedophilia. In February Schurgard entered a plea of guilty to five counts of possession of child pornography, three counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child and one count of soliciting lewd and lascivious conduct from a minor under the age of 18. In the days following his arrest investigators discovered video tapes of a teenage boy engaged in sex acts in the home Schurgard shared with his mother. He has remained in the Hillsborough County Jail since his arrest over four years ago.
[Reaction by 'albertRoss' on boychat.org:] As far as I can tell most (maybe all) of the footage used in the prosecution was presented on steve's site, and is still available for your comparison in Norbert's archive of his work. Here you have an opportunity to compare what the media is screaming about - the 'jaws' clip and the 'still in love with you' clip are there for sure, and I'm pretty sure some of the shower scene. Watch out, I guess - maybe just researching this is likely to get you a similar sentence - but man... for five years they've had six hundred and seven cp charges on the books against him, and in the end all they can show is one joke (jaws) one soppy love tribute (still in love) one non sexual nude scene (the shower) and two others that weren't even serious enough to talk about? These people are in the business of manufacturing monsters. Lookit - Steve is as crazy as I am - maybe even crazier - and he definitely called this down on himself, played straight (and I think deliberately) into their hands, so I'm not feeling sorry for him - maybe Steve just doesn't know the meaning of fear, but he still gets hero status in my book. I wonder how many years I'm gonna get for my leticia santos tribute...
[Reaction by 'Daniel Lièvre' on boychat.org:] 85 years? Holocaust.
source: Article 'Admitted pedophile headed to jail'; www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/ pages/News/Detail?contentId=2861664 &version=2&locale=EN-US&layout Code=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1; MyFox Tampa Bay; 6 April 2007
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Before sentencing Steven Schurgard, Judge Chet Tharpe allowed him to make a statement expressing regret to the court Thursday. ''The things I did even go against my own moral values,'' Schurgard said. Afterward, Schurgard's attorney asked the judge for a reduced sentence. But then the prosecutor showed the judge some graphic videos that Schurgard produced involving underaged children. During one video set to music, Schurgard sang along under his breath. The judge glared at Schurgard, cracking his knuckles with apparent rage. Afterward, the judge refused to let Schurgard speak again. Instead, he let him have it. ''I've never called a defendant a liar before,'' a clearly angered Tharpe said. ''But your words initially wanting me to think you had some remorse are shallow and without merit. You are a coward. ''You are a parent's worst nightmare. You are one nightmare that I'm going to put to rest today.'' [...] Tharpe made it clear he didn't want to see Schurgard ever released from prison.''The only regret I have is that I can only sentence you to 85 years,'' Tharpe said. [...] Schurgard has spent the last five years in solitary confinement while prosecutors built their case against him.
[Nazi-monsters like Judge Tharpe and many others need to be stopped. The video's can be found here: clogo.org/Archives/Steven_Schurgard]
source: Article 'Contention in the courtroom'; www.baynews9.com/content/ 36/2007/4/5/236964.html; baynews9.com; 6 April 2007
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A 20-year-old man who had sex with a girl of 10 was yesterday spared jail after a High Court judge agreed his victim looked older. Mr Justice Roderick Evans, one of Wales' most senior judges, said he understood why Liam Edgecombe, of Haverfordwest, thought the girl was 16. Taking that into account, he granted Edgecombe a conditional discharge despite him having admitted rape - an automatic charge for anyone who has sex with a child under 13. Apart from having to register with the police as a sex offender, no further punishment was imposed. Children's rights campaigners [narrow minded adults rights campaigners] and politicians last night expressed outrage at the lack of a prison sentence, and were especially critical of the judge's comments that the girl ''was looking for a man and got what she wanted''. [...] In Wales, England and Scotland, anyone who has sex with a boy or girl under the age of 16 has automatically committed an offence. If the child is 13 or older and consenting, that offence is classed as ''unlawful sexual intercourse''. But if they are under 13 the offence is rape. ''[...] His belief that she was over 16 was a reasonable one. It was not her first sexual experience.'' [...] ''She was looking for a man and got what she wanted.'' [...]
source: Article < Rapist freed as girl, 10, 'looked older' > by Paul Carey; icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/ 0100news/0200wales/tm_ headline=rapist-freed-as- girl--10---looked-older-% 26method=full%26objectid= 18860334%26siteid=50082- name_page.html; icWales; 5 April 2007
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Allen Hart, 43, was convicted Friday in Superior Court of eight counts of child molestation and sentenced to 300 years in prison, according to authorities. Hart, a parolee, was found to be in possession of a firearm when he was arrested Aug. 8, according to a news release from the Police Department. He was convicted of having sexually assaulted three children under the age of 8 over the course of a year, the release says.
source: '300-year term in sex assaults on children'; www.sacbee.com/101/ story/148491.html; sacbee.com; 3 April 2007
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While previous generations waited well into adulthood before identifying themselves as gay, the average age at which gay children came out to friends and families in 2005 was 13 years and four months, according to Caitlin Ryan, a San Francisco State University researcher who studies the social and psychological development of gay youth.
source: Article 'Gay youth become movement's newest ambassadors as they lobby to stop discrimination' www.signonsandiego.com/news/ nation/20070402-0106- gayambassadors.html; SignOnSanDiego.com; 2 April 2007
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With regard to boys, the group between the ages of 12 and 14 appears to have a more positive attitude towards forms of instrumental sex: their last partner was more often a casual partner, they think more positively about sex without being emotionally involved and relatively often say that it is alright for a boy to expect sex in certain situations (for example, if a girl has the image of being ''easy''). [...] Field experts clearly observe shifts. Young people appear to engage in sexual behaviour at a much younger age, they go much further in sexual contacts (girls used to kiss to get attention, now they give blow jobs) and the place where they talk about sex or experiment with it has changed (it used to be the bicycle shed, now it is on the Internet). [...] However, compared to ten years ago, young people nowadays do think more permissively about sex without emotional involvement. In 1995 one in six schoolboys and schoolgirls felt this to be all right; in 2005 this figure had increased to one in four.
source: Research 'Tienerseks - Vormen van instrumentele seks onder tieners' door Rutgers Nisso Groep; Authors: Hanneke de Graaf, Mechtild Höing, Miriam Zaagsma & Ine Vanwesenbeeck; © 2007 Wetenschappelijk Onderzoeks- en Documentatiecentrum, Den Haag; www.rutgersnissogroep.nl/ rutgersnisso_groep/rng/ ektronlink?uid=c9930c3453 cad417593e4ac4d3cf5c6f; April 2007
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[Interviewer:] You urge people to send you old magazines that may be ''kiddie porn''. And some of the ads seem fishy. [Karl Andersson, editor of Destroyer:] Yes, some of the magazines that I urge people to sens me - instead of throwing them away - are considered kiddie porn nowadays. But what is kiddie porn? Even Donatello's David can be considered kiddie porn in some countries, and certainly Wilhelm von Gloeden's pictures, which were even burnt in the fascist thirties. Nowadays the owners of these magazines burn them themselves in their homes. There is a red line running through these actions: pictures of teenage boys have been denounced by the society, and so for no other reason than that the observer is a man. Homophobia, not concern about the children, lurks behind the kiddie porn legislations. Every intelligent social critic should fight them, or at least put the light on their real objectives.
source: Interview 'Sex destroys beauty' by Jaakko Stenros; Interviewing Karl Andersson; blog.destroyerjournal.com/ images/kasino2low.jpg; Kasino A4; issue #5; April 2007
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Local police have investigated the site but have found nothing illegal on it. The man behind the site is Jack McClellan, 45. Network Solutions and the Bellingham Police Department confirmed his name, which he also stated to a reporter Thursday after previously providing a false name. McClellan said he lives near Arlington with his parents [...] ''I'm kind of freaked out about all the hysteria this has caused in the last few days. I'm more paranoid than ever,'' he said.
[Reaction by 'B' on this article:] Well, the folks at The Bellingham Herald have struck a blow against free speech and against civil rights. I hope y'all are proud of yourselves.
source: Article 'Pedophile Web site shut down - Content violated host's standards'; www.bellinghamherald.com/ 102/story/52696.html; The Bellingham Herald; 30 March 2007
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A local judge, in sentencing a man to up to 18 years in prison for possessing more than 800 images of child pornography, said such offenses reflect ''problems with impulse control'' and could be seen as not inherently immoral in some cultures. Carson City District Judge Bill Maddox made the comment Tuesday in sentencing Jason Excell, 36, on 10 counts of possessing child pornography. ''These kinds of offenses are problems with impulse control,'' Maddox said. ''When I say that, it's my understanding that most men are sexually attracted to young women.'' Maddox referred to the legal terms ''malum in se,'' a Latin phrase meaning an act that is inherently evil, and ''malum prohibitum,'' which means acts that aren't necessarily inherently immoral or hurtful but are prohibited by law. He said child pornography could be considered ''malum prohibitum'' because in some countries and cultures, it is acceptable to engage in sexual conduct with young girls.
source: 'Nevada judge comments on porn in sentencing man'; news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ article?AID=/20070329/ NEWS15/703290331/ 1004/NEWS01; RGJ.com; 29 March 2007
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Rhys Ifans is under fire after cracking a joke about paedophilia at an anti-slavery concert in London. The Notting Hill actor was booed when he made the gag while compering the Voice of Slavery concert at the Forum in Kentish Town. A spokeswoman for Ifans, 38, apologised for the comment and put it down to 'bad judgment', reports the Daily Post. The concert, organised by charities Stop the Traffik and Anti-Slavery International, featured Razorlight and Supergrass. The controversy came when Ifans told the crowd: ''Why is paedophilia so popular? Because kids are so f*****g sexy.'' But the 'joke' did not go down well with an audience sympathetic to the charities' aims of abolishing child slavery and prostitution.
source: Article < Ifans slammed for paedophilia 'gag' >; www.ananova.com/news/ story/sm_2260324.html; Ananova; 2007
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''Under the new law, signed by County Executive Robert Bondi on Tuesday night, convicted sex offenders are not permitted within 2,500 feet of schools, parks, large apartment houses or any place where children congregate.''
source: Article 'Half-mile no sex offender zone approved in Putnam'; news.bostonherald.com/ national/northeast/view.bg? articleid=191386&format=text; Boston Herald (AP); 28 March 2007
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Sunrise over the Julia Tuttle Causeway is widely considered a beautiful sight. But for the drivers crossing the Interstate 195 connector between Miami and Miami Beach, chances are they don't know who lurks beneath.On this twilight, a state probation officer is checking -- as he does everyday -- to make sure three convicted sexual offenders are where they're supposed to be from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. the next day. They are -- tightly tucked under the girders below the noise of the traffic. Angel Sanchez is the only one who would speak to Local 10 about why he and the others, who have completed their sentences and are on probation, live under the bridge.''I didn't have an address,'' Sanchez said in his native Spanish language. ''Since I didn't have an address, they sent me here to live under the bridge. ... This is an injustice. This is punishment.'' [...] Homeless shelters won't take them because of their status. If they could afford a place of their own, they would not be allowed to live anywhere near schools, parks or day-care centers.
source: Article 'Homeless Sex Offenders Told To Live Under Bridge'; www.local10.com/news/ 11346356/detail.html; Local10.com; 23 March 2007
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A 23-year-old Nelson man has been jailed for 3½ years after he groomed a 12-year-old girl on the Internet and travelled across the country for love trysts with her in hotel rooms. [...] Judge Michael Addison, sentencing at Guildford Crown Court, reminded Lockwood how he had met the 12-year-old girl on the Internet and steered conversations to a sexual agenda: ''You asked her for naked pictures and she sent them to you. She said she was in love with you and you said you loved her. By this time you knew she was just 12.'' In December, 2005, when he was 21 and she was 13, they arranged to meet and he booked a hotel room in Banbury where the pair kissed and cuddled but there was no sexual contact. A month later, Lockwood, of Swaine Street, travelled 250 miles to meet the girl in a Guildford hotel where sexual activities took place. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told school friends about the relationship and Lockwood was arrested last July. [...] Mr Anthony Brigden (defending) told the court of his client's remorse and how he was ashamed of himself. Referring to the lack of actual sex, he added: ''He did not push the matter. He stopped when he could have gone further.'' Further to the jail term, Lockwood will be subjected to a sexual prevention order stopping him from associating with or befriending children, accessing child-related sites and contacting the victim. He will be put on the Sex Offenders' Register for life. [...] Noting the girl's active involvement in the relationship, he [The judge] said: ''Girls of this age must be protected from themselves.''
source: 'Jail for man who 'groomed' girl (12) over Internet'; www.pendletoday.co.uk/ ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID =8&ArticleID=2142931; Pendletoday; 23 March 2007
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In Poland they want to introduce a law which will make the discussion of lowering the 'age of consent' punishable. According to [edit], this escapes almost everyone, because there have not yet been written any articles in English about it. As an attachment you will find a link to a Polish article about this. [...] It seems that laws in Poland are introduced in three steps, and that the bill already passed the second step.
source: Mail to MARTIJN; 21 March 2007
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Cops bust another Utahn for porn but, this time, the perpetrator is a child. The boy's mother is speaking out tonight about her son's crime and the pain it's caused her family. The boy was looking at child pornography on his home computer and his parents had no idea. But investigators knew and one day they came knocking on the family's door. [...] This mother says in some ways, she's thankful police got to her son now. ''Because otherwise, had they not caught him before he was an adult, he'd be doing 5 years in prison,'' she says. That teen got probation was ordered to counseling, home confinement. It's cost the family emotionally and financially.
[What's wrong about looking at child porn when you are young (or 'old')?]
source: Article 'Utah Boy Busted Looking At Underage Porn'; kutv.com/local/local_story_ 080001533.html; kutv.com; 20 March 2007
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Children as young as 13 who are sexually active should not automatically be reported to the police, the Children's Commissioner for England said yesterday. Prof Sir Albert Aynsley-Green said nurses, teachers and youth workers must follow Government guidelines published last April which state that while there is a ''presumption'' that information is passed on to social workers or police, decisions should be made using individual discretion on a case by case basis. He spoke after Brook, the sexual health charity, said ministers must intervene to ensure that the current guidance, which was causing confusion and leading to automatic reporting, did not deter children from seeking advice. [...]
[A reaction by 'EyeSee', 16 March:] This is just a continuation of the Left worldview. The search is on constantly to identify 'victims'. Here, the abusers of children are the victims of people with insufficiently inclusive views. Sex outside marriage used to be frowned upon as immoral, but the Left changed all that with the sexual revolution of the sixties. Then they moved on to homosexuals being 'oppressed' and won that too. Now the targets are to gain approval for paedophiles and beastiality (called zoo these days as that is a nicer sounding, less threatening word. All part of the stealth approach to acceptance). Dangerous world? I think so. Because our politicians now do not protect us they are part of it. Look at the unthinking support for 'climate change' nonsense.
source: Article < Child sex 'should not always be reported' > by Sarah Womack; www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/ 03/16/nsex16.xml; Telegraph; Last updated: 17 March 2007
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The entire governing board of the Texas Youth Commission resigned Friday, the latest fallout from reports that officials covered up claims of sexual abuse inside state detention centers. The allegations emerged last month, when the Dallas Morning News and the Texas Observer Web site reported that a Texas Rangers investigation had concluded that top officials at a juvenile center had molested youths in their custody. The administrators under suspicion were allowed to resign quietly, and prosecutors never charged anyone. [...]
source: Article 'Youth board resigns over sex-abuse scandal'; www.mercurynews.com/politics/ ci_5459794?nclick_check=1; MercuryNews.com; 17 March 2007
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A Senate panel approved a bill allowing the death penalty for repeat child sex offenders Tuesday but said major work remains on the proposal.Senate Bill 5, the ''Jessica's Law'' urged by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, now advances to the full Senate. The law is named for Jessica Lunsford of Florida, a 9-year-old girl who was abducted, raped and killed. The Senate Criminal Justice Committee vote was 5-1 with one member abstaining. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott joined Dewhurst at the hearing in supporting the bill, which calls for a minimum 25-year sentence for violent child sex offenses and life without parole or death for second offenses. Abbott brushed off concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court might find the death penalty unconstitutional for crimes that do not end in death. Noting that the court barred the death penalty in a rape case 30 years ago, Abbott said he sees a ''greater chance'' the high court may allow the death penalty for repeat, felony sexual assault against children. ''I would proudly and personally go up to the United States Supreme Court and defend the constitutionality of this case, this legislation, which I think is the right legislation for the state of Texas,'' said Abbott. [...]
source: Article 'Senate panel OKs death penalty for repeat child sex offenders' by Polly Ross Hughes; www.familybadge.org/screen print.cfm?newsletterid=17408; Family Badge; 14 March 2007
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Fifty people have been jailed and six have taken their own lives after Victoria's biggest child pornography swoop. Operation Auxin, am Australia-wide crackdown on cyber perverts, identified more than 180 suspects who had hoarded up to 12,000 sickening images each, according to figures obtained for the first time by the Herald Sun. All were men. Victoria had the highest number of suspects of any state during the inquiry. Among them were a policeman, school principal, child-care centre director, youth worker, a prison guard and a priest. Men aged 36 to 45 were by far the most represented group in the September 2004 raids. Police are preparing for another major offensive on child porn with the state's first unit, created within the sexual crimes squad, dedicated solely to fighting the scourge. It is already zeroing in on offenders. [...] Det-Sgt Davis said a Melbourne girl, just 15, used a hotmail account to prostitute herself on the internet from home. Four men were later charged with sexual penetration of the girl. Others had made and exchanged pornographic pictures of themselves in exchange for alcohol and cigarettes.
[Six men murdered and many more lives destroyed by a sexually insane society.]
source: Article 'Fifty jailed for child pornography' by Mark Buttler; www.theaustralian.news.com.au/ story/0,20867,21377860- 5006785,00.html; The Australian; 14 March 2007
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When Urbandale police seized a computer from his mother's home earlier this year, Robert Putney Jr. told an officer he had no intention of returning to prison, where he'd spent years as a convicted sex abuser. On Monday - the same day he was to have been questioned further by Urbandale police in connection with an investigation into alleged child pornography - Putney's body was found in a car near downtown Des Moines. The 40-year-old registered sex offender apparently gassed himself with chemicals in a car at 18th and High streets. [...] Putney was sentenced to a 15-year prison term in August 1992 for sex-related charges involving teenage boys. He pleaded guilty to two counts of lascivious acts with a child, enticing away a child, lascivious conduct with a minor and third-degree sexual abuse. This year's investigation in Urbandale did not include accusations of physical contact, officials said.
[He had the choice: life in prison or 'mental hospital' or kill himself. He's one of the many victims in fascistic America. Thousands and thousands of victims to come before people will stop the murderers that call themselves journalists en politicians.]
source: Article 'Convicted sex offender found dead in vehicle' by Tom Alex; www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/ pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703130399; DesMoinesRegister; 13 March 2007
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A Colorado teenager whose alleged romance with a female teacher sparked a scandal that rocked a charter school said Tuesday that he initially tried to protect the woman's job and her marriage to the school's principal. ''I didn't want her to end up losing her job. I figured I had a lot less to lose than she did,'' Tommy Clay, who was 17 at the time, told TODAY anchor Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview. Carrie McCandless, 29 at the time, did end up losing her job as a social-studies teacher and now faces two felony criminal charges over allegations she had improper sexual contact with Tommy and supplied him with alcohol during an overnight school trip in October she chaperoned. [...]
source: Article 'Student in sex scandal wanted to 'take the fall' - Colorado teen, then 17, tried to protect his teacher's job and marriage'; today.msnbc.msn.com/ id/17591403; TODAY; 13 March 2007
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A southwest Houston father shot and killed a 27-year-old man Saturday after arriving home to find the man with his 13-year-old daughter, police said. After the parents arrived at their home in the 6900 block of Chasewood, the girl and 27-year-old man fled out the back door, said Houston Police Department spokeswoman Johanna Abad. The man later called the mother by phone and returned to talk to the parents, but the girl remained missing throughout the night. When the man returned to the house, the father was waiting for him with a loaded shotgun, police said. The two argued before the father shot and killed the other man. [...] Houston police issued an Amber Alert for the missing 13-year-old, but canceled it after the parents learned their daughter had spent the night at a friend's house. She came home Sunday. Abad said she did know the nature of the teen and the 27-year-old's relationship.
[Society can be proud again. Another one killed.]
source: Article 'Father fatally shoots man he found with his teen daughter, police say'; www.chron.com/disp/story. mpl/chronicle/4621139.html; Chron.com; 12 March 2007
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The advertisement shows a little girl in a bikini. The investigation started a few days after Dolce & Gabbana was forced to pull an image from Spain showing a woman pinned to the ground by a man as other men looked on. A Giorgio Armani advertisement showing a little girl in a bikini has drawn the attention of Spanish authorities who are debating whether it depicts a child in an improperly sexual manner. The Madrid regional government's child protection chief said on Monday he would ask the advertising industry self-regulator to consider whether the image visible on the Italian fashion house's Web site (www.armanijunior.com) should be withdrawn. [...]
source: Article 'Giorgio Armani junior ad sparks polemic in Spain'; www.eitb24.com/new/en/ B24_39118/life/ADVER TISING-POLEMIC-Giorgio- Armani-junior-ad- sparks-polemic/; EiTB24; 12 March 2007
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Pictures of naked middle- school girls that classmates forwarded on their cellphones have triggered a criminal investigation. At least one of the digital pictures reached as far as California over the Internet, said Tony Lane, Castle Rock police chief. ''We can't stop what's already happened,'' Lane said Thursday. ''It's kind of like a wildfire. ... We can track down everyone who's received the pictures.'' Police say the girls at Castle Rock Middle School took naked pictures of themselves on their cellphones and then sent them to their boyfriends. The boys then forwarded the pictures to their friends. Dozens of students at the school, which includes seventh and eighth grades, have already been implicated in the forwarding of the pictures, Lane said. The Internet Crimes Against Children team of Castle Rock police is investigating. Publishing nude pictures of minors on the Internet, either on pornographic sites or on sites such as MySpace or Facebook, is classified as sexual exploitation of a child, a Class 4 felony. ''Our intent is not to throw 13- or 14-year-olds in jail,'' Lane said. ''We're working with parents, kids and the (Douglas County) School District to look at the possibility of charges.'' [...] ''Kids apparently don't have any clue of right and wrong,'' said Rochelle Hoins, a mother of seventh-grade twin boys at Castle Rock Middle School who were not involved in sending the nude photos. ''They shouldn't have been taking the pictures to begin with.''
source: Article 'Middle-school kids forwarded girls' nude pics - Cops investigating dozens implicated in Castle Rock' by Gabriela Resto-Montero; www.denverpost.com/ search/ci_5389869; The Denver Post; 9 March 2007
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Back at the Hilton, the youngsters {Lori and Sable Starr aka Sable Shields, aged 14} joined Stuie {Bowie's bodyguard} and David {Bowie} in their snazzy adjoining suites. ''There was a big living room with fluffy white shag carpet, and Stuie rolled this humongous hash joint - one of those huge spliffs. I had smoked pot before, but it wasn't like this. I got so fucked up. David went into the bedroom and said, 'I'm going to take a bath.' All of a sudden, the door opens and Bowie is standing there with that gorgeous white skin and carrot-red hair, no eyebrows, wearing a kimono. It was in his early Ziggy Stardust era, and that was the first time I thought, Oh, I want him! Sable was like, 'I'll kill you if you go with him because I want him and you can't have him.' He came out and said, 'Lori, could come over here?' and I said, 'Alone?' I was so paranoid - stoned and paranoid, and he said, 'Yes, please, just you.' I go in and he's about to close the door, and I'm looking at Sable and she's in tears. I was so nervous. I had boyfriends in junior high; all the smooching, but I'd never had intercourse. So he escorts me into the bathroom and takes off his kimono, gets into the bathtub, and sits there staring at me with those different-colored eyes. You have to understand - he's so gorgeous, his skin is so white and flawless. So he says, 'Can you wash my back?' and that was just the beginning. He knew it was my first time, and he was so gentle with me. We started to fuck in every position possible. Then I told him I felt so bad about Sable, and he said, 'Well, do you think we should go and get her?' I said yes, and we walked into the living room and she was fogging up the windows, writing, 'I want to fuck David!' So he called her into the bedroom and we all spent the night together. David Bowie was the one who devirginized me.''
{A few months later, Lori became Jimmy Page's girlfriend. ''Star magazine came out and he saw how young I was. Jimmy loved young girls - babies - and that's how it happened.''}
source: From the book 'Let's Spend the Night Together' by Pamela des Barres; (p. 179-180); gc.glgarden.org/messages/480558.htm; Taken from GirlChat: 5 October 2009; Book from: 2007
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For months it's been a well-kept secret. But now Warren Township Schools confirm a disturbing case of sex in the classroom. The illicit activity has parents concerned and a district at a loss for words. Shop class gives students a chance to learn outside of the book. But at Warren Township's Raymond Park Middle School, two students engaged in illicit acts in view of goggled eyes. 13 Investigates was tipped off by a disturbed resident who writes: ''...during school hours in a classroom with an experienced teacher present, two sixth graders completed the act of intercourse...at least ten students were witnesses. No disciplinary actions were taken against the teacher... All teachers were told to keep quiet.''
source: Article 'School district: Sixth graders had sex in class' by Sandra Chapman; www.wthr.com/Global/ story.asp?S=6180780; WTHR; 8 March 2007
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More and more British children commit indecency offenses, Metro said yesterday. The youngest sexual offenders are five years old, the paper reported. I can still remember to have played doctors and nurses at that age, and I never got in touch with judiciary for indecency offenses later. Today child psychiatrists and child psychologists consider every sexual advance by a child to other children as sexual harassment and abnormal behavior. The question is if approaching sexual behavior by children this way will exactly produce more sexual offenses at a later age, or that children would be different and ready for treatment at birth already, because of their sexual interest. If it would be up to the psychologists and puritan adults, I fear that the latter will be the case. If it is up to the children, I fear the first.
source: Letter to the editor 'Is doktertje spelen ook zedenmisdrijf?' ('Is Playing Doctors and Nurses An Indecency Offense Too?') by Michel Hoff; Metro; 6 March 2007
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In an American private clinic, where pedophiles [Jews] and rapers are treated, the rules relating to sex and drink are hard to find. Rapers and pedophiles [Jews] who are serving time under a hospital order in a clinic of the Liberty Behavorial Health Corporation in Florida, can freely hang posters of scantily dressed women in bikinis on the wall. The men were walking around half undressed, disappeared in the bedroom with each other and got drunk by self-brewed liqueur. Female staff members left the duty after a short time again, often after they had sex with one of the prisoners. [...] In nineteen American states it is possible at the moment to treat sexual offenders in a clinic after their imprisonment and the number expands quickly. In the clinics people have to learn to control their sexual urges and to reflect on their crimes. [...] ''It was like we entered a war area,'' says Jared Lamantia, one of the six social workers who reported the abuse. ''The men who were treated there, determined all the rules.'' According to Don Sweeney, the therapist of the clinic, the centre is a ''place of doom, full of despair, depression and drug abuse by people who lost the way.''
[A lot of despair and depression. That is not so weird. People who think that they are going to be released after having done their time, go into an asylum then, almost always for life! In the clinics there is chaos, the right of the strongest and mental and physical terror by treating staffs. Most of the time, what the people did wrong has not been harmful to anyone. There are more and more concentration camps in the Western World. The reason why we write Jews after pedophiles is that Metro execrates all pedophiles, also the ones who did not commit any criminal act. Pure stigmatizing, like the nazis did too.]
source: Article 'Tbs-kliniek zonder regels' ('Custody Centre Without Rules') by Inge ter Schure; Metro; 6 March 2007
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The New York Times acknowledged Tuesday that a reporter who wrote an acclaimed 2005 article about a teenage Internet pornographer helped gain the boy's trust by sending him a $2,000 check. Former Times staff writer Kurt Eichenwald made the payment in June 2005 to Justin Berry, who at the time was an 18-year-old star in a seedy network of child-porn sites. Six months later, Berry became the leading figure in Eichenwald's expose on Web sex sites run by teenagers. The Times investigation prompted congressional hearings, led to arrests and fueled reforms in the way Web-hosting companies screen their clients. The story also garnered attention for the unusual relationship between Eichenwald and his primary subject. In the months before the story ran, Eichenwald persuaded Berry to quit the porn business, stop using drugs and become a law enforcement informant. [...] The defendant, Ken Gourlay, is one of several men arrested on charges involving child pornography after Berry began working with the Justice Department. One of them, Gregory Mitchel, pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to 150 years in prison.
source: Article 'NY Times Acknowledges Reporter's Payment' by David B. Caruso; hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/ R/REPORTER_PAYMENT?SITE= FLTAM&SECTION=US; TBO.com (AP); 6 March 2007
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The Irish press are currently whipping up a soufflé of old fashioned homophobia, sensationalism and thoughtless scare mongering. It all started when a 14-year old boy was caught having sex with older men that he'd met through Gaydar. The boy hails from Swords, an unforgiving suburb on the northside of the city of Dublin. His mother went through his mobile phone messages and found saucy texts from a number of men whose numbers were saved in the phone. She went straight to the local police station and made a complaint. The police launched an investigation and interviewed the boy on a number of occasions. He told detectives that he was in contact with in excess of six men and admitted to sex with at least two but made it clear that it all the liaisons were consensual. [...] Two men in their 40s - a language lecturer from north county Dublin and a truck driver from Rathfarnham - were arrested and have admitted having sexual relations with the boy but deny they were ever in his house. Unsurprisingly, the ugly scenario has left the boy traumatised, despite the fact that his family claim to be loving and supportive. The lurid headlines, and the ensuing embarrassment for the boy has ensured that he's refusing to co-operate with the police any further. [...] It shouldn't be forgotten that this would be a non-story in Denmark, France, Greece or Poland, where the age of consent is 15. It would prove even less sensational in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Portugal or Iceland where the age of consent is 14. In Spain you can have gay sex at 13 and in Malta, the age of consent is 12. [...] No teenager would want their mother reading flirty text messages, nor want to be marched to the police station to discuss their sex life. You wouldn't want to go through that as a confident adult, let alone as a twitching 14-yr-old. [...] That boy from Sword will suffer long-term damage because anti-gay sentiments are rife in the playground and schools in the UK and Ireland have yet to teach children that it's okay to be gay.
source: Article 'Gay teen sex scandal shocks Ireland'; uk.gay.com/article/5379; GAY.COM UK & Ireland; 5 March 2007
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[Interviewer:] Are you suggesting that having sexual feelings for little girls is normal? [Barbara Gowdy:] I'm suggesting it's probably more widespread than we know, and there's a lot of men who control themselves and have decided that, ''I can't help what I feel but I can help how I behave.'' Most of us have that dilemma, in some spheres of our lives. I lust after other women or men but just because I have the feeling doesn't mean I have to have the action. So this dilemma is not uncommon, and I also think that the present culture encourages men to have sexual feelings for children. [...] Yes, we believe it's almost the worst feeling you can have, as a man -- sexual interest in a child, girl or boy. It didn't used to be the case. I mean, when I was a girl in the '50s there were what we called funny men or gropers -- the milkman was one, there was a guy down the street who in exchange for a candy would grope you. And we took advantage of that because we wanted the candy. And we knew these men were creepy, icky, and lost in a way, but we weren't frightened by them. [...] Nowadays, the minute a man touches a little girl he'd better kill her because his life is over. You know the man who killed that girl Holly Jones in Toronto, he said that he was watching porn and got so revved up he went out and grabbed the first girl he saw, got her inside and realized he was too overwrought to do anything with her, but that he knew he had to kill her. In my day she'd have been let go, and he would have known that that would have been all right. I'm not saying men should be able to grab children off the streets -- I mean, I'd be the first to want to shoot them -- but the fact is this guy felt he had no choice.
source: < Interview with Barbara Gowdy - Barbara Gowdy talks about the line between sexualizing children and pedophilia, and her new book, 'helpless' >; by Kenneth Whyte; www.macleans.ca/homepage/ magazine/article.jsp?content= 20070305_103076_103076; Macleans.ca; 5 March 2007
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A self-admitted pedophile has removed from his Web site a family photo of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, his wife and two daughters after receiving a cease and desist order from the presidential candidate's attorney. Proud pedophile Lindsay Ashford, who runs Puellula Web site based in Panama, said despite the request from Obama attorney Robert F. Bauer, he is keeping up a link to the senator's presidential campaign site, in part because he considers it a tribute. ''I have no intention of removing references to Senator Obama and his family from my website. Whatever anybody thinks of my opinions, they are not defamatory. If anything, my comments are laudatory. Furthermore, my right to express my opinion is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,'' he wrote in a letter to Bauer. Ashford's response came after Bauer wrote on behalf of Obama ordering the family photo to be removed. [...] Ashford, who is brazen enough to post his photo on his site along with a long biography that reveals he has a daughter, wrote Bauer to say that pedophilia itself is not the same as child molestation and is not illegal on its face. ''Pedophilia, according to the definition of the American Psychiatric Association is a sexual attraction to children. It does not imply any action whatsoever upon that attraction. ... Whilst I agree that under the laws of many nations, sexual contact with children is illegal, my website does not encourage anybody to break the law. In fact, it clearly discourages illegal activity. It does support using democratic means to encourage dialogue and reconsider such statutes,'' Ashford wrote. [...] Aside from the adoration of young girls, Ashford also uses the site to rail against the United States, which he calls ''the Evil Empire,'' and post anti-Israel commentary, among other topics. [...] ''I certainly hope that Senator Obama would agree that debate and public discourse are important facets of any democratic society, irrespective of how distasteful some may find particular issues,'' he said.
source: 'Pedophile Removes Web Photo of Obama's Daughters After Legal Threat'; www.foxnews.com/story/ 0,2933,256740,00.html; FOXNews.com; 5 March 2007
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He [Lindsay Ashford, pedophile activist] claims to ''have been bestowed with the gift of girllove. I have chosen to unmask here because I have a very strong conviction that I should not be forced to hide my sexual orientation.''
source: Article 'Obama Tangles With Online Pervert'; www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ years/2007/0304071obama1.html; The Smoking Gun; 4 March 2007
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The decision by New York to confine sex offenders beyond their prison terms places the state at the forefront of a growing national movement that is popular with politicians and voters. But such programs have almost never met a stated purpose of treating the worst criminals until they no longer pose a threat. About 2,700 pedophiles, rapists and other sexual offenders are already being held indefinitely, mostly in special treatment centers, under so-called civil commitment programs in 19 states, which on average cost taxpayers four times more than keeping the offenders in prison. [...] And some are past the age at which some scientists consider them most dangerous. In Wisconsin, a 102-year-old who wears a sport coat to dinner cannot participate in treatment because of memory lapses and poor hearing. The treatment regimens are expensive and largely unproven, and there is no way to compel patients to participate. Many simply do not show up for sessions on their lawyers' advice - treatment often requires them to recount crimes, even those not known to law enforcement - and spend their time instead gardening, watching television or playing video games. [...] Politics and emotion also factor heavily into who gets committed, with decisions made by elected judges or juries who may be more affected by the raw facts of someone’s offense history or the public spectacle over their crimes than the dry science of risk prediction. ''It's so emotional for them,'' said Stephen Watson, an assistant public defender who represented an offender in Florida. ''They don't even want to hear the research.'' [...] Those who choose to participate in sex offender treatment spend an average of less than 10 hours a week doing so, but the hours differ vastly from state to state. The structure of therapy, too, varies widely, a reflection, perhaps, of the central question still looming in the field: Can treatment ever really work for these offenders? [...] For those who decline treatment - sometimes including hundreds of ''detainees'' awaiting commitment trials - boredom, resentment and hostility to those in treatment lead to trouble. Some sneak in drugs, alcohol and cellphones, sometimes with the help of staff members, or beat up other residents, sometimes coercing them into having sex.
source: Article 'Doubts Rise as States Hold Sex Offenders After Prison' by Monica Davey and Abby Goodnough; www.nytimes.com/2007/03/ 04/us/04civil.html?_r=3&page wanted=1&hp&oref=slogin& oref=slogin&oref=slogin; The New York Times; 4 March 2007
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Children at risk of sex offending need more help in a bid to reverse the rising number of sex crimes committed by youngsters, experts say. Charities say the internet is a growing factor, with children as young as five treated for inappropriate behaviour. The Youth Justice Board said 1,664 children were given police warnings or court orders for sex offences in 2002-3 - by 2005-6 this had risen to 1,988. NHS chiefs said services were improving but admitted care was too inconsistent. The voluntary sector treats most of the children demonstrating what is termed 'sexually harmful behaviour', taking referrals from police, social services and the NHS. This includes children who have committed sex offences, such as indecent exposure or sex assaults, or, for young children, those who are engaging in acts deemed inappropriate for their age. The biggest single provider of services is the NSPCC, which runs 22 services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The charity treated over 750 youngsters last year - the overwhelming majority boys - with an average age of 13, although children as young as five were seen by NSPCC specialists in talking therapies. [...]
[The people who treat these children for inappropriate behaviour are bastards.]
source: Article 'Warning over children who abuse' by Nick Triggle; news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ health/6408837.stm; BBC NEWS; 2 March 2007
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The American state of Ohio determined that the cars of pedophiles will be provided with green reflecting license plates. This way the state wants to take care that pedophiles can be more easily recognized. [...]
[Reaction from 'Ferdo' (Editorial staff Frontpage):] The advantage though is of course, that as the ''happy'' owner of such a license plate you will never need to lend your car. And car thieves too will tend less soon to appropriate exactly your car. Costs far too much time to remove these ennobled Stars of David.
Source: 'Flurorescerend nummerbord voor pedofiel' ('Fluorescing License Plates For Pedophiles'); Posted by 'Olivier' (Blaaskaas); frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/3997; FOK.nl (NOS); 1 March 2007
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A group of possibly 10 men, including a garda and a teacher, are being investigated over the abuse and maltreatment of a 14-year-old boy. This horrifying case has only come to light because the boy's mother, in a fit of maternal worry, decided to check her son's mobile phone messages. [...] If this mother had not feared for her son, the abuse and the torment would have continued, and these abusers would remain free to act on their insidious desires. However, there are deeper levels to this complex story. The young lad in question, who was 13 when his contact with these paedophiles began, claims that the sexual relationships he had with them were all consensual. In other words, he is stating that he was not raped, and that, to his mind at least, there was no abuse. While most adults looking on would baulk at such a notion, we must remember that there are also those who would agree with it. [...] What could cause a young boy from a loving, supportive family, who is still in the school system and doing well, to accede to the dark wishes of men such as these? It is a difficult question, but not one that is impossible to answer. The teens are a time of deep confusion, where physical drives that have not existed for the child before suddenly surface. These are drives that require an adult's level of emotional and intellectual understanding to harness and control, which is precisely why we set legal ages of consent on sexual congress. [That's a lie. The main reason is suppression.] [...] Children, particularly teens, will often say that they consented. Some will even state that they enjoyed the experience. But that does not make it right. The impact of such experiences for the long-term development of the individual can be hugely detrimental. [Only when these kids are brainwashed afterwards. But even in this society long term effects are vary rare.]
source: Article 'Vigilance vital to keeping vile paedophiles at bay' by Shane Dunphy (child protection worker and lecturer); www.unison.ie/ irish_independent/ stories.php3?ca= 36&si=1784418&issue_ id=15309&printer=1; 28 February 2007
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Some football referees are refusing to shake the hands of young players for fear of being accused of child abuse, it has emerged. The East Anglian Daily Times has received reports from a number of parents who claim certain Suffolk officials will not shake the hands of children at the end of a match because they are worried their action might be seen as inappropriate. [...]
source: Atticle 'Refs 'refuse handshake' over abuse fears' by Craig Robinson; www.eadt.co.uk/content/ eadt/news/story.aspx? brand=EADOnline&ca tegory=News&tBrand= EADOnline&tCategory= News&itemid=IPED2 6%20Feb%202007% 2018%3A28%3A55%3A737; EADT; 27 February 2007
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A New Zealand fashion designer has outraged child-abuse campaigners by producing a little girl's T-shirt with the slogan 'Future Porn Star' on the front, a newspaper reported Sunday. Fashion House World designer Francis Hooper defended the garment, saying, 'As a fashion designer I'm being humourous and irreverent,' the Sunday Star-Times reported. [...]
source: 'Fashion house kiddie-porn T-shirt causes stir'; news.monstersandcritics.com/ asiapacific/news/article_ 1269076.php/Fashion_house_ kiddie-porn_T-shirt_causes_stir; m&c (Deutsche Presse-Agentur); 24 February 2007
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More than one-third of 13-year-old Alberta boys view Internet porn ''too many times to count,'' and parents have only the vaguest notion about it, a groundbreaking study suggests. ''If you're 13 and you can't put a number on the times (you've used porn), that's a little frightening,'' University of Alberta researcher Sonya Thompson said yesterday. [...] Ms. Thompson analyzed responses to an hour-long questionnaire from 429 rural and urban Grade 8 students with a median age of 13.5. She asked about their exposure to and use of sexually explicit material on TV, DVDs, movies and the Internet, as well as about their interaction with their parents about such material. The Internet was the most common way for kids to get access to porn, with about three-quarters of students reporting such contact. Ms. Thompson found almost one-quarter of the boys watched pornographic DVDs or videos ''too many times to count'' and 35 per cent said the same about Internet smut. The corresponding figures for girls were 4 per cent and 8 per cent. [What's wrong with girls?] Three-quarters of the boys and almost half the girls said they deliberately logged on to sexually explicit material. [...] Ms. Thompson knows there's nothing new about the fascination adolescent boys have for naked women. But she suggests live-action sex on the web or on DVDs -- especially as more extreme acts become more widely available -- is a whole new level.
source: Article < Alberta boys view porn at 'frightening level' > by Bob Weber; www.theglobeandmail.com/ servlet/story/LAC.20070223. PORN23/TPStory/National; globeandmail.com (Canadian Press); 23 February 2007
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In Hungary a bill was introduced to legalize pornographic material with young people between 14 and 17, for own use. Last month, the bill was introduced by the Hungarian Minister of Justice Jozef Petretei. He reported last Monday that the bill was both into line with the age of consent in Hungary, namely 14, and with the EU legislation in this field, which leaves a lot of space to the individual member states. Petretei argued that, when 14-year-olds are considered mature enough to perform sexual acts, it can be permitted too that shots are taken of these for own use. The bill forbids relations or guardians to take pornographic shots of them, or the manufacture of pornographic material with young people for commercial purposes. [...]
source: 'Porno vanaf 14 jaar mogelijk legaal in Hongarije' ('14+ Porn Possibly Legal In Hungary'); www.gva.be/nieuws/ in_de_rand/default.asp? art={C3781F85-DA23-465 D-907E-007E942EA4DF}; Gazet van Antwerpen; 19 February 2007
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A week ago, a first grade teacher in Saratoga County was arrested and accused of sexually abusing elementary school students. A week earlier, an elementary school teacher in Erie County was arrested and accused of using the Internet to meet teenage boys for sex. But accusations like these add up to more than an occasional sex scandal that for a time shock a community. An internal state Education Department report obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Law shows ''tremendous growth'' in so-called moral conduct cases against teachers over five years. The study found the number of accusations against teachers doubled in five years, to nearly one case for every day and a half of the school year. Almost three in four of the ''moral conduct'' cases involved sex between a teacher and student. [...]
source: Article 'AP IMPACT: Records show tremendous growth in teacher sex cases' by Michael Gormley; www.newsday.com/news/ local/wire/ny-bc-ny-- teachersex0217feb17, 0,5471986,print.story; Newsday.com; 17 February 2007
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The controversy over the legal age of consent has been re- ignited after a Scots academic called for it to be lowered to 14. Dr Matthew Waites, a lecturer in sociology at Glasgow University, said lowering the age limit from 16 to 14 for young people who are less than two years apart would recognise the fact that many teenagers regard sex as ''normal behaviour''. His comments were described as ''madness'' by a family charity, but one of Scotland's leading child-protection bodies said under-16s who engage in consensual sex should not be criminalised. Norman Wells, the director of the Family Education Trust, said: ''To suggest that teenagers are at the mercy of their hormones demonstrates a failure to respect them as rational people.'' [...]
source: Article 'Call to reduce the age of consent to 14' by Kevin Schofield; thescotsman.scotsman.com/ index.cfm?id=259572007; The Scotsman; 17 February 2007
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Struggling to find housing for homeless sex offenders, a suburban county has started putting up some offenders temporarily in trailers that will be shuttled around nonresidential neighborhoods. Suffolk County started placing offenders in a trailer earlier this month, at a county-paid cost of $85 per person per night, officials said. Plans call for housing as many as eight registered sex offenders in each of multiple trailers and moving them among various undisclosed locations, officials said. [...] Homeless offenders have previously stayed temporarily at motels, but that has met with community opposition, social service officials said. County officials see the trailer plan as a way to keep better track of the offenders and keep them out of residential areas. ''Finding housing resources for sex offenders in nonresidential areas is very difficult, so the trailer allows us to create housing in a nonresidential area,'' said county Department of Social Services Commissioner Janet DeMarzo. The trailers will probably be placed on county-owned land in areas between that lie between residential and commercial or industrial areas, DeMarzo said.
source: Article 'Suffolk County Tries Trailers To House Sex Offenders'; www.wnbc.com/news/ 11031388/detail.html; wnbc.com; 16 February 2007
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Possession of child porn will be punishable in the Czech Republic still before the lower house passes a new criminal bill, Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil said yesterday, adding that this what the EU demands. [...]
[The EU (sort of Third Reich) demands censorship in the Czech Republic!]
source: Article 'Child porn may be punished before new law passage'; www.praguemonitor.com/en/24/ czech_national_news/1305/; Prague Daily Monitor; 15 February 2007
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In 2004, a 13-year-old girl from Brussels pretended to be her 23-year-old sister to be able to marry a Moroccan man. The 24-year-old man thus wanted to acquire a residence permit. [...] The police accused the Moroccan man of rape. Any sexual contact with a child younger than fourteen is considered rape in Belgium. [As if this does not apply in many other countries.] The minor child can not be prosecuted. The criminal judge can annul the marriage because of forgery.
source: '13-jarig meisje getrouwd in Brussel' (´13-Year-Old Girl Married in Brussels´); www.nieuwnieuws.nl/archives/ 2007/02/13jarig_meisje_ getrouwd_in_bru.html; NieuwNieuws.nl; 14 February 2007
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The state Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowly upheld an evaluation tool used to help determine whether people are sexually violent predators, though the chief justice questioned whether it smacked of communist-style cruelties. In a 4-3 decision, the court ruled that experts can rely on a statistical analysis of other sex offenders when determining whether they believe a particular sex offender is likely to commit more sexual crimes if released from prison. That expert testimony ultimately can be weighed by a jury, which under Missouri law can civilly commit someone as a ''sexually violent predator'' to the custody of the state Department of Mental Health after his criminal prison sentence ends. The actuarial tools, used in Missouri and other states, look at the percentage of people with characteristics similar to those of the defendant. [...] In a sharply worded dissent, Wolff [Chief Justice] suggested that the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had misused its mental health system to lock up enemies of the state.
source: 'Use of stats to assess sex offenders upheld'; www.news-leader.com/apps/ pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/ NEWS01/702140376/1007/NEWS01; News-Leader.com; 14 February 2007
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A couple from the American state of Rhode Island will have to appear in court, because it had sex in front of the eyes of the woman's 9-year-old daughter. 33-year-old Rebecca Arnold and 36-year-old David Prata are charged with neglecting the child, but the two of them say to be innocent. The sex was supposed to teach the child. During the investigation the two of them stated that they had sex in front of the child's eyes 'all the time', because ''we have nothing to hide''. According to Prata, the girl often sat on the bed, watching how the two of them were making love. ''We never asked her to go away, but did not force her to stay either,'' said Prata. Asked why he thinks that a 9-year-old girl should know so much about sexual acts, he answered, ''We wanted to prepare her well, so that in any case she will know how and what she should do in bed.'' The two of them will have to appear in court next month and can be sentenced to three years imprisonment and a 1000 dollar fine.
[In the box beds era this was normal.]
source: 'Seks in bijzijn van kind bestraft' ('Sex In Presence Of Child Punished'); Metro (Metro Boston); 13 February 2007
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[...] At Monday's Senate Judiciary Committee, Ebony Richards, 27, testified about her fiance, who she said is branded as a sex offender and cannot be alone with their children because of a conviction nearly a decade ago for having sex with a young neighbor. He was 15 at the time. The girl was 13, Richards testified. Mark Faull, special counsel to Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, said he believes even young people can be sexual predators and prosecutors should have the tools to treat them as such. The debate over the two bills centered on two key issues: who should decide the length of sentences or probation young sex offenders face and when a teenager should be able to consent to sex with another teen. Senate Bill 1425 would have changed the age range that can result in a felony conviction for consensual sexual contact. Under current state law, sexual contact, from touching to intercourse, with anyone younger than 15 is a felony, even if the youths are close in age and the contact is consensual. The bill would have kept 15- or 16-year-olds that have consensual contact with 13- or 14-year-olds from facing felony charges and the same with young adults up to age 20 who have contact with consenting teens up to three years their junior. Bill Montgomery, who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona attorney general last year, testified that changing law to allow 13-year-olds to consent to sex with 15-year-olds would be tantamount to telling them that such behavior is OK. ''I think it sends the wrong message,'' he said, comparing removing felony statutes for sex among teens to removing speed bumps from streets just because everyone speeds. Johnson and Sen. Ken Cheuvront, D-Phoenix, strongly defended the measures as not being soft on crime, but realistic. Kids are having sex at those ages; the unfortunate ones should not face lifelong consequences for it, they said. [...] The other bill, SB1426, would allow judges, not prosecutors, to decide when a lengthy mandatory sentence is appropriate for juveniles charged as adults. Now, a youth who is prosecuted as an adult is subject to the same lengthy mandatory sentences as someone much older, which could mean decades behind bars or lifelong probation. Faull defended his office's prosecution decisions, while the bill's supporters said they believed those decisions should rest with the court.
[When politicians started to sit on the chairs of the judges - with minimum sentences, standard parole rules et cetera - society became inhuman. The independent juridical system needs to be restored.]
source: 'Panel rejects bills on youth sex offenders - Debate tackles consent, sentencing' by Amanda J. Crawford; www.azcentral.com/specials/ special12//articles/0213 youthoffenders0213.html; azcentral.com; 13 February 2007
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An elementary school girl A (9) was scolded by her mother for ''not studying,'' and was beaten on her arms and legs with her mother's palm. The offended girl then went into her room and logged onto the Internet to type in the word ''corporal punishment'' on an Internet search portal. After she went into a website after the search, videos on sexual intercourse with whipping, and photos showing an adult bashing a child popped up. The girl, who got curious over this, opened a net community called ''Corporal Punishment XX,'' which now has up to about 200 members, according to police investigation findings. [...] The cyber crime investigation division at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said on February 11 that five elementary school students including the girl, A, and another called B, (8), who operated ''Spanking XX,'' and two middle school students were caught operating ''corporal punishment website.'' The police dismissed the minors with a warning while indicting other corporal punishment and porn website-operating adults without detention. [...] The activities of minors in the sadistic corporal punishment websites are in worryingly high level. Minors operate 20 percent of the 417 such websites that have been detected by the police since last year.
source: < ''Blossoming'' Corporal Punishment Websites >; english.dongA.com/srv/ service.php3?bicode=040000& biid=2007021215618; donga.com; 12 February 2007
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An anonymous reader writes with a story on CNet about two teens who were prosecuted under anti-child-porn laws in Florida for having made and emailed racy photos of each other. Both were under 18 years old, so the resulting pictures are clearly illegal; but the teens' intent was not to share the pictures with anyone else. An appeals court majority opinion found that emailing the photos from one of the kids to the other was a careless act that should, it seems, bring down the full weight of the law. A minority opinion argued that the laws were intended to protect children from exploitative adults, not from other children.
source: 'Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos'; Posted by 'kdawson'; yro.slashdot.org/ yro/07/02/10/ 1752233.shtml; Slashdot; 10 February 2007
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An academic who supported the rights of kids under 16 to take part in Amsterdam's Gay Pride parade has received a flood of death threats. Gert Hekma, Professor of Gay & Lesbian Studies at the University of Amsterdam, was not involved in the plan to allow gay kids to take part in the annual boat parade. ''I had only expressed my opinion as an academic that it seemed to me to be crazy that the legal age of consent is 16 when children so much younger are now coming out the closet,'' he said. ''I welcomed the idea of the children's boat. But as a result I am now accused of being a paedophile professor and child molestor,'' he told Volkskrant newspaper. Hekma has lodged a complaint with the police against five people who sent specific death threats by email to him, the university and to many websites. A 14-year-old boy first proposed that minors should be allowed to take part in the boat parade along the city's canals, which is the highlight of Amsterdam's Pride celebrations. He is being supported by gay organisation COC and the Pride organisers. The boy says on his website that he has been out for 18 months. News agencies today reported that Amsterdam's mayor Job Cohen has dropped his objection to the under 16s taking part, after Pride officials said that the kids would be accompanied by their parents and kept far away from the more adult boats. However, one gay rights activist in the city said he was suspicious of the mayor's change of heart. ''Friends I have spoken to here are sceptical that Job Cohen, the increasingly right wing mayor of Amsterdam - who is notorious for having introduced the ''stop and search'' laws and other anti-libertarian measures - has really changed his mind on this issue,'' Adrian Marlowe said.
source: 'Kids Pride supporter gets email death threats' by Tony Grew; www.pinknews.co.uk/news/ articles/2005-3678.html; Pink News; 9 February 2007
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Registered sex offenders could try their luck at the Missouri Lottery but they wouldn't be able to score a prize under legislation proposed by a Marshfield lawmaker. Republican Sen. Dan Clemens introduced legislation that would prevent registered sex offenders from winning money in the Missouri Lottery. The proposal comes about one month after a registered sex offender scored the $14 million jackpot in Florida. [...]
[Another anti-'Jews' law.]
source: Article 'Bill would refuse lottery wins for sex offenders'; www.news-leader.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/ 20070209/NEWS06/70209 0418/1007/NEWS01; News-Leader.com; 9 February 2007
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When Frederick Everts was sentenced to 800 years to life in prison Friday for molesting [Maybe the 'molestation' was wanted by the boys...] three boys, ages 3, 9 and 11, the case's prosecutor gave the judge graphic descriptions of additional molestations in arguing for the maximum sentence.Deputy District Attorney Steve Fein told Superior Court Judge Alfonso Fernandez that there have been many other victims in addition to the three boys Everts, 36, molested in San Jose between 2002 and 2005. ''He has admitted to over 40 victims over the course of his life ... including his biological son, who he orally copulated when he was 3 months old,'' Fein said. [...]
source: Article 'Molester's Former Roommate Gets 800 Years In Prison'; www.nbc11.com/news/ 10973289/detail.html; NBC11.com; 9 February 2007
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Portions of a new state law forcing sexual predators to wear tracking devices for the rest of their lives is unconstitutional, according to a group of law professors. The measure violates offenders' right to privacy and amounts to punishment and warrantless searches when applied to sexual predators who aren't on parole or government supervision, the professors said in a letter sent to Corrections Secretary Matthew Frank on Saturday. The letter came from University of Wisconsin-Madison law professors Walter Dickey, Byron Lichstein and Meredith Ross. The law, which takes effect July 1, requires the Corrections Department to use global positioning technology to track offenders found to be sexually violent from the time they're released from prison until they die or become too feeble to present a threat. Also, anyone released after being convicted of first- or second-degree child sexual assault would have to wear a GPS bracelet for 20 years. [...]
[Almost all sex laws are unconstitutional! They are moral suppression laws.]
source: 'Professors: Tracking sex offenders is unconstitutional' by Todd Richmond; www.twincities.com/mld/ twincities/news/breaking_ news/16654833.htm; AP Wire; 8 February 2007
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[Actor Tim Robbins playing 'David Owen':] I like her, she's sexy. [Actress Bridget Moynahan playing 'Davids' wife 'Helen':] David, she's seven. [David:] She is sexy, it's not my fault. I didn't say I wanted to...
source: From the movie 'Noise'; www.youtube.com/watch?v=rScUQBmFFeg; 2007
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Police are to be given new powers to enter and search the homes of convicted sex offenders, Tony Blair announced today. The powers, which come into effect later this year, allow police to enter a property to look for evidence that a paedophile might be planning an offence. Officers will search computers as well as looking for evidence of magazines, or the presence of children's toys or clothes. Police believe this pre-emptive action could prevent many sex crimes from happening, instead of waiting until it has occurred. The Prime Minister, in a speech to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, said he believes the change could significantly improve child protection. [...]
[People like Tony Blair are the new Nazi's. They want to make the whole world a police state and they want as many people living in fear of the authorities.]
[One reaction below this article:] I think people have to be aware that this measure has nothing to do with protection of children or anything similar, but is the first step towards another far more sinister erosion of our civil liberties. Any knowledge of crime statistics will reveal that convicted sex offenders, particularly those convicted of crimes against children, have one of the LOWEST rates of recidivism. This is far more sinister, and when the government think that the ''public will support the move'', they are right. When introducing something that will eventually be used against all of us, do it initially against those perceived as the lowest form of scum on the planet. God help this country. - Peter Thornton, Salisbury, Wiltshire
source: Article 'Police given right to raid homes of sex offenders'; www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/ live/articles/news/news.html? in_article_id=434895&in_ page_id=1770&ito=1490; Daily Mail; 8 February 2007
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''The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed Senate Bill 1, a proposal by Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) that would prohibit registered sex offenders from taking photos of minors. [...] Lewis, reading from a prepared statement in an occasionally shaky voice, impressed legislators [...]''
source: Article 'Senate panel OKs sex offender bill' by Carlos Campos; www.ajc.com/metro/content/ metro/legis07/stories/2007/ 02/02/0202metlegphoto.html; ajc.com; 2 February 2007
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In Germany young people prove to have homosexual experiences more and more often. This appears from an investigation by the German 'Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung'. The investigators focused their attention on young people between 14 and 17 and their parents. According to the figures, 13 per cent of the girls were reported to have already had intimate body contact with another girl. 6 per cent of the boys already had intimate contact with somebody of their own sex. According to recent data of investigation, the figures among the girls seem to increase. As for the boys, they are said to stabilize.
source: Article 'Steeds meer jongeren hebben homoseks' ('More And More Young People Have Gay Sex'); www.gaysite.nl/nieuws/ 0705/Steeds_meer_jongeren_ hebben_homoseks.html; GaySite.nl; 31 January 2007
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A 43-year-old Louisiana woman charged in Collier County with aggravated child abuse for piercing the pubic area of a 13-year-old girl as a way to keep her from having sex received a year in jail Tuesday and agreed to testify against the girl's mother, who also is charged in the case. Tammy Jane Meredith, of 4250 Blount Road, #50, Baton Rouge, La., gave the girl the body piercing against her will and at the request of the girl's mother, who is charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse. She could face up to 30 years in state prison if convicted. The girl had been sexually active with two adult men, and that qualifies as sexual abuse because of the child's age, said the prosecutor, Assistant State Attorney Steve Maresca. But after learning of the sexual activity, the mother had Meredith pierce the girl's private area with a post and a connected hoop, authorities said. [...]
source: Article 'Woman gets year in jail for body piercing 13-year-old girl's private area' by Chris W. Colby; www.naplesnews.com/news/ 2007/jan/30/woman_gets_ year_jail_body_piercing_ pubic_area_13ye/?latest; 30 January 2007
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Gay rights campaigners are to rename a prestigious award following allegations that it honoured a man who fought to legalise paedophilia. The Ian Dunn Award was given to Patrick Harvie, the Green MSP, and Margaret Smith, the Liberal Democrat, for their work as activists for gay rights. However, it has been alleged that Mr Dunn, a prominent gay activist who died in 1998, was also co-founder of the Paedophile Information Exchange, set up to promote the acceptance and understanding of adults who want to have sex with children. Ms Smith has demanded that the award be given another name within the week or she will give it back. [...] Mr Harvie also called for the award to be renamed.
source: 'Paedophile link alarms winners of gay rights awards' by Louise Gray; news.scotsman.com/ politics.cfm?id=140212007; Scotsman.com News; 27 January 2007
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One-third of the 126 children treated for sexual behavior problems at an Omaha facility last year were under 9 years old. Counselor Vickie Peyton said Lutheran Family Services is treating younger and younger children for their sexual behavior. She said that, while the details are shocking, the revelation of a Lincoln case does not surprise her.Two 13-year-old boys are accused of videotaping themselves sexually assaulting two 5-year-olds and a 3-year-old and also taping sexual contact between three young children, according to Lincoln police. Peyton said children don't have to go far to find sexual content on TV or the Internet. ''Particularly through the 'HBO Real Sex' channels, they see very graphic things,'' Peyton said. ''We have kids as young as 3 or 4 years old showing that kind of sexualized behavior.'' Peyton said she treats a lot of preadolescent boys who are just reaching puberty. [...]
source: Article 'Children Treated For Sexual Behavior Are Younger, Expert Says'; www.ketv.com/news/ 10851920/detail.html; KETV.com; 26 January 2007
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A movie in which a young girl is being raped, raised quite a lot of dust in the United States. The movie Hounddog, which was shown this week during the Sundance Film Festival, is especially blasted by Christian critics. 12-year-old Dakota Fanning, who plays the leading part, is said to have been exploited for the movie. The critics talk of child abuse and summone the public to boycott the movie. According to Ted Baehr, the founder of the Christian movie site Movieguide, the movie violates a child porn law. ''Children aged 12 cannot take this kind of decisions,'' is his opinion. Director Deborah Kampmeier regards Hounddog as breaking down a taboo. ''The movie raises a problem which is being withheld in our society,'' she says. Fanning too makes a stand for the movie. ''It is not a rape movie,'' she emphasizes. ''It is not what the movie is about.'' The movie drama plays in southern America during the Sixties. The movie revolves about the turbulent youth of the girl Lewellen, played by Fanning. The rape scene was shown indirectly and does not contain any nude. Only the actress' face and hands can be seen. It is not clear yet if the movie will also be released in Holland.
source: 'Ophef over filmverkrachting jong meisje' ('Fuss About Movie Rape Young Girl'); film.nieuws.nl/447120/ Ophef_over_filmverkrachting_ jong_meisje; Nieuws.nl (Novum/AP); 24 January 2007
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Kirk Douglas is 90 years old - but time hasn't dulled his memory when it comes to some of his more colorful sexual experiences. In his new memoir, ''Let's Face It - 90 Years of Living, Loving and Learning,'' due in April from Wiley, the cleft-chinned Oscar-winning star of such pictures as ''Spartacus'' and ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'' recalls a fling with a ''big, tall blond'' German airline stewardess who liked to be disciplined in bed. During their enthusiastic sex sessions, ''she would scream, 'I'm a Nazi!' - which was his cue to slap her, which he did, Douglas writes. He also remembers getting deflowered in high school by his English teacher. ''I had been a ragamuffin kid of 15 coping with a neighborhood filled with gangs . . . under her guidance I became a different person . . . I am eternally grateful. By today's standards she would have gone to jail. I had no idea we were doing something wrong. Did she?''
source: Article 'Kirk's Slappy-Nazi Sex Romp'; www.nypost.com/seven/ 01242007/gossip/ pagesix/pagesix.htm; New York Post; 24 January 2007
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Desperate ministers will beg judges to stop sending criminals to prisons - because they are full. A letter will be sent to courts across the country admitting that jails are officially in crisis. It pleads for only the most violent or dangerous criminals to be given a custodial sentence. Magistrates are also being asked to allow bail to all but the most serious crime suspects. The letter, signed by Home Secretary John Reid, Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer and Attorney General Lord Goldsmith, is the first in a series of drastic steps likely over the next few weeks. The most dramatic option is to order the early release of thousands of inmates sentenced to 12 months or less. The Home Secretary has been struggling since last summer to contain the overcrowding crisis - caused by the Government ignoring repeated advice to build more prisons - but it is now escalating rapidly. On Monday alone, nearly 300 more prisoners were sent down by the courts than were released, pushing the jail population to almost 80,000. [...]
[Just build more prisons so that in the end 50% of the population is 'free' and the rest is in prison... Politicians only lock more and more people up to gather votes. They live on fear; fear which is created by mass media and politicians.]
source: Article 'Ministers beg judges - don't jail any more criminals!'; www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/article-23382827- details/Ministers%20beg%20judges %20-%20don't%20jail% 20any%20more%20crim inals!/article.do?expand=true; Thisislondon.co.uk; 23 January 2007
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Children will participate this summer in the Gay Pride festival. They will have a boat for themselves during the piquant parade through the capital's canals. As in a carnival parade, groups of men annually go through the canals in countless boats, often scantily clad. With the support of gay rights organisation COC, a 14 year old boy, Danny Hoekzema, has now taken the initiative to have a boat with homosexual children participate on 4 August. The boy put a call to peers to accompany him on his website. The minimum age for homosexuals that want to join him on the boat is 11 years. ''From this age, there is already demand among young homos to have contacts with their peers of the same proclivity,'' according to COC. The 14 year old boy has arranged a boat with the help of the COC that can carry 30 gay children. ''Recent research shows that homos may come out at a younger and younger age, but only find little connections via the regular bodies,'' according to COC. ''It is difficult for boys under 16 to meet their peers.''
source: 'Homosexual Children To Participate In Gay Pride Festival'; www.nisnews.nl/public/ 190107_1.htm; NIS News Bulletin; 19 January 2007
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A former teacher who Googled pictures of naked young girls on the internet was today sentenced to a four-month suspended prison term. Louis Herbert Jezard, 59, a Brisbane southside-based floor coverings divisional manager, pleaded guilty in Brisbane District Court to using a carriage service to access child porn between August 22, 2005, and September last year. Jezard typed in the terms, ''Lolita'', ''nude virgins'' and ''ped'' into the Google search engine, and had 26 pictures of naked pre-pubescent girls saved to a temporary folder, the court was told. Judge Tony Skoien said Jezard, who was arrested in May last year after a tip-off, told police he was a teacher, and had been researching pedophilia on the internet. ''He said he thought there were fewer male teachers these days because of the fear of paedophilia and he searched the internet to define the term and he was looking for evidence that males had sexual relationships with children and didn't find any,'' Judge Skoien said, reading from the police record of interview.
source: Article 'Google porn earns jail term' by Suzanne Klotz; www.theaustralian.news.com.au/ story/0,20867,210740 44-29277,00.html; The Australian (AAP); 17 January 2007
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A 13-year-old German girl, who was supposed to be the victim of child abuse, appears to have sent pornographic photographs to a pedophile herself. He then put them on the internet. Last week, the police showed the pictures of a blond girl in a blue little shirt in a German tv programme which helps tracing persons, in the conviction that the child was still abused. It becomes clear now, that the then 11-year-old had contact with a 'very friendly' man via a chat site in June 2004. He asked her if she could send a couple of photographs. She took the requested photos with the self-timer of the digital camera in her own nursery. Dressed at first, naked later in poses the man liked to have. She mailed the photos to her 'friend'. He sent them to websites where other pedophiles exchange material and thus the photos ended up on the desk of the child porn department of the German federal criminal investigation department. Attempts to run down the where-abouts of the victim ended in failure. [...]
source: 'Duits meisje maakte pornofoto's zelf' ('German Girl Made Porn Photos Herself') by Arjan Paans; www.ad.nl/buitenland/ article993517.ece; AD.nl; 16 January 2007
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The following is a statement by Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of GrassrootsFreedom.com, regarding legislation currently being considered by Congress to regulate
grassroots communications: ''In what sounds like a comedy sketch from Jon Stewart's Daily Show, but isn't, the U. S. Senate would impose criminal penalties, even jail time, on grassroots causes and citizens who criticize Congress. Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and report quarterly to Congress the same as the big K Street lobbyists. Section 220 would amend existing lobbying reporting law by creating the most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever. For the first time in history, critics of Congress will need to register and report with Congress itself. The bill would require reporting of 'paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying,' but defines 'paid' merely as communications to 500 or more members of the public, with no other qualifiers. On January 9, the Senate passed Amendment 7 to S. 1, to create criminal penalties, including up to one year in jail, if someone 'knowingly and willingly fails to file or report.' [...]
source: Article 'Congress to Send Critics to Jail, Says Richard Viguerie'; www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/ stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story &STORY=/www/story/01-16- 2007/0004507242&EDATE= TUE+Jan+16+2007,+06:34+PM; PRNewswire-USNewswire (GrassrootsFreedom); 16 January 2007
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The veteran broadcast journalist Bill Moyers spoke on Friday before 3,500 at the opening of the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis. He announced his return to the airwaves and outlined his vision of media reform. ''As ownership gets more and more concentrated, fewer and fewer independent sources of information have survived in the marketplace; and those few significant alternatives that do survive, such as PBS and NPR, are under growing financial and political pressure to reduce critical news content and to shift their focus in a mainstream direction, which means being more attentive to establishment views than to the bleak realities of powerlessness that shape the lives of ordinary people.''
source: Article < Bill Moyers: ''Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial.'' >; www.democracynow.org/ article.pl?sid=07/01/16/159222; Democracy Now; 16 January 2007
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The German police succeeded in tracking a victim of child porn who was unknown until yesterday, by showing her photograph on television. The police took this controversial line in the last resort, because there was the suspicion that the girl was still being abused. Last Thursday night, the federal criminal investigation department broke the rule that pictures of child porn victims are only shown unrecognizably, and broadcasted the picture of a blond girl in a small blue shirt. A series of pornographic photographs of the child had been on the internet and, according to the police, she was reported to be between eleven and thirteen at the time of the shots. The action had an immediate success. Within one day, a 13-year-old girl from the federal state of Nordrhein-Westfalen was traced as supposed victim. ''We know that the victim can get stigmatized by this,'' says public prosecutor Reinhard Hübner. ''But the risk that the girl was still being abused was so big that we put up with this.'' According to the police, the photo could only have been taken in a German nurserey. Clearly recognizable are, a.o., a cola bottle which is only sold in German supermarkets, a school book and shoes which are only for sale in Germany. [...] It was the second time within one week that the German police stepped into the limelight with a drastic approach of child abuse. Last Tuesday it became known, that by police order more than 20 million creditcards were checked on debits to a child porn site. After this action, which is strongly criticized by jurists, 322 arrest could be made.
source: 'Slachtoffertje kinderporno opgespoord' ('Little Victim Child Porn Tracked') by Arjan Paans; www.ad.nl/buitenland/ article986423.ece; Algemeen Dagblad; 13 January 2007
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Sixteen-year-old Matthew Bandy was about as normal a teenager as you could find. He actually liked hanging out with his family. ''He was a happy-go-lucky kid,'' said his mother, Jeannie Bandy. ''Very personable, and big-hearted. I sound like a boastful mom, but I guess the biggest thing is that he could always make me laugh.'' [...] ''We faced 10 years per count, there were nine counts,'' said Novak. ''If Matt was convicted, those sentences would have to be served consecutively. In other words, he would have been sentenced to 90 years in prison. He would have served time until he died.'' [...] Arizona child pornography laws are among the harshest in the country. As soon as Matthew was charged, he was put on virtual house arrest, and an electronic bracelet was attached to his ankle to monitor his movements 24 hours a day. [...] ''Yes, I was very scared,'' he said. ''If they found out that I was wearing an ankle bracelet all of a sudden they would be wondering, why are you wearing that? And I had no good answer for them.'' The shy young boy could not explain how such pictures appeared on his computer hard drive. The stress of the situation got so bad for Matthew that he told his parents the charges hanging over his head made high school impossible. ''He said 'Mom, I'm hurting,''' said Jeannie. '''I can't sleep. I don't want to disappoint anybody, but I just can't go on anymore.''' [...] It could happen to anyone. ''The computer had accessed a 'Yahoo' account where there was child pornography,'' Andrew Thomas, Maricopa County district attorney said. ''That was the basis for the search warrants issued by a court.'' [...] But the Bandy family nightmare was not over. While the prosecution deal offered no jail time for Matthew, he would still be labeled a sex offender. Under Arizona law and in most states around the country, sex crimes carry with them a life of branding. Matthew would be forced to register as a sex offender everywhere he lived, for the rest of his life. ''I have to stay away from children,'' said Matthew. ''I cannot be around any area where there might be minors, including the mall, or the movies, or restaurants or even church. To go to church I have to have written consent from our priest, I have to sit in a different pew, one that doesn't have a child sitting in it.'' [...] The judge couldn't believe the prosecution was insisting on sex offender status and invited Matthew to appeal. ''20/20'' was there when two years of fear and misery finally ended. A message arrived from the judge, ironically on the computer, informing them that Matthew would not be labeled a sex offender. Matt and his parents had won his life back.
[The USA is the new Third Reich.]
source: Article 'Prison Time For Viewing Porn?'; abcnews.go.com/2020/ print?id=2785054; ABC News; 12 January 2007
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A teacher whose classroom PC displayed pornographic images to school children faces up to 40 years imprisonment. The pop-up images of couples fornicating will the likely result of spyware infestation, according to defence witnesses testifying on behalf of teacher Julie Amero, 40, Windham, Connecticut. But the six-person jury rejected this argument and convicted the substitute language teacher on Friday of four counts of risk of injury to a minor after just two hours of deliberation, according to local reports. The trial stemmed from an October 2004 incident when Amero was teaching a seventh-grade language class at Kelly Middle School. Graphic images from sites including meetlovers.com and femalesexual.com were displayed on her computer in front of the ten young children in her class. [...]
source: Article < 'Spyware' teacher found guilty of exposing kids to smut > by John Leyden; www.theregister.co.uk/2007/ 01/11/spyware_teacher/; The Register; 11 January 2007
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An Elsmere man, who fatally beat a senior citizen he believed molested his 5-year-old daughter, was sentenced this morning to 9 months in prison. Robert J. Fontanez Jr., 27, stood tall and calm as Superior Court Judge Joseph R. Slights III sentenced him. ''The circumstances surrounding this crime were taken into consideration by the state,'' and the court, Slights told Fontanez. ''Regardless of the circumstances...,'' Slights said, there was still no excuse for Fontanez to have taken the life of 77-year-old Bismark Vasquez. [...]
source: 'Elsmere man who killed alleged molester gets 9-month sentence' by Esteban Parra; www.delawareonline.com/ apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/ 20070105/NEWS/70105009; delawareonline; 5 January 2007
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A leader of the white supremacist movement was arraigned today on charges of possession of child pornography and witness tampering after being arrested by FBI agents Thursday night at his home in Charlottesville, Va. Kevin Alfred Strom, founder of the National Vanguard white supremacist group, was considered the leading intellectual of the movement since the death of William Pierce, the author of the notorious ''Turner Diaires.'' Strom was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, charged with the two counts, and is currently being held at a facility in the city. According to the indictment, he allegedly possessed or attempted to possess ''multiple images of child pornography'' on his computer's hard drive. Strom was also charged with witness tampering, which involved physically assaulting and mentally intimidating a witness to his criminal activity. [...] Strom wrote frequently about art and beauty, often rhapsodizing about the physical attributes of white women and girls. In an 2003 essay titled ''Millstone for the Mogul'' for the National Alliance's Web site, he condemned the producers of the movie ''Thirteen'' for ''what they are doing to our little children - teen and preteen White children - to normalize perverse and degenerate sexual behavior for them, to normalize homosexuality, to prematurely sexualize them, and to make interracial sex fashionable to them - can never be forgiven, can never be explained away. The media moguls who are doing this to our children deserve to be tried and punished for conspiracy, rape, gang rape, murder and attempted murder.''
source: Article 'White Supremacist Busted on Child-Porn Charge - Leading Intellectual of Racist Movement Was Arrested by Federal Agents' by Marcus Baram; abcnews.go.com/US/story? id=2774119&page=1; ABC News; 4 January 2007
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Aldrich's contributors must be applauded for treating boy-love in so unfashionably calm a manner: Gert Hekma bravely utters some unsayable truths - ''in general young people suffer no negative consequences from intergenerational sex unless it happens inside the family or unless violence is used against them'' - and intelligently contextualizes the prevalent Western hysteria about the sexual abuse of children. Sexual desire, which in Western societies used to be based on differences of gender, age and class, must now be founded (according to the bien pensants) on equality: ''power relations have become unacceptable, and this is especially true for intergenerational contact''.
source: Article 'The throne trembles' by Richard Davenport-Hines; About the book 'Gay Life and Culture - A world history' by Robert Aldrich, editor; Thames and Hudson; tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/ 0,,25549-2529473,00.html; Times Online; 3 January 2007
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A throwaway question in a rare survey of jurors has produced a disturbing finding: most of the juries did not realise what verdict they had just delivered. The 277 jurors were questioned immediately after delivering their verdicts in 25 trials involving child sex assault. The first question was ''What was the verdict in the case?'' But in only six of 25 juries surveyed could all the jurors correctly state their verdict. In one trial 10 jurors reported reaching three different verdicts. In two other trials, jurors said they had found the accused innocent of some charges, when they found the person guilty of all of them. [...]
source: Article 'And the verdict is … jurors not too sure' by Jonathan Pearlman; www.smh.com.au/news/ national/and-the-verdict-is-x2026- jurors-not-too-sure/2007/01/01/ 1167500061870.html; The Sydney Morning Herald; 2 January 2007
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The federal government wants your Internet provider to keep track of every website you visit. For more than a year, the U.S. Justice Department has been in discussions with Internet companies and privacy rights advocates, trying to come up with a plan that would make it easier for investigators to check records of Web traffic. The idea is to help law enforcement track down child pornographers. But some see it as another step toward total surveillance of citizens, joining warrantless wiretapping, secret scrutiny of library records and unfettered access to e-mail as another power that could be abused. ''I don't think it's realistic to think that we would create this enormous honeypot of information and then say to the FBI, 'You can only use it for this narrow purpose,' '' said Leslie Harris, executive director of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a Washington, D.C.-based group that promotes free speech and privacy in communication.
source: Article 'Feds push for Internet records' by John Reinan; www.startribune.com/789/ v-print/story/909568.html; Star Tribune; 1 January 2007
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As of today, the driver's licenses of registered sex offenders in Illinois will expire every 12 months instead of the usual four years in an effort to better keep track of them. Another new law increases the information sex offenders must provide about themselves when they register and makes that information more readily available to the public. Yet another new law expands the use of electronic monitoring devices for paroled sex offenders. All of those laws were passed by the Legislature in the past year with little or no opposition, joining a long list of sex offender-related issues added to the state statutes in the past few years. [...]
[Inhuman. Most sex offenders are nice people. They are the new scapegoats of society.]
source: Article 'New laws help keep track of sex offenders' by Kevin McDermott; www.qctimes.com/articles/ 2007/01/01/news/state/doc459 899523d9bc231731838.txt; QCTimes.com; 1 January 2007
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