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More charges for Swartz?
Police: Ex-commissioner had sex with second girl
MANSFIELD -- Former Richland County Commissioner David Swartz is under investigation after being accused of sexual involvement with a second child for five years, according to the sheriff's department.
Swartz, 66, of 6847 Bowman Street Road, Shelby, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery Feb. 2 and awaits sentencing that could land him in prison for up to 10 years.
Swartz resigned his position as commissioner Jan. 19, the same day he was forced to make an initial court appearance to face those charges. He was accused of sexually abusing a now-17-year-old girl for more than a decade.
Authorities have information that Swartz sexually abused a second girl, now 19, from 1990 to 1995, according to Richland County Sheriff's Sgt. Jeff McBride, a detective for children's services.
McBride said the allegations that Swartz abused the second girl did not stem from the initial investigation, but he would not reveal how he received the second complaint.
He said the second investigation began in mid-February.
"Another investigation is going on against him involving another minor child," McBride said. He said Swartz had long-term access to both girls, but his alleged abuse of the second girl is believed to have stopped in 1995.
The dates make the girl 6 to 11 years of age during the reported abuse. McBride said the investigation is basically complete, and he anticipates meeting with Knox County Prosecutor John Baker to discuss charges. Baker has been appointed special prosecutor in the Swartz case because of the former commissioner's relationship with local authorities.
The charges Swartz admitted to in the initial case are for sexually abusing the first girl from 2000 to 2004. Swartz admitted in court to engaging in sex with the girl.
He told investigators the abuse started when the child was about 6 years old, according to paperwork filed in the first case. McBride said that conversation occurred when he confronted Swartz in his commissioner's office.
Visiting Knox County Common Pleas Judge Otho Eyster has not set a sentencing date for the first case, according to his office.
Swartz, a potato farmer, has not been charged in the second case, and Baker did not return a call seeking comment.
"I'm going to have to take a look at it," Swartz's attorney Bob Whitney said Wednesday. "I haven't seen any paperwork on it or anything."
Swartz is free on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond.
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INDECENT ASSAULT CASE
Judge pleads no contest
By DAVID WEISS
dweiss@leader.net
INDECENT ASSAULT CASE
WILKES-BARRE - Slow with his words, a tearful Mark Pazuhanich carefully explained how his behavior at a teen pop concert tore apart his "great relationship" with his daughter.
He wants that relationship back, he said, and hopes the no-contest plea he made Monday to fondling the young girl while he was in a drunken daze at the concert can start the healing.
"I can't change that," Pazuhanich, a Monroe County judge, said. "But one thing that I could do ... is at least save my daughter from testifying in this courtroom."
The move also costs the 47-year-old from East Stroudsburg his judgeship. He vowed to resign from his position after Monday's hearing.
Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joseph Augello said that decision played a role in sentencing Pazuhanich to 10 years probation, instead of prison time for his actions.
Wilkes-Barre police said a drunken Pazuhanich fondled his daughter at a Hilary Duff concert Nov. 29 at the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre.
He was scheduled for trial Monday, but instead pleaded no contest to indecent assault, public drunkenness, endangering the welfare of a child and corruption of a minor charges.
A no-contest plea means a defendant will not challenge the prosecution's evidence. It is treated as a guilty plea.
Pazuhanich will also undergo a Megan's Law evaluation by the state, Assistant District Attorney Ingrid Cronin said. If the state determines Pazuhanich is a sexually violent predator, he could face additional ramifications, District Attorney David Lupas said.
Augello ordered Pazuhanich to register his address with state police for the next 10 years, but a predator finding by the state could force Pazuhanich to register his address for the rest of his life, Lupas said.
Under the state's sentencing guidelines, the standard sentence range on the charges called for Pazuhanich to be sentenced to a minimum of probation to a few months in prison.
Augello also ordered Pazuhanich to have no contact with his daughter, unless a court allows it, pay a $300 fine and court costs, and refrain from drugs and alcohol - the exact vice Pazuhanich said led to his downfall.
Pazuhanich said pressure amassed during his judicial campaign, leading to him drinking alcohol.
Pazuhanich, 47, was elected in November to fill a 10-year Monroe County family court judgeship after touting his education, courtroom practice and "experience as a single parent," according to the Pocono Record newspaper. The seat was created because of an overload of family court cases.
He never heard a case. His duties at first were limited to administrative work and he was placed on administrative leave in February.
The night of the concert, Pazuhanich mixed alcohol with a muscle relaxer before committing the "abhorrent" act, he said.
He realizes his acts caused great pain for his daughter, and that "is going to be something I have to contend with for the rest of my life," he said.
The former district attorney said he needs to make sobriety a focal point of his life. And, hopefully, he will be able to rebuild a relationship with his daughter, he said.
"She knows I love her and I know she loves me," Pazuhanich later said. "I think the adage is one day at a time, and that's how I intend to take it."
Lupas reminded the media that the case is not solely about Pazuhanich. It is very much about a 10-year-old girl being sexually assaulted, he said.
The victim is the reason why he and his investigators put a tireless effort into probing and prosecuting this case, he said.
"I don't look at a defendant's occupation," Lupas said. "I look at their actions."
David Weiss, a Times Leader staff writer, can be reached at 831-7397.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
TIMES LEADER STAFF PHOTO/MADALYN RUGGIERO
Mark Pazuhanich leaves the Luzerne County Courthouse after pleading no contest to sexual assault charges Monday.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Times Leader does not usually identify the victims of a sexual assault.
However, during Mark Pazuhanich's appearance in court Monday, he explained his reasoning for entering a plea by identifying his daughter as his victim.
The Times Leader decided it was necessary to disclose Pazuhanich's relationship with the victim to properly tell the story.
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August 16, 2002
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - The former speaker of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives was charged with rape on Thursday for an alleged assault on a 17-year-old girl who visited his home last month.
In a hearing that lasted most of the day, a judge found probable cause to arrest Edison Misla Aldarondo, a prominent member of the local Republican Party, on charges of rape, corrupting a minor and supplying drugs and alcohol to a minor.
Misla, 59, resigned his House seat in January after being indicted in October by U.S. authorities in an influence-peddling scheme surrounding the sale of a government hospital while he was House speaker. Misla has been free on bail pending his trial on the federal charges.
Also on Thursday, Justice Secretary Anabelle Rodriguez asked an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations that Misla has been molesting his step-daughter, also 17 and a friend of the alleged rape victim, for the last eight years.
Misla is a familiar political figure in the U.S. territory of 4 million people, having served more than 20 years as a representative for the San Juan district.
The 17-year-old girl alleged that Misla sexually assaulted her while she was visiting his step-daughter, a high school friend, on July 15, according to local news reports citing police and prosecution sources. She told prosecutors that Misla gave them prescription drugs and alcoholic beverages before the alleged attack, the reports said.
The step-daughter corroborated the girl's story and told prosecutors her step-father had sexually molested her on several occasions over the last eight years, the reports said.
Misla is just one in a long line of prominent public figures arrested in various public corruption schemes. But the latest charges have proved a shock to a public that has become used to seeing politicians indicted.
``I don't believe there are words to express how we feel as Puerto Ricans when faced with this,'' Gov. Sila Calderon said. ``We want this to be cleared up as soon as possible, that justice is served and that this never happens again.''
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Giordano Receives 37-Year Prison Sentence
Giordano Could Have Faced Life In Prison
POSTED: 10:33 a.m. EDT June 13, 2003
UPDATED: 5:45 p.m. EDT June 13, 2003
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Philip Giordano, the former Waterbury mayor convicted of violating the civil rights of two girls he sexually abused, has been sentenced Friday morning.
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Giordano, who pleaded not guilty, was sentenced to 37 years in prison.
Giordano's sister and mother attended the sentencing. His wife was not present.
"This case is the worst I have ever seen," said U.S. District Judge Alan Nevas in passing sentence. "Your conduct is the worst I have ever seen. I've seen drug dealers, murderers. What you did is indescribable."
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Nevas also noted that Giordano did not speak during the sentencing hearing.
"Most defendants have something to say, if nothing more than to turn and look at your mother and your sister and say, 'I'm sorry.'"
Nevas said Giordano had been "preying on two small, innocent children."
"They knew nothing. You, sir, are a sexual predator."
Giordano also was convicted in March of conspiring with a prostitute, who is the mother of one of the girls and an aunt of the other. Jurors convicted him on 14 of 15 counts of using an interstate device -- a cell phone -- to arrange the meetings with the girls.
Prosecutors said that Giordano used his cellular phone -- an interstate device -- to set up liaisons with the children and a convicted prostitute, Guitana Jones. Jones pleaded guilty to federal charges and testified at Giordano's federal trial. SURVEY
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The girls also testified against the mayor. Prosecutor Peter Jongbloed, who portrayed Giordano as a corrupt liar during his closing arguments, pointed out that Giordano has acknowledged having sex with a prostitute and taking payoffs from contractors.
The FBI was investigating municipal corruption -- a probe it labeled "Operation LandPhil" -- when it stumbled upon phone calls in which Giordano set up meetings with Jones, her daughter and her niece. Neither Giordano nor anyone else has been charged with corruption.
On one of the taped conversations, Giordano talks with Jones while his sons can be heard in the background playing. On another call, Giordano told her, "I want one of the little girls."
On their last recorded conversation, Giordano warns the woman: "If my name gets mentioned, you might as well put a knife through your throat and kill yourself."
Giordano testified that he and the prostitute, a law client, had oral sex on numerous occasions but never in City Hall. He said the girls usually waited outside the law office. Giordano said he became aroused watching one of the girls in the waiting room but said he did not touch the girls.
First elected mayor in 1995, Giordano ran for U.S. Senate against Democrat Joe Lieberman in 2000, when Lieberman also ran for vice president on Al Gore's ticket. Giordano remained mayor after his arrest, but Sam Caligiuri, president of the Board of Alderman, ran the city until the November 2001 election, when voters chose former state Rep. Michael Jarjura to replace Giordano.
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Los Angeles Times
April 6, 2001 Friday
SECTION: METRO; Part B; Metro Desk; Pg. 10
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HEADLINE: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF / TORRANCE;
MAN DENIES GUILT IN PORNOGRAPHY CASE
South Bay political consultant Tom Shortridge appeared in court Thursday, pleading not guilty to a felony charge of using a minor for sexual acts and misdemeanor charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and child molestation.
The charges stem from allegations that he took pornographic photos of two teenage girls in December. If convicted on all charges, he could face up to six years in prison, Assistant Dist. Atty. Warren Kato said.
Shortridge, 35, was arraigned before Torrance Municipal Court Judge Thomas Solokov. He was released on $ 20,000 bail, and a preliminary hearing is set for May 16.
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z1,, who are you? you're obviously a regular
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George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign
Pastor Fired Over Sexual Exploitation Charges
First Assembly Of God Church Fires Reverend
POSTED: 6:49 am CST December 7, 2004
UPDATED: 11:40 am CST December 7, 2004
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- A Des Moines youth pastor is charged with sexual exploitation by a counselor.
Michael Hintz
KCCI learned that the married father of four recently turned himself in to Johnston police.
Rev. Mike Hintz was fired from the First Assembly of God Church, located at 2725 Merle Hay Road, on Oct. 30. Hintz was the youth pastor there for three years.
Police said he started an affair with a 17-year-old woman in the church youth group this spring.
Church officials fired Hintz immediately after hearing the allegations.
"They did acknowledge with their congregation that Mr. Hintz had made apparently some admissions to his inappropriate activity, and they took a proactive approach and immediately terminated him from his position," Johnston police Sgt. Lynn Aswegan said.
Neither Hintz nor his attorney returned KCCI's calls.
http://www.kcci.com/news/3976822/detail.html
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z1,, who are you? you're obviously a regular
hell yea boy------been reading for a year****sick of reading bullshit**** time to post some facts!!!!
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groovy. you should prob merge them tho, as they'll do it anyway.
BTW - we're voting on a brand new Politics & War child board :)
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When Judi gets here there's bound to be a "love connection!"
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groovy. you should prob merge them tho, as they'll do it anyway.
BTW - we're voting on a brand new Politics & War child board :)
This is correct. Z1, what would you like your merged thread to be called?
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First Selectman back on job after arrest on child sex charges
(Stonington-WTNH, Mar. 30, 2004 8:35 PM) _ The First Selectman of Stonington is back on the job one day after being arrested on child sex charges.
Peter Dibble avoided our cameras but we did get the pulse around town hall.
Watch the story with News Channel 8's Tina Detelj
Peter Dibble remained behind a closed door in his inner office at Stonington Town Hall on Tuesday.
The day after the 59-year-old First Selectman turned himself in at the Stonington Police Department where he was arrested, fingerprinted, and charged with one count of risk of injury to a minor. A charge which according to the New London Day stems from a
complaint involving a girl under the age of 16.
Raymond Trebisacci, Democratic town chairman, says,"I feel a great deal of sympathy for the minor who's involved in this."
Raymond Trebisacci called this a sad day for Stonington. He believes Dibble who is a Republican should step aside while the charge is pending.
Raymond Trebisacci says,"That has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with doing the right thing for the Town of Stonington."
A sentiment shared by others who question dibble's ability to lead the town
with such a serious accusation hanging over his head.
Gail Morales, Pawcatuck, says,"It puts a cloud over I think his ability to do the job for the town."
Jack Derby says,"He's continuing to work. I think that's probably wrong in my opinion
anyway."
Yet Jack Derby does believe.
Derby says,"Innocent until proven guilty."
And until then some say Dibble should keep his job.
Raymond Waite, Stonington Borough, says,"Those are pretty serious charges if they're not true that could ruin a guy's career."
Noone was talking here at town hall. Instead we were referred to Dibble's
attorney Ron Stevens who assured us Dibble is here today and they are going
to vigorously contest the charge, details of which are not being released.
Stonington police have yet to send the arrest warrant to court where it could be made public.
http://www.newschannel8.com/Global/story.asp?S=1749917
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EDINBURG — A man who made national news in 2000 by producing an anti-Al Gore television ad featuring his stepdaughter is now charged in Hidalgo County with multiple counts of molesting the girl and another young relative.
Carey Lee Cramer, 43, pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure. State District Judge Noe Gonzalez arraigned Cramer on Wednesday in his 370th state District Court room.
Cramer and was released from Hidalgo County Jail on Thursday on a $30,000 surety bond. He was allowed to return to his residence in Arizona until a court hearing is set.
A grand jury indicted Cramer on May 11 on charges that he molested the two girls between December 1999 and April 2001, when Cramer, his ex-wife Samara Whittaker and her daughter lived in Mercedes and McAllen. The couple, who were married almost six years and have a son together, moved from McAllen to Arizona in 2001.
Cramer’s whereabouts were unknown Friday, and he could not be reached for comment. His McAllen attorney, Dahlila Guerra Casso, said the grand jury duplicated some of the counts they charged against him. She intends to file a former motion asking the state to withdraw the duplicate charges.
Casso indicated the molestation charges may be tied to Cramer’s separation from Whittaker.
"The petition of the annulment of the marriage were filed, and the following Friday the criminal charges were filed" she said.
In 2000, Cramer used his stepdaughter, then 9 years old, in a pro-Republican commercial that made national news because it accused the Clinton-Gore administration of giving nuclear technology to China in return for campaign contributions.
The commercial showed a young girl picking daisy petals and ends with a nuclear blast, a remake of a 1964 ad by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign against Republican Barry Goldwater. The original commercial aired only once.
Cramer created the ad for Aretino Industries, according to a 2000 article by The Associated Press. He refused to identify who paid for the commercial.
The ad was pulled after airing in several cities. Bush’s former spokesman Ari Fleischer condemned "anonymous ads like this," according to the AP.
Whittaker, who now lives in Arizona, said she now thinks Cramer molested her daughter during the making of the commercial. She does not know who funded the ad.
Whittaker said she worries for her daughter and other young girls now that Cramer is on bond.
"The concern from a mom’s standpoint, this person is out and about on bail," she said
Tucson police investigated molestation allegations against Cramer, but have not charged him. Police there did charge Whittaker with failure to report the molestation that took place while she and her daughter, lived with Cramer, Whittaker said.
Investigators at the Tucson Police Department did not return The Monitor’s phone call Friday.
The girl reported the abuse to her mother and her mother’s family, who reported it to Child Protective Services in Arizona. Whittaker said she feared reporting the abuse because Cramer threatened to take away her children.
McAllen Police arrested Cramer on Oct. 7, 2004. Municipal Judge Kathleen Henley magistrated Cramer on one charge of indecency with a child and one count of aggravated sexual assault. She set his bond at $25,000 for each count.
He was also charged in Mercedes, where Municipal Judge Jesse Contreras set Cramer’s bond at $150,000. Contreras reduced the bond to $20,000 after the girl and her mother obtained a protective order against Cramer.
Mercedes Police Detective Jason Shafer said he investigated four of the alleged counts and interviewed the two girls.
"These girls were so credible," he said.
While living in Arizona, Cramer did not know McAllen and Mercedes police were investigating his actions in the Rio Grande Valley.
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Brittney Booth covers courts and general assignments for The Monitor. You can reach her at (956) 683-4437.
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The following archive paints a chilling portrait of what is really going on in the upper echelons of the ruling elite here in America. The story involves children from orphanages in Nebraska being flown around the United States by top Republican officials in order to engage in child sex orgies with America's ruling elite. It is a fact that during the 1980's, child sexual services were provided by top Republican officials to key, bureaucrats and diplomats but most importantly, there is a chilling proximity of all of these events and personalities, to the President of the United States at the time, George H.W. Bush. And there have been victims who claim that the President himself engaged in the activities. It is a tale of child sex, murder, espionage, blackmail, and huge payoffs. And all the players are involved. From the White House to the CIA to the media barrons to the Republican elite - right down to the orphanages where they procured their victims.
This story was the second biggest scandal of the 1980's which was completely obliterated by the Bush White House - A complete coordinated blackout by the ruling elite in cooperation with the American television networks. (The biggest scandal being the Bush involvement in the attempted assassination of President Reagan) Since the elite who own the television networks in America are the same elite who feast off the carcass of the American population - just like the Bushes do and who sit on the same boards of the same corporate cartels as the Bushes do - most Americans will never hear of this explosive story. But thanks to the Internet all these suppressed news facts are re-surfacing. Perhaps the most chilling aspect of this horrific tale is that such realities can be so completely obliterated by the powers that be so that, even though these are simply the very biggest most explosive stories of our time - you will never know that they happened. That is why www.voxfux.com exists. To bring you the hard cold truth about what is really happening to our world. To inform you about who these people really are who rule America.
Fortunately not all people are in on the crimes of the elite. Once and a while a person comes along who is human and who fights and resists this evil force which is destroying the human race. In this case, former republican Senator John Decamp was involved in the production a documentary called "Conspiracy of Silence" it was to air May 3, 1994 on the Discovery Channel. This documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies. As the story goes, at the last minute before airing, there was a massive effort from key Washington politicians who were implicated in the scandal to exert pressure on the channel to threatened the TV Cable industry with restrictive legislation if this documentary was aired.
Almost immediately, the rights to the documentary were purchased by unknown persons who had ordered all copies destroyed. A copy of this videotape was furnished anonymously to former Nebraska state senator and attorney John De Camp who made it available to retired F.B.I. chief, Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster in what is revealed by the participants involved. You can view the online video below.
The Franklin Cover-up Scandal
The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse
Conspiracy of Silence Part 1
Conspiracy of Silence Part 2
Conspiracy of Silence Part 3
Conspiracy of Silence Part 4
Boy prostitutes 15 years old (and younger) were taking midnight tours of the Whitehouse. There are 19 more Washington Times articles in full text about this case available here at ARCHIVE OF WASHINGTON CHILD SEX RING IMPLICATING GEORGE BUSH SR..
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Though tales of libidinous mischief on Capitol Hill are not exactly rare, the allegations that surfaced last week about the sexual conduct of an Ohio Congressman came as something of a shock. In a conversation secretly videotaped by a Columbus television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter, now 17. "I couldn't understand a man in your position, why you're messin' around with these teenagers," said Coffman. Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this week: "I didn't really know she was a teenager. I do now, of course."
Coffman's daughter told the station that Lukens had twice paid her for sex: in 1985, when she was 13, and again last year. In his videotaped chat with the mother, Lukens seemed to suggest that he might arrange a Government job for her. Though the FBI says there is no evidence that the lawmaker was offering Coffman a bribe in exchange for her silence, the Franklin County prosecutor is considering whether to file criminal charges against the Congressman. Lukens, who has been divorced since 1983, refused to comment. From the Feb. 13, 1989 issue of TIME magazine
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Virginia GOP: GOP Activist Admits to Child Porn
"Republican activist Richard A. Delgaudio, a longtime Northern Virginia-based fundraiser for conservative causes and personalities, was sentenced to two years' probation yesterday after pleading guilty to a child pornography charge.
Delgaudio was charged with taking sexually explicit photographs of a 16-year-old girl. He paid the girl -- a single mother and high school dropout -- by the hour for photo shoots at the Deluxe Plaza Motel in Baltimore, according to court documents and Baltimore City Police Detective Randy Wynn, who investigated the case.
Delgaudio's attorneys issued a statement saying that their client "acknowledges the acute moral shortcomings of his conduct and he will continue intense self-examination, and professional and spiritual counseling." Bruce Fein, a prominent legal commentator helping to defend Delgaudio, also told the judge that Delgaudio plans to donate $5,000 to help "young mothers in great need."
As part of a plea agreement on the felony charge, Baltimore Circuit Court Judge John M. Glynn placed Delgaudio on probation, ruling that if he meets the conditions of probation, the judge will not convict him. But Glynn emphasized that a violation of the terms of probation could lead him to impose the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Glynn added that the ruling also stripped Delgaudio of his ability to appeal.
Glynn ordered Delgaudio not to visit Baltimore's Patterson Park neighborhood, an area police said is known for prostitution, where Delgaudio was picked up by police in November 2001.
Delgaudio declined to comment after yesterday's session. In the courtroom, he told the judge, "I've learned more about the court system than I ever wanted to learn."
Delgaudio, 50, heads an array of conservative activist groups from offices in Fairfax County, according to filings with the Internal Revenue Service. He is listed as president of Legal Affairs Council Inc., which had $2.6 million in revenue in 2001, according to the filings. Delgaudio also is listed as chairman and director of the United States Intelligence Council and president of National Security Center Inc.
Both the prosecution and defense said they were satisfied with the judge's ruling yesterday.
"It certainly sends a message that you can't come into our city and take advantage of our children and take pictures of them," said Assistant State's Attorney Adam C. Rosenberg. "It's an admission of criminal wrongdoing on his part, and it effectively shuts down whatever operation he was engaged in."
But the probation deal also bypassed a series of difficult issues for both sides. A dispute over whether police properly acquired three of Delgaudio's sexually explicit photo albums resulted in the exclusion of the books as evidence, and there were allegations of police misconduct. Yesterday's deal included a commitment by federal prosecutors in Maryland and the Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney not to prosecute Delgaudio based on those books or other facts in the case, Rosenberg said.
Some in the conservative movement criticized Delgaudio.
"I would not want to associate myself with someone who engages in such behavior," said California Assemblyman Ray Haynes (R), whom Delgaudio had recruited to be the honorary chairman of the Western Conservative Conference scheduled for California this summer. Promotional material promised speeches by conservative favorites Edwin Meese III and Robert K. Dornan, among others.
"It's not a good thing, and it's not healthy for the movement," Haynes said.
Delgaudio's brother, Eugene, who runs an anti-gay lobbying group called Public Advocate and is a Loudoun County supervisor, said he did not know of Richard Delgaudio's legal troubles. "It doesn't sound like him," he said." (Michael Laris, The Washington Post, April 24, 2003)
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You have anything on the rigged 2004 Ohio electronic voting?
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In December, Colorado Republican Party activist Randal David Ankeney, 30, was charged in another sexual assault incident, following his July arrest for assaulting a 14-year-old girl he had met in an Internet chat room. (The December arrest involved what the Colorado Springs Gazette termed a "girl" but whose age was not disclosed.) And in February, the National Republican Congressional Committee withdrew the "Republican of the Year" award that had been scheduled to be presented to Virginia party activist Mark A. Grethen, 44; the committee had just learned of his conviction on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
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IMO, there are shitbags in both parties. I would be interested in seeing the comparisons - charges, and/or convictions, per party.
More interesting is when the party covers it up. No repub can possibly defend that action.
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You have anything on the rigged 2004 Ohio electronic voting?
No-----Go start a thread on it! ***I'm busy popping my getbig cherry*** Don't destrucktact me man! >:(
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IMO, there are shitbags in both parties. I would be interested in seeing the comparisons - charges, and/or convictions, per party.
More interesting is when the party covers it up. No repub can possibly defend that action.
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GOP Activist Accused Of Assaulting Another Girl
Latest Alleged Assault Not Connected To Previous Case
POSTED: 7:57 a.m. MST December 18, 2001
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A Republican activist already accused of sexually assaulting a girl he met on the Internet is now charged with assaulting another girl.
Randal David Ankeney, 30, was charged Monday with sexually assaulting a female whose age was not listed in court documents. A preliminary hearing on the new charge was scheduled for Jan. 14.
A trial for Ankeney, who once worked for the state Office of Economic Development, was originally scheduled for this week.
Prosecutor Amy Mullaney said the alleged victim is not the 13-year-old Fountain, Colo., girl . Prosecutors said Ankeney met that girl in an Internet chat room. Ankeney told her he was 25 years old and she claimed to be 14, court records said.
Ankeney is accused of picking her up in Fountain in July and taking her to his apartment in downtown Colorado Springs, Colo., where he allegedly provided her with marijuana before they had sex.
He dropped her off the next day at a fast food restaurant where she called a relative who then contacted police, according to his arrest report.
In that case, Ankeney is charged with sexual assault on a child, sexual exploitation of a child, committing a crime of violence, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, marijuana possession and possession of a bong.
Ankeney has worked as a volunteer on several local politicians' campaigns. Last year, Gov. Bill Owens appointed Ankeney as a business development representative in the Colorado Springs branch of the state Office of Economic Development. Ankeney resigned July 31, a day before he was arrested. He had been making $63,000 a year in that position.
Ankeney, who is free on $10,000 bond, declined comment on the allegations against him.
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Hypocrite of the House
The truth about Henry Hyde is that he is a dangerous ideologue who will gladly excuse his friends for the same misdeeds he condemns in his enemies.
Whenever official Washington finds itself descending into constitutional crisis, the natural tendency of the capital's opinion elite is to anoint an authority figure as the repository of reason. Believing that a man (and it's always a man) of extraordinary judgment, bipartisan probity and seasoned steadfastness is in charge makes everyone feel better. This fatherly icon is usually someone who has been hanging around Capitol Hill for decades. Occasionally, the aging official assigned this role is suited to it, as was the case with the late Sen. Sam Ervin, who chaired the Watergate hearings with such countrified aplomb.
But this time, as the House Judiciary Committee considers whether >and how to initiate an impeachment inquiry, the mantle of respectability has been thrust onto the shoulders of Rep. Henry Hyde, the committee's chairman. Journalists who discuss Hyde as if his first two names were actually "Universally Respected" are deeply invested in promoting this comforting image. That was why Salon's exposure of his longtime affair with a married woman so outraged the Washington establishment. Even more revealing than his ancient adultery was his description of that episode as a "youthful indiscretion."
No doubt Hyde is respected and liked by many of his colleagues. Yet the unfortunate truth about the Illinois Republican is that he is more wise-ass than wise man. And while he may seem reasonable in contrast with the militia man on his committee, Georgia Republican Bob Barr, Hyde is no moderate. The problem is not so much that he was once in love with somebody else's wife, but that his heart has always belonged to the far right. He eagerly forgives the crimes and sins of those who share his politics, but those who do not -- like the president -- should expect no mercy.
Hyde displayed his tolerance for right-wing extremism last April, when he appeared in Chicago's federal courthouse as a character witness for his old friend Joseph Scheidler. As the ringleader of a national network devoted to shutting down abortion clinics with physical force and threats if necessary, Scheidler was the lead defendant in a civil RICO lawsuit brought by the National Organization for Women. In NOW vs. Scheidler, the plaintiffs argued that Scheidler, Operation Rescue's Randall Terry and others had organized a "racketeering conspiracy" over several years to deprive women of the right to choice. The jury upheld NOW's complaint and found Scheidler and his comrades responsible for 120 "criminal predicate" acts of violence.
Before the verdict came in, however, Hyde took the witness stand to vouch for Joe Scheidler. A veteran anti-abortion activist himself, Hyde said he had been Scheidler's friend for at least 25 years. "He is a hero to me," the Judiciary chairman testified. "He has the guts that I wish more of us had." But he later claimed he was unaware of Scheidler's notorious reputation for closing down abortion clinics with physical force.
Asked whether he endorsed Scheidler's "unlawful conduct," Hyde replied, "I would deplore unlawful behavior, especially if it's a good law, a moral law." Before judging Scheidler's lawbreaking, Hyde added, "I would want to talk to him to find out why he is advocating breaking the law." Hyde said his view of his friend's conduct "might" depend "on which law Mr. Scheidler is breaking." Although the judge frequently admonished him to answer "yes or no" when NOW attorneys cross-examined him, Hyde could barely restrain his sarcasm. He compared abortion clinics to Auschwitz and anti-abortion protesters to the civil rights movement. When a NOW lawyer inquired about a technique for barricading clinic doorways called "lock-and-block," Hyde shot back, "Did they do that at Selma?"
Hyde did agree that he had sworn to uphold the Constitution and the law as enunciated by the Supreme Court. But a few minutes later, when asked, "Mr. Hyde, would you vouch for the character or the integrity of anyone who openly proclaimed that he would not obey the laws of the land?" he answered, "Absolutely. Absolutely. If the law of the land is immoral and condones [killing] unborn children, I think that's heroic." In other words, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee believes that the law must be upheld, except when he feels that the law doesn't meet his definition of morality.
Perhaps Hyde really does feel that "abortuaries" are the same as death camps, although if so it is hard to see why he hasn't mounted the barricades himself. But Joe Scheidler isn't the only rightist miscreant for whom Hyde has sought lenient treatment. Another was his former Republican colleague from Illinois, Rep. Dan Crane, once a leading light of the new right.
In 1983, after a yearlong investigation by the House Ethics Committee, Crane was found to have engaged in an illicit sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl working as a congressional page. When the question of whether the House should expel, censure or merely reprimand Crane reached the floor, Hyde popped up to beg mercy for his friend.
"We sit here not to characterize the crime, the breach, the transgression, because we all know the transgression, which is admitted and it is stipulated as reprehensible." Even so, Hyde pleaded, "In searching our souls for the appropriate punishment, I ask the members to consider this situation in its totality, in its entire context."
Crane deserved mercy, Hyde explained, because he already had suffered enough. "He is embarrassed, he is humiliated, he is disgraced. And it endures; it is not over ... Every shred of dignity will be stripped away from Dan Crane, and it will endure." (Does any of this sound familiar yet?) Hyde concluded movingly, "I suggest to the members that compassion and justice are not antithetical; they are complementary. The Judeo-Christian tradition says hate the sin and love the sinner. We are on record as hating the sin, some more ostentatiously than others. I think it is time to love the sinner." Bowing to Hyde and others, the House voted to censure Crane rather than expel him.
Fifteen years later, however, we probably shouldn't hold our collective breath waiting for the Judiciary chairman to urge love and understanding for that liberal Democrat sinner in the White House.After all, Henry Hyde is a moral man, sworn to uphold the law.
SALON | Oct. 5, 1998
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Christian leader did touch girls, police say
Lawsuit - Lou Beres told Gresham detectives that he acted inappropriately with three teens, the report says
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
JEFF MAPES
Lou Beres, longtime leader of the Oregon Christian Coalition, told police that he had sexually touched three underage girls years ago, according to a newly released report from the Gresham Police Department.
Beres denied allegations of sexual molestation when they first came to light in The Oregonian last October. Gresham police last fall investigated allegations Beres had molested underage family members, but Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Shrunk said the allegations occurred so long ago that Beres couldn't face charges under the statute of limitations.
In March, Beres, 70, was sued in Multnomah County Circuit Court for $2.1 million by a relative who said he molested her repeatedly between 1963 and 1966.
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Beres didn't return a phone call Tuesday. His attorney, John Kaempf, said the statements attributed to Beres by the police were not accurate.
Last fall, Beres said he would withdraw from public life while he fought the allegations. However, as late as last week, records show that he signed a $50 check on the Oregon Christian Coalition checking account to renew the group's business registration with the state.
When asked about Beres' relationship with the Oregon Christian Coalition, Kaempf said Beres would ask the coalition -- which is now largely inactive -- to "file the necessary paperwork with the state to formalize Mr. Beres' resignation as its chairman."
The Gresham police report was released because of the lawsuit. It recites two conversations Beres had with police investigators after being told they were looking at allegations past the statute of limitations.
Beres "readily admitted sexually touching" the plaintiff in the lawsuit when she was 13 or 14 years old, according to the report. He also acknowledged sexually touching a 16 or 17-year-old friend of his daughter in 1976 or 1977.
In a later telephone call with an investigator, "he made admissions to three separate victims at three different times," the police report said. "All involved underage females. The offenses ranged from kissing to touching the breast of an underage girl.
"(Beres) identified the victims as his sister-in-law and two friends of his daughters," said one of the investigators, Detective Lee Gosson of Multnomah County Sheriff's Department. "It should be noted that Mr. Beres said his activities with the girls were in a playful fashion. I told him that the acts were sexual and he agreed."
Beres told police that he had received counseling through his church and admitted his mistakes years ago, according to the report. However, other relatives expressed concern to police that the abuse continued for several years through more than one generation of the family, according to the report. Kaempf said that in addition to disputing the statements in the police report, Beres also denied the allegations in the lawsuit. A hearing is scheduled next month on a motion by Kaempf to dismiss the lawsuit.
The Oregonian is not naming the plaintiff in the lawsuit because the paper generally does not identify people who allege they are victims of sexual assault.
Michele Combs, spokeswoman for the national office of the Christian Coalition, said Tuesday that she would check on Beres' status with the group but didn't provide an answer and couldn't be reached in subsequent phone calls.
The Oregon Christian Coalition shut its office last year and does not appear to have any paid staff here. Tim Nashif of the Oregon Family Council, another conservative Christian group, said the coalition is "not doing anything" in the state as far as he can see.
At one time, Beres had been active in state Republican circles and was on the central committee. However, he backed losing candidates for chairman at least three times, and Nashif said Beres got almost no support when he tried to win a seat on the Republican National Committee.
Jeff Mapes: 503-221-8209; jeffmapes@news.oregonian.com
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Courtesy of Rodney Jackson, HRCF Net
Bauman Bombs Out...In October, Maryland Rep. Robert Bauman is
arrested for sex with a 16-year-old male prostitute. After the
Republican lost his seat in November, he blames his downfall on his
"twin compulsions" of alcoholism and homosexuality; Gays blame it
on his hypocrisy.
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State Police seize 29 in distribution of child-rape video
Police charge another 7 with possession as sweep nets pediatric surgeon and high school coach
Friday, January 28, 2005
BY RICK HEPP
Star-Ledger Staff
State Police said yesterday they arrested 29 people across New Jersey for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped, including a pediatric neurosurgeon from Basking Ridge, a hockey coach from Morristown and a local Republican Party chairman from Sparta.
Another seven were arrested on charges of possessing the graphic footage on their computers, although additional charges could be filed based on a forensic examination of their hard drives, police said. Of those arrested, 10 were juveniles as young as 14 and one was a registered sex offender, police said.
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"Republican Marty" - NEW! Weeks on chart: 1 - You want laughable hypocrisy? Well get a load of this. "Seven years ago," wrote Tallahassee political commentator Marty Glickman (aka Republican Marty) in his newsletter The Ugly Truth, "a rednecked, classless pervert named Clinton from a low rent state like Arkansas was tearing down all standards for the highest office in the land... Decency, morals, telling the truth, and standing accountable were all American values that were on the line. With a rapist, a liar, and a sexual harasser and his First Enabler Hillary Clinton in charge; the country and it's children were perilously close to sinking beneath recovery." Harsh words, but we hope they taste good - because Republican Marty sure is eating them right now. Last week he was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a juvenile and one count of the delivery of LSD. Yes, it turns out that Marty was doing his own bit to help the children of America by giving drugs and money to underage girls in exchange for sex. Fortunately, since Marty is so keen on people standing accountable, he probably doesn't mind that he's looking at seventy-five years in prison if he's convicted.
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Assemblyman's aide accused of molesting 12-year-old boy
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An arrest warrant has been issued for a 61-year-old assemblyman's aide who allegedly molested a 12-year-old boy.
Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill was still outstanding late Thursday but is expected to surrender as early as Friday, law enforcement authorities said.
The Antelope Valley businessman has been a field representative since spring for Assemblyman Phil Wyman, R-Tehachapi. Messages left for Wyman at his state capitol and Tehachapi offices late Thursday were not returned.
Brooks is accused of committing lewd acts on a child, continuous sexual abuse, and possession of child pornography, said county prosecutor Rouman Ebrahim. The abuse allegedly occurred between March and November 2000.
A telephone listing for a Howard Brooks in Quartz Hill had a recording saying the number had been disconnected. There were no other listings.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Family Crimes Bureau began investigating Brooks after he allegedly sent a sexually explicit letter to an inmate at California State Prison in Sacramento, the prosecutor said.
"It talked about sexual conduct with young boys," prosecutor Ebrahim said, adding that the "pen-pal type" letter was intercepted by prison officials.
Authorities believe there may be more victims and are extending their investigation to include boys who belonged to the Antelope Valley YMCA, where Brooks served as director during the 1980s.
The warrant was issued Tuesday.
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More charges for Swartz?
Police: Ex-commissioner had sex with second girl
MANSFIELD -- Former Richland County Commissioner David Swartz is under investigation after being accused of sexual involvement with a second child for five years, according to the sheriff's department.
Swartz, 66, of 6847 Bowman Street Road, Shelby, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery Feb. 2 and awaits sentencing that could land him in prison for up to 10 years.
Swartz resigned his position as commissioner Jan. 19, the same day he was forced to make an initial court appearance to face those charges. He was accused of sexually abusing a now-17-year-old girl for more than a decade.
Authorities have information that Swartz sexually abused a second girl, now 19, from 1990 to 1995, according to Richland County Sheriff's Sgt. Jeff McBride, a detective for children's services.
McBride said the allegations that Swartz abused the second girl did not stem from the initial investigation, but he would not reveal how he received the second complaint.
He said the second investigation began in mid-February.
"Another investigation is going on against him involving another minor child," McBride said. He said Swartz had long-term access to both girls, but his alleged abuse of the second girl is believed to have stopped in 1995.
The dates make the girl 6 to 11 years of age during the reported abuse. McBride said the investigation is basically complete, and he anticipates meeting with Knox County Prosecutor John Baker to discuss charges. Baker has been appointed special prosecutor in the Swartz case because of the former commissioner's relationship with local authorities.
The charges Swartz admitted to in the initial case are for sexually abusing the first girl from 2000 to 2004. Swartz admitted in court to engaging in sex with the girl.
He told investigators the abuse started when the child was about 6 years old, according to paperwork filed in the first case. McBride said that conversation occurred when he confronted Swartz in his commissioner's office.
Visiting Knox County Common Pleas Judge Otho Eyster has not set a sentencing date for the first case, according to his office.
Swartz, a potato farmer, has not been charged in the second case, and Baker did not return a call seeking comment.
"I'm going to have to take a look at it," Swartz's attorney Bob Whitney said Wednesday. "I haven't seen any paperwork on it or anything."
Swartz is free on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond.
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dumbass, you do realize that the MB in NAMBLA stands for Man/Boy right?
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Copyright 1996 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
June 6, 1996, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section B; Page 15; Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 784 words
HEADLINE: POLITICS: THE SENATE;
Maine Candidate Again Faces 1990 Child-Sex Accusation
BYLINE: By SARA RIMER
DATELINE: BOSTON, June 5 1996
A Maine Republican seeking a seat in the United States Senate who has cast himself as a champion of family values, became a center of controversy today after New England newspapers published six-year-old accusations that he had had sex with his children's 12-year-old baby sitter.
The Boston Globe, The Portland Press Herald and The Bangor Daily News in Maine said the candidate, W. John Hathaway, a multimillionaire state senator and Republican fundraiser, was a real estate developer in Huntsville, Ala., when the accusations were made in 1990.
With the closely contested Republican primary six days away, Mr. Hathaway, 44, went on television today to say the accusations were untrue.
With his mother, his wife and his five children by his side, he accused one of his two Republican opponents, Robert A. G. Monks, of planting the story, and described the girl as a "troubled" former patient of a mental institution.
According to The Portland Press Herald, the girl's mother said that Mr. Hathaway's accusation was untrue and that the girl had been in a therapeutic center.
Mr. Monks' press secretary, Bill Johnson, said in a telephone interview that Mr. Monks had hired a "campaign research firm" to investigate rumors about Mr. Hathaway's conduct in Alabama but that the rumors had not been confirmed. Mr. Johnson said Mr. Monks had nothing to do with the news stories.
The Globe and The Portland Press Herald both quoted the former Alabama Attorney General, a Democrat, and the former Madison County District Attorney, who is a Republican, as saying that they did not present evidence of statutory rape to a grand jury because the girl's family had decided not to cooperate.
The former Alabama Attorney General, Jimmy Evans, told The Globe: "The allegations were very, very serious and involved a minor. At the request of the family, and based on the recommendations of psychological professionals, the case was not pursued for fear of further traumatizing the minor.
Had it not been for the recommendation of those professionals and the grief of the family, the case would have been actively and aggressively pursued."
Both prosecutors were quoted as saying that Mr. Hathaway denied the accusations at the time. No formal charges were ever filed.
Mr. Hathaway spent the day "aggressively defending his character and his campaign," his campaign manager, Terry Holt, said. Mr. Holt said the candidate was "reminding folks that although an awful lot of ink was devoted to the story this morning, no charges were filed."
Recent polls have given another Republican candidate, Susan Collins, a slim lead in the race for the seat, which became open after Senator William S. Cohen decided to retire. The polls also indicated that Mr. Monks was a few points ahead of Mr. Hathaway. A former Maine governor, Joe Brennan, is expected to win the Democratic primary Tuesday.
"Although Hathaway still might have been on bottom, only a few percentage points could have changed things," William H. Coogan, a professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine said in a telephone interview.
He added: "I think these allegations have killed the Hathaway campaign. He's put in the position of trying to prove a negative."
Apparently concerned about the rumors, which had persisted for several months in Maine political circles, Mr. Hathaway had asked both his opponents during a debate Monday to refrain from personal attacks in the campaign's final days.
Mr. Hathaway, who refers to himself as "a small businessman and a big family man," and has been an energetic, big-spending campaigner, drew enthusiastic support from Maine's growing number of conservatives at the state Republican convention last weekend. Mr. Hathaway, who opposes gay rights legislation, spoke to the crowd about the importance of "values in keeping the dream alive."
In a profile of Mr. Hathaway in May, The Portland Press Herald described him as "a mystery man," who had grown up in Gardiner, Me., but made his fortune in the housing market in Huntsville, Ala. According to the profile, he once said to The Huntsville Times, speaking of his hometown: "Nothing's ever happened there, and nothing ever will."
But after spending a decade in Alabama, and making millions there, he returned to Maine in 1993. His family settled on a farm in Kennebunkport, and a year later he won election to the state Senate.
The Herald reported that Mr. Hathaway had hired as consultants Richard Wirthlin, who was former President Ronald Reagan's pollster, David Beckwith, former press secretary to former Vice President Dan Quayle, and Dave Carney, a former top aide to former President George Bush.
GRAPHIC: Photo: W. John Hathaway, a Maine Republican, was joined by his family yesterday as he denied having had sex with a baby sitter. (Associated Press)
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Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
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Copyright 2000 Chicago Tribune Company Chicago Tribune
February 10, 2000 Thursday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 3; ZONE: M; In the Midwest.
LENGTH: 213 words
HEADLINE: ANTI-GAY MOLESTER GETS 40-YEAR SENTENCE
BYLINE: From Tribune News Services.
DATELINE: ANDERSON, INDIANA
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A man who gained notoriety for stopping a gay man from adopting a girl under his foster care was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for molesting her.
Earl Kimmerling, pleaded guilty in January to four counts of molesting his foster daughter, now 9. He and his wife, Saundra, fought in 1998 to keep the girl from being adopted by Craig Peterson, a homosexual who had adopted the girl's three brothers.
At sentencing, Kimmerling tearfully apologized and pleaded for leniency. But Judge Frederick Spencer called Kimmerling's crime a betrayal of trust and ordered him to serve 40 years.
"It's hypocrisy at its highest level. He holds himself out to be a person of God, as a representative of the Christian community, and at the same time engaging in outrageous behavior," said Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings.
During the adoption fight, the Kimmerlings gained support from political figures including Anderson Mayor Mark Lawler and Republican state Reps. Jack Lutz of Anderson and Woody Burton of Greenwood, whose proposal to ban gay adoptions failed in the Legislature.
The Kimmerlings eventually succeeded in adopting the girl, but in May 1998 Kimmerling was charged with 10 counts of sexual molestation after Saundra Kimmerling notified police.
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It appears there are alot of pervs around.
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It appears there are alot of pervs around.
and some of these pervs get off on carefully observing the details of other pervs' actions. :P
voyeurs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sex Scandal Rocks Montana Town
Businessman Alleged To Have Paid Women More Than $1 Million
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 15, 2004; Page A03
KALISPELL, Mont. -- Until he was arrested this year in his underwear in a motel room with a nearly naked young woman who was behind in her payments to his finance company, no businessman in this town was more respected than Richard A. Dasen Sr.
He had won the "Great Chief" award, the highest honor a local business leader can receive from the Chamber of Commerce. A nominating letter for the award described him as "the epitome of the reason we all want to live in the Kalispell area."
Dasen was an energetic force in the construction of a hospital, a ski resort and a large hotel that established this northwest Montana town of 15,000 as a player in the convention business of the Rocky Mountain West. He was impressively energetic, too, in charitable and social causes, serving as a church elder, helping teenagers finish high school and volunteering his time to Christian Financial Counseling, which helped people manage debts.
Since his arrest in February in a sting operation at a cut-rate local motel, police have unearthed a side of Dasen's life that, while impressively energetic, is decidedly less civic-minded.
Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women, many of whom were in legal trouble, addicted to drugs and in debt to him, according to court documents.
When police asked Dasen how many of these women there had been, he said there had been too many to count.
Dasen apparently lost count, too, police say, of how much money he paid all these women.
Investigators counting his checks -- he paid by check, in amounts of $1,000 to $6,000 per encounter, sometimes as much as $130,000 a month -- now estimate that Dasen spent at least $5 million, said Charles Harball, the city attorney.
"He pretty much single-handedly funded the methamphetamine trade here in Kalispell for a number of years," Harball said, as women used the money Dasen paid them to pay for their habits.
Since Dasen's arrest the flow of money to local methamphetamine users seems to have dried up, Harball said, adding that there has been a "flood of petty crime from addicts seeking cash for their habit."
Police continue to investigate where Dasen's money came from.
"He had access to a lot of funds from a lot of different sources, and there is really no accounting for any of it," Harball said.
The state Department of Public Health and Human Services is also trying to find out what Dasen, as a court-appointed conservator, did with $500,000 awarded in a product-liability settlement for the long-term care of a severely brain-damaged child.
In an affidavit filed last month in the county court overseeing the conservatorship, a state social worker said the money under Dasen's control disappeared with "no formal accounting" between 1995 and 2000. Since then, the child, having turned up in the local hospital with severe malnutrition and infected ulcers on his backside, has become a ward of the state.
So far, Dasen has been charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year-old girl for sex. The age of consent in Montana is 16. He has also been charged with two felony counts of promoting prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, and his attorney, George Best, declined to comment on any aspect of the case.
A trial on the rape and prostitution charges is scheduled for early next year, and law enforcement officials say that they are continuing an investigation into any accounting and tax irregularities concerning Dasen.
Then there is the matter of Dasen's DNA, which the state crime lab says was detected on a semen-stained bedspread in Room 233 of the Kalispell Motel 6 -- the room in which Darlene Wilcock, 26, was found strangled in April of last year. No one has been arrested in her death.
A law enforcement official familiar with the woman's autopsy report said that semen from two men was found on her body, neither of them Dasen.
The discovery of Dasen's semen at the crime scene, this official said, may simply be a coincidence, the kind of thing that can happen to a man who often has sex in motel rooms where bedspreads are rarely washed. A number of women have told police that they had sex with Dasen in the Motel 6.
Many of the women Dasen allegedly paid for sex met him when they came to Christian Financial Counseling for help in consolidating and managing their debts. Dasen ran the nonprofit organization and also owns a private finance firm, Budget Finance.
Detectives have interviewed about 40 of these women, and many of them have said that Dasen "used their indebtedness to him to coerce them to have sex," Kalispell Police Chief Frank Garner said.
If Dasen was "not satisfied with the sexual services that he was receiving, it was common for [him] to arrange for repossession of vehicles that he has purchased or funded for those females, through his finance company," according to a confidential informant's statement to police that is quoted in court documents.
Back in February, news of Dasen's arrest astonished many of his longtime business associates, political acquaintances and fellow church members. Several called the police chief to complain of overzealous law enforcement. The calls stopped, the chief said, as more details emerged about the scale of Dasen's sexual appetites.
"Dick's dark side was done with extreme discretion," said Dean Jellison, a retired lawyer and GOP activist who has known Dasen for nearly 35 years. "The news was a complete and utter shock to the community."
Part of the shock derived from the respect that Dasen had earned for his volunteer work as a financial counselor. Many judges, law enforcement officials and ministers in town had referred troubled young couples with debt problems to Dasen -- and they credit him with having saved many marriages.
"He was incredibly benevolent," said Denise Cofer, a local activist in the Christian Coalition and a Republican candidate in the fall election for county commissioner. She said that Dasen was a reliable supporter of conservative Christian causes, such as opposition to abortion.
"If there was a need in the community, he was there," she said.
While rumors about Dasen's sexual appetites may not have bubbled up to the level of judges, politicians and preachers before his arrest, they apparently had percolated down to many working-class people, especially those with debt problems.
"When my wife and I were having some problems with money five years ago, a friend recommended that we go see Dasen," said Steve Southland, who manages a warehouse in town. "But my friend knew enough to warn me not to send my wife alone."
When Dasen talked to police shortly after his arrest, he characterized his for-pay sexual activities with young women as "helping" them, according to a detective's affidavit that summarizes Dasen's conversation with police.
When a detective asked him to explain how he was helping the women, the affidavit said that Dasen replied that when he thought about it, he realized he was not helping them after all.
Dasen said, too, that he believes he has a problem, perhaps an addiction. But he added, according to the affidavit, that he believes he is more addicted to "helping" than to sex.
Awaiting trial, Dasen is free on $50,000 bail and staying with his wife at their vacation home in Arizona.
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Disgraced ex-Giuliani official claims mental illness, judge prescribes prison
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A former top Giuliani administration official insisted mental illness made him do "all these wacky things" -- like embezzling hundreds of thousands of city dollars -- but a federal judge Thursday didn't buy it, sentencing him to 63 months behind bars.
Russell Harding, 40, former president of the New York City Housing Development Corp., pleaded guilty in March to stealing more than $400,000 for his personal use and possessing child pornography.
Prosecutors charged that Harding spent thousands on trips to Hong Kong, Las Vegas and Vancouver, a bachelor party dinner for a friend and spa treatments he listed as agency expenses.
As part of the probe, the child porn was found on his computer.
Harding suggested his prosecution was politically motivated by the Bloomberg administration, and he noted that in 2001, he picked up the tab for dinner with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his girlfriend that included "copious amounts of wine."
Harding said he wasn't a pedophile, and he added, "I fell into the wrong crowd. This is a fact. It simply happened."
Harding's lawyer, Gerald Shargel, told U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan his client had "never been able to come to terms with his sexual identity."
Then Harding, a rumpled, pasty man wearing orange and khaki prison fatigues, spoke for 40 minutes. He described his successes at the agency -- until Kaplan interrupted him, saying he was "starting to sound like a stump speech for election for president of HDC."
He also minimized the significance of the 10 child pornography images out of 1,500 porn images he owned, saying, "It is a rounding error, a percentage. Again, I'm not making excuses."
He called his online pornographic chats "fantasy" and said he was like "millions" of people who daily engaged in such virtual discussions.
Harding's voice choked with emotion as he insisted he already suffered enough.
"I'm destitute, I'm penniless, I'm loveless," he said. "My future is goose egg. Zero. I am never going to head an organization again ... I am deeply embarrassed, and I accept responsibility."
Kaplan replied, "I am not entirely persuaded that the defendant has fully accepted responsibility for his actions. I think he raised as many doubts in my mind as he satisfied this morning. He has failed to appreciate there there's a fundamental difference between the use of HDC funds."
Kaplan said he was not convinced of Harding's claims of mental illness, saying they were "excuses for conduct for which the defendant is fully responsible." He ordered him to pay $366,799 in restitution.
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Same old stuff from young Republicans
By ROBERT PRICE, Californian staff columnist
e-mail: rprice@bakersfield.com
Posted: Thursday November 13th, 2003, 11:20 PM
Last Updated: Thursday November 13th, 2003, 11:20 PM
Considering the way things went the last time Kern County's two major Republican Party factions squared off, Karen DeWalt's choice of dress was probably appropriate.
She wore a black-and-white striped referee's jersey to this week's meeting of the Kern County Republican Central Committee. DeWalt, the committee chairwoman, had a whistle and a yellow penalty flag, too.
The meeting didn't get as testy as last time, when feuding advocates for the county's two major GOP camps got a bit worked up. But DeWalt, who'd been told what to expect this time, thought she'd better be ready to lighten the mood, just in case.
Young Republicans vs. Young Republicans, chapter umpteen, was relatively peaceful. That doesn't mean everybody left the meeting happy.
You remember this little rivalry, don't you? It runs a close second to that other, slightly better known rivalry, Old Republicans vs. Old Democrats.
The county's central committee recognizes only one group that calls itself Young Republicans: the Kern County Young Republicans, founded in 1954 and affiliated with the Young Republican National Federation. It's the one that's generally associated with Rep. Bill Thomas, the Bakersfield-based congressman.
The other is the Young Republican Federation of Kern County, founded in 1993 and sanctioned by the California Republican Party. It's the one that's generally associated with Roy Ashburn, the Bakersfield-based state senator. (Both groups interpret the word "young" liberally, if you'll pardon the choice of adverbs: They're both open to GOP'ers between 18 and about 40.)
Monday night, Ashburn asked the central committee to end the divisiveness once and for all by voting to officially recognize the local YR Federation. He had the backing of Assemblyman Bill Maze of Visalia, who has constituents in eastern Kern County and, like Ashburn, is a voting member of the central committee.
Zack Scrivner, president of the Kern County Young Republicans, urged committee members to vote no. The names of the two groups are too similar, he said, and people have been confused because of it.
He said voters have received campaign mailings endorsing different slates of Republican candidates that, to the uncritical eye, appear to come from the same organization. He said campaign contributors have donated to one group, having intended to give to the other.
Scrivner also mentioned the sad case of Nicholas Elizondo, a YR Federation board member convicted of molesting a 6-year-old girl and sent to prison several years ago. Scrivner said people telephoned the wrong YR office to express their outrage after the story hit the news.
Federation advocates counter that the central committee recognizes other similarly named pairs, such as the Kern County Hispanic Congress of Republicans (aligned with the Thomasites) and the Kern County National Republican Hispanic Assembly (in the other corner, alongside Ashburn et al).
Those names aren't all that similar, the other side counter-counters.
Scrivner's Young Republicans got their way again, winning 22-4 in a secret-ballot vote Monday night.
It's been long suggested that the split has its roots in the conservative vs. more conservative viewpoints championed, respectively, by Thomas and Ashburn. According to Scrivner, it's simpler than that.
"It's not about ideology," said Scrivner, 29. "It's all about the confusion over the similarities in the two names. I'm not going to suggest any (new) names for them. If I had my way, they would just became part of our organization. They're good Republicans; we'd just be stronger."
That marriage is not likely, said Angela Colvin, chairwoman of the YR Federation.
"Just because they don't recognize us, we're not going to go away," said Colvin, 30. "We're going to keep working for the people we believe in."
She said the YR Federation may try again to win official recognition from the county's central committee, though there haven't been any conversations about that yet.
She's still too confused about the alleged confusion to worry about further reconciliation efforts now.
"We're the only (YR Federation group in California) ... that's not recognized by its own (county Republican) central committee," she said. "I don't know why (the name similarity) ... is only confusing in Kern County."
Um. Maybe it's a localized phenomenon, sort of like that problem with butterfly ballots in Palm Beach County, Fla.
Scrivner's take: Talk to the hand. He's not so sure the YR Federation's purpose, in selecting its near-identical name 10 years ago, wasn't to intentionally create confusion.
"I don't know any other way to explain it," Scrivner said.
I can't explain it either, but I've got a theory. About the feud in general, I mean.
It's as much about power as it is simple recognition, and as much about power and influence as the right to a name.
Like that was hard to figure out.
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GOP Campaign Manager Guilty of Corruption of Minors
June 16, 2006 1:44 PM
Brian Ross Reports:
ABC News' Andrew Katz and Fiore Mastroianni contributed to this report.
A man convicted of "corruption of minors" after being accused of having sex with two teenage girls is working as the campaign manager for a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona, according to documents obtained by ABC News.
Steve Aiken, a former Quakertown, Pa. police officer and self-proclaimed reverend, was convicted of two counts of corruption of a minor stemming from his 1995 sexual relationships with two teenage girls. He served almost two-and-a-half months at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility.
Aiken is listed as campaign manager for Randy Graf, a Republican in a five-way primary for the Congressional seat in Arizona's 8th district.
Aiken told ABC News he had been "falsely accused and convicted" of the two misdemeanor counts.
Aiken says the candidate, Graf, was fully aware of the conviction when he was hired as campaign manager.
"What he did was no more serious than providing a teenager with beer," Graf told ABC News. "I believe Steve when he says he was falsely accused."
The "corruption of minor" violations in Pennsylvania did not require Aiken to register as a sex offender.
Aiken advertises himself on his website as a leader of conservative thought, displaying photos of himself with leading Republicans including former President George H.W. Bush, Tom Delay, and Pat Buchanan.
Since his conviction, Aiken also has worked as a spokesperson for the Traditional Values Coalition, a Washington lobby group that represents over 43,000 churches. A spokesman for the Coalition would only say, "He is no longer with us."
The self-proclaimed reverend met the underage teens in Pennsylvania through YouthQuest, a Christian counseling agency.
According to testimony by the victim, reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Aiken "came into her room while she was asleep, undressed her and began to rub her breasts."
Aiken reportedly forced himself on the girl about 15 times in the course of four months, according to the Inquirer.
Aiken says the girls "made up the charges" because he had kicked them out of the YouthQuest program.
According to the Allentown Morning Call, at his sentencing hearing in June 1996, Aiken said, "Steve Aiken's days of helping kids are over."
In addition to his political activities, Aiken also hosts a weekly radio program on KVOI in Tucson. Aiken's website includes a "help wanted" page seeking high school or college students to work as volunteer interns on the radio program.
On the show he espouses American traditional values and the abolition of "hate crimes" punishments.
Aiken says "it's all politics" and that he expected someone to dig up his past as the election neared in Arizona.
Aiken says the Secret Service raised his convictions when he was invited to a White House event in Sept. 2004. Aiken says he was eventually able to explain and gain access to a series of special briefings for Republicans inside the White House.
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USA TODAY
October 29, 1990
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 3A
Minn. nominee quits gov's race
Hounded by sex scandals, Republican Jon Grunseth quit the Minnesota governor's race Sunday night.
''The events of the last three weeks have put enormous pressure on (my) family and on the political process and on the people of Minnesota,'' Grunseth said from his home in Afton. ''I therefore decided to withdraw.''
His resignation nine days before the election - a move apparently without precedent in the USA in recent memory - threw the election into chaos.
Gov. Rudy Perpich of the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party remains on the ballot.
But the nominee of the Independent-Republican Party, if there will even be one, remains an intra-party mystery to be hashed out by a 4: 30 p.m. Friday filing deadline.
Grunseth's campaign went into a tailspin Oct. 15, after allegations he had invited four teen-age girls, including his adopted daughter, to swim nude with him at a 1981 party. One of the girls said he also tried to touch her breast.
He nearly resigned last Thursday, but changed his mind after a 3 1/2-hour meeting with key campaign strategists.
Then, Sunday, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune published a story in which Grunseth admitted a ''romantic'' relationship with a 32-year-old woman. The woman, Tamara Taylor of Minnetonka, said she and Grunseth had an intermittent affair from 1980 to 1989.
Grunseth, 44, was divorced in 1983 and married his present wife, Vicki, in 1984.
''I always haven't been a perfect person. I think I'm a pretty decent guy but I've made some mistakes and I feel badly about that, too,'' Grunseth said.
In withdrawing, Grunseth implored his party to unite because of the ''superb opportunity'' to beat Perpich.
The party, however, is controlled by a conservative faction that has little use for Arne Carlson, who finished second to Grunseth in the primary.
But Carlson, who began a write-in campaign after the original charges were leveled at Grunseth, may be the party's only hope to defeat Perpich, a three- term incumbent who has lost popular support. The most recent polls show Carlson 10 points ahead of Perpich in a head-to-head contest.
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Harris gets prison term for molesting girl
By LAURIA LYNCH-GERMAN
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Last Updated: Oct. 22, 2001
West Bend - A former West Bend alderman was sentenced to 12 years in prison Monday after he admitted to molesting a girl.
Mark Harris, 44, struggled with his words during a statement to Washington County Circuit Judge Annette Ziegler.
"I did some very bad things, I damaged a child," Harris said. "I, Mark Harris, molested . . . words, words fail me."
Harris was found guilty of one count of repeated sexual assault of the same child after a two-year series of events that involved indecent touching and showing pornography to the girl. He could have faced 60 years in prison.
She was 11 when the molestation began and was 13 when she told a school liaison officer about the events earlier this year.
The girl's father also spoke at the sentencing.
"Did he have a moral compass? Did he act with a conscience?" he asked. "Did he abide by the laws? No. It wasn't one time. He did it over and over and over."
Two of Harris' brothers and three friends spoke on his behalf, presenting him as a good military man, a churchgoer and a provider for his family. One brother called Harris' actions an aberration.
Assistant District Attorney Holly Bunch said Harris was a predator and ridiculed an earlier statement from Harris that the incidents were unintentional.
"It cannot be argued with a straight face that it was accidental," she said.
She said the victim still has nightmares.
Deborah Strigenz, Harris' attorney, said her client had waived his preliminary hearing and right to a trial to spare the girl the trauma of testifying.
"He is very remorseful; he is taking responsibility for his actions," she said.
After Harris completes the 12-year prison sentence, he will be under the supervision of the Department of Corrections for 18 years.
Harris was an alderman representing the 8th District from 1998 to 2001. He was appointed to the Common Council after an alderman who represented the district moved from the area. Harris ran successfully for a full term. But he failed to file papers for re-election on time and did not run in the last election.
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The Virginian-Pilot(Norfolk, Va.)
January 14, 2003 Tuesday Final Edition
REGENT LAW STUDENT CHARGED WITH INTERNET SEX CRIME
BYLINE: JON FRANK THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH
A third-year law student at Regent University, who helped run several successful campaigns for local Republicans, was arrested Jan. 10 and charged with two counts of soliciting sex with a minor over the Internet.
Robin Vanderwall is being held without bond in the Virginia Beach City Jail.
Vanderwall, 34, is charged with two felonies - use of a communication device for crimes against children and attempted indecent liberties with a child 14 or younger.
Vanderwall was arrested after he contacted a Virginia Beach police officer who was posing as an underage boy in an Internet chat room, according to prosecutors. The officer agreed to meet with Vanderwall at a Virginia Beach park on the evening of Jan. 10. Vanderwall was arrested when he showed up at the park.
Vanderwall ran Del. Robert F. McDonnell's successful campaign against former Sheriff Frank Drew for the House of Delegates in 1999.
McDonnell, who is in Richmond now for the General Assembly session, said Vanderwall has not worked for him since then.
"He did a very good job in my campaign," McDonnell said Monday. "He was diligent and a hard worker. I am shocked by the accusations."
McDonnell said Vanderwall is a graduate of The Citadel and attends law school at Regent University.
Since 1999, Vanderwall has worked in other Republican campaigns, McDonnell said, including the successful campaign of Del. G. Glenn Oder, R-Newport News.
Last summer, he was an intern in the office of Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney Harvey L. Bryant III.
Bryant said Monday that a special prosecutor will be brought in to handle Vanderwall's case.
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The Virginian-Pilot(Norfolk, Va.) April 23, 2004 Friday
April 23, 2004 Friday Final Edition
EX-LAW STUDENT CONVICTED OF SEX CRIMES;
POLICE SET TRAPS IN WEB CHAT ROOMS WHERE BEACH MAN PREYED ON CHILDREN
BY: Jon Frank THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH
In the summer of 2002, Robin W. Vanderwall appeared to have a bright professional future in the worlds of politics and law.
He was a law student at Regent University and had secured an internship with Commonwealth's Attorney Harvey L. Bryant III.
Vanderwall also had been a political strategist with several successful campaigns. In 1999, he ran Del. Robert F. McDonnell's successful campaign against former Sheriff Frank Drew.
On Thursday, Vanderwall's professional future came to an end.
After a three-day nonjury trial, Circuit Judge A. Joseph Canada Jr. convicted Vanderwall, 35, of five counts of soliciting sex with children via the Internet and one count of attempted indecent liberties with children.
Vanderwall faces up to 55 years in prison when he is sentenced June 21.
Canada said the case highlighted the Internet's power for good and evil. "Maybe this will send a message to weirdos out there using the Internet in an inappropriate way," he said.
The case also highlighted the complex investigations that police undertake to catch Internet criminals.
Female police officers pose as young boys in face-to-face contacts, and adult investigators pretend to be children on the Web.
According to trial testimony, Vanderwall used a computer in his apartment on Jake Sears Circle, off Centerville Turnpike, to enter chat rooms. There, he identified himself as "Saliare" and cruised the Internet for underage children, both boys and girls.
Virginia Beach police have a special unit dedicated to catching Internet criminals. Officers posed as 13-year-old children in the chat rooms that Vanderwall cruised in the fall and winter of 2002-03.
One officer pretended to be a 13-year-old girl named "Lil'SaraXOXOX." Another was a 13-year-old boy named "KennyJ13."
Another was a 13-year-old girl named "SweetSammie4U2."
From November 2002 through January 2003, all three "teens" had contact with "Saliare," who identified himself as a 5-foot-8-inch, 155-pound, 19-year-old white male, with short hair, hazel eyes, and a goatee.
Except for the age, it was a perfect description of Vanderwall.
The conversations started innocently but turned toward sex at "Saliare's" prompting. He encouraged the teens to meet him at malls and other locations. He offered to introduce them to "real" sex and bragged about his genitals.
He gave them his telephone number.
In one exchange, "Saliare" said he wanted to be the teen's first partner in both real sex and telephone sex.
Vanderwall's attorney, Christopher P. Reagan, argued that the conversations did not amount to solicitation under state law.
"The underlying theme," Reagan said, "was an interest in phone sex, which, as inappropriate as that may be, is not a violation of these statutes."
Police used the telephone number and America Online account to identify Vanderwall and began to set a trap. On Jan. 10, 2003, Vanderwall agreed to meet KennyJ13 at Northgate Park off Burnt Mill Road.
Officer L.M. Kinch said she disguised herself as a boy and waited in the park for Vanderwall.
An unmarked police car followed Vanderwall's vehicle as he drove from his apartment to the park, where he was arrested.
The challenge for prosecutors was tying Vanderwall to the electronic evidence.
Don Colcolough, director of investigations and online security for AOL, testified that anyone with the correct user name and password could access the "Saliare" account from any computer in the world. Police tied Vanderwall to two telephone numbers that "Saliare" gave the "teenagers."
Police found more than 100 contacts with two of the "teenagers" on Vanderwall's computer, police said.
"There is no doubt in this case that 'Saliare' is Robin Vanderwall," prosecutor Janet L. Westbrook said.
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"Z1" LMAO.......at least these dirt bags don't have support groups like NAMBLA.....Liberals..."the conservatives comic relief" LOL...BTW, hi Jag.
Again, Libs can't win on issues, so the smear tactics come into play!
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) December 5, 2001 Wednesday Final Edition
Copyright 2001 Denver Publishing Company
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
December 5, 2001 Wednesday Final Edition
SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. 7A
LENGTH: 747 words
HEADLINE: PAROLE BOARD MEMBER FIRED;
EX-GOP LEGISLATOR FACES CHILD PORN ALLEGATIONS
BYLINE: John Sanko and Dick Foster, News Staff Writers
BODY:
A Colorado State Parole Board member was fired from his $77,928-a-year job Tuesday after a warrant was issued to search his home for child pornography.
Gov. Bill Owens said he fired Larry Jack Schwarz, 61, a former Republican state representative from Wetmore in south-central Colorado, after he learned of the allegations.
Custer County Sheriff Fred Jobe said the investigation began about three weeks ago when his office received allegations that Schwarz "might be in possession of pictures and material of sexual exploitation of children."
There are three alleged victims, all of whom were family members living in the Schwarz home when the incidents reportedly occurred, Jobe said.
Jobe would not identify the alleged victims, but said all now live outside of Colorado.
Schwarz, the father of five and grandfather of at least 16, could not be reached for comment.
Jobe notified the governor's office of his investigation and sought help from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which entered the case Nov. 16.
No criminal charges have been filed against Schwarz, Jobe said.
The search warrant signed by Custer County District Judge Harold Taylor specified "any and all pornographic materials . . . containing photographs of or references to children or juveniles, letters, journals or diaries that could contain information about the sexual abuse or exploitation of any child or juvenile, financial records, bank statements, files or information related to any possible business interest in the child pornography industry . . ."
But both Jobe and CBI Deputy Director Pete Mang said there is no indication that anyone other than Schwarz is implicated.
"We don't know of any allegations outside the family, so we don't think we're looking at a predator or someone who would be a threat to the community or anything like that," said Jobe.
Jobe said the search of Schwarz's home began around 9 a.m. Tuesday and continued throughout the day.
Jobe would not reveal what if anything was found, saying the investigation is ongoing.
"It's a good-sized house and the things we're looking for could be in every nook and cranny," Jobe said. "It's probably going to go well into the night and we may have to go back again (Wednesday) morning."
Owens said he fired Schwarz for providing false information on his application for reappointment. Schwarz said on the application there was nothing in his background that would be "an embarrassment" if it became public.
Schwarz, served in the Colorado House from 1995 to 1997 when he quit in midterm. He was appointed to the parole board by former Gov. Roy Romer in August, 1997, and he reappointed in June, 2000, by Owens.
Schwarz was at the Capitol with his wife Tuesday morning when he was advised privately by Roy Palmer, the governor's chief of staff, that he was being fired.
Members of the governor's office and the state parole board will scrutinize Schwarz's actions to see if they show any pattern of abuse of his authority.
Parole board chairman Don Van Pelt says Schwarz could not have alone granted parole or leniency to sexual offenders since these cases require a vote of the entire seven-member board.
Van Pelt said Schwarz, who had served as the board's chairman, seemed to perform his board duties conscientiously.
"He was timely and prompt. He was where he was supposed to be when he was supposed to be," Van Pelt said. He would not comment on the allegations against Schwarz.
At the time of his first appointment, Schwarz said he was grateful for the post since his legislative duties had cost him his job as a trucking company manager.
He represented House District 44, which includes Custer, Fremont, Pueblo and Teller Counties.
He won several awards and honors, including citations from the County Sheriffs and Fraternal Order of Police. During his first term, he listed "crime prevention and punishment" among his key issues.
The news of his dismissal and the allegations surrounding it stunned many of his former colleagues who still serve in the legislature.
"I served with Larry Schwarz and this is really shocking to me," said Sen. Dave Owen, R-Greeley. "I will back the governor because he apparently has evidence."
Sen. Norma Anderson, R-Lakewood, who has played a key role in tightening up sex offender laws in Colorado, was also surprised.
"Boy, you just never know where it is," Anderson said. "I guess we have another candidate for the sex offenders' registration."
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"Z1" LMAO.......at least these dirt bags don't have support groups like NAMBLA.....Liberals..."the conservatives comic relief" LOL...BTW, hi Jag.
Again, Libs can't win on issues, so the smear tactics come into play!
I'm sorry you support ***Nambla*** bad on you-------go to jail, do not pass go!!!!!!!
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I always know when its Jag because she doesn't have an original thought and is the cut and paste queen of getbig!
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LANCASTER NEW ERA (LANCASTER, PA.)
September 2, 2004, Thursday
By David O'Connor
A borough councilman from Wrightsville has been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in Delaware in mid-July.
Fred Smeltzer Jr., 32, is charged with two counts of first-degree rape and one count of second-degree unlawful sexual contact.
The offenses are alleged to have occurred the night of July 15-16 at Gullsway Campground on state Route 26, east of Dagsboro, Del.
Smeltzer, of the 300 block of North Fourth Street, also is deputy chief of the Wrightsville Fire Company and is employed as a firefighter at Fort Indiantown Gap National Guard Training Center.
Smeltzer is alleged to have given several alcoholic drinks to the 15-year-old girl on a camping trip before he had sexual contact with her, according to the York Daily Record newspaper.
Cpl. Jeffrey Oldham of the Delaware state police told the New Era this week that Smeltzer turned himself in to state police at Georgetown, Del.
Officials said Smeltzer is in the third year of his first four-year term on the council in Wrightsville, which is across the Susquehanna River from Columbia.
Smeltzer was taken to Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown, and was later released on $21,000 bail.
He waived his preliminary hearing in Delaware, scheduled for Aug. 26, and the case is now in that state's Superior Court.
Delaware state police said in a court affidavit they were contacted Aug. 12 by a friend of Smeltzer's, who said the councilman raped his daughter at the campground, the York paper reported.
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M. Robert Barter pleads guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault
Aaron Miller and Kevin Burnham
On Thursday, April 8 in Kennebec County Superior Court, Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay Harbor pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy, a charge he was indicted on in November 1998.
Justice Nancy Mills gave Barter, 69, a suspended sentence of two years in prison, with two years probation. She also ordered Barter to have no contact with the victim, undergo psychological evaluation for sexual abuse; and follow a treatment plan, if necessary, under the supervision of his probation officer. Barter must also pay $2,500 in counseling costs should the victim require it.
Barter entered his plea just as jury selection was to begin Thursday on the misdemeanor charge.
According to Barter's attorney, Jodi guy, he changed his plea because usually a defendant will wait to hear the case that is being brought forward.
``When there is a case against any criminal, we usually get discovery at the arraignment,'' she said.
Barter, Boothbay Harbor's Town Clerk for the past 45 years and a Lincoln County Commissioner for 30 years, has told fellow commissioners that he plans to continue serving as a commissioner until his terms ends on January 1, 2001.
Barter was indicted last November in Kennebec County for molesting a teenage boy at a motel near the Augusta Civic Center on May 29, 1998 during the Republican State Convention which he attended.
Last month, Barter told Boothbay Harbor officials that he would not seek another term as town clerk. If Barter was to change his mind about keeping the commissioner's job, Governor Angus King would appoint his replacement, based on a list of names provided by the Lincoln County Republican Committee.
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Translation: don't try and confuse me with the facts. I'm too busy trying to make a point by showing Republicans are "scum." ::)
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I always know when its Jag because she doesn't have an original thought and is the cut and paste queen of getbig!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
like a female hyena, she also has an affinity for filth . . . who else would go to the trouble of cutting and pasting individual accounts of depraved behavior?
Normal people would say, "some people in politics engage in despicable sexual activities," but the bottomfeeder wants to expose every sordid detail she can find.
Hyenaenterprises: we love the nasty stuff. [/size]
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Boro Councilman = Child Molester
Jack W. Garnder receives the Golden Plunger Award!
Should a child molester be allowed to serve in office? Even if it happened over 30 years ago? It was three years ago that 5thEstate.com first reported on Millersville Boro councilman, Jack W. Gardner, being a child molester. At the time, we were unable to get sealed court documents to tell you more specific information of this perverted crime - until now. By combining the June 19, 1970 Intell and official court documents on 5thEstate.com, readers have an exclusive on just how low Jack went (the court documents are blackened to protect the victim):
When most of Lancaster county was coming home from church on September 7, 1969, the 25 year old, ex-marine, now councilman Gardner, took a 13 year old girl to the Old Mill Inn on Colombia Ave. While there, Gardner placed "…his hand under her underpants and touching her private parts and also lowering her under pants." For this Gardner went to a Lancaster County jail cell.
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal Friday, June 19, 1970 recorded it this way: "Jack W. Gardner, 250 Stone Mill Road, who pleaded guilty to assault with intent to ravish, two charges of corrupting the morals of a minor and indecent assault on Wednesday, was sentenced by Judge Johnstone."
"Gardner received a 3 to 23 month sentence in Lancaster County Prision and was fined $50 and costs on the assault with intent to ravish. " "On the other charges, he was placed on concurrent probation for one year and directed to pay costs of prosecution. Manor Twp. Police Chief Donald W. Sheeler said one of the corrupting charges involved a 12-year-old girl last September and the other three charges involved a 13-year-old girl and took place Sept. 7 at 1 p.m. at the Old Mill Inn, 1502 Columbia Ave."
So how can a man who served time in Lancaster county prison for molesting a 12 and 13 year old girl be serving in public office? Mysteriously, in 1970, seven years after serving time in jail, Lancaster County District Attorney's office agreed to drop the charges AFTER Gardner plead guilty and served time for the crimes! Why did the DA's office erase the convictions of a sex offender?
Gardner had a parole violation in April 1971, but stranger yet, the official record had no information for why the court issued a warrant. What is known is that 10 years later, the people of Millersville saw the name Jack W. Gardner on their ballots. How will Millersville Boro citizens respond today?
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Officials report more crimes in candidate's past
Republican says he is eligible to run
By JANE ANN MORRISON
REVIEW-JOURNAL
Republican Assembly candidate Richard Gardner's criminal past is more extensive than originally realized. His crimes include a theft conviction and three sex crimes instead of one, as previously reported.
Gardner on Tuesday continued to say he is eligible to run and serve despite a second legal opinion from the Clark County district attorney's office stating he is not eligible because of his status as a felon.
He said "it wasn't an intentional omission" that he failed to mention during a prior interview with the Review-Journal the theft conviction and the two other sex crimes.
Gardner said he does not think the issue should be the type of crime he committed but the legal question of whether he is entitled to run for office.
"At that time in my life, I was a pretty bad person," he said.
Gardner, 63, a semi-retired management consultant, is listed on the ballot as the Republican nominee trying to unseat Democratic Assemblywoman Ellen Koivisto. Independent American candidate Jim Barrier is the third choice in District 14.
On Oct. 1, county counsel Mary-Anne Miller advised Gardner that he was not eligible to run or serve if elected. She cited one felony conviction, which involved lewd and lascivious behavior with his daughter.
But more information emerged in a recent memo Miller sent to Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax.
The additional information obtained by the district attorney's office showed that on June 2, 1988, Gardner pleaded guilty in California to the following:
• Committing a lewd and lascivious act upon his daughter, who was about 12 when the crime was committed in May 1982.
• Committing oral copulation on the same daughter in January 1988.
• Child molestation in 1983 against another daughter under the age of 14.
He was placed on probation for the three charges.
Also, the memo said, "Police records reflect that in August 1981, Mr. Gardner was convicted of theft and confined in Chino State Prison from August 1981 until April 1982."
He was on probation for the next five years, Miller wrote.
Miller's memo said nothing was found in the records to show Gardner took any action to have his civil rights restored or have the convictions expunged.
She said under California law, a person found guilty of the sex crimes for which Gardner was convicted loses his right to vote permanently.
Gardner would have had to ask the governor of California for a pardon, she said.
In Nevada, to file for office without being a qualified elector is a felony, and the declaration that one is a qualified elector is filed under penalty of perjury.
Miller said prosecuting Gardner remains under consideration.
Gardner has said he never lost his rights under California law.
"If I have created a felony by being registered to vote, I challenge them to prosecute me rather than try me in the newspapers," Gardner said.
His conviction was uncovered because of a July traffic stop. He registered as a sex offender with Las Vegas police on Aug. 1.
In September, Las Vegas police sent their monthly list of felons to the Election Department. Election officials then discovered that Gardner was on the ballot, but it was too late to remove him.
If he were to win, the county would sue to invalidate his election and declare the office vacant, Miller said. The County Commission then would appoint someone to the seat.
He ran for Congress in 1998 and state Senate in 2000. The Clark County Republican Party donated $175 to Gardner's state Senate race against Democratic Sen. Ray Shaffer but donated nothing this year.
A check of the state and county Republican party Web sites Tuesday showed he is listed as part of the Republican team, and each page provides a direct link to Gardner through his e-mail address at dickycando@hotmail.com.
County party Chairman Steve Wark said Gardner's name should have been taken off the Web site because "he's not suitable to run for public office."
The party checks out those it recruits, Wark said, but the party does not check out every Republican who files, and Gardner was not one of the party's recruits.
"He should be in jail right now for those crimes; he's a disgrace to humanity," Wark said.
Koivisto had sent a political mailer based on the initial information that Gardner had pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious behavior. She said that despite coverage in the newspaper and television, voters in the district were unaware of his criminal past.
Koivisto represents a district that is heavily Democratic, but she said with low turnout expected she thought she had to use one of her five political mailers to tell people about Gardner's conviction.
Gardner told the Review-Journal that his conviction was based on his touching his daughter inappropriately. He said that he went to his church to seek counseling and that his bishop said by law they could not counsel him and advised him to turn himself in to authorities, which he said he did. "That's why I didn't go to prison," he said, and was put on probation.
The theft charge, he said, involved buying a gas tanker truck from someone who "never supplied me the documentation."
He denied that he was imprisoned at Chino State Prison and said that he was there for observation for 90 days
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Ex-Big Isle official pleads
guilty to child molesting
KEALAKEKUA, Hawaii -- Former Hawaii County Councilman Keola Childs, 52, yesterday pleaded guilty in Kona Circuit Court to sexual assault in the first degree for molesting a male child last year.
Although the charge carries a possible sentence of 20 years in prison, Childs' attorney Michael Zola said Childs entered the plea as part of an agreement in which the prosecution will ask for no more than one year in prison and probation.
Judge Ronald Ibarra set sentencing for Aug. 17.
Childs had not been previously charged, and he waived indictment. A businessman, Childs served on the County Council as a Republican from 1992 to 1996.
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Copyright 2004 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
July 20, 2004 Tuesday Five Star Late Lift Edition
SECTION: METRO; Pg. B01
LENGTH: 668 words
HEADLINE: Lawyer pleads no contest in sex sting
BYLINE: MICHAEL SHAW Of the Post-Dispatch
BODY: Kevin T. Coan, a former official of the St. Louis Election Board, acknowledged in court Monday that he had solicited what he thought was a 14-year-old girl for sex over the Internet in 2001.
Coan avoided jail time with a no-contest plea to the charge -- indecent solicitation of a child. But he probably will not avoid a challenge to his Missouri law license, because the charge is a felony. Coan, 42, of St. Louis, was sentenced to two years of probation by Associate Judge James Hackett of Madison County. According to a prosecutor, Coan "chatted" with an Alton police officer posing as a girl named Michelle in a chat room, offering money to see her naked and perform sexual acts with her.
Coan has been working as a private attorney since he was suspended from the Election Board in March 2001 after his arrest. Such a conviction would call his Missouri law license into question, said Maridee Edwards, the counsel for the office charged by the Missouri Supreme Court with disciplining attorneys.
That office could ask the Missouri Supreme Court to immediately suspend Coan's license, she said. A final order of discipline, ranging from a simple reprimand to disbarment, would follow.
In a 15-minute hearing Monday afternoon, Coan, wearing a dark suit, entered an Alford plea, in which a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges the prosecution has enough evidence to convict.
During the hearing, though, Coan agreed to the account of the crime given by assistant state's attorney Susan Jensen.
And Coan apologized for his conduct to Hackett and in a short statement issued through his attorney after the hearing.
"I deeply regret my actions," he told Hackett. "I apologize to the people of Illinois and my family for what I put them through." He declined to comment afterward.
The written statement said Coan "deeply regrets the pain and embarrassment his family has undergone as a result of the thoughtlessness of his conduct on March 1, 2001. Now that this matter is finally behind him, he looks forward to making amends to his family and moving forward with his life."
An official at the Madison County Probation Department said Coan will have to register as a sex offender.
Coan had been the Republican director of the Election Board when he was arrested at an Alton grocery, arriving with his wallet in hand and expecting to meet the girl.
Police had created the imaginary girl's Internet profile using the picture of a real 14-year-old girl who had participated in the police department's Explorers youth program and had voluntarily agreed to have her picture used, Jensen said.
Police were able to determine that Coan looked at the picture as he typed messages. After agreeing to meet, Coan said he would be driving a "nice silver car," would be wearing a suit and "would have cash on him," Jensen said. Police said Coan's picture was also posted on the Internet chat site, and that they recognized him when he entered the store.
Hearings in the case have been delayed numerous times since the charges were filed three years and four months ago.
Madison County State's Attorney William Mudge said in a statement issued shortly after the plea hearing that the postponements came while Coan underwent treatment and counseling on his own.
"Several qualified doctors sent reassuring reports stating that Coan was not likely to reoffend and does not pose a danger to society," it stated.
Mudge added that the two-year probation term was similar to what defendants in other cases have received. The charge carries a prison term of two to five years, with probation as an option. Coan also must undertake court-ordered treatment as part of the plea agreement. He has no prior record.
His attorney, John Rekowski, had moved earlier this year to dismiss the case, contending the methods used by police violate Illinois laws against eavesdropping. He declined to comment on that aspect Monday.
Alton Police have conducted at least a dozen other stings similar to Coan's.
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When Judi gets here there's bound to be a "love connection!"
{ROTFLMAO @ STella}
STella,
You have no idea. I just read 240's question, asking him who he is, and I said to myself "...my new boyfriend" ...then I read your cheeky little response and nearly hit the floor laughing. Good one. ;)
I don't know who he is, ...but I pray to God he doesn't have a hairy back. :P
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{ROTFLMAO @ STella}
STella,
You have no idea. I just read 240's question, asking him who he is, and I said to myself "...my new boyfriend" ...then I read your cheeky little response and nearly hit the floor laughing. Good one. ;)
I don't know who he is, ...but I pray to God he doesn't have a hairy back. :P
I am he as you are he as you are me
and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
see how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long
I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
Mr. city policeman sitting
pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
you let your knickers down
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come you get a tan
from standing in the English rain
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
Expert, texpert choking smokers
don't you think the joker laughs at you
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm crying
Semolina pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allan Poe
I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' goo
goo goo g' joob goo
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WOWZA--------------THIS GOTTA ***SUCKIE SUCKIE*** FOR BOARD CONS... ONLY STUPID ATTKOS LOLHAHALOL!!!!
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WOWZA--------------THIS GOTTA ***SUCKIE SUCKIE*** FOR BOARD CONS... ONLY STUPID ATTKOS LOLHAHALOL!!!!
???
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KALISPELL, Mont. -- Until he was arrested this year in his underwear in a motel room with a nearly naked young woman who was behind in her payments to his finance company, no businessman in this town was more respected than Richard A. Dasen Sr.
LOL @ payin' the rent!
Who really cares?
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KALISPELL, Mont. -- Until he was arrested this year in his underwear in a motel room with a nearly naked young woman who was behind in her payments to his finance company, no businessman in this town was more respected than Richard A. Dasen Sr.
LOL @ payin' the rent!
Who really cares?
You sound like a Republican with a guilty conscience!!!!!!!!! Are you going to add to this thread in ways we don't want????? Say no!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET HELP FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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is it bad that i find myself somewhat turned on by ann coulter waving her arms about in
Z1hyenadoppelganger's avatar?
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who was the guy that had 90 grand of marked bribe money in his freezer? lol..
he was a dem. there are crooks on both sides.
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Holy Cow!!! Looks like someone named this thread correctly.
Get a load of this commercial
NAMBLA for Republicans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UamvC6MQY8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UamvC6MQY8)
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I visited the nambla.org website.
I was sickened. Those are some fcuked up people.
Seriously fcuked up.
There is no nudity, or any sexual content at all.
Perhaps that was the most sickening part of it. How these fcukheads seem to think there is actual "romance" between kids and adults.
Seriously depraved community. I hope they all will be put on some serious therapy, and perhaps even chemically castrated.
They're... they're sick.
No other way to put it.
YIP
Zack
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I visited the nambla.org website.
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THAT? NOW YOU'RE PROBABLY ON SOME ***NO-FLY LIST*** AND BEING *MONITORED.* I wouldn't click a link like that for anything and it's terrible that it was even ADVERTISED HERE----------WHAT A RETARDED THING TO DO!!!!!
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ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THAT? NOW YOU'RE PROBABLY ON SOME ***NO-FLY LIST*** AND BEING *MONITORED.* I wouldn't click a link like that for anything and it's terrible that it was even ADVERTISED HERE----------WHAT A RETARDED THING TO DO!!!!!
I doubt it.
Perhaps you're right, but I seriously doubt that investigating that site will have any effect.
YIP
Zack