Ohio Man Claims Right To Have Sex With Boys

From: Stop the ACLU

by Glib Fortuna on 08-03-06 @ 8:17 am
Filed under ACLU, Illegal Activities, Child Exploitation, News

This is just sick enough for the ACLU.

A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws.

The admitted pedophile offered a surprising defense Wednesday to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors.

Appearing in an Ohio court for a pretrial hearing, Phillip Distasio, 34, of Rocky River, Ohio, said he was a pedophile.

He told the judge, “I’m a pedophile. I’ve been a pedophile for 20 years. The only reason I’m charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms.”

Since the ACLU has “fought” for NAMBLA, for thrice-convicted child rapists to prowl parks and live within a stone’s throw from day care centers, for young girls to have an abortion without parental notice and have had its leadership on record as supporting the distribution of child pornography and dropping the age of consent to 12, what would be inconsistent here?
I mean, come on, this guy claims its a “right” to rape little boys…it must be a “right!” (not!)
Not only that, there’s Free Exercise angle here. The ACLU can put this right up top on their “defense of religious liberties” page!

It’s got all the elements the ACLU holds dear, so what’s to hold them back?

AJ Strata:
Face it folks. This is a product of our modern society. We need to think hard and long about how we got here and how to step back from the brink.

I Was Challenged Part 2

Jillium (a frequent pedophile visitor to AZ) isn't aware of the amount of information that's out there. He likes to quote people who are quoting people who are quoting unethical researchers who manipulate data for their own purpose.

He tries to challenge me. I prefer to take it as a dare. So, here ya go Jillium, read it and weep.

I'm going to give you some statistics from a study done by Gene G. Abel. For those of you who aren't aware, he's one of the most respected in this field, his work going back over two decades, the most often referred to by all sex researchers, and the most widely published.
The following are from his book The Stop Child Molestation Book 2001.

Dr. Abel's study sample included 16,109 adults who admitted sexually molesting at least one child. His demographics matched those of the general population in terms of age, ethnicity, religious affiliation, marital status, educational level and socioeconomic status. For the sake of space I'm going to give you the highlights of this large scale study.

Pedophilia is the most significant cause of child molestation.

People witih pedophilia molest 88% of child sexual abuse victims.

68% had molested a child in their family, defined as under the age of 13 and either a biological child, stepchild, adopted child, foster child, niece, nephew, grandchild.

40% molested children of their friends or neighbors. 24% of men molesting children in their family also molested children of friends and neighbors.

Only 10% molested a stranger.

Only 1% of molesters were female.

Of the men in this study, the pedophiles molested 88 percent of the children which totaled 28,419, as compared to the 12 percent or 3,761 for non-pedophiles.

Pedophiles commit more than 10 times as many sexual acts against children as do non-pedophile molesters. On average, a molester with pedophilia commits 70.8 molestation acts. On average, a molester without pedophilia commits 6.5 acts. This group of pedophiles committed 95 percent of the acts for a total of 171,973 versus only 5 percent of the acts for non-pedophiles.

The number of child victims and acts per molester depended on whether the molester targeted girls, boys or both. Those molesting only girls averaged 5.2 victims and 34.2 acts. Those molesting only boys averaged 10.7 victims and 52 acts. Those molesting both averaged 27.3 victims and 120.9 acts.

While many more men molested girls, the men who molested boys averaged double the number of victims.

47% of male molesters had been molested as a child.

The number of victims also varied depending on whether the molester had himself been molested as a child. The never-abused molesters averaged 7 child victims while abused molesters averaged 25 victims. On average, sexually abused molesters committed over 100 more acts than never-abused molesters.

In order to reduce the number of children molested, we must identify the pedophile and implement treatment as rapidly as possible.

Pedophiles molest 88% of all victims and commit 95% of child molestations.

I Was Challenged Part 1

Just a few days ago, during a comment war with the teenaged pedovore Jillium, otherwise known as DuckHump, he presented me with a challenge. He said

There is no reliable (i.e., empirical) evidence to back any assertion on paedosexuality's frequency in child molesters (that I have seen, at least).

As for its frequency in the general population, we most definitely do... feel free to check them out yourself.

For example, Hall 1995:
http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/97-048_article.html

The following - Green 2002 & Hunter 1998 - also review studies proving paedosexuality is not uncommon.

http://tinyurl.com/zjhgf (Green, PDF file)
http://home.wanadoo.nl/ipce/library_two/files/interpr_sat_leg.htm (Hunter)

You haven't disproved these, and you won't.

Well, how can I not take him up on that, eh?

Today we're going to start with Green. And I'll give you a little background on this article. Richard Green was instrumental in lobbying for the removal of homosexuality from the DSM about 30 years ago. This paper is his lobby for removing pedophilia. He's not endorsing pedophilia, nor saying its all that common, he's merely arguing to have it declassified as a mental disorder and removed from the DSM.

Furthermore, he expresses grave doubts that a child could ever consent to sex. He says:

Consensual same-sex adult-adult sexuality does not suggest the element of harm to one participant as in child-adult sex or an age barrier to informed consent. But these concerns are within the domain of the law and penal enforcement. What follows here does not address whether pedophilia should be deemed criminal.

Green then proceeds to cite various historic times and cultures in which adult-child sex was not only accepted but encouraged. And continues on with the results from a study done by Briere & Runtz. He concludes by saying:

Sexual arousal patterns to children are subjectively reported and physiologically demonstrable in a substantial minority of normal people. Historically, they have been common and accepted in varying cultures at varying times. This does not mean that they must be accepted culturally and legally today. The question is: Do they constitute a mental illness?

So, not only do we need to go back to the study done by Briere, but we also might get some helpful information by reading peer reviews of Green's work. Let's start there shall we?

Berlin: In our society, to have a pedophilic sexual orientation can create both psychological burdens and impairments. Thus, it seems reasonable to view pedophilia as a disorder. In doing so, perhaps we can learn more about how to prevent it.
Berner: Marshall, Anderson, and Fernandez (1999) showed convincingly that assertiveness training with a group of pedophilic men not only improved their self-esteem, but also changed their performance on phallometric testing
Dixson: The paraphilias are bizarre and disturbing phenomena of abnormal human sexual preference. I understand Green’s misgivings about whether pedophilia is a mental disorder rather than a behavioral disorder
concerning erotosexual preference. But a disorder it most assuredly is. It does not matter how many tribes in New Guinea, or in other cultures throughout history, have allowed or encouraged sexual contact between adults and children. These cultural variations are not the equivalent of frank pedophilia.
Kreuger and Kaplan: We disagree with much of what Green sets forth as reasoning, which allows him to conclude that pedophilia is not a mental disorder.
If an individual with pedophilic arousal has not acted on his or her arousal, has no interpersonal difficulty, or is not distressed by it, then we would not consider that individual to have pedophilia and not consider him or her to be in need of treatment. In our combined 40 years of experience in treating such populations, we have, however, yet to encounter such an individual.
Langevin: DSM never claimed to be more than a guide for clinical, educational, and research purposes and specifically warns about treating its contents as a cookbook. Even if we assume that there is an exact parallel between adult–child sexual contacts in other cultures and our own, does that make it acceptable? Cultural relativism can be carried too far and there should be some cultural universals that we can strive for. One of these is basic human rights and the protection of children. A number of war-torn countries in the twentieth century have given 10-year-olds guns to wage battle. Should we endorse 10-year-olds going to war because some other cultures do it? Similarly, we need to protect children from sexual exploitation and allow them to mature at their own rate and in their own way.
Miner: Green, while presenting an interesting case for not classifying pedophilia as a mental disorder, fails to consider the similarities between pedophilia and impulse control disorders, which also are not necessarily defined by the nature of the fantasy or urges, but on the failure to refrain from acting on socially sanctioned or intrusive behaviors.
The fact that men in Polynesia in the eighteenth century engaged in sexual behavior with children does not mean that pedophilia should not be defined as a mental disorder. Pedophilia may be thought of as the extreme manifestation of a behavior that many “normal” people experience, which is, for the most part, the defining characteristic of many, if not all,mental disorders.
Spitzer and Wakefield: We argue that a pattern of exclusive or highly preferential adult – child attraction, where adult – adult attraction is impaired,is prima facie evidence of a dysfunction in at least some, if not all cases.
Green ends his paper by asserting that if pedophilia is a disorder, then it is common in many cultures and in the past. In fact, pedophilia as a mental disorder, as defined here and as clinicians use the diagnosis, is certainly not common. Furthermore, whether a condition is common or rare has little bearing on whether it is a normal variant or a disorder (e.g., gingivitis is relatively common, blue eyes are relatively rare).

Now to return to the widely quoted studies by Briere. I'm assuming that the pedovores, in their desperation to have something to hold on to, latched on to this study, not to maliciously deceive anyone, but simply to make them feel *ok*. So, since Jillium insists, here's what I think of that. Number one, the subjects were all recruited through a newspaper ad and were paid $40 to participate. That alone should be making some alarms go off. Could those people willing to be sexually explored for lack of a better word, for the price of a nice meal, perhaps be more willing to consider alternative lifestyles? No matter, the fact of it is that regardless of the ineffective controls used in this study, the results were altered and distorted to report the result that was desired and not the result that was received. In fact:

Green also uses the poor example of Briere and Runtz’s (1989) study of 193 university male students to suggest that 21% reported some sexual attraction to small children and 7% indicated that they might have sex with a child if not caught. The Briere and Runtz study is an abuse of statistics that distorts the typical psychological scale to arrive at their results, which were as follows:

Sexual Attraction to Some Small Children
Completely True
1 - 1%
2 - 1%
3 - 2%
4 - 3%
5 - 2%
6 - 12%
7 - 79%
Completely False

On this type of response scale, a 4 is usually an undecided midpoint, 1–3 have some degree of acceptance, and 5–7 indicate that it is unacceptable. Briere and Runtz add together categories 1–6 to get 21%, which misrepresents the actual responses of the students. Similarly, they have distorted the hypothetical likelihood of acting out with children at 7% which is, at best, 1% and represents 2 students of the total 193 respondents. Ron Langevin, Ph.D.,Yes, Virginia, There Are Real Pedophiles: A Need to Revise and Supervise, Not Eliminate, DSM

Now, Jillium, do you have any more questions for me? Would you like to give me some more references to check out for you? I don't mind at all. Really.

I Didn't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry

After recently discovering
that the pedophile community is using (among other things) an editorial written for an alternative news source as a justification for tolerance.

And having exposed an obvious pedophile apologist who believes Michael Jackson should be excused by society because he didn't commit violence against his victims and paid them millions of dollars.....(though not of free choice)

I sarcastically made this remark

The next thing you know the pedovores will be editing Wiki's and using Ms. Amiel as a reference.

Ah, but little did I know. They're already using Ms. Amiel! Why, it's even in the pedo library!

Example in point, Tom O'Carroll, a long time pedophile activist and repeat sex offender, member of NAMBLA and pervert extraordinaire, quoted and linked to Barbara Amiel, a journalist, in defense of his position that

True concern for children would prefer to see some children participating willingly in pornography under monitorable conditions than to have others brutally exploited because of their status as runaways or mere chattels of their parents.

Then he has an editorial by Ms. Amiel. After reading what she had to say about Michael Jackson it should come as no surprise
.

Child pornography is produced because some people have a need to look at it. This need and its satisfaction will not be extinguished by Patten's prohibitions any more than homosexuality or the craving for the high has ever been extinguished by legislation. Human desires are largely indifferent to fines, although any instinct can be curbed by sufficiently draconian measures.

One is revolted at the idea of children posing for pornographic pictures, but while the use to which the pictures may be put in someone's mind is abhorrent, I can't really see that simply photographing a child exploits him.

In the end, I suppose, I dislike all legislation like this proposed new amendment to the Criminal Justice Act., because it is legislation against an essentially victimless crime. The living child exists only in the paedophile's mind.

Victimless Crime???

I'm simply at a loss for words. While I've been researching reputable studies and peer reviewed academics, the pedophile community is quoting criminals and journalists.

Lanning said on p.69

Many preferential sex offenders collect academic and scientific books and articles on the nature of their paraphilic preferences in an effort to understand and justify their own behavior. For the same reason pedophiles often collect and distribute articles and manuals written by pedophiles in which they attempt to justify and rationalize their behavior……..

I guess that says it all.

Coming Soon To A Park Or A School Near You (And Your Children):

51-year-old Timothy Lee Boggs, a convicted child molester, is considered to be a "sexually violent predator" by the State of Fornicalia.

He recented completed a therapy program while inside Atascadero Prison, near San Luis Obispo.

The Fornicalia State Department of Mental Health attempted, for almost a year, to find a "suitable location or a willing landlord" for Boggs and, because of the year's delay, a judge ordered him freed by Friday, July 28th.

After having made 269 inquiries for Boggs' housing upon release, every venue turned down the state.

Here's the catch: after making the effort to find some sort of suitable housing location, having found none, and now being ordered by a state judge to release him, Boggs now has the ability to be dropped off in Sacramento County "wherever he asks." And that's that.

Listen to this, however:

Boggs' attorney, Ken Rosenfeld, has argued that his client no longer poses a danger to the community and that the state has no legal right to hold him any longer."

Later in an article from The Sacramento Bee:

At one point, officials had thought Boggs would be taken to his lawyer's office and dropped off, but Rosenfeld reacted to that notion angrily last week and insisted that he is not responsible for Boggs once he is released.

Saturday morning, The Sacramento Bee reports:

After months of public outcry, convicted child molester Timothy Lee Boggs quietly checked into a downtown Sacramento residence hotel Friday afternoon, hours after being released from Atascadero State Hospital's therapy program for sexually violent predators.

Boggs, 51, paid $640 in state-supplied funds for a month's stay at the Hotel Berry near the Greyhound bus station, and checked into a studio-size room with a bathroom. But it was unclear how long he would be permitted to stay, with one source saying hotel management had asked him to leave by early next week.

The desk clerk at the hotel refused to comment.

If Boggs is forced to move, it will repeat a scenario faced by other released sexually violent predators.

Also:

He has been fitted with a satellite tracking device that he must wear at all times, and also is being watched by a private security firm that is paid by the state. Friday afternoon, two men in dark slacks and tropical print shirts stood across from the Berry, keeping an eye on the building. Neither would comment.

Your Fornicalia tax dollars being spent for private security (two of them!) on behalf of a "sexually violent predator."

Back in the 1980s, Boggs was convicted of molesting two 9-year-old boys in separate events. This indicates a pedophile's clear age-range preference.

As conditions to release after having completed all four phases of his "treatment" at Atascadero, Boggs agreed to 13 pages of conditions for his release, including not using alcohol, not being near children and many others. Conditions for his release indicate he may have undergone chemical castration.

Law enforcement officials in Fornicalia don't want you to know, but some have privately admitted to me that they have no idea where 50% + of the "registered sex offenders" (who are mandated by law to notify local law enforcement agencies of their addresses and where they move, if they can move), are at any given moment in the state.

So, because RSOs are, by nature, strict law abiders, we can naturally assume that Mr. Boggs will adhere to his mandates, obey his conditions and refrain from offending. And, of course, he'll continue his well-intentioned obeyance once the GPS system is removed. Won't he?

One final note:

Isn't it intriguing how rapidly Boggs' attorney went NIMBY when he was asked to assist further with the release of his once-sterling client? How easy it is to "represent" any pedophile and how easy it is to "demand their release." But isn't it interesting that neither the attorney nor the judge would want Boggs anywhere near their own zip code -- though it's perfectly acceptable for you or me to be his next door neighbor.

Under Megan's Law, sex offenders must be listed by region on a Fornicalia website. To see any activity in your area if you live in the state, go to: http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov.

BZ

Walsh Act

H.R. 4472 is an interesting piece of legislation….It’s one of the very few that has bi-partisan support. The legislation is also known as The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 and was signed by President Bush on Thursday, the 25th anniversary of Adam Walsh’s death.

John Walsh has been a prominent public figure since the death of his son 25 years ago. He has dedicated his life to ensuring justice for those who offend against children and was influential in getting the legislation passed. The image below depicts John and Reve’ Walsh at the Thursday signing.



From the NCMEC:

The main highlights of the bill:
1) Creates a national public sex offender registry.
2) Provides for consistent sex offender requirements in all states.
3) Penalizes failure to comply with registration duties as a state and federal felony.
4) Enhances the ability of law enforcement to track sex offenders when they move, cutting down on the number of "missing" sex offenders in the system. It requires sex offenders to verify registration in person to law enforcement rather than by mail.
5) Makes important changes in the way law enforcement handles missing child reports. Reports must be entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center within 2 hours. It also prohibits the removal of a missing child report when the child turns age 18 before being recovered.
6) In response to the growing problem of commercial child pornography and the exploitation of children online, the bill increases the number of Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces across the nation.

More information here.

Full text of the Act

The legislation was celebrated in Washington as well as by child protection and law enforcement agencies nationwide. The NCMEC described the bill as the toughest and most important piece of legislation in the past 25 years in helping to save children’s lives.

Now let’s cross over and see how the pedophile community reacted:

PPE thinks

I betcha John Walsh is now wankering himself off..While he can enjoy some kind of SMBD sex torture killing scenes in the prisons with all of us being in it for his sick revenges on us all with the help of this asshole President Bush friend of his.

Silent Sufferer concurs, adding

Looking at the AP photo with the story, one can deduce that it appears to be some kind of psychotic game. Walsh giving a thumbs up like "Way to go! You made my day" and Bush with his silly smirk like "We couldn't get Osama, but we sure got them pedos."

Meanwhile, Poopyhead started a poll, asking community members to agree or disagree with his view

I've never seen a man enjoying his little boy's death as much as John Walsh.

Curtis thought it was time for a new approach

I knew of a murdered woman once.
Many years ago, a woman was raped and murdered. Her grief-stricken husband asked a conductor friend of his to put together a choral group to sing at her memorial service. I was in it.

But if something like that happened again -- a woman is brutally raped and murdered -- maybe rather than singing in her memorial service, I will agitate for laws that would prohibit straight men and women who love each other from having sex or getting married.

Makes about as much sense as what Walsh has been up to. But, you know, my voice is shot anyway. No self-respecting choir would have me anymore.

And Alive was downright offended:

America, land of the motherrf--king free...But the situation would have been the same if Kerry wone the presidential election, so I really can't blame it all on Bush (although that is tempting).

This is a major blow to our civil rights, and the most f--ked-up thing about it is that nobody outside of our community gives a f--k. To them, it's a reason for celebration, even as they dig their own graves, f--k, they're willing to live in a f--king police state just as long as they feel they are being harsh on us.

F--k mankind, f--k all politicians, f--k the American people who allowed this to happen, and to those who believe that the BL witchhunt is "bullshit", F--K YOU!

Interesting. People labeling themselves child lovers are enraged and offended by legislation specifically designed to protect children.

Parents jailed for sexually abusing their children

"Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters says Robin Kraft, 25, and her husband Paul continually performed sex acts in front of and with their children... Paul was indicted in March on 17 counts for rape and pandering sexually oriented matter involving a juvenile for raping his three-year-old daughter and displaying it over the internet."

"It was almost a daily activity, where these kids were forced to watch or participate in various sexual acts with their parents," said Joe Deters, Hamilton County Prosecutor.

"The images are some of the most disturbing law enforcement has seen and I have no doubt that [Paul Kraft] raped a three-year-old child," said Judge Kubicki in the courtroom (while addressing Paul following his conviction on 17 counts of rape and pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor.)

"I hope people get the message if you rape a child in this county you will go to jail for the rest of your life and if you kill one we will try to have you executed. I cannot be any more clear and consistent with that," said Prosecutor Joe Deters.

For their crimes, Paul was sentenced to 171 years in prison, and his wife, Robin, won't see the light of day without bars in front of her face for 40 years.

Thank you, Hamilton County. Things like this make me proud to be from Cincinnati. Not because of the crime- but for the penalties handed down. I wonder what kind of damage they have done to their children, all of whom were under the age of 5 during the abuse and "observation sessions" they were subjected to.

Tunnel Vision: Pathology of a Pedophile

Tunnel Vision - Pathology of a Pedophile: Experts Say Sexual Deviants Often Aren't Deterred By Consequences
John Zaremba, Patriot Ledger, Saturday, July 22, 2006.

Nine men had just been paraded in front of a judge and charged with trying to solicit children for sex online. Their faces were all over TV and the newspapers, and so were the prosecutors’ graphic descriptions of their conversations with undercover police.

To top it off, the district attorney made a bold statement that last weekend’s roundup should instill fear in Internet predators: The children they think they are courting may well be police officers.

The warning was ignored.

Within hours of the DA’s statement, men all over Massachusetts were logging on to their computers and falling for the same trap.

So what are the reasons given by experts that sexual deviants, such as paedophiles, aren't deterred by consequences?

Cognitive distortions

They have what’s called cognitive distortion. Some people call them thinking errors ... where they can basically rationalize or justify behavior.

Impulse over intelligence

Over the years, McLaughlin has used the same online screen name, and some have caught on. Several times, he has been online and a chat-room member recognized him and announced that there was a police officer in the room.

Even that didn’t stop people from approaching him.

‘‘Other people in the room would initiate chat with me and ask if it was true,’’ he said. ‘‘I would tell them it wasn’t, we would engage in conversation and I would arrest them.’’

McLaughlin is a detective involved in online sting operations and is a nationally recognized expert on crimes of child exploitation. When asked if he feels the publicity of the current stings will deter offenders, McLaughlin stated that fear will not keep these offenders away but that he will not give up this fight. He concluded the interview with this statement:

I would be willing to do an experiment. We’ll meet with these guys some place and on every entrance of the building we’ll put signs that say pedophiles arrested here. They’d drive right by the sign. They’d probably park under it.

More Cell Phones and Pedophiles

Owner Of Child Porn Cell Phone Gets 8 Years

The owner of a cell phone that was found containing child pornography was sentenced on Wednesday.

Larry Pratt, 53, withdrew his motion to withdraw his guilty plea and was sentenced to eight years in prison. He was charged with 20 counts of child pornography.

Pratt left a cell phone containing the porn images at a Home Depot on West 117th Street and Berea Road. He was arrested in Toledo and admitted to downloading the photos from the Internet and storing them on his phone.

Pratt was also given a sexually oriented offender classification.

Pa. man accused of taking child porn photos with cell phone

Pa. man accused of taking child porn photos with cell phone

The Associated Press

PITTSBURGH - A man was accused of using his cell phone to take photographs that constitute child pornography - pictures that were discovered when he lost the phone at a rib festival, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Kenneth P. Jeffries II, 22, of Sharpsville, was charged with production of child pornography and possession of child pornography.

The charges came after two people found a cell phone on July 10 at the Mahoning Valley Rib Burn Off in Niles, Ohio, and later turned it over to police in to Howland, Ohio, prosecutors said. Investigators traced the phone to Jeffries.

One series of shots on the phone shows a young boy, about 10 years old, with his underwear being pulled down to his thighs, exposing his buttocks, prosecutors said.

When authorities searched Jeffries' house on Monday, he admitted taking the photos, prosecutors said. Jeffries told authorities he took the photos of the boy in Cleveland, they said.

Jeffries was in federal custody at the Allegheny County Jail. His attorney, federal public defender Thomas Livingston, was in court Thursday afternoon and did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

Jeffries was charged by criminal complaint, giving federal authorities the ability to hold Jeffries while they seek a grand jury indictment.