JustUnderPar

Your comparing someone who committed a crime by wanting to sexually molest/rape a 14 year old girl, to someone whom is captured in a combat zone while engaged in war? Are you drunk when you type?

Ernst

Yes, since you are still dwelling on the images as a "mature man" neglecting the benefits of hindsight and opportunities for personal growth, there must be a latent defect in your personality. The petri dish in your mind has an active culture, and not the kind found in Yoplait.

Now go abuse yourself in a closet like David Carradine and stop facilitating the abuse of little girls by paying $ to see them naked.

And please bid domestic so you too can be processed in the American justice system someday. It's inevitable in cases like yours.

Whistlin' Dan

My, My! A pedophile...multiple offender...made a "confession"...etcetera, etcetera.

You obviously know a LOT more about this guy than I do, a lot more than guys who've flown with him do, a lot more than anybody else on this board does, more even than has been alleged by law enforcement. In fact, you seem to know a lot more about him and his prior history than has been released to the press, at least up to this point. Which leads me to ask...

How long have you personally known him, and what was the nature of your relationship with him?

Please don't tell me you don't know him, because if you tell me you don't know him, I'm gonna think you're talking out of your butt like that guy on "Ace Ventura," and I'd hate to think that a character in a Jim Carrey movie was a role-model for a person in a responsible position such as yours.

petras52

I think knowing or not knowing the individual probably has no significance..how many times do we read/hear about convicted criminals whose family/friends express surprise at the actions of someone they thought they knew well..

ptarmigan

Ted Bundy comes to mind immediately. He STILL has some people duped.

JustUnderPar

W.D. aka D.S.


Otherwise I feel sorry for you.

dc8flyboy

WD Why don't you tell us all about your past... SM?

Whistlin' Dan

Too often, I'm afraid. I'm hoping this doesn't turn out to be one of those cases. One thing that mitigates in his favor is that he doesn't have a record of prior convictions for this type of crime. As I understand it, clinically-diagnosed pedophilia usually begins around adolescence and involves a close member of the family or someone else who the child trusts, which is hard to hide from other adult members of the community. So if this guy has been operating under the radar, he's been doing a pretty good job of it for the last 20 years or so.

Another marker authorites use when investigating these kinds of cases is a predeliction for kiddie-porn. I'm sure they seized his computers, but I don't recall any mention of him being charged with possession of kiddie-porn, so this may just be a case of collossally bad judgement on his part.

Either way, even if he's found not guilty, or guilty of a lesser-charge, he and his family are going to pay a very heavy price for all of this. "It's a life-changing event"

BTW, my only "interest" in these kinds of things comes from several circumstances, most notably growing up next-door to a guy who went to prison for "lewd and lascivious behavior involving children" In his case, they were in fact "children" and not merely "underage", and none of us were surprised when it happened. He had a pretty long track record of being "weird, in a sexual way," starting in his mid-teens, especially after a few drinks. He never held a normal job, and was arrested at least once (maybe more, not sure) in his late-20's for something involving a 7-year old girl. Then came the charges which took him off the street for the next 20 years or so. "Off the street" is where that guy definitely needed to be!

The Walrus

Not sure a guy trying to have sex with a 14yo girl on the internet would be considered a pedophile. Just a guy with no morals and bad judgment. Bottom line is if I found a grown man trying to meet my 14 yo daughter with a condom in his pocket, it would be the last bad decision he would make. Defend your friend for as long as you want, but he is lucky in my opinion, that it was an undercover cop that met him, and not some 14 yr old girl's father.

Whistlin' Dan

For the last time, I'm not "defending" him. What I'm defending is his right to the presumption of innocence, and his "right" that his punishment not exceed the magnitude of his crime. These type of cases run the spectrum from a teacher or civic leader who overtly sexualizes a person under their trust and who is underage, to an 18-year-old who has sex with a girl who is under 18, but has a fake ID that states she is older. (which would not be a defense under the law, BTW) This case probably falls somewhere in-between.

Apparently, some of his "fellow airmen" would be happy to see him castrated, anally raped in prison for the rest of his life, and his wife and kids thrown destitute into the streets. I hate to dissapoint, but the jails and prisons are full of REALLY bad guys, and however morally repugnant he may seem to you, he's a relatively low-level threat to society. After trial, he may well be sent directly into a sexual offender, or "diversion" program and serve no additional time whatsoever.

Was he found with condoms in his pocket? I guess I missed that part.