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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:05 PM
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I'm in tears right now.
Edited on Thu Feb-03-05 11:09 PM by NightTrain
I know I said I was taking a break from DU, but I just heard something so goddamned upsetting, I feel like I'm going to lose what's left of my sanity if I don't tell someone:

SPARTA — A well-known local attorney and Republican committeeman is among 39 people across New Jersey facing charges for allegedly downloading an Internet video showing the rape of a 5-year-old girl.

The charges filed Thursday against Jeffrey Patti, 36, spread disbelief and horror among the many people who know him in Sparta political circles and the Sussex County legal community — disbelief at the arrest of a seemingly upstanding family man, and horror at the sordidness of the allegations.

Patti, who is married and has two daughters — an infant and a 2-year-old — was charged with both possession and distribution of child pornography after being arrested at his home Thursday morning by investigators who also seized his personal computer.
If convicted of the distribution charge, a second-degree crime, he faces up to 10 years in state prison and would have to register for life as a sex offender.

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If your stomach can handle it, the full story is at http://www.njherald.com/news/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1107033375,60567,/

A 5-year-old girl. A 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL???? Who in the fuck would find a 5-year-old girl sexually desirable? A goddamned fucking REPUBLICAN, that's who! And they have the nerve to call themselves the party of moral values? DIE, YOU EVIL COCKSUCKERS!!!!! JUST FUCKING DIE!!!!! :grr:

Sometimes I wonder why I get out of bed in the morning. :cry:

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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:07 PM
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1. Truly sickening...
I feel for his family...he's ruined all their lives.
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:17 PM
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6. He'll probably come up with some weird story about how
he was looking at it to collect information on child pornography for research.

Pathetic and sick.
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The Sheik Donating Member (349 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:30 PM
Response to Reply #6
116. Or it was simply a "pop up"
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 03:19 PM
Response to Reply #6
123. Oh you mean the same excuse one of the members of the Who used
when it was discovered that he had child porn on his computer?

A lawyer would probably say he thought he was downloading a movie or something else and was surprised when it was child porn.
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 04:58 PM
Response to Reply #123
134. That was not the excuse he used
Pete Townsend's excuse was that, as a survivor of abuse himself, he was researching what was out there. He admitted it was a stupid thing to do.

I tend to believe him since there has never ever been one accusation that he did anything innapropriate with a child.
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:08 PM
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2. Because of this:
http://www.rawa.org

Well one of many reasons but sometimes it is nice to remember the OTHER country that we have troops in.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:11 PM
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3. Yep, that's sick....
But I heard one today that turned my stomach. There's a guy in Houston charged with raping an INFANT...six weeks old!!! He's been found guilty, they just have to sentence him. He could either get probation or life. His attorney says he should get probation because he's never been arrested before. The prosecutors say that some things are just unforgiveable.

Here's the link:

http://www.ktrh.com/local.html

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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:14 PM
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4. Probation or life?
Seems like an extreme sentencing decision. But hey, that's texas for you.

Let him off because he's never been caught before. There's some logic for you. And you know it wasn't the first time and won't be the last.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:21 PM
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10. I know...makes no sense
Just because he's never been arrested before doesn't mean he hasn't done something like this before. How did he think he'd get away with it? Mom (or somebody) has to change the diapers on this child. Mom is being charged for not reporting it too.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:34 PM
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17. MY GOD! An INFANT?
What in the fuck kind of sick motherfucker would even consider such a thing? My God, lock him up and THROW AWAY THE FUCKING KEY! People like that should never see the light of a free day ever again. Probation, indeed, GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

Let me guess: he's white, middle-class or well-off, and "everyone in the neighborhood liked him." If he were poor and black/minority, there'd be no talk of probation, believe you me. Not that there should be any talk of probation, mind you, it shouldn't even be considered, just trying to point out the racist hypocrisy of the justice system that I've seen all too well as a paralegal.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:42 PM
Response to Reply #17
24. Just found this, he was sentenced today
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/020305_APlocal_babyassault.html

50 years, eligible to rape more babies in 25.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 02:55 AM
Response to Reply #17
60. "But he's such a nice guy, Isn't he the nicest regular guy?"
Do you know how often victims of these creeps hear people say this? Do you know how the victims' stomachs turn? How they want to blurt out just how nice these guys AREN'T and never will be?

But most would call them lunatics, incapable of impulse control, out for revenge, disgruntled, mentally unstable. So they shut up and just eat it when they hear that the people who raped them are considered "normal" and "nice."

This is the reality for rape victims. Just another fact of life. I read these stories all the time, but I don't notice much bother over them. Especially if it's a black or other minority child.

There was a big brouhaha about a little Caucasian girl killed by her father in our local news. (I had to actually speak to the guy to try to schedule him for a broadcast on another radio show before the charges were announced. He seemed, well, normal.) At the same time, a little girl named Bricola Coleman had been dead for months and no one remembered how she was raped with, among other things, a broom handle. No one remembered her death or tried to solve her murder.

Royal Marshall was my producer that weekend when I went on a rant on my own show about this disparity in the way the media - including my own employer - seemed to toss dead minority children away while they saturated the airwaves with photos of the cute white baby.


They solved the case a short time later, but they've done nothing about the media to date.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:38 AM
Response to Reply #60
74. Too late to edit
The Coleman case may remain unsolved, to make a correction. They announced a suspect some years back, and I assumed it would be resolved. But it looks like it's an open case.

Another one running around raping babies? Who knows? But at least Martha Stewart's in jail. I feel safer.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:48 PM
Response to Reply #17
100. I have bad news for you - infant raping is not uncommon.
I have a friend who's a nurse and she says they routinely see these cases.

It's so fucking BEYOND sick... but they won't lock these bastards up forever ... why?
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 03:34 PM
Response to Reply #100
124. Well, at least they're not
GAY. Gotta protect society from those horrible, morals-destroying gays before we do anything about baby-rapers, you know! :mad: :mad: :mad: :puke: :puke: :puke:
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:46 AM
Response to Reply #3
58. The bastard only got 50 years for raping 6 wk old baby
50 years is not enough. Where's Jeffrey Dahmer and Lorena Bobbitt?
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 09:02 AM
Response to Reply #58
77. If word gets around in prison..
Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 09:02 AM by sendero
... about what he did, he won't live a year there.

It's not right, but I don't feel that sorry for him. I feel sorry for sick people, like this guy, but not sorry enough to let him victimize someone else.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:15 PM
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5. I worked as guardian ad litem for abused kids
It was when I was just starting out, getting every experience I could.

Nothing prepared me for what I encountered. Even more than twenty-five years later, the images still confound me at the oddest times.

You would not believe - and you should never know - the horrors adults visit upon children of all ages.

Not a day of my life goes by that I don't wish I had never undertaken that job.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:17 PM
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7. I spent three years at a childcare volunteer as a battered women's shelter
Edited on Thu Feb-03-05 11:36 PM by NightTrain
While I never witnessed the abuse firsthand, I heard some horror stories that will stay with me forever. For example, there was the four-year-old-girl who lifted up her dress and asked if I wanted to feel her pussy.

It's times like this when I wish I had a sympathetic girlfriend to put my arms around....
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:42 PM
Response to Reply #7
23. ...
:hug:

I was not sexually abused, but heavily physically and emotionally abused and neglected my whole life. If it helps, sometimes we do turn out ok and our lives end up being good. By some miracle.

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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:48 AM
Response to Reply #23
48. And you're even Bouncy
I'd say you came out on the right side of everything, and hooray for you!

:toast:
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:52 AM
Response to Reply #48
50. Thanks!
Five years of therapy and a lot of luck, I guess!

:toast:
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:19 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. You were very young and very brave.
I can imagine how those images still haunt you. But you were a witness to those children, and it helped them. You have to belive that.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:31 PM
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15. I so totally agree,
I know just how hard it is because my mother taught at a juvenile facility for delinquent boys and some of the stories she told of what those kids had gone through was just unbelievable. It was so hard for her, but she got through it by realizing that these kids usually had no one and they were in desperate need of someone on their side, an advocate, and that she was often the only one they could rely on. Many times, too many kids went without one because no one gave a damn and they didn't want to deal with it.

Just remember that you were a source of light for kids that knew only darkness, something they desperately needed and so rarely got because people just "don't want to deal with it." You and others in similar jobs deserve special angel wings as far as I'm concerned.

And that's why it makes me so sick how the repukes have drastically cut funding for children's services agencies and programs, and are so gleefully rubbing their hands together in anticipation of cutting even more so that their fatcat contributors can fatten their wallets even more.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:33 PM
Response to Reply #15
16. Of course the GOP's cutting funding for children's service agencies.
That way, fewer of their baby-raping bretheren will get caught!
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:45 AM
Response to Reply #15
46. No, not brave.
In fact, I was selfish. I wanted the experience, and never dreamed what it would entail.

In Virginia, lawyers who take on this kind of case get $150. Flat. That's it. No matter how many hours you work on these cases, you get $150. There's legislation up now to increase it.

To $200.

Tells you what kids are worth in our society, I fear.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 10:43 AM
Response to Reply #46
80. Yeah, this is yet another
case of where-are-the-so-called-"right-to-lifers"-when-you-really-need-them?

Given that it's Virginia, I would imagine that most of the legislators like to think of themselves as "pro-life." Yeah, right. Until it involves actually DOING something for living, breathing, human beings, especially children, and until it involves actually spending their precious money that they want to all see go to fat cat contributors anyway. Selfish, hypocritical fucks will likely "blame the victim", anyway.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:24 PM
Response to Reply #5
12. A neighbor of mine is the head of probation for the county
and he told me stories, like never allow your kids to have a man as a babysitter, and he said I don't care if it's a good friend, a relative, etc.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:43 AM
Response to Reply #12
45. He's right, but........
...... a client of mine had the classic neighborhood teenage girl take care of her small son, and the girl was sexually abusing the boy. Fourteen years old, and he was four.

I never left my kids with anyone. Made for some tension sometimes, but I knew too much.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:40 PM
Response to Reply #5
20. but leftie, do you think you made a difference?
that's what means something
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:42 AM
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44. I know I did
But I never got to know the long-term effects of what I did.

There was a baby girl, daughter of two soldiers stationed at Fort Belvoir. She had been admitted to a local hospital with a broken leg, taken off the base for medical care because the Army pediatrician who saw the kid suspected abuse.

The parents, against an order to stay away from their baby, got into the hospital and took her. When the hospital realized what had happened, they called me. I called the local police and the M.P.

Within an hour, I had a court order declaring me the emergency guardian of the baby, a foster family lined up to take care of her when she was discharged, and a phalanx of Miltary Police behind and in front of me as they busted into the parents' on-base house and I demanded the baby.

"She's not here," the lying bastards tried to tell me, and we - me and the MPs - started tearing the house apart.

She was in the bottom drawer - closed - of a chest of drawers in an empty bedroom in the back of the house. She now had two broken legs and two broken arms. She had a bruise on her forehead.

I carried her out of there and held her in my lap all the way to the hospital. When she was well enough, the foster family took her, and eventually adopted her after the family had been stripped of parental rights, convicted of felony abuse, given dishonorable discharges, and the father (the wife testified against him in return for no time) sent to the slammer.

That was one place where I knew I made a difference. But, there were so many that, well, I don't know what happened to the children once I got them into foster care.

I had fathers threaten to kill me in the hearing room if I took their kids away (this was in the days before metal detectors), and I had to go in anyway and take their kid away. Believe me, I was scared silly. But, I had taken an oath, and I had to do it. Plus, it was the right thing to do. But every guard in the courthouse was standing by. That's scant comfort when you realize they can only act after you've been shot or stabbed.

There are a lot of lawyers who do this kind of work. We're not the monsters people like to believe. It's just that this stuff is sealed, and we can't talk about it, so the public never knows what happens.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:13 AM
Response to Reply #44
55. I'm so glad you stuck it to those fucking bastards
I hope he has to share a cell with Lynndie England. That'll be cruel and unusual punishment for both of them.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:09 AM
Response to Reply #44
61. It's the same working in a Pediatric hospital
The worst case was a six-week-old beaten to a pulp by her father. The State wanted to charge him with murder, because they expected the child to die.

But she lived. When I left the hospital, she was almost two. Why? Daddy refused to allow her to be taken off life support. His parental rights had not been terminated. She had a tough little body, and we took good care of her.

But she never saw a sight, heard a sound or made a sound. She should have been allowed to die in dignity.

He beat her until only her brainstem functioned and then he forced her to live like that. All for his fucking convenience.

You were smart to keep your babies close. A mama knows, even when the rest of the world is telling her she's neurotic.
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mordarlar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:26 AM
Response to Reply #44
65. The guardian ad litem that represented my sibs and myself as a child...
along with others who stepped in, have made a lifelong difference in my life. I will never forget those people. Thank you.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:27 AM
Response to Reply #65
71. Oh, my
Your words are like hearing from ghosts in my past. The good kind.

Thank you. And I'm glad you all made it through.
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mordarlar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 11:53 AM
Response to Reply #71
84. Never underestimate the impact you have made. : D
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:40 AM
Response to Reply #44
75. Thanks for being a real hero.
(((((((((((((((((hour long hug and a few tears))))))))))))))))))
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:29 AM
Response to Reply #5
39. I would never be able to handle that job...
it takes a very special person to be able to deal with the things that you saw.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:46 AM
Response to Reply #39
47. Yeah, you would
You have no idea what you can do when you get into it. We all have strengths we didn't know we had until we're faced with something hard.
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SW FL Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #5
121. Before I went to law school, I worked as a paralegal
for Legal Services, mostly in the Domestic Relations section. Talk about heartbreaking stories. We got referrals from the local battered women's shelter. I was totally amazed at what some people who look perfectly normal are capable of doing. Several times I was asked to serve process on a batterer because I could get into place normal process servers couldn't (I was young, tall and blonde). I'll never forget serving a prominent attorney who looked like the perfect father, or the guy in the tire shop who came out from behind the car with a tire iron in his hand. No wonder, I became a business lawyer. It was boring, but at least I could leave my work at the office and I didn't fear for my safety of that of my clients.
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:20 PM
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9. guh - and he's a lawyer
I am sure if asked he can recite the elements of statutory rape.

Why why why - what a sick fuck.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:23 PM
Response to Original message
11. Oh, hell....
I was taking a break too, but decided to peek in the lounge, and this was the first thread I encountered.

I know just how you are feeling, because I am feeling it right now too. :hug:
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:28 PM
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13. the secret lives of upstanding Republicans....
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:29 PM
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14. i grew up with alot of abused kids
seen some freaky stuff, and i know one guy who got away with it and is currently getting away with it, the wife knows, but shes a lunatic
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:39 PM
Response to Reply #14
19. I was physically abused as a kid
My mom would stand by and watch my stepdad beat the living crap out of me, then come along and put something on my bruises that was supposed to help them go away faster. My stepdad has since apologized, and gone through anger management. My mom, to this day, denies that any of it happened. I moved in with my grandparents at 14, mom signed away parental rights without a fight. Some people should just not be parents.

My friends weren't allowed to play at my house if my stepdad was home. Their parents insisted that if he came home from work, they were to leave immediately. They knew, but did nothing. I wore long sleeves and long pants to school in Texas heat. The school knew, but did nothing.

Somebody has to speak for these kids. I commend those of you who have. I'm sure you know that any nightmares the stories gave you, the children have them tenfold, forever.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:46 PM
Response to Reply #19
29. i really feel i should speak up on a few things
i have seen my neighbor beat his son mercilessly, too
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:15 AM
Response to Reply #29
62. Are you asking if you should report him?
I'd say YES

It's your responsibility if you are witnessing a crime.

What do you think, 7th?
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:14 PM
Response to Reply #62
86. worried bout my own neck
this guy is a fundie, and major bushie, his wife is nice enough but i feel she has been pretty brainwashed and might snap, and this guy is ultra violent
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:38 PM
Response to Reply #86
94. It's not always easy or safe to do the right thing
But perhaps let someone you trust know.

You can phone in an anonymous tip but I can't guarantee it will be taken seriously.

Some DFCS are better than others.

A teacher or health care worker is obligated by law to report abuse. Perhaps you can try that angle. The kids' teachers may know something is wrong. You might share what you know with them. Call their school's counselor (from a blocked phone if you want to be anonymous).
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ernstbass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 05:03 PM
Response to Reply #86
101. Every state has a child abuse hotline number
and you CAN report this anonymously. Please do so ASAP
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 05:18 PM
Response to Reply #86
105. You don't have to give your name.
For the sake of the child, call CPS today. They will send a case worker out and if warranted remove him.

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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 03:37 PM
Response to Reply #105
125. what do you do if they don't?
years ago I reported a neighbor. I was advised to go knock on the door and ask if I could help.

:wtf: ?

I tried to explain that I didn't thinkthat was prudent, and spent quite a long time begging them to help me out somehow, make a useful suggestion, anything. Made no difference. They were no help at all, even when I asked who would be willing to help.

And I am sad to say I didn't know what else to do.

Agencies are overwhelmed with cases, and alot of workers are incompetent.

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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:41 AM
Response to Reply #125
135. Here in VA, they send a caseworker almost immediately
within 3-5 days. I was really amazed at how responsive they were, but when my dad was hospitalized and on Medicaid, they were calling at all hours to arrange care.

If no caseworker is available to come out, I would call the police. In most cases, they will remove the child until an investigation can be done. Even if you are wrong, which I doubt you are, think of the alternative.
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mordarlar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:31 AM
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66. The kids need defenders. And it can make all the difference just knowing.
someone KNEW it was wrong. As a child you are TAUGHT what is normal and not normal. When the people who are supposed to care for you abuse your view of the injustice of it becomes warped. The abusers teach the children to protect them. It is right to speak up on behalf of these little victims.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:41 PM
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22. See, that's what, as a mother,
I have never been able to understand. How can women allow their children to be treated like that, because they "love" the man responsible? Your first job as a mother is to, first, foremost and ALWAYS, PROTECT YOUR CHILD/CHILDREN.

Some of the things mothers allow their boyfriends/husbands to do to their kids is just un-befucking-lievable. And their lack of remorse a lot of the time is even worse. They don't want to be alone, they're afraid of losing their man. Well, hell, no one really wants to be alone, but, MY GOD, at the expense of your children? And why would you even want to be involved with someone who would hurt your children? As a single mother, I've broken off relationships because they didn't get along with, or I didn't like the way they treated, my son. Yes, it was depressing and lonely, but NOTHING was and is more important than my son, and I just do NOT understand these women.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:46 PM
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27. Absolutely
My mother has never held a job in her life. After she and my dad divorced, we moved in with her parents, until she married my stepdad. I always swore that I would never be financially dependant on a man. I think I took it too far though, I married a guy who thinks work is a dirty word, so I end up supporting a family of four.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 03:56 PM
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128. Some mothers put their own sexual needs before the
needs of their kids. My mom had boyfriend after boyfriend when I was a kid. One of them was real abusive. He liked to "wrestle" in what should have been our living room (there wasn't much furniture in it at the time). I was about eight and he would pin me down and get on top of me. One time my nose started to bleed, he slapped me upside the head and told me to stop being a baby.

I HATED THAT MAN and I SO hope he had a horrible life.

To this day I have not had a serious relationship and prefer to be alone. I have NEVER wanted kids because I was afraid whether I'd be a good mom.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:48 PM
Response to Reply #14
31. Can't they be reported?
I've reported several cases of abuse I personally knew of to the proper authorities, and they immediately investigated and handled it well, helping those poor kids. It was all anonymous, too, so no one had to know who initially reported it.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:52 PM
Response to Reply #31
33. i think my neighbor saw me watch him beat his kid
that guy freaks even me out, i wont go outside unarmed, and as for the little girl (who i'm sure is getting raped right now) it was 4 years ago and i havent seen either of them since
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:51 AM
Response to Reply #33
49. Phone in an anonymous tip
Or write an untraceable letter.

Get someone in there. You won't be sorry.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:18 AM
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57. i have come several times
to about killing him, and i could get away with it, too
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mojavekid Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:52 AM
Response to Reply #57
70. Wow, you don't want to do that.
but please seriously consider reporting it, as others have mentioned. I am sorry for the child and also for what you have had to endure.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:13 PM
Response to Reply #70
85. this guy is psycho and would know it was me
seriously
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:37 PM
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93. talk to someone at the kids' school
tell them your suspicions and let them investigate and report it
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 05:43 PM
Response to Reply #93
106. i dont know where the kid goes to school
i dont talk to him
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ernstbass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 05:04 PM
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102. Don't ever let your pets get near this man
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 05:44 PM
Response to Reply #102
107. he was eyeballing my cat while holding a machete
then he was eyeballing the barrel of my gun
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:55 PM
Response to Reply #31
36. Are you talking about my parents?
If so, I'm 32, and really don't see the point. My grandparents knew about what I went through, as I ewnt through it, but never reported it. They don't air their dirty laundry in public. I asked for therapy when I moved in with them, but was told that we solve our problems within the family.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:38 PM
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18. God.
Edited on Thu Feb-03-05 11:38 PM by deadparrot
That goes beyond party politics. That's a CHILD, an innocent baby. How can anyone be so fucking sick?

Out of all criminals, I absolutely despise child molesters the most. As much as I'm for humane treatment of prisoners, those people should just die painful deaths for what they do. Christ.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:43 PM
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25. Funny how you never hear about Democrats doing shit like that.
Here in Connecticut, the mayor of Waterbury--the venerable Phillip Giordano--is now doing time for having sex with two 10-year-old girls.

And remember Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two boys a decade ago because she said Jesus told her to? Turns out, her stepdaddy was a fine, upstanding Republican politician, as well as a higher-up in the Christian Coalition. He also had been having sex with his stepdaughter since she was about nine years old!

Republicans and sex with children.... :wtf:
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:45 PM
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26. Well, if it's any consolation,
child molesters usually don't last very long in prison. Even hardcore prisoners, including murderers and rapists, hate child molestors. That's why they often have to be kept in isolation away from the other inmates.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:47 PM
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30. Yep.
They're scum. As they should be.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:53 PM
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34. That's true
When I was working with street kids, the center staff literally had to protect one boy from being killed by the others because someone had accused him of molesting the child of one of the girls.

It turned out that the accuser eventually admitted that she had made up the accusation out of spite because she knew that it would get the other street kids riled up.

So many of those kids were themselves survivors of sexual abuse.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:40 PM
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21. To make matters worse
it depicted the RAPE of a five year old girl. ALL child pornography is bad, but to me, that's the WORST. The living end.

There is indeed evil in the world. And when it happens to the most defenseless among us, it just makes us sick.

I feel ya. :hug:

I've missed you!
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:46 PM
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28. You know how I feel. I would kill someone who did this to one
of my kids. I know that's not a very liberal attitude, but it's how I feel about my kids. Actually, it's how I feel about anyone's kids. This guy deserves to have his nuts cut off. I'm sorry if that's not the consensus around here.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:54 AM
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51. Oh, you reminded me of something
I grew up in an Italian neighborhood, and I remember listening to some mothers of my friends talking about a guy who had a reputation for liking young girls.

They very quickly worked out what they'd do to him if he even tried it.

I won't go into great detail here, but it involved stripping him, taking him to an empty wooden house, nailing his nuts to the floor, and setting fire to the house.

They thought it was only fair to give him a chance to escape.

And people think Tony Soprano is tough.

Ha.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:20 AM
Response to Reply #51
63. Italians: We don't get mad. We get even.
n/t
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:28 AM
Response to Reply #63
72. Paisan!!!
Like there's any other way?
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:33 PM
Response to Reply #72
90. No, my friend
And these creeps better watch out for the Malochio!!!!!
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:48 PM
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32. Yes, it's utterly fucking sickening...
but he's not a sick, twisted fuck because he's a Republican, nor is he a Republican because he's a sick, twisted fuck. Hatred can be useful, but you ought not to let it blind you. Something like this is OUTSIDE politics, because it's utterly repugnant to most humans, regardless of political affiliation, cultural background, sexual orientation, or anything else.

Sorry, but pinning it on this guy's being a Republican is kind of ignorant.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 11:55 PM
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35. "Ignorant," my ass! Republicans are sick fucking perverts.
Bill O'Reilly and those lewd phone calls to his producer? Rush Limbaugh and his pill-popping? Armstrong Williams and the sexual harassment of one of his male employees? Phillip Giordano, the pedophiliac Republican mayor of Waterbury, CT? Susan Smith, who murdered her children a decade ago? Turns out, her stepdaddy, a Republican and a higher-up in the Christian Coalition, had been fucking her since she was about ten years old.

Perhaps it's because being a right-wing Republican also means being a lying, hypocritical piece of shit, but those motehrfuckers are a bunch of sick, twisted, out-of-control perverts! When was the last time you heard about a liberal Democrat doing anything as despicable as what I outlined above? And I don't want to hear about Monica Lewsinky, who was a consenting adult.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:04 AM
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37. No, it's ignorant.
Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 12:15 AM by Spider Jerusalem
There may be a greater tendency for sexually fucked-up people to gravitate to the Republican party, or to the church, out of some sort of guilt or desire to hide behind a facade of morality, but that doesn't MAKE them who they are.

And how can you really put Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh on them same plane as some sick bastard who gets off on children? And Susan Smith was obviously deranged or else totally amoral, but you seem to think that you can find causality in their politics. Any competent psychologist would tell you that's utterly absurd; that's likie saying JFK and Bill Clinton were raging horndogs because they were Democrats. Your argument has no logic. THere are hypocrites everywhere, in all walks of life.

This is flawed inductive reasoning; some X are Y, but that doesn't mean that ALL X are Y. Simple logic.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:26 AM
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64. I'm with Night Train on this one
many of the "moral elite" are Pharisees who gravitate toward the APPEARANCE of good to cover up their evil.

Yes, people of all persuasions do evil. But we are living in a time when there is a party with a mindset of being above the law, of being untouchable. They are sold on that version of "Once saved, always saved." They can do whatever the hell they want and Jeebus still loves and blesses them.

It's called being given enough rope to hang themselves. Except this time, they stole the rope. And more and more of them will hang. Just a hunch.

There are some pissed off law enforcement and lawyers and judges out there.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:57 AM
Response to Reply #35
52. Pervs come in all colors and styles
But, I have to admit, the theory that so many Republicans grew up in anal-retentive, punitive Fundamentalist homes gives a certain credibility to this theory.

When I represented whores (who always paid up front in cash and were almost as wonderful as my biker clients), they told me that Republicans were the kinkiest johns, bar none.

And they always ended up in tears. Interesting, no?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 05:10 PM
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103. Who ended up in tears?
I'm not sure who you were referring to there...
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:03 PM
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115. The kinky Republican johns
After they were serviced by my hooker clients, the Republicans always ended up curled into the fetal position, crying their eyes out while the whores rocked them.

That never surprised me. Does it surprise you? Imagine the shame and guilt those people must be carrying. No wonder they spend their lives trying to get into every woman's womb, just to make sure she's not having any fun.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:55 AM
Response to Reply #32
76. Instead of "ignorant", I'd say "turnabout is fair play".
The RW spin machine pins everything and the kitchen sink on liberals. Why can't we play hardball too?
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 06:48 PM
Response to Reply #32
111. I don't know. It seems like they are repressed and like
some priests, they act out in very dangerous ways.

Whereas liberals are more realistic about sex.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:28 AM
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38. I have a three year old daughter and this makes me sick and
angry. WTF is wrong with people??!! I feel so bad for that poor, innocent little girl.

I don't think it is just a "republican" problem, either...
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:30 AM
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40. I could go Ellie Nessler on someone
who did that to my child. No doubt about it.


I have always been appalled that she served so much time for that.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 03:44 PM
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126. As a mother, I understand
emotionally exactly where you're coming from on that. But people really ARE innocent until proven guilty, and the man she shot had not yet even been tried, let alone found guilty. He deserved his day in court, just like she got her day in court with her trial. You just simply cannot walk into a courtroom like she did and blow the defendant away before the trial has barely even begun.

I feel bad for her as a mother, and I agree she should not have served as much time as she did, but we do have to follow some basic rules in this society and we just cannot have people taking justice into their own hands and shooting defendantss before they're even convicted or their trial is even over; certainly, they can't just come into a courtroom and shoot the defendant. His mother was there, too, imagine watching your son being shot and killed in front of you.
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:35 AM
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41. Remember, EVERYONE is innocent until proven guilty
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:39 AM
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43. That's true, but the pornography exists. That means someone did this
As you point out, it's possible this particular man is innocent, but SOMEBODY made a pornographic record of the rape of a five year old, and SOMEBODY sent it out on the internet.

It's horrible. Absolutely horrible. And it happens all over the world all the time.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 06:39 PM
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108. True, but I don't think it'll be hard to prove that guy's guilt.
Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 06:41 PM by NightTrain
After all, when the cops seized his computer, they found all sorts of child porn on its. The video of the 5-year-old being raped was "merely" the most disturbing file they found. :scared:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 12:35 AM
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42. I will never understand how people can do things like that to children
a defense less 5 year old, no ability to fight off her attacker, no one hears her scream. I'm not a violent person by nature but things like this really make me want to kill the perp. the people that watched are equally guilty, it's fucking sickening.
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Sgent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:14 AM
Response to Reply #42
56. Mississippi still has
the death penalty on the books for intercourse with someone 10 or under.

Although I've only seen it prosecuted once, the DA's use it to get people to plead out to life fairly frequently.

The amount of abuse is truley horrifying. Almost as bad is the (often times) reluctance of the other parent to do something about it. Its bad enough being abused, its worse when you tell your other parent and they punish you.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:06 AM
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53. I can't help but feel solely for the actual victim (the little girl).
And all the psychological and physical horror she will go through in the future. I look at this purely through the actual victim's shoes, and it makes me absolutely 100 percent sick. Imagine the PTSD that girl will go through. The post-traumatic stress is enough to scar someone for life. It's like Vietnam flashbacks.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:08 AM
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54. WTF is wrong with people?
Here's another case of parental abuse of five teenage kids that was just on my local 11pm news tonight. The asshole parents tortured and starved these kids and kept them locked up in a closet.

Quote from the article..... "Sheriff's officials said the children told detectives they were subjected to shocks with electrical devices, had toenails pulled off with pliers, were bound by chains or locking plastic strips, and had their feet struck by hammers. All seven of the children were removed from the home and are in DCF custody."

The parents are on the run now but hopefully will be caught real soon.

Link: http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB7JYVXR4E.html
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 04:06 PM
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130. This reminds me of the story that came out of New Jersey in 2003
about a family that had taken in a couple of foster kids and starved them. One of them was 19 years old but looked five. The way they and it appears this Florida family was able to evade detection is because the kids were homeschooled....

"...All seven children said they were home schooled."


If kids are not in a school setting (public or private) there is one layer of authority that does not see or even suspect abuse.

I know most homeschoolers probably do it because they think they are doing the best for their child's education. It truly is a personal choice. That being said I really think there is a substantial subset of homeschoolers who do it because they are total control freaks.

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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 02:30 AM
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59. This stuff is truly gutwrenching
I will NEVER understand.

I suppose if we could make sense of it, we would be sick fucks too. Some folks just view other humans as meat, as consumables.

I am close to tears, too, between this and the six week old.
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cry baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:33 AM
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67. You get out of bed each day so that you can make the world a
Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 03:33 AM by cry baby
little bit better in your small way.

Do you ever wonder if Hell is here on earth? And if evil is winning?
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:44 PM
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98. Yes, but then something good happens
or there is some instant karma for someone who needed it right then.

I just refuse to be evil myself. I'm pretty screwed up as a person, but I don't intentionally hurt anyone. And I try to do good for others and care and live simply. If you hold to your principles ( assuming they are decent ones) it helps you keep life defined.

It's hard to have hope but keep having some because hope has inspired many wrongs to be made right.
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mordarlar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:41 AM
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68. Yahoo user chat rooms...
Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 03:42 AM by mordarlar
I welcome you all to go to YAHOO chats and click on USER ROOMS and then relationships. I have written Yahoo and they claim no responsibility for this vile, repulsiveness . These are the titles of the chat rooms on a PUBLIC FORUM. Is this free speech? It is CRIMINAL!!!

You have "incest lovers rooms"

"9-17waninsex"

"11-17XXX"

Under schools and education we have

"7-11yowho want nasty men"

"MOM's wanting hot kids"

"5-12kiddies into sex"

"girls 15 and over/ men 25 and older"

"Little girls pic trade"

"daughters for daddies"

"REAL incest videos"

"GURLS 10-12 see GUYZ squirt"

There are hundreds more.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 06:43 PM
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110. Not to mention Usenet groups...
...like alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.babies. :puke:
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mordarlar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 06:58 PM
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113. It is getting more difficult by the day to wash it off. :::scowling:::
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snoochie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 01:39 PM
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120. Why aren't those places crawling with cops?
I would hope they could make daily busts monitoring those monsters.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:56 PM
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117. It's truly a cesspool isn't it?
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mordarlar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 11:36 PM
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118. Yes : (
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 03:45 AM
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69. I spent three hours tonight talking to a friend of mine in Houston.
They called to tell me that the that Cook (the man who raped the 6 month old) had been given 50 years. It's not enough in my opinion, but compared to some other sentences I've seen handed down for aggravated sexual assault of a child in Texas it's pretty good. We were ready to raise hell if they let him out on probation.

Having seen what you posted about this pervert and the video of the 5 year old being raped, I'm on emotional overload.

I don't know what kind of sentence this Jeffrey Patti will get, but it's not enough. He's a true danger to society and he'll probably just get his hand slapped. Yes, his career will be hurt and his life changed but nothing like that child's was, or all the other children's lives he's either done this to or watched it being done to.

People like this make me physically sick to my stomach. :cry:
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:35 AM
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73. holy shit, that's not far from where I live
I live in Warren County, on the border to Sussex County.

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fit4life Donating Member (561 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 09:25 AM
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78. R. Kelly is a repuke???
I had no idea.

This disgusting behavior is NOT confined to just repukes, vile as they are. It's ridiculous to claim or assume pedophilia is limited by political affiliation.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:18 PM
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87. I don't believe R. Kelly used any 5-year-olds in his videos
Barely underage: wrong.

A freepin' five-year-old: JUST PLAIN EVIL. :grr:
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fit4life Donating Member (561 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:28 PM
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89. You missed the point.
I'm simply saying it's ridiculous to pretend pedophilia goes along party lines. It's a cheap attempt to make lame points against republicans when there are so many true and valid reasons to go after republicans instead.

All posts like this do is reinforce the illusion that DUer's are radical nutcases. Providing ammunition to the enemy, so to speak.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 06:49 PM
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112. OK. Then tell me how many stories you've heard about child sex...
Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 06:50 PM by NightTrain
...whose perpetrators were *not* Republicans, religious fundamentalists, or both.

I provided numerous examples of right-wing perverts in other parts of this thread. Now you provide me with just as many examples of notorious liberal deviants, OK?
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fit4life Donating Member (561 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 01:33 PM
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119. John Wayne Gacy springs to mind.
He was a democrat, how's that for starters? If you want more, I'll be happy to PM them, but I'm not much for airing dirty laundry on democrats. Too many conservatives lurk here to provide that kind of ammunition.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 03:48 PM
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127. I agree.
Sick fucks are sick fucks regardless of political party or beliefs. To believe that ONLY republicans do this kind of stuff is really just being blind.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 04:29 PM
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131. I didn't say it was *only* Republicans.
Edited on Sat Feb-05-05 04:32 PM by NightTrain
But more often than not, if a news story mentions the sick fuck's religious or political affiliation, it's Christian fundamentalist and Republican!

Besides, those right-wing pieces of shit always blame us for everything wrong in the world. Why not give those motherfuckers a taste of their own medicine?
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 09:53 AM
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79. They're supposed to be morally superior to the rest of the world...
and THEY'RE the ones downloading kiddie porn!! Goddamnit...That is sickening!
Duckie
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 11:18 AM
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81. Let me try to at least say in a positive note
that at least now days these things are reported and are coming out. In Victorian times, I'm sure the abuse was much worse because people didn't talk about sex or have discussions about sex abuses. Now we even have websites where you can be warned where some of these creatures lived.

I found out recently that a former manager at my company had been convicted of abuse of his 5 year old step daughter. I must say, it was a shock. The guy had even asked me out on a date a couple of times, but I don't date married men (said he was breaking up with his wife, my guess is she wanted to break his ass in half). All this was 2 years after the conviction. TWO YEARS! He worked in my company for 3 years after all this happened and no one knew.

If we had checked the sex offenders website: (I'm including the link for Virginia here, but you can google it for your own state)
http://sex-offender.vsp.state.va.us/Static/Search.htm
we would have known. If you have children, I strongly urge you to check the offenders list for your state and be aware if any of the creatures you read about actually live in your area.
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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 11:20 AM
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82. That's a good point. You wonder how much really goes on...
that you never hear about.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 11:23 AM
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83. Forget Victorian times,
how about the 1970s??? I have a good friend (guy) who was molested by a babysitter repeatedly and so was his little sister. They told their parents who didn't report it because the babysitter was the son of the dad's boss.

Ug.

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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:39 PM
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95. I got flamed by a lot of people here
For saying I found a guy here at work on the sex offender website. A lot of people thought I was a dick for not respecting his "privacy"...go figure.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 05:18 PM
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104. FUCK THEM!
That's what the goddamned thing is THERE FOR!

:grr:

:puke:
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 03:58 PM
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129. True...
My grandmother once told me (quite matter-of-factly) about a "funny uncle" she had. The guy would peep at the girls (in his own family) changing clothes through windows. Apparently, they all knew he did it, and learned not to change clothes when uncle so-and-so was around. Wonder what else he did that she didn't tell me about?
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 01:19 PM
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88. Who would find rape desirable?
let alone of a five-year-old?

answer: a sick man who is JUST PLAIN EVIL.

Top Ten nominations, anyone?
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:47 PM
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99. The brother of my abusive ex
and I were discussing this very topic. I said that I couldn't imagine how someone could get off while causing excruciating pain to someone else, especially a child.

He said "well, it beats a woman who just lays there."

I almost threw up right there. I rarely went around him after that and my daughter NEVER.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:35 PM
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91. Oh, God...
Shit like this makes me feel nearly homicidal.

:grr:

FUCK!

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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:36 PM
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92. Theres a special place in hell for people like this
and they don't last long in prison.
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dubyaD40web Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:40 PM
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96. ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SICK
I hope he has a special place in hell.
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 04:41 PM
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97. I'm sorry, I hate to tell you this...
...but its far more common than you think. I've represented people who download these things and there are so many images out there, and being produced every day, that it would make you physically ill.

First time I saw the evidence in one of these cases I wanted to vomit and I couldn't eat dinner.
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mordarlar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 07:02 PM
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114. THANK YOU. People HAVE to realize how common it is so we can stop it.
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 06:42 PM
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109. I think some boys should take him out fishing....
no big loss if he falls out of the boat and drowns, is it?
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kittycat1164 Donating Member (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 03:05 PM
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122. This story just broke here in KY yesterday
A 17 year old man raped and murdered the 3 YO daughter of his mother's boyfriend. The mother of the 3YO was in jail for assault so the father had custody. While he was at work and the other kids were at school, this THING raped and smothered the 3YO. WTF is wrong with these people???

http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=2902916&nav=NebDVziK
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 04:54 PM
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132. Sick Bastard!!!!!!!!!
Something you wont hear about on Fox news thats for sure.
There on the Michael Jackson roll. This sick bastard...i think
alot of republicans are the biggest of sex offenders.
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Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 04:57 PM
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133. FYI--John Wayne Gacy was an outspoken Democrat.
IMHO, this stuff shouldn't be made political. The sickening acts like the one described aren't about political ideology. It's about sick individuals.

For every Repub one could name that has committed a crime, someone could name a Dem.

The premise is essentially pointless.
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jerryster Donating Member (685 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:55 AM
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136. Always happy to see hypocritical Republicans exposed, but....
There were 39 people arrested. Were they ALL Republicans? Who are they? What are their names, occupations, political affiliations?
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:58 AM
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137. Things like this truly test my pacifism
:grr:
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