Former US Congressman Says It's OK to Talk Dirty to Teenagers

Mark Foley gives his first interview since Castgate more than two years ago and lets us all know that he isn't a big hypocrite-fuckwad, because everyone knows that it's only pedophilia if the kid is pre-pubescent. Good strategy Mark.

NEW YORK (AP) - Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages.
Sitting in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York this week, the Florida Republican, wearing a yellow tie with blue elephants, finally broke his silence.

"I'm trying to find my way back," Foley said in an interview with The Associated Press, his first public comments on the scandal since resigning from Congress on Sept. 29, 2006.

Foley insists he did nothing illegal and never had sexual contact with teens, just inappropriate Internet conversations. Investigations by the FBI and Florida authorities ended without criminal charges

And while he concedes his behavior was "extraordinarily stupid," he remains somewhat unwilling to accept full public scorn.

These were 17-year-olds, just months from being men, he insists.

"There was never anywhere in those conversations where someone said, 'Stop,' or 'I'm not enjoying this,' or 'This is inappropriate' ... but again, I'm the adult here, I'm the congressman," Foley said. "The fact is I allowed it to happen. That's where my responsibility lies."

Take it from someone who spends a lot of time talking about sex with 17 year old girls -- It's not a good career strategy. Full article here.

Uh...I Think I'm OK with this Law

Columbus, Ohio:

Columbus -- It's a sad day when we have to pass laws to stop perverts from stealing and then drinking youngsters' urine.

But that's just where things stand in summertime Columbus, where two Republican lawmakers recently announced their intentions to introduce such a measure, in light of the recent actions of repeat offenders near capital city and their tendencies toward children.

State Sen. Steve Stivers and Rep. Jim Hughes, both Columbus-area Republicans, said their bills would make it a crime in Ohio "to collect urine, blood, tissue or other bodily substances without consent of the individual." (For those who give their consent: Yuck.)

Yuck indeed. If you're looking for examples of not-nanny-state-laws in action, this would be a good starting point.

More on the "tendencies" of some child predators that led to this law:

The bills stem from two incidents that occurred earlier this year. In June, according to the lawmakers, a convicted sex offender was discovered at a recreational facility "attempting to obtain and drink the urine of boys using the facilities," according to a release. "Despite the fact that the same man has been arrested for similar incidents numerous times over the years, area police could only charge him with criminal mischief because there are no laws on the books to specifically prohibit this activity."

And in July, another known sex offender was spotted repeatedly around another suburban community, armed with comic books and in the vicinity of children who were "around the same age as the 7-year-old boy he admitted to raping in 1996," according to the release. "Area police could do nothing but monitor the situation because he had not yet broken any laws."

Use your imagination to fill in the blanks on just how he was attempting to obtain urine; but I find I prefer to imagine the perv in a toilet costume, running through the park shouting YIPPEE!!

Full story here.

Short Bios of Past and Present TtP Bloggers? Close, But Not Quite

My gut reaction would be to generally oppose civil confinement laws (although they're a better alternative than Bobby "I'll Cut Your Nuts Off" Jindal's approach to pedophiles), but the profiles of some of the winners confined to Ward's Island in this Village Voice piece makes me re-think my opposition to confinement laws:

Christopher James, 26, whose life was disastrous from the start. He was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, causing a lack of oxygen to his brain, and two genetic syndromes that cause eye-movement problems, small testicles, and reduced fertility.[...]

All of these early problems, according to a state psychiatrist, contributed to what came next: an inability to control deviant sexual behavior. James was kicked out of his house and arrested for his first offense at age 19, after a seven-year-old girl accused him of touching her vagina. Out on probation, he was arrested a second time for fondling a 17-year-old girl while she was sleeping. That incident was caught on tape after the family he was living with put cameras up because they thought James was stealing from them. By 2005, he was behind bars and in trouble for violently raping a fellow inmate.

Jesus, this guy didn't take a break. Pre-arrest -- molesting. Probation -- molesting. Jail -- raping. Impressive resume. And all because of small testicles and shifty eyes.

More creeps here.

Grandpa Takes Porn Title Seriously

Michigan:

Dale J. Wiggins, 60, waived arraignment and pleaded not guilty Thursday before Judge Charles Miel in 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Stanton. Wiggins is charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct and remains free on bond.

Wiggins was charged May 27 in Gratiot County Circuit Court in Ithaca with two counts of child sexually abusive activity and two counts of distributing obscene material to children. He also pleaded not guilty in that case. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of those charges.

The charges in both counties stem from a March 23 incident where Wiggins allegedly drove his granddaughter, 13, and her friend, 11, from Montcalm County into Gratiot County.

"They allegedly stopped at a video store in Alma where Mr. Wiggins purchased a DVD called 'Lesbian Training 7,'" said Gratiot County Prosecutor Keith Kushion. "The allegations are he allowed the girls to watch that on a portable DVD in his truck as he drove them around.

"We had testimony at the preliminary examination that he wanted them to do some of those things that were depicted in the video," he said.

"allowed the girls to watch..". What a weird way to legally phrase it. I hardly think the pre-teens were begging him to pick up Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure, and Lesbian Training 7 for, "Movie Night in Grandpa's Truck". Either way, what a creep.

Full story here.

Christmas in October

BALTIMORE — To discourage contact with children, some registered sex offenders in Maryland will be asked to post signs at their homes that say "No Candy at This Residence," on Halloween.

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In addition to the signs, all such offenders have been advised in a letter to stay home from 6 p.m. on Halloween until the next morning, leave their lights off and refuse to answer their doors.

Offenders can arrange with their parole or probation officers to be elsewhere that night, and accommodations can be made for offenders who abide by the restrictions but don't want to post the signs, Bartholomew said.

"There will be some houses where it's a sex offender's house and there's not a 'No Candy' sign posted, but in all those instances, someone will be going to the house to make sure the right thing is happening at that house," Bartholomew said.

Sure, the "No Candy Here" sign works great...That is until the pedophile writes, "Wink, Wink" at the bottom of it...Full article here.

Sicko Parents + Bizarre Biblical Tradition = Rob's Dream Come True

Looking to abide by the Bible and/or have sex with a minor? Buy a girl on MarryOurDaughter.com, an introduction service assisting those following the Biblical tradition of arranging marriages for their daughters. For just 5% of what you're asking for your daughter they'll put a picture of her up. Ages range from 13 to 17. Prices from $6,000 to $100,000. Sick. Just plain sick. Is this site a joke? Maybe. But nothing surprises me anymore. Except that time I got home and found a midget clown masturbating on my couch. That surprised me. I didn't, uh, see that coming.

Hat tip to my friend, who wishes not to be named, who is waiting for the Jewish version to go online. Although she is way too old to be selling herself into marriage. Zing!

20/20 Takes on Dateline

I'm sorry I missed this on Friday night; 20/20 did an expose on Dateline's To Catch a Predator series.

It's tough to make me cringe; but the To Catch a Predator series does it. It can be entertaining no doubt, but the whole legal aspect of it and the fear mongering that the show does, scares the shit out of me.

More here.

If You're Going to Wed a 16 yr Old, She'd Better be Hot

When you're in court with your wife -- for a lawsuit involving a PlayStation, a mounted fish and beanie-babies -- that her parents wouldn't give back to her, you might want to pat your self on the back re-think a few choices you made in your life. Like marrying a teenager. From the Wilmington Star:

Bolivia Sporting a dress shirt and his wedding ring, 40-year-old Brenton Wuchae sat next to his jeans-clad teenage wife in a Brunswick County courtroom. A few rows behind them, her parents sat silently alongside their attorney

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Windy wanted the mounted fish back, along with her stuffed animals, a sculpture and a PlayStation game system, a total value of $1,072.50. She had been collecting the Beanie Babies, gifts from her parents and friends, for the past four years, she told the magistrate. She said she tried to get the items from her parents outside of court but couldn't.

Full article here.

Hey, Look. French Politics is Just as Stupid as American Politics

From the BBC:

Sarkozy in row about paedophiles

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In a weekend interview for Philosophie magazine, Mr Sarkozy said he was "inclined to believe that people are born paedophiles, and it's also a problem that we don't know how to treat this pathology".

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Centrist candidate Francois Bayrou, currently third in the polls behind Mr Sarkozy and Ms Royal, said Mr Sarkozy's comments about paedophiles were "terribly worrying" and "chilling".

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Socialist candidate Segolene Royal said his view that some people were "born paedophiles" was "extremely serious".

I thought -- with that headline -- Sarkozy was coming out for pedophilia. I've talked about politicians fearing even coming close to the Drug War, but an association with pedophilia, maybe an endorsement from NAMBLA. Now that's a bold political move. Could it be dangerous? Or could it be dangerously amazing?

In other news...Why haven't we had a pedophilia tag before now?? And does the British spelling read classier than the American?? And how long until the feds confiscate my hard-drive?? Yuck, I wouldn't even want the job of going through the nightmare that is my hard-drive. The files...Oh the files they would find...

Full article here.