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To: jimwatx

“Give us the cliff notes.”

Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

Arrests and conviction for sex offences

(Scott) Ritter was the subject in two law enforcement sting operations in 2001.[31] He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.[32][33] He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of “attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child”. The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of pre-trial probation.[33][34] After this information was made public in early 2003, Ritter said that the timing of the leak was politically motivated in order to silence his opposition to the Bush administration’s push toward war with Iraq.[32][33][35]

Ritter was arrested again in November 2009[36] over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.[2] Ritter said in his own testimony during the trial that he believed the other party was an adult acting out her fantasy.[37] The chat room had an ‘age 18 and above’ policy, which Ritter stated to the undercover officer.[2] The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on a $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included “unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation”.[38] Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011.[2][39] In October 2011, he received a sentence of 1½ to 5½ years in prison.[40] He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.[41][37][34]


3 posted on 10/05/2022 2:13:05 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

Just for the record I’ve never been a fan of Ritter personally, and he obviously has an axe to grind with the US establishment. But I will occasionally listen to what he has to say, taking his biases into account. But I prefer a synopsis, not going to wade through a long video with him.


4 posted on 10/05/2022 2:17:00 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: MeganC

Indeed so.


7 posted on 10/05/2022 2:23:09 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: MeganC

Ritter is;

Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad inten


37 posted on 10/05/2022 5:53:43 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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