Posted on 01/27/2005 11:50:24 PM PST by kattracks
Thirty-nine perverts were nabbed in New Jersey in a kiddie-porn sting for passing around a video file on the Internet showing a man raping a 5-year-old girl, authorities announced yesterday.The sex-sleaze suspects were arrested over the past two days by the State Police, who were acting on a tip from authorities in Wyoming.
Hailing from all over the state, the sickos include a pediatrician, a lawyer and a high school hockey coach, state police said. They range in age from 14 to 61, with 10 younger than 18. All are charged with second-degree possession and distribution of child pornography.
The video, which depicts a man in Toccoa, Ga., raping a 5-year-old, was made four years ago, State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes said.
The rapist, James Francis Bidwell, was arrested when he tried to send the tapes out of the country. He pleaded guilty in 2002 to rape and child molestation and is serving 45 years in a Georgia prison.
Officials said the footage made even hardened sex-crimes detectives sick to their stomachs. "It's absolutely disgusting," Fuentes said. "It's not easy for detectives to do this sort of work."
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Cops said they caught up to the kiddie sex peddlers through a new file-sifting technology, spearheaded by a Wyoming task force on 'Net kid porn.
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The dad of Jeffrey Patti, a 36-year-old lawyer who was arrested, said his son did not knowingly possess the video and was mistakenly arrested.
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Suspects Ross Finesmith, 43, a pediatric neurologist at NYU Medical Center from Basking Ridge, and Andrew Friedman, 27, a hockey coach at Kinnelon HS in Morristown, did not return calls for comment.
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>>The video, which depicts a man in Toccoa, Ga., raping a 5-year-old, was made four years ago, State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes said. <<
Just when you think you've heard it about as digusting as it can get.
Did the sicko know the child?
Sick POS .... Throw the book at them ALL!
I've heard of, but have never seen confirmed, trojans/spyware/viruses that (if they infect your system) are fully capable of downloading and installing dialers and other programs that run unobtrusively in the background. Presumably, such programs could be designed to download anything at all to your computer, including kiddie porn files.
Why? To set you up for arrest.
Helluva "prank", huh?
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
File sharing software can be trouble if teenagers are looking up pornography and download a bunch of files all at once. Some of them can be child porn without the user checking among the large number or the title may be misleading.
This can be remedied by a password protected filter of video and image files (which everyone with kids should use).
But not everyone knows to lock things up.
I think though that law enforcement watches people for repetitive, deliberate behavior anyway. As there is a bias for the guilty in our justice system.
Why is this not a death penalty crime? No amount of therapy allows a victim of this sort of cr*p to forget the crime, only (if the victim is lucky) to learn to live with the horrible memories. Most child rape victims are affected for the rest of their lives.
I ask again, why is this not a death penalty crime?
The legal answer is more or less the US Supreme Court - currently capital punishment is allowed only for the crime of murder.
Helluva "prank", huh?
Also, they can hijack the machine to serve the file to paying customers, without the "inconvenience" of using a server easily traceable to themselves.
Same as they do for some spamming.
Why no Barf Alert on this one. Truly 'barfworthy'...
With a title like "CHILD RAPE PERVS" a Barf Alert tag is not really needed as the title itself pretty much alludes to barfworthiness.
That being said, what's up with the editors at the New York Post? This is some horrible writing. This story reads like something from the Weekly World News.
Liberals would have to believe in a morally absolute God in the first place.
Well suppose some sent you the file? If they sent it out, book 'em Dano. If they just received it, I would investigate further. If it was one of many child porn, book 'em too. If it seems totally out of place and there is no other corroborating evidence, I'm not sure I'd prosecute. But I would definitely investigate hard.
I heard a fascinating bit two days ago: Students downloading hardcore pore on a teacher's computer. OTOH, I do think child-porn is increasing. It is increasing in direct correlation to the Dems constantly railing to lower the age of consent in sexual relations, and in voting.
Does the full article say anything about what eventually happened to the child? Was she identified? Removed from harm's way? Given medical attention and counseling?
Louisiana drafted its child-rape law in 1995 and is the only state with such a specific law (**Death penality). Florida and Montana have capital-rape laws on their books, but prosecutors don't take use them.
**Parenthetical phrase is mine:
http://csmonitor.com/2003/0908/p02s02-usju.html
This is dated )9/08/03. If louisana's law has been over ruled since then, I haven't heard about it.
If they are lucky, they'll get a legislative judge who will let them off the hook for being minors, or for being "artistically expressive"
Its time to take this country back for the forces of Evil
How about throwing them out of a plane at 30,000 ft. That would save the taxpayers some money.
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