Posted on 07/08/2005 2:15:18 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
LOS ANGELES -- A 15-year Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested for allegedly committing illegal sex acts with a teenage boy.
Officer George Stan, 36, was taken into custody Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport. LAPD officers and FBI agents met Stan when he returned from vacation.
He is accused of multiple sex acts involving a 15-year-old boy over the past three years. He was booked for "oral copulation with a minor."
According to an LAPD statement, "The investigation disclosed multiple illegal sexual acts involving Stan and a 15-year-old male victim. The acts occurred in the city of Simi Valley over the past three years."
Stan was arrested following a task-force investigation by the LAPD's Professional Standards Bureau and the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team.
Stan has been assigned to the Devonshire Police Station since 1991. He has been a youth services officer for about one year. He also worked with the Explorer program.
In a statement, LAPD Chief William Bratton said:
"Every effort will be made to determine the full extent of Stan's activities. I am gratified by the task force's thorough investigation and the victim's courage in coming forward.
"I want to apologize personally and on behalf of the department to the victim and his family for the violation of trust that we allege was committed by Officer Stan.
"The Explorer Program is one of the best youth programs around, and we will be looking to add additional safeguards to protect its membership."
Bond was set at $2.5 million.
Investigators said there might be other victims.
Suprise! A homosexual pedophile.
Of course, you have to dig through the article to figure that out.
Jeeesh! A child molester and a cop. I bet he will have a real good time in prison.
The child was 12 years old when this began? He should go to jail for the rest of his life. Seriously.
Not a pedophile if he's doing a 15-year-old. Just a run of the mill homosexual male.
I've read that the push for "affirmative action" has swamped the big city PD's with thugs, druggies, and perverts being forced into the ranks.
Liberalism at its best.
Why should the kid go to jail?
Would you think that if the 15-year old were your son? He started molesting the child 3 years ago.
Just in case this is a serious question, It is the adult offender who should go to jail for the rest of his life.
I've read that the push for "affirmative action" has swamped the big city PD's with thugs, druggies, and perverts being forced into the ranks.
Liberalism at its best.
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The city near where I live has had that problem for years. They either aren't permitted (thanks to law enforcement union rules) to run background checks, or if they do and the checks show something negative, the cities are forced to take these candidates anyway, thanks to affirmative action and all those civil rights do-gooders out there.
KaliPornia Hummmmmm...
More like the push for more more more police. It seems the only thing politicians of all stripes can agree on is that we can never have too many cops on the public dole.
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Of course I would. If a chickenhawk abused my son, I'd want the creep dead. What difference does calling him a "pedophile" make? A 12-year-old boy is an adolescent (almost always) not a child. It's simply a matter of definition.
If it makes you feel better to call him a pedophile, go ahead. However, it obscures the fact that molesting teenage boys is common for homosexual men, not the sort of fringe behavior implied by "pedophile."
You want, by implication, to say all homosexuals practice pedophilia. There are two groups of people who in many cases may overlap. In this case, it appears the cop is homosexual (his sexual preference) and a pedophile (interested in 12 year olds).
You want to define the crime commited on the victim, by looking at the preditors sexual preference, that is nuts. If it was a 12 year old girl, would he be a pedophile?
Depends on whether the 12-year-old girl was post-pubescent. Plenty of 12-year-olds are taller and more "robust" than I am.
It's inexcusable criminal behavior, whatever word you use. IIRC, "ephebophile" was the term used for men sexually attracted to adolescent boys, rather than prepubescent children.
Oh, woulde tyhis ever perplex my liberal friends. Is he a homosexual or is he a pedophile??? Because, of course, we all know he cant be both. ( ahem...)
I will settle on Pederast.
p.s. I win, mine shows up in the dictionay!
UH, despite what MTV may say, 15 year olds are children and protected as such.
Don't become part of the pedophile problem by repeating pro-pervert information. I know they may seem to be big enough to be adults but they are not.
Not at all. Statute defines the crime. According to the article, He was booked for "oral copulation with a minor." I assume it would be the same charge irrespective of the age or sex of the minor.
I simply want to describe the perpetrator accurately, but I don't care enough about it to bother any further. Have a nice day!
That's fine ... I wasn't sure about the word, anyway.
"They either aren't permitted (thanks to law enforcement union rules) to run background checks,......."
Can you site one example of this? How does a union prohibit an employer from doing a background check on a prospective employee?
Correct. . .like the Priest problem. . not pedophile, just homosexuals. . .but don't expect the MSM to make that point.
I think you're a bit carried away. Every 16-year-old boy who has sex with a 14-year-old girl is a pedophile? How about a 20-year-old with a 16-year-old?
I don't think it helps anything to assign the word "pedophile" to anything involving a legal minor.
"However, it obscures the fact that molesting teenage boys is common for homosexual men..."
I got your point, totally true.
I don't think it helps anything to assign the word "pedophile" to anything everything involving a legal minor.
A person who had sex with a 12 year old boy is a PEDOPHILE, it is not my opinion. It is also against the law and not subject only to the retrubution of the parents but of the legal system.
The American Psychiatric Association defines Pedophilia:
"A pedophile is a person who over at least a 6 month period has recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (age 13 years or younger). The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The person is at least age 16 years and at least 5 years older than the child or children. Not to include an individual in late adolescence involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12 or 13 year old (straight or gay). Individuals with pedophilia generally report an attraction to children of a particular age range. Some individuals prefer males, others prefer females, and some are aroused by both males and females. Pedophila involving female victims is reported more than pedophilia involving male victims. "
"Prepubescent."
And no, "pedophilia" is not a crime, unless it manifests in illegal sexual ACTS. In this case, "oral copulation with a minor."
"They either aren't permitted (thanks to law enforcement union rules) to run background checks,......."
Can you site one example of this? How does a union prohibit an employer from doing a background check on a prospective employee?
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It did happen where I live...you see, my neck of the woods is heavily unionized...unions rule. Which is why many private employers are leaving this area. Among the civil servants (including law enforcement), however, unions still hold considerable (and outrageous) power, to the great economic detriment of the city and the region as a whole.
And by the way, the word is "cite" not "site." Sorry for the spelling police. :)
Can we agree that molesting teenage boys by homosexual men, common or not, is fringe behavior?
Yes, I suppose so. One can only stickle for so long before one gets dizzy and has to retire :-). I was using "fringe" to mean "rare," but in this case, I'll redefine it to mean, "evil, disgusting, and illegal."
Not to include an individual in late adolescence involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12 or 13 year old (straight or gay).
19-year-old and 12-year-old in a "gay" relationship? No problem!
The APA is on Planet Zongo.
Yes, assignment of the word pedophile is not to be taken lightly but we are not talking about a 16 y/o or a 20 y/o. Middle aged men who take a hankering for underage children are pedophiles - it is important to make sure we are clear on that because several countries and organizations are trying to make 13 y/o's adults so that they can satisfy their perverted lusts on our children legally.
You have a point.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I'd like to hear the whole story here before I start assigning guilt. I can imagine too many scenerios where a good cop is falsely charged by teenage thug.
She's right. Pedophilia is the attraction to prepubscent bodies. A 15 year is going to have all kinds of secondary sexual characteristics that simply turn pedophiles off.
If the 12 year old in question had developed secondary sexual characteristics, which in girls would be primarily pubic hair, widened hips, and breasts, then no, he wouldn't be a pedophile. If the 12 year old in question was still childlike in body and appearance, then yes, he would be a pedophile. Pedophilia is the aberrant attraction to prepubescent body types.
Seriously, the attraction to undeveloped childlike bodies is a twisted sickness all unto itself, and we have a name for it, pedophilia. IMHO, you weaken the impact of the charge to those who deserve it, when you apply it incorrectly to those who've had relations with post-pubescents. The age of consent varies from culture to culture, and time to time, but relations with prepubescents has been condemned in almost every society to have ever existed.
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