Posted on 02/29/2008 5:57:29 PM PST by SmithL
SAN MATEO -- The director of a Half Moon Bay charity was sentenced today to 10 days in jail for offering $500 to a woman to have sex with him after she asked him for financial help.
Michael Niece, 65, co-founder and director of the now-closed Coastside Catholic Worker charity, said he would surrender shortly at the San Mateo County jail.
"I'd rather get this over with now," Niece said quietly to his attorney after Judge Carl Holm of San Mateo County Superior Court gave him about a month to get his affairs in order.
Holm ultimately ordered Niece to surrender Saturday. He will be eligible for the sheriff's work program, meaning he will probably serve his time picking up trash rather than sitting behind bars.
Niece was also given two years' probation and was directed to continue counseling. The judge also told him to stay away from the victim.
"In a sense, you're like those who commit embezzlement from an employer," Holm said. "You violated the trust of the people you dealt with."
Niece and his wife declined to comment as they left court.
"It's over," said his attorney, William Johnston. "We have nothing to say beyond what was said in court."
Niece pleaded no contest Dec. 7 to a misdemeanor count of soliciting prostitution for offering to pay a 35-year-old woman for sex after she went to him seeking money to help send her child to private school.
The woman refused Niece's overture, went to police and agreed to place a recorded call, during which he repeated the offer, prosecutors said.
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He kinda looks like George Soros. Dam, skin blots and everything.
So why is this illegal? She asked him for money....he is perfectly within his rights to lay out the conditions he would accept for giving her the money!!! Not saying he was a nice guy, but this is BS.
Wonder how many other innocent women complied with his request.
Niece pleaded no contest Dec. 7 to a misdemeanor count of soliciting prostitution for offering to pay a 35-year-old woman for sex after she went to him seeking money to help send her child to private school.
Regards
Wonder how many other innocent women complied with his request.
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Well, how many are that stupid?
Guess she was not willing to help her kid get a good education after all.
Forrest Gump’s mother would have made the sacrifice.
Well, if they complied they no longer were that innocent, or that smart.
I'd have to think this is not the first time he's pulled this shiite on truly innocent women that had to walk away disgusted who otherwise might have deserved some assistance.
This "man" is a disgrace to Catholic Charities.
Regards
Eve (as in Adam and Eve) was not an innocent woman.
There have been none.
You are a kook!
You need a charity to send your kid to a private school?
Wasn’t there a movie about this? I think the price was a little higher though.
Sex with a Niece? That woulda been incest, no?
“So why is this illegal? “
You sure you dont know?
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