Posted on 10/29/2019 9:24:28 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
An elected official in Arizona was suspended Monday after he was charged with running a human smuggling scheme that brought pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. to give birth and then paid them to give up their children for adoption.
Leaders in Arizona's most populous county suspended Assessor Paul Petersen without pay for 120 days. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors doesn't have the power to permanently remove him from his office, which determines the value of properties for tax purposes in Phoenix and its suburbs.
Petersen, who is in federal custody, has so far refused to resign since his arrest on Oct. 8. His lawyer, Kurt Altman, said Petersen will fight to keep the $77,000-a-year job he was last elected to in 2016.
Petersen, a Republican, has been indicted in federal court in Arkansas and also charged in Arizona and Utah with crimes that include human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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Petersen is accused of illegally paying women from the Marshall Islands to have their babies in the United States and give them up for adoption. The women were crammed into homes owned or rented by Petersen, sometimes with little to no prenatal care, court documents say.
Petersen charged families $25,000 to $40,000 per adoption, prosecutors said.
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Life without parole.
It's something I would never think to do.
How does one decide to get into the business of illegally selling babies?
I can see the money motive but how do you decide to start such a business?
People can rationalize almost anything if they want to. I’m guessing he managed to convince himself he was doing a good thing, even if he was breaking all sorts of laws, because he was “helping people” who wanted to adopt and couldn’t.
I’m curious, assuming you’re correct, what do you think a fair punishment would be for these crimes.
Note: The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
Will Romney and Flake rush to Peterson’s side and vouch for his moral character? /s
His financial planner was Joseph Mengele?
“The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors doesn’t have the power to permanently remove him from his office, which determines the value of properties for tax purposes in Phoenix and its suburbs.”
Is it just me or does this sentence make no sense whatsoever?
Despicable. And I should have known it was a Republican. Democrats only deal in dead babies.
I'm an adoptive parent and I'd feel awful if I found out this is where my kid came from.
At least they were live babies.
Democrats like to sell dead ones and parts of dead ones, which they enjoy killing first. (See my tagline.)
“I’m an adoptive parent and I’d feel awful if I found out this is where my kid came from. “
Each Child is a miracle.
Why isn’t he in jail?
Suspended?
That’s not a punishment.
He needs to sit naked in a suspended cage hanging from a tree for the rest of his life.
The article states he’s in Federal custody.
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To be clear, my feelings for the child would not change, but I would feel terrible about the fact the child was trafficked in an illegal transaction.
good place for him
Here is an interesting ‘dig’ on this person and potential connection to Flake.
This is a youtube post from ‘Amazing Polly’...she is very insightful and articulate. doesn’t draw conclusions, but does deep digs, all of which make you go ‘hmmmmm....’. she is not a conspiracy theorist imho
CPS ie Child Predation Services of Arizona 37 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCBg6TLjnI
So what do these women get for their 25 t o 40 k$. If the kids are adopted out then mom has no ties with her citizen child and can’t get back in, no?
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