Posted on 08/09/2002 8:59:43 AM PDT by NYer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Ten Americans and six foreigners were charged Friday with taking sexually explicit photographs of their own children or children in their care and sending them over the Internet to an international child pornography ring, the U.S. Customs Service said.
Forty-five children, including 37 in the United States, were victims and have been removed from the care of those indicted, Customs officials said. Most of them are in the custody of another parent or relative.
The defendants include nine people from seven states who were indicted in Fresno, Calif., along with six residents of Denmark, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The indictment alleges that members of the ring, referring to themselves as ``the club,'' traded messages across the Internet requesting photographs of specific sexual poses. One man asked for an audiotape so he could hear a child crying while being spanked, the indictment said, and another posed naked with an underage girl.
The Customs Service coordinated the U.S. investigation that began last November with a request for help from the Danish National Police, who were acting on a tip about an international child pornography ring. ``I congratulate the investigators whose ingenuity and perseverance brought these people to justice,'' Customs Commissioner Robert C. Bonner said in a statement.
The Americans charged include: Lloyd Alan Emmerson of Fresno County, Calif.; Paul Whitmore and Brooke Rowland, San Diego County, Calif.; Tracy Reynolds, Texas; Leslie Peter Bowcut, Idaho; Michael David Harland, Florida; Harry Eldon Tschernetzki, Washington state; John Zill, South Carolina; Craig Davidson, Kansas. The identity of the tenth American was not immediately available.
The foreigners were identified as Eggert Jensen and Bente Jensen of Denmark; Jean-Michael Frances Cattin, Marcel Egli and Peter Althaus of Switzerland; and Dirk-Jan Prins of the Netherlands.
On the Net: Customs Service: http://www.customs.ustreas.gov
AP-ES-08-09-02 1114EDT
What if Westerfield is 10th ?
Because it defies the natural order. That is why we find so many homosexuals having sex in public areas. That is why AIDS killed so many so fast. That is why the rate of domestic abuse is so much higher in homosexuals. That is why homosexuals are more likely to be pedophiles than heterosexuals. It's a perversion. The more it is accepted; the worse it gets.
Pink Ballets and Protected Pornographers ... a Global(ists) Problem
See, the Interlock's criminal, pedophile pornographer Kinsey and the Supreme Court (who's okayed "faked" cyber child porn -- as if there's some substantive difference in the real ejaculations intended) for more.
This is no longer a hypothetical. There are actual psychologist and doctors that are stating that some forms of adult-child sex result not only in no harm for the child, but perhaps as a benefit. So if religion cannot be brought into the discussion how are we to combat this?
As far as why parents would do this, I don't know what is the issue in these cases but many people are afflicted with pedophile thoughts that they cannot control. Usually brought on through their upbringing. Now if their mind is feeling that sex with a child is truly a way of portraying love for that child, what do we tell them to prove to them that they are wrong? This is the same with homosexuals. They think that since they FEEL a certain way, it excuses them to act a certain way. And without using God, how do you oppose their views?
This is why a Godless law system can never work.
Good question. Males and females are intrinsically structured such that the males sex organs fit the female sex organs. The sex organs are apparently for procreation.
Pre-pubescent children do not have the capability to have children. So some of this depends on what a "child" is. It's not uncommon to call a 14 year-old a child but physically two 14 year-olds to could make babies. But so could a 14 year-old and a 25 year-old.
I would start from a design perspective and look at how our bodies are designed. Then we factor in other conserations, like societal concerns and come up with an age everyone can agree is a good age for people to start making desicions about sex. We legislate morality by concensus by saying that adults cannot have sex with minors.
Both homosexuality and pedophilia are perversions and immoral based on a religious basis. We don't have to be ashamed of that. For if the homosexual activists wish to assert some sort of absolute claim to morality, that homosexuality is moral, they must borrow from some objective moral law giver. Of course, that a whole 'nuther topic.
Why? I personally don't see the connection.
Wonder if the parents who did this vile thing to their children had decadent moral values..such as swinging?
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Homosexuality is a disordered desire. Period.
There are all manner of strata within the homosexual "lifestyle" that vary in their destruction of the person, the relative scale of perversion of the practices or the objectification of his sexual targets.
The penis is not ordered to the anus. Homosexual penetration may well fulfill a person's physical desire for penetration by and/or domination of a same-sex gratification but it has absolutely nothing to do with human sexuality which has as its defining characteristics the procreative and unitive -- male and female -- aspects.
Child pornography is child abuse period. A child is trained by an adult. To use a child for sex ruins the sexual life of that child in the future. It is an abuse and no amount of rationalization changes that.
Just why are people needing to seek deviant forms of sex? Why are they no longer turned on by the normal heterosexual experiences and want to move to something different?
Whether they want to justify it or not, they need to look at what has happened to their own sex drive that makes them want deviant activities? While they are working on this area - I claim that they need to leave the children of this society alone as children are not sex toys.
Adult child sex is repulsive just like maggot infested meat. In fact homosexual behavior is naturally repulsive.
So, God has wired us to abhor certain things and at the same time he has wired us to appreciate other things like beauty and sun rise.
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