UK judge to teacher: ‘I don’t criticize you’ for sexual attraction to two-year-olds

LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/4/11 | Jeremy Kryn

[wagglebee]

READING, UK, August 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A UK judge assured a teacher busted with pornographic images of children as young as two years old that she would not “criticize” him for being sexually attracted to children.

On Saturday, Judge Mary Jane Mowat addressed remarks to substitute teacher David Armstrong as she handed him a suspended sentence for pleading guilty to possession of 4,500 images of child porn.

“I don‘t criticize you for being a teacher who’s attracted to children…Many teachers are but they keep their urges under control both when it comes to children and when it comes to images of children,” said Mowat.

63-year old David Armstrong was reportedly caught when a colleague at the Little Heath School in Tilehurst notified police after finding files on Armstrong’s laptop with names such “rape wife,” “nude model,” and “gay alligator.”

The Blaze reports that some of the images retrieved from Armstrong’s possession include ones of children as young as two years old.

This is not the first time Mowat had stirred controversy over her handling of sexual abuse of children. The Daily Mail reports that, In 2008, she allowed a former headmaster charged with pedophilia to walk free after he blamed the attraction on his drugs for Parkinson’s disease.

Family advocates said that the affair helped shed light on the devastating and progressive effect of pornography.

“The issue at hand is this, porn is not harmless,” Beth Meier of My House Initiative told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) in response to the controversy over Mowat’s comments.  “It isn’t an ‘acceptable’ form of sexual release.”

Meier elaborated, “Watching primetime TV, reading Cosmo, watching an ‘R’ rated movie with nudity and explicit sex scenes, which sometimes even PG-13 movies have, watching YouTube clips of girls in bikinis pretending to strip are all ‘gateway’ drugs to porn - these all incite lust and are a disordered view of our beautiful sexuality.”

“(Pornography) turns women into objects to use instead of seeing them as daughters of God,” she said. “What Catholics and Christians need to wrap their minds around is that we are not immune.”

Dan Spencer, the Executive Director of the National Fellowship of Catholic Men, told LSN that the controversy is “a stark example” of just how far society has moved away from the values that would guard against such attacks on children.

“Stances taken by this judge are a logical consequence of the ‘sex is a private matter’ mentality in both the U.K. and the United States,” Spencer said. “Western culture has slid down the proverbial slippery slope and is in no position to challenge such deviant behavior.”

[wagglebee]

On Saturday, Judge Mary Jane Mowat addressed remarks to substitute teacher David Armstrong as she handed him a suspended sentence for pleading guilty to possession of 4,500 images of child porn.

“I don‘t criticize you for being a teacher who’s attracted to children…Many teachers are but they keep their urges under control both when it comes to children and when it comes to images of children,” said Mowat.

Unbelievable!

This monster should be locked away for the rest of his life and the judge should be removed from the bench.

[wagglebee]

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[PBRSTREETGANG]

Sick all the way around.

Makes me wonder what’s on the Judge’s laptop.

[silverleaf]

reminds me of Seinfeld

“.. Not that there’s anything WRONG with that...”

[ETL]

Thank goodness such things could never happen in our schools. Not with Obama's "Safe School Czar" in charge!....

Obama's "Safe School Czar" Kevin
"use a condom" Jennings
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From the Washington Times...

EDITORIAL: At the president's pleasure
'Safe school czar' encouraged child sex with an older man
September 28, 2009

A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an "older man." At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's "safe school czar". It's getting hard to keep track of all of this president's problematic appointments. Clearly, the process for vetting White House employees has broken down.

In this one case in which Mr. Jennings had a real chance to protect a young boy from a sexual predator, he not only failed to do what the law required but actually encouraged the relationship.

According to Mr. Jennings' own description in a new audiotape discovered by Fox News, the 15-year-old boy met the "older man" in a "bus station bathroom" and was taken to the older man's home that night. When some details about the case became public, Mr. Jennings threatened to sue another teacher who called his failure to report the statutory rape "unethical." Mr. Jennings' defenders asserted that there was no evidence that he was aware the student had sex with the older man.

However, the new audiotape contradicts this claim. In 2000, Mr. Jennings gave a talk to the Iowa chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, an advocacy group that promotes homosexuality in schools. On the tape, Mr. Jennings recollected that he told the student to make sure "to use a condom" when he was with the older man. That he actively encouraged the relationship is reinforced by Mr. Jennings' own description in his 1994 book, "One Teacher in 10." In that account, the teacher boasts how he allayed the student's concerns about the relationship to such a degree that the 15-year-old "left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on the campus for the next two years, until he graduated."

Mr. Jennings' denials about these events reveal a lack of remorse. He has not admitted that he made mistakes in this case, and he now refuses to answer any questions about the scandal. Don't forget, this is a presidential appointee we're talking about. Mr. Obama should make clear what his standards are for public servants serving at the pleasure of the president. Encouraging and covering up man-boy sexual activity are serious offenses. The White House should force Mr. Jennings to come clean.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/at-the-presidents-pleasure/
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[yldstrk]

Impeach her

[dog breath]

God must love fools, for he made so many of them.

[swatbuznik]

Locked away? Put a millstone around his neck and drop him in the sea.

As for the judge? Someone needs to check his computer, too.

[lionheart 247365]

WARNING :

Don’t let this judge around your children . . .

[swatbuznik]

Oops, see that the judge was a she...still maybe one should check it anyway...

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Da Coyote]

Won’t matter in a few years anyway.

The UK will be under sharia law and if he becomes an imam, he’ll be OK because he’s just following in the footsteps of his prophet,

[Lazamataz]

notified police after finding files on Armstrong’s laptop with names such “rape wife,” “nude model,” and “gay alligator.”

Look, I don't understand the "rape wife" thing, I kinda get the "nude model" thing, but WHO DOESN'T LOVE a Gay Alligator???!?

[metmom]

“I don‘t criticize you for being a teacher who’s attracted to children…Many teachers are but they keep their urges under control both when it comes to children and when it comes to images of children,” said Mowat.

Pedophiles go to where the children are. It's probably not any different here in the US.

Definitely.....

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

And this is so bad, that it deserves one of the rare pings to the general homeschool list as well, just to remind you all of what your kids are missing.

[MrB]

So, we’ve found something you wouldn’t hit....

:)

Yeah, the “gay alligator” thing made me scratch my head.

On the serious side, this kind of attitude, though, is the next “great frontier” for the left. Homos were just the beginning.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Some people are just so sick...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

On Saturday, Judge Mary Jane Mowat addressed remarks to substitute teacher David Armstrong as she handed him a suspended sentence for pleading guilty to possession of 4,500 images of child porn.

sick, sick, sick...

[Aria]

Told my kids for years that everything is NOT ok. Obviously this judge doesn’t get that - the left has worked hard to beat down any sense of right v wrong.

[GOPJ]

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/sutton.asp

Sutton is famous for two things: His fascinating career as an illegal withdrawals specialist (bank robber, that is) and for a pithy rejoinder supposedly uttered in response to an interviewer’s query about why he robbed banks. While lore would have it that the bank robber replied “Because that’s where the money is” to that common question, Sutton denied ever having said it. “The credit belongs to some enterprising reporter who apparently felt a need to fill out his copy,” wrote Sutton in his autobiography. “I can’t even remember where I first read it. It just seemed to appear one day, and then it was everywhere.”

The earliest print sighting of the coined phrase dates to 15 March 1952, when it appeared in Redlands Daily Facts, a Southern California newspaper. Today it is so commonplace that a handful of social scientists have dubbed the process of considering the obvious first as “Sutton’s Law.”

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One more reason to stop unions from infecting education - too many of the ‘we teach and are pedophiles’ are there BECAUSE “that’s where the kids are...”

[caww]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

....added to a huge list of why it's important to pull your kids out of public schools. Looks like my son and wife did this in just the knick of time. But I do know they did not want them in the public schools for their high school years.

BTW It does seem it is a Charter School they will be in, metmom. Long history of success with focus on academics.