Child porn charges filed against ex-state Rep. Farnham

[7962]

Source: Chicago Tribune

Former Illinois State Rep. Keith Farnham was charged Monday with using both personal and state-owned computers to trade hundreds of images and videos depicting child pornography and engage in graphic online chats in which he allegedly bragged about sexually molesting a 6-year-old girl.

The federal criminal complaint alleged that Farnham, 66, a Democrat from Elgin, possessed two videos depicting child pornography on a computer that was seized from his state office in Elgin a week before his abrupt resignation in March. Authorities also linked a Yahoo! email account used by Farnham to a online trading forum in which he chatted with other users about his sexual preferences, according to the charges.

“12 is about as old as i can handle,” Farnham allegedly said in one online chat in November, according to the charges. “i love them at 6 7 8”

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/elgin/chi-exstate-rep-farnham-charged-with-child-porn-20140428,0,7141488.story

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Awful stuff here if true. And it doesnt look good at all.

[Botany]

1. What a piece of shit

"Former Illinois State Rep. Keith Farnham was charged Monday with using both personal and state-owned
computers to trade hundreds of images and videos depicting child pornography and engage in graphic
online chats in which he allegedly bragged about sexually molesting a 6-year-old girl."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/elgin/chi-exstate-rep-farnham-charged-with-child-porn-20140428,0,7141488.story

[The Wizard]

2. Balls in a vise-grip time (NT)

[Frustratedlady]

3. That's a surprise. He's a Democrat.

What a sick comment about the ages of children.

Glad he's resigned.

[840high]

14. Not a surprise - sickos

come in all forms.

[IronGate]

15. What does his political party affliation have to do with this?

You think only repukes are capable of this? Leland Yee-D CA. a prominent gun control proponent, was recently busted for firearms trafficking with a known asian gang leader.

Point is that party affliation has no bearing on criminal acts.

[Frustratedlady]

22. The problem seems to be more prevalent among Republicans.

Somewhere, there's a chart of offenses by Republicans (maybe by some Democrats, as well).

[IronGate]

25. I know what chart your talking about, it was posted a few weeks back and

it's about a 50/50 split.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_politicians_convicted_of_crimes

As I said, political affliation isn't a factor in criminal acts.

[alp227]

18. Why point out "he's a Democrat" along with the "surprise"? nt

[Frustratedlady]

23. You don't often see Democrats charged with this type of crime.

There is a list in our files that lists the Republicans charged with sex crimes. I was just surprised to see this one was by a Democrat. No world-smashing reason.

[hopemountain]

26. perhaps he is masquerading as a democrat

it is a perfect smoke and mirrors when trying to hide one's perversion(s) or to infiltrate with ulterior motives. although i know sincere politicians who would never think of doing such a thing. i also know bishops, priests, teachers, coaches, school counselors, law enforcement, police chiefs, ice cream vendors, clowns, foster parents. babysitters/nannies, dads, da's, etc - who hide their perversions and crimes behind a phony "persona".

ugh. think i'll go take a shower, now.

[TeeYiYi]

4. What monsters look like...

TYY

[7962]

20. Thats kinda erie looking. The similarity, that is. nt

[RussBLib]

5. just goes to show

not all disgusting sex offenders are Republicans.

Good thing he's already out of office.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. The kicker is he was on the committee on AGING....

http://www.ilga.gov/house/rep.asp?MemberID=1538

Committee assignments: Aging; Appropriations-Human Services; Consumer Protection; State Government Administration; Veterans' Affairs; Education Reform.

[olddad56]

7. Yuck, just fucking yuck.

[Orrex]

8. I wonder if the judge will rule that prison won't be good for him.

[shenmue]

9. Put him under the jail

[Kelvin Mace]

10. It says he was a Dem

but what was his voting record? There are plenty of Democrats who are great Republicans. Joe Manchin comes to mind.

[cstanleytech]

11. Look it doesnt matter what his voting record was. If he did this he is clearly a douchebag

regardless of his political party or voting record.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

12. Who cares?

Politics have NOTHING to do with the fact that this asshole is a fucking piece of shit.

Doesn't matter if there was a D, an R, or an I after his name. Political ideology is not what drives scumbags to do shit like this.
I don't know what does, but it sure as shit isn't politics, and it's disgusting to insinuate.

[Kelvin Mace]

31. It has been my experience

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that the conservative mind set with its bigotry, misogyny and homophobia tend to bend this way. See the Catholic Church for an excellent example of my theory.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

35. Catholics vote Democrat...

Or at least the majority did until recently. You're really grasping at straws here.

Being conservative doesn't make someone a pedophile. Being a pedophile makes someone a pedophile.

If we want to rally against conservatism, do it on policy. Not some made up bullshit.

[Kelvin Mace]

36. I said the "Catholic Church"

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not "Catholics". I was Catholic once upon a time, and left the church because of its regressive views.

Please point to where I said "being conservative makes" anyone of pedophile. I said "conservative mind set with its bigotry, misogyny and homophobia, tend to bend this way".

If you want to criticize my words, try reading them, if you please.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

37. You were conflating the two, and you know it.

Once again, attack on policy. Quit conflating bullshit.

I have quite a few Republican friends. None are bigots, misogynists, or homophobes.
That's not to say there is none of that in the Republican party... There is. There's also some of that in the Democratic party. If we focus on policy and not bullshit, we'll get a lot more done, and DU will suck less.

[Kelvin Mace]

38. Uh, no...

You were conflating the two, and you know it.

No, I don't "know it" since I did no such thing. What you choose to infer is entirely up to you, but I think I am the best judge of what I meant, since the words, along with their requisite intent, formed in my brain.

I have quite a few Republican friends. None are bigots, misogynists, or homophobes.

Again, let us go back to what I said, once more correcting your misquotation of my words:

I said "{the} conservative mind set with its bigotry, misogyny and homophobia, tend to bend this way".

Nowhere do I state, nor imply, that ALL x are y.

Nowhere do I mention the words "Republican" or "Democrat" in that post. In the very first of my posts I posit that one must not make assumptions of the ideology/ethics of a Democrat based on the label "Democrat", since I had known many "Democrats" who were "Republicans". I then offered Joe Manchin as an example. I was making the distinction between conservatism and liberalism and how the words no longer are synonymous with "Democrat" and "Republican".

(I did leave out a comma after "homophobia" in the earlier post and omitted the word "the" in my original re-quotation, but these mistakes in no way substantively alter my words. I have fixed both these errors).

Please do not put words in my mouth, then admonish me for what you said I said.

[IronGate]

16. Who fucking cares what his party affliation is?

He was caught with child porn on his work and home computers.

[Throd]

17. Don't make DU suck.

If these charges are true, I don't see how his voting record would make him more or less of a scumbucket.

[7962]

21. Couldnt have said it better. I mean, should it NOT be posted because he's a "D"? Jeeze. nt

[Kelvin Mace]

30. Oh, he is scum

I just warn people against conflating "Democrat" with "liberal".

[hopemountain]

27. i can name at least one in my state who is a "democrat" but votes

republican. and during our last election a young candidate who signed up as a democrat to run against our dear democrat incumbent congressman while the kid's dad ran as a republican against our incumbent democratic congressman. they had aspirations that if either of them one - republicans & daddy would still win.

[7962]

29. Ok, I had to read that twice and I'm still not sure I got it. What happened??

[hopemountain]

32. our congressman

is a democrat. a republican was running against him. but jut to be sure the repub could win the race, his son signed on as a democrat to also try to unseat the democrat incumbent just in case the repub dad lost the election. so, we all had the last laugh because the phony democrat candidate - the son, and the nasty repub candidate both lost.

[7962]

33. I figured thats what happened. How obvious their attempt was to the voters. Thanks!

[JI7]

34. who gives a shit, this has nothing to do with politics and comparing Manchin to a child molestor ?

that's fucked up.

[johnlucas]

13. Incinerate that bastard!

Piece of shit was so bold he even put this stuff on the state-office computers!
Incinerate him. Be done with it.

John Lucas

[IronGate]

19. +100.

[tarheelsunc]

24. After learning that Sterling is a Republican (some still haven't)...

they'll move to this sick creep and say all Democrats are like him. It's really messed up how all they care about is a person's political affiliation when people do things like this so they can pin the ones who are Democrats against the party and defend the Republicans or deny what has been alleged. Meanwhile, everyone here calls the sick pedophile out for what he is.

[Ash_F]

28. Wow that quote. Scary. /nt