Huff Po: Republican Child Sex Scandals Proliferate (More GOP family values)

[mod mom]

The Wolves Guarding the Hen House: Republican Child Sex Scandals Proliferate
READ MORE: 2006, Investigations, Mark Foley, Tom DeLay, Homeland Security, George W. Bush


Republicans have remained conspicuously oblivious to the fact that the latest scandal involving Representative Mark Foley's e-mails to White House Pages is only the most recent in a pattern of child sexual abuse among government officials. Due to space and other constraints, I'm limited to describing recent, similar cases.

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Republican Frank Figueroa was once in charge of Operation Predator, the sex-predator sting operation run through the Department of Homeland Security. Yet, last October, Figueroa entered a plea of no contest to "exposure of sexual organs and disorderly conduct," after exposing himself and masturbating in front of a sixteen-year-old girl in a California mall food court. The mall's available security footage corroborated the girl's version of events.

Also brazen was the manner with which Department of Homeland Security Official Brian Doyle, in 2006, evidently sent pornographic materials to a detective--who at the time was posing as a fourteen-year-old girl. Authorities said Doyle, who was the deputy press secretary for the Dept. of Homeland Security at the time, was charged with sending hard-core pornographic movie clips and having explicit conversations with a minor. Doyle also sent photos of himself in which his Department of Homeland Security name-tag was visible; apparently unafraid of being caught, he gave his real name and phone numbers. In addition, authorities said he encouraged the 'girl' to buy a web cam so they could exchange nude photos in the future.

Also, in 2005, Fred Smeltzer, Jr., a conservative New York City Councilman, pleaded no contest to raping a fifteen-year-old girl in a trailer, and served a six-month term. Additionally, Smeltzer is made to register as a sex offender. At the time, the girl's father complained that the sentence against Smeltzer, who was formerly a friend of the family, was far too lenient; but that he accepted a plea of no contest to save his daughter from having to testify.

MORE AT:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/assia-mortensen/the-wolves-guarding-the-h_b_32500.html

[mod mom]

1. Has everyone seen "Conspiracy of Silence"? Was suppose to air on Discovery

Channel in 1994 but got yanked off at the last minute:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3395321338401208062

[MountainLaurel]

2. Will have to check that out.

At some other time, when the window workers aren't smashing glass into my bedroom upstairs.

[mod mom]

5. Remember they DON'T want you to watch it!

[porphyrian]

3. They're not trying to distract us from this, are they? - n/t

[understandinglife]

4. Recommended.

BE THE BU$H OPPOSITION - 24/7/365

[Boo Boo]

6. k&r