Pedophilia Symbolism (We have to talk about it!)

[artemis]

A terribly vicious circle...

"After Penn State, another college reveals abuse probe

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - In the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, The Citadel military college in South Carolina, revealed on Saturday that it had investigated accusations against a camp counselor but took no action.

The man has since been jailed on separate charges of molesting five boys in Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, South Carolina.

"We regret that we did not pursue this matter further," Citadel President Lt. General John Rosa and Board of Visitors Chair Doug Snyder said in a statement.

The Citadel said it investigated four years ago accusations of inappropriate conduct with children by Louis Neal "Skip" ReVille, who was a counselor at the military school's camp.

ReVille is a graduate of The Citadel, the college said, and worked as a counselor at the school's camp for three summers between 2001 and 2003.

In 2007, a former camper at The Citadel Summer Camp informed the school that five years earlier, when he was 14, ReVille invited him and another boy into his room where the three watched pornography on ReVille's computer and masturbated, college officials said.

"Because of the seriousness of the accusation, The Citadel's general counsel conducted an investigation immediately, including traveling to the individual and his family and conducting an interview," the statement said.

"A thorough review of Mr. ReVille's records revealed no other complaints, and interviews indicated that he was highly regarded by those at camp. His file included a clean background check conducted by an outside organization. Unlike his admissions to current charges, Mr. ReVille strongly denied the accusation."

After graduation from The Citadel, ReVille was a principal at Coastal Christian Preparatory School and had coached sports for years at several area schools and recreation centers, police said.

He was arrested in October 28 on the child molestation charges.

The Citadel said it was commenting on the incident now because of media requests since the arrest. Jerry Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator for the Penn State Nittany Lions, was charged on November 5 with sexually abusing eight young boys over a period of nearly 15 years.

That scandal has forced the resignation of some of Penn State's biggest names, including the school's president, its athletic director and its legendary football coach, Joe Paterno."

[lucy]

Some details to add to the Penn State nightmare...

The judge who set bail, she volunteered for Sandusky's organization, the Second Mile...she lowered the bail and didn't give him a tracking device as the prosecuters wanted.

Sandusky's home is right next to an elementary school playground, the neighbors are outraged he didn't have a higher bail and no tracking either...as well as too close to their children....

The CEO of Second Mile resigns, as well as the atty for Second Mile stepping down from his duty.

The crap gets more nasty as things are being dug up.

[artemis]

"Judge's Ties To Sandusky's Charity, Bail Questioned
Accused Molestor Was Set Free On $100K Unsecured

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football team assistant coach accused of molesting boys, is collecting a substantial monthly pension payment from the university, according to a newspaper report.

According to the Harrisburg Patriot-News, Sandusky took a nearly $150,000 lump sum payment at retirement, and still gets almost $60,000 a year.

And that's not all.

FOX 29 News has uncovered a link between Sandusky's charity, The Second Mile, and the judge presiding over his case.

Prosecutors say Sandusky met his victims through Second Mile and Sandusky's foundation for at-risk kids.

We poured through the charity's donation records from 2009 and found that the judge who handled his preliminary arraignment gave Second Mile somewhere between $500 and $1,000 and has volunteered with the group. That's the same judge who released Sandusky on $100,000 unsecured bail.

That means Magisterial District Justice Linda Leslie Dutchcot required Sandusky to just sign his name on a piece of paper, and he was set free. There was no leg monitor, and no big bail. Prosecutors had asked for a half-million dollars at least.

FOX 29's Steve Keeley spoke early Monday morning with state Rep. Mike Vereb (R-Montgomery County), who said, "These details have got to be reviewed."

"I'm sending off a letter to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Ron Castillo and asking him to look at what happened here, to look at the reports that are out there, and if in fact does this district justice has a conflict of interest," Vereb said.

He added, "We want to make sure that the defendant's … question bail is questioned, that the relationship is questioned, and that this guy either a) be in jail pending his hearing or b) have more secure bail or with the bracelet, as I believe was suggested by the attorney general."

Keeley noted that a Philadelphia high school baseball coach got $500,000 bail in a case on charges of allegedly molesting on child.

"Clearly this bail is not consistent with some of the more familiar cases we would have in your viewing area, and that's something that has to be reviewed. That relationship has to be reviewed," Vereb said. "The object of bail is to make sure a defendant returns. And it's also to make sure we protect that whatever … was alleged to have happened doesn't happen again. And her word telling him to stay away from kids in his house next to a schoolyard, I'm not feeling too good about that."

Meanwhile, Gov. Tom Corbett said over the weekend that he expects more victims to come forward.

Corbett spoke out on FOX News Sunday about the case.

"What I saw was a failure to act, and I always have said that your actions speak louder than words. That should not have been able to continue," said Corbett, who was attorney general when the investigation began.

Among the people the governor is talking about is assistant coach Mike McQueary, who testified to the grand jury that he saw Sandusky molesting a child in the Penn State showers back in 2002.

McQueary, then a graduate assistant, told head coach Joe Paterno but never went to authorities.

McQeary was placed Friday on administrative leave indefinitely from his current position as the team's wide receivers coach and director of recruiting. Paterno was fired Wednesday.

Corbett also says he blames Paterno for not doing enough.

Saturday was Penn State's first football game without Paterno as their head coach in almost a half a century.

The team's cheering squad stopped by Paterno's house in State College after the loss to Nebraska. Many of them went away wiping tears from their eyes.

The greater Penn State community was shaken to its core, the child sex allegations, the firing of Paterno, and the rioting that followed.

But Friday's vigil and Saturday's game dedicated to the victims have helped to begin the process of picking up the pieces."

[lucy]

This is how pathetic some of the sheeple are. They have a protest in the streets and tip over a local news van because they fired Paterno, but NOBODY protests that the judge is corrupt by not giving him a tracking device and having such a cheap bail set....this man walks the streets and the victims hide in shame.

What's wrong with this picture???

[artemis]

"Pope says child porn ’normal’ back in the 70s

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.

In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.

“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.

“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than’ and a ‘worse than’. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”

The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church.

Asking how abuse exploded within the Church, the Pontiff called on senior clerics “to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred” and to help victims heal through a better presentation of the Christian message.

“We cannot remain silent about the context of these times in which these events have come to light,” he said, citing the growth of child pornography “that seems in some way to be considered more and more normal by society” he said.

But outraged Dublin victim Andrew Madden last night insisted that child abuse was not considered normal in the company he kept.

Mr Madden accused the Pope of not knowing that child pornography was the viewing of images of children being sexually abused, and should be named as such.

He said: “That is not normal. I don’t know what company the Pope has been keeping for the past 50 years.”

Pope Benedict also said sex tourism in the Third World was “threatening an entire generation”.

Angry abuse victims in America last night said that while some Church officials have blamed the liberalism of the 1960s for the Church’s sex abuse scandals and cover-up catastrophes, Pope Benedict had come up with a new theory of blaming the 1970s.

“Catholics should be embarrassed to hear their Pope talk again and again about abuse while doing little or nothing to stop it and to mischaracterise this heinous crisis,” said Barbara Blaine, the head of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,

“It is fundamentally disturbing to watch a brilliant man so conveniently misdiagnose a horrific scandal,” she added.

“The Pope insists on talking about a vague ‘broader context’ he can’t control, while ignoring the clear ‘broader context’ he can influence — the long-standing and unhealthy culture of a rigid, secretive, all-male Church hierarchy fixated on self-preservation at all costs. This is the ‘context’ that matters.”

The latest controversy comes as the German magazine Der Spiegel continues to investigate the Pope’s role in allowing a known paedophile priest to work with children in the early 1980s."

[artemis]

"Penn State Scandal: Mother of Sandusky's Adopted Son Speaks Out

The birth mother of Jerry Sandusky's youngest adopted child has come forward saying she believes the former Penn State coach led her son on a path of self-destruction and that she contacted authorities years ago about her son's safety.

Debra Long told ABC News in an exclusive interview that sharing her now 33-year-old son Matt with Sandusky had been a nightmare after the coach became the boy's guardian via foster care in 1995. Long says that she watched as her child became enamored with the local hero and then increasingly frightened by Sandusky's behavior.

"It was Jerry Sandusky, you know? Any 10-year-old kid is going to be impressed by Penn State football," Long said. "And then it was the gifts. You know, money and clothing and whatever … It was as if Jerry owned Matthew."

Sandusky entered the lives of the Longs as a mentor when Matt was 10 years old, via The Second Mile charity for at-risk youth, which the former Penn State defensive coordinator founded. When Matt was placed in juvenile hall after he set fire to a barn in 1995, he soon entered the Sandusky home as a foster child. He was adopted by Sandusky as an adult at age 18.

Matt Sandusky, now 33, is not named as one of the 10 victims in the grand jury presentment outlining the charges against the coach. He insists he was not abused by his foster father.

But Debra Long says that the once-welcome Sandusky soon became a source of fear for her son, as he would take the boy out of school when he was 15 years old, unbeknownst to her.

"My son was afraid of Jerry. If Jerry said don't talk, he didn't talk. I would sit back and watch when Jerry would show up, how excited Matt was," she said. "And then, as time went on, I would watch the same kid hide behind the bedroom door and say, 'Mom, tell him I'm not home.'"

Long believes that exposure to Sandusky was what made her once-quiet son lash out, and eventually fall into the coach's hands.

"It wasn't until Jerry came into the picture that Matt started acting out in school. Matt ended up burning down a barn with another youth, you know -- it wasn't until Jerry came into the picture … that mentor turned him from the quiet, good kid into -- what Jerry could use to take him."

Four months after moving into the Sandusky's home Matt attempted suicide, along with another girl who was staying in the house, according to a report in the Patriot-News. After the suicide attempt, Terry L. Trude, a school-based probation officer, wrote a letter to a local judge asking that Matt's care at the Sandusky home be reviewed.

"The probation department has some serious concerns about the juvenile's safety and his current progress in placement with the Sandusky family," Trude wrote.

The adoption file for Matt Sandusky contains letters from Long to officials and a Centre County judge expressing concern for her son, who she was allowed to visit only one-half day per month while he was in Sandusky's care.

Matt Sandusky – who is one of five boys adopted by Sandusky and his wife -- still supports Jerry after he was arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual assault with 10 minor boys over 15 years. Matt even brought his children to visit Sandusky after his Nov. 5 arrest.

But the mother of Matt's kids immediately went to court to obtain an order preventing Sandusky from being alone with her children. By court order Sandusky is now not allowed unsupervised contact or overnight visits with his grandchildren.

Alleged Victims Ready for Court
In the aftermath of Jerry Sandusky's unexpected interview on "Rock Center" with Bob Costas on Monday night, a number of witnesses are now ready and willing to testify in court that they were sexually assaulted by the coach.

A second boy has said that he is now ready to testify in court, according to Harrisburg attorney Ben Andreozzi, who is representing the boy. According to Andreozzi , the alleged victim called him after Sandusky gave the controversial interview on Monday.

"He has decided to dig in his heels. He's not going anywhere. He fully intends to testify," Andreozzi said.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Andreozzi said Sandusky "elected to re-victimize these young men at a time when they should be healing," and said his client was "disappointed" by Sandusky's comments.

"I think he would like Mr. Sandusky to assume responsibility for the horrible acts he committed on him," Andreozzi said.

Another boy known to be planning to testify is one known as "Victim 1" in the indictment; he is the boy who first came forward to authorities to allege abuse at the hands of Sandusky. The boy has already told his story to the grand jury and is anxious to tell it again in open court, according to his mother.

"He wants him to go to jail, and he wants him to pay for what he's done, and he doesn't want him on the streets where he can hurt somebody else," the unnamed boy's mother told ABC News.

Meanwhile, The Patriot-News reports that hearing Sandusky's interview broadcast on national television Monday has triggered more of the coach's alleged victims to come forward.

"They're literally processing it right in front of us," attorney Andy Shubin told the Patriot-News. "They have kept it from their families, moms, brothers and sisters ... The folks we talked to are largely folks in their 20s, who in a lot of cases have never told their story before."

Shubin has reportedly teamed up with Andreozzi, and along with a team of psychologists and social workers they plan to aid the alleged victims by providing seeking mental help and possible legal recourse."

[lucy]

Some other bits that have come out in this pathetic mess...

Joe Paterno had sold his home for a $1.00 to his wife before this mess made headlines. So what does he know???

Franco Harris who took the side of Paterno, may have lose his own position in a Casino in Western PA.

Talk about removing the Paterno Statue by the stadium. Some say they will, others say it won't happen. Meanwhile the sheeple stand and have their picture taken with the statue.

Somewhere on tv they showed an eliptical machine delivered to the Sandusky home.

So it's little bits of crap flung at the masses, giving a daily dose of snippets of information.

[artemis]

"Football abuse scandal devastates small mountain town

LOCK HAVEN, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - For the better part of a decade, Jerry Sandusky was a fixture in this small, blue-collar community nestled in the Appalachian mountains: a volunteer football coach and eager mentor to some of its disadvantaged young boys.

But with the former assistant Penn State University football coach now accused of sexually abusing eight boys, the Lock Haven area finds itself with unwelcome notoriety as the home of the boy whose allegations sparked the Pennsylvania attorney general's investigation.

Many here are now second-guessing their interactions with a man known as a legend in college football and asking the unthinkable question: if the allegations against Sandusky are true, could someone they know have been sexually abused?

Sandusky has denied the abuse charges, although he told NBC News he did sometimes shower with boys, which he now regrets.

Lock Haven is a town of about 10,000 on the banks of the Susquehanna River, surrounded by forests and hills. Most of the homes are modest and trailers dot the landscape. Wal-Mart is the place to catch up with neighbors, and the unpretentious downtown hosts a handful of restaurants and shops.

"There honestly isn't much to do," one local youth said. "Most kids just play videogames. A lot of kids get into drugs. Mostly just hang out, listen to music, smoke pot and party. Or they lift weights. And hang out at the gym."

Bud Yost played football alongside Sandusky as a linebacker at Penn State in the 1960s and later as Clinton County commissioner helped Sandusky set up a chapter of the Second Mile charity here. He now says he feels "betrayed" and no longer considers Sandusky a friend.

"An awful lot of people were hurt by the things that are going on, a lot of people who shouldn't have been hurt," said Yost, who is now retired. The kids "were betrayed by someone they trusted and believed in. I'm just feeling terrible."

The economy of Lock Haven, just under an hour's drive from Penn State, has long been driven by the area's natural resources, particularly timber. A quarter of the population works in manufacturing. The area has been doing a bit better lately due to the natural gas boom in western Pennsylvania, which has brought jobs and new hotels. On any given morning, gas industry trucks barrel along the county's highways.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL LEGEND

Before the allegations became public, Sandusky was a hero in this part of Pennsylvania -- the former assistant to Joe Paterno, who helped build one of the most storied teams in college football, turning Penn State into "Linebacker U."

When he retired from coaching in 1999, Sandusky said he intended to devote himself more fully to the Second Mile, a mentoring program he had set up for disadvantaged youth. Prosecutors now say Sandusky used the Second Mile to prey upon young, vulnerable boys from broken homes.

It was through that charity that Sandusky in 2005 or 2006 first came into contact with a Lock Haven-area boy who is identified as Victim One in a grand jury report. It said the relationship began as a mentorship and escalated to regular sexual abuse, including multiple counts of oral sex.

After Sandusky became a volunteer coach at Central Mountain High School, he would routinely meet with the boy during school hours in a conference room, the grand jury report said. He also took the boy to football games, gave him gifts and hosted sleepovers at his home in State College.

The boy's mother became suspicious after he started acting out and she asked school officials to talk to her son.

After the boy accused Sandusky of molesting him, prosecutors say the high school acted appropriately by immediately alerting authorities. The boy's mother tells a different story, saying school officials at first cautioned her against calling the police.

"They said I needed to think about the ramifications of what would happen if I did that," she told CNN this week.

David Lindsay, the school district's lawyer, said the school had been cooperating fully with the investigation and would continue to do so.

The Lock Haven area is now under particular scrutiny as it is the only community aside from Penn State itself that is readily identifiable from the grand jury report.

Lock Haven is home to exactly the demographic that prosecutors say Sandusky targeted. The median income is about $27,000 and a third of its residents, who are almost exclusively white, live in poverty.

"It was easy to show the need here for Second Mile, and the idea was to help as many kids as we possibly could," said Yost. "It's important that young people who are in need of guidance have some place to go."

'IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT'

Parents say they are angry Sandusky was allowed to have contact with local children, especially given allegations from prosecutors that there were numerous missed chances to stop him in the 1990s and early 2000s.

"I think somebody should have done more somewhere along the line. It just doesn't seem right," said George Skibba, whose son played football the year Sandusky was a volunteer coach.

Skibba called his son, a passionate Penn State football fan who is now a college senior, as soon as he heard the news. "I knew he'd be upset."

Yost said he did not see Sandusky at the many official Second Mile events here. But over the years, Sandusky became heavily involved in the lives of a handful of local boys.

According to the grand jury report and interviews with people who know the boys, Sandusky would often single out kids he knew through the Second Mile for special treatment: trips to sporting events, outings to work out and new clothes.

Donna Santucci, a local counselor who worked as a psychologist at Central Mountain High until 2009, said school officials never alerted her to allegations against Sandusky, but she said she remembers seeing him around the school. "I knew he had taken some of the boys under his wing," Santucci said. "He would take them places and buy them new clothes."

The grandmother of one boy known to be close to Sandusky described the former coach as "friendly, outgoing and sociable," and said she had not suspected anything amiss. "It does sound like the classic old thing, denial. You don't want to think about it, you want to think it's all good," she said.

Over the past two years, as prosecutors built their case, investigators visited the houses of several young men who had been involved with the Second Mile in the Lock Haven area.

"To have it be in your community, possibly, you're shocked," said John Allen, the head coach at Lock Haven University, a local college that hosts Second Mile events.

This is not the first time Lock Haven has been traumatized by a sexual abuse scandal. In 2001, a local doctor was accused of hosting alcohol- and drug-fueled sex parties involving minors in the area. He pleaded guilty to some of the charges. The victims are known as the "Bender Boys."

Some questioned why Sandusky picked this community to volunteer as a football coach. Eric Fetter, a linebacker who graduated in 2008, said when Sandusky coached the high school team practices were more competitive, with players all trying to impress Sandusky because of his college football links.

"Anybody in Pennsylvania wants to play at Penn State," said Fetter, who is now 21. He said he never witnessed Sandusky doing anything inappropriate.

There is also regret here that Second Mile, an organization viewed as putting so many lives back on track may have to close its doors. One person close to Second Mile said this could happen as early as its next board meeting in December."

[artemis]

"Sesame Street composer charged with distributing child porn pictures of naked four-year-old girl in handcuffs

Emmy winning musician 'made youngster wear bondage-type devices'

An Emmy award-winning composer who wrote music for Sesame Street and Disney has been arrested for distributing child porn pictures of a four-year-old girl in handcuffs.

Cuban-born Fernando Rivas, 59, was arraigned on charges of coercing a child 'to engage in sexually explicit conduct and distribution of child pornography in South Carolina on Monday.

Rivas who was educated at New York's Julliard School, was arrested at his Charleston home on April 19 following a police investigation.

Officers reportedly found photographs of a naked four-year-old girl 'restrained in handcuffs and other bondage-type devices'.

The Charleston's Post and Courier newspaper said police documents showed Rivas has admitted handcuffing the child, taking the photos and emailing them to two other individuals.

Rivas, who is currently under house arrest, has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which also include production.

He taught music grades 9 through 12 at Charleston's Porter-Gaud School between 2002 and 2009 and worked as a jazz instructor.

In a statement a spokesman for the school said: 'Mr Rivas resigned in 2009 due to increasing work outside of his school obligations.

'We are unaware of any connection between the charges against him and Porter-Guad, but we are cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation.'

Throughout his career Rivas has composed 14 musicals and scored six full-length feature films.

He wrote the music for the Disney's Handy Manny children's programme and received a Grammy award for Best Children's Album in 1998 for the Sesame Street album Elmopalooza.

He also received two Emmys for his work with Sesame Street in 1995 and 1996.

Rivas was released on bond under strict conditions including being ordered to refrain from being in the company of a child under the age of 18 unless an adult who is aware of the charges is present,

He was also ordered to refrain from possessing a firearm or other dangerous weapons."

[artemis]

"US man jailed for making child pornography at school

A former elementary school principal in Iowa was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to one count of producing child pornography involving students at his school, officials said.

Robert Burke, 43, admitted that as head of the school in Dubuque, Iowa, he had "used hidden cameras in the school bathroom to secretly capture videos depicting the genitals of male students," said the US Justice Department

Burke also admitted to saving the videos on computer hard drives at his home.

He was uncovered after an FBI agent in Washington downloaded eight images of child pornography that were traced back to Burke's residence, officials said in a statement.

Burke insisted he "not touched any children in a sexual manner," and US officials said they had no evidence that contradicted that claim.

A forensic examination of Burke's computer equipment also "revealed no evidence that Burke shared the videos he produced at the school," according to the statement.

Along with 360 months in prison, Burke was also fined $25,000.

"As an elementary school principal, Burke was in a position of trust and authority over his students," said US Attorney Stephanie Rose.

"He took advantage of that trust, and he used his position of authority to exploit the children he was supposed to protect."

[lucy]

Sandusky's day in court is not Dec 7th, but pushed back to the 13th. Which tells me that there is some Illuminati fingerprints on this. If he gets off, he's definitely a freemason. Even if there are tons of victims and witnesses against Sandusky, if he's a freemason, he'll get off the hook.

I smell something fishy....

[artemis]

Not Illumi involved by all means and if he gets rid of punishment it also doesnt mean he's a freemason. Money buys everything, remember.

[artemis]

"Paedophile who downloaded extreme child porn spared prison after judge says it will make him WORSE

A judge provoked outrage yesterday after sparing a paedophile jail because it would only ‘make him worse’.

Christopher Arno, 21, faced up to 18 months in prison after downloading more than 800 ‘revolting’ images of child abuse.

Among them were hundreds of photographs graded as the most serious, including images of rape, sadism and torture.

But Judge Alistair McCreath allowed him to walk free saying mixing with other perverts could make him a danger to the public.

He said: ‘Right-thinking people are revolted at people looking at this material. Understandably they think people looking at it should go to prison.

‘The difficulty is that the prison sentence I could pass on you would be really short and you would no doubt come out worse than when you went in.

‘Spending your time with paedophiles and other sexual offenders – if there is one way of guaranteeing to make someone like you worse it is by locking you up with other people who are of that nature.

‘You would come out worse and perhaps pose some danger to the public which I don’t think you do at present.’

His comments sparked a furious backlash from child campaigners who said more severe sentences would deter offenders and reassure victims.

Emma Clarke, of Against Child Abuse, said: ‘These people should be locked up for as long as possible regardless of who they are mixing with in prisons.

‘Children need to be protected and it is absolutely outrageous that the rights of the criminal are being put above those of the victims.

‘Where are the rights of the victims? Children are abused to create these images and where is the concern for them?’

Claude Knights, of charity Kidscape, said downloading degrading images of children is a serious crime which should be reflected in the severity of the sentence.

She said a jail sentence with effective treatment and supervision after release would provide a ‘greater deterrent’ and comfort to victims.

She added: ‘Strong deterrent messages need to be sent out to all predators who misuse the internet, if we are ever going to reduce the abhorrent trade in indecent images of children.’

Police discovered 874 images of children stored on Arno’s computer when he was arrested at his grandmother’s house in Kent in May.

Southwark Crown Court was told 200 were graded at level four, which includes scenes of child rape, and 17 at level five, which include scenes of torture and sadism.

Arno told police officers he downloaded the appalling files to ‘pass the time’ and was ashamed of his actions.

Prosecutor Peter Lancaster said: ‘He didn’t know why he did it. He had this horrible feeling of guilt. He said he was not proud of himself.’

Sentencing him to a 12 month community order and ordering him to sign the sex offenders’ register, the judge said his actions were the ‘best way of protecting the public’.

Addressing the defendant, he added: ‘The images you looked at were images of real children suffering real abuse. These aren’t just pictures - this is a live history of sexual abuse of children.

‘Just reflect on that. Reflect on how these children are victims. When you and others look at this material you are complicit. You are taking your part in making them victims.

‘You are complicit in it because without people looking at this material then other people wouldn’t commit this abuse.

‘That’s why it’s so serious, why you should feel real shame looking at it.’

Arno, of Bexleyheath, South-East London, was also banned from using a computer that does not store his internet movements for five years and told to have counselling."

[lucy]

I think there's more to it than the money trail....although that is a huge piece of the puzzle.

We'll just have to see what happens....nothing would surprise me. It's so pathetic.

[artemis]

"Police: Man viewed child porn on US flight

BOSTON (AP) — Police say a man who was viewing child pornography on a domestic airline flight from Salt Lake City to Boston has been arrested.

Massachusetts State Police say 47-year-old Grant Smith was sitting in first class Saturday afternoon when a fellow passenger saw the pornographic images on Smith's laptop and alerted the flight crew.

When the Delta flight landed at Boston Logan International Airport just after 4 p.m., troopers interviewed Smith and subsequently arrested him.

He has been charged with possession of child pornography, and police say additional charges could follow. His bail is set at $15,000. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

Smith was in police custody Saturday night and couldn't immediately be reached for comment."