Former UN weapons inspector (Scott Ritter) in Iraq is charged in Pennsylvania ch

[thundley4]

WriteDown (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:10 AM
Original message
Former UN weapons inspector (Scott Ritter) in Iraq is charged in Pennsylvania child-sex sting
   

Source: Fox News

Former chief United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter was arrested in a Pennsylvania sex sting in November on a litany of charges involving a lewd Internet conversation with a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl.

Ritter, 47, allegedly masturbated in front of a Web camera while he was engaged in conversation in an Internet chat room with an undercover cop posing as the teenage girl.

The chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98, Ritter is accused of contacting the "girl" while using the handle "delmarm4fun" last February.

Ritter, of Delmar, N.Y., allegedly told the girl, "Emily," that he was a 44-year-old man from Albany, N.Y., according to an affidavit of probable cause.

The undercover officer then told Ritter he was a 15-year-old girl from the Poconos region of Pennsylvania, at which point Ritter asked for a picture in addition to one "Emily" had posted on her account, according to the affidavit prepared by Barrett Township Police Det. Ryan Venneman.

Ritter then sent a link to his Web camera and began to masturbate while it was focused on his genitals, according to the affidavit. The former U.N. official then allegedly provided his cell phone number....


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583027,00.html?test...


Yikes, what is it with pedophiles these days. Is it more prevalent or just more are sucessfully apprehended?

  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4224836

mike_c   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jan-14-10 11:14 AM
Response to Original message
1. damn, this isn't Ritter's first run in, either....
   
He is one of the most cogent and well-informed critics of American foreign policy. It's unfortunate that his pedophilia will likely overshadow the truth of his foreign policy criticisms. Damn.

Delphinus   (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:43 AM
Response to Reply #1
15. I know.
   
I checked the date because I remember when this came up before - that time it *seemed* like a smear because he was speaking against what the BFEE wanted.

MidwestTransplant   (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:15 AM
Response to Original message
2. Odd that Faux is anxious to cover this. Not
   

Roland99   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jan-14-10 11:15 AM
Response to Original message
3. Dumb. Ass.

PSPS (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:18 AM
Response to Original message
4. Ritter was involved in a sex scandal nine years ago.
   
It came to light two years later, in 2003, but he never talked much about it beyond it being a misdemeanor and the court record being sealed. Here's a sample of several interviews he had about it at the time:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30634

Kolesar   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jan-14-10 11:23 AM
Response to Original message
5. Cops create "chat rooms" to entrap men
   
Would there have been a "crime" had the police not set up this "chat room"?

DUmmie Kolesar speaking from experience?

WriteDown (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:27 AM
Response to Reply #5
6. If there were no 15 year girls, would there be a crime?

Skelly (61 posts)             Thu Jan-14-10 11:34 AM
Response to Reply #5
10. Oh yea
   
Only in a different chat room.

And isn't it amazing how successful these 'entrapments' are? "Geez officer, if a 15yr old never asked me, I wouldn't have done it".

AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts)             Thu Jan-14-10 11:31 AM
Response to Original message
7. Wonder why he always meet agents that look like teens?
   
probably he has been under surveillance for a long time and they have been putting some traps on him until he felt for his weakness

WriteDown (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:33 AM
Response to Reply #7
9. Yeah, they made him seek out that chatroom.
   
I heard they planted subliminal messages in his self-help tapes. 

AtheistCrusader (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:42 AM
Response to Reply #7
13. Your use of 'always' is spurious.
   
Two times in 9 years could be a statistically tiny percentage of his encounters.

Alcibiades (1000+ posts)             Thu Jan-14-10 11:33 AM
Response to Original message
8. He's a duck
   
A hebephile. You would think that someone as smart as Ritter would not get caught up in a sting like this, but he apparently cannot control his proclivities. I only hope he has no hands-on victims.

WTF is a hebephile?

NMDemDist2   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jan-14-10 11:37 AM
Response to Original message
11. Scott Ritter??

denverbill (1000+ posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:40 AM
Response to Original message
12. He's a self-described 'conservative Republican'. What else would you expect? n/t

Link?

Dave From Canada (645 posts)           Thu Jan-14-10 11:43 AM
Response to Reply #12
14. Yeah, just like Bernie Ward right?

That it. A fire that burned briefly.

[The Village Idiot]

it'll probably get locked for one reason or another

[franksolich]

The first person here to spot the Bostonian Drunkard commenting upon the matter gets his thread stickied to the top of this forum.