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Posted By	Discussion Topic: Catch this story yet? - Ped writer imprisoned
JerseyTeabagger	posted on 07-14-2001 @ 5:23 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Dec. 00	All right, this guy's a total sick F who should probably drink a glass of aids (nods to Norton), but this story is still freaky if you believe in free speech--- I'd love to hear O&A's opinion. COURT TV STORY ***************************** Fictitious accounts of molesting and torturing children lead to 10-year prison sentence COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man who wrote in his journal about sexually abusing and torturing children has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, even though the stories were fictitious. A civil rights lawyer said he was surprised by the sentence Brian Dalton received Tuesday for his private writings. "What you're saying is somebody can't, in essence, confess their fantasy into a personal journal for fear they have socially unacceptable fantasies, then ultimately they end up getting prosecuted," said Benson Wolman, a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Ohio. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien called the case a "breakthrough" in the battle against child pornography. Dalton, 22, of Columbus, was charged with pandering obscenity involving a minor after his probation officer found the journal during a routine search of his home. He was on probation from a 1998 pandering conviction involving pornographic photographs of children. The 14-page journal contains the names and ages - 10 and 11 - of three children it said were placed in a cage in a basement. It details how the children were sexually molested and tortured. Police at first were concerned the stories were real, prosecutors said. However, Dalton said the stories were fictitious, and there was no evidence to the contrary, said Christian Domis, an assistant county prosecutor. Still, Dalton was guilty of pandering obscenity because he "did create, reproduce or publish any obscene material that has a minor as one of its participants or portrayed observers," the indictment said. "Even without passing it on to anyone else, he committed a felony," Domis said. The contents of the journal were so disturbing that members of a grand jury asked a detective to stop reading after about two pages, Domis said. "It was seriously the most disturbing thing I ever read," he said. "There was a woman on the grand jury who was crying." Dalton pleaded guilty, and prosecutors, in exchange, dropped a second pandering charge. He would have faced up to 16 years in prison if convicted of both charges. "I know what I wrote was disturbing," Dalton told Common Pleas Judge Nodine Miller at his sentencing. "Over the past few months, I looked back at it and realized it was not something I could do. I don't know how I imagined to write anything like that." Wolman said he cannot recall an obscenity case involving "mere words that were not disseminated." Dalton said he never intended anyone else to read the journal. "It is just this kind of thing, I think, that is a misapplication of what the law intends," Wolman said. "The law hasn't really been challenged and he would have had the opportunity to do that," defense attorney Isabella Dixon said. "But the cost to him is a lot of time in jail to challenge it." ©2001 Courtroom Television Network LLC. All Rights Reserved. NYPOST column that I agree with *********************** DEFINITION: TEABAGGING- verb; (T-EE-BAHG-ING), 1. To dunk or dip one's testicles or nutsack in an enemy's favorite beverage, or other property, such as a keyboard. 2. To lower ones ball sack onto a recipient's forehead or into their mouth. 3. To dip a
mikeWOW I got a staple in my ass and all I got was this status	posted on 07-14-2001 @ 5:27 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00	y is he in jail 4 just talking about it?? "i hate people that dont get it!"
JerseyTeabagger	posted on 07-14-2001 @ 5:37 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Dec. 00	I think the wildcard why he is in jail is because he was convicted of having kid pics on his computer a few years ago. I guess it's a violation of parole. But it's still disturbing that there are officially thought police. I always thought the only thing you couldn't say to yourself in this country was that you'd assassinate the president.
IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death	posted on 07-14-2001 @ 5:37 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00	You know I don't like child molesters as much as the next guy but being imprisoned for stories about it without actually doing it? That's more sick than the author. I mean if he was, in fact, arrrested before for child molestation than yes, but if his prior act had nothing to do with the welfare of a child than this, this is WRONG TOTALLY WRONG. What's the difference between him doing this and Norton talking/joking about it? Fictious is fictious. Therapy, maybe but not fucking prison. This is wrong, this is a travesty of justice when people can be arrested for what they write. This . It's 1984 territory. AM comment? The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney
fbdlingfrg wow, my name looks odd without 5 lines of type below it in bold and purple and red G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Red Wings Captain Cecil JBA~Remove the Pick & Click NOW!	posted on 07-14-2001 @ 5:46 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00	if its illegal to write stuff like that, then why is gonzo not in jail yet? thanks to fez for the pic
IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death	posted on 07-14-2001 @ 5:49 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00	Come to think of it haven't seen a Gonzo post in awhile... I just realized when all is said and done, Poundstone will probably spend less time in prison than he will. Ponderous, F'ing ponerous The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney This message was edited by IkeaBoy on 7-14-01 @ 7:17 PM

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