Posted on 09/06/2014 9:46:21 AM PDT by Steelfish
Ex-USC Professor Pleads Guilty To Having Sex With Boys Overseas
Walter Lee Williams is taken into custody in June 2013 by the FBI at Los Angeles International Airport. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times) By RICHARD WINTON, KATE MATHER
A former USC professor once on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives list pleaded guilty Friday to flying to the Philippines and having sex with several underage boys he groomed online.
Walter Lee Williams, 65, admitted engaging in illegal sexual contact with minors in foreign places, entering the plea during a brief appearance before U.S. District Judge Phillip S. Gutierrez.
As part of a plea, federal prosecutors agreed to recommend that the onetime eminent professor of gender and sexuality studies serve no more than five years in a federal prison. He also would be subject to 10 years supervision upon release and must pay $25,000 in restitution to his seven victims. Williams will be sentenced Dec. 15.
He was apprehended within a day of making the FBI's Most Wanted List in June 2013 after he was indicted on sex crimes involving two 14-year-old boys in the Philippines. He was captured in the Mexican coastal town of Playa del Carmen after a resident recognized his photo from a newspaper.
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Well, he should be imprisoned in the Philipines then.
That sounds about right. Scratch a leftist...
He was just doing research................./sarc
If Bill Clinton had a brother....
Thanks for that bio. Now it figures.
If only USC professors were allowed to marry, none of this would have happened.
Sighhhh....
Well, he’s old enough to retire in peace.
He needs to retire someplace where he can be on the bottom.
What a sweetheart deal for this pervert. The judge must have a special place in his heart for child molesters.
Can’t help but wonder how many of his students he . . . uh . . . “recruited” . . . over the years.
Any political party affiliation?
Eminent professor of Pedophilia . . . paid with your tax dollars.
“Williams will be sentenced Dec. 15.”
Judges aren’t bound by plea agreements. If he and the judge share the same leftist political perspective, he’ll walk. Corruption no longer hides in the shadows in 21st century America.
Is that a real crime? Someone can be charged for something that happened in another country? Why doesn't the Philippines handle this? Isn't this also a crime in that country? For those of you itching to burn down a strawman--no, I am not condoning this horrible crime. I'm just saying the US doesn't, or shouldn't, have jurisdiction in this case.
(c) Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in Foreign Places. - Any United States citizen or alien admitted for permanent residence who travels in foreign commerce, and engages in any illicit sexual conduct with another person shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
Just hang him on the Square At Sunup!
must pay $25,000 in restitution to his seven victims.
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