Ex-USC professor and FBI fugitive gets 5 years in prison for child sex

LATIMES ^ | Dec. 15, 2014 | Richard Winton, Kate Mather

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A former USC professor once on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives list was sentenced to five years in federal prison Monday for flying to the Philippines and sexually assaulting underage boys he had met online.

In addition to the sentence, Walter Lee Williams, 66, of Palm Springs, will be required upon release to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and will be on 10 years of supervision Williams, previously known as a well-respected academic, had pleaded guilty and admitted engaging in illegal sexual contact with minors in foreign places. As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, he must also pay $25,000 in restitution to seven victims.

The professor was apprehended within a day of making the FBI's Most Wanted List in June 2013 after he was indicted on sex charges involving two 14-year-old boys in the Philippines.

[PROCON]

Williams taught anthropology, gender studies and history at USC for about two decades until he quit in 2011.

Hmmm, what's going on with a pervert Newspaper reporting on one of their own?

[Democrat_media]

sounds like a typical liberal

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Gender studies.” That’s probably where he got his head screwed up.

[blackdog]

Robert Menendez should be his cell mate.

[Graybeard58]

Not defending the pervert but how is he convicted here for a crime that occurred in another country? Wouldn’e he be extradited to that country to be charged, tried?

[mylife]

5 farking years?

[VerySadAmerican]

He’s going to be popular in prison.

[MeshugeMikey]

what you said..in SPADES!

[PROCON]

The article says that "Williams engaged in Webcam sex sessions with two boys, aged 13 and 14, in the Philippines in 2010, prosecutors alleged"

And

When he returned to Los Angeles International Airport on Feb. 11, 2011, he was stopped and child pornography was found on him.

Just Ewwww

Have fun with Bubba, pervert, he just loves men...

[Vendome]

[GeronL]

5 years is a crime too, should be at least 50 and I am being charitable

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Why am I not surprised to learn he taught gender studies?

[sport]

It has my vote.

[GladesGuru]

Don’t forget to call Alpo!

[Morgana]

Only 5 years?

[Viking2002]

Input, output.......

[BobL]

“Not defending the pervert but how is he convicted here for a crime that occurred in another country? Wouldn’e he be extradited to that country to be charged, tried?”

Nope, not child sexual assault, it’s now considered a US federal crime, anywhere in the world. Kill someone over there, and yes, you’ll have to be deported, but do the “wild thing” and you’ll get a USA trial. Can’t say that I disagree with it much, but I am surprised that they went after one of their biggest supporters (i.e., he taught “gender studies”).

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/us/us-is-now-pursuing-americans-who-commit-sex-crimes-overseas.html