Posted on 08/03/2006 3:00:20 PM PDT by carlo3b
Man Says Sex With Kids a Sacred Ritual
By Associated Press
August 3, 2006, 5:00 AM EDT
CLEVELAND -- A man accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities told a judge that having sex with children is a sacred ritual protected by civil rights laws.
Phillip Distasio, who said he is the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, represented himself at his pretrial hearing Wednesday. He is charged with 74 counts including rape, pandering obscenity to minors and corrupting another with drugs.
"I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years," he said in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday. "The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms."
Distasio said some of his congregants are among the victims in this case. Distacio, of Rocky River, is accused of molesting two disabled boys he tutored at his home and raping seven autistic boys at a Cleveland school for special-needs students where he was a teacher's aide. All but one of the victims were under 13.
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Take him down to the swamps of Louisiana and feed him to the gators!
Who would have ever thought he'd be a sodomite. /sarc
Lakewood, Ohio is renowned for it's homo denizens.
Whats the difference between his 'right' to have sex with children and the 'right' to commit sodomy as granted by Sandra Day O'Connor in the Texas case? Answer: Less and Less.
Fry the SOB.
"The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex."
Oddly, he seems to have only attacked mentally disabled children, whom no one would consider capable of giving "consent". Lock this guy up and throw away the key.
I like *your* idea!!
What is the difference between this atrocity and Nambla, an acceptable and active Liberal Democrat organization?The difference is, NAMBLA and its outside political supporters will point to this particular pedophile and claim he's a right-wing heterosexual.
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