'It's Disgusting And Wrong'

komo4 News ^ | 3/26/04 | Liz Rocca

[grimalkin]

PIERCE COUNTY - Prosecutors say Ronald Young, 41, used the email moniker "fosterdad" to post hundreds of pornographic pictures of his foster children on the internet.

Police say Young took the photos inside his remote Pierce County home - victimizing every one of his six foster boys between the ages of 5 and 7.

Court documents say "some images included the children having intercourse with an adult male."

As prosecutor's charged Young with 44 counts of child rape, molestation and exploitation, detectives revealed Young admits he took pictures of his sexual acts with the boys using a digital camera and tripod.

"To find six kids in foster care under these circumstances, it's pretty tough," said Detective Greg Dawson with the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.

Young's sister claims she tipped authorities several months ago.

"Ask DSHS why when I investigated them they left them damn kids there since September, and let him take on two more during the course of that investigation," she said.

DSHS can find no record of her tip.

Young's niece, Beth, is outraged.

"It's a shock and I just had to see it, to see if anyone's supporting him or facing up to the fact that this happened and it's disgusting and wrong," the girl said.

Sources tell KOMO 4 News Young and his wife have taken in 13 foster children since May of 2002.

Those same sources say Young's wife worked long hours at a local bakery and left him to take care of the boys.

Attorney Tom Balerud is representing two brothers recently returned to their mother after spending several months in foster care with the Youngs.

Balerud says those boys are now telling police - they are victims too.

"They're barely able to talk about it. They're devastated," he said. "They were so joyful to have the children back. I'm talking about the mother now - and then to find out they've been scarred this way - she really doesn't know how to deal with it."

[hellinahandcart]

"Ask DSHS why when I investigated them they left them damn kids there since September, and let him take on two more during the course of that investigation," she said.

What is DSHS, and why would anyone with a brain call them instead of calling the police?

[csvset]

SOB's such as this guy need to be killed. Jailing them doesn't do any good. Here's a link to a story about another child molester.

Beach child molester arrested in Cambodia

[grimalkin]

No doubt. Why in the world weren't the police notified? What's wrong with this picture?

[Glenn]

they left them damn kids there since September

Sounds like Sis has an issue or two of her own.

[jocon307]

"SOB's such as this guy need to be killed."

He sure does look killable, doesn't he?

[T'wit]

Stand by, this $#^@#&^% has all the makings of a liberal hero. If Christian conservatives are disgusted by him, he's got to be the good guy, right? And what's wrong with incestuous man-boy buggery except that John Ashbrook is against it? This guy should use his jail time writing his own Mein Kampf, then run for office as the next Howard Dean.

[hellinahandcart]

He sure does look killable, doesn't he?

He acts killable too.

[Robert Drobot]

".... this guy need to be killed. Jailing them doesn't do any good.

This is where developing a pen pal in prison could come in real handy.

[GraceCoolidge]

I assume that DSHS is the agency that placed the children... social services or whatever. Probably something like Department of something health or services. That would explain why the sister refers to DSHS leaving children there and letting him take on additional children. You're right: calling DSHS wasn't enough, especially when no further action was taken. She should have called the police.

[hellinahandcart]

She should have called the police first.

Same with the pedophile-priest situation, I have never understood why a parent would go to the church first to report the crime, instead of the police. And schoolteachers who mess with kids, why do the parents always seem to call the school first and complain later that, gee, nothing was done?

You need to pick the right tool for the job, people; pedophiles need to be in jail and only the police can put them there.

[subterfuge]

In the words of the great Josie Wales:

"Some folks just need killin'"

[Agnes Heep]

Ronald Young ... the Horst Wesel of the NAMBLA set.

[ladylib]

My state has a department in the social service agency that just deals with school-related abuse issues. I guess not too many parents know about it because they seem to feel that they have to contact the school for an investigation and then they get the runaround.

Call social services first and let them surprise school officials with an investigation.

[IamHD]

How disgusting!

A few weeks ago, there was an 18 or 19 year old arrested here in Michigan. He videotaped himself having sex with a 5 month old baby and sent it out over the internet to other child sex offenders. It was a nationwide sex porn ring which involved many.

There is no room in this world for people like this.

[sausageseller]

You need to reread the story.

Call police first first! Not the stooges at Social Services!

[hellinahandcart]

Why call social services for an investigation? Why call ANYONE for an investigiation of any serious crime other than the POLICE? That is what I don't get. What's any state or city agency going to do, other than call the police eventually (or fail to when they should)? Why not cut to the chase and tell the POLICE that a crime is going on?

[Ciexyz]

We had a recent social services scandal here in Western PA. Social services of Westmoreland County allowed a couple to starve their young daughter to death. Up to the very end, the caseworker made notations in the file that she was visiting the child and the child was fine (an obvious fabrication). During this time, the girl would have looked like a Holocaust victim, acc. to the coroner. Social Services are now claiming that they're "understaffed and underfunded".

[hellinahandcart]

Dang, you beat me.

And you were pithier, too.

[hellinahandcart]

I guess I just don't understand the thinking of some people, that they need a bureacrat's permission to involve the police.