Posted on 06/23/2006 9:29:46 PM PDT by DBeers
Two homosexual men who sexually abused young children placed in their foster care were jailed yesterday.
Ian Wathey, 41, and his partner Craig Faunch, 32, were found guilty of a string of offences against four boys aged between eight and 14.
The pair used the boys for sexual gratification within months of being approved as foster carers by Wakefield council.
A mother of eight-year-old twins raised concerns about them with social services after finding a photograph of one of the boys as he used the lavatory.
The authorities chose to take no action after accepting the two men had been "naive and silly" for taking the photograph to embarrass others into closing the bathroom door.
They started abusing their charges three months later, in February 2004, and the offences continued over an 11-month period, Leeds Crown Court was told.
Faunch abused four boys and Wathey targeted one victim. Judge Sally Cahill, QC, said neither of the pair had shown "empathy, remorse or any responsibility for their actions".
Wathey was jailed for five years after being convicted of four counts of sexual activity with a child and one offence of causing a child to watch sexual activity.
Faunch received a six-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of five charges of engaging in sexual activity with a child and two of taking indecent photographs of a child.
Judge Cahill told Faunch: "Once you realised social services were going to take no action in respect of the photos that had been found, and believed your ridiculous story about why you had taken it, you went on to abuse others in your care believing yourself to be safe from the authorities."
She found it "incredible" that the photographs had not been reported to police in time to possibly prevent the abuse.
The twins were videoed naked by Faunch, a third boy was involved in sexual activities with both men, and a fourth was touched by Faunch.
Their victims included a 14-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, who had a mental age of seven and was forced by Wathey to watch explicit gay pornography.
Judge Cahill said another youngster with a "very troubled background" was only in their care for a few weeks before being abused by Faunch.
She told Faunch: "His need for care by you was obvious to all. That you chose to victimise and abuse that boy shows the very depths, in my view, that you were prepared to go. You no doubt saw him as an ideal victim.
"You are presented as a couple but this is not a case about homosexuality, it is about a breach of trust."
Both men, from Pontefract, west Yorkshire, were placed on the sex offenders register for life and also given a life ban from working with children.
Under the terms of a Sexual Offence Protection Order they are not allowed to be alone with children or vulnerable people.
Judge Cahill considered them a continued risk to children and ordered them to serve an extended period of three years on licence.
She said they were placed in a position of trust when they were allowed to foster, adding: "You abused that trust in respect of your victims most horribly. It is quite impossible to know what the long term effects will be. There is no doubt in my mind that for one of those boys it will be life-long."
Police were eventually called in to investigate the couple after one of the boys told a woman he had been touched by one of the men.
Wathey and Faunch, who took part in a civil partnership ceremony five weeks ago, are believed to have been the first homosexual couple in Yorkshire to be allowed to act as foster parents.
Kate Penrose, the senior Crown prosecutor for west Yorkshire, said yesterday: "As foster parents they took vulnerable children into their home and should have provided them with a stable and loving environment.
"Instead of being treated with kindness and dignity they were subjected to abuse at the hands of two people who were responsible for their safety and well-being.
"Children in the care of foster parents have often had a difficult start in life and have a right to expect protection."
Wakefield council has ordered a full independent inquiry into the case.
Kitty Ferris, the council's service director for children in need, said the pair had not been allowed to act as foster carers since the allegations were made against them.
She said: "Although correct procedures were carried out at every stage, the service has reviewed its internal procedures to identify what lessons should be learned."
Horseshiite.
"Wathey and Faunch, who took part in a civil partnership ceremony five weeks ago, are believed to have been the first homosexual couple in Yorkshire to be allowed to act as foster parents."
1 for 1--perfect record so far.
Homos can't reproduce, so they recruit. This is the way they do it.
YUP, in regard to moral convictions, Mr. O'Reilly is a leaf blowing in the wind...
LOL - the left is lucky that I do not write the headlines -this one would have been "homosexual sex partners playing house".
Recruit
Excellent post.
http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060609/NEWS06/60609004
I wonder how you feel about this one
Its a Man abusing his FEMALE foster child. So now what. Bigger point if you search google you find many of these cases. You judge for yourself the amount of Gay vs. Straight. From the posts on this thread you may be suprised. Maybe the Foster Care system is the bigger problem.
Has Andrew Sullivan started referring to these two as "political prisoners" yet?
I am NOT indicting ALL homosexuals for these offenses,but c'mon!!This is TOTALLY unnecessary!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reminds me of how "gay" rights pushers and their assistants the MSM (but I repeat myself) talk about two women or two men and "their" children.
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These people are barking, raving insane.
Approximately one third of all child molestation is same sex.
Homosexuals comprise about 2% of the population.
End of story.
I assume you mean homosexually disordered versus normal heterosexual?
Homosexual Urban Legends
Exposed: Homosexual Child Molesters
EXCERPT:
Homosexuals claim that “heterosexuals” molest most children but statistics show that homosexuals molest at far higher rates than do heterosexuals.
Child Molestation and Homosexuality
EXCERPT:
Summary
Whether examining surveys of the general populace or counts of those caught, homosexual teachers are disproportionately apt to become sexually involved with children.
Proportionality: The Key
Study after nationwide study (3) has yielded estimates of male homosexuality that range between 1% and 3%. The proportion of lesbians in these studies is almost always lower, usually about half that of gays. So, overall, perhaps 2% of adults regularly indulge in homosexuality. Yet they account for between 20% to 40% of all molestations of children.
Child molestation is not to be taken lightly. Officials at a facility which serves about 1,500 runaway youngsters each year estimate that about half of the boys have been homosexually abused and 90% of the girls heterosexually assaulted. (27) Investigation of those suffering severe chronic mental illness implicates child molestation as a primary cause (45% of Bigras et al’s (28) patients were homosexually abused).
If 2% of the population is responsible for 20% to 40% of something as socially and personally troubling as child molestation, something must be desperately wrong with that 2%. Not every homosexual is a child molester. But enough gays do molest children so that the risk of a homosexual molesting a child is 10 to 20 times greater than that of a heterosexual..
He's blowing somethign alright...and it aint leaves!
BTTT for the plain, unvarnished truth.
What's better - living in a world of "play-pretend" or reality?
gen - I used to be very tolerant of homosexuals. I thought what they did was pretty weird, but I wasn't so great myself, and figured who was I to judge, etc? I worked with homosexuals, and never thought a thing about it. In the sense that I figured that was their business, not mine, no big deal.
Then in the late 80s I started reading about AIDS, and that led me to more books about the "gay" agenda. After quite a bit of reading, I realized the truth - that homosexuality is curable, that it is not normal, not healthy, immoral, and damages lives. Many times irreparably. If you read with an open mind, you'll come to the same conclusion. Don't let cultural biases blind you.
Keisha here from Mpls., where we have many unisex bathrooms, the market I shop at only has a unisex bathroom until 9pm, the homosexual agenda lives well here in the midwest, knocking down norms, little by little....in fact, I just had an incident with the market, where I wouldn't use their unisex bathrooms, instead I went downstairs to the men and women one , opened up after 9pm, a 24hr. market, only to find the store policeman following me around, and finally confronting me in the frozen foods with two managers.........it is located in a homosexual urban location..........long story, but I am contacting the Family Institute here this week.
Have a nice day.
O'Reilly tackles some tough issues, but he seems to be a victim of his own celebrity these days.
Exactly, there are no less than 6 million here. Note the 7 black muslims arrested for plotting to blow up the Sear Tower and other sites. These people are trained to be mass murderers of civilians without regard to age, sex, whatever, gets in their way of world domination is subject to destruction. Most people haven't figured it out yet.
Ping me with the outcome. The fact is that the "gay" agenda is all about dominance, not tolerance. It's about changing society into a "gay" dominant culture. A sexual anything goes no rules hell.
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