Posted on 06/28/2006 9:47:25 AM PDT by dead
A rapist whose victims included "Top Gun" actress Kelly McGillis got taxpayer-funded Viagra for years, despite his fiendish history, it was revealed yesterday as he was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Serial sex predator Leroy Johnson was prescribed the erectile dysfunction pill by doctors at the Bronx-based Fordham-Tremont Community Mental Health Center from early 2003 to mid-2005, according to court records.
The health center stopped doling out the little blue pills to Johnson only after new DNA tests linked him to a 1996 knife-point double rape - bringing his total number of rape victims to five.
Center officials didn't return calls; Johnson's extensive sex crime history would have been available to doctors when they began seeing him in 2002. Johnson, arrested for the 1996 rapes last year, was convicted June 13.
The health center's Viagra-for-a-rapist treatment plan came to light yesterday as he was slapped with the max for the rapes - and as his two victims gave wrenching accounts of the emotional fallout.
"The person I was is gone. I mourn the loss of her every single day," said one of the women attacked in their shared Greenwich Village apartment…"I will go through the whole of my life never knowing who I was going to be."
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Johnson's first rape was at age 13. As a 15-year-old crackhead and juvenile-jail escapee, he and an accomplice forced their way into McGillis' Upper West Side apartment, raping both the young actress and her roommate at knifepoint.
Freed on that rape by 1989, Johnson attacked a Midtown nurse he was supposed to be protecting while snatching a purse on his first day of a security job.
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Hmm, they loaded his gun for him, how nice.
It'd be nice if the vicitims of his viagra fueled rapes could sue the snot out of the government, but I'm not holding my breath.
That just about sums it up, eh?
I heard that doctors were practicing their facelifts at a prison hospital...free new identity, sign up here...
Uh-huh. Just great.
And we're supposed to accept that the system works.
I wonder about the ethnicity of this Leroy Johnson...did it say?
I wonder how our Libertarian 'legalize all drugs' folks feel about this. Comment?
Does it matter? He's a rapist.
Can't sell that crap to me. We the taxpayers are responsible for putting up with this bullshit. If we the taxpayers get dinged for it, maybe we'll demand better.
No it doesn't matter, other than the fact that rape is a crime of rage and not passion.
I suppose they'd point out the this particular damage was caused by a legal, prescribed drug.
Legalize all guns and the problem of people who commit crimes while on drugs will go away.
And that would be tragic, since the people who provided it to him obviously were wrong in doing so, thus giving the drug a bad name when it could be very helpful to some.
Rush Limbaugh 'comes' to mind...
Most would probably believe that your question is inane, since Viagra is legal with a prescription, and we're talking about taxpayers buying sex drugs for convicted sex offenders.
The parallels between that and allowing law abiding citizens to spend their own money on the drug of their choice exist only in your own head.
I think the drug was crack, not Viagra.
"I wonder how our Libertarian 'legalize all drugs' folks feel about this. Comment?"
Nomination for dumbest post of the day.
Since you put it that way, where is the line to be drawn on what taxpayers are supposed to provide for criminals? Is it okay to provide methadone for heroin addicts? Antabuse for alcoholics?
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