Posted on 08/03/2006 4:33:40 AM PDT by Abathar
CLEVELAND -- It was probably not a defense the court had heard before.
A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws.
The admitted pedophile offered a surprising defense Wednesday to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors.
Appearing in an Ohio court for a pretrial hearing, Phillip Distasio, 34, of Rocky River, Ohio, said he was a pedophile.
He told the judge, "I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years. 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, a self-professed pagan friar, is representing himself on 74 charges. He said he's the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, and that some of his congregants are among the victims in his case.
The judge told Distasio to confine his arguments to secular laws at his trial, scheduled to begin Sept. 11.
"If you want to challenge the law, that's your right to do so," Judge Kathleen Sutula said. "But we're going to follow the laws of Ohio in this courtroom."
Cuyahoga County Bill Mason said Distasio was arrested after he wanted to write a blog for the Lakewood Library. Officials noticed something was wrong and notified Rocky River police.
Distasio was arrested on charges he molested two disabled boys he was tutoring at his home. He's also accused of raping seven other autistic children at a Cleveland school for special-needs students, The Plain Dealer reported. All but one of the boys was under 13, which carries a mandatory life-in-prison sentence if he is convicted, the paper reported.
Police said they found journals at Distasio's apartment in which he described his illegal activities, along with child pornography and videotapes of him engaged in sex with boys, The Plain Dealer reported
"Not all pedophilia is bad, and sex [with boys] can be healthy," Distasio told the court.
According to the journals, two of Distasio's victims were so helpless they could never tell anyone what happened.
"The defendant describes acts in which he had autistic children and he did what I would call sadistic sexual acts with these children," said Mason.
The school he ran from his apartment was called Class Cutters. According to Distasio's Web site, students and parents chose the curriculum in the school for unique children.
But prosecutors said it was little more than a trap that snared one victim and then another.
"Like all predators, he used this one child to bring other children to him and that's what was happening, and that's how he got his second victim," said Mason.
And prosecutors believe there may be more victims.
Distasio has a history of working with children dating back 10 years.
Prosecutors said he could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.
He must be a Democrat.
Well if we are giving special "rights" to the moslims, guess this guy might as well get his too.
Here's this sicko's mission statement. Apparently, he got the 'Minister in a box' kit from universal life 'church'. Makes me wonder how many more nambla perverts are involved in similar ventures.
ARCADIAN FIELDS
Arcadian Fields is a ministry of the Universal Life Church. The goal of the ministry is to provide free food and shelter for artists and musicians in order to promote education and health through interactive entertainment.
The purpose of this document is to: 1) Clearly define important terms which will be used during ministry functions. 2) Outline the purpose and goals of the ministry. 3) Suggest functions that will allow the ministry to serve its community.
Definitions
Ministry: A Ministry is an organization that uses the dissemination of knowledge and experience in order to inspire a core belief. A ministry is different from a school in that the core belief is the lifestyle of those that belong to the ministry. Those that share the core belief are often sent out to inspire it in others, whereas a school is a place that provides knowledge to everyone that comes into it whether they share that core belief or not.
The fiscal responsibility of a ministry is reliant upon the donations made by those that belong to it, whereas with a school, the fiscal responsibility relies upon taxes and levies of everyone around it.
The knowledge disseminated by a ministry may be based upon established facts (such as in the case of Ministries of Arts, Sciences and Philosophies) or upon commonly held codes of ethics and morals (such as those established by Religious Figures and Gods).
The Universal Life Church affords its ministers the freedom to make anything the central focus of their own unique ministry. Therefore, Arcadian Fields is a Ministry of Art and Music.
Minister: A minister is one who is knowledgeable in the facts, theories, ethics and morals (the core belief) of a ministry. It is the responsibility of the minister to assemble a congregation and coordinate their efforts towards a common goal.
Brother Pateticus is the Minister of Arcadian Fields.
Congregation: A congregation is any group of people that hold a common core belief.
The core belief of Arcadian Fields is that regular consumption of sacrament in the company of creative individuals leads to spiritual health, education and wellness.
Sacrament: Sacrament is anything that is shared by a minister with his congregation in order to confer mental, physical and spiritual health. Often times, a minister grows or brews sacrament as a function of his ordination and vows to share it with anyone who asks for it (unlike growing or brewing those substances in order to sell them for profit). Sacrament is the instrument through which a minister shares his core belief; it is symbolic of the offering of the knowledge that he shares with his congregation.
Purpose & Goals
It is the belief of this ministry that regular consumption of sacrament is essential to the health. Outside of this, the rest of the ministry is non-denominational—meaning that the previously held religious beliefs of anyone within the congregation do not need to change in any way.
Historically, it has been proven that members of a given congregation used to take their sacrament before and after every meal, when they woke up and before they went to bed. They would also receive their sacrament from an ordained minister whenever they were in need of mental, physical or spiritual comfort. Friars, specifically, used to perform house calls in order to bring sacraments to those who could not attend church in order to receive it.
Brother Pateticus has taken it upon himself to revive the concept of making house calls in order to distribute sacrament to the needy and housebound. In conjunction with the Ministry, a variety of events and fundraisers take place in order to raise awareness and collect donations for the construction of a publicly accessible sanctuary and greenhouse, which he hopes will serve as an artist colony.
Events & Fundraisers
Field Trips & Pilgrimages:
Since many members of the congregation are housebound due to illness, one of the functions of the ministry is to get people out of their homes by finding interesting places to go and things to do together. Once a group can be established and organized, Brother Pateticus would like to start organizing field trips to places like the zoo and to theme parks, as well as organizing a bowling league and baseball or soccer team. Currently, Arcadian Fields provides car pools to various drum circles in the area, to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo every Monday and to the movies whenever anyone needs it.
The ministry hopes to someday afford a tour bus that will take them on larger, longer trips such as to the Community Festival in Columbus, the Pennsic War in Pennsylvania, The Starwood Festival, in Philadelphia and the Burning Man Arts Festival, which takes place in Nevada.
Drum Circles & Concerts:
Cleveland, Ohio (where Arcadian Fields is currently located) is host to 125 miles of River Valley. Close to his home, Pateticus has selected a natural stage atop the Stinchcomb Landing, where there can be hosted a variety of events and festivities including Concerts, Drum Circles and Family Barbecues. The Southern-most point of the valley is in Peninsula, which leads directly into the National Park System where it is free to camp for up to 2 weeks. So hopes also include renting or purchasing a trailer and tent so that the ministry can make its way around the valley and to other parts of the country.
Merchant Cooperative:
Brother Pateticus has been inquiring with local bars and coffee houses to see if any of them would be interested in volunteering their venue for fundraisers, concerts and gallery showings. Local Merchants, Artists and Musicians are also invited to take part in our Cooperative, which will acquire space at a variety of community festivals and events so that the creative community will have additional markets for their work. By running this Co-Op as an extension of the Ministry, we are also able to provide education, in home care, housing and legal assistance for anyone taking part in the Co-Op.
Arcadian Fields Needs Your Help:
Arcadian Fields is currently in search of other non-profit groups, businesses and charities in the hopes of bringing needy people together over the mutual consumption of sacrament and the enjoyment of life. It is the belief of this minister that we can help each other by working together and sharing our resources.
From here, it only gets better.
For more information, please contact Brother Pateticus at:
Arcadian Fields
http://members.cox.net/pateticus/
pateticus@cox.net
PO Box 16071
Rocky River, OH 44116
All the same I hope lots of unpleasant things happen to the guy.
The alcu is ready and willing to defend any religion except Christianity and Judism.
I'd be afraid some of them would go all wobbly and try to 'forgive him' and want to 'rehabilitate him', when what he truly needs is killing, so he doesn't commit anymore crimes against children.
I'm sure you're right, but Jeffrey Dahmer's fate still gives us hope.
He'll get life, but it'll be a really short sentence.
Probably he will not enjoy his stay. But then, very few do, so as I said, this isn't a replacement for the justice we refuse to hand out ourselves.
Here's some proof that this guy is nambla. Apparently, someone hacked his e-mail, or turned him in.
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According to all outward appearances, the sanctuary will not be for boylovers. Anyone coming into this arrangement is going to have to put on a performance from time to time so that we can continue to deter the public eye from our true objectives. This is going to require a significant amount of creativity and intelligence from those who come to me for assistance.
I have gone to great lengths to construct a very elaborate rouse among which your members will be allowed to hide--so long as they are careful. If we pull this off properly, Nambla will appear to be one of many anonymous donors that are already lined up to contribute to the more publicly acceptable causes that this ministry is set up to support. Among the political chaos that we generate, your members will be allowed to disappear, co-exist or even re-locate.
This is why discretion on the part of your members will be of utmost importance and why I must refuse membership to your group even though I am a member of your persecuted minority. Any paper trail existing between our groups would be disastrous.
When you Email me tomorrow I will reply and then you can call. As you may well be aware, Emails are no longer a secure manner of discourse and I would prefer to remain as clandestine as possible.
I fear I may have told you too much already.
P
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Public execution, hanging from the neck until dead.
What's so hard about that?
Amazing. But he's probably a liberal since liberals claim that making victims more helpless decreases crime (gun control), taking money from the harworking and rewarding the lazy and irresponsible increases overall wealth and productivity (welfare), killing unborn children isn't murder (abortion), and special privileges should be granted to people based on their race or sexual orientation (affirmative action). Frankly what he says makes just as much (or little) sense as these well accepted doctrines
OK Lord, I'm going to pray that somebody in that courtroom manages to smuggle in a few bullets that mysteriously end up in Distasio's brain.
But first, the groin.
Even Jesus had some pretty hard things to say about those who would harm children. I won't be shedding any tears when they get from God what they're due, cause if God feels that way about it, it's not wrong for me to.
ditto
His is the religion of piece?
No doubt. Not me.
Thugs kill thugs in prison - thugs kill thugs outside prison. I don't see much justice in it either way.
But if you do, then I hope you're right.
Better add making sure criminal insanity should not be a defense or a mitigating factor that excludes the death penalty as well.
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