Posted on 08/12/2006 2:30:36 PM PDT by Graybeard58
He had planned trip to Mexico to molest boys
The last of seven members of the North American Man/Boy Love Association caught in an FBI sting last year was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison yesterday for planning to travel to Ensenada to molest boys.
David Mayer, 50, a Chicago flight attendant and psychologist, said he can only claim “temporary insanity” for his decision to join NAMBLA, which seeks to legalize sex between men and boys.
“I am mortified and ashamed by my actions,” Mayer told the judge.
He said that, like Hester Prynne in the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel “The Scarlet Letter,” “I, too, will be a pariah for the rest of my life. I will be treated like a leper.”
Prosecutor Anne Perry said Mayer came up with the idea of traveling overseas for sex with children during a 2004 NAMBLA conference in Miami and kept his job as a flight attendant primarily for the travel benefits.
Outside court, a defense lawyer disputed that.
During the sting, an undercover FBI agent recorded Mayer boasting of traveling abroad to have sex with boys.
“I'm embarrassed I can't even remember how many times I've been to Southeast Asia. And to Mexico and a lot of other Third World countries,” Mayer said in the recording.
Mayer pleaded guilty to conducting traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of illicit sex.
A deal with prosecutors allows him to appeal a judge's decision that the undercover agent acted properly when he infiltrated the group, attended two conventions and set up the bogus trip to Ensenada.
His lawyer, Benjamin Coleman, argued that the FBI acted outrageously during the investigation and instigated criminal conduct.
He also argued that the group is legally protected by the First Amendment's rights of free speech and association, and the FBI shouldn't investigate it.
Posing as a NAMBLA member, the agent agreed to host the group's 2005 conference in San Diego, but those plans were scrapped after last year's arrests during the weekend before Valentine's Day.
Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey T. Miller also ordered Mayer to be supervised during the 12 years following his 37-month prison term, and to register as a sex offender, undergo psychiatric testing and treatment and avoid contact with children.
The judge said he expected Mayer would lose his psychologist's license, and Coleman said the conviction would also cost Mayer his job as a flight attendant.
Mayer and two other men were arrested on Harbor Island in San Diego on Feb. 12, 2005.
A bogus travel agency set up by the FBI had told the men they would travel by boat to Ensenada, where they could molest children.
The other two men, Dallas dentist Phillip Todd Calvin, 45, and bodybuilder Paul Zipszer, 40, of Deltona, Fla., pleaded guilty in February, and were sentenced to 24 months in prison.
Four other men were arrested in Marina del Rey in Los Angeles. Two received 37-month prison sentences, another was sentenced to 14 years, and a fourth man who was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In addition, an Orange County pastor and chiropractor who told the undercover agent that he traveled to San Diego to have sex with a teenager in Balboa Park was sentenced to five years in prison on child pornography charges.
The investigation brought to light many of NAMBLA's activities, including its annual conferences, a program to send holiday cards to imprisoned members and its efforts to connect men who advocate sex with boys.
While two members of the group's leadership were among those who were arrested, the group continues to publish a newsletter and maintain a Web site, and other groups with similar outlooks remain active.
“As long as we have the Internet, NAMBLA will be around,” said Perry, the prosecutor.
Beat all of them to death with a baseball bat.
Sick, disgusting.
This has got to be the most mind-bogglingly stupid thing I've read all day. The rights to free speech and association include a right to not be investigated by the FBI?
Maybe we should send more Nambla members down to Mexico. That way the people will realize that it's not safe to come here and thus reduce the number of illegals crossing the boarder.
Sure he is! /sarc
He's just sorry he got caught!
Strange combination of occupations.
He obviously used one to fly around the world to engage in his perversions.
He used the other to try to justify it.
Flight attendant and psychologist?
Let me guess - he became a flight attendant because he's gay and it afforded him free travel to large cities with large gay communities. He became a psychologist because he's screwed up in the head and wanted to cure his own mental problems.
The ACLU will support him. Wait and see.
Well I don't know - this is kinda stupid too!
David Mayer, 50, a Chicago flight attendant and psychologist, said he can only claim “temporary insanity” for his decision to join NAMBLA!
I would let him go....I would let them all go.....as long as they all agreed to using the new "Do It Yourself Frontal Lobotomy Kit" by Hasbro!
Is this guy blaming AlGore or is he just an idiot?
Do flight attendant jobs pay so poorly that people have to find crappy moonlighting jobs?
It's a little disconcerting to read that a NAMBLA member and child molester is also a psychologist.
"I will be treated like a leper.”
I don't think so, not in 'general population', anyhow. Your new boyfriends will take great care of you, LOL
I am convinced that there is a VERY SPECIAL hotel in HELL reserved for the likes of these POS.
Three years of daily injections of steel jacketed lead (7.62mm)sounds good to me.
Yeah, the perp himself was firing off talismanic language in an effort to state a claim, but what he was saying was at least theoretically possible. The First Amendment argument was just blow-your-brains-out moronic.
Joining in the molestation in Mexico of children that I guess the rest of the population allows to happen.
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