You can be sure that the Congressional Pages who engaged in salacious IM conversations with Foley, whether as pages or later, were either:
(1) gay and did not feel "abused" by Foley or
(2)were guys who well knew the nature of the prank they were involved in and needed no goading from Foley - no matter what their age.
Foley's predeliction for teens is immoral. That does not make every teen he may have been in contact with "moral" or pure as the driven snow. Let's not forget that whether for personal or political reasons some of those involved have had agendas and Foley was a tool in their agendas.
Foely should get whatever he deserves, but many of the pages were not "innocent"; don't put all of them on a pedestal that surely only some of them deserve.
However, given my altogether too many years living amid the Brownshirter Mecca of the United States (SF), I saw the emails -- It appears that most in the US do not understand "gay" speak. The linguistic set. There are some wonderfully conservative gays who DO mentor younger gays.
I wouldn't be surprised if Foley weren't trying to woo these young gay men away from the Democrat Party and to the Republican Party.
Again, it appears the MSM is playing dumb, willfully. They know the gay linguistic set PERFECTLY, and are going along with Pelosi to turn everything "Republican" into something which simply hasn't at all been proven out.
Denny Hastart was right to counsel Mr. Foley after the emails. That no matter the "linquistic set" to a special minority group; it might give the appearance of Impropriety.
So, the young buck Dem Gays purposefully set out to set up an aging older "Fag".
You see this stuff all the time in SF.
And, Pelosi knows it.