Posted on 07/10/2008 7:07:54 PM PDT by gridlock
He's asking a judge for leniency, claiming cultural differences
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable.
Gons G. Nachman, 42, pleaded guilty in April to possessing child pornography after admitting that he had sex with 14- to 17-year-old girls while serving as a consular officer in Brazil and Congo and documenting the encounters in pictures and videos.
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Prosecutors rejected the notion that Nachman's victims somehow deserve less protection because they were not born or raised in America.
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In a letter Nachman wrote from jail to the director of the Foreign Service pleading with him to intervene and get the charges dropped, Nachman explained the cultural differences as he sees them.
"In the Congo, women develop quickly, both physically and emotionally, due to the substantial responsibility society places on them from early childhood," Nachman wrote. "In Kinshasa, the vast majority of teenagers are sexually active with men that are substantially older. ... Their main concern is marrying young girls to men with financial stability, a concern dating thousands of years and cutting across cultural lines."
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I have a friend who was in the Brazilian military (Air Force), who was 28 at the time, who dated the 17 year old daughter of a colonel.
I asked him if he didn’t think 17 was too young and he told me no, since the age of consent in Brazil was 12. I couldn’t believe that.
We need to get Jesse Jackson after him to cut his 'n^ts' off. LOL! :)
Then maybe you should have stayed over there, shouldn’t you, Gons?
Another odd twist is Nachman's prominence in the nudist community: In the 1990s, when attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania, Nachman led several public demonstrations advocating nudity. Nachman now contends that he was targeted for investigation in part because of his well-known affinity for the nudist lifestyle.
In his letter to the Foreign Service director, Nachman says investigators knew of his interest in nudism and illegally searched his apartment with the notion of finding images that, taken out of context, could be used against him.
Nachman says in the letter that he disclosed his activism and lifestyle to the Foreign Service and had no problems receiving a security clearance. State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson declined to comment directly on whether an individual's advocacy for public nudity would be a factor in the State Department's hiring process.
Nachman's prominence in the nudist community was such that, even though his activism was more than a decade ago, some nudists feel compelled to distance themselves from him. In an upcoming issue of N Magazine, a publication of the Naturist Society, an editorial takes a strong stance against Nachman's conduct.
"The severity of what he did is unambiguous. Although his criminal actions were in no way connected with naturism, for many readers of the international news accounts, there will be guilt by association," the society wrote.
Perhaps the strangest twist in the case was Nachman's request that the judge who will sentence him conduct a marriage ceremony for him and his 21-year-old Brazilian fiancee. He wanted to be married before sentencing since he doubted that he would be able to marry once transferred to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.
U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee rejected the request.
"There is a time and a place for everything. The Court finds that sentencing is neither the time nor the place" for a wedding, Lee wrote.
>>>Men who go overseas to have sex with children(anyone under 18) should be castrated.
Nonesense. Grizzled Bear had a much more fitting thought.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043750/posts?page=3#3
I included you in my 27. FR seems to be dropping pings today.
a pic of Gons I believe:
http://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/arquivos_upload/2007/03/138_1753-cemiterionapraia%20045.jpg
from the website:
http://oglobo.globo.com/rio/ancelmo/reporterdecrime/default.asp?a=135&cod_blog=138&palavra=&pagAtual=3&periodo=200703
Diplomat Gons on duty.
hey I beat you by 3 seconds :)
Maybe he should be drawn into fifths, instead of quarters...
Diplomat: GUILTY.
Girl: Not Innocent (sadly)...
Any idea if US forces took possession of that industrial shredder Saddam’s regime was using?
Just a thought.
And just imagine what the AIDS rate must be like among teen prostitutes in the Congo.
This guy is pure slime. Put his walnuts on an anvil and introduce a 5 pound sledge hammer.
I can’t find his background because google is filled to the brim with articles about his sex crimes. One minor addition is that his full name is given as Gons Gutiirrez Nachman, of Florida. I suspect that may be a misspelling of Gutierrez.
I’m thinking the pervert needs castrated.
Street Justice: stick this sickola next to big boys in San Quentin, any bets on the outcome?????/Just Asking - seoul62......
It’s really a shame for him of using these riduculos excuses for the leniency. He had take responsible for what he have done.
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