Posted on 07/19/2009 10:51:52 PM PDT by Maelstorm
ORANGE COUNY Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - A judge denied bond for a 29-year-old man accused of molesting a child at Walt Disney World’s Typhoon Lagoon on Thursday. Orange County Sheriff's Office Sex Crimes Detectives arrested David Eugene Thomas, of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, charging him with one count of lewd molestation. The victim is a 13 year old boy.
“One of the victim's father witnessed what was going on, and the lifeguard on duty also witnessed what was going on,” said Orange County Sgt. Rich Mankewich.
Before a judge on Friday, it was revealed that Thomas told investigators that he was just “curious” and that touching boys at a local water park was an “experiment.” But detectives said this is not the first time.
Investigators said Thomas was visiting Florida, accompanied by a 15-year-old boy who lives with Thomas in Washington. The 15-year-old, who is apparently not related to Thomas, told deputies that he has been victimized by Thomas for the past five years. “I also have concerns that you are in the company of a 15 year old boy while you were down here,” said the judge.
According to Orange County detectives, Thomas had no criminal record before his travels to Orlando, yet just one day after his arrest for touching the 13-year-old boy, Thomas was charged with sexually battery on his 15-year-old travel companion.
Detectives said the boy was in Thomas' care. The teen went to live with him after the boy’s mother said her son was having trouble in school.
“Mr. Thomas was roommates with the mom for a long period of time, so she was obviously comfortable with him so she just allowed his son to live with him for the past year,” said Sgt. Mankewich. “It first happened when he was 10 years old. It was definitely a grooming period. You start small and he ends up working his way up to what happened here,” Mankewich added.
The mother told police that she knew nothing about the allegations of abuse. The teen is in the custody of the state. The Florida department of children and families will not allow his release to his mother in Washington, because there are too many unanswered questions about their arrangement.
Investigators said Thomas molested the boy in a tide pool area of the park, and believe there could be more victims. Detectives said Thomas admitted to the inappropriate contact with one of the boys at the park. He could face additional charges once the investigation is complete.
Wood chipper.
Would love to see this pervert put away forever. We love Typhoon Lagoon.
WTF kind of mother allows her son to go live with an unrelated male? I mean, really...
Get with the program buddy - Gay Day was back in June.
Surprised his face wasn’t beaten to a pulp.
I noticed she indicated that he had been a previous long time room mate? This story is a bit strange especially the way the Mom describes things.
” Thomas told investigators that he was just “curious” and that touching boys at a local water park was an “experiment.””
Oh, well, in that case, I guess it’s OK. (Do I really need a sarc tag here?)
This guy sounds like a total puke pile.
Typhoon Lagoon is the best, makes me sick that some kids and their parents trying to have fun on vacation have been victimized by this monster.
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One piece at a time.
Well , hopey changey may sign a bill that will eliminate punishment .
If the dems get thier way these freaks will be victims of a mental disorder , which will call for treatment . Another protected class .
Hey Koskiddies and DUmpsers, your wonderful democrats have enacted legislation that will protect pedophiles like this scumbag all under the guise of hate crimes legislation.
Come on, defend that your liberal buddies in DC have given special protections for men like his to molest children.
Defend that there are no special protections for the children these pedohpiles target. Defend your parties actions - Come On!!!
That’s what Obama and his globalist elite puppets want.
Abolition of murder is one of them.
According to them, if you kill someone, their soul goes into the reincarnation cycle.
What stone age thinking.
There was another article just recently about the same waterpark (I think) where some older guy was pulling off young girls’ swim tops and/or groping them. He was nailed, too...
I guess it’s better to take someone down to the river than to go to these swim parks...
I doubt it. They moved homosexuality from APA's list of mental disorders to a protected status. Why would liberals think this pervert needed treatment?
Doesn’t Disney World have some kind of speacial “Gay” day or a “Gay” parade or something? I thought the park endorsed this mentaility.
“Doesn’t Disney World have some kind of speacial “Gay” day or a “Gay” parade or something? I thought the park endorsed this mentaility.”
yes they have Gays Days where the park is swamped with gays wearing red shirts. they refuse to notify parents who plan to bring young children to the park.
There are some women who get off on the attention shown to their sons by gay men...Maybe this is one of those situations. Mom had to have known what was going on.
Manual meat grinder placed at his “ahem” area and at gun point, forced to choose death or being a self made eunuch.
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