Sex-Offending Teacher Asks to be Castrated - CT

KTLA-TV ^ | December 3, 2010 | KTLA News

[Beaten Valve]

WILLIMANTIC, CT ( KTLA) -- A school teacher from a Willimantic magnet school was given 13 years in prison after being caught having repeated sexual encounters with a 15-year-old student.

Adam Friedman, 46, of Newington, received his sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to second-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor, possession of child pornography and violation of conditions of release.

Friedman has been in prison since 2009 after he violated a court order to break all contact with the girl after he was first arrested.

Friedman was an instructor at the Arts at the Capitol Theater magnet school in Willimantic when he was arrested in December 2008.

Prosecutors say Friedman had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl between July and November 2008.

The assaults took place at motels in Columbia and Manchester, and at the girl's grandparents' home in Hebron.

At his formal sentencing Thursday, Friedman asked Judge Elliot Solomon to allow him to be castrated instead of going to prison.

According to Friedman, "prison is killing me."

[antiRepublicrat]

Go to jail, make chemical castration a condition of parole.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Penis amputation along with removing the testes would be the more definite surgical fix.”

It’s a start, but I’ve heard stories from cop friends who’ve investigated rapes, and a penis and testes aren’t necessary at all. It’s disgusting to hear the things men have raped women and children with. One horrendous incident took place during Oktoberfest... and I’ll let you figure out the “wurst” case scenario.

[Venturer]

I suppose that those who are happy with the thought of castration for this man would also go along with the removal of the Clitoris of females who have done the same thing.

[Mamzelle]

Having spent time working with both stallions and geldings, I see a marked difference in behavior. However, I honestly don't know the realities of surgeries for humans, what stage of life they would be effective, etc. I was writing largely out of frustration.

It's just this contagion and contamination of pedophilia!! Is there so much more of it, as it seems to me, or just more awareness?

[eastforker]

You know, not to long ago in the history of this country, girls were wed at a very early age, 13-14 years old. That was considered prime child bearing age. Even advertisements of young girls clad in short dresses bending over, not even 50 years ago. Remember the old coppertone ads?Everything is reported now, before it was just hushed up.

[Mamzelle]

I remember a time when little children showed affection towards one another without anyone suggesting that they were gay. I remember the Coppertone baby, and there was no suggestion of sexualizing at the time. We noticed that baby's bottoms were cute in the same way that we noticed that their little toes and fingers were cute. Remember bearskin rugs pictures, an item of hilarity sometimes, but hardly sexual.

I remember powder-puff football, when the guys dressed up as cheerleaders, each trying to out-ugly-woman the next guy. It wasn't considered drag, we didn't even know what drag was, but Bugs Bunny did it all the time to make a fool out of whoever he was trying to make a fool of. Was Geraldine and The Devil Made Me Do It drag, or comedy?

I remember when nobody thought that Sam and Frodo were gay.

Sigh///what a cesspool we live in now!