Posted on 03/10/2011 5:27:05 AM PST by inflorida
A former Crescent City police officer admitted to a judge Tuesday that he was a pedophile and molested hundreds of children.
Sixty-year-old Pomona Park resident Paul Joseph Blair confessed to a lifetime of sexually abusing children during a dramatic hearing at the Putnam County Courthouse in Palatka.
"I've been a pedophile my whole life," Blair said. "In my lifetime, I've probably molested 200-300 girls."
Blair was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in state prison for two counts of sexual battery on a minor 12 to 18 years of age.
"You have wrecked and ruined quite a few lives, even more than I think anyone realized," Circuit Judge Patti Christensen said after Blair spoke.
Blair pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual battery of a minor on Feb. 18. The plea agreement he reached with prosecutors called for a 25-year prison sentence.
According to Christensen, Blair has a life-threatening illness, which the judge said was taken into account when determining the length of his prison sentence.
(Excerpt) Read more at palatkadailynews.com ...
Why must we contend with such predators
This is in FLORIDA.
In case anyone else was wondering.
He has ruined 200-300 lives.....prayers for all the victims
put him in general population and let the population sort it out....
His life-threatening illness is the least of his problems.
“His life-threatening illness is the least of his problems”
There is always a silver lining behind every cloud.
I say give him the “High Plains Drifter” treatment: bullwhipped to death by three angry men!
Easy, chum. I think what was meant is that the excerpt doesn't point it out. If you don't know the town "Palatka", you don't know that it's in Florida, from reading the story.
If someone has a life-threatening illness, I don’t see how a longer sentence is less humane—since they presumably won’t be around to complete it anyway.
Lets see how long it will take the-cops-can-do-no-wrong crowd to get here and defend his molesting children. How long it will take them to say that the children deserved to be molested. That the posters who say what he did was wrong are cop haters.
You understand that the FreeRepublic Society of Jacjboot Lickers and Polishers will call you a cop hater for posting that comment don’t you?
Check your meds.
Every person he ever arrested and testified against now has to have their case reviewed.
Not a single person should have been convicted on this filth's testimony.
Death penalty would be too good for him...
My apologies, I forgot that cops were a protected class of pedophiles.
If anyone wants to click the article, there is a picture of the State of Florida in the corner for folks that need visuals.
Putnam County is a low population and rural county.
60 years old, and assuming he began to molest at 12 years old, that is 48 years, or 576 months, divided by either 200 or three hundred - a new victim every 1.92 months to perhaps as long as 2.88 months? ? ? ?
Something sounds a bit impossible, especially for a small population where people tend to knew each other.
If these numbers are accurate, how did this occur?
Another sin-sick perv who needs to be put to death - so that he’ll never harm another again.
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