[woofie]

Ok, who is going to explain all this?

[lainie]

What do all the parenthetical passages mean? {} {}

[Shermy]

Chummy conduct between the lawyers, methinks. Got one of them fired for it.

[cyncooper]

Former federal prosecutor Donald kinchella says the outcome of Ritter's case is not the norm...especially since Ritter was also nabbed 3 months before the arrest and got off with just a warning.

{"People who do this just don't do it once. There's something there. No police officer or anyone else wants to see someone like this out on the streets where they can have contact with children."}

Glad to see the follow-up here. I've been following the Ritter situation and while it seemed as though he received special treatment, it hadn't been explictly stated, that I know of--until now.

Why did the ADA, Cynthia Preiser, work out such a deal for Ritter. Why was it kept from the DA. We know the DA fired Ms.Preiser once he found out.

[Walkingfeather]

You know what is also bad about this??? Those who have been convicted of the same crime can ask for their cases to be overturned citing equal protection under the law. So it is a double screw on that community.

[Nick Danger]

I wondered about this, because I thought it was really weird that Ritter would get a slap on the wrist after having been caught doing the same thing only 90 days previously. I wondered about the first warning, but a second seemed to be bizarre. Not to get too inflammatory here, but stuff like this is how little girls end up in ditches.

It might have been just "country club courtesy" operating among movers-and-shakers in the local establishment, but the suspicion remains -- especially since the Assistant DA rather quietly disposed of the case without telling her boss -- that some Shadowy Force came by and put in a "fix."

Who could do something like that? Who could talk a career prosecutor into quietly disposing of a case involving a creepy guy who likes little girls... not once, but twice in three months? I think it had to have been spooks... our spooks. I'll bet this was one of those "national security matters" and the Assistant DA got rolled into dropping this by somebody with a big Federal badge. They didn't want Scott Ritter in jail, and they didn't want him taken off the world stage. They were learning something by watching him.

[Wingsofgold]

Uh, 16? Jitters Ritter musta been havin a bad night. 16's a lil, uh, "long in the tooth" for him.

[isthisnickcool]

Ritter was arrested in a town (Colonie, NY) of approx. 8000.

According to the Colonie PD web site they were granted a DOJ grant in 2000 to start their computer crime unit. Which handled 15 on-line investigations in 2000 and 22 on-line investigations in 2001. Their web site says in more than one place that they would be aggressive with cases involving children and Internet crimes and have "been proactively investigating these kinds of crimes since 1997 and have arrested numerous individuals for trafficing in child pornography and traveling to meet children that they engaged over the Internet".

So, Ritter was arrested in 2001 by a police dept. that professes it's aggressive stance on EXACTLY the type of crime that they arrest Ritter for. Check out their 2001 annual report from the link here. It has the line in it I have in bold print above.

There own web site says they would aggressively persue the type of case they caught Ritter on. Their web site indicates that they intended to be experts in the area of crime Ritter was arrested for! So? Were they are weren't they experts? If they were experts then HOW IN THE HELL did Ritter get off the way he did. If they were not really qualified to do these cases then is that the reaqson why Ritter was able to make the deal? The little police dept. was way over it's head?

I'm not bashing the PD here. I'm positive that they are working their butts off. My choice is that they just caught a real big fish and they just did not have what it took to reel him in. But if that's not the case something is very wrong here Lucy....

[mass55th]

It would be interesting to know what happened to the rest of the folks busted in the same sting operations as Ritter.

[kayak]

fyi

[Enough is ENOUGH]

I am sick of politicians and their cronies being placed above the law. When the hell is this going to stop? I am outraged that this creep gets to walk free when he should be serving time like other perps of this most despicable and perverted crime.

Scott Ritter-pedophile. His name should always be hyphenated with the word "pedophile". What's just as sick are the idiots who stand up for him. They are in fact defending pedophilia :

Main Entry: pe·do·phil·ia
Pronunciation: "pE-d&-'fi-lE-&
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin
Date: 1906
: sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object!
- pe·do·phil·i·ac /-'fi-lE-"ak/ or pe·do·phil·ic /-'fi-lik/ adjective

[TLBSHOW]

Morning bump just to remind that certain lurker how he should be thanking his stars above and not blaming this on the right, as he did it and is to blame not me not doug from upland not some vrwc but Scott Ritter. Scott Ritter is to blame for Scott Ritter.

[TLBSHOW]

see my post 53 say HI to Ritter and Mr SP!

HI!

[bvw]

"Ritter was allegedly supposed to meet the teenage girl at this Menands Burger King"

There was NO teenage girl. It was a adult, playacting. If we are gonna start sending people to jail when a adult playacts the part of a girl, there will be many thesbians and costumed spouses thrown in the gaol.