Posted on 06/25/2003 6:29:49 AM PDT by twas
Police are searching for a child molester who preys on boys with learning difficulties by pretending to be a private investigator and then luring them to a secluded area and raping them.
The predator has struck twice in San Francisco and once in Pacifica, said Inspector Sidney Laws of the San Francisco Police Department's sexual assault detail.
As summer gets under way and more children are roaming The City unsupervised, police are alerting summer vacation program operators and parents to the molester's modus operandi.
In January, the man accosted a 12-year-old boy at a bus stop on Van Ness Avenue near Chestnut Street in the Marina District, Laws said.
He took the child to the vicinity of a nearby apartment complex and raped him.
Then in April a man fitting the description of the first attacker approached a 15-year-old boy alighting a bus at Francisco Street and Van Ness Avenue.
Laws said the suspect told the youth he was a private investigator and that he was detaining the boy on suspicion of indecently exposing himself to a girl.
The man took the boy to Van Ness Avenue and Bay Street, asked him questions of a personal, sexual nature, and then took him into some bushes, supposedly to conduct a search for weapons and drugs.
He then sexually assaulted the victim under the guise of an "exploratory investigation" and warned the youth not to tell anyone about the incident, Laws said.
"These kids were very traumatized," she said. "He seems to approach kids who have learning difficulties."
Laws had advice for youths who might encounter the man.
"He could present himself as an undercover investigator or an undercover police officer," she said. "If that happens, and the person starts asking them to do a strip search or anything of a sexual nature, just run because we do not do that to juveniles."
Genuine plainclothes police officers always identify themselves by showing their police badge, a gold star, when approaching a suspect, Laws said.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, 5 feet 7 inches, 250 pounds, 35 to 45 years old, with a gray and black beard. Police said he was last seen wearing black sunglasses, a beige fisherman's hat, a blue button-down shirt, beige vest, dark jeans, and boots.
Anyone with information is asked to call Inspector Sidney Laws at the SFPD sexual-assault detail at 553-9686 or the Operations Center after hours at 553-1071 and to cite case number 030-482-882.
Harder to impersonate than a PD officer.
Harder to impersonate than a PD officer.
Unless her name is Andrea Yates, Susan Smith...
In other words, he's the quintessential pervert--short, fat, bearded, middle-aged, and dressing like a geek.
I actually predicted this in the late 90's but prayed I would be wrong :-(
Two main reasons from what I was seeing.
1. Child porn became widely and easily available over the Internet and the porn itself increasingly involves younger children with more violent sexual assault. Now it is easy to find child rape videos, S&M, and bestiality with children whereas just 5 years ago that was even pretty rare on the Internet.
2. The anonymity of the Internet lets these pedophiles meet each other safely and talk amongst themselves. This gives them validation and security about their desires (prior to this, pedophiles were very alone and shamed in their "desires" as you couldn't very well bring this stuff up at the water cooler at work. Now they all have hundreds of pals all proud to be "pedophiles" and agreeing that society just doesn't understand children like *they do*.
It does seem odd.
Liberalism...jingoism "You cant legislate morality dude"
If we dont legislate morality we wont have a nation worth living in...
But that ends the freedom we were founded on....
You cannot have both liberty and license...America was made for practicing Christians men who had Christ's conscience within them..they could be free...because they were decent...
The Lord told Abraham that he was going to destroy Soddom because of the un-Godliness of its people...Abraham pleaded with God not to destroy Soddom if He were able to find 100 50 10 just men...Abraham could not and God did what He promised to do...
How much farther can we descend ....America was founded to be a Christian nation...even so called conservatives want to repeal-revise this fact...
The result of unabated ultra-left liberalism unchecked by moral responsibility. The longer the ultra-left allow "liberalism" to mean "anything goes and anything is acceptable" (except conservatism, that is), we continue down this path of turpitude.
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