He should be on the sex offender list, for what? I've been reading this thread in total disgust, because I can't believe how easy it is to throw a bit of dirt to generate a massive response full of salacious comments and accusations from the misinformed, who enjoys all kinds of speculations based on a lot of dirt and a bit of information. They start with false accusations and keep adding lies to the point that it becomes a “fact.”
FACT: There was no sex between Foley and the young man. There was no grooming or anything like that. Foley may be gay... I don't know that, but nothing he did to this young man was sexual in nature. There were only emails and nothing else, and the emails are the following:
From the ABC article:
In the series of e-mails, obtained by ABC News, from Rep. Foley (R-FL) to the former page, Foley asks the young man how old he is, what he wants for his birthday and requests a photo of him.The concerned young man alerted congressional staffers to the e-mails. In one e-mail, the former page writes to a staffer, "Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously. This freaked me out."
Foley's office acknowledges that Foley wrote the e-mails to the young man but says they were completely innocent and that Foley is at most guilty of being "too friendly and too engaging" with young people.
The e-mails were sent from Foley's personal AOL account, and the exchange began within weeks after the page finished his program on Capitol Hill. In one, Foley writes, "did you have fun at your conference…what do you want for your birthday coming up…what stuff do you like to do."
In another Foley writes, "how are you weathering the hurricane…are you safe…send me an email pic of you as well…"
The young man forwarded that e-mail to a congressional staffer saying it was "sick sick sick sick sick."
Foley's office says it is their policy to keep pictures of former interns and anyone who may ask for a recommendation on file so they can remember them.
The Congressional page program was started in the 1800s. In its current form, juniors from high school work on Capitol Hill after school or over the summer. The young man in question did not work or intern for Foley's office.
Elizabeth Nicolson, Foley's Chief of Staff, said they believe the e-mail exchange began when the page asked Foley for a recommendation and that the subsequent exchange was totally innocent. She said Foley's office believes the e-mails were released by the opposition as part of an "ugly smear campaign."
And if anyone cares to check this out, here is the link.
We don't know if there was any "sex". But Foley resigned!
"FACT: There was no sex between Foley and the young man."
There is no sex between child porn possessers either. But they are prosecuted much more severely than Foley will likely be.
FACT: There was no sex between Foley and the young man. There was no grooming or anything like that. Foley may be gay... I don't know that, but nothing he did to this young man was sexual in nature. There were only emails and nothing else
Nothing else? I trust you have since been made aware of the IM messages.
There was grooming. There was a conversation that was sexual in nature.
And please, none of the "maybe he isn't Maf54" nonsense. AOL logs the ISP for Instant Messages. He wrote them, as sure as he wrote the emails.