Posted on 10/29/2007 4:25:44 PM PDT by Malacoda
Former Boy Scout troop leader David Mayberry was sentenced for having unprotected sex with a 14-year-old boy.
Mayberry, 52, committed the crime knowing he was HIV-positive.
A teary Mayberry cried in court when he saw the more than a dozen family members and friends there to support him.
The Montgomery County man, a former Boy Scout leader, admitted to soliciting a 14-year-old online. The two met in a parking lot where the boy performed a sex act on Mayberry.
Prosecutors said the crime was made more horrific because Mayberry is HIV-positive and he knew his health status when he met his victim.
"Mr. Mayberry is a classic child predator, plus. He is classic because he wants to have sex with children but he is also HIV-positive. He's given a potential death sentence to the victim here," the prosecutor said.
Mayberry was arrested in November 2005 by state agents who said he met a 12-year-old online and arranged to meet that child for sex. But Mayberry was actually chatting with agents from a state task force, officials said.
It was through that investigation that investigators learned of the 14-year-old boy.
Mayberry was sentenced to 16 to 40 years.
The judge told Mayberry he was absolutely justified in handing down the sentence and said Mayberry didn't care about the child or his health, just his own needs.
Mayberry pointed to the victim as the sexual aggressor but there was no evidence to support that, the prosecutor said.
Mayberry's mother, sister and church community members testified to his good character in court. His defense attorneys refused comment, as did his family.
The judge told Mayberry he didn't buy his claims of remorse.
The victim's mother was also in court Monday. She did not want to comment but called the sentence "wonderful."
“One of the things that is wrong is that the public in general seems to look at the big picture when it comes to gays. Oh, its so cool, Queer Eye, all the gay decorators, etc.”
“The Overhauling of Straight America”: “Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers. In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined be reflex to assume the role of protector...A media campaign to promote the Gay Victim image should make use of symbols which reduce ther mainstream’s sense of threat, which lower its guard, and which enhance the plausibility of victimization... sympathetic figures of nice young people, old people, and attractive women would be featured...Straight viewers must be able to identify with gays as victims...To this end, the persons featured in the public campaign should be decent and upright, appealing and admirable.
“Make gays look good. In norder to make a Gay Victim sympathetic to straights you have to portray him as Everyman. But an additional theme of the campaign should be more aggressive and upbeat: to offset the increasingly bad press” (my note: this article was written in 1987) “that these times have brought to homosexual men and women, the campaign should paint gays as superior pillars of society. Yes, yes, we know — this trick is so old it creaks. Other minorities use it all the time in ads that announce proudly, “Did you know that this Great Man (or Woman) was _____?”
The strategy is working.
“It wasn’t rape”
If a person is under the age of consent, which this kid was, then it IS rape because the kid is too young to consent... Making it unconsenual.
Great insight. Here is a link to the entire article.
http://www.article8.org/docs/gay_strategies/overhauling.htm
they institute two deep leadership, two adults at all times to prevent these kinds of things.
I am sure you are right but when I was kid NO one ever talked about it and I wouldn’t have done the gay thing for all the tea in China.
Well, obviously, this man isn’t “gay”. A “gay” man would never do something like this!
/homopromo cheerleader
This is what male homos especially do — this is the part of the lifestyle that is still in the closet. The incidence of pedophilia is staggering compared to heterosexuals. Please consider going to sfgate.com and posting comments to the article about “same-sex parents stereotype crap” and address this most grevious form of child abuse.
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