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How pedophile trail led to a Largo man
St. Petersburg-Tampa Bay Times ^ | August 5, 2012 | John Woodrow Cox

Posted on 08/05/2012 3:25:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

LARGO — This is what the world saw:

An emergency medical technician from Kansas who lived with his mother in a tidy brick house, where he helped her care for a 14-year-old boy.

A stay-at-home dad who lived with his wife in California and built a jungle gym next to his home for the couple's two adopted children, 6 and 8.

A puppeteer in Florida who performed in community centers, schools and churches and hosted kids-only pizza parties every Wednesday in his mobile home.

Bruce Foucart, the special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, saw something else.

Over the past three months, the three men were arrested on charges that they produced, distributed or possessed child pornography. They were targets of a federal investigation that has reached 10 states and seven countries. To date, authorities have arrested 43 people, including 13 in the United States, and saved more than 140 children from further exploitation.

The youngest victim was 19 days old.

The accusations against many of the suspects are heinous. They include the rape of their relatives or their friends' children.

But for Foucart, who has investigated hundreds of pedophiles during his 27-year career, the online conversations among the men — the EMT, Michael Arnett; the stay-at-home dad, Jason Scarcello; the puppeteer, Ronald William Brown — made him sick.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; homelandsecurity; pedophile; pornography; sexoffenders
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1 posted on 08/05/2012 3:25:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Death to these scumbags if they are guilty


2 posted on 08/05/2012 3:33:10 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Yorlik803; All
The Largo puppeteer
3 posted on 08/05/2012 3:34:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
But for Foucart, who has investigated hundreds of pedophiles during his 27-year career

I can't even imagine how one does such a job without becoming permanently damaged in some way...

4 posted on 08/05/2012 3:37:49 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Future Snake Eater

>>>>>”There’s no end to it,” Foucart said. “We just keep peeling back the onion, but that onion just keeps getting bigger.”<<<<<


5 posted on 08/05/2012 3:41:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Future Snake Eater

I’m reading that Harry Reid is one??? Has he denied it? Is is able to prove otherwise???

Where’s the media on this?


6 posted on 08/05/2012 3:48:58 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: kjo

Uh, those are some pretty serious charges there.

As a matter of fact, regardless of where they started they are so serious they need to be investigated.

Seriousness of the charges, you understand.


7 posted on 08/05/2012 3:56:18 AM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This does for creepy puppets what Gacy did for creepy clowns.

Hard to imagine this depth of depraved evil.


8 posted on 08/05/2012 4:08:55 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Dear FedGov,
I hereby volunteer to: pull the switch, push the needle plunger, or just blow their sick filthy stinking heads off -- if that's 'the legal way' they are to 'go' (naturally).

regards,
Me

ps: I'll even furnish my own ammo, but you get the airfare & taxi

9 posted on 08/05/2012 4:08:59 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“The youngest victim was 19 days old.”

I cant read this enough and comprehend.


10 posted on 08/05/2012 4:11:32 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Yorlik803

This is too scary for words. Who can be trusted anymore since these pedophiles seek trusted situations where they come into regular contact with children?


11 posted on 08/05/2012 4:13:32 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: Future Snake Eater

I knew a cop who did it for a few years until he felt that it was seriously undermining his ability to trust and relate to other human beings. His team caught all sorts of people, including an Assistant DA (and some women, as well).

Being able to do it for 27 years is amazing, but professionals like this are very good at compartmentalizing and keeping their work and personal lives apart and also at keeping their eyes on the goal, which is to protect children. When they feel they can’t handle it any more, they leave the unit.

The most frustrating thing is the trivial sentences a lot of the offenders receive, and the fact that judges are often very careless about protecting the victimized children


12 posted on 08/05/2012 4:15:48 AM PDT by livius
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To: VanDeKoik

Just think, when the homosexual advocates, a/k/a the Democrat Party get their way, this will all be legal.


13 posted on 08/05/2012 4:16:43 AM PDT by sport
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is on of the sickest things I have ever heard.


14 posted on 08/05/2012 4:17:47 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Condor51

Even pedophiles who have murdered a child do not receive the death penalty nowadays. The sentences they receive here in the US are stricter than what they get abroad, though; did you see that the Dutch one, who had molested 67 children, got a big 18 years?

This needs to be a capital crime again.


15 posted on 08/05/2012 4:20:19 AM PDT by livius
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
...the special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston....

Say what?

16 posted on 08/05/2012 4:43:29 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Woe to them...)
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To: sport

yep!
Soon we will be having the same “it’s their civil right, they are tax payers, they are BORN this way!” cries as we have to hear now from the queers.
Nobody seems to get that.


17 posted on 08/05/2012 4:45:58 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( I miss George Bush. Hell, I miss Bill Clinton!!)
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To: jazzlite

What is scary is that there are some who want to at least decriminalize
this stuff. Most give cash to leftist groups.
There is no cure for these people. Death is the only way to insure they never harm children again.


18 posted on 08/05/2012 4:48:13 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
How pedophile trail led to a Largo man

Since the progressive mentality prevents us from shooting these vermin, I compassionately suggest we just force them to wear their gonads as earrings.

19 posted on 08/05/2012 4:55:21 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“We just keep peeling back the onion, but that onion just keeps getting bigger.”

That ‘onion’ is planted in the soil found under the Poison Tree of the Fruit of Liberalism.


20 posted on 08/05/2012 4:59:46 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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