Posted on 09/05/2014 7:51:50 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
A former USC professor once on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives list pleaded guilty Friday to flying to the Philippines and having sex with several underage boys he groomed online. Walter Lee Williams, 65, admitted engaging in illegal sexual contact with minors in foreign places, entering the plea during a brief appearance before U.S. District Judge Phillip S. Gutierrez. As part of a plea, federal prosecutors agreed to recommend that the onetime eminent professor of gender and sexuality studies serve no more than five years in a federal prison. He also would be subject to 10 years supervision upon release and must pay $25,000 in restitution to his seven victims. Williams will be sentenced Dec. 15. He was apprehended within a day of making the FBI's Most Wanted List in June 2013 after he was indicted on sex crimes involving two 14-year-old boys in the Philippines. He was captured in the Mexican coastal town of Playa del Carmen after a resident recognized his photo from a newspaper.
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Yes. Walter E. Williams might have to make a special effort to emphasize that "E."
As opposed to studies of math, physics, chemistry, medicine? Those are HARD subjects, and the student must be pretty capable and hard-working to survive those courses. Medical students, for example, have to memorize every bone and every muscle and every blood vessel in the human body.
I think I'd rather get a root canal.
So, we have a special law for this, a US Law that prosecutes you for crimes committed in other countries? Presumably because those other countries are derelict and won’t prosecute these crimes?
I mean, is it just this one category of crime, or are there others?
How about honor killings, that’s pretty low and often unprosecuted, if not rewarded, by other nations?
No doubt a NAMBLA supporter...
If not in funding, in ideological sync...
I keep hearing this. But, is it true?
I have the suspicion it's an urban myth, intended to justify warehousing our pervs, rather than taking them out to the courthouse parking lot and putting a small caliber hollow point into the back of their heads, like our more advanced cousins, the Russians.
yes to all ... but since when does a LA/Hollywood guy need to travel 7000 miles away for sex (of any type, its all right there...tons of it.... at the Troy campus area)
there’s something we haven’t been told yet by this news report...
Wait a minute,since when can you be prosecuted for your actions over seas? I’m no fan of pedophilia but this is odd. I could understand extradition to where the crime took place. Is it a crime in the Phillipines? I believe the age of consent there is 12 if they are not a prostitute or coerced. Do we have some sort of agreement with them? Was he wanted there and simply prosecuted here for convenience? The article wasn’t clear on any of this. I can see a charge for the child porn he had, but to charge for something he did elsewhere?
Something similar happened in California. A Mexican married a 16 year old in Mexico, where such a thing was legal at the time. He came to California and was prosecuted for statutory rape.
If you can be prosecuted here for committing crimes elsewhere, can you be prosecuted elsewhere for doing something that is a crime there? SOuth Carolina’s age of consent is 16. WOuld I be prosecuted for engaging in an act with a 16 year old when I returned to CA? Bizarre.
Can we understand just how desperate and difficult the lives of these young people’s lives are. It really bothers me fundamentally that these creeps are placing their perverted desires above the well being of these children.
I worked 25 years in a California prison. I can absolutely assure you it is VERY true.
USA won’t punish or prosecute honor killings
at least not until we get a new administration
bump!
I remember Jeffery Dahmer, and while he got his head smashed flat in a shower, it seemed to be by a guy who was just looking for thug cred, rather than moral revenge.
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As a teenager in Atlanta in the 1960s, he was inspired by Martin Luther King to get involved in the civil rights movement, and in 1978 he switched to gay activism due to Anita Bryant’s Save Our Children campaign
GW Bush passed a law allowing prosecution of US citizens engaged in sex trafficking overseas. Though I am against international courts, I find this a legitimate use of US power.
The only reason classes like this exist at state funded colleges is the weakness of parents and legislators. If legislators were doing their jobs they would refuse to appropriate funds for these worthless courses. If parents were parenting they wouldn’t allow their kids to take these courses. When my children were in college I knew what they were taking every semester.
Midway through my oldest child’s first semester her mother called the university to ask why we had not received mid semester grades. The registrar’s office informed us our daughter had elected not to have her grades sent to her parents. I called her to ask what was going on. She advised me the counselor shad told her it was up to her whether or not her grades were reported to he parents and she, being an adult, had chosen not to release them. I calmly informed her what she said was true but another truth was I could choose not to fund her education. End of conversation.
About noon the next day my wife called the registrar’s office. The woman she had talked to previously told her my daughter was standing outside the door when they opened and handed her the completed form authorizing the release of grades to parents. The woman laughed and said there had been several calls from parents followed by their child showing up the next day with the form.
If a child of mine had registered for a class in sexuality, gender studies, ethnic studies, or any othe vacuous subject I’d have cut him or her off from the bank of Dad and sent young adult into the cold cruel world to find his or her way.
If parents were parenting the worthless classes would have no students registered. These courses only exist because there aren’t enough parents saying no.
The article I read did not say anything about trafficking. I might have missed it. Regardless, trafficking, as I understand it, is basically kidnapping and shipping people around for various purposes and forcing them to work in legal or illegal ventures. He did not do that. Were the boys prostitutes? We probably get closer to the spirit of the law you mention if that is true.
Again, not defending this guy. The cases where molesters do their time but the state adds on because they don’t want them out bothers me as well. Again, I do not want molesters out, but if you want the sentence to be never ever, then sentence them to never ever or even death. Don’t make it 10 years and then add on later. It sets a precedent for doing this for other crimes and to other people.
How come we don’t read about people who go to Bankok getting busted?
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