Court ordered Scott Ritter to attend counseling for sex offenders

WTEN.com (Albany, NY) ^ | January 20, 2002

[HAL9000]

Delmar Weapons Inspector in Hot Water

(updated: January 20th, 5:50pm) The spotlight is back on former UN Weapons Inspector and Delmar native, Scott Ritter. But it's not over Iraq instead its over charges he talked with an underage girl on the Internet.

The Daily Gazette broke the story over the weekend. The paper says Ritter was arrested in June of 2001 after having a sexual conversation on the Internet with someone he "thought" was an underage girl. The girl turned out to be an undercover investigator.

Sources tell NEWS10 that Ritter contacted what he thought was a teenage girl on the internet for the purpose of a sexual interlude not once, but twice within a three month period back in 2001. Ritter also underwent court-ordered sex offender counseling from an Albany psychologist.

[Balata]

The date on the link is 2003 not 2002 as you have in your post. :)

There are so many posts about Ritter today it's hard to keep up with the ones that are current and the older stories.

[savedbygrace]

According to police, the intent of that meeting was so that she could watch him perform sexual acts on himself.

So then, Ritter took it seriously when someone told him to, "Go . . . . yourself."

(I can't believe I wrote that, even with the . . . . in there. All in the name of humor.)

[sd-joe]

"Special Report quoted Scotty as denying it. What to believe: Scotty's denial, or that mugshot running on another thread?"

The question is, what can we believe about his statements, after he totally changed position, and starting saying the exact opposite of what he had said earlier.

It sure looks like someone got to him big time.

[Eva]

You have to ask yourself who initiated the sting operation and who may have had Ritter's FBI report.

[doug from upland]

I got the details. This is too much. He keeps denying. Does he think it will be kept sealed?

[doug from upland]

"I did not have sex with that internet slut......what's her name. I never told anyone to lie. Not once. Now, I have to get back to work for the Iraqi government...er, for the American people."

[finnman69]

According to police, the intent of that meeting was so that she could watch him perform sexual acts on himself.

So we know where Scott like to stick Scuds.

[amused]

I had Scott Ritter posting to me at another site yesterday defending himselve and Pitt. While trying to smear me. LOL

DU now has a link up to that capitolgrilling thread. Funny stuff. I thought you fought well. They're upset with Doug too for not speaking highly of Will Pitt.

Behold the power of the Internet! You guys are the best!

[over3Owithabrain]

not particularly earthshaking sex offense (the guy offered to show his wiener to a 16-year old temptress in an internet chat room).

Downplay it all you want - that's pedophilia.

[TLBSHOW]

LOL

It came to me as I was thinking about the no war freaks and what they said about ritter when I freeped them last summer.
That is right Ritter was in town. It was him in the downtown bars here picking up girls. Hee hee hee

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The protesters tried to bring up Scott Ritter and all his BS. It did not work.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/728677/posts

[doug from upland]

Not speaking highly of Pitt? Hey, if JimRob would allow it, I would have him on my show and let him have his say. No mocking and no insulting. I would do a quality interview.

[woofie]

Paging Mr. SHOW ....Paging Mr. SHOW

grasswire (2238 posts)
Jan-20-03, 06:48 PM (ET)
Is a freeper behind the smear of Scott Ritter?


A Call on Line 2..something about a DU

[amused]

Not speaking highly of Pitt? Hey, if JimRob would allow it, I would have him on my show and let him have his say. No mocking and no insulting. I would do a quality interview.

Their(DU) words...not mine. I for one would love to hear that interview.

[TLBSHOW]

bttt

[Miss Marple]

I find it quite offensive that you think this is not a big deal. As the parent of a daughter (now 24) I find it QUITE a big deal.

In most communities this is a big deal...that is why people who do this are ARRESTED. Tell me how happy you would be to have YOUR 16 year old daughter lured to watch a man over twice her age masturbate in front of her? You think this is no big deal?

AND, the concealment of this arrest IS a big deal. You seem to be quite interested in telling us that it isn't. It is almost like you are afraid we will connect the dots to whoever engineered the coverup.

I am out of patience with this "no big deal" attitude. If that is what you think, you need help.

[SarahW]

But that's not what they do - the request to the girl is a ruse. If she shows, she can be abducted and raped or worse, and is unlikely to tell anyone because she'll get in trouble.

Young girls have met their *doom* by following up on meetings like Scotts BK tryst.

He's probably met girls like that before. He may even have hurt some of them.

[woofie]

From that D place:

Freeper Doug from Upland learned from Will Rivers Pitt's posting on DU that he was going to be on newsnight with Aaron Brown Friday. Doug started emailing and phoning the CNN producer, feeding all kinds of stuff about Pitt, totally discrediting him. Brown phoned Pitt twice, and chewed him up over it. Pitt, of course, didn't know that Doug was talking to CNN.

[SarahW]

But say my #35 hadn't happened yet - I'm d*n glad he got caught before he DID meet some underage girl.

[Spunky]

So we know where Scott like to stick Scuds.

Scotty's Scuddy Ritter Rooter

[The Great Satan]

It ain't pedophilia and it ain't statutory rape. It's a guy talking dirty with a jail-bait agent provocateur in an internet chat room -- that's it, that's the whole thing. I find nothing extraordinary in the fact that Ritter was able to get off with a plea bargain and counseling. Your attempt to some how turn this into a giant conspiracy with Queen Hillary pulling the strings is the height of absurdity.