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Roch

[moosehead]

[Mebertz]

The kids said that inappropriate things were done to them on 20 different occasions. Park confessed to this. To jump to a conclusion that Vermont police beat it out of him is pretty drastic. In fact, I would say a Korean national would be one of the least looked at suspects unless there was warrant to.

I am not surprised that out of such a sexually repressed nation, a nation where boys spend a lot of time touching each other while hiding their sexuality, that someone like this, in a place where there is much more freedom of expression, would choose to explore his sexuality in the manner in which he allegedly did.

Just my thoughts.

Mike

[Privateer]

The report said he was arrested after investigation and he admitted the crimes. There is no reason to think a false confession was extracted and I can only think of when my own nephews were small and what I would have done to any bastard caught fiddling with them. There's a reason for 'hysteria' and that's because of the terrible nature of the crime.

[PBRstreetgang21]

Unless other evidence comes to light it would appear as of now, he is admitting his own guilt in the matter. So far as much as I want to defend every suspects right of "innocent until proven guilty" it seems in this case he most likely is. I read that when he had been arrested he waived his miranda rights right off the bat. Such an action leads me to believe (unless, and I am more than willing to be, shown otherwise) he admits his guilt in the events.

The larger question of course would be why? Why not lie and see if you can lawyer your way out of this. This is just a hunch, but I'd put money on it that if we follow this story carefully we'll see that this 19yr old kid probably was himself abused, at least physically and mentally if not sexually. I have no evidence to support that other than the fact that most pedophiles where them selves often the victims of pedophilia, or at least some form of abuse. I mean, a lot of Korean go to the US to study (they are the third largest foreign group for Universities after Chinese and Indians) you don't see those guys molesting kids. Something is up with this dude's past I bet.

I just wonder how long it will take in the US before we Americans realize that life in prison, or whatever else punishment we want to think up, isn't a deterant to pedophiles. More specifically when are we going to wake up to the reality that a lot of these pedophiles need significant mental and medical help of their own. Our "lock'em up and throw away the key" mentality is really keeping us from taking this problem on in a more preventative way.

Also, I sympathize with the "Believe the children" mentality. Especially considering how easily manipulated they are. But, as I have stated earlier, I have seen what happens when so-called "honest kids" do lie about these matters, and for the otherwise innocent accused, it is devasting. Listen to the children, examine the facts, the history, and be rational. Believeing ANYONE, child or suspect, right off the hop, does sometimes lead to the truth and it sometimes does more harm than good. The real problem in these sorts of cases is the complete and total lack of rational thought, as our disgust and emotional reaction really seem to overpower any sense of logic or compassion.

[thepeel]

[Smee]

What happened to the other thread?

[Beej]

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