Please, Please teach your children that no one is allowed to touch you unless your Mom says it's okay.

Why weren't these parents teaching their children not to go into the homes of neighborhood men? All he had to do was say, "Call me Grandpa" and the parents let them go? What the hell is the matter with these people who hand their babies over to anyone who asks for them?

Let the "sweet old guy" in your neighborhood come to visit your children in your home and in your presence. (If he really is just a lonely old guy who loves children, he'll be happy to be invited.)

MACH!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's because people assume an elderly man/woman will be harmless. People need to realize pedophilia is a mental illness that doesn't go away with age. I know of no case in which a pedophile has been cured. The best you can hope for is that they learn to control their urges. But, they have to want to learn (which some do, they don't like what they have done and don't want to repeat. Doesn't hapeen often enough, but...) AND they have to avoid situations of temptation...not invite children into their homes.

I - as a volunteer and survivor - councel victims of childhood sexual abuse. Thankfully, one can move forward and have a good, happy life. But it does forever change you.

This is what Viagra is used for.....Because old Ladies in menopause rarely like to have sex.....

Philly, I know many "old" ladies in menopause - I'm closer than I want to admit to being one of them. They all really enjoy sex (and the no pregnancy worries). So maybe they just don't want to have sex with you? Or maybe you aren't in that age group yet and you have misinformed preconceived notions?

TAM!! Miss you; gotta get to FB. Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out what the heck sw philly meant. (Viagra is a useful tool for molesting children?) No matter-I think you nailed it: nobody wants to share the love with sw philly.

Come back to FB, the herd is having fun there. And yeah, I'm guessing that is the issue.

amazing.... Mach- do not blame the victims, nor their parents. this man is a child molester. at 81 yrs old, he claims to have been molesting girls since he was a teen. There is a high probability that he is guilty of molesting hundreds, even thousands of young girls in his lifetime. He is responsible... period! Death by a thousand cuts is too good for him!!!

it is good to teach your children of things to look for: prevention is always good. For example: There are no secrets. if an adult tells a child to keep a secret, usually starts with something innocent but progressively move towards somethign sexual. This is called "grooming" of the victim. Having worked with kids, I made it a rule never to say or do anything with the kids that i wouldn't do with their parents right there present/observing. If i talk to a child about anything, I encourage the child to let their parents know they talked to me and what we talked about. I never ask the child to go anywhere to be alone; no shut or locked doors.... tell your children to let you know if anyone tells them to keep a secret, or do something with them and not tell anyone; the child is most likely being groomed. Manipulation via bribes or threats are another form of grooming. Talk openly with your children; let them know they will not be in trouble if they talk about their bodies, and that any topic is okay.

LB - I know Mach, and she loves kids. I don't think she was blaming the parent (certainly not the kids!). I think she was more wondering why their was no conversation going on. A child should be taught to not go with ANY adult without their parents knowing.

There is a story about a man in OH, 70, who approached children. He had a dog, so they stopped to pet it, and he tried to persuade them to go back to his house to play "video games". The kids said no and told their parents. Obviously their parents had this discussion with them. And, this man was a raging pedophile. (And, at the risk of TMI, I know this on a personal level, not just because of the news story.)Does it mean these parents did anything wrong. But a conversation should take place, and not just once, but on going. And not in a scary way but just informing. My son is 12, we still talk about this (expecially now that he's on the internet more).

mozzie-600:

I agree with your post, but...just sayin'

"Hey mom, is it okay for daddy to be touching me like this? Yes, dear, it's okay. Hey honey, where did you put the meth/crack pipe?"

No "normal" person/family would even think of such a thing but it is happening alot in this world.

Children do need healthy doses of "supervision" and "education" and "discipline" and the ability to "effectively self regulate" as growing children until they develop/demonstrate "wisdom" as maturing adults.

But as for this old man in the article, all he needs is for a qualified clinical therapist to punch his nose into his brain.

Where does it list his actual home address? The "6400 block?" For all we know, that block could have over a hundred homes, with very few people even knowing half of their neighbors. Journalists (and I use that term loosely) have been using this terminology for years when identifying a suspect. Rarely if ever do they print the actual, complete address.

What's wrong with lynching this one, especially after he admitted guilt.

punisher

I could answer that for you but I do believe you should read The Constitution Of The United States Of America on your own. You would make far fewer mistakes and ask much more intelligent questions if you did.

Bob, If you had a child that he molested I doubt you would be too concerned about any law.
This guy has had a lifetime of screwing up others lives. By his own admission.

Toosano

AGREED!!!!

Yes Bob the constitution affords us rights before guilt is established but that doesn't apply here...This creep admitted guilt not only in this case but said" I havr been doing this since I was a child " so I am pretty sure "guilty till proved innocent" doesn't apply here....................

But you go ahead and keep defending his faux innocence....I bet you watch Faux News too...........

They do that to registered sex offenders, it's called Megan's Law. I know where they are in my hood, and that is a good thing.

Cameron Ford, are you a perverted pedophile also? What do you mean..."Due Process"? This a--hole has been molesting children for probably 60 years!!! This bastard should not be allowed to live another day. Take off his breathing apparatus and let him slowly die. People like you sicken me. Do the world a favor and fall on a sharp blade.

Looks to me like he's gotten a head start on the 'rotting'.

Probably a lifetime smoker looks like emphysema to me.

u mean like u for instance....no I still find u revolting, disgusting, and vile!!!

So are you deeming this behavior OK? No, not right.

Maybe the police need to speak to you. And have a look at your computer. And browsing history. Because if an 81 year old man molesting 12 year-olds doesn't disturb you, you have a problem.

For real people?.Talking about homosexuality-which is still revolting.If my girls were involved they MIGHT find his skin

yawn, fewer and fewer people find homosexuality to be "revolting". duh. Mainly the far right religious taliban and old farts who are dying off.

Most people these days are in the "its all good" camp.

No vermont you are mistaken there. The majority, or most people, are not ok with it. That is a numerical fact. Math does not lie.

BobW and paind1 have no problem with grandpa molesting, as long as it is little girls and not boys.

Remember this is the party of legitimate rape! If any of the little girls became pregnant the Republicans want to force her to have the baby, then will b!tch to high heaven that she is a welfare queen living on public assistance!

@vermont guy

Well then I am not "most people" because I will never be in the "it's all good" camp.

Who are the "most people" anyway? The LGBT community and their friends and relatives?

Cause where I am from "most people" still think it's wrong. Even if publicly they are pressured to say the opposite.

No Bob. You are the "Americun" who is a hater. Now, please stop the stupid.

I think most people figure that what goes on behind someone else's doors is that person's business not theirs. I think most people would find a man who like to dress in diapers and hire prostitutes to "nurse" him and have sex with him dressed as a baby would be disgusting, but David Vitter, after admitting his perversion was re-elected back to the Senate. So apparently, the Republican Party condones perversion, unles they think it is gay.

Blueingoregon

That sounds about right

dressing like a baby and being nursed is not natural and doesn't serve the purpose of reproduction...yet he gets re-elected? Ohhhhh thats right they like to pick and choose what to hate and what to overlook as long as it doesn't hurt their party

That's the thing with justice, sometimes she takes too long, and karma is too unreliable.

He's a great advertisement for molesting children. He got away with it for 70+ years.

Death is too kind, but I'm having trouble comming up with any vile punishment that would be satisfactory.

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EngEsg,

That would kill him too fast. Let's at least use wiffle bat's

I lived in Florida for 21 years. The State has numerous problems, more than I care to go into now, but to write it off as a Florida problem is simply wrong. Pedophiles are everyones problem. The fact is, where ever you live, this perversion is present. Your neighbor next door or maybe even one of your relatives. If they have contact with your children you need to keep watch. If you find out don't keep it a secret, even if they are related, they will only hurt others as well.

Well said. It ultimately comes down to the parent vigilantly watching their children. My kids think I'm overprotective, but I don't know that there really is such a thing as being overprotective in today's society.

Bob, real monsters are those who dress themselves up in Bible verses and flags but want to deny others the right their personal freedoms. Just like the men running for the highest office in this country, a slimy business man who was born with a silver spoon who was a bully and took delight in putting people out of jobs and robbing them of their pensions. That is a monster!!

Or the other guy who got public assistance (SSI) who would now deny others those same benefits. A man who would tell this man's 9 year old victim that she should have the baby he forced into her. Ryan would forbid a nine year child to have a medical proceedure that would spare her years of hardship.

Ryan doesn't believe in rape unless it is at the end of a gun or knife or if the female is beaten severely, so by Ryan's own account these babies were not FORCEABLY raped, so I guess this man's victims, 6-9 year old victims seduced him and forced HIM to have sex with them. Ryan could be the future leader of our country.

Romney and Ryan see a country where American women wear Burkas so that we don't tempt men into raping us. The think WOMEN are the agressors and men are victims of their own physical urges. All women have to do is wear the wrong clothing, be in the wrong place, act in the wrong way and she DESERVES to be raped! The whole Republican party want to force women back into the dark ages!

Bob W...

"And sometimes it is best to fear what we do not understand because there are somethings we can never fully understand. Even about ourselves." Yes, we all know what a homophobe you are. You must have LOTS of fear.

blue

You have confirmed what Ryan has been saying about the Obama campaign. Fear, lies and deceit. Too bad. And actually I am a Theophobe if any phobe at all. And that pretty much eliminates any human especially homos. And all I did on that topic was present a mathmatical fact. Which makes homos truthaphobes. I can be just as stupidly creative as anyone I suppose.

Nothing I have said is untrue. Ryan did sponsor a bill with AKIN that said abortion, even in cases of rape, would be illegal. Ryan, himself, defined "forceable"rape. Rush Limbaugh refers to all women who take birth control as sluts and prostitutes. David Vitter like hiring hookers to have pervert sex with him. All of this is factual.

I did extrapulate that women if the Romney/Ryan win that womens rights will be severely "restructured but this is based on what the Republican Party is saying about women. Forcing us to carry unwanted babies but not punishing the men who impregnated the women. Forcing women to have unneccessary medical proceedures, like untra-sounds if we are thinking about aborting a child, (but the baby daddy doesn't have to sit through this) One republican is trying to make it illegal for a doctor to tell an expectant mother that their baby might have birth defects. One Republican is say that babies created out of rape are gifts for God. I am not making this up! Or how about Akin who believes that a woman can't get pregnant during a rape. he thinks the egg is intelligent enough to know consentual sex from rape.

if you look closely,fear is behind almost everything.thats why we are at where were at.

This guy knew he was busted and confessed. He has been raping little girls for over 70 years. He doesn't even know how many victims he has had. Girls didn't come forward back in the day because they suffered in a culture where everything had to be hidden and forgotten. You think think the 1940's/50's/60's/70's were safer then today? WRONG! We have the internet, social networking, and ACTUAL liberation for women now and girls feel they can come forward now without stigma. It's so sad that all those girls, that this sicko molested for the last 70 years, became women who have probably struggled with so much hardship from this all their lives. Trust me, I know.

Maybe, if girls and boys that this happens to feel safe coming forward, they can save the next generations from ever having to go through this. I know it will never completely go away, but you can't be a serial molester who goes on and on with generations if you are caught on the first one.

Unfortunately we have people who are trying to drive the victims back into the shadows. Just this week we have people defining rape as legitimate or forced. We have men who say all women using birth control are sluts. We have women who are saying babies concieved in rape are "gifts" from God. All this rhetoric is going to force victims back into shame. Paul Ryan wants to force women who have been raped to carry the product of rape to term. It is not a good time in the USA to be a woman who has been raped!!

Funny how you're worried about only female victims, blue, it seems as though it has never occurred to you that males can be victims also and not just young boys. How shameful is it to be laughed at, accused of exaggeration (or worse), presumed to be weak because a strong man would never let themselves get caught in that situation? All of this in addition to depression and adjustment concerns following the abusive occurrence, whether it's some level of sexual molestation or rape. If we presume the claim in these cases to always be accurate and truthful and think like actual adults, we can get past the issue of "legitimate" terminology and leave the actual burden to the justice system to determine on a case by case basis, instead of polling the court of public opinion. Perhaps even more shameful is to be deliberately left out or overtly forgotten. Just because there's a higher prevalence of female victims, placing the entire focus on that higher percentage does a disservice to all victims, just as in circumstances where the adverse concerning gender is true. And for the record I don't think any victim should be responsible for pregnancy resulting from their abuser's conduct, however if a victim were to choose to accept the situation for whatever their reasoning, I respect that choice and support theright to have it, either way. Also for those of you arguing how pedophilia and homosexuality are similar because at one time they were both considered to be cognitive/behavioral disorders will never get anywhere in this society arguing that case, your point is factually valid on its face but the overwhelming protective parental instinct found in females and males among several mammalian species, (and others), is being exerted socially, particularly in Western cultures where social norms are beginning to express more and more of the female voice, even an extreme majority of men have been conditioned to abhor child abusers with equal fervor in our own society, ask almost any parent and most non-parents what the punishment in a case like this should be and the response is likely to be grisly, you just can't fight the motherly, (parental), protective instinct, it's reflected in our legislation, sometimes society defies logic and logic isn't necessarily morality.

It took me a second look also.

dragon, sad isn't it? I know of someone who offended, was caught and convicted in his 30's, served 3 years in jail and wasn't caught (notice I didn't say offend) again until he was almost 70. And he thought it was society's problem that they didn't accept the "love" of a man and a female child.

He was a pedophile until the day he died. And I KNOW he offended before he was caught the first time and strongly suspect he was after.

Tom, I'm sure that was a typo somewhere. Or she has already started taking a few years off her age. We usually wait until we are older, but....

(Not a funny subject, levity).