Dick goes to prison!

[Barklessdog]

http://www.southtownstar.com/news/991484,060568coach.article

This happened in the guy I work with's town.

Dick Dickinson seemed like your typical youth football coach.
On and off for three decades, he taught teams of Orland Park Pioneers how to block, tackle and pass. And the Orland Park man was always there to cheer on his varsity players.
Dickinson became such a fixture in the youth league that the Pioneers decided to honor his dedication by holding an annual golf outing in his name.
Little did anyone know that the father of three now-grown children, who lived in the 14700 block of South Park Lane, had a secret penchant for young boys and violent child pornography.
"We were completely sidetracked," Pioneer board member Dan McMillan said of learning the news last year that Dickinson was arrested for possession of child pornography. Federal agents revealed the varsity coach's secret after closing in on him at his home - which is located just across the street from Doogan Park - in a child pornography sting.
On Wednesday, a 64-year-old Dickinson, who goes by Dick though his given first name is Lindsey, was sentenced to six years in prison in connection with those charges.
He was found guilty of downloading and sharing an extensive and violent child pornography collection - more than 1,300 computer images and an additional 11 disks with child pornography were hidden in a wall of the attic next to his home office - that included pictures and videos of boys being bound and beaten, according to prosecutors.

Hope Dick enjoys prison!

[Dave W]

So many people who are into this depravity seek out positions of authority over kids. And that puts a cloud of suspicion over everyone.

[Barklessdog]

I know when there is a male elementary school teacher, the moms don't like the idea. Of coarse it's a two way street with the hot women teachers going after boys. Somehow it's looked at differently by some.

[gweimer]

A sick man, to be sure.  It's a relief that his only issue was the ownership and downloading of all that.  It would appear that the man had no interest in the real thing, based on the story.   

[TBird1958]

" I know when there is a male elementary school teacher, the moms don't like the idea. Of coarse it's a two way street with the hot women teachers going after boys. Somehow it's looked at differently by some.'

 Link to an infamous occurence of this that happened very near me, she got off light. If this had been a man's offense.......well.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_Latourneau

[Dave W]

IMHO there's a big difference between child porn/child sex and what Mary Kay Latourneau did. A child is pre-pubescent and isn't capable of consenting to sex or consenting to pose for sexual photos. But a post-pubescent boy or girl is not a child -- we've just infantilized them.

I saw a story just yesterday about a female Florida middle school science teacher arrested for having sex with four boys age around 15-16. One of the law enforcement people was quoted as calling her a "child molester." Nope! If she had sex with them, then what she did was very wrong. She's a predator who abused her authority. But she didn't "molest" any "children", she (allegedly) offered herself to teenage boys who were old enough to perform and capable of saying no. Big difference.

My parents were teenagers when they married. My great-great grandmother was 13 when she got married (to be fair, the marriage only lasted 52 years!). But in today's neo-Puritan sex-obsessed society they'd be "children". Go figure.

[Freuds_Cat]

On thursday just gone there was a big child porn bust here in Oz.
I have never had to deal with anything like that but I can imagine if anything happened to my little boy how I would feel. Regarding what you said Dave W: I dont know if I was very different to other 15/16 year old boys but chicks were pretty high on my agenda and that definitely extended to teacher crushes. The teacher should have shown some professional self restraint but I wouldn't expect pubescent boys to act any different. I hear where you are comin' from Dave.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/05/2265503.htm

70 arrested in nationwide child porn bust

[gweimer]

These kinds of stories are always disturbing, especially to those who have kids.  I can recall a couple things in the past that stood out in my mind.

1.  There was a child prostitution ring in Rhode Island (maybe Connecticut) years ago that, when it was uncovered, had no adults involved.  The ring was being run entirely by the kids.  Apparently, when one of them was approached, and found that she could make money for favors, she told her friends.  They had done the whole operation on their own.

2.  One of my former supervisors told me that a couple of his classmates disappeared when he was in grade school.  Years later, their names turned up on John Wayne Gacy's list.

3.  In my old neighborhood in Illinois, we went to get the kids at the bus stop a block from home.  With all of us there, a car pulled up and offered a ride to the neighbor girl because she was walking alone.  She turned back towards us without hesitation.  The old guy didn't realize (we think) that he was pointed down a dead-end road.  We waited for him to drive back, and then called the police.