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More of the old "Do as I say, not as I do" from our religious leaders.
While I am making fun of these religious folks as a bunch of hypocrites, I do not think possession of "dirty pictures" should be a crime. The last thing we need is the police arresting and jailing people for "thought crimes" like this. On the other hand the rape or sexual assault of anyone is wrong and should be treated as a crime. But this article doesn't accuse our Salvation Army pervert of raping anyone. He is accused of the victimless crime of having "dirty pictures" on is his computer. Of course the cops don't say they arrested someone for "looking at dirty picture", they instead call it "sexual exploitation of a minor", which sounds like the crime of rape, instead of the crime of "looking at dirty pictures". Salvation Army official arrested in child-porn case by William Hermann - Jan. 4, 2012 10:15 PM The Republic | azcentral.com A local Salvation Army official who works with homeless people was arrested Wednesday on accusations of sexual exploitation of a minor, and police confiscated child pornography at his west Phoenix home, officials said. ["sexual exploitation of a minor" is a big government word for looking at child porn or dirty pictures. "Sexual exploitation of a minor" sounds so much worse the "looking at dirty pictures"] A Phoenix police spokesman, Sgt. Tommy Thompson, identified the suspect as John Landrum Jr., 52. Thompson said detectives working with the Arizona Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served a search warrant at the suspect's home in the 1000 block of West Welland Road. Landrum has been a program coordinator for several years with the Salvation Army's Project Hope, which works with the homeless, including distributing water to them in the summer. Landrum was booked into a Maricopa County jail on 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a Class 2 felony. "I was told that it was some of the most egregious examples of child pornography that the investigators had ever seen," Thompson said. "The suspect had hundreds of items of child pornography, and we should understand that there are different mediums to transfer this material." Salvation Army spokeswoman Melissa Axman said in a written statement that Landrum had worked for the organization for seven years. She said his primary responsibilities in Project Hope were to provide homeless outreach services to the adult homeless population and to veterans. Axman wrote, "The Salvation Army doesn't tolerate sexual improprieties of any kind." Thompson said that at this early stage of the investigation, it is unknown whether the suspect had been involved in the creating of any of the images. [Translation, we would love to demonize the poor slob as a rapist who rapes children and video tapes it to make child porn, but we don't have any evidence, so we will hit that he MIGHT have been doing it!] "Having this pornography is a crime, and so is sending it back and forth, but if you are involved in the production, it raises matters to a higher level and may involve acts that themselves are crimes," Thompson said. The sergeant said he did not know whether any of the children in the pornographic pictures were local. "We still have to determine all that," he said. Thompson said he could not be specific about how detectives learned that the suspect could be involved with owning and perhaps transferring child pornography. [While Thompson may not want to says how the cops found the guy, I have posted other articles which say the police troll the internet trying to entrap people who might be involved with child porn and I suspect that is how this poor slob got arrested] |