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Maggot of the Year
Hope nobody's eaten yet...CLEVELAND -- It was probably not a defense the court had heard before. A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws. I have rights, dammit!! The admitted pedophile offered a surprising defense Wednesday to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors. Appearing in an Ohio court for a pretrial hearing, Phillip Distasio, 34, of Rocky River, Ohio, said he was a pedophile. He told the judge, "I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years. The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms." So let's get it out of the courts and send it to the prisons. We'll see what those guys think about Friar Distasio's theory. Let him test it on them for about 50 or 100 years... Distasio, a self-professed pagan friar, is representing himself on 74 charges. He said he's the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, and that some of his congregants are among the victims in his case. Oh, good. He's representing himself. Buh bye, pagan friar... Distasio was arrested on charges he molested two disabled boys he was tutoring at his home. He's also accused of raping seven other autistic children at a Cleveland school for special-needs students, The Plain Dealer reported. All but one of the boys was under 13, which carries a mandatory life-in-prison sentence if he is convicted, the paper reported. Police said they found journals at Distasio's apartment in which he described his illegal activities, along with child pornography and videotapes of him engaged in sex with boys, The Plain Dealer reported "Not all pedophilia is bad, and sex [with boys] can be healthy," Distasio told the court. I hear violent gangbang prison sex with self appointed fruitcake friars who like to hurt kids can be healthy too. Get back to us on that one in a couple of years. If you're still alive... According to the journals, two of Distasio's victims were so helpless they could never tell anyone what happened. "The defendant describes acts in which he had autistic children and he did what I would call sadistic sexual acts with these children," said Mason. The school he ran from his apartment was called Class Cutters. According to Distasio's Web site, students and parents chose the curriculum in the school for unique children. But prosecutors said it was little more than a trap that snared one victim and then another. "Like all predators, he used this one child to bring other children to him and that's what was happening, and that's how he got his second victim," said Mason. And prosecutors believe there may be more victims. Distasio has a history of working with children dating back 10 years. Prosecutors said he could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. Feel free to chop this guy into very small pieces. Posted by: tu3031 2006-08-03 |
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