A man accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities told a judge that having sex with children is a sacred ritual protected by civil rights laws.
Phillip Distasio, who said he is the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, represented himself at his pretrial hearing Wednesday. He is charged with 74 counts including rape, pandering obscenity to minors and corrupting another with drugs.
“I’m a pedophile. I’ve been a pedophile for 20 years,” he said in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday. “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.”
What is there to say about this guy?
He ran an online Yahoo Group called class cutters — his “youth outreach” program — “…group parenting initiative that uses existing community resources to meet the needs of both unique and typically developing children by creating a self-directing, least-restrictive learning environment.
My guess is that this was his local online dragnet to try to find “consenting children”.
He also started a blog at MySpace; but, that’s already been taken down.
#32
I’d like to outlaw the death penalty on moral grounds. When I get out there and start advocating this idea, it would help if you didn’t help.
I am having a little trouble, OhForTheLoveOf, in reconciling your two statements on this thread.
In comment 28 you write: “I need to put on my ear buds and turn my back on the situation. That way I won’t be morally obliged to interceed (sic) when the pro-death penalty crowd takes care of this problem.”
In comment 33 you write: “I’d like to outlaw the death penalty on moral grounds.”
Somehow, to be honest, it seems as though the earlier post is more genuinely you. And you don’t seem like such a bad guy, though a bit of a guilt-ridden self-deluding coward. But maybe, instead, you are more like the brave, honorable guy who’d like to outlaw the death penalty on moral grounds, and just hasn’t “gotten out there” and “started advocating this idea” yet. If that’s more correct, and I have misread the later comment as cheap posturing, well, I’ll make you a promise: You come ’round and start “advocating”, and I won’t help. Until then, you can just **** ***.