Comments on: Police blotter: Wireless voyeur appeals 56-year term

Man who placed a 2.4GHz wireless camera in stepdaughter's bedroom tries to get his sentence reduced.

[skeptik]

WOW

56 years for a non-violent crime in which no one was physically hurt or even touched?
Sex offender - yes. Jail time - yes. But lets get real. Give then penalties outlined, he'd have been better off killing her when she walked in on him. And that obviously points to a flawed penalty system. Any system which makes murdering the witness a better proposition than facing the consequences invites abuse.

[sydala]

Maybe

they should up the penalty on murder. not lower the penalty for sex crimes. did you ever think about that?

[arluthier]

A Sticky Law

While what he did to, basically, his daughter.

But... that law seems a bit vague. "observing, viewing" photos... if they nailed me for everytime or instance I have seen those stupid Britney, Paris, or every other actress that has had an "accident" I would have had multiple life sentences.

I hope this law isnt too vague to be upholdable (is that a word?) long term. I assume it was meant to cover people viewing illegally filmed/photographed content.

[extinctone]

I think you could argue consent

If those stupid skanks want to expose themselves in public, I think it's pretty hard to argue that you're viewing their genitals without their consent.

[sydala]

Don't be Stupid

There is a huge difference between seeing someone's genitalia by accident (or because they purposely flash you), and purposely PLANTING a camera in someone's bedroom for the express purpose of catching them naked.

I hate it when people try to make excuses for sick freaks like the guy in this article with lame arguments like this one.

[volterwd]

Hmmm

"Boudreaux said he was very sorry and blamed the situation on an addiction to both alcohol and painkillers"

Of course... now-a-days it's never the perp's fault it's always something else...

The time is excessive... but he should keep that sentence until he actually feels remorse and comes clean... not blaming it on his addictions.

[sydala]

I completely Agree with Volterwd

I am so sick of perps blaming their behavior on substance abuse or on being abused themselves as children. They try so hard to immediately take the spotlight off of themselves as perpetrators and off of their victims as victims, and they try to turn themselves into victims.

Foley is a classic recent example of this. He's found to have had contact or email or whathaveyou with pages that was less than appropriate (to put it nicely). So what does he do? Talk a lot about how badly he feels that he may have scarred said child/pages for life, and about his ensuing guilt over the matter? Ummm... Not so much.

He of course, goes to rehab. (And btw, just in case you weren't aware of this salient little point, we, the taxpayers, PAID for said rehab. Yes indeedy.) Because we all know that rehab for substance abuse is THE answer to ending the urge to boff underage boys and girls, Right?

(Ok, so actually the only proven cure for pedophilia is shotgun therapy. Or permanent jailtime. Because there is no effective treatment for sickos who want to DO your children. But I hate to confuse people with facts about recidivism when it seems that everyone is ever so happy to obfuscate with warm fuzzies about 28 days in a plush de-tox program. Rehab is the most POPULAR answer of 2006 - just ask all of the pedophiles who got caught last year. Actual or chemical castration are the best alternatives to death and permanent imprisonment. Certainly, chemical castration is the most humane, HOWEVER, it is extremely difficult for parole and probation officers to keep up with offenders to make certain they are compliant with their shots).

But back to Folowy. After rehab, we know he's going to want to get straight to that step in AA where you apologize to everyone you've wronged. Including any pages he victimized and their families, right? And I mean, since the offense was public, it would only stand to reason that it should be a REALLY PUBLIC apology... Oh. He DID make a statement.

Huh. Didn't really linger on any teenagers he may have wronged/harmed. What was that? Oh. He wants us to feel sorry for him because HE'S a victim? Oh, I see. Yes. Its all about him. Apparently HE was the VICTIM of molestation as a child. A Catholic priest. You don't say. What a shocker. There's a new one.

And he never really says anything else about HIS OWN victim, just how difficult it was for HIM as a child. Now, I MIGHT have cared about that had he not chosen to put other people's children through the same treatment. As it is, I could care less. And its no excuse.

Millions of children who are abused grow up to help others, not to hurt them. And millions of alcoholics ruin their livers, but they don't go into their daughter's bedroom at night, nor do they rig spy cameras in their stepdaughter's room and masturbate to peep shows of her and her friends in the buff.

[sydala]

I completely Agree with Volterwd

I am so sick of perps blaming their behavior on substance abuse or on being abused themselves as children. They try so hard to immediately take the spotlight off of themselves as perpetrators and off of their victims as victims, and they try to turn themselves into victims.

Foley is a classic recent example of this. He's found to have had contact or email or whathaveyou with pages that was less than appropriate (to put it nicely). So what does he do? Talk a lot about how badly he feels that he may have scarred said child/pages for life, and about his ensuing guilt over the matter? Ummm... Not so much.

He of course, goes to rehab. (And btw, just in case you weren't aware of this salient little point, we, the taxpayers, PAID for said rehab. Yes indeedy.) Because we all know that rehab for substance abuse is THE answer to ending the urge to boff underage boys and girls, Right?

(Ok, so actually the only proven cure for pedophilia is shotgun therapy. Or permanent jailtime. Because there is no effective treatment for sickos who want to DO your children. But I hate to confuse people with facts about recidivism when it seems that everyone is ever so happy to obfuscate with warm fuzzies about 28 days in a plush de-tox program. Rehab is the most POPULAR answer of 2006 - just ask all of the pedophiles who got caught last year. Actual or chemical castration are the best alternatives to death and permanent imprisonment. Certainly, chemical castration is the most humane, HOWEVER, it is extremely difficult for parole and probation officers to keep up with offenders to make certain they are compliant with their shots).

But back to Folowy. After rehab, we know he's going to want to get straight to that step in AA where you apologize to everyone you've wronged. Including any pages he victimized and their families, right? And I mean, since the offense was public, it would only stand to reason that it should be a REALLY PUBLIC apology... Oh. He DID make a statement.

Huh. Didn't really linger on any teenagers he may have wronged/harmed. What was that? Oh. He wants us to feel sorry for him because HE'S a victim? Oh, I see. Yes. Its all about him. Apparently HE was the VICTIM of molestation as a child. A Catholic priest. You don't say. What a shocker. There's a new one.

And he never really says anything else about HIS OWN victim, just how difficult it was for HIM as a child. Now, I MIGHT have cared about that had he not chosen to put other people's children through the same treatment. As it is, I could care less. And its no excuse.

Millions of children who are abused grow up to help others, not to hurt them. And millions of alcoholics ruin their livers, but they don't go into their daughter's bedroom at night, nor do they rig spy cameras in their stepdaughter's room and masturbate to peep shows of her and her friends in the buff.

[DecliningUSDollar]

So the guy is a perv ...

So the guy is a perv, what guy isn't at some level? Maybe priests? ... oh wait, never mind. Maybe Mrs. Crabtree at school? ... oh wait, she's a perv too.

There are murderers, rapists, car jackers, hard core drug dealers, robbers, wife beaters, child abusers, dead beat dads, etc. who serve far less time.

Get the guy out of jail if he is there already, put him in counseling and make him do 1000 hours of community service.

[definingmoment09]

Sounds like a good idea Clueless...and how about we have him babysit your daughter for some service. Say about 1000 hours worth.

[leaglebob]

Can we seperate "Family Issues?"

If "the family" is the building block of our society, and we treasure and protect "family values," then it seems to me any photographing of non-consenting family members should be legal.

Photographing the friends of the daughter was the crime here.

[sydala]

That's your Idea

Of family values, leaglelbob? Masturbating to secretly obtained video of your teenage stepdaughter naked? You don't think that chips away at the family as the -how did you put it -"building block" of our society just a TAD?

I suppose if a husband pulls out a shotgun and blasts his wife into oblivion, that fits under the heading of "family values" as well as long as he doesn't off his neighbor's wife in the process?

Please. Give me a break.

[fcekuahd]

Let him rot.

They're trying to compare the sentence for a single count of rape or murder with 14 counts video voyeurism. 14 counts of rape or murder would have landed him considerably more than 56 years.

[sydala]

Personally?

I'm not having a difficult time with the 56 year sentence at all. Too bad it was overturned. And I believe that there is a HUGE difference between Paris Hilton and Brit Spears PURPOSELY flashing the paparazzi for publicity, and this young woman being what is essentially molested via video by someone she apparently considered to be her father. All without her prior consent or knowledge.

She evidently considered it to be enough of a familial/father-daughter relationship that she chose to live with him rather than her mother after he and her mother divorced. But he apparently didn't want to have anything to do with HER once he couldn't use her and her friends as his own private porn collection. What a huge betrayal of trust, and what a raw deal in life for this young woman so far. The scumbag deserves to rot in jail for fift-six years.

Also, this article does not say if charges were pressed against him for videoing any of the other girls? Were any of those girls under 18 years of age? If none of those charges were brought, and the court is now forced to reduce his jail time, prosecutors should go back and bring charges for the offenses at this time to ensure that he gets as much time as possible.

The sick freak. Too bad the moron lives in a mobile home and almost certainly doesn't have any money. This young lady deserves the proceeds from a civil judgement, but he wouldn't have anything to pay out.

[Ragingdemo]

Broken Laws ? What Laws ?

Dear Folk's Now please I'm not advocating Lawlessness and Crime ! BUT Dear Lord hold the PHONE. Sit back a moment And just Imagine in your Mind the Total Number Of Police Ossifers & there respective departments along with there State Ordered brother's that darn the Stetsons that set atop the high & tight heads of the Troopers and there respective Barracks and the Court Room's that are home plate for every town and city in there county and state that arrest & fine then Jail and then the Prisons ALL FOR YOU AND I .Do you folks realize that not to long ago there were folks that had to wait sometimes 6 months before the State Marshal rolled around to there part of the state and yet it seem's the world still went round and round Yes Or No. Now you can bet your cell phone that if you even think about speeding your pulled to the side of the road and depending on where you are you could Be asked to Remove yourself from your car without moving your hands while walking backwards on one foot only to be told to get face down in the Filth because you decided to reach down and pick up your soda or CD But if your a Well connected Neo-Con Republicon Politician who just happens to be a CEO in your off time well your on easy street because you can live a Lawlesslife without a worry in the world why you can even have your Company Bid on Government contracts that to you or I would Be a conflict of interest if We were Goverment employees and had say a Parking lot across from City hall You can almost set your watch by how long it will take before your In the Court room So Now you can Own Oil well's and sell your Oil to Government agencys at a huge mark up without a care in the world Why you can just about do whatever you want As long as you belong to a Set group of Secret Societies i.e. the Tri-Latteral Boyz Or the Bilderbergers Or those Nice Boyz that make up the Council On Foreign Relations {CFR} and the list goes on .. But if your just a Lowly Human being with a job at Stop and shop YOUR DOG FOOD ... You can't do this Or that BUT we will allow you to Bust your Back working your life to the bone Just to keep your head above water AND IF YOU HIT A JACK POT WE WANT OURS FIRST. Yes People Police Blotter Is Not for the Super Rich and shameless But rather for Mr and Mrs Low to Mid income Nobody that lives on Nothing street . Oh You say you want to drive a car OK But first you have to Pay the Insurance Man then the Tax Man Then More Tax when you go to the Gasoline Guys that By the By was already paid With money that had already been taxed and RE-Taxed Oh you can'T Pay Opps We need to keys to your Home for Tax sales. Sorry . Oh Yea folks WE have a Police Blotter Alright Only count how many Wealthy well off Snot Nosed Son's Of Millionares You count What do you honestly think They DO NO WRONG ? And If your Name Is Bush well you Got Card Blance. You can do whatever you like THEN LIE THRU YOU FACE, then make up a new story while Backing out without having to see where you have already been because It matter's Not because He has an Expert who tell's Him Don't worry AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT YOU SAID TEN MINUTES AGO ... Oh Yea America We Got BLOTTER To Bad it's NOT the Kind You see pretty things with .

[mpmacal]

Commone Sense

OK... putting aside moral extremes
"Family Values above all..."
or
"She was asking for it. Give him a slap and call it a day".

There is some common sense principles at work here.
1. He invaded the privacy of a young woman. (offensive but...)
2. That young woman was raised as his daughter. (from offensive to abusive and dangerous.)
3. The young girl left (kicked out), because he wanted to continue the abuse. For the smart guy claiming that teens flash anyway - Please tak a moment... Imagine being a high school senior having that conversation with Dad.... (No shame. No remorse). Still feel the same way?

I say throw the book at him. I agree with the higher court that it must be the "Book", i.e. established sentencing, and not some special punishment because for some reason, murder is less offensive to the judge than child abuse.
Following established guidelines, he'll be in prison for the next 15 years or so. That sounds about right.