Pro-pedophile activism

Pro-pedophile activism, also spelled pro-paedophile activism, is a fringe movement that was most active from the 1950s to the early 1990s and is now maintained mostly through several websites. Dutch psychologist and pedophile activist Frits Bernard has argued that "NAMBLA" at least started out as an "ephebophile", not a pedophile activism organization as identifiable by its original political and social reform program, and that its program remained like that at least until 1982 when Bernard made his statement.cite book|last=Bernard|first=Frits|title=Kinderschänder? - Pädophilie, von der Liebe mit Kindern ("Child-molesters? - Pedophilia, on childlove")|origyear=1976|edition=3rd ed.|year=1982|publisher=Foerster Verlag|location=Frankfurt/Main, Germany|language=German, orig. 1st ed. in Dutch|id=ISBN 3-922257-41-0|pages=126]

Incidents include:
*The infiltration of NAMBLA by an FBI agent, who secretly tape-recorded discussions at annual conventions in 2003 and 2004, resulting ultimately in arrests of members for planning a sex tourism vacation. Within half an hour of meeting the FBI agent at the 2004 convention, a NAMBLA member expressed frustration at the group's political agenda. 'I don't know who's lying to who or if ... they're lying to themselves and saying, 'This is all political. This is all to change society,'" Mayer said of conference organizers in the tape-recorded conversation. " [Expletive] , it's like, bring on the boys." [http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/625347/manboy_love_association_member_stung_by_fbi/index.html]

*The parents of a murdered 10-year old boy filed a $200 million "wrongful death" suit against NAMBLA, "Curley v. NAMBLA", claiming that while being heterosexual, "immediately prior" to his crime, the murderer - Charles Jaynes "accessed NAMBLA's Web site at the Boston Public Library". [cite journal|author=Wendy Kaminer|title=Speaking of|journal=The American Prospect|date=November 20, 2000|volume=11|issue=24|url=http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/24/kaminer-w.html] By 2005, $1 million and five years had been spent to prove this claim.cite news|first=Bill|last=O'Reilly|title=Factor Follow Up Segment: Victim of NAMBLA?|date=April 26, 2005|publisher=Fox News Channel|url=http://www.billoreilly.com/show;jsessionid=DF269774D262DA202969C34B8A0D52C3?action=viewTVShow&showID=245] The ACLU protested against associating NAMBLA with this case and represented them, asking the case to be dismissed. [cite news|first=Martin|last=Finucane|title=ACLU To Represent NAMBLA|date=August 31, 2000|publisher=The Associated Press|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000831/aponline171914_000.htm] [cite news|title=ACLU asks federal judge to dismiss case against man-boy sex group|date=July 18, 2001|publisher=The Associated Press|url=http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14432] In April, 2008, the case was dropped because of a lack of witnesses for the prosecution. According to an attorney for the ACLU, "There was never any evidence that NAMBLA was connected to the death of Jeffrey Curley". [ [http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/04/24/parents_of_slain_boy_drop_lawsuit_against_nambla/?p1=email_to Parents of slain boy drop lawsuit against NAMBLA - The Boston Globe ] ] Charles Jaynes was originally convicted of murdering a 10-year-old boy then having intercourse with his body in 1997;cite news|first=Kathryn|last=Rubenstein|title=Massachusetts v. Salvatore Sicari "Molestation Murder Trial"|year=2001|publisher=Court TV|url=http://www.courttv.com/archive/verdicts/sicari.html]

*John David Smith, a San Francisco man convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy he was babysitting, met an undercover investigator through his activities as a NAMBLA member. According to the investigator, Smith used his contacts with NAMBLA to trade child pornography and arrange sex with children. [http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/virginiastatecases/1546974.wp]

*Johnathan Tampico was convicted of child molestation in 1989 and paroled in 1992 on condition of not possessing child pornography. After breaking his parole, he was found after a broadcast of America's Most Wanted. He was arrested and convicted on child pornography charges. In his sentencing, the court found that Tampico was a member of NAMBLA, that NAMBLA supported a foster home in Thailand that sexually exploited children, and that Tampico and others traveled to Thailand in order to have unlimited access to young boys at the foster home, as evidenced by a number of Polaroid pictures, provided by Thai officials, depicting Tampico with young Thai boys sitting on his lap.cite web|year=2001|title=Tampico v. United States Of America|format=HTML|url=http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2001/0responses/2001-0571.resp.html] [cite web|year=2001|title=Tampico v. United States Of America|format=HTML|url=http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=5th/0020178cr0.html]

Criminal cases in relation to other pedophile activists

*Ad van den Berg, co-founder and treasurer of the pro-pedophile Partij voor Naastenliefde, Vrijheid en Diversiteit political party in the Netherlands, was convicted of molesting an 11-year old boy in 1987. [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/17/news/dutch.php "Court refuses to ban Dutch pedophile party"] "Associated Press", July 17, 2006]

*American James P. Finn III was arrested in July 2007 for possession of child pornography on his computer after he was spotted by members of Perverted-Justice openly espousing pedophilia in online chat rooms.cite news|url=http://www.thenewsherald.com/stories/072207/loc_20070722006.shtml|title=High bond for suspected pedophile|subtitle=Man is at home downloading pornography when deputies raid house|date=2007-06-22|author=Jason Alley] In 1998, James Finn III ("Jimf3") was the webmaster of one of the oldest pro-pedophile activism online sites, BoyChat, for 18 months. [ [http://www.wweek.com/html/leada100798.html] , retrieved July 19th2007] . Finn had previously claimed to the media on several occasions that BoyChat was not a breeding ground for child pornography or other illegal activities. "I have been active on BoyChat for over two years and I've been the webmaster for about 18 months and I've never known such activities to go on," he says. "First, BoyChat strictly enforces rules against such picture trading and against meeting boys. Not only do I and other administrators watch out for this, a very large cadre of regular posters are careful to warn newcomers about the realities of the board". [ [http://www.helping-people.info/articles/oxymoron.htm] , retrieved July 19th2007]

ee also

*Age of consent reform
*Age disparity in sexual relationships
*Anti-pedophile activism
*Child sexual abuse
*Pedophilia
*Sexual Morality and the Law

Notes and references

Notes

References

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