Today, the trial of Tarquin Craig Thomas is slated to start.
Read a full summary in the San Mateo Daily Journal.
Tarquin was in the process of adopting the young boy that he was molesting on a DAILY basis, including having him pose nude with Tarquin and other adults.
I want you to pause and sit with this for a minute: These molesters have a particular gall: not only do they commit devastatingly evil acts against children, but they use things like professional training, public resources, political relationships, ALL for the goal of getting away with damaging the psyche of children, for their own perverse gratification. They become experts in the manipulation of people who should know better.
This is sheer evil, of the darkest kind. These people are not human beings. They are the evil putrefied excrement of human society.
According to the San Mateo Daily Journal, Thomas was originally charged with 25 counts of lewd and lascivious behavior, and a misdemeanor showing pornography to a child. (for daily molestations and posing nude with adults.)
Judge Craig Parsons reduced it down to 5 counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 and one count of showing pornography - only one count due to a change in the law that doesn't allow charging based on number of images. A boon to the evil dregs and their equally horrendous supporters, I'm sure.
Let's just hope that they get conviction on all 5 remaining counts, assuming the facts in the case are true! (Note that the cleaning lady found photos of several boys, some of the images including "contact with an animal," and the police also found the GPS tracking device that the perp had hidden with a photo that the child had with him. I'm betting the facts in the case are true.)
I can't tell if the incompetence and delays and reduction of counts in so many of the child molestation cases in San Mateo County is unusual, or whether it is happening in district attorney's offices all over the country.
ReplyDeleteI think it's probably happening in lots of places. People who have been or know victims of these kinds of crimes KNOW that there is hard lobbying afoot to sexualize children, as well as reduce sentences and marginalize the devastation that is done.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, for the vast majority, and for those who have not experienced this in their lives, the topic is just icky and to be avoided, and those people tend to just ignore the cries for longer sentences, offender registration and monitoring, etc.
It's my personal belief that sexual crimes against children are simply not a priority in San Mateo County. The people running the show here seem to have fallen hook, line, and sinker for the crap that the pervs are pushing at them.
There are clearly other places in the US, which have become shocked at the reports of professionals engaging in this kind of disgusting behavior, and have taken legislative action. Not so here.
Hi, I haven't looked at your site lately and when I did today am sadly surprised to see that it is still one delay after another for the infamous ayres. The article today shows the disdain and lack of responsibility of the legal system in your area. I can only say that we need more than one Victoria Balfour to uncover the corruption that seems to be going on.
ReplyDeleteIf he gets off in California, Oregon has enough evidence to keep him locked up another 99 years....
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