[Vision2020] Family Values: Parade of Freaks in Moscow

[Saundra Lund]

Visionaries,

 

As I've aged, I've tried to become more temperate in my reactions to things
that trouble me in the world.

 

What I witnessed today, however, was absolutely outrageous.  I know some
will be put off by my choice of subject line, but I make no apology this
time.

 

For those who are not aware, convicted pedophile Steven Sitler (accepted a
plea agreement on one count but confessed to sexually abusing many --
including very young -- victims in several states) married several years ago
and has just had his first child - a son.  In perhaps the dumbest move ever,
Sitler decided he wanted the terms of his lifetime probation loosened up and
hired counsel to achieve that goal, and so-called "experts" submitted
positively glowing reports in support of what a swell guy Sitler is.  One
"expert" determined Sitler to be "exceptionally honest," and another
reported that Sitler "reported that he no longer has sexual desires for
children. He does not actively fantasize about sexual acts with children."
If they are capable of embarrassment, they should be deeply embarrassed now
by being so very wrong and putting a newborn at risk.

 

Probation required Sitler to take a polygraph prior to his baby's birth,
which he apparently passed . . . after failing two polygraphs in December,
IIRC.  I remain unclear how Sitler was allowed to be in the home once the
baby came, but if I understood correctly, as a part of the review of the
terms of his probation, Sitler was required to take another polygraph at
some point after the baby's birth, and that's when things started going
south in a big way.  Many of the records are sealed, but I believe Sitler
has failed at least three polygraphs in the short time since the birth of
his son.  Yikes.

 

More disturbingly, Sitler has apparently made "disclosures" to people who
had a duty to report those disclosures and apparently failed to do so.
For those reasons, Sitler's wife and parents are no longer approved
chaperones.  What kind of dysfunction would enable a mother and grandparents
to put a newborn in harm's way and to not report "disclosures" Sitler made
they that had a duty to report???  I guess they thought their "family
values" of protecting the monster were more important than protecting the
newborn . . . disgusting.

 

In court today, I learned that one of those "disclosures" was Sitler has had
physical contact with his infant son which sexually stimulated him!
Seriously - WTF?!?!  What kind of monster finds anything about an infant
sexually stimulating?!?!  And that's the result after nearly ten years of
specialized treatment?!?!

 

I have observed more than a few court cases and read more than most about
crime, including some really bad and disturbing stuff.  Never once until
today did I think I might have to leave a courtroom to vomit.  But, hearing
that a father was sexually stimulated by physical contact with his infant
son about did me in.

 

Further, unlike at the previous hearings, Sitler had a posse of defective
"family values" supporters on his side today, several of whom arrived in
cars bearing New Saint Andrews stickers.  Sitler's lead counsel, Dean
Wullenwaber, was all revved up to make the argument that Sitler has a
"fundamental liberty interest" in the companionship of his infant son in
spite of Sitler's depravity.  That is, Sitler's "right" to the companionship
of his infant son trumps the child's right to be kept safe from a pedophile
who has "disclosed" he was sexually stimulated by physical contact with said
infant son.  I don't know, but I imagine that empty "fundamental liberty"
argument was the draw for the insane Sitler posse today.

 

In light of what he surely knew about Sitler's disclosures before today, I
cannot imagine how counsel thought the court would be receptive to such an
argument, which Bill Thompson, the prosecuting attorney, rightly pointed out
was apples and oranges (for those interested in the details of the case
Wullenwaber cited, you can read it here
<http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2012/10/23/11-30241.pdf> ).

 

In fairness, it's possible the parade of freaks didn't know the heinous
details of Sitler's disclosures before court today - I sure didn't.

 

Yet, not a single one of them had the sense God gave billy goats to put any
distance between themselves and the monster once they learned.  Who knows --
perhaps in their patriarchal world, it's perfectly normal for a father to be
sexually stimulated by his own infant, and for those around the monster to
protect him at the cost of the innocent and vulnerable children.

 

That's decidedly not normal in my world.

 

Sitler is the kind of stuff nightmares are made of, and no child will ever
be safe when Sitler is around.  He fundamentally defective in a way that
simply cannot be fixed, as evidenced by the fact that even after nearly a
decade of treatment, he is still sexually stimulated by physical contact
with his own infant son.

 

 

 

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

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