Feds: Ohio clergy student arrested for seeking sex with baby

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Feds: Ohio clergy student arrested for seeking sex with baby
The Associated Press
Posted: Saturday, January 30, 2016, 12:39 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Federal authorities say an Ohio seminary student has been arrested in California on suspicion of intending to travel to Mexico to have sex with a toddler or baby.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that 23-year-old Joel Wright was taken into custody after getting off a plane in San Diego.

Authorities say he had written emails to an undercover agent posing as a travel guide that he wanted to adopt or purchase a female child under age 3 in Tijuana, Mexico, for the purposes of having sex with her.

He's scheduled to be arraigned Monday, and an after-hours call to determine whether he has an attorney wasn't immediately returned.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20160130_ap_9762cdfc34ce4b5f856cdd5b22aaeb95.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. No words!

[frizzled]

2. We really need to castrate people like this

nt

[narnian60]

4. Or worse.

[LiberalArkie]

13. Well, remove all genitals and place him in general population of the pen.

[frizzled]

15. Just the balls. Castration takes reoffending rates to near zero.

I'm not even advocating it as punishment, just treatment.

[LiberalArkie]

16. There are several glands in the body that produce Testosterone, but he sure couldn't offend

until Bubba took care of him for his desire for young children.

[frizzled]

17. Almost all in the testes. Studies show castration is highly effective

at preventing recidivism.

I'm honestly not sure why we don't castrate for violent and sexual crimes.

[Chemisse]

33. Decades ago they were saying it wouldn't help

Because the urge is psychological.

Perhaps they have studied it since then. If it really is effective, it should be offered as an option to offenders, in lieu of longer sentences, or as a condition of parole? Something like that.

[frizzled]

35. The problem is, as ever, it isn't "PC" to admit rape is about the desire for sex

So the feminists didn't like making the connection, and so we release violent rapists knowing damn well they'll reoffend.

I'd just castrate violent and sexual offenders. Hell, I'd introduce caning for offenses like assault and drunk driving, too.

Why even bother with prison? Half the people in jail shouldn't be there. Drugs should all be legal.

If you've committed a serious crime and you can be rehabilitated, you should do community service. If you can't, you should be killed and your organs donated to people who deserve them more. I like the Chinese style shoot them in the back of the head and make their families pay for the bullet.

Let's introduce China style laws for corruption and white collar crime too. I like the death penalty. It's a good deterrent. Let's start killing the white collar cirminals who ruin lives. Let's kill the environmental criminals who ruin the water with heavy metal and chemicals. Let's fucking kill the corrupt bankers and fraudsters. Let's kill heads of charities and government organizations who commit fraud.

Either way we don't need prisons.

See, I just saved America hundreds of billions of dollars and cleaned up the cities. You should put me in charge.

[Chemisse]

39. I disagree with you on killing people.

Murder is wrong, whether it is done by a criminal or by the state. I don't think we should be driven by vengeance. And cold-bloodedness is as bad as hot-bloodedness. We should not be killing people and harvesting their organs, no matter what they have done.

[frizzled]

40. Killing has extraordinary deterrent power

Basically all decisions the government takes are life and death. Fund health? Fund highways? Gun laws? Etc.

It's naive to shrink from taking life considering we do that statistically all the time.

I think a society where assholes who abused power and killed people and destroyed the environment were shot and their organs donated would be a better one. It would undoubtedly save many lives.

The real problem is that people like you are squeamish and don't want to see thousands of executions. You're more comfortable with hundreds of thousands of excess statistical deaths you'll never see or hear about.

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

24. No, imprisonment ... Not castration

Castration is cruel and unusual.

[frizzled]

25. No, it's a treatment.

Cruelty = deliberate infliction of pain. Surgical castration to stop the sex urge doesn't fit the definition.

[Chemisse]

38. I think it needs to be optional.

If I was a sick pervert, I think I would WANT a cure, so I wouldn't have to struggle with those vile urges all the time.

[smirkymonkey]

41. It should be mandatory for all sex offenders.

This person is so sick, I can't even find words to say what I think. An effing baby!

[Initech]

3. This just in: Jesus has quit!

[bobthedrummer]

5. Pure evil. That there is a domestic market for evil and nothing has closed it was reported decades

ago.

Chapter 21-Omaha
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139460

[SummerSnow]

6. cut it off

[Tab]

7. You can't even have sex with a baby

how is this supposed to work? Or is it a lifetime grooming thing?

[TipTok]

19. Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to...

It gets ugly...

[StevieM]

29. It's possible that the pervert was planning for the long term.

He may have had years of abuse in mind.

[dhill926]

8. sick fuck...

[3catwoman3]

9. People really, really...

...really need to stop calling perverted behavior like this "having sex." It's NOT. It is/would be rape/assault/sexual abuse.

[CSStrowbridge]

18. Thank you.

Thank you. They are trivializing serious crimes by calling it sex.

[titaniumsalute]

10. Thank God...or maybe just thank goodness he was caught

[trillion]

28. +10000

[bluestateguy]

11. After due process has been served and he is found guilty

He should be put into a woodchipper.

[LiberalArkie]

12. feet first

[nichomachus]

14. I'm glad to see the Catholic Church's assault on gay people has ended pedophilia. nt

[valerief]

20. His parents must be so proud.

[pansypoo53219]

21. forget 2nd chances. just cull him. we do not need him.

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. Sick

[Monk06]

23. Jesus. "I was scourged for a day and spent 12 hrs on cross for this shit ???"

[Peregrine Took]

26. Looks like a mental case -not that thats any excuse. Pervert.

His poor parents!

[elljay]

27. Not Necessarily

We obviously don't have enough information, but he may be like this because of his parents (at least in part - don't want to excuse him from any personal responsibility). The abused often become abusers......

[romanic]

30. Disgusting.

Some people are just too sick in the head to be among society, send the sicko to prison and don't let him out.

[renate]

31. thank goodness for the Immigrations and Customs Department

... or whoever was responsible for identifying him.

What a horrific job it must be to detect these people. Yet they are doing such a wonderful thing. It must be absolutely shattering to lure in and find pedophiles, but they are preventing so much suffering. I hope they find some comfort in that; I don't know how they could get up in the morning and do their jobs if they didn't take solace in their successes.

They have saved a life with this one.

[Chemisse]

32. That is just so sick.

If I had urges like that, I would kill myself rather than act upon them.

[Anfibio]

34. Sicko

Lock him up forever.

[Judi Lynn]

36. Officials: Ohio man made several tries to find child for sex

Officials: Ohio man made several tries to find child for sex
Associated Press
January 31, 2016 — 11:25am

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A criminal complaint against a former Ohio seminarian accused of attempting to have sex with young children in Mexico details alleged previous efforts to obtain access to small children.

Twenty-three-year-old Joel Wright was arrested Friday by Homeland Security agents after flying to San Diego from Columbus, Ohio, where he attended seminary school. Officials at Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus say Wright has been expelled.

The complaint says Wright went to Mexico in July 2014 in an unsuccessful bid to adopt a child. Authorities say a year later he communicated with the same person in Mexico and eventually revealed he wanted to have sex with children.

Homeland Security began investigating the Vermont native in November.

http://www.startribune.com/officials-ohio-man-made-several-tries-to-find-child-for-sex/367141621/

[Wuddles440]

37. God, this is absolutely nauseating!

These types of stories are beyond depressing and it's extremely hard to even comprehend that such evil creatures exist.