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[Dark Knight]

Ivy League Prof Faces Child Sex Charges

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8JQAR205.html
Aug 29, 5:11 PM (ET)

By DAN ROBRISH

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An Ivy League professor has been arrested for the third time in 11 years on child sex charges, in this case over video that allegedly shows him engaging in sex acts with boys.
Because of the charges, L. Scott Ward, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, was being stripped of his teaching assignments, spokeswoman Lori N. Doyle said Tuesday.
"We have made arrangements to ensure that he will not be teaching at the Wharton School or elsewhere at the University this semester and he will not teach at Penn in the future," Doyle said of the retired professor.
Ward, 63, was arrested Sunday after arriving at Washington's Dulles airport on a flight from Brazil, federal authorities said. He drew the attention of federal agents because of his unusual number of trips to Thailand, a destination for people seeking sex with minors, according to an affidavit released Monday.
Agents examined his laptop computer and found a video showing two children who looked to be as young as 8 engaged in sexual activity, authorities alleged in the affidavit. Agents also found video recordings of Ward involved in sex acts with boys who look to be about 14 to 16, the affidavit said.
Ward appeared in federal court Monday in Alexandria, Va., and was being held pending charges, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Dean Boyd said.
Ward's attorney, federal public defender Meghan Skelton, declined to comment Tuesday.
In 1995, a jury acquitted Ward of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and deadlocked on other charges after his lawyer showed a videotape of the main witness appearing to try to extort a bribe from the defendant.
In 1999, Ward was accused of soliciting sex from a 23-year-old undercover state trooper posing as a 15-year-old boy. He entered an Alford plea, which means he pleaded guilty while not admitting he committed the crimes of attempting to promote prostitution and corrupt minors. He said he was innocent but made the plea to avoid another trial. He was fined $2,500 and given five years of probation.

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[SJG]

Personally, I don't care if they are watching me, in fact, I'd be concerned if they where not making, at the very least, cursory looks at anyone who makes frequent trips in and out of the country.

If they guy was having sex with adult men, I doubt there would be a problem, and there shouldn't be. Anyone that has sex with children, male or female, deserves to be caught, publicly embarassed, and sent to jail.

If I where in that guys position (or any of us), they would have checked my hard drive and found pics of naked, adult females and I would have been sent on my way. Probably with one of the agents where he could find such fine chicas.

Also, don't assume the govt. doesn't monitor sites like this one....

[mirage6]

i agree that is ridicous having sex with a minor boy he deserves what he gets sick people in this world and i have to agree if it was an adult he would not be watched

[PapiQueRico]

I wouldn't be so comfortable with customs checking out pictures and video. Go prove that the 18 year old licking your balls is really 18 while you are at customs in JFK or Houston.

[knotty]

they can go right ahead and check me. we're losing our rights everyday to the gov't. this is just part of it. They can check my camera because everyone is over 18, and consented. Sick bastards like that need to be caught.

[Beads]

thats the only problem. they might not realize your hotel checks their id. so any chicas that might be just 18 or 19 and look young could bring you into a heap of hot water. If they are intent on you proving some chicas age how will you?

[MisterPink]

Keep everything on a portable USB drive or encrypt your files.

[PapiQueRico]

ultimately the onus is on them to prove the girls age, but by that time you'd be fucked anyway.

[Beads]

ultimately the onus is on them to prove the girls age, but by that time you'd be fucked anyway.

good luck if they consider it pornography and you live in the us they can ask you for 2257 compliance and then youll be in some hot water.

[guttaman]

Sounds like this guy was on the radar as a pedo. With 2 priors and frequent travel to kiddyland countries it was a gimme. Once a lady at customs commented on the amount of trips i took to the DR. I told her my girlfriend lives there and it was cheaper than marrying her and bringing her to the states. She was not amused.

[Apos]

thats the only problem. they might not realize your hotel checks their id. so any chicas that might be just 18 or 19 and look young could bring you into a heap of hot water. If they are intent on you proving some chicas age how will you?

i take a clear pic of the chica's cedula and keep it as a record. assuming it is actually her cedula i'd think that would do the trick.

[Cman]

are you crazy
this sick bastard was having sex with children.
no chicas or putas or what ever you call them but children don't compare me to that sick son of a bitch don't even put me on the same level , i conside that an insult .

[guttaman]

are you crazy
this sick bastard was having sex with children.
no chicas or putas or what ever you call them but children don't compare me to that sick son of a bitch don't even put me on the same level , i conside that an insult .

I believe what the OP is trying to say is that many of us travel solo several times a year to the DR and other sex tourist spots. Unfortunately there are some diddlers out there so it makes us all suspect. It is called profiling. No one is saying you are doing anything off base but what the OP is saying is you may be profiled.

[Cman]

i understand the statement but there is nothing to hide (well i don't have a wife) i have travel to other contry alot and pick woman all over the world ( not true) but went some one pick a newspaper pieces like this to remind me of what and doing there is something wrong there is other ways to say this and other paper don't pick something of this magnitude to profiled me or any bodys identity

[guttaman]

Say what ???????????

[WSJ3]

Dude if you travel to places where child prostitution is common you deserve the slap...

Hell with that Jon Benei case fresh in the medias mind this is going to be the reaction of Home Land Security...

Doesn't surprise me one bit.

Ivy League Prof Faces Child Sex Charges

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8JQAR205.html
Aug 29, 5:11 PM (ET)

By DAN ROBRISH

p {margin:12px 0px 0px 0px;}
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An Ivy League professor has been arrested for the third time in 11 years on child sex charges, in this case over video that allegedly shows him engaging in sex acts with boys.
Because of the charges, L. Scott Ward, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, was being stripped of his teaching assignments, spokeswoman Lori N. Doyle said Tuesday.
"We have made arrangements to ensure that he will not be teaching at the Wharton School or elsewhere at the University this semester and he will not teach at Penn in the future," Doyle said of the retired professor.
Ward, 63, was arrested Sunday after arriving at Washington's Dulles airport on a flight from Brazil, federal authorities said. He drew the attention of federal agents because of his unusual number of trips to Thailand, a destination for people seeking sex with minors, according to an affidavit released Monday.
Agents examined his laptop computer and found a video showing two children who looked to be as young as 8 engaged in sexual activity, authorities alleged in the affidavit. Agents also found video recordings of Ward involved in sex acts with boys who look to be about 14 to 16, the affidavit said.
Ward appeared in federal court Monday in Alexandria, Va., and was being held pending charges, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Dean Boyd said.
Ward's attorney, federal public defender Meghan Skelton, declined to comment Tuesday.
In 1995, a jury acquitted Ward of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and deadlocked on other charges after his lawyer showed a videotape of the main witness appearing to try to extort a bribe from the defendant.
In 1999, Ward was accused of soliciting sex from a 23-year-old undercover state trooper posing as a 15-year-old boy. He entered an Alford plea, which means he pleaded guilty while not admitting he committed the crimes of attempting to promote prostitution and corrupt minors. He said he was innocent but made the plea to avoid another trial. He was fined $2,500 and given five years of probation.

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[WSJ3]

I wouldn't be so comfortable with customs checking out pictures and video. Go prove that the 18 year old licking your balls is really 18 while you are at customs in JFK or Houston.

ROTFLMAO

I would have a hard time proving that a chica tossingmySalad was 20...

I think we should start each porno with a pic of the chicas cedula.

That way Customs can say SHITE!!!!

[Dark Knight]

I think we should be telling our government, in general, that we will be secure in our persons and effects. We should make it clear that it is none of their business what is on our hard drives and we will not allow them to look.

If every American citizen, everywhere simply didn't allow it, they wouldn't be able to do it. We should never answer any questions about where we have been or what we have been doing while outside of the US. That's none of their business either.

If we present a united front, we can stop all of this foolishness. If not, there is absolutely no limit to what they will do, as we have already seen.


First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.

A poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) about the quiescence of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

ROTFLMAO

I would have a hard time proving that a chica tossingmySalad was 20...

I think we should start each porno with a pic of the chicas cedula.

That way Customs can say SHITE!!!!

[Dark Knight]

That was just a witch hunt. Even they say he didn't do it. And they never had any evidence that he did, except his own statements, that didn't make any sense. However, they will use that as an excuse to violate, demean and degrade everyone who travels to another country for as long as we continue to allow them to do it. Which will probably be forever as whimpy as we are.

The only thing they have ever said that he did was have pictures on his computer back in 2001. What is on his computer is absolutely no one's business unless he chooses to make it so.

I think he was just tiring of Asia and wanted to return to the states but didn't want to buy a ticket. He told them what he had to, to get a free ride. No one ever thought he was guilty of that particular crime.

What he didn't know, or figure, was that he will now be a registered sex offender and under supervision for the rest of his life. He will never again be able to leave the country for any reason. He won't be able to live most places, or have most jobs. All of this because of a series of 0's and 1's (which he didn't even create) on his computer several years ago.

Dude if you travel to places where child prostitution is common you deserve the slap...
Hell with that Jon Benei case fresh in the medias mind this is going to be the reaction of Home Land Security...

Doesn't surprise me one bit.

[jake6212]

Without the hard drive, they may not have nailed the Pedophile. I don't think it is foolish at all. There are thousands of Pedophiles in the world, so I am glad they used his hard drive to fry him. If you carry something illegal on your hard drive, then you pay the price. Period.