Another antigay, “family values,” conservative Christian politician has been caught in a sex scandal.
Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva has been arrested for allegedly playing strip poker with teenagers, including a 16-year-old boy.
Silva, 41, was arrested Thursday morning at Silver Lake in the Sierra Nevada, where he was conducting his annual camp for disadvantaged inner-city children, called Mayor’s Youth Camp, Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe told the Sacramento Bee.
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The incident reportedly occurred on Aug. 7, 2015, and resulted in the felony charge of recording confidential communications, and three misdemeanors: contributing to the delinquency of a minor, furnishing alcohol to a person under 21 and child endangerment.
“This comes from an FBI investigation that we became aware of last Tuesday,” Riebe said. “These charges stem from that investigation.”
Silva’s possessions were searched and a cellphone and laptop confiscated after federal agents intercepted him upon returning to San Francisco from China.
A video on Silva’s phone contained audio but not visual evidence of a strip poker game involving a a 16-year-old boy, an 18-year-old woman, a 19-year-old woman and two 19-year-old men. The 18-year-old woman told investigators that “all of the participants in the strip poker game at some point were naked.”
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Investigators also discovered photographs that appeared to show minors playing beer pong.
“Mayor Silva allowed and encouraged persons under 21 years of age (including a 16-year-old) to consume alcohol for the purpose of getting intoxicated so he…could involve, and participate with, such persons in sexually suggestive behavior such as strip poker where such activities could be videotaped,” criminal investigator Terrance Brass wrote in a court document.
Silva, who held official town hall meetings at an antigay megachurch and once gave the key to the city to God has faced previous allegations of sexual misconduct.
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A 2005 police report alleges that Silva, who previously coached water polo, secretly taped girls in his bathroom and changing at his home. In 2011, a former female employee of Silva’s alleged that her pressured her to drink alcohol and touched her buttocks.
Both incidents were investigated and no charges were filed.
Earlier this year, Silva learned that a gun he lost, and failed to report missing for a month or more, was used in the killing of a 13-year-old boy last year.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Why oh why resort to shitty misleading headlines when the sleazy facts stand for themselves without the extra gay innuendoes . it’s unnecessary. Kinda homophobic too. Some homophobes are NOT gay the same way KKK members are not black
Chip
Boys in the headline becomes boy in the article. It makes it seem like he was surrounded by naked teenage boys and the fact was there were women and men 18 and over and one 16 year old boy.
Mo Bro
He was actually playing with teen girls, and teen guys happened to be there.
But, nice try.
DCFarmboy
And further, yes, he is a Republican, but I can find no evidence of him having taken an anti-gay position on any issue.
Kangol
Hey, don’t forget the Florida right wing Republican pastor who was just busted for raping kids for years!
On another track, what about more photos of the hot Olympic athletes?
Stilinski26
He is a hot daddy
tygrr_lillith
This POS is anti-gay, holds prayer meetings during city council meetings and is embroiled in controversy regarding a “stolen” gun that was used in a murder by a teen boy. The break-in to his home was reported but the gun was never reported as stolen, leading most of us to believe there is something off. He has had his computer confiscated by the FBI and is a known pedophile in certain circles. I guess that is why he chose to work with children as the Boys & Girls Club director in Stockton. This man needs to be wiped out of office so that Stockton can move forward.
Bryguyf69
@Chip: While I agree that the headline was provocative, I didn’t find it false or misleading. A 19 y/o is still a teen, and some — especially parents — would still consider them boys. The headline says nothing about age or being underage. The main message was that an ANTI-GAY man was encouraging other males to get naked for fun. That said, you are correct that 19 y/os can be considered men. In fact, the author acknowledges in the article by only labeling the 16 y/o as a boy.