Boston's First Gay Councilman Plead Guilty to Enticing Kids. So Why Is He Suing?
 
 

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Not all teenage sex scandals are built the same. For instance, former Boston City Councilman David Scondras — Boston's first openly gay one — who in 2007 plead guilty to charges stemming from trying to meet a 15-year-old boy from the Internet for sex, now says the police beat him and denied him medical attention after the arrest. So he's suing!

In a federal lawsuit, Scondras would have you believe he's the victim. Well, he says he was! After serving 18 months probation and having to register as a sex offender, Scondras, 63, now says his 2007 arrest by Lawrence police was a violent affair.

“Fearing for his safety and that he was about to be the subject of a potential ‘gay bashing,’ (Scondras) turned to try and run away,” the suit maintains, adding that Scondras was then violently tossed to the ground and struck in the head, breaking a tooth.

Lawrence Police Sgt. Ryan Shafer then allegedly shoved his gun into the Scondras’ head and, calling him a gay slur, threatened to kill him if he moved, according to the suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Boston.

[...] The “boy” who police accused Scondras of arranging to meet was then 20-year-old hospital security guard Michael Fornesi, the son of Officer Fornesi. The guard encountered Scondras, using the screen name “Toppdadd,” in an AOL chatroom. Police alleged that Scondras, after being told he was chatting with a 15-year-old, exchanged sexually explicit IMs with the guard.

The younger Fornesi, also named in the suit, told of the chats to his friend, Sgt. Shafer, who instructed him to contact Scondras, an AIDS activist, to arrange a meeting.

Scondras’ attorney, William Korman, said he was “brutally beaten,” and needed brain surgery to relieve swelling on his brain.

Do we feel for the guy? Sure, police brutality is no small matter. But it's pretty hard to drum up much sympathy for a guy who pleads guilty to trying to bed underage teens.

 
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No. 1 · will clemens

Humiliating to have a public gay man go all pediophile for all the world to see.

Posted: Oct 6, 2009 at 9:48 am
No. 2 · Orpheus_lost

The problem with this commentary is that this shouldn't be about whether or not we feel sorry for a pederast. The reality is that if the police are willing to beat this guy then what's to stop them from beating you for smarting off during a traffic stop? Every charge of police brutality should be investigated thoroughly and any perpetrators should be tried and sent to prison if found guilty.

The concept that the police should be able to selectively beat prisoners, depending on what they are accused of, is a sign of either a lack of critical thinking or a totalitarian mindset.

Posted: Oct 6, 2009 at 9:49 am
No. 3 · Paul

Just so we are clear: Scondras is in an AOL chatroom when the 20-year old son of a police officer, pretending to be fifteen, initiates a conversation and exchanges explicit emails with him. The 20-year old tells his police officer friends, who arrest Scondras and beat the shit out of him and threaten to shoot him. Scondras – who has never been either accused,much less convicted, of any sexual contact with a minor – ends up as a registered sex offender and losing his career.
Don't you think the guy suffered enough for that one email, without Queerty trying to turn this into the Salem witch trials?

Posted: Oct 6, 2009 at 10:50 am
No. 4 · Tallskin

Seems like this is more the actions of a fascist state than a democracy!

Posted: Oct 6, 2009 at 3:39 pm
No. 5 · Tallskin

And the fact that you people cannot see this is very depressing

Posted: Oct 6, 2009 at 5:25 pm
No. 6 · scott ny'er

i agree with Tallskin. And Orpheus.

not cool that he was trying to get with a 15 year oid. But that is another matter entirely.

Posted: Oct 6, 2009 at 5:31 pm
No. 7 · Rob

I think it's disgusting that Queerty is expressing sympathy for police officers who committed a brutal act of violence. Even if the victim is unsympathetic, he was (at least allegedly) beaten so hard he needed brain surgery. Nobody deserves that.

I also think it's a shame that this matter is only being addressed in civil court. Police who beat people up should do hard time.

Posted: Oct 6, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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