Comments on: Boston’s First Gay Councilman Plead Guilty to Enticing Kids. So Why Is He Suing?

By: justiceontherocks

justiceontherocks — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:40:56 +0000

I don’t care of he eventually pled guilty to the worst crime I can think of (playing Davey Wavey videos). Nothing about that excuses or justifies the police using him like a pinata. I hope justice will be served.

By: david Scondras

david Scondras — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:26:41 +0000

First I have never ‘enticed’ an underaged person in my life. In fact I have never had sex with anyone under 18. I am not a pederast, as attested to by the most sophisticated and hardworking pschologists who have examined me,whose analysis of me is public record, and I was never under any impression that the person in Lawrence was under 20-30 years old. You have left out or are unaware that : the accusing police officer was fired by the mayor of lawrence for being a drunk, slashing tires, violating a restraining order put on him by his girlfriend and that a plea bargain is not made because you are guilty but because you don’t have the resources to continue to fight. I could not continue to right for my reputation without bankrupting my family. I never broke any law. I was approached by a person who sent me a photo showing he was about 30, said he was 18, had a screen name identifying his age as twenty, was haging out in a gay site past midnight that requires you be 18 and would not be a place a pederast would belooking for a minor, gave street directions when I was lost that no 15 year old could have known about, spoke with me on the phone in a way that only a person extremely familiar with the gay subculture could have known about and who was obviously not a minor. you would have to be a complete idiot to think that the guy I was talking to on the phone and internet was a minior.. It is easy to demonize and castigate people without knowing what actually happened: However it is a matter of record that there was no underage person, I never thought that there was, and if you think comments about likeing daddy’s makes a person underage then comments about liking to wear nylons makes a guy a girl.

There is little that is worse than spending your life trying to be an honest honorable person who helped many others and then have your life destroyed by accusations from drunken homophobic cops that are not examined carefully and allowed to undermine a guy who has never been a pederast nor has any interest in sex with kids.

It is interesting that in our culture accusations seem adequate to prove a person is quilty of something.

In this case objectively: there was no undersage person involved at all so you have to make the argument that I ‘thought ‘ that there was. However it is obvious from police records that most of the conversations involved were not recorded or divulged which would have shown the person involved made it quite clear he was not a child.

Just the fact you cannot find the beginnings of any conversation between myself and anyone in this case should make you concerned that something is missing.

I am being trashed and turned from a person who has spent his entire life trying to help people and would never hurt anyone into a person that is a social pariah–not fair.

But not unfamiliar to a man who has lived through the bashings of being young and gay not that long ago in Boston. It is sad that a person like me can so easily be demonized by people who are so transparently lying.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:42:02 +0000

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.

By: scott ny'er

scott ny'er — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:31:48 +0000

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.

By: Tallskin

Tallskin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:25:06 +0000

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

By: Tallskin

Tallskin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:39:59 +0000

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

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:50:43 +0000

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?

By: Orpheus_lost

Orpheus_lost — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:49:45 +0000

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.

By: will clemens

will clemens — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:48:05 +0000

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