VIDEO: Former Arizona Rep. David Stringer questions whether child sex trafficking is a problem (pizzagate)

submitted ago by shewhomustbeobeyed

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2019/04/04/video-former-arizona-rep-david-stringer-debates-child-sex-trafficking/3369462002/

Former Arizona Rep. David Stringer's views on child sex trafficking were captured in a video released as part of the House of Representatives' investigation into his past.

In the recording, Stringer states that he doesn't "like to demonize" child sex trafficking and jokes that there are "a lot of 15-year-old prostitutes."

 

Stringer resigned March 27 over accusations that he raped children in the 1980s. The video was obtained by investigators who reviewed ethics complaints about his sex-crime charges.

 

After the speech, Stringer allegedly defended child sex abuse during an argument he and Hamilton had in the parking lot.

Hamilton told investigators that Stringer said he didn't think there was any "damage" from child sex trafficking, saying, "If an uncle takes his niece or nephew to a playground, and they go on the merry-go-round and have some ice cream, and then do their thing, that’s just part of the experience."

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shewhomustbeobeyed ago

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/stringer-child-sex-trafficking-damage-part-of-experience

According to documents obtained by the Arizona Republic, Stringer told an activist in 2018 that he doesn’t believe sex trafficking does “damage” to the children and that he doesn’t “like to demonize it.”

 

“I like being a daddy figure for the little girls when they sit on my lap,” he reportedly said.

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Factfinder2 ago

My god. How was this filth allowed to walk away from eight counts of sex crimes against children with NO PRISON TIME and then have the court records expunged?! Who was the Baltimore judge is what I'd like to know.

Stringer, who was 36 when he was arrested, was charged with eight counts of sex crimes. He later accepted a plea deal on some combination of charges and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation.

He also was required to seek admission to what appears to be a treatment clinic for sex offenders.

But few details of Stringer's sentence are known because a Baltimore judge expunged the case in 1990, erasing the court records.

https://archive.is/eFlNy

shewhomustbeobeyed ago

It was probably a sweetheart plea-deal worked out with DAs office.

Although Stringer said he was never convicted of a crime, court records obtained by the Phoenix New Times show a Maryland court entered a judgment of guilt on some combination of charges.

He said he took a plea of "probation before judgment," a Maryland sentence that allows someone to have a charge cleared after completing probation.

Factfinder2 ago

No doubt that's what happened. I don't know how cops find the incentive to show up for work when the creeps they nail so often go scot-free to offend again--and this time with potential future victims not even warned by sex offender registration. Thoroughly disgusting.