NC - Attorney, ex-judge, 64, charged with sexual offense against teen, 14, Asheville, 31 Mar 2019

[cybervampira]

Former North Carolina judge, 64, is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl | Daily Mail Online

A former North Carolina judge and well-respected community leader has been charged with having sex with a 14-year-old girl over the weekend.

Daniel Green, 64, was arrested early Sunday morning after police were called to the Baymont Inn in Ashville for a report of a suspected sexual assault of a child.

The Ashville Police Department said the underage victim was known to Green prior to the encounter.

Green was charged with first-degree statutory sex offense with a child; disseminating obscene material by watching with the minor; contributing to the delinquency of a minor and providing alcohol to someone under age 21, according to the Ashville Citizen Times.

During his initial court appearance on Monday, a judge told Green that he could face a life sentence if convicted of the most serious offense, reported WSOC.

Green was released after posting $75,000 bond.

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[Eleanor Rigby]

Seems it doesn't matter what socioeconomic status or level of trust and respect one has acquired when it comes to the opportunity to rape a child. What is wrong with all of these adults we read about everyday? What possible pleasure can they derive from such evil? These educated people--judges, LEO's, teachers, clergymen, physicians, psychologists, etc. especially have to KNOW how damaging their actions are, and just not care.

Have pedophilia, narcissism and sadism become epidemics? I know these types of abuses have always existed, but to the extent they do today? I'm sickened, outraged and flabbergasted that so many people are this perverted and cruel. If it has always been this bad, then I guess I've been both extremely lucky and wearing rose colored glasses most of my life. MOO.

 

[human]

Before if it happened in the family, it was no one’s business. That is what people thought back then. Not so lomg ago. The 80’s?

 

[kaen]

Pillars of communities sexual abusing and assaulting children has happened for a long time. In the 40s, 50s, and 60s, the friendly neighborhood pedophile was always protected under the guise of the humiliation and further trauma to the victim or was seen by LEO as no big deal. (This same thinking is how priests were moved around and reassigned.) It also made children reluctant to come forward because nothing would happen and they would feel shame. The perpetrators were told to leave the kids alone but never did. In the 1970s, when mores were more liberal, pedophiles were able to abuse children and teens through a mode of everything being okay as long as children weren't too hurt. The same shame and guilt was present for the victims/survivors. The turning point was the 1980s with the advent of a more organized women's rights movement including conscious raising groups begun in the 70s. It was in the early 80s that Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centers were mobilized and the sands began to shift.

So----no the epidemic has been happening for many years--- we are just more willing to look at perpetrators as criminals rather than people who need to be protected more than the children.

 

[Eleanor Rigby]

Pillars of communities sexual abusing and assaulting children has happened for a long time. In the 40s, 50s, and 60s, the friendly neighborhood pedophile was always protected under the guise of the humiliation and further trauma to the victim or was seen by LEO as no big deal. (This same thinking is how priests were moved around and reassigned.) It also made children reluctant to come forward because nothing would happen and they would feel shame. The perpetrators were told to leave the kids alone but never did. In the 1970s, when mores were more liberal, pedophiles were able to abuse children and teens through a mode of everything being okay as long as children weren't too hurt. The same shame and guilt was present for the victims/survivors. The turning point was the 1980s with the advent of a more organized women's rights movement including conscious raising groups begun in the 70s. It was in the early 80s that Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centers were mobilized and the sands began to shift.

So----no the epidemic has been happening for many years--- we are just more willing to look at perpetrators as criminals rather than people who need to be protected more than the children.

Thank you for the informative reply. I've been aware of some of the institutionally protected pedophilia, as that within the Catholic Church and some other communities, for quite some time. However, what has caught me by surprise in recent years is finding out how commonplace child sex abuse, child rape and child sex trafficking are. Seeing that it's everywhere and involves normal-seeming adults, many of whom are married mothers and fathers living in "respectable" families is what has really surprised me. I think back to when my children were young and I let them have play dates in the homes of classmates whose parents I only knew casually. I never suspected anything, but I was also blissfully ignorant, so my hinky meter was set fairly low. By today's standards, I was probably a negligent parent.

As distressing as it is to read these reports, I realize how important it is to raise everyone's awareness so that children can, hopefully, be better protected. Thus, I'm very glad that the abuse is now being treated as a crime, the perpetrators as criminals and the children as victims. MOO.