Ex-U.N. official Ritter convicted in underage Internet sex sting

[cali]

PHILADELPHIA | Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:45pm EDT

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania jury on Thursday found former high-ranking United Nations official Scott Ritter guilty in an Internet underage sex sting.

Prosecutors accused Ritter, 49, of Delmar, New York, a suburb of Albany, of engaging in a lurid web chat with a person portrayed as a 15-year-old girl. That person was actually a detective for the Barrett Township Police Department in Pennsylvania.

Ritter was the chief weapons inspector in Iraq until he resigned in 1998 because he said he felt neither the Clinton administration nor the United Nations was pursuing Iraq weapons inspections vigorously enough. Later, in 2002, he had a falling out with the Bush administration over the war in Iraq.

The jury deliberated two days before finding Ritter guilty of six of the seven charges against him. One was a misdemeanor, indecent exposure, and the rest were felonies, including three charges of unlawful conduct with a minor, criminal attempt to corrupt a minor and criminal use of a communications device.

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[Ilsa]

1. I'm sorry to hear this.

Professionally, he did what he believed was in the nation's best interest.

Now look what he's done to himself.

[Solomon]

7. I wouldn't be so sure that he did this to himself.

[Nye Bevan]

9. er... they have him on video "doing it to himself" (nt)

[sinkingfeeling]

11. +1

[Kolesar]

2. Paul Craig Roberts postulated that the Bushies were blackmailing Democrats in Congress

There was no explaining why the Dems were silent in the face of the crimes being committed by bush/Cheney.

[LeftofObama]

3. Was the police detective under the age of 18?

If not, no crime was committed. Last time I checked, one cannot be arrested for thought crimes.

[madokie]

4. Apparently that went out the window somewhere between bush 1 and bush the lesser

[WinkyDink]

5. Obviously, you don't know squat about this type of crime.

[jberryhill]

6. That's what I said when the bank I tried to rob had no money!

And that was after I found out the prostitute I solicited wasn't really a prostitute, and the gun with which I tried to murder someone wasn't loaded.

[Solomon]

8. LOL

I still enjoy your posts. All of them.

[_ed_]

10. Have you heard of conspiracy?

I don't think you understand how the law works.

[djg21]

12. Maybe you should actually check . . .

before you make absurd comments about the state of the law last time you checked. Ritter did far more than think about sexual contact with a 15 year old girl.

[crazyjoe]

13. What a deviant ass****, I feel terrible for Will.

[Chris_Texas]

14. Illegal... okay. But....

Assuming he thought he was talking, TALKING, to a willing fifteen year old girl. Sure, this is something I would never do, but honestly isn't this a ridiculous law?

[dsc]

15. he made plans to show up in a public place with her

in order to have sex later.