Ex-UN inspector gets prison in Pa. case involving underage girls

[TalkingDog]

Why yes, he is a Republican, Bush voter....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45042281/ns/us_news/

A former United Nations weapons inspector who exchanged explicit online messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl and then performed a sex act on himself in front of a webcam was sentenced Wednesday to at least 1 1/2 years in state prison.

Scott Ritter, 50, was taken into custody immediately after Monroe County Judge Jennifer Sibum sentenced him to 18 to 66 months behind bars. It was the second time in eight years that Ritter, of Delmar, N.Y., found himself in legal trouble for trying to lure underage girls into illicit sex.

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Ritter was one of the U.N.'s chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He resigned after accusing the United States and the U.N. of failing to get tough with then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Later, he said Iraq had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction, and he became a vocal critic of the U.S. invasion.

In 2001, Ritter twice arranged to meet people who claimed online to be underage girls but who turned out to be undercover police in Colonie, N.Y. The charges were eventually dismissed, and the case was sealed, but Pennsylvania prosecutors obtained the records and used them to try to show Ritter has a predilection for minors.

[MrModerate]

1. It's against the law to attempt to seduce a cop?

What do their wives/husbands think about that?

[SidDithers]

2. K&R...

Some DUers were using Ritter's case(s) as examples of frame-ups, in some twisted defense of Julian Assange and his legal troubles.

Oops.

Sid

[Stinky The Clown]

3. He was, for a time, one of the darlings of DU for his anti War (bush) sentiments

[OnyxCollie]

4. He wrote a book with Will Pitt, aka Lazarus.