> Charbel Hamaty spent six months in
> prison for kissing his naked baby
> on the belly button.

Did he smear his reeking bun-stink on the child's face while his friends laughed, or anything like that?

Sorry, but I had to ask... 'Cause it could have just been a prank, y'know?

a law designed to keep out pedophiles -- that adults are not allowed in the park without children

Pedophile solution - bribe a kid with a bag of candy so he'll sit next to you. Then you're safe. Win-win!

Who the hell writes these laws? Or thinks they'll do any good?

The Mad Hatter is at the helm. Prepare for a bumpy ride.

Told ya. Common sense has gone the way of the dodo.

@Flynne: I wish we had lawmakers as smart as a dodo...

So, where are adults supposed to sit in nature, if it's not in the free parks in which they pay for. I'm a parent, and yes, I think it's creepy that people stare at my children, but I keep an eye on my kid and unless he's stalking him, he's just a guy.

So, I was watching Real Housewives of New Jersey, and I know a lot of you aren't the target audience, but my point is that they had this very cute scene where all of the kids took a Christmas picture together (about seven kids under the age of ten). It was so adorable. Since I was staring at children, does that mean I'm a pedophile? What about all of the other viewers of the show?

Saturday my 4 year old son went on a 'first playdate' with this adorable girl at the park. It was the CUTEST THING EVER watching my son trip over himself to impress his new girlfriend. I'm told she spent the next day talking to him on her play cell phone (good thing she didn't send any inappropriate imaginary texts). Anyway the playdate eventually moved to the creek where the kids got drenched and we had to strip down to undies.

We were there for 3 hours, it was the Awesomest park date we've ever had. It was one of my favorite days ever, and I have no pictures to commemorate it because even with one parent of each child present there is no way in hell I'm taking a picture of kids in their underwear.

Meanwhile there was a truck parked in front of the playground for about a half hour with the engine running. I'm assuming he was just enjoying the A/C but I do think it's sad that if I were taking picture of my own kid, I could be the suspect rather than the weirdo idling by the park.

What does it matter crid? Aftr all from what I could gather from your rants about the 'prank', the lack of sexual intent wasnt germanie to their punishment

So why should the lack of sexual intent be germanine to the punishment this guy recived? Why should intent, age, or circumstance matter to the treatment that any of them recived?

The law is the law right? They all deserve what they got as the "should have known" of the possible consequences to their actions, right?

Keep chewin' away at that morality thang, "lujlp"!

Nope, not morality Crid

Consequences, remember, you're the one who said there must be consequences.

Here are some of your quotes

Age 14 is waaay old for forgiveness of sexual misconduct, especially of males,

They didn't KNOW there would be consequences. For themselves. How are they supposed to do what's right if they don't know there will be consequences?

We need them punished

Who cares if the punishmnet are over reaction overbearing and do nothing to protect society right?

There Must Be CONSEQUENCES - So Sayeth The Blogmighty Crid

CONSEQUENCES

"Meanwhile there was a truck parked in front of the playground for about a half hour with the engine running. I'm assuming he was just enjoying the A/C but I do think it's sad that if I were taking picture of my own kid, I could be the suspect rather than the weirdo idling by the park."

Unfortunately the fact that you suspiciously perceive the driver of a random truck idling by a random park as a 'weirdo' makes you part of the problem, and that shows just how deeply this crap has crept into our collective psyches :/ Seriously, there must be tens of thousands of idling trucks every single day, there are many reasons why truck drivers legitimately idle their vehicles ... seriously, google it.

Because there is NO moral difference in a father blowing rasberries on his delighted infant, and a 14 year old pinning down and sexually assaulting a 12 year, right luj? Right?

When it was not a sexual assult but a nonsexual assult, yes there is no difference as far as sex crimes are concerned

Lob, it was a chevy silverado, I've been employed as an actual 18-wheel truck driver. Sorry I was unclear, the guy was basically sitting in his running car talking on the phone or something. I wasn't really watching because I'm not the type of paranoid you think I am. I'm not afraid of the bogeyman, I'm afraid of being accused of being the bogeyman.

As an aside, there are less and less idling trucks these days. My fleet trucks shut the engine off after 9 minutes unless ancillary equipment is drawing load and Espar heaters are replacing idling in over the road trucks.

Lob, it was a chevy silverado, I've been employed as an actual 18-wheel truck driver. Sorry I was unclear, the guy was basically sitting in his running car talking on the phone or something. I wasn't really watching because I'm not the type of paranoid you think I am. I'm not afraid of the bogeyman, I'm afraid of being accused of being the bogeyman.

As an aside, there are less and less idling trucks these days. My fleet trucks shut the engine off after 9 minutes unless ancillary equipment is drawing load and Espar heaters are replacing idling in over the road trucks.

Umm, what's next?

My daughter's a gorgeous adult, but still my daughter. Can I take pictures of her, or is that incestuous?

At what age was I supposed to be permitted by a government official to do what *I* wanted - take a picture of her?

Am I a criminal automatically because she ran out of the bathroom at age 6 to get a towel?

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This is an extension of the pressure to remove responsibility from the public altogether, to hand it to a government official, who knows better than you do.