A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws.
The admitted pedophile offered a surprising defense Wednesday to 74 charges of rape, drugs and pandering obscenity to minors.
Appearing in an Ohio court for a pretrial hearing, Phillip Distasio, 34, of Rocky River, Ohio, said he was a pedophile.
He told the judge, "I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years. The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms."
Distasio, a self-professed pagan friar, is representing himself on 74 charges. He said he's the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, and that some of his congregants are among the victims in his case.
http://www.nbc10.com/news/9621055/detail.html
I'm no lawyer but his defense will never fly, especially in Ohio.
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The old saying "A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.".Originally Posted by mfgbypooter
Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong
yeah this guy needs to get kicked right in the nuts
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Change his venue to Cincinnati, he'll get a fair trial there, just ask Larry Flynt.
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People need to stop being amensiac hyprocrites. Everyone just magically forgets teens as young as 12 to 14 being either setup or taking it upon themselves to get marries at such a (compared to today) young age back in the 1600 - 1800's. I think he has a good case, but it would better fly if those he supposedly "raped" were around 12 to 14. I'm sick and tired of people thinking children are innocent, and can't make a decision about anything, because a lot of them are smart enough to know better. Im not advocating full on pedophilia, but all those pheobephiliacs (those inclined toawards the ages of 13 - 16) should be in an uproar and get their day in court.
on another note, writing this post was immensley more interesting than sitting in CA 120 learning powerpoint because pre-req's fail.
i scribble on crayons with cheese :]
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Yah but back then the average life span was like 30 years old.......
You have a fabulously deluded perception of the deal, first of all this is not the 1800's, the median age is not 25-30 and we dont marry our 14 year old daughters to the local magistrate anymore to cusion a family or to the farmer up the road to make babies to work the farm and feed the family.
different time and different place.
Also children are not innocent but stupid in most cases when you have the 13 year old girl planning to get
knocked up, does not mean she has the intelligence to make the decision. It just means she is dense enough
and lacks any good logic centers for doing so. Ask any teen mother and they have no good reason for having a kid.
Even if my 13 year old daughter thought my 31 year old friend was hot and they started flirting with her
you should be damn sure I would expect my friend to show better judgement than to try and get fresh with her.
teens these days have an over inflated sense of sexuality, there have always been horemones
but it has only been recently that companies market to teens and pre teeens the same way they market to adults
and alot of it is in the context of making them feel older.
What you end up with are teen guys thinking that its about getting the "bitches" and getting "Laid"
and "bling" and the sad part is aside from this there is not many intelligent youth out there anymore
Then you have 13 year old suzie wearing her push uip bra and crusted on Loreal makeup.
reading teen cosmo and talking about her tits and ass to her friends and talking about how
she wants to hook up with so and so because he is SOOOO hot and popular.
none of this is naturally how young kids think, its the perception we have fed to them,
notice there are no teens and pre-teens in marketing but young adults?
damn it sometimes children are just children and then you have sick assholes like this guy
who abuse them and then try to use the constitution to defend their sick actions.
while thats not what I mean it is proven that the mental processes of a child are different from an adult.
They dont process the same way adults do and thats why they talk about consent and the ability to do so
because they cannot make that decision as an adult.
as for pedophiles getting up in arms and getting their day in court?
A complete bunch of bullshit, people who intentionally prey on kids should get a foot up the ass
and keep in mind that this person in the article was molesting DISABLED CHILDREN while
smoking dope and eating munchies, there is nothing hypocritical or moral conflict in calling this guy an asshole.
Molesting disabled kids and smoking pot does not qualify as a religious right
and I still say this fucker should get his balls removed.
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Dam thats a long ass post MO'................
lol yeah I had a point that was simple and straight forward but I guess it turned into a bit of a tangent.
everytime I tried to consider Jau's argument I just kept thinking.....no.....thats fucked up
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Oh they should get their day in court all right.
And then the rest of their life in prison, and not allowed in the PC unit but placed in general population.
They wouldn't last a week.
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'I am a pedophile,' says man acting as own lawyer
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -- A man accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities told a judge that having sex with children is a sacred ritual protected by civil rights laws.
Phillip Distasio, who said he is the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, represented himself at his pretrial hearing Wednesday. He is charged with 74 counts including rape, pandering obscenity to minors and corrupting another with drugs.
"I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years," he said in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday. "The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms."
Distasio said some of his congregants are among the victims in this case. Distaciois accused of molesting two disabled boys he tutored at his home and raping seven autistic boys at a Cleveland school for special-needs students where he was a teacher's aide. All but one of the victims were under 13.
A conviction on rape counts involving any of the eight younger boys would mean an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole eligibility, prosecutors said.
Distasio tried unsuccessfully in June to fire his court-appointed lawyer because he wouldn't pursue a religious freedom defense. Distasio could represent himself if the attorney remained as an adviser, Judge Kathleen Sutula said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/03/se....ap/index.html
sorry but the guy gets respect from me for even trying that one in court lol!told a judge Wednesday that his apartment was a religious sanctuary where smoking marijuana and having sex with children are sacred rituals protected by civil rights laws.
Rest in peace mother
16.1.2006
You will always be with me.
I too have an aggressive streak in me. I feel the most fair thing a judge could do is put the guy in a room with the parents of the children he molested and let them decide his fate. Hopefully castration would be a minimum. I have no use for him or others like him ESPECIALLY when he wants to hide behind religion to try to justify how sick he is.
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