The hysteria, the panic, the insanity of this religious fundamentalism masquerading as law, is a clarion call to wake up to the horror. Truly we have regressed back into the Dark Ages before the Enlightenment.

Science and Medicine have been co-opted into vehicles preaching the sermon of the corporate-church-police state.

Corporate Media is alarmed that they are losing exclusivity to control the minds of the masses.

Tomorrow starts a new assault on the Internet with a newly contrived message of fear and hysteria. MY GOD! WHO WILL PROTECT THE C H I L D R E N ? ! ! !

Many of the zealots have already announced that theirs is a worldwide campaign to raise the age-of-consent into conformity with their demands. Compare what influence this has already had on Sweden.

The decision by the 4th District appeals court was in the case of Samuel F. Roloff, 22, who was convicted of three felony and three misdemeanor charges under a plea agreement in a case in which he was accused of having sex when he was 20 with four girls, all between the ages of 15 and 17.

Actually, he was something worse. Roloff was charged with nine felonies and eight misdemeanors ranging from second-degree sexual assault of a child to child sexual exploitation to child enticement to having sex with a child 16 or older. There were so many counts because there were so many girls.

All of the felonies and three of the misdemeanors stem from what occurred on a school day in April of 2005. Four girls - ages 18, 17, 15 and 14 - skipped school that day, stopped at the 17-year-old's house to pick up a camcorder, met Roloff at a gas station and then walked to his house.

He had intercourse with the 17-year-old. He had intercourse with the 15-year-old. Much of what happened was videotaped, which is a felony in and of itself. The judge himself noted the sex was unprotected.

Much of the complaint was dismissed in the plea bargain, but the 18-year-old told police that Roloff asked both her and the 14-year-old if they also wanted to do it, which they didn't.  [...] the 14-year-old at one point pushed her into the bathroom, where she witnessed enough depravity to vomit. That, she said, was when everybody laughed at her.

The charges weren't limited to just that day. Roloff also pleaded no contest to, when he was 18 or 19, having intercourse with a totally different girl who was then 16; and to, when he was 19, having intercourse with yet another girl who was then 17.

This isn't one of those cases of a monogamous kid and his slightly younger girlfriend.

"It is not a situation where we have hormones and passion getting the better of two youngsters on one occasion," said Waupaca County District Attorney John Snider on Friday.

It's a case of the last man in the world you'd ever want anywhere near your daughter.

i note also that it was the girls who brought the camcorder, not the defendant. i also note it was the girls who went to his house, not vice versa.

who do you suppose was doing the recording? if the defendant was, um, involved, it's highly unlikely he was. that leaves at least 3 girls available for that chore, unless they just set it up on a stationary tripod. i noticed the article you cited made no mention of that fact.

the only "victim" i see here is the 14 year-old, who probably went along because she wanted to hang out with the big girls. she apparently never had sex, with anyone, that day.

20 isn't 30 however, relative to 18, 17 & 16, so i'm having a hard time seeing this guy as some kind of hannibal lectorish sexual predator.

The youngest girl he had sex with was 15, not 16 as you said.

And, sorry, did someone say he was a "hannibal lectorish sexual predator?" Nice strawman among several strawmen.