Seminary Student Sentenced in San Diego for Seeking Sex With Babies in Tijuana

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NBC News

Seminary Student Sentenced in San Diego for Seeking Sex With Babies in Tijuana

Joel Alexander Wright, 23, admitted he planned to travel to Mexico via San Diego to seek sex with babies in Tijuana

By Monica Garske and Samantha Tatro

A former Ohio seminary student who pleaded guilty to trying to adopt and buy baby girls in Mexico so he could sexually molest them will be sentenced in San Diego Friday.

In April, Joel Alexander Wright, 23, admitted to seeking sex with infants he wanted to adopt from Tijuana. In his plea agreement, Wright admitted he had written numerous explicit emails where he described, in graphic detail, how his desires to sexually assault baby girls under the age of four in Mexico.

“There are no words to describe the horror that might have happened, had an innocent baby been placed in this man’s arms,” said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Laura Duffy in a statement in April.

At his sentencing, Wright faces a maximum penalty of life in prison with a minimum mandatory 10-year sentence, maximum $250,000 fine and lifetime registration as a sex offender.

Read more: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Joel-Wright-Sentencing-Ohio-Seminary-Student-Seeks-Sex-With-Babies-in-Tijuana-385235391.html

[Aerows]

1. Good God Almighty.

Sex with infants. That's too horrible for me to even grasp.

[librarylu]

2. Heterosexual seminary student, too

Homophobes take note.

[Photographer]

3. Wow. What the hell causes deviancy such as this that is so often attached with religious tendencies?

[yeoman6987]

12. I don't think religion is the only group

Pedophiles come in all different stripes. I wish they would find a cure for it. A pill? Something. It ruins so many lives.

[Photographer]

21. I'm not citing any particular religion but from my POV

it seems that those with a penchant for divine forgiveness seem to often do the most horrific things.

[Xolodno]

25. I'm involved with my church...but you could call me lackluster.

One thing I've noticed, the most fervent, gung ho, involved, etc. people are often the ones that crash and burn later (i.e. Alcoholism, drug abuse, abusive household, etc.).

Those like me, who attend every once in awhile, help out with a church event here and there....well, were all still there.

Someone once told me after a person "showed their true colors", they couldn't believe it. I replied, "I can. No one is that devoted unless they have a divine mission or they are hiding something or have a weird notion that the church is going to magically make their problems go "poof!". Given I didn't see any miracles or something unexplained, knew it would be the latter".

[Helen Borg]

30. Obviously, the way their brain is configured...

Like everything else.

[Odin2005]

34. The % of pedophile priests is actually no higher than the general population, IIRC.

[Photographer]

37. Did I say priests? No. It was all inclusive. Sensitive to the subject? n/p

[LoverOfLiberty]

40. It would be my guess

that religion gives them cover, not that it in of itself is indicative of those tendencies.

[forest444]

4. The face of today's GOP: hypocrisy run amok.

Thank goodness this individual was caught before any infants were hurt.

[yeoman6987]

13. That nasty Lena dunum did it to her baby sister

She always seems like a horrible Repug to me. Wonder why her ass isn't in jail. She's nasty.

[AllyCat]

5. This makes me want to puke.

I am horrified. What kind of people are we creating in this world?

[bucolic_frolic]

6. It just makes one want to puke

disgusting, gross, evil, Satan himself

I hope psychologists are studying cases like this to try to
get to the root cause

Ewwwwwwwwww!! Yuck.

[sangfroid]

7. This makes me want to puke every day for the rest of my life.

nt

[ailsagirl]

8. I just love reading the Latest Breaking News

Frankly, I wish I could take it off my home page.

Each story is more awful than the previous, it seems.

I generally don't read them but the problem is, the headline always neatly encapsulates the horror, so just glancing at it is tantamount to reading it



I know, poor me

[keithbvadu2]

9. Ten years is too short by a lifetime.

[Nay]

10. Babies. Babies. What the everlasting fuck?? How are these perverts

formed? Christ on a crutch.

[smirkymonkey]

32. I can't even fathom that level of depravity.

It makes me feel physically ill.

[xfundy]

11. I can't grasp how anyone could sexualize a child, even an early teen

but BABIES? How fucking sick. Where does this shit come from? Are these people so twisted that any form of dominance/torture/hurt satisfies them? Is it not enough for them to torture animals? I grieve for humanity, if you can call it that anymore.

[Initech]

14. Holy shit.

[Hoppy]

15. As Carlin said, "Jesus said, 'Suffer the little children."

[Marthe48]

16. No commandment for children

Read that line in 'Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance' by Richard Powers. I've thought about that a lot. Maybe God thought we'd have enough sense to protect children instead of torturing them to death.

[whathehell]

17. I'm afraid Carlin was off on that one -- The word "suffer" has meanings

completely unrelated to pain.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/suffer?s=t

3. To allow an experience

4. to tolerate

[keithbvadu2]

22. Irony, satire, sarcasm, deliberate miscue/misuse of a word?

Effective communication by being literally wrong.

[whathehell]

33. Whatever..

Effective for those primed to buy it...

[keithbvadu2]

36. Effective for those who understood it.

[whathehell]

38. One can "understand" something without accepting it, in either style or substance.

[Marthe48]

24. here's Carlin's entire quote

http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/george_carlin/abortion_part_1-lyrics-219961.html

Kind of long but worth reading. You could turn the sentence around-'the little children suffer'.

[whathehell]

18. Joel Wright is a former seminary student, not a current one

Yeah, yeah, I know, but accuracy still matters.

[renate]

19. those undercover agents are absolutely heroic

I mean, aside from the fact they caught him, of course.

But how do they get through life knowing what twisted thoughts are behind some of the most innocent-looking faces? I just can't imagine knowing what they know, dealing with what they deal with, and sleeping at night. They are so amazing and so strong. I hope they get a lot of psychological support for the work they do. It's one thing for us to read these words... but to actually interact with him, and to see his duffel bag and its contents... the stuff of nightmares.

Thank goodness for good people.

[keithbvadu2]

23. There have been articles about the LEOs who do this work.

It can be a burnout job seeing that there are these people every day.

[yurbud]

20. for once, it sounds like at least the maximum sentence is appropriate

[Initech]

26. Hey fundies!!!! This is what an actual sex criminal looks like!!

[cynzke]

29. And He Uses The Correct Bathroom!

[Lunabell]

27. This is just beyond belief to me.

My brain just can't even wrap around this kind of depravity. Thank goodness he was apprehended.

[Midnight Writer]

28. I assume that those opposing "Political Correctness" will support calling him a Christian Pedophile.

I mean, if we can't identify the problem with a specific label, how can we fight against it?

And for any Christians that are offended by this label, I am clearly referring ONLY to pedophiles that belong to the Christian Faith. I am by no stretch of the imagination labeling all Christians as pedophiles, ONLY Christians that ARE pedophiles.

[In_The_Wind]

31. Totally depraved and disgusting.

[Odin2005]

35. Fucking monster!

[LeftishBrit]

39. Who is so crazy and wicked as to want sex with babies?!