Thomas Warner, Paradise Valley Teacher, Says He Teaches Elementary School to Ease Guilt About Kiddie-Porn Stash

• yes, lets not stone him. he didnt touch any kids (that we know of). he simply found much pleasure in viewing hundreds and hundreds of pictures of young innocent children who were being horribly abused. i mean, dowloading pictures of children being sexually abused and sexually satisfying oneself isnt horrible right? compassion people, please (i hope you read all of this with overwhelming sarcasm) .....idiot

• me too

• Omg u were my fourth and fith grade teacher wow Shayla beck Fucking insane

• Thank you! Thank you for having the courage to think for yourself snd not get caught up in the mob mentality that others are frothing at the mouth with. The sad truth is this man will probably spend the rest of his life in prison. In arizona the punishment for viewing child pornography is by greater then if you had actually raped a child. My heart goes out to his wife, if your reading this , know your not alone.

•  "Click,BANG!"  ROFL, please don't tell me you work for the clowns at MCSO, because if you do, what I expect to see out of the barrel when you pull the trigger is a little red flag with the word "BANG" written on it, and if you don't work for MCSO you need to remember cops are not the only ones with weapons, I have a few of my own and I am very proficient with them, so your attempt at intimidation has failed miserably "Sergeant", and I doubt your last name is Ortiz, no Ortiz that I have ever met is as stupid as you.

• Since you appear to be incoherent and blathering off the subject of this story. In a feeble attempt to spin this into something that which is not. I am gonna say that I am glad and elated to know that the law has caught your perverted brother, in such a  abhorrent crime. Looks like you won't be able to see your brother Warner for long time. Unless you care to see him pink panties and stripes. Then suit yourself.

• If you can't trust a Priest, Who can you trust!?  I don't mean that as a joke, I am so disturbed by all the stories of teachers and cops and politicicians caught up in the child porn thing.  Breacks my heart.

• Veteran?  Grow up scumbag.  You are the type that will be a cop target.  "Click,BANG!"  Shut the fuck up POG!

• EXACTLY!!! WTF is this crap!? I had this guy as a teacher 5 yrs ago, now im sitting here thinking how effed up this all is. What was he looking at ME and thinking, huh???

• My son had him as a teacher 3 years ago and had respect for him, liked him and looked at him as a good man.  Now he feels bad for him that he has been arrested and jailed.  We all fall short.  My son feels confused and sad.  It appears Warner did nothing against any children and was open and honest with the officials.  He is crying out for help and we as a society are ready to stone him.  Compassion people.  His wife is a victim too.  People are hurt and devastated.

• Researchers in Switzerland took unique advantage of a 2002 sweep of child pornography viewers in Zurich to examine what the relationship between viewing child pornography and sexually offending against children might be. The study, published Monday in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry, offers few definitive answers but does an important job of adding to the generally murky picture we have of different ways people sexually offend against children and the different kinds of people who do it. Researchers got the names of 231 men charged with viewing child pornography in 2002. They searched their criminal records prior to 2002 and also recorded any convictions or police investigations between 2002 and 2008. Here are some of the findings: Two of the men (1%) those charged in 2002 had previously been convicted for hands-on offense. Eight of the men (3.5%) charged had convictions for hands-off offenses (e.g. viewing illegal pornography). Nine (3.9%) of those charged in 2002 were investigated, charged, or convicted for possessing illegal pornography within the subsequent six years. Two (0.8%) of those charged were being investigated or charged with child sexual abuse within the subsequent six years. The researchers are quick to point out that this sample isn’t representative. We also need to keep in mind that recidivism, which is the likelihood that someone who has committed a crime will do so again, can only be measured by crimes where the person is caught. So the fact is that none of the 231 men who viewed child pornography was convicted of sexually abusing a child within six years of being charged. That doesn’t mean they didn’t, it just means they didn’t get caught (of course it doesn’t mean they did either). With those caveats considered, the researchers surmise that viewing child pornography alone isn’t, at least among these men, enough of a risk factor to predict that they will commit a hands-on sexual offense against a child. Studying child sex offenders isn’t easy. And not just for the obvious reason that no one in their right mind would want to spend time talking to people who sexually abuse children. It’s hard because sexual offenses against children are without a doubt the most culturally, emotionally, and politically charged of all offenses, particularly in North America, and researchers (and journalists) who are willing to take a more objective, critical, and/or scientific view of these offenses and offenders, are often attacked for their trouble. Take one of the questions the Swiss study considered: Are people who consume child pornography different from those who sexually offend against a child? Many may feel like this distinction isn’t worth making. Watching child pornography is, in several ways, offending against a child even if the viewer never comes in physical contact with a child. Certainly watching child porn is a re-victimization of the child in the film. So why “split hairs”. But the thing is we’ve got to split hairs, because what we know about pedophilia in particular and sexual offenses against children in general, is kind of like a big hairy mess. If we want to change things we need to untangle it, even a little. Researchers are trying, but they routinely get attacked for it. Journalists are interested in trying but laws essentially prohibit them from reporting on it in anything other than the most pandering and arguably exploitative of ways. Sexually offending isn’t a simply a behavior that people choose to do or not do. There’s all kinds of offending and all sorts of causes; social, cultural, environmental, biological, etc… If we want to put an end to, or even reduce the amount of sexual victimization we’ve got to be willing to look at it for what it is, and not simply close our eyes open up the prison doors, and hope it’ll go away.

• You two get a room, I just drove by a Motel 6 advertising $39 a night.

• Idiot, you are the one that needs the meds, since you obviously can not stay on topic. P.S. I don't need to go the the VA, I have and pay for my own Private Insurance, I believe in saving those precious resources for those that have given so much for our country truly need medical care but can not afford it.

• Besides the Catholic Church(or other Christian Institutions for that matter), the school districts, whether in the public or private sector, are hot spots for pedophiles. But Chris Hansen with the NBC, has unearthed pedophiles in all walks of life, including those in the LEAs.

• Holy shit, I just looked that up. Wow..the hypocrisy in this country is un believable..

• My older brother and myself were molested by a daycare providers husband . I was 4 at the time and he was 7 . Both the lady who watched us and her husband were sentenced to prison. He is still there. Well now my brother is 23 and 2.years into a 27 year sentence for viewing child pornography. I can tell you that the devestation brought onto our family from him going to prison for this is BY FAR GREATER then the devestation we felt by the molestation. What makes it so sad is when.he told me that the reason he looked at that stuff was not for sexual gratification. It was a way of him healing from what happened to us, to know we arent alone. Say what you want, but unless you have beem in our shoes you have no idea what it feels like

•  Healthy sexual appetites are normal for human beings.  It is actually a genetic instinct passed on from parents to child.  The urge to procreate is no less a natural urge in humans as it is in any other organism on this planet.  If that urge is repressed, all sorts of nasty little perversions crop up.  BTW - You and everyone on this planet does not "KNOW" they will not be turned on by a young person in a sexual pose in a photo until you have been tested by one of these things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_plethysmograph BTW - If you're going to opine on this subject, try learning a little bit about it first.  You can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebephilia Oh, and guess what - our founding fathers were, according to our present laws, pretty much ALL pedophiles.  There was no "age of consent" prior to 1275 when laws were first written.  That would mean that for over 20,000 years, the average age at when people started to have sex was 10 to 12 years old (most females start menstruation at this point). Guess what that age was the first laws in England determined the age of consent in 1275 - yup - 12 years old! My, how the times have changed. So, for the over 20,000 years that we have essentially been a fully developed species (meaning that evolution had largely "finished" with our genetic code) and during which our evolutionary progress was being refined, our instinctual "age of consent" was between 10 and 13 years of age.  Now, after all that time, our laws are being changed to define age of consent to above those years (many states and countries have different age of consent statutes ranging from 12 to 18 to even 21 years old in some cases), do you think that probably the greatest instinctual urge in every creature on earth (procreation) would change just because a law developed after over 20,000 years of "standard" human sexual practice says so?  I can say for certain that I have never viewed child porn nor do I have an urge to be attracted to young children - however, I'm not going to say that if tested with a plethysmograph, whether I would fail or not - neither would you, unless you're not a human being.

•  Let your fingers do the walking - in other words - enter the word "Keating" in a search engine Flyboy.

• Google,Huh?  Take you meds vet.  The VA is still open.

• Bravo!  AOPA.  Just checkin. Great reply!

• What a lie! Ease his guilt....more like ease his sexual predatory ways......these fuckers are so lazy.....they take the easiest way to find their prey.

• Google works doesn't it? P.S.  What in the FUCK does Pancho's comment have to do with Mexico?  this asshole should be castrated, and Pancho's ancestors were here before yours, so if anybody is leaving is you RACIST MOTHERFUCKING IMBECILE!

• Who is this person your talking about? People sit there and go on and on about for profit prisons and the damage they cause. People charged with viewing child pornography are just collateral damage of profit prisons. Politicians know how much we as a society despise people who hurt children and they have us convinced that view these images are somehow the cause of child molestation. That's not the case, don't believe everything chuck couphlin feeds you, idiots! Why don't they ever go after the people who make this shit, the people who really are hurting children? Ohhh that's right, it would be impossible to track those people down.

• I'm not sure how legalizing prostitution helps sick-os who get turned on by 8-12 year olds, unless you are implying the kids should also be allowed to prostitute.

• I honestly cannot believe we have story after story about people into kiddie porn. how sick is this world we live in?  It's unfathomable to me how anyone could be turned on by such awful filth.

•  If we legalized prostitution, this would not be happening.  Men, and women, would be able to get their rocks off, safely, legally and cheaply.  Loneliness is a horrible thing people - Let's get this chapter behind us and shake off the old stale morals.  Talk about government telling people what to do!!!!  Get government OUT of our sex lives and we'll see a lot less of this type of thing.

• I'm shocked that Old Man Keating and all his pals that used to attend his lavish parties would not be prosecuted under this provision.  Keating has in his possession the LARGEST collection of child pornography in the world.  He ran child sex junkets overseas for his rich pals and politicians, or so I've been told by the top manager(s) of the people who built his buildings and used to attend these parties.  He hid this all under a guise of running an organization that promoted "Decency"! Talk about reprehensible - when he was not bribing our congresspeople (U.S. Senators Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five, he was taking them and his high profile clients to Asia for child sex junkets!!!! Keating STILL HAS the largest collection of child pornography in the world - Yet the powers that be, bought and paid for by Keating, leave him alone!  Citizens for Decency through Law indeed. 

• Two way radio communications - ATC Clearance through Class B - Mode C transponder - Private Pilot Certificate or Student w/ endorsem.. That wasnt ment to be an attack on the wet backs in this country. I could care less about them. That guys comments were not necessary, and since wetbacks dont like being talked down to, they should have the common sense not to do it to others

• What is the minimum equipment required for operations of an aircraft within class B airspace?   (14 CFR 91.131)

• Damn!  What is up with all the sex related crimes with public officials lately?!  This world is getting really screwewd up fast.  Creepy creepy people out there and they are in positions of power!  People hurting animals,Kids, old people.  WTF?  As a ten year military vet I swear to God that I will ALWAYS stand up for the weak and bullied. 

• 'Warner also let police know that he "uses his position as a teacher to compensate for the guilt he feels about viewing the images." Yeah, and Arpaio uses his position a sheriff to compensate for the guilt he feels about being a criminal. Bullshit X 2

• Go back to Mexico , now.

• Castration, now.

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