And in somewhat surreal crime news:
A trans-identified male sex offender who attempted to enrol at a local high school in Oregon… was arrested… after an officer at South Albany High School reported him for pretending to be a 15-year-old girl in order to register as a student.
Despite his efforts to feign girlishness and his use of the name Madison, Mr Alec Ray Craig, aged 27, found himself in the care of the Albany Police Department and Linn County Court, where fabulist pronouns are scrupulously observed by all parties:
“She [sic], as a registered sex offender, is trying to pretend that she [sic] is a juvenile… to become… involved with other juveniles in the high school system,” said prosecutor Coleen Cerda.
Because in matters of this kind, what you need is more confusion. Further departure from reality.
However, Craig’s defence counsel argued… that community service would be sufficient. “I don’t know that jail really serves the purpose that perhaps we want,” defence attorney Erik Moeller countered. “And compensatory service, or community service, would better serve the community.”
At which point, readers may wonder whether jail might serve the not insignificant purpose of keeping a deranged paedophile away from his prey.
Craig was ultimately sentenced to 20 days in jail, two years’ probation, and was ordered to stay at least 500 feet away from schools.
And local parents will doubtless sleep soundly. What with Mr Craig’s track record of observing boundaries. As when, in 2023, following his abuse of a minor, Mr Craig was given similar instructions, months before his attempt to once again mingle with schoolchildren.
And then of course there’s the assumption that one can rely on the promise of a 27-year-old man who is convinced he’ll be perceived as an adolescent girl.
Mr Craig, a participant in online fetish communities, refers to himself as a “femboi,” a “furry,” and a “therian,” the latter term denoting his supposedly non-human status:
On social media…. Craig posted a “trans-feline Pride” flag to his account, indicating that he identifies as a cat.
Ah, that would explain it. It all makes sense now.
Multiple local news outlets reported on Craig’s case while referring to the child sexual abuser as simply a “woman.”
Lest anyone get the, er, wrong idea.
One might note the selectivity of the police, court and media in terms of which pretences are to be indulged with great diligence. Such that claiming to be a child, when you’re actually 27, to thereby gain sexual access to minors, is referred to as “pretending,” while claiming to be female, all physical reality to the contrary, is not.
Update, via the comments:
Regarding the curious leniency of the court, Dicentra adds,
At first, I wonder whether the judges are really so stupid that they can’t recognise a demonstrated PREDATOR, and then I have to concede that they do, but they don’t think such predation is really a problem.
That would at least explain why the go-to solution is the thing tried last time and which clearly didn’t work.
In turn, commenter Aitch cites this,
in 2023, following his abuse of a minor, Mr Craig was given similar instructions, months before his attempt to once again mingle with schoolchildren.
Adding,
Once they’ve broken that condition it should never be a sentencing option again.
While Rafi quotes the linked article,
When announcing Craig’s arrest online, law enforcement turned off comments in response to what they regarded as “hate speech.” Many replies expressed frustration that the authorities had not included a photo of the sex offender… Details regarding his prior conviction were also noticeably absent.
And offers a summary:
No mugshot. No comments allowed. Move along.
And so, when local parents discover that a determined paedophile has once again been stalking children, and even trying to enrol in schools – supposedly as a girl, despite him being a 27-year-old man with facial hair – then none of those concerned parents must be allowed to know what the man in question looks like, or to know about his previous crimes – even though he’ll be loose again within days – and they must not be allowed to pass comment on his somewhat bizarre appearance.
Because that would be hateful, it seems. The very stuff of wickedness.
What a strange place we’ve arrived at.
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