Mark Foley claims being molested as teen

[EdNigma]

Molested as a teen was he? Well, that makes it perfectly ok to send homoerotic emails to teenagers then.
/sarcasm off

So, why all the pro-Catholic school quotes then mr. foley?

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Former Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record), under investigation for sending lurid Internet messages to young male Capitol Hill pages, issued a series of revelations from rehab, including a claim that he had been sexually abused as a teen.

Attorney David Roth, speaking on Foley's behalf at a Florida news conference Tuesday, said Foley was molested between ages 13 and 15 by a clergyman. He declined to identify the clergyman or the church, but Foley is Roman Catholic.

"Mark does not blame the trauma he sustained as a young adolescent for his totally inappropriate" e-mails and instant messages, Roth said. "He continues to offer no excuse whatsoever for his conduct."

Roth, who spoke for Foley while the congressman is in rehab for alcohol abuse and mental illness, said Foley denied having inappropriate sexual contact with minors and said he was under the influence of alcohol when he wrote the notes.

Asked why he didn't disclose this information sooner, Roth said, "Shame, shame."

"As is so often the case with victims of abuse, Mark advises that he kept his shame to himself for almost 40 years," Roth said.

"There was absolutely no inappropriate sexual contact with any minor... and any suggestion that Mark Foley is a pedophile is false," Roth said.

Roth also acknowledged for the first time that the former congressman is gay, saying the disclosure was part of his client's "recovery."

"Mark Foley wants you to know he is a gay man," Roth said.

Foley, who is 52 and single, represented parts of Palm Beach County for 12 years until he abruptly resigned Friday. The
FBI and Florida law enforcement officials are investigating whether he violated any laws.

The lurid communications were first reported last week by ABC News, which released more instant messages Tuesday that indicate Foley allegedly interrupted a vote on the House floor to chat online with a teen.

"I miss you," Foley said in one message, according to ABC.

"ya me too," the teen replied.

"we are still voting," Foley responded.


Roth said Foley was never under the influence of alcohol while conducting business on Capitol Hill. He could not explain his previous comments that Foley was intoxicated at the time he sent all the messages.

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"Gives no excuse." "I was drunk." double talking politicians.

Took time out of Capital Hill votes to chat with teens. ppffsstt

At Sacred Heart, I was taught how to be a better citizen because of their focus on discipline and moral values.
Mark Foley

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.
Mark Foley



I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.
Mark Foley


I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
Mark Foley

Also, 100 bucks says the laws he helped impose, will never be answered to by him. The laws are passed for us common folk, not for the people that pass them.

The Adam Walsh Act is the most comprehensive piece of child protection legislation this Congress has ever considered. The bill creates, among other things, new State and Federal regulations, community notification requirements, as well as new Federal criminal penalties for sex offenders.
Mark Foley


I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.
Mark Foley

"It's vile," said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. "It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction." (speaking of Clinton)

In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in 2005, Foley said: "Sex offenders are not petty criminals. They prey on our children like animals and will continue to do it unless stopped. We need to change the way we track these pedophiles. ... It has often been noted that a society can be judged on how it best treats it children. We have a moral responsibility to do everything in our power to protect our kids from these animals. This bill will turn the tables and make prey out of these predators. Failing to act on this measure is just playing Russian roulette with our children's lives." (what else is there to say?)

I think I've made my point here.

[Woodmonkey]

I see that he's going for the sympathy vote now, making himself out to be a victim here. Very convenient.

"There was absolutely no inappropriate sexual contact with any minor... and any suggestion that Mark Foley is a pedophile is false," Roth said.

He went after adolescent boys so he's a molester. and the point is?

The FBI and Florida law enforcement officials are investigating whether he violated any laws.

I can here it now - "I did not have sex with those boys"

Roth said Foley was never under the influence of alcohol while conducting business on Capitol Hill. He could not explain his previous comments that Foley was intoxicated at the time he sent all the messages.

So, let me get this straight. He blames the influence of alcohol for all this 'non-(cyber) sex' with teens, but interrupted voting so he could have an IM session with a teen. Now he's saying he wasn't under the influence while conducting business?

[EdNigma]

ROFL!!

I can here it now - "I did not have sex with those boys"

Yup WM, what a circle eh?

If it were you or I, we'd be in jail without bond, name splattered all over the media with shock words like. "Another internet child predator caught. ALL evidence points toward stone solid conviction. Police 'sting' kiddie porn ring." ect...

But hey, politicians don't goto jail right? Nor do cops.

one example.

Cop gets probation for "violating oath" after allegedly forcing burglary victim into oral sex!

by Alan Riquelmy, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

June 17, 2006

Columbus Police officer Tracey Giles pleaded guilty Friday to violation of oath by a public officer.

Giles, 36, was sentenced by Muscogee County Superior Court Judge Doug Pullen after he entered a guilty plea to the felony charge. Pullen sentenced Giles to five years probation, 200 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine. He could have been punished by up to five years in prison.

Giles was arrested on Dec. 20, 2005, and charged with aggravated sodomy and violation of oath by a public officer. A woman who reported a burglary at her home alleged that Giles, who was assigned to answer the call in October, forced her to perform oral sex.

The woman gave her account of the events when the case went before a grand jury. Giles, under a state law allowing a statement to be made to the grand jury by a law enforcement officer accused of a crime during performance of his duty, also testified before the jury.

The grand jury refused to indict the nine-year police veteran on the aggravated sodomy charge, returning a true bill only on the oath violation felony.

"I think this whole incident was unfortunate," said Julia Slater, Giles' attorney. "I think the sentence Judge Pullen gave was appropriate."

Assistant District Attorney Don Kelly said Giles could never be a police officer again.

"This will stay on his record forever," he said.

Giles had been placed on administrative leave without pay upon his arrest. No formal decision on Giles' employment had been released Friday afternoon by Police Chief Ricky Boren, according to Maj. Charles Rowe.