re: gz -scott ritter - paedophile: advicegiver on
Dont forget the 14 yr old.
Ritter, an outspoken critic of President Bush's plans for war against Iraq, was arrested in June 2001 for allegedly trying to lure a 16-year-old girl he met on the Internet to a Burger King restaurant.
The underage girl turned out to be an undercover investigator posing online as a minor as part of a police investigation of Internet sex crime and Ritter was charged with attempted endangerment of a child, the Daily News reported Sunday. The misdemeanor carries a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail.
WNYT-TV in Albany reported at the time that Ritter, whose full name is William Scott Ritter Jr., allegedly tried to meet the girl so she could watch him perform sexual acts on himself.
Albany County Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser agreed to have the case adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning the charge would be dropped if Ritter stayed out of trouble for six months, and the case was subsequently sealed, the newspaper said.
Two months earlier, Ritter, a former Marine intelligence officer, tried to meet a 14-year-old girl he chatted with online and was instead met by police officers, the Times Union of Albany reported Tuesday. Ritter was released without being charged.
