When I searched his name on the Dartmouth website I got many hits. But the all connect to an “Access Denied” web page or he has been purged from the department’s list of faculty. Damage control?
That’s my guess. When you have a reputation like Dartmouth’s to protect, those wheels can move pretty fast.
And the comments beneath the article, which immediately went to politics and, frankly, racism (he was a professor of African Studies and English) make me disgusted in a completely different way.
On boston.com, which is part of The Boston Globe, there about a dozen or so people who comment like that on all articles. In general newspaper comment sections are not moderated like they used to be.
This is terrifying!
Yuck. On the bright side, I’m assuming he didn’t have access to young children while teaching at Dartmouth. I read somewhere that many pedophiles choose professions that put them close to young children.
The age of the victims is irrelevant. This is horrible whether young children. Or college students.
You see it everywhere. We live in a university town and it happen every year or two - staff , faculty, non-U people too. . They even use work computers (!) Really disgusting.
Huh? There is no “child pornography” case if the images are of students 18 and over.
My point is porn is porn @JustOneDad
I’m no fan of porn, to put it mildly, but adults can and do consent to make it. Children don’t. Which is why there are criminal penalties for viewing one but not the other.
There isn’t enough information yet to condemn this guy. What if it turns out that the stuff was viewed by someone else who had access to his computer? It may be unlikely, sure, but the constant rush to judgement is a bad thing IMHO.
One of my middle school teachers was recently arrested for this kind of action, as was the coach of one of my friend’s little league soccer teams. Generally when stories like this break people like to ask “what if this went beyond just watching kids”. When his profession isn’t among kids it somewhat assuages those fears. I think that’s what @prospect1 is getting at.
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His profession may not have exposed him to young children, but who knows what his private life was like…nieces, nephews, friends of his children, maybe kids that he coached, etc.
Ugh…sick…gross.
Yes, I did not mean to imply that there is any “silver lining” to this type of behavior, assuming it is proven true. I was only expressing relief that this professor was not a daycare worker or kindergarten teacher or camp counselor, which so often seems to be the case - thereby increasing the chances that his behavior went beyond computer viewing. And yes, that does not mean he didn’t have access to young children in other ways (think Jerry Sandusky). Just shuts one big window of danger to the public.
The viewing of kiddie porn does NOT mean the viewer has ever had any contact with children. or would in the future.
Seems like a pretty solid position to me.
What if it’s a copy of Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita?” I like to reserve judgment until I know a few more facts.
However, usually people are not prosecuted for this unless they are trafficking the material.
One of D1’s profs was arrested for child porn during the semester she had him. He was immediately put on leave and they had a sub. She was shocked, she thought he was a good guy. The charges were eventually dropped, but don’t think he returned to the college.
Hunt–not true on the “trafficking”. That is a different level.
Most are caught by sting operations where they sign on to a site that is being watched by enforcement.i So don’t go looking anything up!
I truly abhor porn–all of it and especially child porn–and wish they could just shut it down. It hurts everybody involved except the slime making a dime off it. So if it was only “traffickers” I’d lock them all in jail with joy.
If I could lock up pimps exclusively, I’d do that too.
But it is there on the internet and easy to get for anybody with a computer and people are people.
My only point earlier is that the viewing of porn does not make someone a child molester. One act does not follow the other. No, it is not a healthy past time. But to vilify someone with a long standing career and never been in trouble (as far as I know) for anything is ridiculous.
Yesterday at 12:16 pm
“One of D1’s profs was arrested for child porn during the semester she had him. He was immediately put on leave and they had a sub. She was shocked, she thought he was a good guy. The charges were eventually dropped, but don’t think he returned”
Maybe he was a good guy with a problem. Or not, I don’t know. Charges may not be filed officially but sanctions can remain. It’s possible for him to be on probation/listed as sex offender with NO charges. And now (depending on where he lives) he could be on basically a life sentence as a sex offender not able to live close to any school etc. He could be homeless now with some of the sanctions.