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Douglas Perlitz - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 15th Dec, 2010 - 5:37pm
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Child s-xual Abuser In Plea for Leniency
Douglas Perlitz
Do you think Douglas Perlitz should get leniency from a judge based on what his lawyer stated? I'm sorry, I don't see why he should. The relationship he had with the Priest was when he was in college (already considered an adult).
QUOTE A Connecticut man who has confessed to sexually abusing several homeless boys in Haiti is claiming in his plea for leniency that a relationship he had with a priest while in college more than 20 years ago is linked to his pedophilia, according to a document filed by his attorneys.
Douglas Perlitz, 40, pleaded guilty in August to travel with intent to engage in illicit s-xual conduct, and he admitted to engaging in s-xual acts with eight children as part of a plea deal. He could receive from eight to nearly 20 years in prison on Dec. 21 when he is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton.
In an effort to get Perlitz a lesser sentence, his attorneys, David Grudberg and William Dow III, claim his relationship with an unidentified priest when he was a student at Fairfield University in Connecticut -- coupled with his s-xual identity issues, the sudden death of his father and his struggles with alcoholism -- acted as "complex forces that led him to stray from his normally sound moral footing...
Douglas Perlitz, 40, pleaded guilty in August to travel with intent to engage in illicit s-xual conduct, and he admitted to engaging in s-xual acts with eight children as part of a plea deal. He could receive from eight to nearly 20 years in prison on Dec. 21 when he is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton.
In an effort to get Perlitz a lesser sentence, his attorneys, David Grudberg and William Dow III, claim his relationship with an unidentified priest when he was a student at Fairfield University in Connecticut -- coupled with his s-xual identity issues, the sudden death of his father and his struggles with alcoholism -- acted as "complex forces that led him to stray from his normally sound moral footing...
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