Democrat Homosexual Pedophile Gets 20 Years After Global Manhunt
Done Being Politically Correct
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NEWARK, N.J. � A small-time actor and former children's entertainer who
was known for playing Santa Claus was sentenced Monday to nearly 20
years in prison for his role in an international sex tourism ring that
preyed on young children.
Wayne Nelson Corliss, whose 2008 arrest was the culmination of an
international manhunt, had admitted traveling to Thailand three times
between 2000 and 2002 to have sex with at least two boys, ages 6 and 9.
He pleaded guilty last October to five counts that included distribution
and possession of child pornography and traveling to foreign countries
to engage in illegal sexual activity.
"You have acted beyond the bounds of human decency," U.S. District Judge
Joseph A. Greenaway told Corliss on Monday.
The bearded, white-haired Corliss, who is 61 and acted under the name
Casey Wayne, was described by people who knew him as witty and friendly
and "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen." He worked as an
entertainer at corporate parties, art fairs and bar mitzvahs, where his
activities sometimes included painting children's faces.
That image clashed with the one presented in court Monday, in which
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Vartan called Corliss "an irredeemable
sexual predator" who bragged on the Internet about fondling young boys
while dressed as Santa.
Corliss, who had spoken sparingly in a handful of previous court
hearings, pleaded with Greenaway for "a fair sentence, not a death
sentence."
While acknowledging his crimes, he claimed that Internet chat postings
in which he bragged about abusing other boys as young as 4 were the
equivalent of playing a role and did not reflect his true personality.
"I'm not that person," he said. "I'm not that monster."
Corliss' trips allegedly were arranged by John Wrenshall, a Canada
native who immigrated to Thailand and has been charged in an 18-count
federal indictment. Two Alabama men who accompanied Corliss, Mitchell
Jackson and Burgess Lee Burgess, have already pleaded guilty and were
sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison.
Corliss could have received a maximum prison sentence of more than 27
years under federal sentencing guidelines, but the government requested
about 19 1/2 years because Corliss' cooperation aided in the cases
against Wrenshall, Jackson and Burgess.
Without that constraint, Greenaway told Corliss Monday, he would "not
have hesitated" to give him the full sentence. He characterized the case
as the most disturbing he has come across in 25 years in the criminal
justice system.
"I cannot think of something more heinous," he said. "These children are
going to have to live with this for eternity, when their memory should
be of a joyful, carefree time."
Corliss' arrest in May 2008 came two days after Interpol took the rare
step of asking for the public's help in identifying a man shown in
pornographic images. Hundreds of leads flooded in the first day, and
eventually led to Corliss' arrest at his Union City home in northern New
Jersey.
Vartan, the prosecutor, said investigators believe more people were
involved in the ring and that the investigation was continuing.
Anlatt the Builder
But you use "Democrat" to mean "person you don't like," right? That's
not actually the definition.
juanjo
<reclaim.amer...@2010.bootobama.org> wrote:
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575350,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a1...
I corrected the header for you.
Ubiquitous
>NEWARK, N.J. � A small-time actor and former children's entertainer
>who was known for playing Santa Claus was sentenced Monday to nearly 20
>years in prison for his role in an international sex tourism ring that
>preyed on young children.
And you posted this off-topic article here because?
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.