So - if an adult doesn't know that this sort of behavior isn't welcome around DCI,
then how ought kids be able to deal with it? On the other hand, if an adult thinks
this sort of behavior will be tolerated in DCI - after all, award-winning volunteers
have SO much credibility and deniability... More and more of the same old, same old.
Despite assertions to the contrary, and EVERYONE's standing by for the status quo.
Yepper - statements of "mentally mature 12-year olds" are part of some of the oldest,
non-evolved manipulations going.
http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2005/December_05/12282005_01.asp
Schmidt charged with child porn
Online transcripts, images seized from former funeral home director
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By AL DUNN - GM Today Staff
December 29, 2005
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Curtis J. Schmidt, the retired director of the West Bend and Jackson funeral homes
that bear the family name, was formally charged with 20 counts of possession of child
pornography, one count of exposing a child to harmful material and one count of child
sexploitation in Washington County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Schmidt, 67, had been in custody since Dec. 22 after he was arrested by state and
local authorities after a search warrant was executed on his Evergreen Street home in
West Bend.
Police seized computer equipment, disks containing images of child pornography, phone
bills and transcripts of online chats containing explicit language. In addition,
numerous child porn videos were seized, according to a criminal complaint.
Authorities were tipped by a Colorado woman who discovered her 13-year-old son
received sexually explicit e-mail messages from an online pseudonym Schmidt allegedly
used.
In one of the messages, which described imaginary sex acts with the boy and a male
friend of the boy, Schmidt closes: "Hope to see u online soon........later, curt."
After his arrest, Schmidt allegedly told investigators he had been sending and
receiving images of child pornography over the Internet for about five years, and the
images were primarily of boys 12 or older.
Schmidt also said he had online communication with about a "dozen or so" underage
boys and he stated 16 is the minimum age he would communicate with online. Schmidt
also said that if the underage boy initiated the contact, "he would just go along
with it."
He told investigators that "a mature 14-year-old boy should be able to consent to
having sex with an adult and that, over the years, (Schmidt) has known many mentally
mature children who are 12 or 13 years of age."
He also allegedly said that "if sex between an adult and mentally mature child is
consensual, it is OK."
Schmidt allegedly told authorities that he has a "curiosity about the human body."
Schmidt was also investigated in 2003 after boxes of abandoned photos of underage
children were found by construction workers at his home. Schmidt said he did not
remember where he got them, but "they were his photos."
A search warrant affidavit alleges that Schmidt possessed pictures of the genitals of
corpses.
Schmidt retired from the funeral home two years ago, according to a funeral home
spokesperson.
Schmidt appeared before Washington County Circuit Judge Andy Gonring, who set a
$25,000 signature bond, with the proviso that Schmidt have no unsupervised contact
with anyone younger than 18 and that he not use a computer.
Gonring said he - and he suspects the other Washington County Circuit judges - would
probably recuse themselves from the case because of Schmidt's business and community
profile in the area. The case, he said, would probably be heard outside of the
county.
Schmidt's West Bend attorney, James Danaher, said it "would not be my choice" to move
the case out of the county, however, he would have no choice if all the judges did
indeed recuse themselves.
Beyond his involvement with the funeral home - one of the county's oldest and most
esteemed - Schmidt was honored in 2003 for his involvement with numerous drum and
bugle corps. Schmidt and his wife Judy were honored by Drum Corps International for
their volunteerism to the activity by receiving the 2003 Volunteers of the Year
Award.
Since 1976, the Schmidts have driven buses for the now-defunct West Bend Patriots
Drum and Bugle Corps, the disbanded Marqu[is] Drum and Bugle Corps based in Fond du
Lac, and the Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps based in Milwaukee.
Schmidt's four children - Amy, Scott, Jeff and Loni - all marched with the Pioneer
Drum Corps, according to records on archives.
Amy and Scott now co-own the funeral home.
In a statement after the hearing, Amy Schmidt said "we are in a business that deals
with human tragedy everyday, but that does not diminsh the sadness we feel today. We
are grateful to all who have offered their support. It is this oupouring of
compassion that will help us during this difficult time."
If Schmidt is convicted on all counts, he could face a maximum prison sentence of
over 80 years.
This story appeared in The West Bend Daily News on December 28, 2005.
> http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2005/December_05/12282005_01.asp
>
> Schmidt charged with child porn
> Online transcripts, images seized from former funeral home director
Yes, it popped up on my google drum corps search with this article last
night.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/dec05/381071.asp
Jackie
Good thing the state of Wisconsin has such an intense interest in - and investigative
resources for - internet exploitation and enticement.
An irony - the acronym "DCI" also stands for Department of Criminal Investigation....
should be Department of Criminals to be Investigated with regard to the blando
variety, and no doubt one day will be - if it's not already.
-- Catherine
"Exemplary family man". You betcha. <NOT> 10 years on the Pioneer BoD - like other
pedophiles and lying phonies that admire those sort of manipulative skills, where
kids (of all ages) are concerned.
And quite fortunately, that "cloak of shame and blame" is finally being moved to the
perpetrators, where such deserves to be.
Let's see just how many more people won't talk about such things amongst themselves -
and stand by for such bullshit. "No indication whatsoever" just ain't gonna fly...
particularly someone who led DCM for decades.
And now there is a decade of public internet bullshit detailing "no indications".
Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiight. Keep digging, blandos.
-- Catherine
http://www.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/dec05/381071.asp
Charges bring relief to brother
He blames his son's suicide on sexual assaults in childhood
By DAN BENSON
Posted: Dec. 28, 2005
West Bend - Ken Schmidt says that for five years he had been "counting the days" to
Tuesday's events in Washington County Circuit Court, when his older brother, Curtis
J. Schmidt, was charged with 22 felony counts involving child pornography and
soliciting sex online from a 13-year-old boy.
Curtis Schmidt
Photo/Contributed
Recent Coverage
12/27/05: Man faces charges in child porn case
In December 2000, Ken's son, John, told him that he had been repeatedly assaulted
sexually as a child by Curtis in the 1970s and 1980s.
Haunted by the memories of those assaults, Ken said, John committed suicide in 2003.
"He pulled the trigger, as far as I am concerned. It was caused by that pervert,"
said Ken Schmidt, 64, adding that he was sexually assaulted as a child by his brother
Curtis.
Curtis Schmidt, 67, was for decades known as the head of a historic West Bend
business and a generous and "exemplary" family man. But court documents allege he
was known among family members as a sexually abusive brother and uncle with an
appetite for child pornography.
He is charged with 20 counts of possessing child pornography and with soliciting sex
online from a 13-year-old boy and distributing a video of a child engaging in sexual
activity.
James Danaher, Curtis Schmidt's lawyer, said he and his client declined to comment.
Ken Schmidt, who for years operated Schmidt Funeral Home with his brother, sees
Tuesday's charges against Curtis as a painful but necessary step toward dealing with
the past, if not gaining closure.
According to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday, agents with the state Division of
Criminal Investigation last week searched Curtis Schmidt's home in West Bend and
seized computer equipment and other materials containing child pornography and other
sexually explicit materials.
Ken Schmidt quit the funeral home business in 2000 after he confronted his brother
about his son's allegations.
"I can remember what he said, verbatim. He said, 'Yes, I did it. So what? It was
many years ago.' No remorse. Nothing," Ken Schmidt said.
"I wasn't ready emotionally or financially to retire, but that was the only
alternative I had. I could not stay there facing him every day, because I knew what
he had done to my son," Ken Schmidt said. "I couldn't stand being there anymore."
According to a search warrant affidavit, a 2003 investigation of Curtis Schmidt was
thwarted when Curtis' children, Amy and Scott, "were tipped off" to the investigation
by other family members, confronted Curtis about the allegations and then "junked"
Curtis' home computer and cut him off from Internet access at work.
Curtis Schmidt retired from the family business that year, Amy Schmidt said Tuesday.
On Wednesday, she denied that she and Scott had destroyed their father's computer.
"This is the first time I have heard that allegation," she said.
The 2003 investigation was unable to use information supplied by Ken and John Schmidt
because the time limit for filing charges, or statute of limitations, had run out.
At the time, the statute of limitations ran out when a victim turned 31. John was 35
in February 2003 when he killed himself. In May 2004, the statute of limitations was
extended to age 45.
According to the affidavit, Curtis Schmidt assaulted at least two other family
members.
"This has been going on for over 50 years, all in the immediate family. It was
something that was pushed under the rug," Ken Schmidt said.
Debra Donovan, sexual assault nurse examiner and coordinator of the Sexual Assault
Treatment Center in Milwaukee, said that's not unusual.
"In the whole area of sexual assault, there is such a cloak of shame and blame that
goes on and keeps the crime perpetuated," she said.
Donovan called sexual assault a crime of "power and control" that reaches beyond its
sexual aspects.
"People are terrorized" by how it might affect their relationships, their jobs, other
family members or their standing in the community, Donovan said.
Roman Blenski, executive director of the Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps in Milwaukee,
said Wednesday that Curtis Schmidt and his family had been involved in the group
since the early 1980s.
The drum corps consists of teenagers and young adults, 15 to 21 years old.
The group tours throughout the United States and has more than 100 members.
Curtis Schmidt was a member of the group's board of directors for 10 years and a
frequent volunteer when the group toured, Blenski said.
"This has come as quite a shock. The whole family was kind of a family role model
for all of us to emulate. I've been searching my mind and all the things we've been
through, and I can't think of any indication that anything like this could have
existed," Blenski said.
"He was an exemplary family man," Blenski said of Curtis Schmidt.
Ken Schmidt said he's glad Curtis has been arrested, "for the sake of all his
victims," including Ken's son.
Ken Schmidt said he is most worried about Curtis' children, Amy and Scott, who run
the funeral home with locations in West Bend and Jackson.
"They're the ones who have to live with this. He doesn't have to face people, but
they do for a long time. I wish he had to face everybody and look everybody in the
eye. I hope he faces the music," he said.
From the Dec. 29, 2005, editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
While this is a tragic story. Shocking to say the least. I fail to see
how it's the blandos who are at fault.
P.S. He should hang from his balls.
George
>> Catherine wrote:
>> Thanks for the link, Jackie. This part of the story
>> was only on TV once that I saw - and I didn't put it all together.
>>
>> "Exemplary family man". You betcha. <NOT> 10 years on
>> the Pioneer BoD - like other pedophiles and lying phonies
>> that admire those sort of manipulative skills, where
>> kids (of all ages) are concerned.
>>
>> And quite fortunately, that "cloak of shame and blame" is
>> finally being moved to the perpetrators, where such deserves to be.
>
>> Let's see just how many more people won't talk about
>> such things amongst themselves - and stand by for such
>> bullshit. "No indication whatsoever" just ain't gonna fly...
>> particularly someone who led DCM for decades.
>
>> And now there is a decade of public internet bullshit
>> detailing "no indications".
>> Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiight. Keep digging, blandos.
>
>> -- Catherine
> While this is a tragic story. Shocking to say the least.
It's not the only shocking incident in blando-land wherein people are being given
awards for driving people to suicide - and attempting to do so.
> I fail to see how it's the blandos who are at fault.
That's not what I wrote. But keep on detailing where your indignation actually lies
<pun not intended, but interesting>, while the cowards who enable you continue to
stand by, and worse.
> P.S. He should hang from his balls.
> George
Nice <not> attempt at appearing reasonable - to decent people.
-- Catherine
Are you sure that's what the award was for. That would be a shame if it
were true. You think it was know, that this man was a monster? Sounds
like the family hid it well enough.
>
> > I fail to see how it's the blandos who are at fault.
>
> That's not what I wrote.
Sorry, the five times you refered to blandos threw me.
But keep on detailing where your indignation actually lies.
It lies with you. You bitter old bitch.
> <pun not intended, but interesting>, while the cowards who enable you continue to
> stand by, and worse.
Cowards who enable me? Fuck you bitch. I don't live in Wisconson. I
don't know these people. Do you?
>
> > P.S. He should hang from his balls.
> > George
>
> Nice <not> attempt at appearing reasonable - to decent people.
You're not a decent person christmas cake. You never have been. Do you
really want to talk about appearences?
George
P.S. I hope this monster and everyone who knew what he was doing rots
in hell. Be sure to save them a seat. Will Ya?
>
> -- Catherine
and, like George, I believe this bastard should be castrated.
> Catherine wrote:
>> Besides a mutual admiration society, wherein the granter and
>> the recipient get to artificially inflate each other (much like
>> the Hall of Shame awards)?
> So now it's the hall of fame who enabled this monster?
<::yawn::> Amazing that appearing stupid is less important that attempting (and
failing) to manipulate an emotional response. DCIA sucksess trackers take note of
such "excellence"...
>> Or can it be bought, either by money or things like the blanket
>> statement of a 60-year old that 12-year olds can be sexually
>> mature - even with adult predator? For I am pretty sure
>> although Mr. Schmidt spoke freely about sex and these
>> opinions with the kids and even police, he wasn't so up-front
>> about predators and his nephew who committed suicide
>> because 1) no one would do anything, and 2) the perp was
>> getting awards as an "exemplary family man" and "Volunteer
>> of the Year" from DCI...
> Perhaps the family was at fault for covering it up for 50 years?
Oh yeah - it's the family's fault. The irony of there being no recourse for the
young man (a law which the family didn't pass or even know they had to worry about)
until after he killed himself, that was the family's fault, riiiiiiight.
That really encourages families and family members to come forward for help, NOT!!
Not that protecting them or other possible (and in the case of pedophiles, probable)
victims seems to be a strong consideration of yours and the other blando errand boyz
and girlz who have more important things to worry about than blameable (to the
uneducated and/or ignorant) victims of those perpetrators whom DCIA gives awards to.
> Never mind...that's too close to the truth and undermines your
> real agenda....K
You, speaking truly? LOL... The only time you speak truly is when you are using the
truth to defraud and manipulate - much like any other predator.
Oh, I mind - that you are all too willing to help defend the predator and those who
"knew nothing" - even though in similar threads, the excuse has been that there's
predators in every walk of life. My point is that when the walk of life is
controlled and maintained by lying and defrauding predators who have demonstrated
they look to the experts at child manipulation and lies for errand boy lessons, the
"I didn't know" loses its luster as a defense.
Genuinely excellent educational programs have pro-active anti-bullying and
anti-predator campaigns. There are open and accountable programs for redress, and
kids are protected from those with greater ability to defraud and exploit.
There is NONE of that in blando DCIA, and I can well prove it. In fact, driving
people to suicide has even been publicly demonstrated in a few cases to be a
sought-after set of skills. Sexual activity is merely one technique in such,
depending upon the specialties of the errand boyz and girlz being stood by for and
encouraged.
>> Was it in part due to having four kids in Pioneer - two of
>> whom now have to live with the mess of what this
>> "exemplary family man" thought more important than
>> his family?
>
>> Anyone know the details of Mr. Schmidt's award? After all,
>> since it was worth something and all...
>
>> And where is Roman Blenski's retraction - and public
>> statement that this sort of thing ain't unknown in the
>> history of DCI no one's ever gonna read about in anything
>> Steve Vickers makes money and ego points off of.
> Wow. To inuendos in one sentence. Nice job, but you
> forgot Wyane and Rocco and....
If the shoes fit... Not that you've said anything substantive. But I 'spose you
choose the best rhetorical defense at hand - when it comes to defending blandos and
further enabling such predators.
>> Hell - we still don't know any of the details about Harvey
>> Berish and all his enablers - other than that such blandos
>> have and continue to be cowards who stand by for all this
>> - and worse, in some cases. This is known as "doing
>> something in the here and now for 'the activity'"...
> Yea, it's the activity and blandos fault. How old is DCI?
> I don't think it's 50 yet. I thought these crimes happened
> before DCI. My bad. I must improve my math skills.
Yes, it is responsible for protecting those it has protected, while attacking those
it has attacked - and the inevitable results therefrom. And it will continue to be
so until - not if - the event happens which tears apart all the lies and liars, the
frauds, and all those who stood by for it all and dared to call themselves educators,
award-winners, or anything having anything to do with truth or excellence at all.
>> And these blandos pretend to be corpsmembers, and those
>> who serve them? Whatta fraud.
> Speaking of frauds -- Catherine
>
> George
Thanks <NOT> for continuing to prove my arguments, George - while all the cowards who
stand by and have stood by (not knowing anything, of course), continue on and expect
people to listen to those who admit they don't know anything and can't and won't do
anything about it.
No matter the costs.
-- Catherine
********************************************************************
Jeff Ream, the errand boy's errand boy.
I don't have to tie either of you in to anything - you both do that yourselves, as
you have for years now. But yer deep and sincere concerns about the family and all
other victims of predatory targets are noted and given the consideration such
deserves.
Here's a clue, Ream - castration doesn't work. Vigilance against lies and predators,
as well as a truly safe atmosphere for the targeted, does. Fortunately, I rely upon
neither of you in your evaluations concerning the parallels I have drawn; they exist,
or they do not. If they did not, then any blandos' (or their errand boys') upset
about my pointing them out becomes irrational. However, if what I say exists, then
the existence of errand boys and blando manipulations becomes proof, in and of
itself, of what I claim.
Either way works fer me. So keep digging, blando apologists. And for all those
continuing to stand by, SHAME ON YOU.
-- Catherine
So you are saying I am somehow responsible for this sick man 18 years
my senior from another state and his crimes? Are you also saying I have
no concern for victims of such crimes? You're a fool CB. A lier and a
fool. But you already know that.
> Here's a clue, Ream - castration doesn't work. Vigilance against lies and predators,
> as well as a truly safe atmosphere for the targeted, does. Fortunately, I rely upon
> neither of you in your evaluations concerning the parallels I have drawn; they exist,
> or they do not. If they did not, then any blandos' (or their errand boys') upset
> about my pointing them out becomes irrational. However, if what I say exists, then
> the existence of errand boys and blando manipulations becomes proof, in and of
> itself, of what I claim.
>
> Either way works fer me. So keep digging, blando apologists. And for all those
> continuing to stand by, SHAME ON YOU.
Here's a clue for you christmas cake. Everyone on my staff (myself
included) has been finger printed, with police and FBI screening for
back round checks.
I don't think you would pass the test.
The Coast Guard has a more exstensive back round check.
I haven't heard any apologist statements concerning the crimes that
began this post. But don't let that stop your ranting CB. Rant on
girl....I'm the ONLYONE who knows...I'm the ONLYONE who cares....Except
I do NOTHING but type inuendos about people I know nothing about.
Goodluck with that. Your credibility is soaring;] Like a shark without
teeth.
George
>
> -- Catherine
So "crazy" wasn't enough, eh? Six years of EVERYONE's errand boy/girl performances
ain't enough, eh?
Who's the liar and fool now, Maloney?
>> Here's a clue, Ream - castration doesn't work. Vigilance
>> against lies and predators, as well as a truly safe
>> atmosphere for the targeted, does. Fortunately, I rely upon
>> neither of you in your evaluations concerning the parallels
>> I have drawn; they exist, or they do not. If they did not,
>> then any blandos' (or their errand boys') upset about my
>> pointing them out becomes irrational. However, if what
>> I say exists, then the existence of errand boys and blando
>> manipulations becomes proof, in and of itself, of what I claim.
>>
>> Either way works fer me. So keep digging, blando
>> apologists. And for all those continuing to stand by,
>> SHAME ON YOU.
> Here's a clue for you christmas cake. Everyone on my staff
> (myself included) has been finger printed, with police and
> FBI screening for back round checks.
>
> I don't think you would pass the test.
What test? And why not? And where and how and why do you get any such information?
;-)
> The Coast Guard has a more exstensive back round check.
> I haven't heard any apologist statements concerning the
> crimes that began this post. But don't let that stop your
> ranting CB. Rant on girl....I'm the ONLYONE who knows...
> I'm the ONLYONE who cares....Except I do NOTHING
> but type inuendos about people I know nothing about.
Still have nothing to argue on the merits, eh? Your sort of "defense" is damned
empty and old. But I 'spose it's all you've got.
I interpret - just a guess - that you are alleging that I think the things you write.
Please point out where I actually wrote such things, rather than accusing you and
other blando frauds
> Goodluck with that. Your credibility is soaring;] Like a
> shark without teeth.
> George
That's why you and EVERYONE else and their errand boys and girls keep arguing with me
as y'all have done for more than five years now, I guess, because (you say) I have no
credibility and my words are no threat to frauds like you at all, eh? Sounds to me
that EVERYONE has no credibility, and keeps hoping that Goebbels' words about lies
will come to pass some day - not that y'all believe it's working.
Got anything to say about Curtis J. Schmidt and/or other pedophiles in DCIA? No?
Just me, huh? Tsk, tsk, despite yer truly avowed concerns about pedophiles, the use
of family victims in corporate politics and all, etc. ...
Keep digging, Maloney.
-- Catherine
ah yet again wrong. even after a break from your spewage, you still get
it wrong about me.
>
> I don't have to tie either of you in to anything - you both do that yourselves, as
> you have for years now. \
go back and re-read your own spewage nutella.
But yer deep and sincere concerns about the family and all
> other victims of predatory targets are noted and given the consideration such
> deserves.
actually I am very appalled if this guy is truly guilty. then again i
am appalled at how you try and label the whole activity with this and
not just a few sick demented( similar to you) individuals.
>
> Here's a clue, Ream - castration doesn't work.
funny, i said that to people about you and ignoring you.
gee wasnt i right
Vigilance against lies and predators,
> as well as a truly safe atmosphere for the targeted, does.
right and the death penalty isnt a deterrent. hey guess what...fry
enough of those scumbags and watch crime drop
Fortunately, I rely upon
> neither of you in your evaluations concerning the parallels I have drawn; they exist,
> or they do not. If they did not, then any blandos' (or their errand boys') upset
> about my pointing them out becomes irrational. However, if what I say exists, then
> the existence of errand boys and blando manipulations becomes proof, in and of
> itself, of what I claim.
I am upset because as always, you use a wide paint brush and try to tie
all into your grand conspiracy BS.
>
> Either way works fer me. So keep digging, blando apologists. And for all those
> continuing to stand by, SHAME ON YOU.
>
> -- Catherine
not standing by at all Catherine...thats just it. thats paintbrushing
by you. you assume that which your pea brain thinks is true, yet, as
you always are, you're wrong.
but why let the truth get in the way of your rant.
No thank you
>
> Happy and Safe new year to you both!!!
Thank you. Same to you!!!
> --
> NanciD
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