another one from the right.

the people that tell the world how they should live. the ones that are going to save our lives by not allowing us to live in sin.

Here's an article written by a reporter that attended yesterday's court proceedings.
http://www.etownian.com/article.php?id=124
Eller enters guilty plea
Joshua T. Andrzejewski
Editor

Thursday February 22 2007

At 9:35 a.m. yesterday, David B. Eller pled guilty to both charges facing him. On the third floor of the Dauphin County Courthouse, the former chair of religious studies at Elizabethtown College signed his plea, giving up his rights to a trial by judge or jury.

Eller’s decision will require a Megan’s Law evaluation to take place within 90 days. No matter what the findings of that evaluation, he must register his address with state police for at least 10 years. At his sentencing, scheduled for June 1 at 10 a.m., a judge will decide if he needs to register for the rest of his life.

Eller’s primary charge was attempted unlawful contact with a minor, a first-degree felony that carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $25,000 fine in Pennsylvania. The secondary charge was criminal use of a communication facility (a computer), a felony in the third degree that carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, a $15,000 fine, or both.

“We’re pleased to see this case moving toward a conclusion,” Nils Frederiksen, deputy press secretary for the office of the attorney general, said yesterday. “We have faith in the strength of the case and were ready to take it to trial.”
The College had no comment on yesterday’s proceedings.

“The College addressed the situation involving Dr. Eller in late July,” President Theodore E. Long said. “This case is a matter for the courts, and it appears to be moving toward an appropriate conclusion.”

THE COURTROOM SCENE

Sitting in the first row of the courtroom and looking straight ahead, Eller and his wife, Barbara, waited through various other cases that took place during a miscellaneous court session. There was a general sense of disorder in the room, as lawyers shuffled through case folders and spoke quietly with their clients.

At 9:22 a.m., Eller’s lawyer, Brian W. Perry from the law offices of Nealon, Gover & Perry, handed him a document. Eller’s wife spoke to him, nodding, and he smiled. Her hand rested on his shoulder.

At 9:25 a.m., Eller was called forward.

Perry and prosecutor Anthony Forray, senior deputy attorney general, approached the bench and spoke with Judge Scott A. Evans for 10 minutes as Eller stood alone before the court. Evans leaned far back in his chair as Perry spoke, laughing at times.

Perry and Forray seemed to be in deep debate. The prosecutor shook his head and the defense attorney touched his arm, as if to reassure him. Eller stood facing forward, hands clasped in front of him.

The case was finally brought before the full court and, as the charges were read, the room grew quiet.

Forray explained the contact Eller had with an agent of the attorney general’s office, who he believed was a 12-year-old girl. The conversation “almost immediately turned to contact of a sexual nature,” according to Forray.

Days later, Forray said, Eller requested “oral sex with this purported 12-year-old.”

After the charges were read and Eller affirmed he understood them, he entered his guilty pleas. He did not ask any questions or speak more than a word or two at a time.

After Evans scheduled the sentencing for June 1, in order to allow time for the Megan’s Law evaluation to occur, Eller clapped Perry on the back and headed toward the door at the back of the room, motioning for his wife to join him.

At 9:41 a.m., they left courtroom two.

MEGAN’S LAW

April 21, 1996, Act 24 of 1995 — commonly referred to as “Megan’s Law” — became law in Pennsylvania.

It allows courts to identify sexually violent predators, requires sex offenders and sexually violent predators to register with the Pennsylvania state police and requires communities to be informed when a sex offender or sexually violent predator moves into the neighborhood.

Why do you say he is 'from the right'?
On the contrary, a good bulk of university 'religious' profs are quite to the left

I don't think child molesters are exclusively conservative or Republican (or liberal or Democratic, for that matter).

What alarms me about child-molestation crimes is that they continue in spite of the fact that authorities are cracking down harder on them. They just can't help themselves.

The most appalling detail of this case was that he had made contact with four undercover detectives (and who knows how many actual children) before he was nailed. He sounds truly like a predator, to me. It seems as if most of these cases spring from "internet chat rooms." Don't they know, or care, that these places are traps? That's how insidious this is.

I'm all for enlightening children and their parents about these creepy vultures. But I'm also wondering if there will come a day when education exists that enables predators to recognize their illness -- or affliction, or addiction, or whatever you want to call it -- before they harm children and their families.

Persons convicted of murder in the USA serve an average of 11 years.