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1. Shawn says:
   September 14, 2007 10:21

   You know I would like to know just when the water carrying for the republican pedophiles will end. Someone will come out for the guy, and defend him as they have in the past and e will probably get the usual sentence for conservative figures in OC. He will get rewarded. Like the Anaheim police officer that fled the country. Only to come back to get a sentence fit for a petty thief, the sunshine of the law always seems to fall upon those with a lot of red background. The people defending this man are no different then the brain dead Catholics I see who Defend the raping Bishop, claim it’s a with hunt and it’s unfair.

   Bullshit. Unfair is the man or woman on tail end of these attacks by the “values” mob in politics and clergy. When and if the hypocritical pedophiles who wave the flags of morality while stroking the thighs and other regions of kids and teenagers lose their corrupted cheerleaders, and in the Bishops case and apparently this case powerful human hiding places, hopefully real justice and a little humility will reveal itself.

   I will not hold my breathe.
   

2. Debby Bodkin says:
   September 14, 2007 19:13

   As a concerned OC resident, is there a reason why there has never been a public explanation as to why the first set of porn charges filed against Jeffrey Nielsen were dismissed in March 2006? The public deserves to know why the first set of charges were dismissed. Now that there is a second set of porn charges filed against Nielsen, who is to say that these charges won't mysteriously disappear?

   We can only pray that the judicial officer who supervises the trial proceedings of Mr. Nielsen is free and clear of any and all potential and/or appearances of conflicts of interest. I was disappointed to learn that Judge Clarence Haynes, a 1979 graduate of Western State Law School and former teacher at Westminster HS, where Nielsen's alleged victim attended HS, also supervised a majority of Jeffrey Nielsen's pre-trial hearings for the past 4 years. Not that there was a conflict of interest but there are so many other graduates of Western State Law school that seem to be supervising politically-charged, sexual misconduct lawsuits in California:

   1. Larry Scoufos, the former asst. DA of Sonoma County and a member of the prosecution team who lost the computer evidence for John Mark Karr's child porn charges, which allowed John Mark Karr to be released from jail on October 5, 2006. Sadly, John Chamberlain, also accused of child porn, was murdered in the OC jail on the same day.

   2. Larry Scoufos was also a member of the prosecution team who failed to prosecute Bishop Daniel Walsh for failing to report Ochoa's sexual misconduct against a minor child as mandated by law, before Ochoa fled the country to Mexico;

   3. Chuck Middleton, a former DA in OC for 30 years, a member of the prosecution teams that failed to file sex abuse charges against Jeffrey Andrade, a former teacher at Mater Dei HS, Michael Harris, a priest once employed by the Diocese of Orange, and John Lenihan, also a former priest once employed by the Diocese of Orange and a supervisory employee when the DA's office dismissed Jeffrey Nielsen's first set of porn charges in March 2006;

   4. Daniel Sullivan, an attorney whose law firm Sullivan & Ballog represents the OC Sheriff's Department, the Diocese of Orange and the LA Archdiocese, simultaneously. One has to wonder if this is a legal fee sharing deal; afterall, it must be quite economical to have one attorney protect accused sexual predators and wrongdoing of law enforcement officials simultaneously.

   5. Maria Rullo Schinderle, the former HR Director and current General Counsel for the Diocese of Orange, supervising the $100 million sex abuse lawsuit settlement in December 2004, who also continues to supervise pending OCSC lawsuits relating to sex abuse allegations. Ms. Schinderle was also the attorney who orchestrated paying a sexual predator $100,000, Jeffrey Andrade, to dismiss his civil lawsuit against the Diocese of Orange in 2005.

3. Debby Bodkin says:
   September 14, 2007 21:52

   Does anyone know why the OC District Attorney's public affairs counsel did not release this information about new charges files against Jeffrey Nielsen? This is very odd.

4. John Arthur Lowe says:
   September 15, 2007 11:36

   If you love Mark Foley and are thrilled by Larry Craig, then you'll love Jeffrey Nielson, the NAMBLA's gift to the GOP.

   Why is it that pedophiles, male rapists, masculine whores, and other sexually maladjusted men are so attracted to the GOP? Perhaps the famous Paul Conrad cartoon where the elephant buggers the donkey says it all.

5. trai_dep says:
   September 18, 2007 09:48

   I think the Republican Party should adopt the Rovian tactic of attacking the opponent's perceived strength. To wit, "Who SAYS that buggering children is a bad thing? It builds their endurance, their stamina and develops their interpersonal skills. Who ELSE is going to help these wayward youth with their algebra homework?"

   Stand tall, OC Republicans, stand TALL!

6. Dave says:
   September 18, 2007 11:00

   I thought pedophilia scandals were Arellano's domain. You're on 'Tavo's turf: step off, Moxley!