Do You Remember? ACLU Defended Pedophile Group
NAMBLA officials in the past have said their main goal is the abolition of
age-of-consent laws that classify sex with children as rape.
BOSTON August 31, 2000 -- The American Civil Liberties Union will represent a group that
advocates sex between men and boys in a lawsuit brought by the family of a slain
10-year-old. The family of Jeffrey Curley of Cambridge said the North American Man/Boy
Love Association and its website which is now offline incited the attempted molestation
and murder of the boy on Oct. 1, 1997.
One of two men convicted in the killing, Charles Jaynes, 25, reportedly viewed the group's
website shortly before the killing, and also had in his possession some of NAMBLA's
publications. Also convicted in the killing was 24-year-old Salvatore Sicari.
The ACLU said the case, filed in federal court in mid-May, involves issues of
freedom of speech and association.
"For us, it is a fundamental First Amendment case," John Roberts, executive
director of the Massachusetts branch of the ACLU, told Boston Globe Wednesday. "It
has to do with communications on a website, and material that does not promote any kind of
criminal behavior whatsoever." ACLU officials said NAMBLA members deny encouraging
coercion, rape or violence.
Attorney Lawrence Frisoli, who represents the Curleys, said he is glad the ACLU is
defending NAMBLA, because he has had trouble locating the group's members.
Harvey Silverglate, an ACLU board member, said the group's attorneys will try to block any
attempt by the Curleys to get NAMBLA's membership lists, or other materials identifying
members. The ACLU also will act as a surrogate for NAMBLA, allowing its members to defend
themselves in court while remaining anonymous.
According to the Globe, NAMBLA officials in the past have said their main goal is
the abolition of age-of-consent laws that classify sex with children as rape.
At two separate trials last year, prosecutors said Jaynes and Sicari were sexually
obsessed with the boy, lured him from his Cambridge neighborhood with the promise of a new
bike, and then smothered him with a gasoline-soaked rag when he resisted their sexual
advances. They then stuffed him into a concrete-filled container and dumped it into a
Maine river.
Sicari, convicted of first-degree murder, is serving a life sentence without the
possibility of parole. Jaynes' second-degree murder and kidnapping convictions enable him
to seek parole in 23 years.
The Curleys last week were awarded $328 million by a superior court jury in a civil suit
against Jaynes and Sicari.
Response from SOC-UM's Founder:
Having had a child victimized by a member of NAMBLA I must admit to being totally outraged
by the ACLU and it's reasoning for their defense of NAMBLA. NAMBLA is hiding very
carefully under the first amendment, while at the same time offering comfort and support
to those men who are convicted sex offenders.
The reading of NAMBLA's position papers are very telling.... they don't call for lowing
the age of consent, they call for abolishment of consent laws. They use words like sexual
abuse in terms of force, but allow for adults to have "consensual" sexual
relationships with children, knowing full well that children are manipulated and coerced
into silence by adults during sexual abuse.
A quote from NAMBLA's Official Position Papers, Oct. 12, 1996.
"NAMBLA'S first position was adopted at its third General Membership Meeting in June,
1980. It focused on the hated "statutory rape" laws which confuse rape and
violence with consensual sex. "Statutory rape" laws vilify, persecute, and
arrest the development of the love which men have for boys and which boys have for men.
These laws are used in a discriminatory way to give long prison sentences to boy lovers
and hinder the development of the gentleness, wisdom, and creative contribution of boy
lovers as a minority group. The resolution proposed by Tom Reeves states: (1) The North
American Man/Boy Love Association calls for the abolition of age-of- consent and all other
laws which prevent men and boys from freely enjoying their bodies. (2) We call for the
release of all men and boys imprisoned by such laws."
How nice of NAMBLA to think of children (boys) and their sexual freedom in relationship to
men, and how telling. NAMBLA helping boys find their sexual freedom, is like snakes
helping their prey.
That the ACLU is getting into the battle is an outrage. Offering assistance to a group
that advocates the sexual abuse of children (oops, "consensual" sex with
children), and whom many members are convicted child molesters is beyond the pale.
I'm sadden as a Country we have people who don't understand that helping NAMBLA helps them
promote sexual abuse of our boy children. A truly dark day in history for children.
Debbie Mahoney SOC-UM, Safeguarding Our Children-United Mothers
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