09-17-2013, 11:06 AM
(09-15-2013, 03:10 PM)username Wrote: I hope he was arrested before he was able to turn his fantasies in to reality.
There's no evidence that he ever did, but plenty of evidence that he "intended to", according to his online chats with other pedophiles and evidence submitted by prosecutors.
He also possessed a shitload of child porn and pictures of children being tortured, which is what he pleaded guilty to.
Portway will be sentenced today. He and his attorney think 27 years in prison is too harsh. They think 18 years is more fair. Why so little? Because, of course, he is a victim.
Here's a portion of the psych eval that his attorney submitted to the court for consideration in today's sentencing.
His parents divorced when he was young, and Portman realized he was gay when he was 8 years old but was afraid to reveal it because his father was homophobic, the evaluating psychologist Dr. Eric L. Brown, wrote. Around the same time, according to the evaluation, he became increasingly fascinated with children's tales such as "Hansel and Gretel," in which two children are caged and fattened up so that a witch can eat them.
Portway had a "wish to be eaten" that "fulfilled a more basic desire to be wanted, valued, and incorporated by another person," wrote Dr. Brown.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/justice/ca...?hpt=ju_c1
Well, so what?
Portway wasn't arrested because of his fantasies and his desire to be eaten. He was arrested because he engaged in illegal child-porn activity and collaborated with convicted pedophiles regarding torturing, killing, and eating children IRL.
27 years is not long enough for this guy. Lots of creepy old pervs out there who are re-offending in their golden years, and those probation visits after prison release can't stop them, as we often see.
Maybe visits by parole officers can minimize their opportunities to re-offend, but I don't think these guys can be stopped altogether unless they're caged and have no access to children.