tried to extort a teenager by demanding cash or sex
Says here he'd've been okay with some cash. Doesn't say how much.
Also makes you wonder how come he was arrested right away - police just happened to be on the scene? He'd hinted at what he wanted on the phone and she brought the police right with her?
I mean really, guys this seems excessive. I mean why at a fast food restaurant of all friggin places? Whatever happened to diplomacy first?
Pedophiles love fast food?
The main problems I have are A) It's not his dog and he has no right to keep it from its owner and B) he tried to extort sex from an underage girl who just wanted her pet back.
But, like I said, I think there's more to this than the article reports.
The guy isn't a pedophile, he's an ephebophile or a hebephile (if the girl is a teenager).
Second, the threat of going to jail for making sexual explicit demands should've made him change his tune. I mean did the girl even talk it over with him before calling the police? This article doesn't answer that.
Third, like I said earlier the incentive to keep the dog would've been outweighed by other factors like the girl warning authorities he was trying to extort her. She could've made him well aware of this fact but the way this article sounds she didn't.
How do we know if this was a guy with serious mental problems or just a guy who's been sex deprived for so long he'll take anything?
Plus, you know what's the age of consent in California? Friggin 17, she could've been friggin 16 years old, 11 months, and 28 days for christ's sake.
But no, Americans have a mega persecution psyche, the very hint of immorality must be severly punished, reform is impossible. Why bother with negotiators when we have big men with guns who can abuse and punish without repercussion but kill one in self defense you get the death penalty?
You see my gripe here?