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'Manhattan Manny' Pleads Guilty in Boy's Sex Abuse

21-year-old babysitter dodges life sentence with plea

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 2, 2009 4:08 AM CDT
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(Newser) – A male babysitter who dubbed himself "the Manhattan Manny" is facing a 12-year sentence after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy. Jonathan Then, who also worked at summer camps and as a teaching aide in some of New York City's ritziest private schools, had originally been charged with molesting four boys but prosecutors cut a deal so the children wouldn't have to testify, reports the New York Daily News.

Jonathan Then will be sentenced October 15 at the Manhattan Supreme Court and is expected to get 12 years in state prison.
Jonathan Then will be sentenced October 15 at the Manhattan Supreme Court and is expected to get 12 years in state prison.   (Shutter Stock)
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Aelius28
Oct 2, 2009 12:07 PM CDT
The vast majority of child sexual abuses are not perpetrated by pedophiles. And if that sounds like an oxymoron, then you don't know enough about the subject to be speaking so adamantly about it. Most child sexual abuses are perpetrated by people who were abused as a child themselves. They're not doing it for the sex, they're doing it for the power. Therefore, castration will make you look like the primitive barbarian and he'll go on his merry way molesting children over again because his hormones have nothing to do with it.
Aelius28
Oct 2, 2009 11:45 AM CDT
You sound just like the white man 150 years ago who, in response to abolitionists, might have said "You can twist it around any way you like, but letting a black man do everything us white men can is just WRONG." There's a reason logic is paramount.
riffran
Oct 2, 2009 11:44 AM CDT
I don't agree with ANY child porn..free paid or other.....ive said it before ...you make a very eloquent point...but I just don't buy it. You can twist the logic around any way you want, but kiddie porn in any form or practice or usage is never acceptable....lol..so sayeth the UGG

 
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