by th3th1nk3r » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:25 pm
From RAW STORY:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Congressman_accused_of_sending_sick_emails_0928.html">www.rawstory.com/news/200..._0928.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Congressman accused of sending 'sick' emails to 16 year old boy"<br><br>Larry Womack<br>Published: Thursday September 28, 2006<br><br>A Congressman has been accused of sending questionable emails to a sixteen-year old Capitol page, RAW STORY has learned.<br><br>Reports circulated on the Internet earlier this week, indicating that in private emails, Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) had requested photographs of the page, asked what he wanted for his birthday, and inquired about his age. The emails may be viewed below.<br><br>A subsequent investigation by RAW STORY discovered that the addresses on the emails were indeed those of Foley and a now-seventeen year old boy, who forwarded them to a fellow staffer. There is no overtly sexual communication in Foley's emails, and the age of consent in Washington, DC is sixteen.<br><br>Our investigation also uncovered a MySpace profile attached to the congressman's personal address, containing very little information.<br><br>Foley's office has told ABC News that it is their policy to keep pictures of former interns so that they could be remembered by anyone looking to recommend one. However, ABC also reports that the page did not work in Foley's office.<br><br>RAW STORY spoke with several sources, who confirmed that they felt Foley was unusually friendly with young Hill pages, but failed to uncover anything of a more serious nature.<br><br>Foley's office contends that the Congressman is only guilty of being overly-friendly and has categorized the story as part of an opponent's "smear campaign."<br><br>Foley has long marketed himself as a protector of children from sexual predation. In 2003, he became an outspoken critic of a summer nudist camp for children. An amendment by Foley to change federal sex offender laws became part of the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act of 2006.<br><br><br><br>A quick follow-up at the congressman's own website newsroom will reveal some consanguineous legislation:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.house.gov/foley/news/newsroom_list.shtml">www.house.gov/foley/news/...list.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Eg:<br><br>FOLEY APPLAUDS LAUNCH OF JUSTICE SEX OFFENDER WEBSITE<br><br>Foley: "I urge every state to participate to ensure no predator has a safe-haven in this country."<br> <br>Thursday, July 21, 2005 <br> <br>WASHINGTON - Congressman Mark Foley (FL-16), Chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, today applauded the U.S. Attorney General’s announcement that the the activation of the Justice Department’s National Sex Offender Public Registry (NSOPR) website, which provides real-time access to public sex offender data nationwide with a single Internet search. More information on the website can be found at <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov.">www.ojp.usdoj.gov.</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>“I applaud the improvements Attorney General Gonzales has made in how we treat sex offenders and in doing what he can at the Justice Department to shore up our Sex Offender Registry. I urge every state to participate to ensure no predator has a safe-haven in this country,” said Foley.<br><br>”Now it is up to Congress to overhaul our sex offender laws and protect our children. We must also ensure that the information they are collecting is accurate and useful in tracking these offenders.”<br><br>At a news conference on Capitol Hill in May, Foley and Senator Orrin Hatch unveiled legislation that integrates more than twenty years of sex offender legislation into a comprehensive quilt of laws governing how we treat sex offenders. The Senate plans to take up the measure this week while the House has taken up a modified version of Congressman Foley’s initial legislation later next week.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
