Neighbors close in after sex charges

Neighbors close in after sex charges

Neighbors close in after sex charges - Local & State - News & Observer


BY STANLEY B. CHAMBERS JR., Staff Writer
Sitting in a Durham County jail cell, Frank M. Lombard, the Duke University researcher accused of offering his adopted 5-year-old son for sex, awaits a trip to Washington, D.C., this week to face federal criminal charges.
After waiving an extradition hearing Friday morning, he was locked in the Durham jail Saturday without bail.

Federal authorities say Lombard, 42, of 24 Indigo Creek Trail, performed sexual acts on his son and invited an undercover investigator online to fly to North Carolina and do the same.

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There is a special place for barbarians like this sick ****. How sick are people? What posesses these savages? Sometimes expanding the death penalty does not seem like a bad idea.

Reverend_Hellh0und said:

There is a special place for barbarians like this sick ****. How sick are people? What posesses these savages? Sometimes expanding the death penalty does not seem like a bad idea.

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I think what adds to this is I have admiration for people who are willing to adopt. The amount of work involved in adopting is a lot. You would think that a person who wants a child so bad that he/she seeks to adopt one would be a good person. Clearly that is not the case. So we think that someone adopting an unwanted child is saving that child from a not-so-great life. For this child, he was adopted into a nightmare. I want to throw up.

Lombard owns the home with another man, according to Durham County property records. The pair bought the home, which sits at the end of a narrow path lined with trees and multicolored homes, in May 2007, the records show. The co-owner has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

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I'm just sayin.

I hope they give him the death penalty

bhkad said:

I'm just sayin.

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Tell us what you're sayin.

Is it a fact that homosexuals have a higher rate of pedophilia? I'm just asking (and am too lazy to find out myself).

I can't even stand to think of what this 5-year-old went through. Sex toys? My heart is broken for this boy.

To clarify, the man is indeed gay, as I've learned from other reports. But that's merely anecdotal, and I don't know of any legitimate empirical research that indicates a greater propensity among gay parents to abuse their children in any way.

And no, I don't need to hear about prescriptions from Wally World. :2wave:

This story sickens me. I hope that little boy gets a wonderful home now. I want to adopt him and help heal him myself.

aps said:

I think what adds to this is I have admiration for people who are willing to adopt. The amount of work involved in adopting is a lot. You would think that a person who wants a child so bad that he/she seeks to adopt one would be a good person.

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Problem is, it only establishes how badly they want a child, not necessarily what they want the child for.

When I read the headline about "neighbors close in" I imagined pitchforks, but the story says otherwise. Apparently the neighbors are protecting this guy's privacy.

Neighbors of Lombard had nothing to say about him Saturday to a reporter who visited Eno Commons, a co-housing community in north Durham.

Residents ordered the reporter to leave the neighborhood, which emphasizes communal life.

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Korimyr the Rat said:

Problem is, it only establishes how badly they want a child, not necessarily what they want the child for.

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True. Many people are foster parents because of the extra money the state gives them--not because they genuinely care about the foster child.

I'm not sure how I feel about this story. I just don't have it in me anymore to feel outrage. I'm concerned that the child could face a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems as a result of his father's actions and I'm also saddened to see a family torn apart. I wonder what could have possibly been going through his mind considering he was probably educated as a social worker in exactly what potential consequences could arise from his behavior.

The more I have studied sexual addictions and paraphilias, the less surprised I am by events like these. People who get caught up in seeking new heights of sexual arousal and pleasure can often put their own self gratification before that of their own well being and the well being of others. However the ethical line is very clearly drawn at consent. For an adult to make such a choice for a child, particularly an adult who is in an authority position over that child, is without any reasonable justification. To be so self indulgent so as to violate the ethics of being a trusted father, social worker, member of his community, etc. and to make choices that put his own son's future mental and emotional health at great risk are just outside my ability to understand.