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So, while the right is all in a lather about bathroom assaults by transgenders..that never happened, this happened. I am very happy to see this sick bastard going to jail. To think, he actually ran for the US Senate in my state. :shock:
(The title of the article should read "Ex-Minuteman Founder...."
Ex-Minuteman Chris Simcox found guilty in child-molestation trial
Ex-Minuteman Chris Simcox found guilty in child-molestation trial
Megan Cassidy, The Republic
A Maricopa County Superior Court jury on Wednesday found former “border-vigilante” leader Chris Simcox guilty of two counts of child molestation and one count of furnishing obscene material to a minor.
He was found not guilty on three other counts of sexual conduct with a minor.
The jury had been debating the case since Monday afternoon.
Simcox, 55, was arrested in 2013 after two girls, ages 5 and 6, accused him of touching them inappropriately. He later was charged with two counts of molestation, three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of furnishing obscene material to a minor.
Simcox, a former kindergarten and grade-school teacher with no legal background, represented himself throughout the three-week case in Maricopa County Superior Court.
The prosecution’s case hinged on the testimony of witnesses — in particular, the two young accusers named as victims in the case. The state presented no physical evidence.
On the first day of the trial May 18, one of the girls — now 8 — testified about how Simcox touched her privates “like a cup” when she was at his apartment.
“I couldn’t take it anymore and I really wanted him to stop,” the girl said when asked why she eventually came forward to her mother.
The state bolstered its case with two other witnesses who testified that Simcox had acted inappropriately with them as well. Another young girl said the defendant had bribed her with candy to see her genitals, and a woman said Simcox had molested her as a child several years ago.
(The title of the article should read "Ex-Minuteman Founder...."
Ex-Minuteman Chris Simcox found guilty in child-molestation trial
Ex-Minuteman Chris Simcox found guilty in child-molestation trial
Megan Cassidy, The Republic
A Maricopa County Superior Court jury on Wednesday found former “border-vigilante” leader Chris Simcox guilty of two counts of child molestation and one count of furnishing obscene material to a minor.
He was found not guilty on three other counts of sexual conduct with a minor.
The jury had been debating the case since Monday afternoon.
Simcox, 55, was arrested in 2013 after two girls, ages 5 and 6, accused him of touching them inappropriately. He later was charged with two counts of molestation, three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of furnishing obscene material to a minor.
Simcox, a former kindergarten and grade-school teacher with no legal background, represented himself throughout the three-week case in Maricopa County Superior Court.
The prosecution’s case hinged on the testimony of witnesses — in particular, the two young accusers named as victims in the case. The state presented no physical evidence.
On the first day of the trial May 18, one of the girls — now 8 — testified about how Simcox touched her privates “like a cup” when she was at his apartment.
“I couldn’t take it anymore and I really wanted him to stop,” the girl said when asked why she eventually came forward to her mother.
The state bolstered its case with two other witnesses who testified that Simcox had acted inappropriately with them as well. Another young girl said the defendant had bribed her with candy to see her genitals, and a woman said Simcox had molested her as a child several years ago.