from The Washington Post (for dharma, unfortunately)
Sometimes, even the good guys aren't.
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Someone you think maybe you could trust, someone who is supposedly responsible enough to have served aboard an aircraft carrying the Veep, Secretary of State, and other high-ups, someone who should know better.
Sometimes those guys aren't right.
To me, it doesn't really matter that she was 17; she's "almost legal", right? Does that make it better? No. And his attorney's statement:
"Walizer had sex with a 17-year-old girl," Garrett said. "The last time I checked, they didn't put you in the penitentiary for having sex with a 17-year-old girl."
I'm with the Commonwealth's Attorney on this one; it's not just about the sex, but the exploitation of a minor. He didn't just court a 17 year old girl online and slept with her, he seduced a sixteen (maybe 15?) year old girl online for 18 months in order to sleep with her. Possibly while he was also "working his magic" on a teenager in Ohio (his arrest in OCT 03 may be late enough that there was no overlap). With one arrest under his belt, surely this man (of 38 years) knew better?