"Will Dana Rohrabacher please stand and approach the bench?"

[TomInTib]

Things have been looking up for accused child molester Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, the 36-year-old Christian conservative activist and lawyer with close ties to Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Scott Baugh, head of the Orange County Republican Party. Police say Nielsen took a 14-year-old Westminster boy as his sex partner in 2003 and maintained a huge cache of man-boy pornography.

But prosecutors have allowed their case against Nielsen, once an intern in the district attorney’s office, to stall for 40 months.

Ironically, those delays have provoked new sex-crime allegations. Saying he fears a subversion of justice, a northern Virginia man claims that Nielsen repeatedly molested him when he was an adolescent.

“For two years, when I was 13 and 14 years old, Jeff sexually abused me while he worked in Washington for Rohrabacher as a legislative aide,” the 25-year-old married man told the Weekly in a recent interview. “There was never any penetration, but other than that? Everything. He wrapped it all up as normal, as love.”

scroll down a bit and you can find this and two articles from The Orange County Weekly at:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_digbysblog_archive.html#115991457480750400

[MADem]

1. Good grief, that's dreadful, but I don't see where Rohrbacher is

averred to have known about the behavior of his sleazy staffer....

[me b zola]

3. I think it makes Rohrbacher seem like a pimp

:shrug:

[MADem]

6. I didn't get that sense, frankly. NT

[TomInTib]

4. Read the second OCWeekly article

There is some heavy weight keeping this one tamped down.

[MADem]

5. I did, and I agree, but the connection is not quite made

It wouldn't surprise me if there is a connection, but nothing is proved in either article. There's nothing beyond inference there. It could be he has a helluva lawyer.

[nashville_brook]

2. as soon as i think i'm getting too far out there...

in equating the GOP and religious fanatics with sexual abuse, another story like this shows up.

WTF, mates?

[Bluestar]

7. Oh please, oh please, oh please . . .

I used to live in Rohrabacher's district. Oh please make him guilty of something!!

[Supersedeas]

8. the filthy of the Pubby Party runs deep