To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (769244 ) 2/12/2014 5:04:44 PM From: Alex MG Respond to okay i stand corrected, i should have read further on the wikipedia, i only read up to the 2003 part... WOW, ritter, what an idioten.wikipedia.org [41] and arrested in June 2001 [42] [43] in connection with police stings in which officers posed as under-aged girls to arrange meetings of a sexual nature. The first incident did not lead to any charges. [41] He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child" after the second, but charges were dropped after he completed six months of probation [44] and the record was sealed on condition that he avoid further trouble for a period of time. [41] [45] After this information was made public in early 2003, Ritter said that the timing of the leak was politically motivated. [42] [43] [46] [47] over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself via a web camera after the officer said she was a 15-year-old girl; Ritter said he was not made aware of the ostensible age of his correspondent before the act. The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on a $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included "unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation". [48] Ritter rejected a plea bargain, testified in his trial and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a Monroe County, Pennsylvania courtroom on April 14, 2011. [1] [49] In October 2011 he received a sentence of one and a half to five and a half years in prison. [49]
