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   From: Dr.Goldblatt@G00GLE.0RG   
      
   Liberal ACLU to Defend NAMBLA Child Molesters/killers.   
      
   Associated Press   
   Aug. 31, 2000   
      
   BOSTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union will represent a group   
   that advocates sex between men and boys in a lawsuit brought by the   
   family of a slain 10-year-old.   
      
   The family of Jeffrey Curley of Cambridge said the North American   
   Man/Boy Love Association and its web site which is now off-line   
   incited the attempted molestation and murder of the boy on Oct. 1,   
   1997.   
      
   One of two men convicted in the killing, Charles Jaynes, 25,   
   reportedly viewed the group's web site shortly before the killing, and   
   also had in his possession some of NAMBLA's publications. Also   
   convicted in the killing was 24-year-old Salvatore Sicari.   
      
   The ACLU said the case, filed in federal court in mid-May, involves   
   issues of freedom of speech and association.   
      
   "For us, it is a fundamental First Amendment case," John Roberts,   
   executive director of the Massachusetts branch of the ACLU, told   
   Boston Globe Wednesday. "It has to do with communications on a web   
   site, and   
   material that does not promote any kind of criminal behavior   
   whatsoever."   
      
   ACLU officials said NAMBLA members deny encouraging coercion, rape or   
   violence.   
      
   Attorney Lawrence Frisoli, who represents the Curleys, said he is glad   
   the ACLU is defending NAMBLA, because he has had trouble locating the   
   group's members.   
      
   Harvey Silverglate, an ACLU board member, said Wednesday that the   
   group's attorneys will try to block any attempt by the Curleys to get   
   NAMBLA's membership lists, or other materials identifying members.   
      
   The ACLU also will act as a surrogate for NAMBLA, allowing its members   
   to defend themselves in court while remaining anonymous.   
      
   According to the Globe, NAMBLA officials in the past have said their   
   main goal is the abolition of age-of-consent laws that classify sex   
   with children as rape.   
      
   At two separate trials last year, prosecutors said Jaynes and Sicari   
   were sexually obsessed with the boy, lured him from his Cambridge   
   neighborhood with the promise of a new bike, and then smothered him   
   with a   
   gasoline-soaked rag when he resisted their sexual advances. They then   
   stuffed him into a concrete-filled container and dumped it into a   
   Maine river.   
      
   Sicari, convicted of first-degree murder, is serving a life sentence   
   without the possibility of parole. Jaynes' second-degree murder and   
   kidnapping convictions enable him to seek parole in 23 years.   
      
   The Curleys last week were awarded $328 million by a superior court   
   jury in a civil suit against Jaynes and Sicari   
      
      
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