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   From: total.perverts@splc.org   
      
   A Melbourne IVF geneticist who was caught in an American hotel   
   room attempting to pay $US260 to rape a six-year-old boy has   
   been sentenced to 12 years' jail.   
      
   Michael Quinn, 33, stood at his sentencing in a downtown Los   
   Angeles court with tears in his eyes, and appeared pale and   
   gaunt after five months awaiting his fate in the US prison   
   system.   
      
   The Melbourne Chargers rugby union forward's ankles were   
   shackled while his parents, Anna and John Quinn, who had flown   
   from Australia to support him, sat in the courtroom to his left.   
      
   "If you give me a second chance I won't let you down," Quinn   
   told US District Court judge, John Walter.   
      
   But Judge Walter showed little leniency, sentencing Quinn to the   
   12-year term prosecutors had sought.   
      
   Quinn's lawyer had asked for 10 years.   
      
   Quinn's desires 'absolutely disgusting'   
      
   The veteran judge described Quinn's desire to attend what he   
   believed was a paedophile party at an LA hotel room and pay a   
   pimp $US260 to allow him to rape a young boy as "absolutely   
   disgusting", "ghastly" and "despicable".   
      
   The party was a sting set up by undercover American authorities   
   who had been communicating with Quinn online for several weeks   
   before he left Melbourne on a rugby trip to the US with some of   
   his Chargers teammates.   
      
   "Aussie perv, heading to the US late May/June interested to meet   
   others while I'm there. LA, Nashville, NYC," Quinn posted on a   
   social media site used by paedophiles.   
      
   A US undercover agent saw the post and began communicating with   
   Quinn.   
      
   Quinn told him of his wish to rape a boy and authorities set up   
   the sting for when he arrived in LA in May.   
      
   The Melbourne man claimed he had never molested a child before   
   his arrest and the sting was the first opportunity offered him.   
      
   His lawyer, Lisa Shinar LaBarre, said Quinn's severe addiction   
   to methamphetamine had altered his thinking and created   
   psychotic thoughts.   
      
   Quinn also claimed he was abused as a child.   
      
   Judge rejects Quinn's drug addiction to blame   
      
   The court heard a psychologist who examined Quinn in jail   
   concluded it was unlikely he would reoffend.   
      
   Judge Walter said he was not "overly impressed" by the doctor's   
   report, noting Quinn did not undergo standard testing for   
   paedophilia.   
      
   "It upsets me so much that I could be capable of harming a   
   child," Quinn, dressed in a white prison jumpsuit, told the   
   judge.   
      
   Quinn also apologised to Australia for "damaging its reputation"   
   and told the court "I never want to put a child in danger again".   
      
   Judge Walter said he did not "buy" the cause and effect of   
   Quinn's drug addiction and the abuse he suffered as a child.   
      
   "The defendant had every intention of raping a boy," the judge   
   said.   
      
   http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-01/melbourne-man-jailed-in-us-   
   for-12-years-over-child-sex-charges/7982814   
       
      
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