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PHOENIX, June 19 (Reuters) – The co-founder of the Minutemen civilian border patrol group that for several years watched for unauthorized immigrants crossing to Arizona from Mexico, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of molesting three young girls.

Chris Simcox, 52, who co-founded the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in 2005, was booked into a Maricopa County jail in connection with the molestation of three girls under the age of 10, said Sergeant Tommy Thompson, a Phoenix police spokesman.

Detectives with the department’s Family Investigations Bureau developed “probable cause” that Simcox had sexual conduct with the girls during the past several months, Thompson said. No other details were immediately available.

Simcox has denied the allegations to police. It was not known if he had an attorney.

He faces two counts each of child molestation and sexual conduct with a minor, and one count of attempted child molestation.

A former kindergarten teacher from California, Simcox co-founded the border watch group to highlight what he said was the government’s failure to secure the porous southwest border with Mexico.

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Normally, I avoid public discussion of child sexual abuse for 2 reasons.

1. It's a hot potatoe. 2. I like to express my views in 1 or 2 lines. Done.

My POV: Child molestation is the current huge Witch Hunt in the USA.

It suits us, I guess, since many are still mindlessly Puritanical

while too lazy to learn objectivity.

Juries like to convict, I've read. Is this because we're all guilty, and

we can't resist condemning anyone who might be guiltier than we?

Please don't confuse us with the facts while we are erecting the scaffold.

The other news article I just read makes Simcox sound guilty as sin

on multiple counts and if so, off with his dick!

Over the last few decades, I've discussed child molestation with

5 other adults. Each of them, like me, had good reasons to never

rush to judgement in this area.


I cannot express strongly enough: I think many innocent people

have been found guilty & punished for the crime, and their lives

ruined by it.

Meanwhile, I watch adults abuse the kids in their care in every other

way, and they get away with it. Or they seem to, for the time being.

How can our kids learn honesty if we react hysterically over certain

buzz words?

Objectivity and honesty are a must in this arena.


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A man's gotta know his limitations. ~Dirty Harry