Man Accused Of Performing Sex Act Near Child
FAIRBORN, Ohio – Authorities said a man was arrested after he was found performing sex acts at a local hotel with a child nearby.
Hmmm…. ohhhh kaaayyy… sounds suspicious, but let’s read the rest of the article.
Benjamin Fyffe was caught performing a sex act by a hotel pool in Fairborn.
Sounds like improper behavior.
Investigators said he has confessed to the crime. He appeared in court Tuesday morning and pleaded guilty to four counts against him.
Alrighty…
On Monday afternoon, police were called to the Wright-Patterson Hotel on Broad Street, and were told that a man was seen nude by the pool, performing a sex act.
And…
When officers arrived at the scene, they found the man hiding in a hallway still performing sexual acts.
Hm, probably a dumb move.
Officers said Fyffe tried to run, but he was quickly caught. Police said he was performing the sex act while watching a child who was nearby washing a car.
AH HAAAA!!!
I’m gathering form the context of the article that this person was pleasuring himself while watching the “child”. How old was the “child”? Seven? Seventeen? We aren’t told. The article also doesn’t say that the perpetrator had any kind of contact with the child, that the child was in any way involved in the sex act, or that the child was even aware the perpetrator existed. All we know is that the perpetrator was near the child when the sex act occurred, and it’s assumed that the perpetrator was thinking about the child while performing said act.
In court, Fyffe pleaded guilty to criminal trespass, obstructing official business and two counts of public indecency.
So, there are no charges related to actually performing a sex act with a child. The writer of the article has chosen, as reflected by the headline, to stress the point that a child was nearby even though the story and charges don’t reflect any harm to the child, don’t show the child’s involvement, or even his awareness of the situation.
Admittedly, this story is from a lousy local news website, where the writing is typically one notch below terrible and the stories are often sensationalized to an extent that would be comical if it wasn’t so insulting. But the media’s constant harping against the nasty, mean sex offenders and the poor, innocent children has earned our complacent citizenry some legalities that are deeply troubling. Apparently the next step is to make thinking about children while performing a sex act a crime.
Thought crimes genuinely frighten me, no hyperbole intended. I, for one, do not intend to get caught by the growing witch hunt against those who would allegedly corrupt our precious children in any one of an ever-growing number of illogical ways. Were it in my power, I would enforce a 100 yard radius around me that no children would be allowed to occupy. When I pull into a restaurant parking lot, parents would be required to evacuate their children mid-meal. (Imagine, a quiet dinner out!) As I walk into the grocery entrance, a parade of parents and their precious little innocents would be proceeding out. I do not want to speak the one wrong word, make the misinterpreted action, or have the unapproved thought that inadvertently gets me labelled as dangerous to children, and therefore, dangerous to society. I do not want to be anywhere near your children, and at an even grander scale, I do not want to be part of the society that disregards the rights of adults and immediately abandons all logic when children suddenly become involved in… well… anything.
In civilized society, adults should be the norm and children should be the exception. We should live in a world centered around adults and adult activities and children should be raised to adjust to the world of adults, and not the opposite. The cloistering of children in some perfect fantasy world of innocence until their 18th birthday threatens to violate the rights and freedoms of otherwise properly behaved adults, and I dread the day when some presumption about what a person may be thinking constitutes a sex crime.
The guy in this story wasn’t properly behaved, and my point isn’t to defend him. Neither is my point to defend persons who would sexually abuse children; I believe those abusers are mentally ill and should be handled as such. My point is to illustrate how we are caught in a feedback loop of paranoid citizens and sensationalist media whose result is to slowly criminalize anything that makes them the slightest bit uncomfortable. In this particular facet of the problem, children have become an all-purpose excuse to implement all sorts of violations against life, liberty, and property. We’re quickly becoming a child-centric society rather and an adult-centric society, and we’re increasingly producing infantilized adults because of it. All a parent needs to do is cry “My child!” and the accused is instantly damned.
The dystopian police state we’re in the process of creating will surely wreck the lives of all who come into contact with it.
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July 9th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Thats not even cool. He is not even a sexual predator. I know the person and I believe that he had to have been on something to be doing this. I do know that he did this crime, but do not believe he did it to a child. She was 17 and in most peoples eyes thats not considered very bad. Even if he was doing it to her, she did not know and was most likely very far away. So as all these media people that are dumbass’ and trying to make the crime more interesting as it is, are just dumb bitches that have nothing else to do but make fun of people. The thing is that the crime is not even funny, its very very sick and is in no need of these dumbass comments of people who dont know what the fuck they are talking about.!
July 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
My good friend you truly have an different take on this issue. As a father of 5 children; 3 girls and twin austic sons, my opinion is much different.
First look at the person accused of this sex-act, he was doing this in broad daylight, in a motel/public pool. If you go by the scientfically accepted progression of sexual predators, this guy is several steps closer to attacking a child then he is first time novice. If this guy had not been caught, he only would have progressed in behavior, which if left unnoticed would lead to a chld being taken advantage of.
As for the loud and obnixious chldren, I agree to a point. Most of these parents need to get over themselves and realize that there “angels” are actually devils and should be handled accordingly. These children who are casuing the ruckus are only 10% of all children, then there is another 85% are well behaved good kids. Then comes the final 5% are children are do not understand or cannot comprehend as well as other. This is a personal issue with me, my sons are austic and while there are not as severe as mnay other children with austism, they do not talk with words and have a basic compreshension of proper behavoir. We are not like other people who say “the world must conform to my child”, so we try to go out when the situation is right (we do this because we do not want to deal with an unruly child), but when we are out we only want people to be respectful of us, not look like we are circus freaks.
Third I do agree that some states are taking these predator labels a little to far. Such as the residentcy requires. I agree they should be registred with local authorities, but saying they cant live 1000 feet, near public places children go is way to much, especially when they go and label everything around as a children place. Unless we are going to place an electric fence around Montana and move all predators there, they still need a plce to live. I also think that if a person has been convicted of being a prositute or buying a prositute, as long as there was no violence, rape, or was committed with a minor these people should not be labeled a predator. They will face there punishment in jail, fines, public ridacul, and trouble finding real employment. No label should be placed on consenting adults.
So this is so long.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Likewise, people who abuse animals are “scientifically accepted” to be “several steps” from harming humans. Should a headline read, “Potential Murderer Kicks Dog”? Should we wait until the actual crime has been committed before we accuse someone? Or should we assume the dog kicker’s behavior will progress and pre-emptively proclaim his future misdeeds in a sensationalistic manner with our “Won’t someone please think of the dogs!?” agenda in mind?
I assume our argument of this point will be purely anecdotal. However, in my many years of very rarely being able to enjoy a dinner in a restaurant or a plane ride without a grossly misbehaved child, I think your estimate is a little low. Either that, or I’m being specifically targeted by some conspiracy.
And I thank you for that.
Speaking only for myself, I have been more than tolerant and respectful of parents with badly behaved children, to the point of my own growing insanity and frustration. I assure you that as long as you, the parent, take pro-active and common sense measures to control an unruly child and remove him from a situation because of your consideration for others when the need arises, you will continue to have my patience and respect. I should make it clear that my complaints about misbehaved children aren’t directed solely at the children, but at the parents who ignore them, and the surrounding people.
I would add one quibble with this point: Why do they need to be registered, unless they are still dangerous? And if they’re still dangerous, why aren’t they in jail?
Escape From New York!
I have a problem with crimes that are actions between consenting adults, but that’s a whole separate topic.
To clarify for everyone: I’m not excusing the behavior of the subject of the original post. Manipulating yourself in public is a bad thing. I’m against the portrayal of his actions as a crime against children when there is no evidence a child was involved other than in the mind of the accused. I am against an agenda propagated, perhaps subconsciously, by any media that wants to feed the paranoia certain vocal segments of the public have concerning sex crimes. I am against the draconian laws that said paranoia is generating. I am against the idea the idea that the mob is always right. I am against the idea that a thought can be punishable. I am against the fantasy that children are some kind of absolutely pure commodity and the subsequent witch hunt that, when a parent merely declares their child somehow harmed, immediately assumes guilt that cannot be expunged.
I am in favor of individual rights of life, liberty, and property. I am in favor of consequences for actions and not thoughts. I am in favor of innocence until guilt is proven. I’m in favor of accuracy as opposed to sensationalism. I’m in favor of giving everyone the benefit of the doubt as prudence dictates.
A progressive, tolerable, livable, adult civilization demands these things. It is our duty to prevent the slide into mob rule and paranoia I observe more frequently now than before.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:38 am
I know this man personally and he is not a sexual predator. However, he is very sick. As you said, this article was blown completely out of proportion. They used facts, but twisted them until they were completely warped. Up until about 6 months prior to this incident, he was an active member of our congregation. His father is a minister and the rest of his family are members of the Church of Christ. They are devastated by this and are trying their hardest to help their son with his illness. I believe that he is a good person, but has some issues that need to be taken seriously. I just hate that people are looking at him as some creepy sexual predator when he is not. He wasn’t even aware of the 17-year-old being there - he was behind a privacy fence and the “child” looked through the fence crack, saw Ben, and ran to call the police. I just want to let people know that not every person you read about concerning these sort of stories is the disgusting person you imagine. We need to pray for these people, not condemn them.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
That is why there is just a term as “privacy of their own home” A Hotel pool is far from a private location. If someone chooses to perform such in act, they should do it in the “privacy of their own home”, no matter the mental condition of any person, it is illegal to perform any sexual act in any public. Hopefully this gentleman gets the help that is needed.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Alright, let’s get this settled. I was just searching to find out what happened in court to this guy and see what kind of a sentence he got, when I came across this blog. I had no idea people were this bored. Seriously, I’m the so-called “child” that was masturbated to while vacuuming a van out. This guy was not in the pool area, but behind a metal fence, in broad daylight, and he was looking straight at me and called at me for a few minutes before I realized that he was talking to me. I couldn’t really understand what he said, it was more or less of a groan. I knew he was targeting me, so don’t think that I was just taking a stroll nearby and someone else decided that it was targeted at yours truly.
Also, I am a male. For the person up there that said that 17-year olds are considered “okay” should try this situation out for size. I don’t care how old you are, you don’t want unwanted sexual behavior, especially of this type. I had trusted people before this and never had any crime to report that was specifically directed towards me. I also agree with the poster of the article that the news station was pretty much ridiculous in the way that they composed their article. It made it seem to the average reader that I was involved in the sexual act physically. I was about ten feet away, but I turned around, searching for the source of the moaning, and I found this man with a blue thong down around his ankles, flapping his wanker at me. I glanced at his face, but after a cursory glance I felt a fear in me like I had never seen before. I wasn’t sure if he had a weapon or something on the ground waiting to force me into submission, so I decided to walk around to the front of the building and call the police.
I feel bad for this guy, but I gave him the max sentence when the Victim Assistance Program contacted me about my opinion because I think he needs a lot of time to decide where he’s going in life and what he needs to do. So, having shed light on the dim portrayal of this disgusting topic, I will depart. Farewell.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Ok, I am the “child” that was the victim of this crime. I’m a 17-year old boy, and I definitely think that no matter how old you are, you should not be welcome to any unwanted sexual advances. I think the guy who said that it’s considered “okay” if you’re 17 should be humiliated like this. I will post more if this comment goes through, I put in a long one before and it didn’t go through so expect more details concerning this sick incident. Also, I was 10 feet away and the fence was a metal wire, so I could clearly see him.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Okay, so it went through. Alright, he was moaning for like two minutes before I decided to stop vacuuming and try to find the source of the noise. I turned around and saw a man with his blue thong around his ankles, looking directly at me, standing in the doorway of a backroom leading to some restaurant, flapping his wanker around in the air. I was afraid at first because I wasn’t sure if he had a weapon or not, ready to force me into submission. After realizing that he did not, and seeing that he wasn’t going to stop even though I was looking straight at him, I decided to walk around to the front of the building and call the police.
The police said that they caught him doing the same thing inside of the nearby hotel, so I knew then that he was a pretty sick individual. When I was told to identify him while he was in custody, he was still fully erect. This disturbed me completely because, had I been anywhere near the back of a police vehicle, accused of such a disgusting crime, my member would be the complete opposite. I hope most of you can agree.
When the victim assistance program contacted me, I asked for the maximum sentence and all of the counseling and help that he could receive. After a day or two, I just felt bad for the guy. He must be pretty messed up to get his kicks from masturbating in front of a 17-year old male vacuuming the interior of a rental car. What disturbed me the most was that there was a pool of nearly-nude girls a few yards away, but he chose to separate himself from the pool area and take a closer look at me. Disgusting people in this world, eh? And as for the Annon who knows the family and is part of the congregation, please help him. I just want you to know that I am thankful that he didn’t force me into anything and, if I had to be a victim of crime, I’m glad it was this and not some random shooting or something.
One last thing ,and this is for Mr. Adams. I totally agree with you on the ambiguity of the original news article. Our news post isn’t the best, and I was quite irate at the way they composed their article on this crime. It made it sound like I was physically involved. And as for the crimes he was accused of, I am disappointed that doing this to me was not included. You’d think it would be a little more than “public indecency”. It was directed at me and me alone. I think that deserves a little more.