The former president of a prominent St. Louis charity was charged with possession of child pornography and then pleaded guilty to the charge, both on Thursday… Batte admitted in U.S. District Court at St. Louis that she had possessed three images of child pornography on her home computer. All featured a naked boy younger than 12, and one showed him in a sex act with a nude adult male, the plea agreement says. Investigators have identified the boy and he is no longer in danger, U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said… Hanaway said that of about 100 defendants facing child pornography-related charges in eastern Missouri over the past five years, only three, counting Batte, were women. A Justice Department report in 2004 says only 8 percent of child pornography incidents involved a female offender acting alone… Batte has known about the investigation since at least Dec. 9, 2005, when FBI agents interviewed her and she admitted that a man had sent her child pornography over the Internet, her plea agreement says. Agents searched her house and seized her computer three days later.” — St Louis Today (US)You all know the story of Pandora and how, curiosity getting the better of her, she opened a box that she knew she wasn’t supposed to open. You know what came out of that box too — manifold sources of misery: greed, vanity, slander, want. Mankind was never the same again.
The myth seems especially pertinent to the case of the St. Louis matron copping a plea on kiddie porn charges. The internet itself is the box, a cache of the stimulating but illicit. Ms. Batte is Pandora, or to be more precise she is just one of the thousand Pandoras arrested every day for opening the box. And mankind? Well, it’s hard to imagine that child pornography will ever really get stuffed back into its box. Thanks to the internet, it’s here to stay, just like greed, vanity, slander, and want.
Of course, the peculiar thing about this story is that Ms. Batte, like Pandora, is simply a woman. What’s more, she was not a young crack fiend engaged in a desperate co-dependent relationship with some perv who brainwashed her into exploiting little kids. She was a pillar of society, a married woman working for an established charity and approaching retirement age. It’s not often you see a lady like this doing the perp walk on Pedo Row. But perhaps that is precisely the point of Pandora: when the naughty things get out of the box, they don’t just afflict the curious cat who opened it. They afflict everybody.
Expect more of this in the future: pervs who don’t fit the perv profile — and who therefore threaten to implode the very distinction between the normal and the perverse.
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