Drunk Congressman admits fathering child from affair

Good old wholesome white family values…

WASHINGTON – Rep. Vito Fossella of New York acknowledged on Thursday that he fathered a child from an extramarital affair, answering questions that arose from his arrest on drunken driving charges last week.

“My personal failings and imperfections have caused enormous pain to the people I love and I am truly sorry,” said Fossella, a Republican, who has three children with his wife in Staten Island, N.Y.

Fossella’s private life came under scrutiny after he was arrested last week in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. Police said his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit, and he could face a mandatory five days in jail if convicted.

When Fossella was pulled over, police said he told officers that he was going to see his daughter in the area. That prompted questions about who the daughter was.

“I have had a relationship with Laura Fay, with whom I have a 3-year-old daughter,” Fossella said in his statement. It was Fay who got him out of jail after the arrest.

Democrats look for gain
The disclosure clouds Fossella’s political future. He faced a surprisingly tough re-election challenge in 2006, and Democrats were hoping to unseat him this year.

“While I understand that there will be many questions, including those about my political future, making any political decisions right now are furthest from my mind. Over the coming weeks and months, I will continue to do my job and I will work hard to heal the deep wounds I have caused,” he said.

Fossella was elected to Congress in 1997 in a special election to replace Rep. Susan Molinari, who resigned. A graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he also earned a law degree from Fordham University.

Fossella, 43, serves as a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

White pedophile caught after international man hunt

Beware of white “tourists” in third world countries.

PARIS (AP) — A suspected pedophile targeted in an international manhunt was detained Thursday by police in the United States, Interpol announced.

The arrest was made two days after Interpol, the international police agency based in Lyon, France, appealed for public help to track down the man.

Interpol says the man was detained in Union City, New Jersey. The police agency identified the suspect as Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, an actor who also goes by the stage name of Casey Wane.

Interpol said the man is suspected of sexually abusing at least three young boys from Southeast Asia. It said that photos seized by police in Norway in 2006 showed the man’s alleged abuse. Interpol said the boys were thought to have been as young as 6 to 10 years old.

The agency had appealed for public help because two years of police investigations had failed to determine the man’s identity, nationality and whereabouts. Interpol said it feared that the man’s alleged abuse of children could continue if he was not caught.

Interpol had said Wednesday that its appeal produced more than 200 leads — potential names, locations and photos of the suspect — in the first 24 hours.

It was only the second time that Interpol had launched such a public manhunt for a suspected pedophile. The first time, last October, also rapidly led to an arrest, by police in Thailand, of a 32-year-old teacher from Canada, Christopher Paul Neil.

In that case, Neil’s face had originally been disguised in Internet photos with a digital swirl. Police reversed the swirl process, unmasking his face, and Interpol released those cleaned-up images publicly. Neil went on trial in March, accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old boy.

The suspect in the latest case did not appear to make any effort to hide his identity in the photos that were seized in Norway on the computer hard drive of a man later convicted of child sex offenses, Interpol officials said.

Interpol on Tuesday had released six photos of the suspect publicly as part of its appeal for help. They showed a gray-haired white man wearing glasses or lying on a checkered mattress or blanket in a yellow plaid shirt. Other photos seen by the Associated Press, not among those made public, appeared to show the man engaged in sexual acts with boys.

Because of the lack of basic information about the man, Interpol officials had previously been simply calling the suspect “Mr. IDent” — shortened from the word identity.

Interpol officials said they did not know why the man did not attempt to disguise his face in photos that showed alleged abuse. But officials noted that pedophile offenders sometimes reveal their identities to win trust in child-sex offender circles, in hopes of getting access to other children or images.

A computerized Interpol database of child abuse images played a part in the hunt for the man.

The first photos seized in Norway and others received in the two years since were run through the database of more than 520,000 images. It compared the photos with others, looking for matches. In all, the database and police investigations helped turn up a total of around 800 images, including nearly 100 of the man himself and others of his suspected victims or places where he is thought to have committed his alleged crimes, Interpol said.

Whites get drunk ‘to have sex’

White courtship in action. Lets not forget the complimentary date rape.

Alcohol was strongly associated with underage sex

Young adults in Europe deliberately binge on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests.

The UK has one of the worst reputations for binge drinking and underage sex but there are striking similarities between countries, a study found.

A third of 16 to 35-year-old men and 23% of women questioned said they drank to increase their chance of sex.

The study – of 1,341 young people in nine countries including the UK – is published in BMC Public Health.

Young people were also more at risk of unsafe sex while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, the study found.

The researchers said although it was well known that use of alcohol and drugs was linked to risky sexual behaviour, this study showed many young people were “strategically” binge drinking or abusing drugs to improve their sex lives.

They questioned young people in nine cities, one each in the UK, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Slovenia – who all routinely went to pubs, bars and nightclubs.

Early use of alcohol and other drugs was closely linked to having sex under the age of 16 years, in all countries, especially in girls.

Almost half of participants in Vienna, Austria had drunk alcohol and had sex by the time they were 16 compared with 36% in Venice, Italy, 37% in Palma, Spain and 30% in Liverpool.

The same was true for those who took drugs under the age of 16 but there were variations in popularity of different drugs among different countries.

More than a quarter of youngsters taking cocaine said they used it to prolong sex and drug use in general was linked to having multiple partners.

‘Risky’

Drunkenness and drug use were found to be strongly associated with an increase in risk taking behaviour and feeling regretful about having sex .

Those who had been drunk in the past four weeks were more likely to have had five or more partners, sex without a condom and to have regretted sex after drink or drugs in the past 12 months.

Cannabis, cocaine or ecstasy use was linked to similar consequences.

Study leader Professor Mark Bellis, director of the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moore’s University said: “Millions of young Europeans now take drugs and drink in ways which alter their sexual decisions and increase their chances of unsafe sex or sex that is later regretted.

“Yet despite the negative consequences, we found many are deliberately taking these substances to achieve quite specific sexual effects.”

He added that strategies to reduce substance abuse and encourage safe sexual behaviour need to take into account the fact two are inextricably linked.

Simon Blake, chief executive of Brook, said: “When it comes to drugs and alcohol young people learn from us, the adults who help determine the culture in which young people are learning about sex, and learning about drugs and alcohol. “Sex and relationships education also needs to include more discussion about the association between alcohol, drugs and unsafe sex.”

Frank Sodeen from Alcohol Concern said: “The report is a good reminder of the multiple dimensions of drink-related harm.”

He added local authorities need to think as broadly as possible about projects to reduce alcohol use and incorporate issues such as sexual health.

Chatroom users ‘egged on White man to kill himself live on webcam’

A new low for white people.

A father-of-two hanged himself live over the internet in Britain’s first ‘cyber suicide’.

Kevin Whitrick, 42, took his life after being goaded by dozens of chatroom users from across the world who initially believed he was play acting.

But as they watched in horror, Mr Whitrick climbed onto a chair, smashed through a ceiling and then hanged himself with a piece of rope.

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Kevin Neil Whitrick, 42, was found dead by police in Wellington, after being alerted by a web user who is thought to have watched in horror as the man harmed himself

Stunned by what they had witnessed – broadcast on a popular chatroom website used by millions of people across the globe – chatroom users immediately contacted the police.

Officers rushed to the electrician’s home in the Wellington area of Shropshire within minutes, smashing down the door to try to save him.

Kevin Whitrick had two 12-year-olds who he visited regularly

But despite their efforts to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Last night it emerged that Mr Whitrick had been suffering from depression after being badly injured in a car crash last year.

Friends said that the breakdown of his marriage with wife, Paula – with whom he had 12-year-old twins – and the recent death of his father had also been causing him some distress.

Mr Whitrick told users of web-chat site PalTalk what he was going to do two hours before he killed himself on Wednesday night.

He was logged on with around 50 other users to a special “insult” chatroom where people “have a go at each other”.

Today distraught users of the site said that they felt sick and had previously thought the web broadcast was a hoax.

They confirmed Mr Whitrick told friends in the internet chat room of his plans to kill himself but, thinking he was joking, they egged him on telling him to make sure the his webcam was on.

Mr Whitrick, using the user-name Shyboy-17-1, switched on his webcam and went ahead with his grisly plan.

One anonymous user said: “He tied a rope around an uncovered ceiling joist and stood on the chair as he tied the rope around his neck.

“Some of us chatroom users, talking to Kevin over text chat, microphones and video tried to convince him to step down, but others egged him on telling him to get on with it.

“We just couldn’t believe he was doing it – it was surreal.

“One chatter said: ‘F***ing do it, get on with it, get it round your neck. For F***’s sake he can’t even do this properly’.”

Another user who did not wish to be named said: “When Kevin stepped off the chair and was left dangling, the mood in the chatroom changed and people began to realise what they had just seen.

“We started asking if anyone knew where he lived and saying they should contact the police.

“I think someone contacted the police in their local area but sadly no one could get to him in time.”

Shortly after, moderators on the site closed the feed from Kevin’s webcam.

‘Considerate and kind’

Mr Whitrick had been living in his flat, a converted house, after splitting from his wife Paula two years ago.

The couple, who married in 1988, had 12-year-old twins Lewis and Melissa who live with their mother in a three-bedroom, semi-detached home close by.

They are said to have visited their dad, who worked at family firm RMW electrical services in Shrewsbury, at weekends. His older brother Malcolm Whitrick is an associate director at Shrewsbury Town Football Club.

Kevin Whitrick’s sparse profile on the paltalk website

Last night Mrs Whitrick said: “Kevin was a loving father and family man. He was always the life and soul of the party, an extremely considerate and kind person and loved by many, he will be so sadly missed by us all.

“Unfortunately Kevin had a very serious car accident in July 2006 and had never fully recovered back to full health.”

Mr Whitrick’s stepmother Betty Whitrick, 74, told the Mail: ‘Kevin was a bubbly kind of person, full of fun. I just don’t know why he would do this.

“He lived alone but he always cheerful when I saw him. I knew he was very into computers and he also used to like playing bowls.”

Detective Chief Inspector Jon Groves who is leading the investigation said: “Our enquiries to date have revealed that Mr Whitrick was using a chat room with a number of other people at the time of his death.

“We are liasing with the internet service provider at this time to contact other users who were online at the time of this incident and who may have information that could assist our enquiries.

“We are also working to ensure that witness support facilities are available to those who may have been affected by what they saw.”

Sharon Atwal, who works in a cornershop opposite Mr Whitrick’s flat, described him as “subdued” the last time she saw him.

She said: “Every night he’d take eight cans of Boddington’s bitter from the fridge and re-stock it with the cans from the shelf. He always seemed quite cheerful.

“On Wednesday night, though, he didn’t seem himself and it was the first night that he did not re-stock the fridge. It was as if he knew he wouldn’t be coming back.

“He always struck me as very happy, he was friendly and had two perfect kids. I cannot believe he has done this.”

Her brother Bobby added: “Kevin has lived in the flat for the past year and I have seen him every day without fail.

“Last week, he told me about his chat room. He was excited and said he had set it up himself. He said he had been speaking to people in Australia on his webcam.

“His two children used to visit at weekends. He had a very good relationship with them and always gave them lots of money to buy sweets.”

The case appears to echo that of Brandon Vedas, a 21 year-old from Phoenix, Arizona, who committed suicide online using a mix of alcohol and prescription medication.

In that case people in the chat room egged the young man on, while others tried desperately to find his address.

Local MP for the Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, said: “This is a very sad and rare incident. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.

“It is important that the use of the internet in this death is fully investigated.”