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Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
Fri Jan 11, 2013, 11:47 PM Jan 2013

Anti-Gay Activist Lawyer Convicted of Child Pornography

Source:
SPLC Hate Watch
by Evelyn Schlatter
January 11, 2013

A New Hampshire lawyer who works with a virulently anti-gay Christian right organization has been found guilty of child pornography charges after videotaping a 14-year-old girl having sex with two men on multiple occasions.

Lisa Biron, 43, of Manchester faces a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison after a jury convicted her yesterday after deliberating for less than an hour.

Biron, arrested by the FBI last November, was accused of eight felony counts involving the videotaping of men having sex with the girl. She also allegedly made a cellphone video of herself having sex with the girl.

Biron, who claimed on her Facebook page (which was taken down, according to the Concord Monitor) that the Bible was her favorite book, had worked with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), formerly the Alliance Defense Fund, in defending a Pentecostal church in Concord in a tax fight against the city.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/01/11/anti-gay-activist-guilty-of-child-pornography-daughter-is-victim/


I was surprised to see that the perpetrator was a woman. That's unusual in these cases, isn't it?

I hope the victim in this case can achieve some kind of healing from what, by any account, is some horrific abuse.
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Anti-Gay Activist Lawyer Convicted of Child Pornography (Original Post) Adsos Letter Jan 2013 OP
All traces of this horrid woman are rapidly disappearing from the groups she worked with, dimbear Jan 2013 #1
It seems to be rather common for people to deflect attention from themselves struggle4progress Jan 2013 #2
Yes, but was this person a true Christian? DryRain Jan 2013 #3

dimbear

(6,271 posts)
1. All traces of this horrid woman are rapidly disappearing from the groups she worked with,
Sat Jan 12, 2013, 03:32 AM
Jan 2013

but the internet has a long memory.

It's hard to imagine that they had no idea what they were working with.

struggle4progress

(118,334 posts)
2. It seems to be rather common for people to deflect attention from themselves
Sat Jan 12, 2013, 03:49 AM
Jan 2013

by putting on a big show of denouncing others

Sometimes the strategy is used in astonishing ways: a couple of years ago, I ran across the case of a school district superintendent, who had made her reputation by repeatedly exposing school system employees for stealing school system materials for their own use; she had a great reputation as a reformer for quite a long time -- until conclusive proof developed that she herself was doing exactly the same thing on a grand scale, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of stuff owned by the public and paid for with tax dollars

"They can't question me: I look like a saint!"

 

DryRain

(237 posts)
3. Yes, but was this person a true Christian?
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 05:45 PM
Jan 2013

Pentecostals are supposed to be the true Christians, I thought. At least that is what they tell us.

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