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| Attorney Found Naked In Courthouse With 14-Year-Old |
| 2007-01-17 |
| PHILADELPHIA -- A criminal defense lawyer was arrested after a sheriff's deputy found him naked with a 14-year-old girl in a courthouse conference room, authorities said Tuesday. Larry Charles, 49, has been charged with solicitation, attempted statutory sexual assault and related counts, said Lt. Dan Bagnell of the Police Department's Special Victims Unit. A sheriff's deputy making his rounds in the Criminal Justice Center on Monday afternoon looked into a lawyers' conference room on the third floor and discovered Charles and the girl, Bagnell said. He had asked for sex. But there was no physical contact we're aware of by the time the deputy arrived at the scene", Bagnell said. Bagnell said the girl was not a client of Charles, but their exact relationship was not clear. Charles was awaiting arraignment early Tuesday afternoon and bail was not yet set. A woman who answered the phone at his office said she could not immediately comment. Courts were closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and it was unclear how Charles and the girl got into the conference room. Though court proceedings were not in session, the courthouse was open for attorneys who might want to conduct other business in the building. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #16 Correct me iff I'm wrong, but aren't a lot of Philly State = Public Buildings in mid-1990's under techy surveillance, andor Half-and-half wid lots of armed officers on station??? FETISH FOR VOYEURISM??? In any case, his legal career looks about over. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-01-17 23:33 |
| #15 If he was Japanese I say it was genetic, I say the picture, he isn't Japanese |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-01-17 21:53 |
| #14 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!! |
| Posted by: Croger Spoluting8707 2007-01-17 21:24 |
| #13 What IS it with men who want to abuse young teens? Power. They get power from it, power they can't normally get on their own. Sure, there are other contributing factors, but mostly it is all about power. |
| Posted by: Chuck Darwin 2007-01-17 19:13 |
| #12 Typical behaviour of the "profession" of lawyering. When will people realize these "lawyers" cost us too many living wage jobs, economic opportunities and, more and more lost liberties every day? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-01-17 17:25 |
| #11 I think alot of it is tied in with the way women are potrayed in movies and TV now. From my rare glimpses of TV nowdays, virtually all of them seem to revolve around impossibly young actors/actresses having sex. Doesn't matter if they're lawyers, pathologists, doctors, superheros, it's all about the sex. When you add to this that most people's leisure lives revolve around TV, TV is reality. That's what I think it is, other than clear examples of vermin needing to be removed from the gene pool. Preferrably through a few weeks of public torture but then I'm mean.:p |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2007-01-17 17:24 |
| #10 What IS it with men who want to abuse young teens? Can some of you guys on the Burg explain this? What is going on? Just can't understand the appeal. Porn addicts? Mohammed wannabes? This is just disgusting. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2007-01-17 15:36 |
| #9 Maybe Ray Charles was just feelin' his way around. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-01-17 12:39 |
| #8 "the courthouse was open for attorneys who might want to conduct other business in the building." "other business?" geesh lol |
| Posted by: Jan 2007-01-17 12:27 |
| #7 "hey! I get paid to screw people..." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-17 10:34 |
| #6 Might it be that Charles was a "client" of the young lady? |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-01-17 10:33 |
| #5 . . . the girl was not a client of Charles, but their exact relationship was not clear. It's clear to me . . . . |
| Posted by: GORT 2007-01-17 10:24 |
| #4 The Mayor's daughter, by any chance? |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-01-17 10:11 |
| #3 Meating out justice. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-01-17 10:09 |
| #2 Just his intern. Nothing to see here; move along. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-01-17 09:59 |
| #1 It's Philadelphia. This is normal. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-01-17 09:16 |