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Scott Ritter (born 15 July 1961) is a Statesian child predator who has been twice arrested for and once convicted on charges of unlawful conduct with minors and criminal attempt to corrupt minors.[1][2] Since his second conviction, Ritter has posed as an anti-imperialist figure on the Internet, gaining prominence in those circles by making himself available to be interviewed by any content producer, despite having no more ties to the US government or their internal communication.
Contrary to what some believe, Ritter left his job as a UN weapons inspector in 1998 because the US was not being imperialist enough; he criticized the US government for 'failing to get tough with Saddam Hussein',[3] requesting that the United States compel Saddam into granting access to key protected sites in Iraq. At the time, he wanted the Clinton administration to leverage sanctions and the threat of invasion to get a sovereign country's full subservience.[4]
His first arrest came in 2001 after chatting online with two police officers posing as a 14-year-old and 15-year-old girls respectively, in two separate incidents. Despite that Ritter was a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq at the time, his arrest was expunged from the official records and the case was dismissed.[5]
In 2011, Ritter, then 50, was arrested again in a similar situation. According to the 2011 case, he "exchanged explicit messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl, then performed a sex act on himself in front of a webcam."[3] He served 5-and-a-half year in prison for this offense. His defense in court was that he knew he was chatting with undercover police officers, therefore no crime was committed.[2] The jury did not agree with him on that.
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- ↑ No author (2011-04-15).: "Ex-UN inspector Scott Ritter guilty in sex chat case". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/exun-weapons-chief-guilty-on-child-sex-charge-2268643.html
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45049386 (archive)
- ↑ https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/082798iraq-un-ritter.html
- ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/01/22/ritter.arrest/ (archive)