Wheaton College Professor Donald Ratcliff Arrested on Child Porn ChargesCarol Stream, Ill. - Wheaton College professor Donald Ratcliff has been arrested on child pornography charges as part of an Internet operation by a law enforcement task force.
Ratcliff, 60, of 1N block of Falcon Trail in Carol Stream was charged Thursday with two counts of aggravated child pornography, according to the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s office said.
Ratcliff will appear in bond court at 8 a.m. Friday in Wheaton after being Arrested by Carol Stream police.
Carol Stream detectives, members of the Illinois Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, continuously police the Internet for child pornography. Through these efforts, detectives were led to Ratcliff for possessing images and videos of child porn, the release said.
FULL ARTICLE.
Worse things he could have been into:
ReplyDeletewww.reddit.com/r/spacedicks
No recommendations of gruesome death or labor camps? An admission of knowledge of /r/spacedicks? Has your account been hacked?
DeleteThe fact that this happened at Wheaton of all places makes it even more juicy. Back in my high school days, I had a classmate who chose Wheaton for college because she was such a party girl that she was afraid she'd flunk out if she didn't find a school with strict enough rules to help her learn to control herself. Wheaton had all the rules of bible college without the accreditation issues.
ReplyDeleteShe flunked out, by the way.
Yeah, well, my church-affiliated SLAC isn't Wheaton (though it is accredited). It has rules that students consider too strict, but students still flunk out because they're partying too much.
DeleteMy guess is your HS classmate discovered that it's possible to party at Wheaton, too.
As for the snark about it happening at Wheaton, it can happen anywhere. Contrary to popular belief, Christians are human, too. (Hi, Cassandra!)
Indeed. I've witnessed mentor/mentee sexual abuse at both my own (quite liberal) church and in my graduate university. And a subset of male pastors seem to have particular problems with abstaining from sex with (usually female) parishioners; I think it's somewhat the same problem as some politicians have: the ability to connect easily with people helps make them effective in the job, but it can easily spill over beyond acceptable bounds.
DeletePossessing/using child pornography, however, strikes me as coming in a somewhat different category. I may be wrong, but I picture someone who uses child pornography as having problems connecting and dealing with adult human beings, and, perhaps, a strong streak of denial about where the stuff comes from.
I see Wheaton's "community convenant" condemns the use of all pornography, so presumably there will, indeed, be a job open. I don't think I'd be eligible, though; my approach to Biblical interpretation is too historically/critically oriented and (perhaps hence) my beliefs about homosexuality and sex outside marriage (not to mention same-sex marriage) out of keeping with the "community standards."
I wonder whether one job will become available, or a bunch of adjunct ones? I'd argue that the conditions under which most adjuncts labor are not in keeping with "Biblical standards," but I'm not sure how Wheaton sees that issue.
ReplyDelete