Maryland Judge Kills Himself Moments Before Arrest for Child Sex Abuse
A Maryland judge killed himself on Friday morning, just as the feds showed up at his Henderson home to arrest him in a child sex abuse case.
Caroline County Circuit Judge Jonathan Newell, 50, had been on a leave of absence since July after becoming ensnared in an investigation over allegations that he had a hidden camera that captured naked images of boys in his bathroom. When FBI agents showed up at his door Friday morning to arrest him on a federal criminal complaint, they found him “suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. He was pronounced dead at 6:43 a.m.
“Maryland State Police will lead the investigation into the apparent suicide,” prosecutors said in a news release on Friday afternoon,
On Friday, Newell’s neighbor, Kimberly Keith, posted pictures to Facebook that appeared to show FBI agents stationed outside of the judge’s house demanding over a speaker for him to come out. She wrote that she heard sounds that she believed were gunshots, followed not long after by an ambulance.
Meanwhile….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/17/west-virginia-police-chief-allegedly-rapes-girl/
This story doesn’t pass the smell test. Firstly, the elephant in the room. How did he know when they were coming to arrest him? Nobody told me. He was obviously prepared with a loaded gun. Secondly, he had been doing this for years and no one spoke up until recently? Who let’s their boys stay overnight with an unrelated man in a cabin? Thirdly, he knew what the consequences of his actions would be so he thought suicide was better than death-by-inmate or life on the registry [if he lived out his prison sentence]. Lastly, the article mentioned that he was a Republican. I thought judges were non-partisan?
Seems to me this man had a definite paraphilia. He though he could do whatever he wanted up to actual sexual contact. He surely must’ve recognized that the definition has been so stretched to include touching any part of a person’s body is now considered contact and abuse.
The title says “sex abuse” but from the story I could not detect how the abuse took place, or where the sex part fit in.
When I read “camera” I figured that maybe the camera was committing the assault by emitting dangerous photons that harmed the boys’ bodies, genitals included. But then I remembered that cameras only receive photons that bounce off objects that come from OTHER light sources. But if there were high-energy radiation emitters in the bathroom, why were these left out of the article?
On the other hand, if neither the camera nor other objects were physically assaulting the boys, what was going on? Was the camera recording acts of blunt-type physical violence? If so, where were these attacks coming from? Was the judge beating and raping them in the bathroom and recording it? If so, why leave that out of the story?
I think the article provides enough time examples of abuse by this judge.
See also:
Ohio mayor warns school board during meeting: Resign or face charges for ‘child pornography’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-mayor-school-board-resign-face-charges-child-pornography