UPDATE! Jonathan Michael Tampico has been arrested!
Capture #515 for America's Most Wanted
THANK YOU, AMW!
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"It would do people well to put themselves in our shoes just for a
minute. Neither I, nor anyone else I have ever met with a sexual
attraction toward children ever intended to be that way."
"He states that he loved the boy then and still loves him now. He claims
their sexual relationship was outgrowth of a loving, nurturing,
fulfilling relationship", the probation officer wrote in 1990. "In
his view, he is a social misfit only because of society's repressive
attitudes toward sexual matters."
According to court records, Tampico told a probation officer he was
attracted to young boys, preferably 10 to 14 years old.
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If you've ever read the claims of "boylovers" who condone sex with children, the above statements are all too familiar.
Here's what one of Tampico's NAMBLA buddies has to say about him. His statement describes, far better than I could, the mentality of these people.
I hope that this page will help to separate the myth from the reality.
Meet Jonathan Tampico. Convicted child molester, member (or former member) of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), current fugitive from authorities on multiple child pornography charges, and a self-proclaimed nudist and Boylover. Please read on...
Child Molesters Draw Maximum Prison Sentences
by Boni Brewer
Hayward Valley Times Saturday, April 27, 1990
HAYWARD - Two men linked to an East Bay child-molestation network, one
a former Walnut Creek high school teacher and the other a former
engineer at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, were sentenced Friday
to state prison.
Robert Turner, a former teacher at Las Lomas High School in Walnut
Creek, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on seven counts of lewd and
lascivious acts against three boys, ages 5, 7 and 9, all of Hayward.
Jonathan Tampico, a former engineer in the Livermore lab's "Star Wars"
program, was sentenced to six years in prison for one count of lewd
and lascivious acts against a 12-year-old Livermore boy.
Turner, 37, and Tampico, received the maximum sentences possible under
the terms of separate plea bargains. Neither man showed any emotion
while Alameda County Superior Court Judge Mind Chin read their
sentences.
Two other men convicted in the child-molestation case had already been
sentenced by the judge.
David M. Simons, 38, of Livermore was sentenced to 16 years after
pleading guilty to molesting three boys, two of them from Livermore,
Christopher Lawrence, a Hayward resident, was sentenced to 28 years
after admitting to molesting boys, all of Hayward.
Authorities say that all four defendants are members of North American
Man-Boy Love Association, an organization that advocates the rights of
adults to have sex with children.
Allegations of the men's ties to the organization came in December
1988 from John Cummings, a Sacramento informant who was convicted of
child molestation. Cummings provided authorities with information
about the San Francisco chapter and about Turner, Lawrence Tampico and
Simons.
Later, prosecutors linked Tampico and Turner to two men who allegedly
set up a foster home for children in Bangkok and had sex with the
children.
Turner had not been charged with molesting his high school students.
However, he has been on compulsory leave without pay from the school
since his arrest in spring 1989.
He had written a speech for NAMBLA that claimed there was nothing
morally wrong with adults having sex with children. It went on to say
that society itself is the problem by attempting to limit children's
sexual experiences.
Several people testified Friday as character witnesses for Turner -
including Robert Campbell, who taught with Turner at Las Lomas High
School and worked with him on Boy Scout activities, and Turner's
father, Mort Turner.
Tampico, who does not admit to being a member of NAMBLA, told the
judge he never consciously chose his sexual orientation.
"Neither I, nor anyone else I have ever met with a sexual attraction
towards children, ever intended to be that way." Tampico said.
"It would do people well to put themselves in our shoes, for just a
minute," he said, contending adults who are sexually attracted to
children "are objects of abject hatred in the society they're brought
into."
Tampico has admitted to editing a book titled "The Survival Manual:
The Man's Guide to Staying Safe in Man-Boy Relationships."
But despite allegations, Tampico noted there was no evidence that he
was involved in child pornography and processed photographs of the
three Hayward boys that Turner and Lawrence molested.
In urging the judge to impose a maximum sentence on Tampico, the boy's
mother said she felt betrayed by him during the more than three-year
period she and her son were Tampico's neighbors.
"Because of that trust and so-called friendship, he abused and misused
something horrendous for any parent," she told the judge, adding her
son is receiving counseling to deal with his experience.
Tampico was arrested in May 1989 in Thailand, where police believe he
fled shortly before Turner and Lawrence were arrested in the Bay Area.
In sentencing Tampico to six years in prison, Chin said it was
"abhorrent" for him to take advantage of a neighbor's friendship,
particularly when it involved a single mother and her child.
"I have to protect those people in our society who can't protect
themselves," Chin said in sentencing Turner to 18 years. He said
Turner had displayed emotionally violent conduct" toward children.
Bruce Nickerson, Turner's attorney, argued that four of the counts
represented repeated sexual acts with the same three victims and that
Turner's sentence should therefore be minimized.
But prosecuting attorney Kenneth Burr disagreed.
"What that says is that a defendant's acts are cheaper by the dozen,"
Burr said.
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(Excerpt)
Tampico was arrested while vacationing in Thailand in May 1990 at the
same time police were cracking down on a pedophile ring in the bay
area. Livermore police tracked him down overseas because they thought
he had fled after several other member of the North American Man/Boy
Love Association, a group that maintains that adults have the right to
have sex with children, were arrested on numerous charges of child
molestation. Tampico was associated with the group.
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