“Despite being arrested at least nine times for molesting boys, Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller managed to avoid lengthy prison terms, coach youth football, move in with another convicted sex offender — and be named by authorities as one of the most prolific child molesters in history. Schwartzmiller’s criminal record began 35 years ago, but he never registered as a sex offender and spent just 12 years in prison. In his time on the outside, police suspect he molested children as many as 36,000 times in several states, Mexico and Brazil. Wily, charismatic and ’smarter than heck,’ is how James Kevan, one of his defense lawyers in the mid-1970s, described Schwartzmiller on Friday. ‘He could write up legal documents better than most lawyers.’ Often defending himself in court, Schwartzmiller got two of his four convictions overturned, even though the Idaho Supreme Court called him a repeat offender who ‘uses his intelligence to take advantage of the weak and oppressed and those who are in need…’ A search of Schwartzmiller’s San Jose home turned up spiral-bound notebooks with notes on more than 36,000 encounters with children, in categories such as ‘Blond Boys,’ ‘Cute Boys’ and ‘Boys who say no’ — together with codes appearing to indicate how he abused them, San Jose Police Lt. Scott Cornfield said.” —Yahoo (US)

Now that Michael Jackson has managed to “beat it, beat it, beat it,” as many newspapers punned, the case of Mr. Schwartzmiller will no doubt rivet the country. A “career” molestor, Mr. Schwartzmiller is suspected of abusing an astonishing 36,000 children. The number of his victims could literally populate a small city. Manhattan Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, has about 36,000 residents — imagine replacing every one of them with an abused child. Imagine walking down a nice residential street and knowing that every face you see was once duped into sucking this old fag’s dick. It boggles — or buggers? — the mind.

Now that Mr. Schwartzmiller’s case is hitting the limelight, his victims are being sought out. A news article points out that victims “may be withdrawn, unable to trust. Girls might turn to cutting themselves or eating disorders. Boys might drink, do drugs, act out.” Wait a minute — that description could fit half the models on SuicideGirls! Uh, is it wrong or weird to fetishize the survivors of child abuse precisely for the outward manifestations of their psychological trauma?

Anyway, victims and former associates seem to maintain rather contradictory images of Mr. Schwartzmiller. To some, he was a great guy — though you’d think parents would have to wonder what kind of great guy would stop a bus full of the football players he’s coaching to perform a “jock strap check.” Evidently people who formed a negative image of the man had a clearer idea who he was. The friend of one of his victims claimed that Mr. Schwartzman is “an egotist beyond belief. He’s a Hannibal Lector. He knows he’s smarter and he knows he’s superior. And so human beings to him are less than the ants walking around below us.”

The pedophile as supergenius — this image is only reaffirmed by the existence of notebooks in which Mr. Schwartzmann kept records of his thousands of encounters. Evidently he had numeric codes to describe the anatomy of the boys he molested and the acts he perpetrated on them. This cryptographic approach to documenting his pederasty discouraged police in the past from even confiscating the notebooks. A former defense lawyer in this Yahoo article mentions that “investigators didn’t know what they meant. They didn’t even take them. I told him to get rid of them.” No doubt they would be fascinating to decipher — though not because they are notes “for a manuscript,” which is how Mr. Schwartzmiller has tried to explain them away.

At any rate, it will be fascinating to see how this boy-loving brainiac attempts to beat the system once again. And given the fact that, a mere two hundred miles down the coast, Michael Jackson just managed to “beat it, beat it, beat it,” it’s hard not to think that this career molestor stands at least some chance to weasle his way past a soft California jury.

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