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Stoner
07-14-06, 15:10
Magistrate Faces Morals Charge
July 14, 2006
By ANN MARIE SOMMA, Courant Staff Writer

A Hartford attorney who works as a magistrate for the state judicial branch was arrested Thursday morning at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, accused of soliciting sex on an Internet site.

James Aspell, 45, advertised on Craigslist.org to find a college-aged female who would wear Victoria's Secret panties and watch him masturbate in exchange for $150, said UMass-Amherst Deputy Chief Patrick Archbald. Aspell was charged Thursday morning with engaging in sexual conduct for a fee.

Archbald said detectives on Sunday spotted the ad on the website, seeking a college-age female in the Northampton, Mass., area. They began a four-day investigation, during which police responded to the ad, claiming to be a young woman.

Police arrested Aspell at 10 a.m. in a house on campus that he had designated as the meeting place. He was carrying $150.

Aspell is an attorney with Furniss & Quinn, PC, at 248 Hudson St. in Hartford. He is also a small claims court magistrate and motor vehicles magistrate for the state judicial branch. A magistrate is a lawyer who is not a judge but is authorized to hear certain types of cases.

Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, a spokeswoman for the state judicial branch, said Aspell was informed Thursday afternoon that he was suspended as a magistrate until further notice.

Reached at the Hartford law firm late Thursday afternoon, Aspell said he had no comment on his arrest.

Aspell lives with his wife and two children in West Hartford. The couple also owns a second home in Chatham, Mass.

The Craigslist.com ad attributed to Aspell specifies what kind of Victoria's Secret panties the young woman was to wear.

"I'm interested in the cotton kind with the name on the waist. Thong or bikini doesn't matter. I am willing to compensate you for this," reads the ad, which was still posted on the site Thursday evening.

Archbald said detectives are always on the lookout for ads on Internet sites soliciting college students in the area.

"We've had six or eight arrests on campus," Archbald said. "College-age students are willing to pay or be paid for sex."

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The ad:
http://westernmass.craigslist.org/cas/179366867.html

Victoria'$ Secret Cotton Panties - m4w - 30
Date: 2006-07-07, 12:39PM EDT


Seeking an attractive woman willing to allow me to rub her in her Vicky's panties while I pleasure myself. I am interested in the cotton kind with the name on the waist. Thong or bikini doesnt matter. I am willing to compensate you for this. Email if interested.

this is in or around Northampton

Stoner
07-14-06, 15:39
Some observations to be gleaned from what was released:

1. Ad went in on the Fri, the 7th.
2. "Campus"? Detectives in Amherst noted this by July 9th.
3. Investigation began with a fake female responding...
4. By Thursday, he was arrested.

Its clear that these ads, even though relatively benign, and not seeking out campus students per se, drew LE attention because of locale and the fact that he offered to compensate.

For whatever reason, he chose to set it up on the campus itself.

It seems pretty obvious to me that he was seeking college girls. I can't understand any other reason for him to seek out a campus locale to meet her. He would look like a fish out of water, as a 45 year old man on a college campus in the summer time. I also wouldn't expect so many kids to be living on campus in the summer either for him to think it was a worthwhile venture. But who knows.

He would have been better served heading down to the 2041 if that is his thing. But, I guess he wanted to be careful of anonymity in CT.

Now his life is scratched over $150.

He's impressive career is detailed on his company's web site. I feel for this guy. Good luck to you.

I read recently regarding the laws, that the only reason sex connected with money is bad, is because there are no other connections between the two people. If they were friends, or neighbor, or business associates, or connected in any other way, sex for a fee would not be criminal.

Sure, that's legal, but you are more likely to fuck up your own life in the process directly by screwing your neighbor, your friend, or business associate.

Isn't there a blue law about cops looking up ads on a Sunday? They should be at church, where the catholic priest who rapes kids has reign.

JMG
07-14-06, 16:38
For whatever reason, he chose to set it up on the campus itself.

It seems pretty obvious to me that he was seeking college girls. I can't understand any other reason for him to seek out a campus locale to meet her. He would look like a fish out of water, as a 45 year old man on a college campus in the summer time. I also wouldn't expect so many kids to be living on campus in the summer either for him to think it was a worthwhile venture. But who knows.



Stoner -- Thanks for posting this, man.

Not that it really matters much, but if you read the ad, I'm not sure the poor guy was specifically targeting college girls (although I'm sure it's pretty safe to say that he was likely quite excited to have a "college student" respond to his ad). I think the reason he went to a campus locale to meet was because, according to the article, the sting was set up by the UMass / Amherst (as in Amherst College?) police departments. The decoy probably stated that "she" was on campus for classes because that's where the University police departments have resources and jurisdiction, and they then mutually set up the meeting on campus. He likely just chose a location he knew of that was close to and convienient for "her."

Anyway, the way I read the ad, he was just looking for a girl to play with, not specifically a college girl... the press is running with the "college" angle because a) that's where the sting occurred and b) teen sex and the internet is a hot topic now with the whole ******* thing going on and whatnot.

To me, one of the most interesting things about this news report is the fact that, for the first time (that I've heard of anyway), a campus police department has ventured outside of the boundaries of university to "solicit" an arrest... They normally confine themselves to strictly reacting to events that occur on campus.

This is not a good development...

Stoner
07-14-06, 17:25
JMG...thats very true. Thats some serious precedent. I assume that the campus police have such power in Amherst. But the guy is seeking out a connection in Northampton, not Amherst!??

I'll look into this.

Any police officers would like to chime in an square this away for us? :)

ER Kerk
07-14-06, 19:00
Stoner... thanks for the report... but no need to include names... it's man law.

JMG
07-14-06, 22:56
I assume that the campus police have such power in Amherst. But the guy is seeking out a connection in Northampton, not Amherst!??

Amherst / Northampton is totally a "college town." There are actually 5 colleges right in and surrounding Northampton proper (UMass, Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke); practically the whole frickin' area is a University. In fact, the NPR radio station there is WFCR -- "Five College Radio" and broadcasts from UMass.

UConn police are a division of the state police... I assume the same is true for UMass. Perhaps the UMass campus cops police all 5 colleges in the area? They likely have "such power" all over the place up there, since it's all one big educational institution.

DonRoberto
12-15-06, 17:19
Because of this solicited act between two consenting adults, we have a man whose career is ruined, whose marriage is probably also, and who kids will grow up scarred by this. My heart goes out to all of them.

In most civilized, Western nations, these are not even crimes. It is our misfortune to have been born in a Puritanical, fundamentalist country. The LE effort should be channeled into fighting real crimes against society. The 50 shot fusillade against the three young men in NYC was fired by vice cops looking to solicit prostitution.

I'm just glad that I have a passport and the time to go abroad to civilized places where I can get laid in peace.


Magistrate Faces Morals Charge
July 14, 2006
By ANN MARIE SOMMA, Courant Staff Writer

A Hartford attorney who works as a magistrate for the state judicial branch was arrested Thursday morning at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, accused of soliciting sex on an Internet site.

James Aspell, 45, advertised on Craigslist.org to find a college-aged female who would wear Victoria's Secret panties and watch him masturbate in exchange for $150, said UMass-Amherst Deputy Chief Patrick Archbald. Aspell was charged Thursday morning with engaging in sexual conduct for a fee.

Archbald said detectives on Sunday spotted the ad on the website, seeking a college-age female in the Northampton, Mass., area. They began a four-day investigation, during which police responded to the ad, claiming to be a young woman.

Police arrested Aspell at 10 a.m. in a house on campus that he had designated as the meeting place. He was carrying $150.

Aspell is an attorney with Furniss & Quinn, PC, at 248 Hudson St. in Hartford. He is also a small claims court magistrate and motor vehicles magistrate for the state judicial branch. A magistrate is a lawyer who is not a judge but is authorized to hear certain types of cases.

Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, a spokeswoman for the state judicial branch, said Aspell was informed Thursday afternoon that he was suspended as a magistrate until further notice.

Reached at the Hartford law firm late Thursday afternoon, Aspell said he had no comment on his arrest.

Aspell lives with his wife and two children in West Hartford. The couple also owns a second home in Chatham, Mass.

The Craigslist.com ad attributed to Aspell specifies what kind of Victoria's Secret panties the young woman was to wear.

"I'm interested in the cotton kind with the name on the waist. Thong or bikini doesn't matter. I am willing to compensate you for this," reads the ad, which was still posted on the site Thursday evening.

Archbald said detectives are always on the lookout for ads on Internet sites soliciting college students in the area.

"We've had six or eight arrests on campus," Archbald said. "College-age students are willing to pay or be paid for sex."

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The ad:
http://westernmass.craigslist.org/cas/179366867.html

Victoria'$ Secret Cotton Panties - m4w - 30
Date: 2006-07-07, 12:39PM EDT


Seeking an attractive woman willing to allow me to rub her in her Vicky's panties while I pleasure myself. I am interested in the cotton kind with the name on the waist. Thong or bikini doesnt matter. I am willing to compensate you for this. Email if interested.

this is in or around Northampton

NY Stet
01-30-07, 00:39
Because of this solicited act between two consenting adults, we have a man whose career is ruined, whose marriage is probably also, and who kids will grow up scarred by this. My heart goes out to all of them.

In most civilized, Western nations, these are not even crimes. It is our misfortune to have been born in a Puritanical, fundamentalist country. The LE effort should be channeled into fighting real crimes against society. The 50 shot fusillade against the three young men in NYC was fired by vice cops looking to solicit prostitution.

I'm just glad that I have a passport and the time to go abroad to civilized places where I can get laid in peace.What kills me is that we don't even live in a fundamentalist, puritanical society. Look around you, it's clear that we live in a very promiscuous and "decadent" society. Look at what kids watch. MTV, Vh1, E! Network, etc. And all you see are shows like "The Girls Next Door", "Simple Life" with Paris Hilton, videos of girls like Britney and Christina Aguilera, shows like "The Hills" and "Laguna Beach" which feature stunningly attractive teenagers and their sexual endeavors, and then every night several hours of "Girls Gone Wild" infomercials on several cable channels.

So, we live in a society which will accept all of this into their homes on their TV screen, and in turn they accept that this all goes on "out there" (because it's obviously filmed to be shown on their TV screens). But they just can't accept that people who are "out there" that they DON'T know are getting a rub and a tug from some other people "out there" that they don't know. Where is the sense? Where's the logic?

The easy blame goes to the reason "we live in a puritanical society", but we obviously don't. That's just the excuse. There are other reasons for it, and what little purtanism is out there is exploited by the real powers to manipulate the sex trades so that they make money.

Can you imagine if AMPS and other forms of prostitution became legal? Other businesses would lose money to it. That includes TV channels and programs, as well as non-sexual businesses whose products would be neglected in favor of legalized sex. How much money would shift from the regular bars and clubs where guys go to try to get laid (and spend lots of money doing it) if they knew they could just go to a Nevada-style brothel and spend the same amount of money and have their pick of a lineup of sexy women?

Speaking of Nevada, Vegas is a good example of this. In Vegas, the strip clubs are constantly being "cracked down" on. People might think that's not the case because it's "sin city", but that's what is happening there for the last several years. The strip clubs are worse and worse. Same with the prostitution in the casinos. It's been practically eliminated compared to what it used to be. Why? The Casinos and other businesses stand to lose a lot of money. Some guy in Vegas for a convention with $500 to blow on his last night might go spend it on a strip club if he can touch the girl, but if the laws are tightened and enforced so he has to sit far back and watch only, then he spends $20 to get in and another $20 in drinks and tips before he realizes that spending any more isn't getting him anything that he can't get from a magazine. So he goes to the casino and watches THEIR "sexy" shows and tries to pick up women at THEIR bars and gambles at their tables and machines.

And the beauty of it for the gaming industry is they have a very easy scapegoat of "puritanism" to blame. The Mormon-controlled Las Vegas government. The Mormons run the town and they love to do this kind of deal, because Mormons love money more than anything and it's great for Mormons to be paid off in kickbacks and lucrative jobs within the gaming industry all for pontificating on the "evils" of "immorality" in the strip clubs. Of course, they don't like to admit to being supportive of gambling, but that is easily whitewashed away in their words as being "the hospitality industry" rather than the gambling industry which it really is.

While I am not a very active participant in a lot of the activities described in these forums, it pains me to see that some poor guys out there are having their lives all but ruined over an act that would be private and not affect a single soul outside of those involved directly. For that matter, a lot of the "lap dances" in strip clubs are technically illegal, and it kills me that I theoretically could one day be arrested for getting one, since I do go to strip clubs a lot. But they're not worried about strip clubs anymore, because they're "in". Ironically, they're "in" and hip because of channels like VH1 and MTV and E! Network.

Who knows maybe in the near future AMPs will become the next "hip" thing, now that "burlesque" and outright "strip clubs" and "lapdancing" are already very much more accepted by our decadent society?

Taylor Taste
04-09-19, 19:16
Magistrate Faces Morals Charge
July 14, 2006
By ANN MARIE SOMMA, Courant Staff Writer

A Hartford attorney who works as a magistrate for the state judicial branch was arrested Thursday morning at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, accused of soliciting sex on an Internet site.

James Aspell, 45, advertised on Craigslist.org to find a college-aged female who would wear Victoria's Secret panties and watch him masturbate in exchange for $150, said UMass-Amherst Deputy Chief Patrick Archbald. Aspell was charged Thursday morning with engaging in sexual conduct for a fee.

Archbald said detectives on Sunday spotted the ad on the website, seeking a college-age female in the Northampton, Mass., area. They began a four-day investigation, during which police responded to the ad, claiming to be a young woman.

Police arrested Aspell at 10 a.m. in a house on campus that he had designated as the meeting place. He was carrying $150.

Aspell is an attorney with Furniss & Quinn, PC, at 248 Hudson St. in Hartford. He is also a small claims court magistrate and motor vehicles magistrate for the state judicial branch. A magistrate is a lawyer who is not a judge but is authorized to hear certain types of cases.

Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, a spokeswoman for the state judicial branch, said Aspell was informed Thursday afternoon that he was suspended as a magistrate until further notice.

Reached at the Hartford law firm late Thursday afternoon, Aspell said he had no comment on his arrest.

Aspell lives with his wife and two children in West Hartford. The couple also owns a second home in Chatham, Mass.

The Craigslist.com ad attributed to Aspell specifies what kind of Victoria's Secret panties the young woman was to wear.

"I'm interested in the cotton kind with the name on the waist. Thong or bikini doesn't matter. I am willing to compensate you for this," reads the ad, which was still posted on the site Thursday evening.

Archbald said detectives are always on the lookout for ads on Internet sites soliciting college students in the area.

"We've had six or eight arrests on campus," Archbald said. "College-age students are willing to pay or be paid for sex."

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The ad:
http://westernmass.craigslist.org/cas/179366867.html

Victoria'$ Secret Cotton Panties - m4w - 30
Date: 2006-07-07, 12:39PM EDT


Seeking an attractive woman willing to allow me to rub her in her Vicky's panties while I pleasure myself. I am interested in the cotton kind with the name on the waist. Thong or bikini doesnt matter. I am willing to compensate you for this. Email if interested.

this is in or around NorthamptonI'd like an explanation as to why this article exists given its absolute nonsense?

Leg Man69
04-10-19, 14:13
I'd like an explanation as to why this article exists given its absolute nonsense?I'd like an explanation as to why you're asking almost 13 years later.

Mr Mike1952
04-12-19, 15:52
I'd like an explanation as to why you're asking almost 13 years later.Well, he did say to call him crazy.

Taylor Taste
04-13-19, 19:21
I'd like an explanation as to why you're asking almost 13 years later.AFTER you provide me with the initial requested explanation.

- Ms. Crazy.