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- San Francisco Chronicle Subj. OTO/NAMBLA
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- Dateline: March 7,1988
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- [JAILED CHILD MOLESTER MAY HAVE SPREAD AIDS TO BOYS!]
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- By Howard W.Lemplaen - Chronicle Staff writer
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- San Francisco investigators fear that AIDS may have been spread to a
- number of boys and young men by a man sentanced to prison last month for child
- molestation.
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- Police say they found documents at the Sixth Street hotel room of James
- David White indicating that he had tested positive at least once for the AIDS
- virus.
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- White, linked by police to a pedophiliac network called the North American
- Man/Boy Love Association. (NAMBLA), also that he kept documents indicating that
- he had sexual contact with an estimated 139 youths ages 5 to 17 between 1971
- and last year, said Sergant Tom Eisenmann.
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- According to Eisenmann, an inspector in the juvinile division,
- investigators have located only a few of White's victims. They have not
- confirmed whether he may have transferred the virus to anybody. "My initial
- concern is that he would be doing all these activities with kids and the kids
- would get AIDS." Eisenmann said. "It's an ever-present fear, since he's
- attracted to children and since he wants to have sex with them...that he could
- easily spread it."
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- A related police investigation is under way in Massachusetts, where White
- and at least one of his alleged victems also had lived, Eisenmann said.
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- A chart apparently prepared by White and confiscated by police from his
- home last fall indicated that he had sex with some of the boys and young men.
- As described by White, the nature of the sexual contacts poses a high risk for
- the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
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- In the same search, police found two documents suggesting that White had
- tested positive for the AIDS virus.
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- One was a single page, typed, unsigned letter by White dated October 21,
- just before his arrest.
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- "Bringing AIDS back to a personal basis...didn't I tell you that I tested
- positive for exposure to the AIDS virus last year?" he wrote to a young man in
- Massachusetts. "Well, I was a nervous wreck over the last couple of months. I
- had a nearly debilitating case of bronchitis that I feared was pneumocystis
- carinii (a lung disease commonly associated with AIDS.)"
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- The second document was an October 9 bill from the medical center at the
- University of California at San Francisco for a September 24 visit that
- included lung X-rays and a test for the HIV antibody, which is associated with
- AIDS.
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- A spokeswoman from the medical center declined to comment on the test
- results, citing patient privacy rights.
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- White, 32, did not respond to The Chronicle's questions about the police
- investigation.
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- After pleading guilty last month, he was sent to the California Medical
- Facility at Vacaville, where he awaits transfer to another prison.
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- According to Eisenmann and court records, White was convicted of child
- sexual abuse charges in 1981 in Santa Clara County. In the San Francisco case,
- he was named in 39 counts related to child molestation and showing child porn
- -graphy to a minor.
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- The investigation leading to his arrest focused on six boys ages 8 to 15.
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- Also central to the investigation was the San Francisco chapter of NAMBLA
- which boasts about 125 members in California and 600 worldwide.
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- Eisenmann and his partner, Sergant Glan Pamfiloff, said White has written
- for NAMBLA publications under psudonyms.
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- David M. Simons, 28, who belonged to the group until about 1985, was also
- arrested after the investigation on charges of child molestation and showing
- pornography to a minor. Although he is apparently no longer a member, police
- and NAMBLA officials say Simons worked at the Market Street bookstore where the
- group sells many of its publications, lived in a room behind the shop and
- attended monthly NAMBLA meetings there.
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- Former Bay Area broadcast journalist Eugene J. McCann Jr., a friend of
- both White and Simons, was also arrested on similar charges, Simons pleaded
- guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison, while McCann pleaded guilty
- and was sentenced to 28 months.
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- Police said White and McCann are associates of another convicted child
- molester, 51 year-old Robert E. Newman, who is connected locally to a national
- satanist cult known as the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO).
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- In a raid on Newman's Dolores Street home (in San Francisco) last year,
- investigators found a large ceremonial altar, NAMBLA literature and documents
- from a variety of occult groups, including OTO.
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- NAMBLA has come under police scrutiny since it was founded in Boston 10
- years ago. In recent years, men with close ties to the group have been
- arrested in Sacramento, San Bernardino, Boston and at the U.S. Military Academy
- at West Point.
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- "It is an organization that promotes child sexual abuse," Eisenmann said.
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- Free Forum Books, at 1800 Market Street, San Francisco, continues to host
- NAMBLA meetings, and to sell NAMBLA literature, including explicit but legal
- fictional accounts of men having sex with boys as young as 8.
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- The group contends that age of consent laws that regulate children's
- sexual activity should be abolished and that children should have the right to
- have sex even in infancy.
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