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LCD Dating Services found not liable in Westboro Baptist Church sodomy blackmail case; ringleader Granny McDermalick and sons sentenced to 3 years |
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LCD Dating Services has been cleared of wrongdoing in a blackmail scam in which 17 members of the controversial Westborough Baptist Church were bilked out of nearly $50,000. The church, which is infamous for disrupting the funerals of fallen soldiers, was reportedly targeted by elderly mastermind Granny McDermalick and her sons Tito and Seamus. Granny would lure members of the Westboro Baptist Church onto dates using a web site for LCD Dating Services, with the promise of letting them fulfill their sordid sexual rape fantasies upon a defenseless old woman. Her sons would then enter the room and forcibly sodomize the men with broomsticks. Granny photographed the greasy mess, using the pictures to blackmail the notoriously anti-gay Church members and their families. A jury ruled in favor of the plaintiff Westboro Baptist Church, although the sentence of 3 years by Judge Charles T. Pickeron is the most lenient for this type of crime in Massachusetts history. "Despite the thousands of pictures capturing the 17 alleged assaults, very little photographic evidence was presented that suggests the Westboro Baptist Church members were not willing partisans. Most victims of such crimes do not seem to so thoroughly enjoy themselves on camera." Pickeron noted |
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