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Surprise: Police Say ‘Walt Whitman Devotee’ Molested Teenage Boy Students

Posted on | July 28, 2010 | 12 Comments

 Wow, who could have ever suspected he was into twinks?

Kevin Ricks was a gregarious, well-traveled English teacher at Osbourn High School, a Walt Whitman devotee who was so popular that a photo of him in class was chosen to fill the opening page of the yearbook. A writer and photographer himself, Ricks would walk the halls of the Manassas school with a leather-bound journal of his musings tucked in his bag, next to his laptop computer.
What teachers, parents, students and even his wife didn’t know was that his journals contained decades of dark secrets, a running handwritten commentary of Ricks’s world of obsession, infatuation, pursuit, sexual abuse and international child exploitation.
They didn’t know about his library of homemade pornographic videos and explicit photographs capturing his tequila-soaked sex acts with teenage boys he had handpicked. They didn’t know about the makeshift shrine boxes containing mementos of the episodes, including sex toys, soiled tissues and hair trimmings. . . .
[H]e spent months infiltrating their lives, their families and their youth groups. He plied them with expensive gifts, trips, event tickets, attention and ultimately loads of alcohol.
When the boys were in a drunken stupor or asleep, Ricks would molest them, using a camcorder and camera to capture the graphic, secret sex acts, according to victims and law enforcement officials. . . .
One [of Ricks’ journal entries], from Christmas Eve 2009, spoke directly of the Manassas victim’s abuse, authorities said. In it, Ricks writes about giving the boy a Heineken and five shots of tequila while watching a movie. He then describes deep, passionate kisses and notes details about the boy’s genitals. Ricks wrote that he was in love and that it was the best 12 hours of his life, authorities said. . . .
[I]n the mid-1980s, he taught at private schools in the Atlanta area, at least once serving as the dorm master for a boys’ boarding school.

You can read the whole thing, including how Ricks began hosting foreign-exchange students whom he now is accused of molesting. Pundette suggests Ricks should be boiled in oil.

Category: Crime, Education, Sex

Comments

12 Responses to “Surprise: Police Say ‘Walt Whitman Devotee’ Molested Teenage Boy Students”

  1. tr_sterling
    July 29th, 2010 @ 4:42 am

    Except for the names and places, this could have been Michael Jackson! Why not give the Ricks man a prescription for propofol and slowly up the dose? No doubt MJ had that same nightmare he needed to surpress.

  2. tr_sterling
    July 29th, 2010 @ 12:42 am

    Except for the names and places, this could have been Michael Jackson! Why not give the Ricks man a prescription for propofol and slowly up the dose? No doubt MJ had that same nightmare he needed to surpress.

  3. ccoffer
    July 29th, 2010 @ 6:16 am

    Some guys have all the the luck.

    Waitaminit! Boys? Gross!!

  4. ccoffer
    July 29th, 2010 @ 2:16 am

    Some guys have all the the luck.

    Waitaminit! Boys? Gross!!

  5. Andrew Sullivan
    July 29th, 2010 @ 7:02 am

    Bill Maher nailed it.

  6. Andrew Sullivan
    July 29th, 2010 @ 3:02 am

    Bill Maher nailed it.

  7. Ron Jones
    July 29th, 2010 @ 12:07 pm

    A teacher, a liberal (but I repeat myself), and a homosexual whose been molesting young boys for years.

    Why am I not surprised.

    Note to parents everywhere: when dealing with an animal like this, remember… dig the hole first.

  8. Ron Jones
    July 29th, 2010 @ 8:07 am

    A teacher, a liberal (but I repeat myself), and a homosexual whose been molesting young boys for years.

    Why am I not surprised.

    Note to parents everywhere: when dealing with an animal like this, remember… dig the hole first.

  9. Charles Johnson
    July 29th, 2010 @ 1:33 pm

    So what is the problem? Maybe he taught them something worth while.

  10. Charles Johnson
    July 29th, 2010 @ 9:33 am

    So what is the problem? Maybe he taught them something worth while.

  11. Rich Fader
    July 29th, 2010 @ 10:09 pm

    Keepsake boxes? Ewwwwwww.

    Unfortunately, one needs more than white-hot needles to poke out the mind’s eye.

  12. Rich Fader
    July 29th, 2010 @ 6:09 pm

    Keepsake boxes? Ewwwwwww.

    Unfortunately, one needs more than white-hot needles to poke out the mind’s eye.