‘Camp Epic’: Gay California Teacher Molested Boys as Young as 11

Posted on | March 16, 2014 | 129 Comments

“Allegedly” — it’s important always to add “allegedly”:

Even as he allegedly abused the middle-school age children left in his care, even as he purportedly lied to parents about field trips throughout the Bay Area, court documents show that Ronald Guinto articulated a strict code to his campers: “What happens at Camp Epic stays at Camp Epic.”
What allegedly happened on the off-campus, overnight camping trips was repeated sexual abuse of 11-and 12-year old boys, the documents say. . . .
Authorities say Guinto recruited his victims while he was teaching at Making Waves Academy, a charter school in Richmond near Hilltop Mall, to join Camp Epic, an organization he founded in 2009 as part of his Master’s degree program in urban education. Nineteen students have been identified as participating in Camp Epic, which has no affiliation with the charter school . . . investigation into Guinto began on Oct. 29, when an administrator at Making Waves called Richmond police to report Guinto had been placed on administrative leave for an inappropriate Facebook conversation with an 11-year-old student, according to a probable cause statement by lead investigator Detective Walton Nelson.
Within weeks, investigators uncovered Guinto had taken students on trips to Mount Diablo State Park, San Jose, Yosemite, and Napa, engaging in sex acts with students inside tents beginning in December 2012 and ending as recently as Oct. 26, three days before police were notified, according to documents. On that outing, the parents of one of the boys said they thought their son and other students were camping overnight at Mare Island, but Guinto instead took them [to] a Motel 6 in Vallejo, Nelson wrote. Guinto allegedly slept in the same bed as two boys.
One 12-year-old boy told an investigator that his alleged abuse began in December 2012, when he was sleeping in a tent with Guinto and another student. Guinto allegedly asked the boy if he could fondle him, the first of about 30 such incidents spread over about 10 campouts, according to documents.
At a camping trip in Napa Skyline in 2013, the boy said, Guinto woke him up in the middle of the night to show him a video titled “Teacher Porn,” and then performed oral sex on him. . . .

Read the whole thing. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Category: California, Crime, Education, Gays, Sex

Comments

129 Responses to “‘Camp Epic’: Gay California Teacher Molested Boys as Young as 11”

Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 9:04 am

H8er! Even if this is true, it has nothing to do with homosexuality, nothing at all! The linked article says nothing at all about Mr Guinto being homosexual, and I heartily, heartily! denounce you for implying, through your article title, that he is homosexual and that that has something to do with the alleged offenses!
Jeanette Victoria
March 16th, 2014 @ 9:04 am

“Hater”
tahDeetz
March 16th, 2014 @ 10:15 am

RT @smitty_one_each: TOM ‘Camp Epic’: Gay California Teacher Molested Boys as Young as 11 http://t.co/BtGSrOOVrP #TCOT
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 9:18 am

I never use the word “gay,” which means happy and carefree, to refer to homosexuals. It’s surrendering control of the language to them.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
March 16th, 2014 @ 10:33 am

Haven’t you persecuted Alec Baldwin enough? Leave him alone!
Evi L. Bloggerlady
March 16th, 2014 @ 10:34 am

I could think of other words, but they are not for polite society. In the South didn’t they refer to them as “Gentlemen bachelors”?
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:16 am

Right up until they molested someone’s kid. Then they were called “unfortunate accident victims.”
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:17 am

This website qualifies as “polite society?” Who knew?
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:37 am

Camp derives from the French term se camper, meaning “to pose in an exaggerated fashion”. The OED gives 1909 as the first print citation of camp as

ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to, characteristic of, homosexuals. So as a noun,‘camp’ behaviour, mannerisms, et cetera. (cf. quot. 1909); a man exhibiting such behaviour.

Later, it evolved into a general description of the aesthetic choices and behaviour of working-class homosexual men. The rise of post-modernism made ‘camp’ a common perspective on aesthetics, which was not identified with any specific group. The attitude originally was a distinctive factor in pre-Stonewall gay male communities, where it was the dominant cultural pattern. It originated from the acceptance of gayness as effeminacy[…].“
Zohydro
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:50 am

Of only they could marry…
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:51 am

If a straight man molests little girls should we blame his straightness? Absolutely not. The same applies for the gayness of the California teacher.

This is going to be the most sane comment that can possibly be expected in this thread (going by the already posted comments that seem to be concerned only about the perpetrator’s gayness.)
M. Thompson
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:52 am

You know, the biggest upside to banning that kind of behavior was that it was easier to go after the real predators.
M. Thompson
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:52 am

You know, the biggest upside to banning that kind of behavior was that it was easier to go after the real predators.
Zohydro
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:53 am

If those boys didn’t know what a “catamite” is before, they do now!
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:54 am

You are a disturbed person. Get some help. Just leave the victims alone.
Zohydro
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:55 am

I hope those boys get tested…
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 11:58 am

Thanks for your concern for the boys, they will be taken care of regardless. But you are the one who might need to be tested for psych issues.
daleyrocks
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:12 pm

The Boy Scouts could use more gay leaders like Guinto. Wait….

The Girl Scouts don’t allow men to supervise camping trips, but I don’t think they have any problem with rug munchers.
Zohydro
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm

Homosexual males should NEVER go camping… or engage in child-care work… and avoid water parks… The risk of acquiring and spreading various waterborne diseases is just to great!

http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/giardia/epi.html

http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/crypto/epi.html
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:16 pm

Even as a normal man, I would never, ever, volunteer to be a Scoutmaster or for any other position which would have me taking children into the woods for overnight camping trips; the risk of someone simply claiming that I was a molester, for whatever reason, is far too great.
daleyrocks
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:16 pm

Anamika – Are you concerned about anyone in the story apart from the teacher?
Zohydro
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm

Can we say faecal-oral route boys and girls?

I think we can…
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm

We have a situation in which 11 or 12 year old boys were (allegedly) raped, and you think that it is the people who are actually concerned about it are the ones with psychological issues?
Zohydro
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:19 pm

My son is a Scout… Mrs Z handles that gig!
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:21 pm

A catamite is a boy kept by a pederast, which is exactly what the alleged assailant supposedly did to these boys. Why would you think that recognizing this is evidence of someone being a”disturbed person?”
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:24 pm

Read Zohydro’s previous comments like this “If those boys didn’t know what a “catamite” is before, they do now!”

That’s not concern for the boys, that playing out own craziness at the expense of the victims.
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:25 pm

Yet, somehow, some way, it appears that male child molesters target young boys in a far greater percentage than the homosexual male percentage of the population. Why is that?
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:28 pm

It is an expression of correct language. Catamite is a perfectly good word, and one which is accurately descriptive. Perhaps if young boys learn what catamite means, and that it is both wrong and denigrating, on every level, to be one, perhaps they will be better able to defend themselves from the intentions of the pederasts.
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm

Doesn’t it also appear that female child molesters target young girls in a far greater percentage than the heterosexual male percentage of the population.
Why is that?

The answer to both questions is the same; reason why there are always far more male criminals than female ones throughout history in any society.
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 12:53 pm

Its like saying, “hey those sexually abused 11 year old girls didn’t know what “rape” was before, now they know!”

Please stop justifying further…
richard mcenroe
March 16th, 2014 @ 1:01 pm

Victorian England” “Confirmed Bachelors.” And remember that Oscar Wilde suffered no problems after being pilloried as a “sodomite” by a cartoonist… until Wilde dragged the man into court and proved it himself.
richard mcenroe
March 16th, 2014 @ 1:04 pm

When I was in the Scouts in my misspent yoot, I don’t recall EVER going on a camping trip without at least one father accompanying it.
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 1:27 pm

Sorry, wrong answer. While it’s certainly true that there are more male than female criminals, that wasn’t the point. The point was that male child molesters ought to molest girls 96 to 98% of the time, if homosexuality wasn’t a factor, since only 2 to 4% of the population are homosexual.

Instead, while the statistics get obscured by political correctness, it appears that male child molesters assault boys rather than girls at least a third of the time. In the best study that we have, the John Jay report concerning child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, a whopping 81% of their victims were adolescent boys, not girls.

If you ignore political correctness, while most homosexuals are not child molesters, there is a strong correlation between child molestation and homosexuality.
concern00
March 16th, 2014 @ 1:50 pm

The other commenters gave nailed it.

DISPARATE IMPACT
concern00
March 16th, 2014 @ 1:51 pm

Seriously if you can have a little fun promoting and celebrating homosexuality and pedophilia, surely we can have a little fun denouncing it!
Homer J
March 16th, 2014 @ 1:56 pm

And this will never, ever happen with the Boy Scouts, right?
ZZZZZZZZ
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:01 pm

Is that all you got? A campy definition, a silly attempt to overwhelm us with your knowledge of etymology derived through a search engine?

Jeez, and I woke up from a nap for this?!?!?!!?!

zzzzzzz…….
ZZZZZZZZ
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:02 pm

The only relevant point of your comments on this thread is your obvious approval, if not endorsement, of child molestation, regardless of gender.
ZZZZZZZZ
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm

You need to be less selective in your etymology.
ZZZZZZZZ
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:07 pm

How do you know that the boys will be taken care of? Sound like you have personal knowledge of this matter; are you coordinating these comments with Guinto’s attorney, or with Guinto?
Informal
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:08 pm

Not by “a cartoonist”: John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (and developer of the “Queensberry Rules of boxing) inscribed “For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite” [sic] on his visiting card which he left for Wilde at his club, the Albemarle.
ZZZZZZZZ
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:08 pm

As I noted earlier, you need to take that politically correct filter off your etymology search engine.
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March 16th, 2014 @ 2:28 pm

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Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:39 pm

I wasn’t clear to me in your original comment whether u were referring to male child-molesters or male-child molesters.

Not all people who molest young boys are gays. You mention the pedophile priests…they have access to young boys in their work environment…its the children they are attracted to, not so much the gender that might explains the figures….

Anyway, your assumptions are stereotypes & not backed by facts:

http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty_sites/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html
“The empirical research does not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molest children. This is not to argue that homosexual and bisexual men never molest children.
But there is no scientific basis for asserting that they are more likely than heterosexual men to do so. And, as explained above, many child molesters cannot be characterized as having an adult sexual orientation at all; they are fixated on children.”
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:45 pm

“Seriously if you can have a little fun…”

That’s exactly what wrong with sick minds like you and Zohydro. Nobody should have fun at the expense of the victims.
concern00
March 16th, 2014 @ 2:57 pm

Either you have comprehension issues or you’ve just confirmed our fears – that you’re an outspoken advocate of homosexuality and pedophilia.
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 3:00 pm

Gay men are no more likely to be sexually attracted to children than straight men.

“According to Dr. Fred Berlin[…] pedophilia is a distinct sexual orientation marked by persistent, sometimes exclusive, attraction to prepubescent children.”

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,232584-1,00.html

“We do not find a connection between homosexual identity and the increased likelihood of subsequent abuse from the data that we have right now … It’s important to separate the sexual identity and the behavior. Someone can commit sexual acts that might be of a homosexual nature but not have a homosexual identity.”

“Although the majority of clergy abuse victims are males, homosexuality cannot be blamed. First, many of the pedophile priests report that they are not homosexual. This is also true of many non-clergy sex offenders who victimize boys. Many report that they target boys for a variety of reasons that include easier access to boys … pregnancy fears with female victims … homosexuals in general have not been found to be more
likely to commit sexual crimes against minors compared to
heterosexuals. Sexual orientation is not predictive of sex crimes”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/04/what-causes-sex-abuse-research-conflicts-with-catholic-leaders/1
Anamika
March 16th, 2014 @ 3:04 pm

I’m not having fun. Neither should you. Comprehend?
Jeanette Victoria
March 16th, 2014 @ 3:08 pm

Didn’t you know children are not the same sex as adults just ask any apologist for homosexuality
Dana
March 16th, 2014 @ 3:09 pm

Anamika, I’m Catholic, and I know who the parishioners are, and there are just as many — really, probably more — altar girls than altar boys these days. There is at least as much of an opportunity to target females as males.

Of course, the problem isn’t child molestation as much as it is the sexual abuse of adolescents and younger teens, victims just starting to develop their sexual characteristics. I’ll be clear here: these abusers are homosexuals! You can try to deny the truth all that you want, but it’s still the truth. And the saddest part isn’t that you are lying to us, but that you are lying to yourself.