Religious magazine used in evidence-tampering plot
Palm Beach Post, United States - 4 hours ago
... inmate Anthony Rotella on Thursday on an evidence-tampering charge after he used a code he created from a paragraph in a Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower ...
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Watchtower magazine used in evidence-tampering plot
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By Jill Taylor [email protected] write her
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 02, 2006
STUART — A gathering of winged angels adorns the cover of a religious magazine that was used as the coded key for an alleged murder-for-hire and witness-tampering plot, Martin County sheriff's investigators say.
Detectives arrested inmate Anthony Rotella on Thursday on an evidence-tampering charge after he used a code he created from a paragraph in a Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower magazine to arrange payment for the theft of his computer hard drive, which was in evidence in a Martin County child pornography case against him.
Rotella, 43, was told he was paying $300 to have someone steal the hard drive from the sheriff's evidence room, and he allegedly implied he would pay more to have his former attorney and a 7-year-old boy killed. The boy is a witness in a St. Lucie County case in which Rotella is accused of offering the boy $20 to have sex with him in a restroom at the Port St. Lucie Super Wal-Mart.
Rotella can be heard on tape making arrangements by providing his sister with a numeric code based on numbers for each letter in a paragraph of the magazine article.
"It's not The DaVinci Code, but interesting how he came about to do it," said Sgt. John Silvas, who investigated the case.
Rotella was being held at the Martin County jail in lieu of $750,000 bail on the pornography charge and an additional $750,000 bail on the new charge.
Authorities say he originally contacted another inmate about the plot, who reported the plan to authorities in October and cooperated in the investigation.
Telephone and visiting-room conversations are subject to monitoring and taping, and more than 450 of Rotella's were recorded, records show.
Silvas said he heard Rotella giving his sister a string of numbers in several February calls but he did not know what they meant until the sister told Rotella she couldn't figure out what he was asking her to do. He had to explain the code in detail, including which Watchtower magazine to check and which page contained the key paragraph, detectives said.
He gave instructions for a money order to be sent to a post office box for a "package" that then would be destroyed, but he did not tell his sister exactly what it was, and Silvas said he does not expect to charge her.
"It's amazing," Silvas said. "I've never had anything like this."
No details of the plans the informant mentioned ever came out in the calls, and Rotella has not been charged with any murder plots, but attorney Robert Udell was notified that he was a possible target.
Contacted Thursday, Udell said he represented Rotella very briefly following his arrest, but Rotella fired him early in the case.
"Clients don't usually threaten to kill me until after we lose," Udell joked. "I like publicity, but I didn't plan this."
It's the fifth time in recent years that Martin County jail inmates have solicited what they thought were either hit men or corrupt cops to break the law. In each case, the deals were done with undercover officers posing as bad guys and the inmates have faced new charges.
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WATCHTOWER "CODE" pedophile uses Magazine
by DannyHaszard 15 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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DannyHaszard
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DannyHaszard
Jailhouse genius
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KW13
well, i hope he gets plenty of beatings in there, sicko.
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blondie
Makes sense that he would use a magazine few people read including JWs. Best way to conceal what you are doing.
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DannyHaszard
This news should hang well on the wires all weekend
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Anitar
If this wasn't so disgusting, it would almost be funny. Gee, I wonder how you could find coded messages of
child molestation in the Watchtower magazine? I just happened to stumble on this quote for all your
reading pleasure!
The Watchtower 1st November 1995, pages 25-29
"What of the Alleged Abuser?
A person who actually abuses a child sexually is a rapist and should be viewed as such. Anyone victimized in this way has the right to accuse his abuser. Still, an accusation should not be made hastily if it is based solely on "repressed memories" of abuse. In this case the most important thing is for the sufferer to regain a degree of emotional stability. After the passage of some time, he may be in a better position to assess the "memories" and decide what, if anything, he wants to do about them. If there is some valid reason to suspect that the alleged perpetrator is still abusing children, a warning may have to be given. The congregation elders can help in such a case. Otherwise, take your time. Eventually, you may be content to let the matter drop. If, though, you want to confront the alleged perpetrator (after first assessing how you would feel about the possible responses), you have a right to do so.
What if the sufferer decides that he wants to make an accusation? Then the two elders can advise him that, in line with the principle in Matthew 18:15, he should personally approach the accused about the matter. If the accuser is not emotionally able to do this face-to-face, it can be done by telephone or perhaps by writing a letter. In this way the one accused is given the opportunity to go on record before Jehovah with his answer to the accusation. He may even be able to present evidence that he could not have committed the abuse. Or perhaps the one accused will confess, and a reconciliation may be achieved. What a blessing that would be!
If the accusation is denied, the elders should explain to the accuser that nothing more can be done in a judicial way. And the congregation will continue to view the one accused as an innocent person. The Bible says that there must be two or three witnesses before judicial action can be taken (2 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Timothy 5:19). Even if more than one person "remembers" abuse by the same individual, the nature of these recalls is just too uncertain to base judicial decisions on them without other supporting evidence. This does not mean that such "memories" are viewed as false (or that they are viewed as true). But Bible principles must be followed in establishing a matter judicially.
What if the one accused "though denying the wrongdoing" is really guilty? Does he "get away with it," as it were? Certainly not! The question of his guilt or innocence can be safely left in Jehovah's hands."
(end quote)
Now where would be the code in that?! Somebody page Professor Robert Langdon because there's a fly in my
spiritual food! I think they have a way of taking care of guys like this in prison. Now if you will excuse
me, I have get back to de-coding my Botticelli painting.
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Leolaia
Here's the message revealed:
The Watchtower 1st November 1995, pages 25-29
"What of the Alleged Abuser?
A person who actually abuses a child sexually is a rapist and should be viewed as such. Anyone victimized in this way has the right to accuse his abuser. Still, an accusation should not be made hastily if it is based solely on "repressed memories" of abuse. In this case the most important thing is for the sufferer to regain a degree of emotional stability. After the passage of some time, he may be in a better position to assess the "memories" and decide what, if anything, he wants to do about them. If there is some valid reason to suspect that the alleged perpetrator is still abusing children, a warning may have to be given. The congregation elders can help in such a case. Otherwise, take your time. Eventually, you may be content to let the matter drop. If, though, you want to confront the alleged perpetrator (after first assessing how you would feel about the possible responses), you have a right to do so.
What if the sufferer decides that he wants to make an accusation? Then the two elders can advise him that, in line with the principle in Matthew 18:15, he should personally approach the accused about the matter. If the accuser is not emotionally able to do this face-to-face, it can be done by telephone or perhaps by writing a letter. In this way the one accused is given the opportunity to go on record before Jehovah with his answer to the accusation. He may even be able to present evidence that he could not have committed the abuse. Or perhaps the one accused will confess, and a reconciliation may be achieved. What a blessing that would be! -
wednesday
well i am more than a little confused so-- he just took the magazine,and coded a message from the paragraphs? so no one inside the WTs helped in this?
wow, how terribly embarassing for the wts.
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DannyHaszard
wow, how terribly embarassing for the wts.
Yup,it's all over the news wires and they look like shit.Thats what they get for "placing" littering the mags everywhere.
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Kenneson
I just posted this at the profindsearch.com forum. Go add a comment.