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Mustachio Nut
UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq 1991 - 1998.
Vocal critic of Iraq war 2002 - 2004.
Convicted pedophile - 2011.
Vocal critic of Iraq war 2002 - 2004.
Convicted pedophile - 2011.
Ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter convicted over online webcam sex chat with cop
From correspondents in Pennsylvania
From: AP
April 15, 2011 1:53PM
http://www.news.com.au/world/ex-un-...op/story-e6frfkz0-1226039729788#ixzz1JZe8DZde
A FORMER UN weapons inspector has been convicted of having unlawful contact with a minor, after being nabbed in an online sex sting.
Scott Ritter, 49, exchanged explicit messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl and masturbated even after the undercover officer stressed during the chat that he was a minor, prosecutors said.
A jury in the US state of Pennsylvania found Ritter guilty on six counts today, with sentencing set for next month.
Ritter took the witness stand in his own defence yesterday and said he believed the person he met in a Yahoo! chat room on February 7, 2009, was an adult acting out her own fantasy.
Neither Ritter nor his lawyer, Gary Kohlman, commented outside the court today.
Mr Kohlman acknowledged in his closing argument that jurors were likely "troubled and offended" by the graphic chat and video of Ritter that prosecutors played to the court, but said they were required to put aside their personal distaste because "this is not a referendum on whether anybody in the courtroom approves of adult chat rooms".
After the verdict, Assistant District Attorney Michael Rakaczewski said the jury reached the right decision.
"They saw the case for what it is and the defendant for what he is and what he did," he said.
Ritter was one of the UN's chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.
He resigned after accusing the US and UN of failing to get tough with Saddam Hussein.
Later, he said that Iraq had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction, and he became a vocal critic of the US invasion.
