Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Deltona Man Arrested In 'Man/Boy' Sex Sting

Police: Group Charged With Planning To Travel To Mexico For Sex With Boys

Seven members of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, including two Florida men, were arrested in Southern California and charged with planning to travel to Mexico to have sex with boys, authorities said. our men were arrested in Los Angeles and three in San Diego Saturday. They were charged Monday, following a sting operation in which each man allegedly paid hundreds of dollars to an undercover agent to arrange the sex, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said during a news conference. The seven charged Monday included Gregory Mark Nusca, 43, of Dania Beach, Fla., also known as David R. Busby or Steven West, and Paul Ernest Zipszer, 39, of Deltona, Fla. An eighth man, Jeff Devore, 53, of Fullerton was charged with distributing child pornography as a result of the sting, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. Devore, a minister at the Brea Congregational Church, in Orange County, Calif., was not accused of planning to go on the Mexico trip. He was allowed to post bail but it was immediately unknown whether he had done so. A phone call to the church seeking comment and a message left on Devore's answering machine were not immediately returned. "This investigation exemplifies the FBI's commitment nationwide, and the commitment of our local, state and federal task force partners, to finding child predators within the United States and beyond our borders," Richard Garcia, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office, said in a statement. The men allegedly had traveled from their home to Southern California with the expectation of boarding a boat to Ensenada, Mexico, where they were told sex with the boys was awaiting them at a bed-and-breakfast, Eimiller said. Through the undercover agent, she said, they requested that the boys be as young as 8 years old. Authorities said the North American Man/Boy Love Association, which was formed in 1978 and advocates relationships with men and boys, was not charged in the case.



(AP article here)

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