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Curley family: NAMBLA paying killer
By Sarah Andrews/ Chronicle Staff
Thursday, August 11, 2005
A civil case targeting a group that promotes relations between men and boys could head to a higher court, if state officials don’t release the prison records of 10-year-old Cambridge resident Jeffrey Curley’s convicted killer.
After a federal judge quashed his motion to release the records in April, Lawrence Frisoli, the attorney for Barbara and Robert Curley, Jeffrey Curley’s parents, requested information about Charles Jaynes’ incarceration from Gov. Mitt Romney and the Department of Corrections last week.
The Curleys, who filed a $200 million lawsuit against the North American Man/Boy Love Association in 2000, allege that Jaynes is receiving money from NAMBLA while in prison and is actively recruiting inmates for the organization. They are seeking information regarding Jaynes’ mail and phone activity, canteen account and employment.
Frisoli said if the request is denied, he expects further litigation to ensue, possibly to the Supreme Judicial Court. “However, we gave the Massachusetts chief executive officer [the choice],” he said.
Diane Wiffin, spokeswoman for the DOC, said lawyers were still reviewing the request.
NAMBLA, who cites “educating the general public on the benevolent nature of man/boy love” as one of its goals, is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari were convicted of second-degree and first-degree murder, respectively, in Curley’s 1998 death. The two men abducted the boy in Cambridge, murdered and molested him and then threw his body into a Maine river.
In 1999, Barbara Curley was given access to Jaynes’ criminal records that pertain to Jeffrey’s murder, on the basis that she is a victim. But in his April opinion, the judge stated it isn’t clear whether Jaynes’ prison records pertain to the crime.
Jaynes joined NAMBLA in 1996, and Frisoli has long maintained that NAMBLA “trained” Jaynes to lure in young boys.
NAMBLA members and attorneys have consistently countered this. In response to the civil suit, an anonymous NAMBLA member sent the Chronicle a letter, stating, “NAMBLA has regularly decried rape, kidnapping and other violent acts [and] has never published or distributed any material advocating … coercion or violence against children.” [continue]
By Sarah Andrews/ Chronicle Staff
Thursday, August 11, 2005
A civil case targeting a group that promotes relations between men and boys could head to a higher court, if state officials don’t release the prison records of 10-year-old Cambridge resident Jeffrey Curley’s convicted killer.
After a federal judge quashed his motion to release the records in April, Lawrence Frisoli, the attorney for Barbara and Robert Curley, Jeffrey Curley’s parents, requested information about Charles Jaynes’ incarceration from Gov. Mitt Romney and the Department of Corrections last week.
The Curleys, who filed a $200 million lawsuit against the North American Man/Boy Love Association in 2000, allege that Jaynes is receiving money from NAMBLA while in prison and is actively recruiting inmates for the organization. They are seeking information regarding Jaynes’ mail and phone activity, canteen account and employment.
Frisoli said if the request is denied, he expects further litigation to ensue, possibly to the Supreme Judicial Court. “However, we gave the Massachusetts chief executive officer [the choice],” he said.
Diane Wiffin, spokeswoman for the DOC, said lawyers were still reviewing the request.
NAMBLA, who cites “educating the general public on the benevolent nature of man/boy love” as one of its goals, is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari were convicted of second-degree and first-degree murder, respectively, in Curley’s 1998 death. The two men abducted the boy in Cambridge, murdered and molested him and then threw his body into a Maine river.
In 1999, Barbara Curley was given access to Jaynes’ criminal records that pertain to Jeffrey’s murder, on the basis that she is a victim. But in his April opinion, the judge stated it isn’t clear whether Jaynes’ prison records pertain to the crime.
Jaynes joined NAMBLA in 1996, and Frisoli has long maintained that NAMBLA “trained” Jaynes to lure in young boys.
NAMBLA members and attorneys have consistently countered this. In response to the civil suit, an anonymous NAMBLA member sent the Chronicle a letter, stating, “NAMBLA has regularly decried rape, kidnapping and other violent acts [and] has never published or distributed any material advocating … coercion or violence against children.” [continue]