Homosexual Couple Face Trial for Raping At Least 5 of Their 9 Adopted Sons

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Homosexual Couple Face Trial for Raping At Least 5 of Their 9 Adopted Sons

A judge on Friday allowed two Glastonbury men, accused two years ago of sexually assaulting two of their nine adopted boys, to withdraw their no-contest pleas and take their cases to trial.

The unusual action came during what was to be a sentencing hearing for George Harasz and Douglas Wirth, who entered pleas in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor. They agreed to suspended prison sentences. The only issue for Friday’s hearing was to be whether each would be required to register as sex offenders.

But a new allegation of sexual assault against Harasz by one of the victims, contained in a pre-sentence investigation of Harasz, helped scrap the plea agreement. The case was further clouded Friday by disclosure in court of new allegations of abuse by three other of the nine children. No new criminal charges have been filed.

The new information gives rise to the possibility of new criminal charges, and therefore continuing with Friday’s planned sentencing would not have been prudent, prosecutor David Zagaja told Judge Joan K. Alexander. Further, Zagaja said, the victim has said he wants to testify against Wirth and Harasz at trial.
“I think the only proper resolution of this matter is to try it,” Zagaja said.

Initially, Harasz, 49, was charged with two counts of first-degree sexual assault, aggravated first-degree sexual assault, fourth-degree sexual assault, two counts of risk of injury to a minor and cruelty to persons. Wirth, 45, was initially charged with third-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. Those charges were reduced to a single charge for each man as part of the plea agreement.

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Homosexual Couple Face Trial for Raping At Least 5 of Their 9 Adopted Sons

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[Big Daddy]

Doesn't surprise me in the least. Sick fukks. There's NOTHING that's beneath them.

 

[South Side Reject]

No kids are safe. Never have been. We're just hearing about it more nowadays but adopted and foster kids face an even greater risk of being abused. Factor in same sex couple and transracial adoptions and the chances of something bad happening goes up.

 

[LurkMoar]

How are they possibly facing trial? it should be automatic

 

[Brosef]

You posted a link from 2013

All Criminal Charges Against George Harasz Are Dismissed

 

[88m3]

reported

 

[Gentility]

You posted a link from 2013

All Criminal Charges Against George Harasz Are Dismissed

The other husband:

Douglas Wirth Found Not Guilty Of Abusing Adopted Son

HARTFORD — A Superior Court judge found a former Glastonbury man not guilty Monday of physically and sexually abusing one of the sons that he and his former husband adopted through the state Department of Children and Families.

Judge Julia D. Dewey said the evidence against Douglas Wirth was simply not believable.

"Not guilty of all charges," the judge said after summarizing her findings.

The trial was based on the charges brought by one son, who is now 19. Wirth, 46, and his former husband, George Harasz, 51, were accused of sexually and physically abusing him over several years. He was one of nine boys they adopted through the state Department of Children and Families.

The accuser's long history of lying — a therapist described him as a pathological liar — undermined the state's charges.

"The [Glastonbury] police investigation in this case was initiated after [a] statement by the primary complainant," Dewey said. "His credibility was critical. Even a cursory examination would have revealed the fact that his credibility was already suspect. After the investigation began, he continued to lie about several factors, some significant and some inconsequential."

 

[Gentility]

Former Glastonbury Couple Sue DCF Chief Over Abuse Allegations Involving Adopted Boys

HARTFORD — The former Glastonbury couple who once faced abuse charges related to two of their nine adopted boys have filed a $100 million lawsuit against child-protection commissioner Joette Katz, alleging that Katz's agency covered up sexual trauma in the backgrounds of some of the boys and rushed to judgment against the fathers.

At the heart of the claim by George Harasz and Douglas Wirth is that Katz and social workers at the Department of Children and Families concealed the sexual misbehavior that a few of the boys had displayed before coming to live with the couple, and then recklessly pursued criminal charges against the fathers when two troubled boys made unsupported accusations against them.

Harasz and Wirth, once held out as model foster and adoptive parents by DCF, had told the department that they were willing to take in foster children, including groups of brothers, provided the children had not been sexually abused. Their reasoning was that those children might be too much to handle in a large, adopted family.

In the lawsuit, filed Monday in Superior Court in Hartford, lawyer Sally A. Roberts of New Britain said that at least three of the children had acted out sexually in other placements, but that DCF concealed those facts and lied to the fathers. Those boys continued their inappropriate sexual behavior after they joined the Harasz-Wirth household, the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit seeks $100 million in damages and alleges malicious prosecution, fabrication of evidence, and bias on the part of Katz against Harasz and Wirth.

 

[the next guy]

OP out here smearing people.