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Edward Muscare has been called the "singing sex offender" for videos he posted on YouTube which show the convicted sex offender singing romantic hits like "Pretty Woman."

The 72-year-old's videos have drawn almost 3 million views on his YouTube channel. But law enforcement hasn't been enamored with Muscare's public performances and the crooked crooner's next hit might be "Jailhouse Rock."

Muscare was arrested for his online warblings, and will be sentenced Jan. 6 on charges that he violated his probation. He is currently performing exclusively at the Lake County Jail, about 40 miles northwest of Orlando.

"For one-time offenders who have done their best, who have paid their debt to society, have lived a good life, they should give them a break and say, 'Hey, he's done his part,'" Muscare said to CBS affiliate WKMG.

In 1987, Muscare pleaded no contest to sexually battering a 14-year-old Orlando boy.

"I would never sexually offend again, but we can't help but sin. We're all human beings," Muscare told the station.

Muscare has had problems with probation before. At one point, he said he was being harassed by neighbors, so he decided not to register his address.

"I wanted to hide from the (sexual offender) registry, and I hid successfully in South Carolina, until one day the deputy sheriff showed up with a warrant for my arrest," Muscare told WKMG.

Muscare said he considers himself no threat to society and he hopes a judge will see his case the same way, even possibly allowing him to post on YouTube again… legally.

"I'm an entertainer, and I've entertained all my life," Muscare said to WKMG. "They're done in fun and I'm sure that most of the people see it that way."

Many of his YouTube fans do. Muscare's channel has more than 4000 comments, many of them posted after his recent arrest.

"edarem! i'm gonna send you a file in a cake! what's your favourite topping?" wrote frostytheaussie last week.

"A simple Google search will reveal a lot about this very talented man who is still loved and remembered by many," Chris Hooch, another commenter, wrote on the same day.

According to fan sites, in the 1970s Muscare hosted a late night horror program on a local Kansas City cable channel. He dressed himself as a vampire and was called "Uncle Ed."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/04/crimesider/entry6054318.shtml

Lock if old?

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He needs to continue sharing his "knowing when the second superman chorus happens in the scrub theme" gift with the world dammit!
 
I'm sure this is old because I heard about it a couple of months ago, but it's still really sad. It's ironic that many started watching his videos because he's scary looking and weird, but after a while you get to see the genuine warmth from the guy and come to like him. Such a shame, the man has done his time, now let him ramble on the internets.
 
quadriplegicjon said:
O_o


He always creeped the hell out of me! :lol


Though, I am a little confused as to what he was arrested for. :/
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Apparently he wasn't allowed to be near computers, yet he became some sort of e-celebrity, and the judge got wind of that. Or something to that effect. There's a video in his account, posted by a friend of his, that explains the situation in detail, I believe.
 
J. M. Romeo said:
Apparently he wasn't allowed to be near computers, yet he became some sort of e-celebrity, and the judge got wind of that. Or something to that effect. There's a video in his account, posted by a friend of his, that explains the situation in detail, I believe.
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I remember one of the videos saying that he was allowed near computers in certain states, and others prohibited it which he didn't know about. And he fled his original state because of him being on the sex predator list or something.
 
Messypandas said:
I remember one of the videos saying that he was allowed near computers in certain states, and others prohibited it which he didn't know about. And he fled his original state because of him being on the sex predator list or something.
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Yeah, and I'm pretty much sure that he broke some law or some restraining order, but that's damn unfair. Those rules have their purpose, and I'm cool with that, we all need laws and rules to have an orderly state, blablablah, yadda yadda yadda, but the guy was only doing wacky shit lipsynching to show themes and having his nipples nibbled by his dog while using a toilet brush to scratch his back.

Which is fucked up when you think about it, but it had this kitch charm to it. Very authentic, very pure.

I don't know shit about the legal system in the US, but I would like to think that once a judge gets this case and examines the facts (given that he wasn't hiding a cache of child porn or something like that) he will rule something fair.
 
It sucks, 5 years for using a computer for making people laugh is CRUEL PUNISHMENT. Should be thrown out as unconstitutional.
 
He wasn't sentenced for making the videos, which is what many people on YouTube had thought (and whoever was uploading the videos implied this as well). He was sentenced for not registering. That's a law, and he broke it.

Therefore.........
 
Who the fuck thought he was jailed for making YouTube videos? Jesus Christ. :lol That must be a new felony I am not aware of.
 
Ether_Snake said:
It sucks, 5 years for using a computer for making people laugh is CRUEL PUNISHMENT. Should be thrown out as unconstitutional.
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Dude, he violated his parole. No matter the content, he broke the law according to his parole. Of course this was going to happen.
 
Shikashi said:
Who the fuck thought he was jailed for making YouTube videos? Jesus Christ. :lol That must be a new felony I am not aware of.
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Well, it was reported that he was jailed for having a computer, which sex offenders are not allowed to do in South Carolina.
 
guess i'll just dump my posts from the other thread here, unless a mod feels like merging them.

ghst said:
poor guy got sent down for 5 years, pretty much a death sentence for someone that age. cunts wouldn't even let him say goodbye to his dogs - they managed to squeeze a few tears out of that doozy.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...ng-molester-in-court-20091209,0,1078497.story

enjoy your sweet liberty, fucks. just check out a day in the life of this true menace to society.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskcUtlA4jM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hexm4UAh3Q8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFXNAROPYf4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDCY_rs2g88

a ticking time bomb, i'm sure you'll agree.
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ghst said:
while i'm a burgeoning misanthropist who sees youtube as largely a gallery of grotesque vanities, edarem was always something of a sunny day.

he fucked up and paid hard time, and after watching a sea of his videos, my moral compass is totally settled on the old guy. you'd have to deliver me a whole lot of evidence outside of using a computer to make some of the most life affirming motion pictures this side of it's a wonderful life (except george bailey didn't get handed a 2-4-1 prison beating and slow death ticket by some backwater tinpot judge at the end of the film) to sway me otherwise.

and i'm assuming the dogs will be destroyed.
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ghst said:
i wonder if he has a shot in hell at an appeal. how does that work over there if you're basically a run down old pariah with zero assets (save for a busted old beetle and a few dogs)?
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Ether_Snake said:
He got sent to jail cause they found out he used a computer, and they found out because some people have been trying to make his life miserable. Read the fucking news articles.

I hadn't seen the videos uploaded by Phil. This one is hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/user/edarem#p/u/15/2fcpo8WARHA
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You too

Convicted of sexual battery of a 14-year-old boy in Orlando in 1987 and failing to adhere to sex-offender registration requirements in Lake County in 1998,

Internet access only played a role in it
 
FishSquared said:
You too

Convicted of sexual battery of a 14-year-old boy in Orlando in 1987 and failing to adhere to sex-offender registration requirements in Lake County in 1998,

Internet access only played a role in it
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Bullshit, like they only realized twelve years later. It's not like this guy was on his own during all this time, lost by the authorities, considering he was on probation.
 
He's a child molester. He might have paid his debt to society but he is still a piece of shit.
 
Ether_Snake said:
Bullshit, like they only realized twelve years later. It's not like this guy was on his own during all this time, lost by the authorities, considering he was on probation.
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Dude, read the article. Before he had 2 different problems with his probation, before the youtube videos.
 
Brother-man gonna break a window, gonna steal a hubcap, gonna smoke a joint, brother man gonna go to jail.

The man who tried to steal America is not in jail.
 
So five years? Shit. Like I said, he WAS breaking the law as stated, because he didn't register at a point and also owned computers, so it's completely legal to send him to the slammer.

But then again, I don't think it's quite fair at this point.
 
Unbelievable. 5 years in prison - really???

That's the end for him. His dogs will be dead and so will he. I just don't understand the need to put people (elderly people FFS) away for so long for non-violent petty crimes. What's the point? What good does it do?
 
Aesius said:
Unbelievable. 5 years in prison - really???

That's the end for him. His dogs will be dead and so will he. I just don't understand the need to put people (elderly people FFS) away for so long for non-violent petty crimes. What's the point? What good does it do?
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Because he is a child molester who broke probation? So as long as it's not murder everyone should get a slap on the wrist? I feel bad in a way but the guy clearly knew the rules of his probation and he decided to ignore them anyhow. It's really no one's fault but his own.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
Because he is a child molester who broke probation? So as long as it's not murder everyone should get a slap on the wrist? I feel bad in a way but the guy clearly knew the rules of his probation and he decided to ignore them anyhow. It's really no one's fault but his own.
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You are totally right, but in the case of this man I see that legality and justice somehow clash. Also, there's the age issue. Isn't there an age limit for prisons in the US? There's something like that here in Spain, but I can't quite remember the specifics. Usually they give really old prisoners home arrest or something like that.
 
J. M. Romeo said:
You are totally right, but in the case of this man I see that legality and justice somehow clash. Also, there's the age issue. Isn't there an age limit for prisons in the US? There's something like that here in Spain, but I can't quite remember the specifics. Usually they give really old prisoners home arrest or something like that.
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i'm not sure how that applies when you can guarantee that nobody gives a shit about you, and you can't afford to pay them to.

the state wants this guy to rot, i doubt society feels any different.
 
J. M. Romeo said:
You are totally right, but in the case of this man I see that legality and justice somehow clash. Also, there's the age issue. Isn't there an age limit for prisons in the US? There's something like that here in Spain, but I can't quite remember the specifics. Usually they give really old prisoners home arrest or something like that.
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How is legality and justice somehow clashing? He was told not to do something or it violates his probation and he did it. It's a pretty clear cut case. AFAIK there is no age maximum for a prison sentence in the US and what would house arrest do? He violated probation at his house, it would essentially do nothing.
 
Actually he asked his probation officer if he could use the PC to pay his bills and such, and she said yes, but that he should look for other ways to pay the bills like mail. Should.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
How is legality and justice somehow clashing? He was told not to do something or it violates his probation and he did it. It's a pretty clear cut case. AFAIK there is no age maximum for a prison sentence in the US and what would house arrest do? He violated probation at his house, it would essentially do nothing.
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They are clashing in that the law's letter says what it says, but this guy did no tangible wrong or harm anybody. On the contrary, I do think that this youtube 'stardom' was his way of somehow getting back into society, or give something back. We all point and laugh at the creepy guy, but there was also something likable about how he really was rehabilitated.

Of course, that is assuming that you are willing to accept that laws are not always fair and/or can be applied in less than fair ways. That's why we have judges instead of Stallones roaming the street with flying cars and shit. The literal approach is not always the best.

But then again, I come from a family of lawyers, and I myself am a publicist, so yeah. Maybe spinning is in my genes.

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Ether_Snake said:
Actually he asked his probation officer if he could use the PC to pay his bills and such, and she said yes, but that he should look for other ways to pay the bills like mail. Should.
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From the article, it sounded kinda like she didn't give him a clear cut DON'T DO IT and backtracked after seeing the fallout -the part of her stating that Edarem was no trouble at all during those years says a lot-, but the fact stays, he did violate terms of his parole, which sucks. A lot of money is probably needed to beat a case like this, I guess.
 
J. M. Romeo said:
They are clashing in that the law's letter says what it says, but this guy did no tangible wrong or harm anybody. On the contrary, I do think that this youtube 'stardom' was his way of somehow getting back into society, or give something back. We all point and laugh at the creepy guy, but there was also something likable about how he really was rehabilitated.

Of course, that is assuming that you are willing to accept that laws are not always fair and/or can be applied in less than fair ways. That's why we have judges instead of Stallones roaming the street with flying cars and shit. The literal approach is not always the best.

But then again, I come from a family of lawyers, and I myself am a publicist, so yeah. Maybe spinning is in my genes.

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From the article, it sounded kinda like she didn't give him a clear cut DON'T DO IT and backtracked after seeing the fallout -the part of her stating that Edarem was no trouble at all during those years says a lot-, but the fact stays, he did violate terms of his parole, which sucks. A lot of money is probably needed to beat a case like this, I guess.
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That makes no sense though. So then do you complain about any probation at all? Because they are usually never physically hurting someone but rather preventing them from continuing their behavior. He could do harm online so they don't want him online. Some convicted on gun charges can't own guns, etc. It's to prevent them from doing their wrong deed again.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
That makes no sense though. So then do you complain about any probation at all? Because they are usually never physically hurting someone but rather preventing them from continuing their behavior. He could do harm online so they don't want him online. Some convicted on gun charges can't own guns, etc. It's to prevent them from doing their wrong deed again.
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Complaining about any probation at all? Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I'm talking about this man, and only his case. Quoting myself here.

Of course, that is assuming that you are willing to accept that laws are not always fair and/or can be applied in less than fair ways. That's why we have judges instead of Stallones roaming the street with flying cars and shit. The literal approach is not always the best.
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I'm sure you've heard of laws being applied in different ways and to different extents depending on how harsh or how lenient the judge is. The judge is being way too harsh here, given the facts of what this man has done in the time he's been out and using computers (and beer and wine!). As ghst said, a 'fucking ticking bomb'.
 
Yeah, let's defend a child rapist that was clearly using youtube as a way to connect with young children (PROBABLY TO MOLEST THEM).
 
Ardorx said:
Yeah, let's defend a child rapist that was clearly using youtube as a way to connect with young children (PROBABLY TO MOLEST THEM).
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Do you honestly think that the point of his videos was trying to connect with young children, probably to molest them?
 
J. M. Romeo said:
Complaining about any probation at all? Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I'm talking about this man, and only his case. Quoting myself here.



I'm sure you've heard of laws being applied in different ways and to different extents depending on how harsh or how lenient the judge is. The judge is being way too harsh here, given the facts of what this man has done in the time he's been out and using computers (and beer and wine!). As ghst said, a 'fucking ticking bomb'.
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So laws should be completely random and have no set standard but rather how you feel that day since apparently the judge's feelings are wrong too in this case? What is your alternative? He broke the law.
 
Ardorx said:
Yeah, let's defend a child rapist that was clearly using youtube as a way to connect with young children (PROBABLY TO MOLEST THEM).
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Wow, are you fucking serious? :lol
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
So laws should be completely random and have no set standard but rather how you feel that day since apparently the judge's feelings are wrong too in this case? What is your alternative? He broke the law.
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The fact that you are answering with stuff such as "so laws should be completely random" or "so then do you complain about any probation" makes me think that you are either pulling my chain or a Sith
because only a Sith deals in absolutes
. You really are missing my point.

Anyway, and assuming good will here, I will explain myself one more time. Every law is written in such a way that can be interpreted. That's why we have judges, prosecutors and lawyers. As I stated earlier, this man broke the terms of his probation, and apparently he asked her probation officer, so steps could have been taken before reaching this situation, but that's beside the point. He did his time and after that, not only he went nowhere near trouble, but he was becoming some sort of community clown, in the good sense of the word.
As opposed to other infamous child rapists, this one did not airplane.jpg his way out of the country and went fugitive for 30 years.

That's my point. If you read there that "I complain about every probation" or that "laws should be completely random", I truly don't know what else to say.
 
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