State’s Attorney Charlie Smith weighed in on the Samuel Huffer, Fredericktown Players controversy.  Smith was the one that prosecuted Huffer in 2001 for buying child porn.  He spoke with Fox 5, the Washington D.C. Fox Network affiliate and had this to say:

People don’t get better.  Pedophiles, which is what medically he is. They don’t get better– they’re hard-wired this way. You don’t tell somebody not to like men anymore. You don’t tell somebody not to like women any more and, quite frankly, you can’t tell them not to like children any more.

Yes, pedophiles don’t get better.

My real problem with Samuel Huffer and people like him is that when he realized he was sexually attracted to young boys, he did nothing to mitigate the problem. He didn’t seek therapy or counseling or anything else that would help him curb his sexual desires. He also didn’t do the most important thing he could ever do; he didn’t avoid young boys. In fact, he did the complete opposite. He became a teacher.

He chose a profession that would force him to interact with the thing he desired sexually, but couldn’t have.

That’s what I have a problem with.

When he went on a Yahoo chat room and purchased child porn from an undercover Postal Inspector, he clearly demonstrated that he could not control his sexual impulses. He had to know that what he was doing was wrong, but he chose to do it anyway.

Samuel Huffer owes it his community to not put himself in situations where he will come into contact with underage boys. Is he doing that? No, he is not. In fact, he’s doing the complete opposite. He’s directing a musical where half the cast is made up of children. The audience will undoubtedly consist of lots of children, unless parents decide not to take them to a musical directed by a registered child sex offender.

If Samuel Huffer has any remorse for what he did, he sure isn’t showing it. Not putting himself in situations where he will be around children would be a good start.