Anti-Porner Donny Pauling Arrested for Sex With Minor
Here the face of a hypocrite …
SUTTER COUNTY, Calif.—When a Usual Suspects group of anti-porn activists attended the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation 2014 Summit in May, pushing a strategy that defines pornography as a “public health crisis,” they likely never expected that one of their own would himself become an alleged danger to the public, incarcerated on charges related to lewd acts with a child. But that is precisely what happened to former pornographer-turned-outspoken-anti-porner Donny Pauling, who was arrested yesterday by the Sutter County Sheriff on a Ramey warrant.
Pauling is charged with three felonies: Lewd Act on a Child, Oral Copulation and Unlawful Intercourse. Each of the allegations pertain to sex with a minor, but the fact that Pauling was arrested under a Ramey warrant may be significant in the resolution of this case.
According to California Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog, a Ramey warrant “is obtained by a police agency by going directly to a judge and bypassing the district attorney.”
William Weinberg adds for the site, “So why would a police agency choose to get a Ramey Warrant instead of just the traditional arrest warrant? Well for one reason, it is faster. The police agency may not want to wait for the District Attorney’s Office to review the paperwork, which they have submitted. So, they bypass this and go straight to the source. However, most commonly, this is done when a police officer feels that he may not have enough evidence for the district attorney to actually file the charges. He doesn’t want to take the chance that the district attorney will reject the case. So, if he can get a judge to issue a Ramey Warrant, he can then arrest the person and question them with the hope of obtaining enough information and sufficient evidence to present it to the District Attorney for filing. Basically, the officer’s hope is that, once they have the individual in their possession, they will get what they need to make their case and end up with the sufficient evidence needed to get the case filed.”
Another possibility, of course, is that the potential defendant is so well-connected, so well-known or in some other way so high-profile (via his connection to influential rightwing pro-censorship groups) that police may suspect that the District Attorney may decline to further investigate the charges or decline to bring charges even when police have obtained what to others might seem to be compelling evidence.
There is no indication what brought the police to seek charges against Pauling in the first place, or what evidence they presented to the judge, so stay tuned. In the meantime, we’ll look for comment from the likes of Morality in Media and the Family Research Council, which will hopefully support their colleague as he struggles with his alleged inability to keep his hands off of minors.
Stephanie Seymour
Stephanie Seymour
Model
Stephanie Michelle Seymour is an American model and actress. Seymour has modeled for many notable fashion magazines and designers and has posed for several well-known photographers.
Date of Birth 23 July 1968, San Diego, California, USA
Birth Name Stephanie Michelle Seymour
Height 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Stephanie Seymour was born on July 23, 1968 in San Diego, California. From her early teens it became obvious that the towering, stunningly beautiful young woman was ideal modeling material, and she immediately began getting some local print work. Having entered a modeling contest sponsored by Elite, Seymour caught John Casablancas’s eye and moved to New York to work for him at Elite as a model, eventually carrying on a relationship with Casablancas as well, who left his wife to live with the youthful Seymour.
She had great success, including the beginning of a long relationship with Victoria’s Secret and work on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, but it was not the truly spectacular success Seymour sought, so she posed for a spread in Playboy Magazine in 1991 (it would be the first of several). Sure enough, this served as an accelerant to her career, and soon she had achieved the status of supermodel, appearing as well in several music videos, which further increased her status.
Meanwhile she also achieved a degree of notoriety with rumors of difficult, diva-like behavior and a personal life that was wild even by supermodel standards — the nude spreads in Playboy; tales of drugs and wild partying; a short-lived marriage; a relationship with Warren Beatty, callously ended to take up with rock star Axl Rose, which then ended with mutual accusations of physical abuse and mutual law suits (which eventually settled); and an affair with publisher, producer and father of five Peter Brant, who eventually left his wife and married Seymour in 1995. Despite her often gossip-generating behavior (some might say because of it), Seymour is still a busy model and continues to be one of the world’s most recognized faces.
Besides the music videos and a role in a live-action video game, Seymour’s acting resume is limited to a very small part in Pollock (2000), which Brant produced, and an episode of the television program Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). Seymour has four children.