12-24-2010, 03:07 PM
a 2008 article about this guy---->
Despite community's unease, man's urine fetish not illegal, officials say
Alan D. Patton remains free, even with his lengthy record
Friday, July 18, 2008 8:52 PM
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Every time Alan D. Patton makes the news, no matter how minor the charge, it triggers public revulsion.
The latest was June 14, when police cited him for criminal mischief at SportsOhio in Dublin. Police said he placed plastic wrap over toilet seats, shut off the water to urinals and placed foam cups in them.
What disgusts people the most is what these minor charges, over at least 16 years, suggest: He is still collecting and drinking the urine of boys, and no one seems to be doing anything to stop him.
“What is the matter with you judges?” is the substance of e-mails arriving at the Franklin County Municipal Court the past few weeks, Administrative Judge Carrie Glaeden said.
Glaeden had Patton in her court for three misdemeanor charges in 2006. She gave him the toughest penalty allowed — five years of strict probation, which included wearing a tracking device and forbidding him from any public restroom and contact with any child.
When he did not attend the counseling she had ordered, Glaeden found him in contempt. On his way to jail to serve a 30-day contempt sentence, Patton stopped at a McDonald's restroom. Glaeden then gave him the most time she could for violating the probation, 165 days.
After three Hilliard police officers escorted Patton from the public pool at Municipal Park on July 11, the Police Department started getting callers asking, “Why didn't you arrest him?”
Because he wasn't committing a crime, detective Dave Cunningham responded. He was washing his hands in the pool's restroom when people recognized him from a flier distributed after the Dublin incident.
Patton wasn't on probation limiting his contact with public places or children, although that is now a condition of his bond from the Dublin case. He's also confined to his home, 6269 Emberwood Rd. on the Northwest Side, where he lives with his mother.
Contacted today, Patton, 56, declined to be interviewed on his attorney's advice.
As long ago as 1993, Patton admitted to his fetish and told police then that he had “a long history of obtaining urine.”
No law prohibits it.
It is a felony to sexually touch children, and when Patton allegedly did that in 1993 as he collected urine from four boys, he went to prison for 4 ½ years.
In that case, Patton rode a bus to the Magic Mountain Fun Centers, 5890 Scarborough Blvd. on the Far East Side. He had made what he called a “screen” out of two plastic garbage bags and cut a square hole in the middle. He told two boys, 7 and 9 years old, that the toilet was broken and they would have to urinate through the hole.
He then went behind the screen and, just before they began urinating, he attached a tube to their penises and drank the urine. HOLY SHIT!!!
He told police he did this to “become a part of their youth, happiness and strength.” He said he never meant harm to the children.
“I love them; it is a shame I have to obtain love from them that way,” he said, according to court files. He said he always had difficulty associating with adults.
A day earlier he had assaulted two 9-year-old boys at a Big Bear in Clintonville. He denied being at the grocery and didn't give a description of what happened.
He was charged with rape for performing fellatio, gross sexual imposition and kidnapping in the two cases. He argued that he never touched the children and in no way kidnapped them. He eventually pleaded guilty to four counts of gross sexual imposition and unlawful restraint.
Patton hasn't been arrested for touching or even interacting with a child since. But he has been arrested for voyeurism for watching a boy go to the bathroom, and for public indecency for masturbating as boys went to the bathroom.
Although his urine fetish is not illegal, he cannot obtain it in the way he has.
The fetish is not considered a mental or sexual disorder until it begins to impair someone's functioning, said Daniel L. Davis, a Columbus forensic psychologist.
Davis said people like Patton often remain at the same behavioral level, which means their behavior doesn't escalate into something more violent or unusual.
Patton's disorder, urophilia, is so unusual that it gets a single parenthetical mention in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
“There is no way a legislature can think of all the problems” that it would need to address in statutes, said Katherine Hunt Federle, director of the Justice for Children Project at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law.
Federle said she understands the visceral reaction parents have when they learn what Patton has done — they want him off the streets for good. But the American justice system also has a responsibility to punish people humanely, she said.
Judge Glaeden said the most obvious way to deal with Patton is to pass a law forbidding what he has done. She wondered aloud whether it might be some kind of sexual-deviation law. Then in the very next breath, she said, “but what is sexual deviation to one person might not be to another."
“There are no easy answers,” Federle said.
Despite community's unease, man's urine fetish not illegal, officials say
Alan D. Patton remains free, even with his lengthy record
Friday, July 18, 2008 8:52 PM
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Every time Alan D. Patton makes the news, no matter how minor the charge, it triggers public revulsion.
The latest was June 14, when police cited him for criminal mischief at SportsOhio in Dublin. Police said he placed plastic wrap over toilet seats, shut off the water to urinals and placed foam cups in them.
What disgusts people the most is what these minor charges, over at least 16 years, suggest: He is still collecting and drinking the urine of boys, and no one seems to be doing anything to stop him.
“What is the matter with you judges?” is the substance of e-mails arriving at the Franklin County Municipal Court the past few weeks, Administrative Judge Carrie Glaeden said.
Glaeden had Patton in her court for three misdemeanor charges in 2006. She gave him the toughest penalty allowed — five years of strict probation, which included wearing a tracking device and forbidding him from any public restroom and contact with any child.
When he did not attend the counseling she had ordered, Glaeden found him in contempt. On his way to jail to serve a 30-day contempt sentence, Patton stopped at a McDonald's restroom. Glaeden then gave him the most time she could for violating the probation, 165 days.
After three Hilliard police officers escorted Patton from the public pool at Municipal Park on July 11, the Police Department started getting callers asking, “Why didn't you arrest him?”
Because he wasn't committing a crime, detective Dave Cunningham responded. He was washing his hands in the pool's restroom when people recognized him from a flier distributed after the Dublin incident.
Patton wasn't on probation limiting his contact with public places or children, although that is now a condition of his bond from the Dublin case. He's also confined to his home, 6269 Emberwood Rd. on the Northwest Side, where he lives with his mother.
Contacted today, Patton, 56, declined to be interviewed on his attorney's advice.
As long ago as 1993, Patton admitted to his fetish and told police then that he had “a long history of obtaining urine.”
No law prohibits it.
It is a felony to sexually touch children, and when Patton allegedly did that in 1993 as he collected urine from four boys, he went to prison for 4 ½ years.
In that case, Patton rode a bus to the Magic Mountain Fun Centers, 5890 Scarborough Blvd. on the Far East Side. He had made what he called a “screen” out of two plastic garbage bags and cut a square hole in the middle. He told two boys, 7 and 9 years old, that the toilet was broken and they would have to urinate through the hole.
He then went behind the screen and, just before they began urinating, he attached a tube to their penises and drank the urine. HOLY SHIT!!!
He told police he did this to “become a part of their youth, happiness and strength.” He said he never meant harm to the children.
“I love them; it is a shame I have to obtain love from them that way,” he said, according to court files. He said he always had difficulty associating with adults.
A day earlier he had assaulted two 9-year-old boys at a Big Bear in Clintonville. He denied being at the grocery and didn't give a description of what happened.
He was charged with rape for performing fellatio, gross sexual imposition and kidnapping in the two cases. He argued that he never touched the children and in no way kidnapped them. He eventually pleaded guilty to four counts of gross sexual imposition and unlawful restraint.
Patton hasn't been arrested for touching or even interacting with a child since. But he has been arrested for voyeurism for watching a boy go to the bathroom, and for public indecency for masturbating as boys went to the bathroom.
Although his urine fetish is not illegal, he cannot obtain it in the way he has.
The fetish is not considered a mental or sexual disorder until it begins to impair someone's functioning, said Daniel L. Davis, a Columbus forensic psychologist.
Davis said people like Patton often remain at the same behavioral level, which means their behavior doesn't escalate into something more violent or unusual.
Patton's disorder, urophilia, is so unusual that it gets a single parenthetical mention in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
“There is no way a legislature can think of all the problems” that it would need to address in statutes, said Katherine Hunt Federle, director of the Justice for Children Project at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law.
Federle said she understands the visceral reaction parents have when they learn what Patton has done — they want him off the streets for good. But the American justice system also has a responsibility to punish people humanely, she said.
Judge Glaeden said the most obvious way to deal with Patton is to pass a law forbidding what he has done. She wondered aloud whether it might be some kind of sexual-deviation law. Then in the very next breath, she said, “but what is sexual deviation to one person might not be to another."
“There are no easy answers,” Federle said.