One of Steven Sitler’s probation terms requires him to register as a sex offender with the local sheriff (Latah County Sheriff’s Department) once a year, which strikes me as a small inconvenience. According to the Idaho State Police Department, sex-offender registration is a community service that, among other things, “assists parents in the protection of their children”:
The legislature finds that sexual offenders present a significant risk of reoffense and that efforts of law enforcement agencies to protect their communities, conduct investigations and quickly apprehend offenders who commit sexual offenses are impaired by the lack of current information available about individuals who have been convicted of sexual offenses who live within their jurisdiction. The legislature further finds that providing public access to certain information about convicted sexual offenders assists parents in the protection of their children. Such access further provides a means for organizations that work with youth or other vulnerable populations to prevent sexual offenders from threatening those served by the organizations. Finally, public access assists the community in being observant of convicted sexual offenders in order to prevent them from recommitting sexual crimes. Therefore, this state’s policy is to assist efforts of local law enforcement agencies to protect communities by requiring sexual offenders to register with local law enforcement agencies and to make certain information about sexual offenders available to the public as provided in this chapter.
Unfortunately, sex-offender registration did not protect Katie Travis from Steven Sitler and it has not protected the child she bore to the serial pedophile from his father. Perhaps if they had branded his forehead with the words CHILD MOLESTER, Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, would have given a second thought to the marriage. Just kidding. He didn’t need a second thought. He knew exactly what he was doing that day in 2011, when he presided over the wedding ceremony of a naïve graduate of New Saint Andrews College (NSA) to the psychopath. He thinks it’s normal. Perhaps Idaho should pass a law requiring pastors who wed child molesters to register as offenders too. They could call it the Doug Wilson Law.
Here’s Steven Sitler’s 2016 pic from Idaho’s Sex Offender website:
I still can’t get over how absolutely bizarre the Sitler story is, or that fact that Doug Wilson continues to argue that it was perfectly right and normal to marry him off. And that picture gives me the creeps. What a fat-faced, disgusting-looking human being.
Steven Sitler may or may not be a psychopath. Many pedophilesare not.
And most psychopaths aren’t pedophiles. I’m a borderline psychopath according to the tests, and now know a fair bit about psychopathy.
FYI, I always knew that I looked at things differently. Never knew why until this year.
Hi Wayne:
We can have that conversation when you start kidnapping children to molest them — and fathering them for that same purpose as well. Until then, the evidence of Sitler’s psychopathy is simply overwhelming.
No, it isn’t. From Wikipedia
That describes me. Sitler, according to the reporting I’ve read here, doesn’t fit the definition. Yes, he gets sexually excited by children. But we’ve seen no evidence that he is involved in antisocial, disinhibited, or bold behaviour (diminished empathy and remorse don’t show on the outside because we learn to do socially acceptable things even if they don’t mean as much to us, if anything).
Jamin Wight on the other had was involved in antisocial, disinhibited, and bold behaviour, such as drinking while on probation, assaulting people, etc.
There is a difference.
At fifty-nine years old I’ve learned coping mechanisms so I can pass for normal most of the time. But I still tend to make people, especially children nervous.
Do you know the difference between a sociopath and psychopath?
Yes. The main ones are organization, and an ability to pass as normal. Psychology Today has an excellent article explaining the differences.
I’m like Tolkien’s Hobbit hero Bilbo. ‘A place for everything, and everything in its place’ was a sentence that made sooo much sense to me. I drive my wife crazy because if she moves something one inch, I notice.
I also worked my way up to being the sales representative who was responsible for cold calling Fortune 500 companies for our firm, helped set up marketing plans, did sales and product training for the other sales reps, and a bunch of other stuff. Yes, I can pass. But I was never part of the groups, or rather I was a group of one.
You may have noticed that I rarely make spelling mistakes, am grammatically correct, and use the Oxford Comma.
Wayne
To avoid bunny trails, let’s limit this to Sitler and not any traits you may have. The entire column you cite perfectly describes Steven Sitler, including his education, but these four sentences nail it:
This is Steven Sitler and it’s also his pastor — Douglas Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow. To demonstrate this point, read the Sitler wedding blog in the Sitler archive and notice the language he uses to describe his premeditated calculation to win Katie Travis and her family. Read the probation officer’s memo to Stegner, where he reports how Sitler was cleverly gaming the system. I do not see one trait listed that he does not exhibit (likewise Wilson). I’m not sure what you’re seeing.