Eric Toth added to FBI Most Wanted List

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eric was not spending all of his time at Beauvoir "grooming" children and parents. Obviously he has and had a major problem, and he cannot be permitted to work with children again, but:

He was an excellent teacher - good on substance, good with different kinds of learners, good with innovative curriculum (city management, advanced math, environmental science).

Yes, it's easier for me to see that because it's my daughter who had him, not my son, but let's not all take leave of our senses. And he hardly compares to Osama bin Laden - he's on that list because people like you and me are more likely to encounter him in our daily lives and turn him in. We are less likely to meet the murderers, so posting their pictures is not as helpful.

Boggles. The. Mind.

[Anonymous]

Apparently, many of the published details in this case aren't rumors, after all: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/former-dc-teacher-makes-fbi-most-wanted-list-after-2008-child-porn-discovery/2012/05/16/gIQAPJJHUU_story_1.html

[Anonymous]

When I first heard the story, I was appalled that Beauvoir let him "leave" campus too, rather than holding him and only releasing him to police custody. However, now that the FBI has put him on the Top Ten Most Wanted, and has him at #1, it may have been the best decision they made. If he is as dangerous as the FBI posting suggests, who knows what he might have done/tried to do when cornered.

From the many descriptions in the press and on this site, it sounds as if he may well be a sociopath as well as a pedophile. IN that case he might well have gone to more extreme measures if he knew the school or Cathedral Police were holding him for law enforcment. It does not seem that he has any sense of remorse or ability for empathy (def of a sociopath). If he kept a "get-away" bag at the ready, perhaps he also had things (like weapons perhaps) he kept on his person in case of such discovery. What seemed at first to be a poor decision may well have prevented further harm to students/faculty/the police/the public.

Of course, by allowing him to leave, the door for moelsting/harming more children was left open. Still, considering all that has happened since the discovery of the camera, he does sound very dangerous and uncannily prescient. I doubt holding him would have resulted in an easy and harmless transfer to the police. Just a thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I first heard the story, I was appalled that Beauvoir let him "leave" campus too, rather than holding him and only releasing him to police custody. However, now that the FBI has put him on the Top Ten Most Wanted, and has him at #1, it may have been the best decision they made. If he is as dangerous as the FBI posting suggests, who knows what he might have done/tried to do when cornered.

From the many descriptions in the press and on this site, it sounds as if he may well be a sociopath as well as a pedophile. IN that case he might well have gone to more extreme measures if he knew the school or Cathedral Police were holding him for law enforcment. It does not seem that he has any sense of remorse or ability for empathy (def of a sociopath). If he kept a "get-away" bag at the ready, perhaps he also had things (like weapons perhaps) he kept on his person in case of such discovery. What seemed at first to be a poor decision may well have prevented further harm to students/faculty/the police/the public.

Of course, by allowing him to leave, the door for moelsting/harming more children was left open. Still, considering all that has happened since the discovery of the camera, he does sound very dangerous and uncannily prescient. I doubt holding him would have resulted in an easy and harmless transfer to the police. Just a thought.

There's more than one officer on duty at all times on the Cathedral Police force. From what I understand, they're all trained in the use of weaponry. As a matter of fact, the officer who was ordered to escort him from the grounds was the force's lead instructor in the use of firearms, etc. Toth surely could have been detained until the Metropolitan police arrived if Beauvoir's admin had demanded it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Toth is not only on the FBI Most Wanted List -- He is No. 1 on the Top 10 FBI Most Wanted list. He is the first pedophile to be #1 on the list. Either there is something Toth did that we don't know, or someone at the Cathedral schools is pulling strings. The FBI is offering $100,000 for information leading to Toth's arrest.

um nope he's number 9 on the list. Bin Laden was killed so everyone was bumped up a notch and Toth filled the empty space...

[Anonymous]

People on here seem to be confused. Yes, Toth is on the top ten most wanted because Bin Laden no longer is. HOWEVER he is not #1 as Bin Laden was he is #9

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:People on here seem to be confused. Yes, Toth is on the top ten most wanted because Bin Laden no longer is. HOWEVER he is not #1 as Bin Laden was he is #9

You are responding to a thread that is nearly a year old. At the time the thread started, Toth's picture was indeed in the first slot. However, I believe the FBI says that the position doesn't matter and that all 10 are wanted equally.

[Anonymous]

The reason he is on the top 10 list is that he is charismatic and manipulative, he is good at ingratiating himself with families, becoming close to children, and evading capture and the FBI must feel that by bring attention to him he will be more likely to be found. Obviously he and Osama Bin Laden are hugely different cases but Toth is a problem and he must be caught and if this is the way to do it then im all for it.

[Anonymous]

The reason he is number one is that he is unusual looking, and that he could have found a job teaching, so his unusual looks may be familiar to a lot of people.

And, person who bumped this ancient thread hoping that someone on the wait list would decline Beauvoir, your child so probably won't make it off the list.