The Washington Post carried one tiny story about the brutal murder of a 13-year-old boy named Jesse Dirkhising in Arkansas by two homosexuals. They were Joshua Brown, 22, and his lover, Davis Don Carpenter, 38. The boy died on September 26, 1999, after having been drugged by Carpenter and repeatedly raped and sodomized by Brown.

Jesse had been placed face-down on a mattress on the floor. His legs had been bound with belts and tape. Pillows had been placed under his abdomen, and his arms had been taped to the corners of the mattress. His briefs had been stuffed in his mouth, secured by duct tape. His undershirt had been put over his head. He died of asphyxiation while Brown and Carpenter were out of the room.

Brown and Carpenter have each been charged with six counts of rape and one of capital murder. The prosecutor in the case said that what he saw in their apartment was "perhaps the most horrific thing he had witnessed in his eleven years as a prosecutor." This was not a hate crime. It was a horrible sex crime. Two perverts tortured 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising for their sexual gratification.

This was first reported nationally by The Washington Times on October 22, nearly a month after the boy’s death. The story by Joyce Price focused on the failure of the national media to report the story. She reported that Jesse’s parents thought the boy, who had been spending weekends with the two men, was being paid to help out a beauty parlor managed by Carpenter.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette had run seven stories about this crime, three of them on the front page. It reported that investigators had found notes Carpenter had written telling Brown how to "bind, sedate and position a child." The police also found writings that described "the torture and sodomy of what appear to be other children." They didn’t know whether these were actual crimes or whether the men were fantasizing.

Brown and Carpenter had only recently moved to Arkansas. Carpenter claimed he had lived in 26 states. This suggests that in 25 other states there may be boys he had tortured. Robert K. Ressler, who has written books on sexual murders, points out that behavior like Carpenter’s does not begin at age 38.

The Associated Press had produced seven brief stories about the Dirkhising murder, but none had been distributed nationally. The AP didn’t put the story on its national wire until Oct. 29. That was a week after the story appeared in The Washington Times and four days after a reporter asked White House spokesman Joe Lockhart about the president’s reaction to the murder of Jesse Dirkhising by two homosexuals.

On October 30, The Washington Post ran a 59-word news brief about the murder based on the AP’s 500-word story. It was not in the edition that is distributed in the greater Washington, D.C. area, where most of its readers live. The Post had run over 80 stories about Matthew Shepard, a homosexual college student who was murdered in Wyoming.

Like the Shepard murder, the media should also discourage sadistic assaults on young boys by homosexual men by publicizing and condemning them. Moreover, Carpenter may have tortured and perhaps even killed children in other states. His name and what he is accused of doing in Arkansas should be made known nationwide. The editors of The Washington Post know that this was a horrible crime. No one in the establishment media has given a credible explanation for their failure to report it promptly.

Booklets were recently mailed to every school district in the country urging that children be taught that homosexuality is normal. Our establishment media endorse that. They are reluctant to report anything that exposes the abnormal side of the lifestyle, such as the public celebration of sado-masochism at San Francisco’s recent "gay pride" day. They rarely mention the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which defends the sexual abuse of boys by men. Reporting the gruesome details of Jesse Dirkhising’s murder would expose the dark side of a lifestyle that journalists in the establishment media promote and that some of them practice.

Only two to three percent of the adult population is homosexual. If most psychologists, pediatricians and educators think that is a high enough percentage to classify sodomy as normal, do they also believe that the sadistic sodomization of Jesse Dirkhising is normal behavior? Does that mean it should not be condemned? They may say that it is not normal because only a small percentage of homosexual men are sadists, but sado-masochism was being demonstrated in public at a homosexual festival in San Francisco the day Jesse Dirkhising was murdered. Gay bookstores are loaded with publications about sado-masochism.

There is no evidence that Brown and Carpenter, the killers of Jesse Dirkhising, were looked upon as sick men and monsters by the homosexual community before the murder. They were just doing what Carpenter, the older man, had been doing for years and what many "normal" homosexuals apparently do, judging from their literature. They were getting sexual pleasure from causing him pain.

The lesson to be learned from this is that what many homosexuals do in the privacy of their bedrooms is revolting and that many are driven to try more extreme perversions in search of thrills. Such practices are described in their literature and depicted in their art, like the celebrated Mapplethorpe photographs.

Brown and Carpenter were not stigmatized by the homosexual community for engaging in these practices with young boys. NAMBLA wants to make it legal for adults to have sex with children.

Another lesson is that the lust for forbidden fruit produces monsters like Luis Alfredo Garavito. He is the Colombian who had been sought by police since 1997 when they discovered the bodies of 36 boys between the ages of 8 and 16, their throats slit and their bodies mutilated. Garavito was captured and imprisoned last April. At the end of October he confessed to having murdered 140 victims, all of them young and nearly all, if not all of them, boys. Nearly all the news reports avoided offending homosexuals by referring to the victims only as children. Colombia’s chief prosecutor had said that "most of Garavito’s victims were boys from poor families aged between 8 and 16."

Source: Accuracy in Media (www.aim.org) AIM Report, November A 1999