But it’s O.K., he claims it was really her idea:

TAMPA — A Valrico man who took nude photographs of a relative, has been charged with inducing a minor to engage in sexually explicit behavior, authorities said.

Robert D. Paige, 36, admitted taking sexually graphic pictures of the 16-year-old but denied he planned to post them on the Internet to make money, according to a federal complaint.

The girl told authorities about the photos after she was taken into custody under the Florida Baker Act. She had told law enforcement officials that she wanted to run away from home and hurt herself. At a crisis center in late September, she told detectives that Paige had taken nude pictures of her to sell on a Web site to pay off her $2,000 cell phone bill.

Authorities said Paige conducted three photo shoots between August and September.

Paige told detectives that he and another adult talked about making money through a porn site and that the girl must have overheard the conversations. According to the complaint, Paige said the girl approached him the next day and offered to take nude pictures to help pay her cell phone bill. Paige said he never forced her.

“Paige commented that he should not have done what he did,” an investigator wrote in the complaint. “When asked if the pictures he took of the victim were nude, he said, ‘Yes.’ ”

Paige told investigators that he only took the photos for practice, no one saw them and he never downloaded the images to his computer.

An FBI analysis of the computer found 236 images of the girl, the complaint said.

Awful. So how do i know he’s a pot smoking Bush hater? Why, I checked his MySpace of course:

“But wait” some of you are saying “how do you know pot is responsible for this?” while preparing to lecture me that plenty of people who don’t smoke pot also abuse their children. OK, but have any of you stopped to wonder what kind of people are still smoking pot after high school anyway?

Isn’t it possible (and in fact probable) that Robert Paige’s immature stonerism is a symptom of his general poor character? If pot was legal there might be less people sitting in jail for possession charges, but does that mean those people wouldn’t wind up in jail eventually anyway?

My point is just as alcohol doesn’t cause drunk driving or wife beating the heavy drinking those drunk driving wife beaters partake in is an indication of them being a certain kind of person, one who doesn’t care about others safety or respect others rights. Isn’t pot smoking similar in that respect? When you find adults who smoke pot isn’t there usually something else wrong with them that makes them decide to get high rather than read a book, take a walk, or otherwise be productive?

Shadowscope has more on this filthy degenerate.