Brandon Keith Mitchell is a Tier 1 registered sex offender, and yet he and his homosexual partner recently obtained custody of a newborn baby through surrogacy.
How is this even possible?
There’s a loophole in Pennsylvania law that doesn’t bar sex offenders from privately contracting with other parties in reproductive agreements.
Mitchell and his partner have been parading the baby on social media, and even solicited funds to pay for the surrogate. A journalist decided to dig into the background of the two men and discovered Mitchell had previously been arrested for soliciting a 16-year-old boy.
As a chemistry teacher at Downingtown West High School in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, the 30-year-old Mitchell pleaded guilty to felony child pornography charges and corruption of a minor. He sent over 12,000 text messages to the student. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
Not surprisingly, none of this wickedness was disclosed in the two men’s GoFundMe campaign or in their exploitive videos with the newborn baby.
Earlier this week, York, Pennsylvania County District Attorney Tim Barker acknowledged the serious issue with state law.
“I thoroughly appreciate the concerned and outraged emotions expressed by many that a loophole exists in the law that allows a registered sex offender to become a parent through surrogacy without the same intense scrutiny, accountability, and judicial oversight mandated for the adoption process,” York told Newsweek.
“Pennsylvania law currently does not, in and of itself, prohibit a registered sex offender from becoming a parent through surrogacy,” Barker stated. “Given this fact, no one presently has brought forth to my office an allegation of a criminal violation being perpetrated by Mitchell in York County. Accordingly, my office lacks any legal basis to act on this matter.”
Pennsylvania lawmakers must get to work to right this dangerous legal loophole.
Tragically, the husband of the surrogate told Newsweek that Mitchell had told the couple there was “something in my past” but that neither the mother or father followed up.
“I didn’t know the story and I didn’t care to dig into it,” stated Theodore Martinovich.
At the core of this evilness isn’t simply a legal loophole but a fundamental disregard for what’s in the best interest of children. This apathy and indifference manifests on many levels but especially in support for same-sex adoption.
Same-sex adoption deliberately and unapologetically deprives a child of either a mother or a father. It normalizes the abnormal. It exposes children to a confused and destructive sexual ethic.
Those who support same-sex parenting often to point to studies indicating there’s no difference between a child being raised by two men or two women compared to being raised by a mother and a father. Yet, those studies have been shown to be fundamentally flawed. They’re often based on self-reporting, feature individuals recruited from same-sex advocacy groups – and are often only looking at small groups for a short period of time.
The Pennsylvania legislature needs to immediately close the loophole that allows convicted child sexual predators to contract to basically buy a child. That’s legislation every sane person should unequivocally support.
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