Pedophile Catholic Priest removed from church over sex abuse now works at TSA

Seriously, you can’t make this kind of stuff up.

CBS News is reporting that Thomas Harkins, a defrocked priest who was removed from the ministry for sexual abuse against children is now working for the TSA and they even got video from an I-Team member:

Not only does he work there but he actual has a manager title, supposedly “Transportation Security Manager, Baggage,” though when the video was taken he was seen in the main D & E terminals at Philadelphia International Airport and it is being reported he also works in passenger screening.

As Alex Jones has asked on numerous occasions, who else but sex offenders and people on crazy power trips would want to work at the TSA? I know I wouldn’t want a job like that. I’d rather be homeless and destitute then have a job where I have to subject my fellow Americans to dehumanizing violations that have become the status quo of the Transportation Security Administrations procedures.

One thing I noticed when researching Thomas Harkins is that there is almost no online press regarding this pedophile’s original offense or his defrocking. To me it looks like he actually spent some effort on search engine reputation management, a procedure where you actively suppress negative information that shows up for your name in Google.

A former Columbia County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a family member Tuesday and will spend more than six years in prison.

Court documents show John Lawrence Hinkle, 48, of St. Helens, was sentenced to 75 months on charges of attempted rape, attempted sodomy, incest and first-degree sex abuse, a Measure 11 crime.

Hinkle was initially indicted on more than 30 counts, said Columbia County District Attorney Steve Atchison, but many were dropped as part of the plea agreement.

Hinkle must also register as a sex offender after his release and will spend 10 years on post-prison supervision. He was also ordered to avoid contact with the victim, who is now an adult.

“She really preferred not to go to trial,” Atchison said. “The victim was satisfied with the plea and we’re happy that she got what she felt was just.”

Atchison said he did push for a longer sentence because of Hinkle’s job as a sheriff’s deputy when the crimes occurred in the mid- to late-2000s.

“He was in a position of trust when this happened,” Atchison said.
 
Oregon State Police detectives arrested Hinkle in Woodburn on May 6, 2011. He had resigned from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office in 2010 following an internal investigation regarding his work performance, said Sheriff Jeff Dickerson. The investigation was unrelated to the sex abuse case.