Posted: July 1, 2008 07:25 AM
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| Alan Patton, 56, told police that drinking boys' urine made him feel like he was " drinking their youth." |
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From our CBS Columbus affiliate WBNS
DUBLIN, Ohio (WBNS) - A convicted sex offender faces charges after he allegedly hid inside public restrooms as part of an attempt to obtain and drink boys' urine.
According to police, Alan Patton was dicovered trying to collect urine inside a men's restroom at Sports Ohio in Dublin on June 14, 10TV's Kurt Ludlow reported.
Police said that Patton, 56, had shut off water to the urinals and placed cups inside them. Police subsequently charged Patton with criminal mischief, Ludlow reported.
At the time of his arrest, Patton told officers that "he wasn't hurting anyone and that he suffers from an illness," according to a police report.
Patton, who is a registered sex offender, was first arrested in 1994 on charges of voyeurism, Ludlow reported.
After another arrest in 2006, he told Gahanna police that he suffered from urophilia - a sexual fetish involving urine. He also told police that drinking boys' urine made him feel like he was " drinking their youth," Ludlow reported.
He also told police that he had collected as many as 15 "samples" in one night, Ludlow reported.
Judge Carrie Glaeden, the judge who sent Patton to jail for probation violations a few years ago when he refused to get counseling, spoke with 10 Investigates on Monday.
10 Investigates asked Glaeden if she thought Patton was a danger to the public.
"I don't think his method of operation, at least that I'm aware of, is that he actually touches the children," Glaeden said. "But if he can't get what he wants and what he thinks he needs, I don't know how far he'll go to get that bodily fluid."
Patton, who is in custody at the Franklin County Jail, is scheduled to make his next court appearance on July 11.
Patton will not be sentenced to prison because it is not against the law to drink someone's urine without their permission, Ludlow reported.
Glaeden said she would support a law that would make it a felony to do so.
June 29, 2008
Man accused Of drinking boys' urine arrested near Columbus
DUBLIN, Ohio (WBNS) - Police charged a northwest Columbus man with criminal mischief for allegedly planning to collect young boys' urine and drink it.
Alan Patton was recently spotted in restrooms at Sports Ohio two weeks ago, 10TV's Glenn McEntyre reported.
According to a police report obtained by 10TV News, Patton, 56, the female employee recognized him as the same man she saw the previous week "putting Saran Wrap on toilets and cups in urinals."
The employee called police and found Patton walking out of a restroom stall with a black duffle bag, McEntyre reported.
Patton told investigators that he was not hurting anyone and that he suffers from an illness.
Police said that Patton did not have contact with any boys during the incident but was at the complex at least twice over the past couple weeks.
Patton, a registered sex offender, posted bond and faces the misdemeanor charge, 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported.
In 1994, Patton pleaded guilty to a charge of gross sexual imposition against an 8-year-old boy. He served four years in prison and was labeled a sex offender.
Then, in 2006, Patton was caught at a Gahanna movie theater and was accused of watching little boys urinate. Police said that Patton admitted to collecting boys' urine and even paid them for it. Patton was charged with voyeurism, McEntyre reported.
Police said that Patton would turn the water to the urinals off, place a cup inside and then collect the urine after a boy went to the bathroom.
"It's just devastating," said a Dublin mother of four, who requested anonymity. The woman said that instead of allowing her 9-year-old son to use a public restroom by himself, she will take him in the women's room with her.
The mother said she wanted her son to see Patton's picture.
"I told him, 'I know you get very upset when I don't let you go in the bathroom by yourself. This is why. There's this man that's waiting in there for little boys to do terrible things to them.'" the mother said.
10TV News reached Patton at his home Sunday but he declined comment.
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