OT: UM prof arrested for seeking sex w/14-year-old
While Jeff Moss is trying to make something out of nothing w/Harbaugh and Exposure U., someone else connected with U-M has apparently been up to something actually illegal and sickening:
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/08/boy_lover_told_police_he_trave.html
A 51-year-old University of Michigan professor was the subject of a two-year federal investigation that resulted in his arrest at a south Florida hotel where he thought he was going to have sex with a 14-year-old boy, records show.
James Cavalcoli had corresponded with a police officer posing as the fictitious 14-year-old boy's father since November 2013 before attempting to meet the boy for sex Friday at the Bonaventure Resort and Spa in Weston, Florida.
Cavolcoli admitted to law enforcement officials waiting for him in the lobby he came to Florida from his home in Ann Arbor partly for the boy, but also for work. Cavolcoli is an assistant professor of biology and the director of the Bioinformatics Core.
"Mr. Cavalcoli has worked for the university for about 13 years," U-M spokeswoman Mary Masson said in an emailed statement. "We are currently reviewing the matter and will cooperate fully with law enforcement investigators."
A federal complaint was filed Monday against Cavalcoli for one count of traveling across state lines for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with another person. He remains in federal custody, records show.
Assuming he's convicted, I hope they throw the book at the guy.
EDIT: Per some suggestions in the comments, I've labeled this off-topic. I realize it's not the most pleasant thing to post on the board, but it does involve the university so I figured it might be of some interest. Just a reminder that this sick exploitation of kids is happening all around us, and no institution is immune from having someone like this in its ranks.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:14 AM ^
I hope the book they throw at him is covered in razors.
OP - Are you located in Norther Virginia?
August 12th, 2015 at 9:15 AM ^
he's fucked!!!
August 12th, 2015 at 9:15 AM ^
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August 12th, 2015 at 9:59 AM ^
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August 12th, 2015 at 10:26 AM ^
There is no help for people like this. Think Sandusky is curable? They could go with guys who are 18+ but look 14. Not good enough they want the real thing. Once a pedophile always a pedophile. Do whatever is needed to keep them away from children.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:15 AM ^
This is actually not true.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^
You are right. A .22 just behind the ear will cure just about all of them.
August 12th, 2015 at 5:31 PM ^
It has been my experience in this life so far that people who make these kinds of comments are the ones who are trying the hardest to hide something similar about themselves.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:24 AM ^
Yup thats me. Personally I would rather choke them out with my bare hands but thats my "hands on serial killer" thing I'm trying to hide.
So I am very intrigued about your "life experiences" that have led you to this conclusion.
August 12th, 2015 at 1:34 PM ^
OK you fix him and let them hang out with your kids. I would'nt let him within a 100 yds of mine.
August 12th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
Come back to real life. No one said to let mentally-ill criminals play with your kids you sicko. People who commit these crimes are usually paroled within a few years, and the suggestions to change the way we rehabilitate mentally-ill criminals is not one you clearly have any logical aptitude to comment upon.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:15 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 9:18 AM ^
It's a terrible story, but has jackshit to do with football or Michigan sports. I know it's technically on-topic, but I'd hate to see the board become a place to air all the university's dirty laundry. If it had to do with a coach or a player, yeah. But a university employee not on university business and not affiliated with the sports programs - not so much.
As to the story, I think our ex-professor has gotten himself into a tough spot. Looks like they got him cold, and I hope he has a very rough ride in prison.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:20 AM ^
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August 12th, 2015 at 9:33 AM ^
I think most people realized that when you have a school with 6,200 faculty members and 38,000 employees, there are going to be some deviants in the mix. So long as they're not impacting the core topic of the blog (Michigan Sports), it seems like a bad topic for discussion here.
Based on what we know, this is a depraved individual who was attempting to commit a heinous act. But it wasn't done in conjunction with UofM, and it was done in FL. The university is cooperating with authorities, and there isn't a hint of institutional involvement here. So I would not have posted this story.
It's just my opinion, of course.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:24 AM ^
their outrage on. This kind of pederasty is pretty compulsive and therefore, in my estimate, sad. My brother works with guys who struggle with this and they are a miserable bunch. Not that my first sympathy doesn't lie with the victims, and not that a certain amount of disgust and loathing doesn't go with it. But I thank the good Lord he didn't imprint me with that kind of thing, and don't think that just hatin' on people--whoever--is super-productive.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
but the judge threw it out of court due to a lack of statuatory or case law regarding shecks.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:21 AM ^
Co-siged, FWIW. This seems a little too OT (despite the UM affiliation) for August.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:24 AM ^
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August 12th, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
Took me forever to figure out what story you were referring to there.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:38 AM ^
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August 12th, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
I kinda liked the turkey threads. It's the offseason and it was mildly amusing.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:15 AM ^
I saw a turkey by the side of the road in Mississippi this week and wanted to punch it. I'm not afraid of no jive turkey.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
EM, I agree. While this may be newsworthy for the mainstream media, I'm not sure this is necessary for a Michigan sports blog. I would request the Mods to please delete this as chances are that nothing good or enlightening will come from discussing this sordid affair.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:14 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 11:02 AM ^
The OP put OT, which it is...and unless the conversation gets out of hand (which it hasn't)...it's fine to discuss. It's something happening at Michigan - like it or not.
As soon as it gets out of hand, it should be locked like any other thread.
---Marcus
August 12th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
Fall practice has started - isn't OT season over?
August 12th, 2015 at 11:15 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 9:22 AM ^
OP, story broke last week and nobody felt the need to start a thread. At least label it OT.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
Incredibly sad reminder of the horrific things that go on right under our noses. So many children out there who suffer at the hands of abusers and whose cries for help are never heard. I shudder to think how frequently events like this happen that aren't police set-ups.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
I might be in the minority, but I'd just as soon not see this here. Besides, I've already seen it on mlive.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
He probably does deserve the life-shattering experience this will be for him. But the moment we start believing that anyone can't turn his life around and be a beneficial member of society is a sad day, in my book.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
I wouldn't have posted this on the board.
I predict Mr. Cavolcoli spends a good many years with a sore butt.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^
I don't advocate rape as criminal punishment. I'm just saying that he'll have ample opportunity to have all the male sex he can handle while in prison.
August 12th, 2015 at 9:27 AM ^
Good god, man. I just don't understand how a 51 year old dude is attracted to young teenagers (especially boys, unless the guy is gay, which still doesn't excuse his act) and willing to take the risk of being arrested and (likely) sentenced to prison for a long time. My brain literally cannot comprehend that. It's one thing for an adult male to look at an attractive teenage girl (one in high school, at least) and say, "she's pretty," but to act on it and try to get with her is another and just plain sick. Those assholes should be locked in a jail cell for years.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:45 AM ^
And only had Boundry issues.
Just ask John Ziegler or some of the folks at BWI. They are not representative of all PSU fans, but they do a bang up job making the rest of them look really bad.
August 12th, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
I wonder why these apologists keep trying to normalize pedophilia... hmmm, I wonder what their motivation possibly could be...
August 12th, 2015 at 12:27 PM ^
Their hope is that Jerry Sandusky just had boundry issues and what they like to call the "victims" just saw a payday opportunity. The victims were motivated by greed. The prosecutors were complicit with policital machinations on the part of the former govenor to ruin Spanier. And members of the PSU BOT who had personal axes to grind with Paterno.
If all of that is true then Paterno and Penn State are in the clear because there never was a crime to cover up. It was all a conspiracy.
August 12th, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^
It can be found here.
It's great that Scott cares about the old man ( JoePa ), we all do. The problem with Scott is he doesn't give a rat's ass about Sandusky ( and in his mind why should he? ), but by ripping on Sandusky he fails to recognize that as long as Sandusky sits in jail falsely accused, JoePa will never be free, Penn State will never be free, and I will never be free.
Until every idiot is put in a cage, non of us will be free.
N i t t a n y A m e r i c a
August 12th, 2015 at 9:51 AM ^
The thing is, given that Michigan's age of consent is 16, most high school girls are actually legal to the general public for consumption.
This is a much different story. This is a guy who is obviously troubled.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:37 AM ^
Dude 'legal to the general public for consumption' is a pretty gross thing to say about a 16 year old girl.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:47 AM ^
You are right, that is a sick and twisted way to say things.
August 12th, 2015 at 10:55 AM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^
August 12th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
No, it's a sick thing to say about a 15 year old girl.
16 is 100% legal for a guy of any age in Michigan(as long as you are not her teacher).
August 12th, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^
If I ever caught a grown man having sex with my 16 year old daughter, I would beat him with impunity.
August 12th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^