Disgusting. Will he join the Aryan Brotherhood in jail - if he's not already a member?
Chris Simcox's name now can be added to the list of infamous criminals to emerge from the Minuteman movement. On Wednesday, after deliberating for a day and a half, a Phoenix jury found the anti-immigrant firebrand guilty on two counts of child molestation and one count of furnishing pornography to a minor.
The jury of nine men and three women acquitted Simcox, 55, on the most serious charges of sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 12, for which he could have received life imprisonment. Under the sentencing guidelines for the remaining counts, Simcox faces a presumptive sentence of anywhere from 17 years to 37 years, depending on whether trial judge Jose Padilla chooses to have the sentences run concurrently or consecutively.
Prosecutors also put Simcox's adult daughter by another marriage on the stand. Linsey Randich, 33, testified that Simcox had molested her three times when she was between the ages of 10 and 14. The last incident occurred in 1998, when, she said, Simcox insisted on giving her a massage that ended with him touching her vagina.
Simcox smiled slightly as he took his seat. After the verdict was read and the jury dismissed, he left the courtroom with what appeared to be a smirk on his face.
As the co-founder of the Minuteman Project in 2005 and 2006, he became a right-wing cause célebrè as he encouraged armed vigilantes to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. Politicians such as Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former state Senate President Russell Pearce, and Congressman Steve King of Iowa, to name a few, cozied up to him. When he abandoned his dark-horse run for U.S. Senate in 2010, he briefly scored a job with the campaign of fellow Republican J.D. Hayworth, who ran unsuccessfully that year in the GOP primary against incumbent U.S. Senator John McCain.
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