# Letter to Santa Leads to Man's Molestation Arrest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468 "2008-12-16T22:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/1 "2008-12-16T22:33:47Z")
Isn’t this just the most screwed up story that will warm the cockles of your heart this Christmas? > [@](#): > > A Texas man has been arrested after a 9-year-old girl wrote to Santa Claus asking that a relative stop touching her and her sister. > > The Monitor of McAllen reports that a man from the town of Pharr was arrested Friday and is in the Hidalgo County jail. This just seems so…wrong. I mean, the molestation, but just the whole context of it. I had to share it. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/2 "2008-12-16T22:37:59Z")
The perpetrator has now [also been charged](http://www.themonitor.com/articles/cantu_21044___article.html/abuse_sexual.html) with molesting the 9-year-old’s sister. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/3 "2008-12-16T23:02:20Z")
Well, at least Santa came through for the little girl. I am kinda going for the Funny here, but seriously - she wrote her wish to Santa - so she could share what must have been a terrible secret - and thank Og someone read it and did something about it. She might not have felt comfortable talking about it with anyone else… Whatever gets it to stop. Back to the Funny: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus - who will beat down anyone who doesn’t treat you right. Go Santa! ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/4 "2008-12-16T23:08:15Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus - who will beat down anyone who doesn’t treat you right. I can just hear Cypress Hill rapping about it. _I’m headin’ in the air with a sleigh and no reindeer And I’m handin’ out beatdowns!_ ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/5 "2008-12-16T23:21:35Z")
Isn’t it a crime to deliver mail deliberately to the wrong person? Shouldn’t somebody in the post office be busted too? Yeah, okay, I’ll go away… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/6 "2008-12-16T23:25:04Z")
In Canada, where we have a program to receive mail for Santa Claus and have it answered (by postal retirees, volunteers, etc.), I think there have been a few cases like this. It’s horribly sad but such a good thing she was able to get help like this. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/7 "2008-12-16T23:51:01Z")
I have the honor of dwelling in the the same city. What a creep! But you gotta remember–this is also the place where the 1000 lb. woman killed her nephew with a swipe of her monstrous appendage. And where a woman was caught smuggling chorizo (sausage) in her kid’s diaper. Nothing surprises anymore.:mad: ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/8 "2008-12-17T00:12:08Z")
> [@hellpaso](#): > > . . . And where a woman was caught smuggling chorizo (sausage) in her kid’s diaper. Just . . . . why? Why? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/9 "2008-12-17T00:13:27Z")
> [@hellpaso](#): > > this is also the place where the 1000 lb. woman killed her nephew with a swipe of her monstrous appendage …_which_ monstrous appendage? _is not sure she wants to know_ ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/10 "2008-12-17T00:15:49Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Isn’t it a crime to deliver mail deliberately to the wrong person? Shouldn’t somebody in the post office be busted too? The letter was turned into School. She wrote a letter to Santa, and turned it in to her teacher (dunno if it was for a project)- that information came from the Pit thread on this same topic. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/11 "2008-12-17T00:15:53Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > Just . . . . why? > > Why? LOL! I guess it was some super-duper mexican chorizo–I can’t post a link, but I bet if you search [themonitor.com](http://themonitor.com) you can find the hilarious pictures of the disgusting diaperfull.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/12 "2008-12-17T00:16:18Z")
There’s another thread here about why we should teach kids about Santa. This would be a good reason. Give kids someone safe to write their secrets to. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/13 "2008-12-17T02:08:57Z")
I rebelieve in Santa Claus. ---
**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/14 "2008-12-17T12:10:21Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > I rebelieve in Santa Claus. Quoted for the truth! ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/15 "2008-12-17T13:33:02Z")
> [@hellpaso](#): > > And where a woman was caught smuggling chorizo (sausage) in her kid’s diaper. “Smuggling”? What, is chorizo contraband there? Anyway, what if the kid, er, _contributed_ to the chorizo in the diaper? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/16 "2008-12-17T13:52:00Z")
I thought diapers were supposed to _smuggle chorizo._ ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/17 "2008-12-17T16:03:07Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > “Smuggling”? What, is chorizo contraband there? It’s illegal to bring raw pork into the U.S. from Mexico. Mexican chorizo is raw–not cured like Spanish chorizo. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letter-to-santa-leads-to-mans-molestation-arrest/477468/18 "2008-12-17T19:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > The Monitor of McAllen reports that a man from the town of Pharr was arrested Friday and is in the Hidalgo County jail. And he’s getting coal in his stocking.