A man who wrote a how-to guide for paedophiles was arrested on Monday and will be extradited to Florida to face obscenity charges, after police there ordered a copy of the book that has generated online outrage.
Officers arrested Phillip R. Greaves at his home in Colorado on Monday on a warrant that charges him with violating Florida's obscenity law.
During a brief court appearance, Mr Greaves waived his right to fight extradition to Florida, where Sheriff Grady Judd claimed jurisdiction because the author sold and mailed his book directly to undercover officers. Sheriff Judd said Mr Greaves even signed the book.
"I was outraged by the content," Sheriff Judd told The Associated Press. "It was clearly a manifesto on how to sexually batter children ... You just can't believe how absolutely disgusting it was."
The book – "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" – caused controversy when it showed up on Amazon in November. The book was later removed from the site.
Mr Greaves, who has no criminal record, writes in the book that paedophiles are misunderstood, as the word literally means to love a child. He adds that it is only a crime to act on sexual impulses toward children, and offers advice that purportedly allows paedophiles to abide by the law.
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