Army to Dr. Laura's Son -- Did You Really Write That?!

TMZ has learned that the US Army is investigating whether the son of holier-than-thou talk show host Dr. Laura created an unbelievably graphic and offensive MySpace page including scenes of rape, torture and child molestation.

A MySpace page allegedly created by and containing a trove of photos of what appeared to be Deryk Schlessinger, Dr. Laura's 21-year-old son who is serving as a Specialist with the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan with the US Army, was pulled from the popular file-sharing site last week, as the Salt Lake Tribune first reported. We're told by an Army rep that it contained cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation, not to mention photos of soldiers with guns in their mouths -- among other scenes, and a picture of a blindfolded prisoner with the caption "My Sweet Little Habib." Lt. Col. Robert Tallman of the Army called the MySpace page "disturbing."

What's more, one blog entry on the site read, in part, "I LOVE MY JOB, it takes everything reckless and deviant and heathenistic and just overall bad about me and hyper focuses these traits into my job of running around this horrid place doing nasty things to people that deserve it ... and some that don't."

Lt. Col.Tallman tells TMZ that the Schlessinger investigation is "ongoing" and that Deryk is still on active duty. Deryk didn't respond to a request for comment by the Tribune, and Dr. Laura's rep suggested that the MySpace page could be a fake.

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61. Tamara - Congrats! You did it, girl!

More on topic, I hope this young man gets some much needed help from a therapist other than his mother. I hate to think what might happen if this "cry for help" is not attended to pronto.

Posted at 1:12PM on May 31st 2007 by Attorney in Cali

62. Well,, Well, well.....This couldn't happen to a better person imo. Dr.Laura is a self rightious bigot who is extremely rude to her callers. Sits upon her throne as if she is THE expert on family trials and tribulations. Looks good on her!!!

Posted at 1:18PM on May 31st 2007 by sarah

63. It appears that "Parenting by Proxy" (one of her book titles) is worked out pretty well for Dr. Laura.

I don't get what all the fuss is about. Deryk is just behaving exactly the way Republican Values extoll.

In fact, he's a perfect poster child for the party. He ought to be a platform speaker in 2008 at their next convention. He could do a little PowerPoint presentation with his illustrations.

Posted at 1:21PM on May 31st 2007 by Cyclizen

64. Sarah - couldn't have said it better myself. Why would anyone who has heard her show be stupid enough to call in? She gives advise in a very cruel, abusive manner IMO.

Posted at 1:22PM on May 31st 2007 by Sheri

65. This is much too wacky to be true. Its much easier to believe that one of the twisted people that hates Dr. Laura posted this and credited her son. Also, I don't get the "Deryk" spelling at all. Does it have somethig to do with Dybbycks?

Posted at 3:37PM on May 31st 2007 by zed

66. I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO SICK OF THESE SPOILED AZZZZZ "WHITE BOYS" GETTING OFF WITH STUFF!!! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE DAY ALL OF THEIR STUPID, SNEAKY, SELF-CENTERED, NON-COMMOM SENSE AZZZZEZZ GET WHATS COMING TO THEM!! BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON THAT RACE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED THAT "NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO ME BECAUSE I'M WHITE" DISEASE!!! OHHHHH, BUT JUST HOLD ON.........CAUSE PAYBACK IS COMINGGGGGG....AND YOU CAN BET YOUR PARENTS "HOUSES, CARS AND VACATION HOMES" ON THAT!!!!

STOP BEING SOOOOOOOO STUPID AND THINKKKKKKKKKKKK BEFORE YOU "SPEAK OR REACT"!!!!! I KNOW IT'S HARD, BUT IT CAN BE DONE!!!!!!

Posted at 1:34PM on May 31st 2007 by crct07

67. crct07 - And they say white people are racist! Seems to me crimes are comitted by messed up people of every race - even yours. Society and parenting are to blame - not race.

Posted at 1:40PM on May 31st 2007 by SP

68. Well, In think it's interesting that most news reports and blogs don't have this part of the original story
"The Deryk Schlessinger page included nearly a dozen "friends," including a number of soldiers in Afghanistan, several of whom were linked back to Schlessinger's page and some of whom had additional photos of, and comments from, Schlessinger on their sites."
If that's some imposter they did an amazing job!
The original article can be read here:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_5934072

I guess in most cases we shouldn't hold up the parent to what the child is doing, but in "Dr" Laura's case it seems appropriate, since she has built a career on telling other people how to raise her kids. The proof of her advice is in the pudding!

I really enjoyed how her publicity team let on the page may have been put up by "terrorists". It seems hugely telling that no one from the Schlessinger side of things has actually denied the page is his.

Posted at 3:12PM on May 31st 2007 by Roblin

69. What I don't get is why People make their page "public" everyone I know including me has their page set to "private" and we aren't even famous! So advice to the "famous" ones hit the "Private" button and then your info and thoughts won't be plastered all over websites. But on this case, its sick and twisted and hopefully it is a "fake" page, but you can't "fake" the pictures! (well I guess you can) but obvioulsy these are real pics...It always happens this way...Little picture perfect families and Parents and their children are pretty messed up. Hopefully she can "advise" him better from now on...

Posted at 2:46PM on May 31st 2007 by Elle

70. Soldiers are asked to go off and kill in foreign lands, then turn off that killing instinct. I had a professor who was in the Korean War who marveled at the fact that the government asked him to kill then plopped him back into society, figuring he would be fine, able to turn off the instinct. Why should this war be any different?

Posted at 2:48PM on May 31st 2007 by La La

71. What a piece of trash this guy is............. he should be discharged dishonorably from the army........... the apple does not fall far from the tree.............I feel sorry for him....... all the hatred he has in him has probably come from his trashy mom!! She claims to be holier than thou but she is just a piece of crap!!!

Posted at 4:15PM on May 31st 2007 by godhelpus

72. Support our troops by giving him due process. TMZ commits a terrible injustice by posting this story before the investigation is finished. You all know that if he is found not to be at fault, that won't be posted! How dare you guys shed are military in bad light! If you acted as though you support our effort to keep terrorists out of our country or to keep the them out of anywhere for that matter, this Iraq situation would be over by now! It because the terrorist know we aren't a united front and they use the ununification to break us! How about we get it together or even act like we have it together to get this thing over and done with!?! We all hate war, but something it's neccessary.

Posted at 5:25PM on May 31st 2007 by ProudToBeAn American

73. Anyone can make a fake MYSpace account or website. He could have posed for the PIC when he was joking around, as guys do, and someone posted it to get at him or his mom. Everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt. It is worth considering.

~Devil's Advocate

Posted at 5:58PM on May 31st 2007 by MySpace accounts CAN be faked

74. I really hope this is a hoax, but sadly I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. War often creates psychological problems. Have you ever noticed how many of our homeless are Veterans? They walk around drunk or just talking to themselves still lost in a war that took a great toll on their mind. It's so very sad. It's really a blessing and amazing that any of our soldiers come back without a mental illness when they have been subjected to what one would normally see in combat action. I am very proud of my Grandfather's service to our country during WWII, and my Father's service during Vietnam. My father has since passed away. However My Grandfather, even after all these years, still suffers from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). He says when the memories come flooding back he can actually still the smell the blood of those who died all around him at Normandy and it makes him physically ill. I feel so bad for him. Below is some interesting information I found:

"Almost a third of veterans from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with a psychosocial or mental health illness, reports a new study.

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and Health Service s Research and Development Research Enhancement Award Program and the San Francisco VA Medical Center studied mental health disorders among 103,788 U.S. veterans who returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The youngest group of OEF/OIF veterans, aged 18-24 years, were at greatest risk of receiving mental health or posttraumatic stress disorder diagnoses compared with veterans 40 years or older."

President Bush if you truly support our troops bring them home NOW!

Posted at 6:38PM on May 31st 2007 by DottieDame

75. I wonder how many babies he has raped & maybe killed to get off.

Posted at 8:50PM on May 31st 2007 by HE IS SCUM.

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