London: Conductor pleads guilty on 2 sex charges
NewsAt Westminster Magistrates Court today, the international conductor Jan Latham-Koenig admitted arranging sex acts with a person he thought was a teenager. He turned out to be a police officer.
Latham-Koenig, 70, was charged with intentionally arranging or facilitating an act of sexual activity with a child between December 9 last year and January 11. He was also charged with attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child for the purpose of sexual gratification between the same dates.
He did not respond to a third charge of attempting to meet a person under the age of 16 and engage in sexual activity during or after the meeting.
The defendant was granted conditional bail, pending a hearing in relation to the third charge at Southwark Crown Court on March 22.
Latham was recently music director at the Colon in Buenos Aires.
Court report here.
In the summer of 2023 the Teatro Colon had a new production of THE RAKE’S PROGRESS, under the direction of Charles Dutoit.
I just Googled it and it was in July; that was the winter of 2023 in Buenos Aires.
If I want to read about this, which I don’t, there are many other platforms I could access. Even if this is in anyway of interest beyond the prurient it is hardly something that has not happened before and will no doubt happen again. Even the circumstances of how he was entrapped is hardly new. The law will take its course and the likelihood is that his career is at an end. And that is how it should be left. Those who want to pore over the details should not need to look here for their titillation.
You are visiting this website of your own free will and taking the time to read and write replies to the posts, no one is forcing you to visit and read anything posted here. You can feel free to take your pretentious virtue signaling elsewhere if you find this ‘titillating’ and beneath the ivory tower you live in.
What is it with these conductors and choirmasters? Their victims are children, who will be forever damaged and traumatised by the sick desires of pathetic men who use their perceived status and power to satisfy their warped desires. I hope they weep in their beds after indulging in their sick fantasies. If custodial sentences are reached the guilty can look forward to the attentions of more powerful predators in the cells..
Should also be pleading guilty to enabling a viola player. It’s just unfortunate.
Have they found any real victims? The report said he first contacted the officer on a dating site. Dating sites are for adults, so he didn’t not initially go looking for someone underage. These types of cases get dismissed in the US as entrapment in some instances.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/magazine/sex-offender-operation-net-nanny.html
So he didn’t actually do anything except make an arrangement to do something with someone who turned out to be non-existent, so his sentence should be equally non-existent. Entrapment like this, luring someone, is fraudulent conduct. Unless he initiated the contact from scratch, but arresting someone for something they might have done had it been for real is very shakey logic.
So you no clue as to Anglo-American law works…
Although he has pleaded guilty to two charges, the third is more serious and has to go to full trial. His next appearance at Southwark Crown Court on 22 March is simply a preparation hearing, part of the process. From the two guilty pleas it is clearly a very sordid case for which he could be sent down. He’s smashed his world to pieces and one wonders if there is more to emerge.
Why this is anyone’s business other than his, his, and the Magistrate’s baffles me. He surely wasn’t dangling a job in front of him…
“A danger to society”? Yeah, I get that. Still think it’s none of my business. But I’m safely in NYC, if one can ever say that.
JL-K once offered me a position to work with him and asked me to meet him at his hotel. When I attempted to give him my resume, bio, references, and video of my work he simply said “that is not how this is done”. Thank God that I did not stay around long enough to find out what was necessary for me to get the work he had offered me. And so I am not at all surprised that his behaviour is finally being exposed.
I can’t understand why people are trying to downplay/ defend the actions of this offender.. He has admitted to trying to meet children for sex. Point. Thank God he was caught. It’s important to publish this information in the interests of safeguarding children and hopefully deter other similarly sick minded abusers.
Tangential to the case but Latham Koenig is loaded – a very wealthy man so the loss of a career will, from a financial point of view be a mere bagatelle. Loss of reputation – aha, that will hurt.