Maybe George Pataki was right.
A convicted sex offender — one of six perverts suing former Gov. Pataki for $10 million apiece over his controversial policy of keeping them in psych wards after they did their time — yesterday admitted that he still has trouble controlling his sick urges.
“Is it true that you still have deviant thoughts about children?’’ a defense lawyer for New York state asked 55-year-old plaintiff Kenneth Bailey in Manhattan federal court.
The Elmira resident replied, “From time to time.”
Bailey and four others, as well as the estate of a dead con, are suing over a Pataki policy that forced them into psych wards based on state evaluations after their prison release.
The state’s highest court has since overturned the measure, saying inmates should have the right to challenge the evaluations’ findings before they’re locked up again anywhere.
Bailey spent four years in the loony bin after doing nine years behind bars for sexually abusing his 9-year-old daughter.
He has admitted to molesting more than 20 young girls over the years.
While he and the other plaintiffs had tried to block lawyers for the state and Pataki from forcing them to testify about their past crimes, a judge refused to go along.
Bailey was yesterday forced to describe what his crime was.
“Performing oral sodomy on my daughter. She was 9 at the time,’’ he said, drawing gasps from courtroom bystanders.