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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As expected, former KGO Radio talk show host Bernie Ward pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of distributing child pornography. Ward did not comment as he left the federal courthouse in San Francisco Thursday afternoon, but he did, though, admit to a judge that he sent a sexually-explicit image of a child over the Internet. After his arrest in December, Ward claimed he was researching a book. The judge agreed to hold off on accepting Ward's plea until his sentencing in August. That's so Ward can attend his son's high school graduation. He faces a minimum...

One of the more conspicuous silences during the whole Bernie Ward saga has been coming from KGO-Radio (810 AM), his longtime employer. Long the Bay Area's ratings king, the news-talk station has -- on the advice of its corporate parent Citadel Broadcasting says KGO president and general manager Mickey Luckoff -- suggested that its on-air talent not talk about Bernie. Not yet. "It wasn't an edict," Luckoff said Thursday, moments after Ward changed his plea to guilty to distributing child porn. "We have never, ever put restrictions on anybody here. We have never put an embargo on what people could...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Bernie Ward, a prominent radio talk show host and reporter in the Bay Area for more than two decades, admitted today to distributing child pornography in a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for at least five years. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker was prepared to accept Ward's guilty plea at a hearing in San Francisco to one count of distributing child pornography, but agreed to hold off at the request of Ward's attorney, Doron Weinberg. Had the guilty plea been officially submitted today, Ward could have been sent to prison immediately. Instead,...

San Francisco -- Former radio talk show host Bernie Ward, who pleaded not guilty in December to distributing and receiving child pornography via the Internet, plans to change his plea Thursday, federal court records show. Ward, 57, is scheduled to appear before U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco to change his plea. He is a month away from going on trial. Ward's attorney, Doron Weinberg, was unavailable for comment Tuesday night. The case against Ward began when he engaged in sex chats with an online dominatrix and allegedly sent her pictures of children engaged in sexual activity, according...

... He ... heard a pounding at his door. ... Police officers ... massed outside. Visors covered their faces. They rushed in, pushed him onto his sofa and announced that they had a warrant. ... Child pornography, said a policeman. Oh, God, the man thought. ... It will take them a while to process the computer, the defense attorney said, and what happens next will depend upon what they find.... The man said they would find child pornography. ... It seemed to him that people who molested children often got less time than men who possessed child pornography. ... So...

My sister-in-law and brother-in-law discovered that a neighbor has been tapping into their unsecured wireless internet connection. They've discovered 8-10 folders of photos accessible through their network that do not belong to them. (My BIL discovered this a few days ago when he wasn't able to get an internet connection and went searching for his wireless connection.) Some are general family photos of camping trips, their home, etc., but there are numerous photos that can only be described as all-male kiddie porn. Tonight my husband took steps to delete access to the folders that had been mapped to their computer...

KGO radio's popular "Godtalk" show will stay on the air whether its embattled host returns or not, a spokesman for the all-chat channel said Friday. NewsTalk 810 fired Bernie Ward in December after he was indicted on two counts of possessing and distributing pornographic images of children, charges that stem from a period at the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005. Ward said he was researching a book on hypocrisy. He has pleaded not guilty. A trial is set for June 9. In addition to "Godtalk," Ward also talked politics on the nightly "Bernie Ward Show." Fans have...

Seized 'art porn' owned by Sir Elton John By Sophie Borland and Nigel Reynolds  Last Updated: 4:49pm BST 25/09/2007 A photograph by a controversial American artist which is part of Sir Elton John's private collection has been seized by police from a gallery on suspicion it may have breached child pornography laws. The image, which featured two young girls one of whom was sitting down with her legs wide apart, was taken by the renowned photographer Nan Goldin. The shot, from the artist's Thanksgiving series, was to be exhibited at the Baltic Modern Art gallery, Tyneside, this week along with...

A former Arlington County youth sports coach and civil rights lawyer who once headed Virginia's American Civil Liberties Union chapter was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison for buying child pornography that prosecutors labeled sadistic and masochistic. Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, pleaded guilty in June to downloading hundreds of pornographic images of children as young as 4. Authorities said Rust-Tierney used a computer in his 11-year-old son's bedroom to view the files, which included a six-minute video that depicted sexual torture of children, set to a song by the rock band Nine Inch Nails.

This is a tale of two editorials. The New York Times this morning applauds a New Jersey court ruling holding public schools liable when they fail to take measures to stop the taunting or bullying of gay students. Coincidentally, a Boston Globe editorial today applauds a Massachusetts court ruling upholding the right of the Lexington school district to expose elementary school students to children's books -- such as 'Who's in a Family?' and 'Molly's Family' -- that feature same-sex parents. This was done pursuant to a state law law that "requires that all public school districts develop curricula advancing...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A University of San Francisco professor and former dean of the School of Education has agreed to plead guilty to possessing more than 15,000 pictures of child pornography, including many depicting sadistic or masochistic content, federal prosecutors said today. William Garner, 66, has also agreed to a sentence of five years and three months in federal prison, a $12,500 fine and a $50,000 payment to a child abuse prevention center, prosecutors said. He is scheduled to be in court Dec. 7. Garner is a professor at USF's School of Education and was co-founder of the school's Center...

Tell me why lewd, sexual photograhic images of kiddie porn on a hard drive will justifiably send a person to prison, while literary/verbal images of the same, in a published book, will allow a person to be elected to the U. S. Senate?

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SANTA ROSA -- A Sonoma County judge handling the five-year-old child pornography case against suspect John Mark Karr threatened today to dismiss the charges and lashed into prosecutors for not telling her that key evidence -- a computer and hard drive containing sexually explicit images -- had been lost. Superior Court Judge Cerena Wong said she will consider a motion from Karr's attorney, Robert Amparan, to dismiss the 2001 case on Wednesday, a move that if approved would set Karr free without his having to register as a sex offender in California. Wong also will consider whether to unseal evidence...

Posted on Sat, Sep. 02, 2006 Karr hires new lawyer in child porn case MARCUS WOHLSEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - John Mark Karr, exonerated as a suspect in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, has asked a San Francisco lawyer to represent him as he awaits extradition to California to face child pornography charges. Robert M. Amparan is set to appear Tuesday in Sonoma County Superior Court to officially take over Karr's defense from the public defender's office, which has represented Karr in the case since it was first brought in 2001.

This is a reference thread with links to previous FR threads discussing the arrest of a suspect, John Mark Karr, in the decade-old cold case concerning the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, plus case resources for continued commentary on investigation of the crime.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—The former fiance of a woman whose daughter was found slain last year in northern Iowa has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on federal child pornography charges. Twenty-six-year-old Casey Frederiksen, of Charles City, was indicted on 14 counts of child pornography. He pleaded guilty to three counts in February. US District Judge Linda Reade could have sentenced Frederiksen to anywhere from eleven years to 14 years in prison. She says she opted for the high-end of the sentencing guidelines because of Frederiksen's prior child sexual assault conviction, and because of his attempt to hide the hard...

Liberals love pedophiles, because they must do so to keep their own belief system intact. Consider the bizarre case just this week of thirty-four year old Phillip Distasio. Distasio runs a ''school'' called Class Cutters near Cleveland Ohio. The goal of the school is to somehow counter the ''No Child Left Behind Act'' by getting kids to rush through a few academic excercises each day on the computer and then to spend the majority of the time performing some sort of ''community service.'' It seems to be set-up to help the child find ''productive'' use of their time during after-school...

A federal grand jury has indicted former "American Idol" contestant Daniel James "DJ" Boyd on child pornography charges, accusing him of videotaping sexual encounters with teenage girls. The federal indictment was unsealed Tuesday against Boyd, 27, who was a semi-finalist on the popular TV show in 2004. He is charged with production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. The federal case stems from Boyd's arrest in West Valley City last month. He is accused of having sex with two girls, ages 14 and 15. Some of those sexual encounters, prosecutors claim, were videotaped. West Valley City police said...

Man who used iPod to store kiddie porn gets maximum sentence Friday, July 7, 2006, 11:13 AM Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office has issued this news release: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today announced his Cyber Crimes Unit prosecutors obtained the maximum prison sentence against a San Marcos man in the first child pornography case handled by the Texas Attorney General’s Cyber Crimes Unit involving an offender who stored sexually explicit images and videos of children on his iPod. Ron James Guzman, 39, of San Marcos, pled guilty in Hays County on Thursday to nine counts of possession of...

UNC-Wilmington has a new scandal on its hands that may well cause supporters of the diversity movement to seriously rethink their position on moral relativism – the underlying philosophy of the diversity movement. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that some will begin to seriously think about their commitment to relativism for the first time. The current controversy began when library staff noticed that a number of visitors to the library have been viewing pornography on the library's computers. The controversy gained momentum when one witness reported seeing someone viewing child pornography. The response of various UNCW administrators may...

The Supreme Court yesterday ruled in favor of police who obtained a search warrant for a man's home in anticipation that he would accept mail delivery of child pornography he ordered as part of a sting operation. The unanimous ruling in the case United States v. Grubbs, said such "anticipatory" warrants obtained by police do not violate the Fourth Amendment rights protecting individuals from unlawful searches and seizures. Writing for the court, Justice Antonin Scalia said police can obtain such a warrant prior to the actual commission of a crime as long as they have probable cause to believe an...

This coming Christmas' Must-Have Stocking Stuffer for the Republicans on Your List.I SOMETIMES WISH I COULD BE A DEMOCRAT ONCE MORE . It was a good party in its time, it had nice ideals once, and, to tell the truth, I'm not at all easy being labeled as a Republican especially since I'm not. At the same time, I have to admit it is just too embarrassing these days to be a Democrat. It's not so much that they are wrong. Sometimes they are not wrong. It is not so much that so many of them are demented by the...

After another Capitol defeat for GOP on sex offender bill, S.F. assemblyman's alternative draws fiery attacks nationwide. Sacramento -- Bill O'Reilly hasn't suggested blowing up Assemblyman Mark Leno like he did Coit Tower -- at least not yet. A partisan brawl in Sacramento over cracking down on sex offenders has spawned a conservative attack, notable for its vitriol, on the San Francisco lawmaker. Leno, author of an alternative to a "Jessica's Law" ballot initiative backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been called a danger to society and a friend of child pornography during the past week. It was also suggested...

SAN JOSE -- A 35-year-old teacher has been arrested on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography, authorities said. Santa Clara County sheriffs on Wednesday arrested Curtis Koji Oishi of Santa Clara after an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs in Fresno led officials to believe that Oishi had sent pornographic images featuring children over the Internet,

So began the secret life of a teenager who was lured into selling images of his body on the Internet over the course of five years. From the seduction that began that day, this soccer-playing honor roll student was drawn into performing in front of the Webcam ...- for an audience of more than 1,500 people who paid him, over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars. ....The lure is the prospect of easy money. Many teenagers solicit "donations," request gifts through sites like Amazon.com or negotiate payments, while a smaller number charge monthly fees. But there are other beneficiaries,...

A nationally known speaker from Pittsburgh faces child pornography charges in Arkansas after technicians there working on his malfunctioning laptop computer discovered sexually explicit images of children.... Mr. Fortino is considered an expert in the management and balance of time, stress and lifestyles. Mr. Fortino has appeared on various national news programs and "Good Morning America." His most recent assignment has been as host of the PBS special "The Leadership Series."

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish drama student was fined 2,400 crowns on Wednesday for reading pornographic stories to a group of six-year-olds as part of a theater project on children's sexuality. A Stockholm court ruled that the stories the man had read out were deeply pornographic and completely inappropriate for the age group, newspaper Dagens Nyheter said on its Web site. It said the stories were about children having oral sex with each other. The man's lawyer told Swedish radio that he would appeal against the verdict as he had not meant the stories to be seen as pornographic and...

Frederiksen Pleads Not Guilty to 14 CountsTuesday, November 22, 2005, 12:41:42 PM By Mark Geary KCRG-TV9 News Video (Cedar Rapids - KCRG) -- Casey Frederiksen appeared in federal court once again this morning for his arraignment. You'll remember Frederiksen is engaged to Noel Miller, the mother of five-year-old Floyd county murder victim Evelyn Miller. Frederiksen faces fourteen counts for possessing and receiving child pornography. Tuesday morning, he pleaded not guilty to all of those charges. The court proceeding lasted less than five minutes. No one from Frederiksen's family came to show him support. Just as in every one of his...

SALEM — A Salem man who gained access to a 9-year-old girl by offering her mother free cocaine pleaded guilty yesterday to multiple child rape charges and was sentenced to 15 to 18 years in state prison. Richard Lapham's plea and sentence was the result of a last-minute agreement just moments before jury selection was set to begin for his trial in Salem Superior Court. Judge David Lowy went along with the plea agreement, but added, "Obviously, there is no punishment commensurate with the evil that constitutes this crime." Lapham, 39, was arrested in August of 2004 after police learned...

FEDERIKSEN [sic] TO BE JAILED UNTIL HIS TRIAL IN DECEMBER10-03-2005 -- Cedar Rapids (CBS2 News) The fiancee of [E]velyn [M]iller's mother was in federal court in Cedar Rapids on Monday for a detention hearing... Evelyn is the 5-year-old girl who was reported missing from her Floyd home back in [J]uly.. Her body was found 6 days later in the Cedar River...Her death [was] ruled a homicide [...]. Casey Frederiksen was the last person to see Evelyn alive. Officers took Frederiksen into federal custody on a felony child porn charge. Monday's hearing was to determine if he would stay behind bars...

Miller's Fiancé Faces Child Porn Charge Indictment Stems From Images Allegedly On Frederiksen's PCPOSTED: 11:07 am CDT September 30, 2005UPDATED: 11:32 am CDT September 30, 2005DES MOINES, Iowa -- The fiancé of Noel Miller, the mother of a 5-year-old girl who was found in the Cedar River, was charged with one count of possession of child pornography.Evelyn Miller went missing July 1. Her body was found six days later.On or about about July, Casey Frederiksen possessed computer images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to court documents.Frederiksen was arrested by the U.S. Postal Inspection service Thursday night, according...

TORONTO — She is perhaps 12 now, her hair still light blond, but she doesn't smile anymore. Over the last three years, she has appeared in 200 explicit photos that have become highly coveted collectibles for pedophiles trolling the Internet. They have watched her grow up online — the hair getting longer, the look in her eyes growing more distant. "She's a collector's item," says Det. Sgt. Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit. "I know somebody out there could lead us to her. But right now, the only ones who can see her face are the wrong ones."...

(CNSNews.com) - A Florida Republican congressman introduced a bill Wednesday to prohibit so-called online "child modeling" websites that he says are "nothing more than a fix for pedophiles." "They don't sell products, they don't sell services - all they serve are young children on a platter for America's most depraved. These sites sell child erotica and they should be banned," said Rep. Mark Foley, co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, in a statement. The websites feature children as young as four- to six-years-old, Foley said, and cause "immense psychological damage to the children" as well as placing...

WITH THE release last month of the report by the Senate Select Committee on intelligence and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, John Kerry was handed a gift that rarely occurs in a major political race: the chance to underscore a major failing on the part of an opponent. The committee found that there was no intelligence data to sustain President Bush's oft-cited reason for last year's invasion of Iraq -- the presence of WMDs and ongoing projects dedicated to their manufacture. Kerry said that the Bush administration had been "wrong, and soldiers lost their lives because they were wrong."

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — An elementary educator who taught classes until last year was charged with having images of nude youths and using his computer to solicit children. It was not clear if any alleged victims had been students of Kelly Karl Bowen (search), 30. "We can't even tell you how many victims there are yet," Assistant Attorney General Russell E. McGuire said at a bond hearing Thursday. "These kids, we need to find out who they are. We need to get them into counseling." The investigation began June 17 when an undercover officer had an Internet chat with someone posing...

Tax protester faces kiddie-porn charges A Montgomery County man who has publicly dared the Internal Revenue Service to arrest him for not paying federal income taxes was charged yesterday in federal court in Philadelphia with possession of child pornography. IRS agents seized 10 computers from the Hollywood home of Larken Rose more than a year ago, but have yet to charge the tax protester with any tax crimes. The child pornography was "inadvertently discovered" by an IRS agent who was examining one of the computer's hard drives, an FBI agent alleged. FBI agent Beatrice A. DeFazio said the computer images...

JUDGE ADMITS CHILD PORN Former circuit judge David Selwood has pleaded guilty to 13 counts of making and possessing child pornography. Selwood retired early on health grounds from his job as resident judge at Portsmouth Crown Court a few weeks ago. The 69-year-old of Winchester, Hampshire, entered his plea at London's Bow Street Magistrates Court. He had been charged with 12 counts of making indecent photos of a child in March and April this year and one count of possessing an indecent photo of a child in April. The court heard that the case had a "devastating and humiliating" effect...

A Philadelphia man was arrested on Wednesday on federal charges he used misspellings of internet domain names like Disneyland, Teletubbies, and Britney Spears to lure children to pornographic websites. John Zuccarini, 53, was arrested at a Hollywood, Florida hotel where he had been living for several months, prosecutors said. If convicted of the charges in the complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court, he could face a maximum sentence of four years in prison and a $US250,000 fine.

Police carrying out an international manhunt for a former US marine who vanished with a 12-year-old British girl used "mind games" devised by experts to secure her safe return home.Toby Studabaker, 31, was arrested in the German city of Frankfurt Wednesday after disappearing with Shevaun Pennington, a case that sparked huge media attention.The schoolgirl was safely returned to her parents in Manchester, northwest England, five days after running away to Paris with the former marine whom she met over the Internet. Shevaun had been urged to return home in a series of press appeals designed by police psychologists, according to...

In the Friday edition of the Washington Times, in the Metro section, the following item appeared. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a link to it on the paper's website. GOP activist sentenced on child porn charges A longtime Republican activist in Northern Virginia was sentenced to two years' probation after pleading guilty to a charge of child pornography. Richard Delgaudio was charged with taking sexually explicit photographs of a 16-year-old girl. According to court documents and Baltimore police, he paid the girl by the hour for the photo shoots at a Maryland hotel. As part of a plea agreement, a Baltimore...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge refused to dismiss a misdemeanor charge accusing Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens of possessing child pornography. Defense attorney Blair Berk had argued that a state law enacted in 1989 does not apply to material produced prior to that year and that the one-year statute of limitations for a misdemeanor crime expired before Reubens was charged in November. Assistant City Attorney Richard Kraft said he was pleased with Superior Court Judge Carol Rehm's Friday ruling. Berk said she may appeal. Both sides were ordered to appear...

Porn Biz Funds Terrorism Russia fights child porn and terrorism on the Internet The chairman of the department for the struggle against high-tech crimes of the Moscow Central Directorate for Internal Affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Chepchugov, has recently released a statement about pornsites. Dmitry Chepchugov stated that the income earned from pornsites is being used to fund extremist and terrorist organizations. The lieutenant colonel mentioned that up to 75% of all kiddie porn is distributed on the Internet. About 90% of Interpol’s international searches dealing with computer crimes are devoted to this issue. Chepchugov also said that the income earned...

FORT WORTH - A 42-year-old pastor and businessman was arrested Wednesday after fellow employees told police that an image of child pornography popped up on a projection screen as he gave a PowerPoint computer presentation this fall. James Andrew Smith, pastor of Landmark Baptist Church in Sanger, was in the Mansfield Jail with bail set at $300,000. He faces two counts of possession of child pornography and one charge of promotion of child pornography. Officials at Exel Inc., a logistics company in Fort Worth, told police Smith had just completed a presentation on Sept. 4 when he attempted to open...

Kiddie porn downloads deep-six MGH doc: Cardiologist loses license by Michael Lasalandra Thursday, November 21, 2002 A top Massachusetts General Hospital cardiologist and heart researcher had his license revoked yesterday for downloading thousands of computer files depicting child pornography, so many that the hospital's computer system nearly ground to a halt.Dr. Howard Kantor, 52, a graduate of Yale Medical School and a board-certified cardiologist and internist, resigned from his appointments at MGH and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in March 2001 after the incidents were discovered by co-workers. Kantor's illicit activities were first noted in September 2000, when an officer of the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Paul Reubens, best known as Pee-wee Herman, and actor Jeffrey Jones of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" were charged Friday in a year-old child pornography investigation. Jones, 56, best known as the high school principal in "Ferris Bueller," was charged with hiring a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexually explicit photos and possessing child pornography, authorities said. "The charges do not involve any sex act being performed or any video or film being taken," said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the district attorney's office. Jones' attorney, Jeffrey Brodey, told the Los Angeles Times that the charges are...

Former school teacher arrested on child porn charges By The Associated Press June 8, 2002 MEMPHIS - A former Williamson County elementary school teacher is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Monday on charges of possession and interstate transportation of child pornography. Daniel Kyle Pond was arrested May 30 in Greenwood, Miss., after FBI agents set up a sting operation. The former music teacher at Poplar Grove School in Franklin, about 20 miles south of Nashville, also faces seven counts of possession and transportation of child pornography in Williamson County. Those charges stem from an arrest in October. Peggy England, who...

It would be difficult for a mind unused to sloshing through the sewers of modern American pop culture to imagine a work more profoundly obscene than the opinion of Justice Anthony Kennedy in the case of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition. Kennedy’s opinion is a defense of certain kinds of child pornography. No lie. Kennedy believes that one kind of child pornography is protected "speech" under the 1st Amendment and another kind of child pornography is not protected speech under the 1st Amendment. Thanks to him and four other members of the United States Supreme Court this perverse delusion is...