You are joking, right?
"For all accounts a solid citizen, good husband, and contributor to the community is being held without bond and faces up to 50 years in prison. His crime? He is alleged to have politically bad thoughts while using a computer"
One could just as easily say that this is someone who maneuvered himself into positions of respect and trust in the community with the underlying goal to manipulate and take advantage of VERY YOUNG (elementary school age) children.
He's being held without bond because the judge believes him to be a threat to the community and possibly a flight risk. The evidence presented likely influenced the judge's decision.
Whether he is convicted of the crimes and serves 50 years is of course up to the jury at the trial, but the judge may have given us a clue as to the strength of the evidence, which will be tangible in nature, not merely "politically bad thoughts".