Posted on 02/14/2008 12:52:56 AM PST by raccoonradio
More: Ward’s criminal defense and civil attorneys declined to be interviewed on camera Wednesday. However, they repeated what they’ve said from the beginning — that Ward was doing research for a book.
“Whatever he did was inadvertent, it was something that was a violation maybe of the letter of the law, but certainly the one thing Bernie is not is a child pornographer. He’s not a child molester,” Boudreau told us in December of 2007.
They also now say Ward was role-playing during the online chats with “Sexfairy” and that all details of his sexual activity were 100-percent false. The former KGO Radio host is facing two counts for distribution of child pornography and one count for receipt of child porn.
With a jury trial set for June, ABC7 legal analyst, Dean Johnson, says the transcript of the Internet chats knocks down Ward’s claim that he was researching a book.
“That’s very bad news for Bernie because in these messages we not only have an almost systematic knocking down of every defense that could be raised to possession or distribution of child pornography,” says Johnson.
Also, from the federal case file, we learned Ward’s conditions of release on his $250,000 bond. He surrendered his passport. He’s confined to his home with electronic monitoring — he can leave only for work and to drive his children to and from school. His computer use is limited to his employment and he cannot have unsupervised contact with minors other than his children.
A difficult time for Ward, now, and a grim outlook for his future.
“If these Internet conversations are accurate, if they’re truthful, if they correctly reflect what Bernie said, Bernie is potentially in a lot of trouble,” says Johnson.
There’s so much more in the police report that we can’t discuss because it’s just too graphic. Federal prosecutors declined to be interviewed for this report. We’ve been unable so far to contact the woman known as “Sexfairy.” I did reach Bernie Ward directly and he says he would like to tell his side of the story, but he has to take his attorneys’ advice not to talk.
>>Ward’s on his home computer
They traced it back to his AOL account. Really smart move Bernie! To Catch A Libtalk Host.
How (in all hell) could “book research” involve transmitting the damned stuff?
Maybe. But Republicans are really bad people. (According to Bernie.)
That should read indictment - PRESS RELEASE in post no. 7.
Ward is obviously just a typical liberal Democrat.
Guess I know why now.
Disregard last post. It was the Ed Schultz program.
Smiling at you...
I disregarded it.
I don’t know anyone who listened to Bernie Ward.
This is what liberals are: perverts and criminals.
a liberal and an anti-semite. let him rot
I left the bay area a couple of years ago so this is the first I have heard of this. Wow. I seem to remember that KGO had another talk show host that jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. Pete Wilson died last year after surgery from a massive heart attack. I wonder, is Ronn Owens still around?
I have to take the side of the MSM on this one. Rush is somebody, thus he deserves attention. Ward is nobody, and no one listens to him. Go to jail and rot in obscurity, Bernie.
Yeah, Duane Garrett. The first, and probably last, liberal talk host that I thought was intelligent, thoughtful, and honorable. His death was very, very sad. I think he got caught falsifying sports memorabilia in his regular business and killed himself out of shame.
I wouldn't always agree with him, but I thought that he shared the same goals and just saw a different way to achieve them. Not like the "modern" liberal who has the fundamentally different goal of hating anything American. I still occasionally wonder how/if he would fit into the insane, hateful, group that the democratic party has become.
Yeah, right.
The scummy, rotting, crumbling, excrement smeared column way in the back, off to the side in the really dark corner doing who knows what to small animals.
But he is a "pillar" and it's kind of standing upright and he lurks at the edge of a community, tho' he has to be anonymous.
What a pervert.
He was just role playing/researching a book so it’s ok....riiiight. Aside from how sick this is, it is also incredibly stupid.
Couldn’t of happened to a bigger Libtard.
Has the Sf Gay-Les-Bi-Trans-Beast-Nambla etc etc “rainbow” rallied to ol Bernies side?
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