- Bernie Ward, former KGO talk show host, was accused of sending child porn over the Internet.Photo courtesy of KGO
Posted on 05/07/2008 7:38:13 AM PDT by SmithL
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 to a police report.
The woman, who lives in Oakdale (Stanislaus County), became concerned after Ward allegedly sent her pictures in December 2004 showing children "engaged in or simulating sexual acts with adults or other children," Oakdale police Officer Benjamin Savage wrote in a report.
Ward sent her a photo of a naked boy sitting on a chair between a topless woman and a clothed girl, the police report said.
A federal grand jury indicted Ward, a former Catholic priest, in September on two counts distributing child pornography and one count of receiving child porn using the Internet.
After the indictment was unsealed in December, KGO-AM fired him from his job as a talk show host.
Ward pleaded not guilty to the charges in December and had insisted that he was innocent of any wrongdoing. Weinberg has said the conversations Ward had with the woman consisted only of role-playing as part of a book he was researching on hypocrisy.
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- Bernie Ward, former KGO talk show host, was accused of sending child porn over the Internet.Bernie’s probably looking forward to all that prison food.
And the sodomy. Libs love sodomy.
A “liberal”, former talk radio host.
Living on the east coast, I had to look it up since I wasn’t familiar with his political leanings.
I read the comments section and saw exactly what I expected to see.
Many posters came to his defense with Bush bashing rants or an attitude of what’s the big deal?
Unfortunately, all of these people probably vote.
In all fairness, most of Bernie’s supporters are in the restaurant industry. Hey, they’ve got bills.
Ah, yes.
San Francisco waiters, AKA queens with trays.
Changing his plea. The police must have some pretty good evidence OR being a good liberal in SanFranSicko, he will plea bargain to a light sentence.
Hey, maybe there is a shot for the Bernie and Barney Show!
He's been a feature on KGO radio in San Francisco for many years. His nightly show was full of anti-Bush rants, while his weekend "God Talk" bashed Christians, especially Catholics. His arrest may signal the reason he's an ex-Catholic Priest.
“His arrest may signal the reason he’s an ex-Catholic Priest.”
As a Catholic, I wish the Church would have done more to him and other pedophile, so called priest’s. Turning them all over to the police would have been an option.
He must have had gastric bypass or something, he has lost a lot of weight.
He’s gonna need some heavyweight lawyers and even then, he’s toast.
His rants and spews in no way would support he is religious in any sense of the word.
How bad does it have to be before your dominatrix turns you in as a pervert?
Bye, bye, Bernie. WATCH THE MOCKING ON YOUTUBE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twRxwd-fp_c#GU5U2spHI_4
But that’s okay, he’s a DemocRAT. Perverted DemocRATS are the norm nowadays. Just read comments by the lefties. SICK!
Michael Savage should see this article.
No Lenten table causes rift at Prairie View
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/935499,050708foodfight.article)
May 7, 2008
ILLINOIS
BY ANGELA CAPUTO Staff writer
When some parents at Prairie View Middle School asked for a separate lunch table for their children during the Ramadan fast, Principal Joel Martin thought the request seemed reasonable.
As long as the gathering of fasting students didn’t disrupt and didn’t cost the district anything, Martin had no qualm with offering the religious accommodation.
But his decision rubbed parent Jennifer Cimaglia the wrong way. And when the school shot down a similar, mid-Lenten request by seventh-grader Ryan Vandewiel and 60 or so of his classmates who signed a petition seeking separate seating for observant Catholics, the Tinley Park mother of three decided “enough is enough.”
“It’s not just about the table,” Cimaglia said. “It appears that there is preferential treatment for the Muslim students.”
The potential for ethnic tension prompted the Kirby School District 140 board to put “cultural diversity” on the agenda for its Thursday night committee meeting.
Board member John Martelli said people are welcome to attend to discuss concerns “in an open forum.” It’s unclear if the board plans to take any action on the topic, Martelli said.
Martin said Tuesday he never intended to set a double standard for students — particularly along religious lines. He only rejected the proposal for Catholic students to have a meat-free lunch table on Fridays because they hadn’t thought out the proposal enough to ask before the Lenten season began.
“Do I want to accommodate those students? Yes,” Martin said. “We’re going to look at accommodations for kids at Lent next year.”
Vandewiel — the 13-year-old who circulated the petition on behalf of Catholic students — said he’s satisfied by the principal’s commitment.
“I’d prefer that instead of having things for one religion or another there shouldn’t be anything for religion in school,” the Tinley Park teen said. “I think it’s wrong.”
The fasting-friendly Ramadan table may have been new at Prairie View, but it’s nothing new in the district, according to Supt. Michael Byrne, who is surprised by the fresh controversy. Parents at several of the schools have requested similar accommodations in years past.
What’s new is that the number of Arabic-speaking students in the Tinley Park district has continued to grow. And this year, the number of English as a Second Language students, mostly native-Arabic speakers, topped 20 at Christa McAuliffe School, which, under state law, required administrators to hire a full-time teacher to lead the students.
The addition of the ESL class bumped the art teacher from a classroom and forced the teacher to conduct class from a portable cart.
“It’s how education goes,” Byrne said. “We have special- education students ... I hope (people aren’t) pointing the finger at those students for using classrooms, too.”
But Cimaglia, who has a fifth-grader enrolled at McAuliffe and a seventh-grader at Prairie View, sees the changes made for Muslim students as a matter of preferential treatment - particularly when it comes to the religious accommodation.
“These are all little things adding up,” she said. “What I’d like to see is the same set of rules for all students. This is a public school.”
Angela Caputo can be reached at acaputo@southtownstar.com or (708) 633-5993.
“I CAN’T WAIT to see if “Law And Order” tries to bring this to prime-time!”
If they do, they will use it as a forum to bash the Catholic Church while expressing sympathy for his child porn addiction.
An announcement is expected today according to RadioEqualizer blog and he could get 10-15 yrs in a plea deal
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/
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