An Ivy League business school professor is in federal custody for allegedly having videos of himself engaging in sexual acts with children, ABC News has learned.Posted on 08/28/2006 6:57:09 PM PDT by Stoat
August 28, 2006 6:10 PM
An Ivy League business school professor is in federal custody for allegedly having videos of himself engaging in sexual acts with children, ABC News has learned.
Lawrence Scott Ward, 63, Professor Emeritus of Marketing at University of Pennsylvania's renowned Wharton School of Business, was caught with child pornography in his luggage and on his laptop computer after arriving at Dulles International Airport on a flight from Brazil, according to court documents.
An affidavit in support of a criminal complaint filed today in federal court in Alexandria says Ward's luggage was flagged for a more thorough inspection for possible child pornography after a customs officer noticed Ward's "excessive" trips to Thailand. Federal agents recovered at least three DVDs, in which Ward appears to be "engaging in sexual contact" with children, the affidavit reads. A video of children as young as eight engaged in sexual activity was also allegedly found on Ward's laptop computer.
Ward's resume says he has been a visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Federal officials believe Thailand to be a well-known destination for so-called "sex tourists" who travel there to exploit minors. Wharton's website also lists pro bono consulting work in Brazil as one of Ward's current projects.
According to published reports, in 1999 Ward was fined $2,500 and sentenced to five years probation on charges of attempting to promote prostitution and corrupt minors. In that case, he entered a plea which allowed him to acknowledge that there was sufficient evidence to convict him, without admitting guilt for those charges.
Ward's resume lists several government consulting assignments including work with the Executive Office of the President, the FCC, Department of Commerce and the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention. Many of his published works deal with the effects of television advertising and marketing on children and adolescents. According to his biography, Ward has been a marketing consultant to many top companies and lists IBM, Microsoft, General Motors, Home Depot, Exxon, Citibank and Johnson & Johnson among his clients. During the 1980s, he hosted a television program, "The Wharton Business Report" on the now defunct Financial News Network. Ward's biography also states that he was chairman of a foundation that served disadvantaged children with learning disabilities.
The University of Pennsylvania issued the following statement today, relating to Ward's arrest, "We have just learned of the arrest of Scott Ward in Virginia. At the present time, we have very few details. We are currently gathering information about the situation and will take appropriate action as soon as we know more."
You caught that, too. It is almost as if the writer was trying to infer this president... No mention in his current resume, so I'd bet it was before 2000.
Agreed. A few public hangings or forced castrations of perverts and they could clean up their country pretty quickly.
Thanks, I could not find his resume.
Actually, drawing and quartering comes to mind...
How true. My nephew does interventions with meth addicts. He has worked with every sex, race, and whatever demographic you can name. He has said the same thing: you simply cannot fathom what goes on with individuals. Their darkest secrets will always shock.
This guy ought to work for the UN.
I don't even want to think about the possibilities of what might have happened here. It also says that he served in the Executive Office of the President. Since it didn't say which President, should we assume that it was a Dem, either Clinton or Carter?
He got his PHD in 1968, so it could conceivably have been as far back as the Johnson administration. Utterly sickening, to think of the decades of contact and the multitudes of destroyed lives he may be responsible for.
It may be time to bring back Medieval torture methods to deal with this scourge of pedophilia, which is spreading like a cancer.
This is not the first time Ward has been accused of sexual misconduct involving minors. In 1999, he was fined $2,500 and sentenced to five years probation after entering a plea that, while not admitting guilt, acknowledged that there was sufficient evidence to convict him. He had been charged with allegedly soliciting sex from a state trooper posing as a 15-year-old.
The same alleged incident had resulted in charges against Ward in 1996. In that year, he was acquitted of one count, while the jury deadlocked on two others.
Ward was acquitted in 1995 of charges that he paid a teenage boy for sex "as many as 50 to 100 times," according to Daily Pennsylvanian coverage at the time.
Personal confession, I don't know if this university is liberal, but I don't think I'm risking too much by assuming it is.
Did he kill JonBenet?
After Ward reluctantly allowed agents to examine his laptop computer, a video was found showing two children who looked to be as young as 8 engaged in sexual activity, the affidavit from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Byron C. Braggs said.
If he's not convicted, your post could be libel...
"Agreed. A few public hangings or forced castrations of perverts and they could clean up their country pretty quickly."
Something like that. 10- and 20-year sentences to Thai prisons would also do the trick.
Cambodia has also been slow to action, but they've finally started throwing these guys in (Cambodian) prisons and deporting them when necessary.
Word there is that the NGOs will now start targeting the Asian pedophiles, because the message has been properly heard by Western peds.
Congrats, you've found a way that we can all be 'pro-choice' :o)
OK, what I am missing? The initial John Mark Fraud Karr threads were full of this "Thailand?" business. I didn't get it then, and never saw an explanation. SOMEBODY!!!
Although I would feel happy knowing that the inmates would be exacting their own special brand of justice upon him (I've heard that pedophiles are particularly hated in prisons) I fear that any trial would end up being a ten=year drawn out OJ/Cochran fiasco, with high priced lawyers battling high priced lawyers and the perp eventually walking, or something close.
An honorable man would simply blow his own brains out, but this slimeball obviously has no honor.
I fear that justice will not be served.
You won't get any arguments from me, although my sense of justice longs for torture in cases like this, as death is far too easy and far too long in coming, thanks to the current norm of 20+ years on death row and endless appeals before anyone is actually given a ride on Old Sparky.
If any Republican office holders are reading this, here is a chance to advance conservatism and spotlight our political enemies.
It would be a landslide-generating, winning issue for any honorable politician.
Of course by "appropriate action" they mean "rally to his defense".
Savage will have a field day with this story when he gets back from vacation.
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