Ex-radio exec of American Family Radio to do time for child porn

[directfiesta]

Was probably preaching against child porn, just like Rush was against drug addicts....
Sick people!

Ex-radio exec to do time for child porn


Tupelo man given 15 years on two counts of producing pornography

By Jerry Mitchell
[email protected]

A former official at American Family Radio, which regularly warns listeners about the dangers of pornography, must serve 15 years in prison for producing child pornography.

In federal court in Aberdeen Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson sentenced Kerry Dwayne Stevens, 47, of Tupelo, who pleaded guilty to two counts of producing child pornography. A law passed by Congress last year requires a mandatory 15-year sentence for creating child pornography.

"It's tragic for everybody involved," said the Rev. Donald Wildmon, founder and executive director of the Tupelo-based American Family Association, which started the fast-growing Christian radio network. "It's one of those things you wish had never happened. His family was devastated."
American Family Radio ? with more than 200 stations in 35 states ? fired Stevens, who produced a children's show for the network as director of children's news, but Wildmon said the association has helped to support the family financially through the tragedy.

U.S. Attorney Jim Greenlee of Oxford praised the cooperation of Tupelo police and the FBI in the case. "The citizens of Tupelo and the (Northern District of Mississippi) should be glad to know that child pornography creators such as Mr. Stevens are being held accountable," he said.

Stevens must now register as a sex offender and submit DNA samples. He must also take lie detector tests and undergo psychiatric treatment.

On Aug. 23, 2003, two California men renting Stevens' home during the Tupelo Furniture Market spotted images of possible child pornography on a computer disk while searching for an empty disk. They turned two disks over to Tupelo police.

Four days later, police arrested Stevens, who remarked "he had a problem with children pornography," but "had not touched any of the children."

After his arrest, court documents say Stevens urged 1st District U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker to influence Davidson to rule favorably on a motion to suppress evidence. In a motion opposing bond, prosecutors wrote, "This overt attempt to obstruct justice should surely weigh on the court in assessing guilt, flight risk and danger to the community."

In his letter to Wicker, Stevens wrote, "I took my eyes off of Jesus for a moment and did something terrible ... I took some pictures of one of my daughter's friends. Suffice it to say that these pictures were of her in various sleeping positions. Let me hasten to add that I never touched her person, nor are there any ... showing her face, nor was there any involvement with the Internet. I did not do this for personal profit, but from a dark sin. Nor did I touch her, because I didn't want to wake her and have her damaged psychologically. And truthfully, I didn't want to take a chance on getting caught.

"I know what I did was wrong. Oh, how I wish I could simply undo what I've done!! But I can't."

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Roberts in court suggested Stevens did more than just snap pictures, saying photographs showed an adult hand adjusting clothing and in one case touching a minor child.

The American Family Association, which boasts it has more than 2 million members, has made fighting pornography one of its top priorities.

AFA has promoted a boycott of the Movie Gallery video chain for its rental of porn videos and has urged parents to complain about grocery checkout lines where "kids (are) corralled like cattle and force-fed doses of porn" from magazines such as Cosmopolitan.

The association sells Internet filters to families to block objectionable material and offers workshops and counseling to those combating pornography and "sex addiction."

Days after the arrest, Wildmon met with Stevens. "He was just a shell of a person," Wildmon said. "We told him we forgive him."

Wednesday's sentencing serves as a reminder, Wildmon said. "It shows everybody is vulnerable. If not this, then something else along the way. All of us are weak in some area."

Now let's all go pray!!!

[smokingdawn]

Fry his ass

[Project-Shadow]

The should make it legal to kill people who do shit like that.. I'm against the death penalty, but extremes like that just make me wanna...

[Mr. Marks]

what a goddamn fucking hypocrite.

[pimplink]

That damnable asshole...feed him to the piranhas

[pimplink]

Mummify him...he's sick

[sinkiss]

Originally posted by smokingdawn
Fry his ass

sounds like a good idea

[BRISK]

[Pornwolf]

Hahahaha! Now that's funny. I don't know how many times I have flipped past that station or heard it blaring out of some old person's transistor radio and thought to myself, 'these self righteous fucks need to be exposed for what they really are.'

[hjnet]

[Tala]

[ehulk81]

sweet pic, child porn is bad