Ex-radio exec [and AFA official!] to do time for child porn

[benburch]

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040603/NEWS01/406030381/1002

June 3, 2004

Ex-radio exec to do time for child porn

Tupelo man given 15 years on two counts of producing pornography

By Jerry Mitchell
[e-mail]

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.

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[w4rma]

1. Freak! (nt)

[troublemaker]

5. The word 'freak' implies something is uncommon

I suspect that most adults who spend a lot of time thinking about child pornography are pedophiles.

That select group includes most child molesters and most crusaders against pornography.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Hi Ben. Would you X-post this in the MS state forum?

Thanks!

[benburch]

3. Done!

I unlinked it from the "Latest" topics however, so it would not appear in that list twice.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Thank you!

This comes as no surprise to those of us from Mississippi who have had brushes with the AFA.

I have always believed that people who are most "anti-something" usually have a skeleton related to that something hidden deep in their closets.

This just further affirms my belief.

[DavidMS]

4. Thats one more monster in jail!

Now who is supprised that its an AFA Aparatnik?

Why does it alwasy seen that rightwing nutjobs "love" children?