"Liberal" talk show host Ward charged with Internet kiddie porn

[Logan13]

From what I understand, the gov't has known about his project since 2005 when they confiscated his computer. I'm not at all sure that he's been trying to get kiddie porn for his own amusement.

Nevertheless, the law says that nobody can have these pics, period, even researchers doing legitimate research on this topic. And, he had 'em on his computer. Guess we'll wait and see what the jury in his trial have to say.

I thought that it was against the law to transmit them to anyone else.

[Tock]

I thought that it was against the law to transmit them to anyone else.

From what I gather from this story, the guy didn't have any photos on his computer. He's charged with 2 counts of transmitting photos, so I'm guessing that in the course of working on his book, he may have been on a bullitin board like this one, but copied a couple of images from one place and posted them on another thread. Does that make him a child pornographer? I wouldn't think so, especially if his wife and other people were aware of what he was doing.

I dunno . . . it all depends on the particulars of the situation; we'll have to watch the news reports to see what exactly transpired. I'm thinking, though, that this guy is not a child pornographer because he's only charged on 2 counts of transmitting photos, and because he didn't have any other photos anywhere. Usually those guys have lots of pix on their hard drives.

Anyway, time will tell . . .