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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchool principal who banned 'homosexual' books charged with possessing child porn
https://www.stlucianewsonline.com/236166-2/(NEW YORK POST) A Kentucky school principal who once banned books with homosexual content from classrooms has been indicted on child porn charges.
Phillip Todd Wilson, 54, became infamous in 2009 when he banned LGBTQ-themed books, as well as others he deemed soft pornography, calling them inappropriate for students, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.
Wilson has now been charged with 11 counts of possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor and six counts of promoting a sexual performance by a minor, according to the Winchester Sun.
He was arrested in August and indicted last Thursday, according to reports, which noted he was also fired as head of Clark County Area Technology Center in Winchester.
You cant make this s**t up, author Jo Knowles whose Lessons from a Dead Girl was one of the books Wilson banned wrote on Facebook when the principal was arrested.
Laurie Halse Anderson, whose Twisted also was among the targeted books, highlighted the irony as well.
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School principal who banned 'homosexual' books charged with possessing child porn (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Nov 2019
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nycbos
(6,034 posts)1. I am shocked SHOCKED to find gambling on here.
MineralMan
(146,254 posts)2. Shoulda kept his yap closed, shouldn't he?
Nobody would have looked for his tween porn. But, no, he was "outraged" by those books, and made a big stink about them. Someone wondered, "Why is he so bent up about this stuff?" And there you go.
mopinko
(69,990 posts)3. by now this should be sop. they yap about sex crimes, look at their laptop.
i'm pretty sure you could convince an open minded and smart judge that that yapping is probable cause.
SWBTATTReg
(22,065 posts)4. I sometimes wonder those that yell the loudest about gay content and other such stuff should be...
automatically looked at more closer, as to whether they themselves have something worse to hide, so they pick on other topics to distract others from looking more closer at them.
Kind of like the detective shows you see, in that one of the characters offers tips after tips, and the cops start looking more and more closer at the character offering the tips. Seems to be a tip off every time.
Karadeniz
(22,470 posts)5. Again...?