Talk Show Host Sentenced For Kiddie Porn
Posted on Thursday, 28 of August , 2008 at 8:42 pm
SAN FRANCISCO— A former radio talk show personality on San Francisco-based KGO 810 News Talk was sentenced Thursday in federal court in San Francisco to serve 87 months in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his guilty plea to one count of distributing child pornography via the Internet.
Bernard V. Ward, 57, of San Francisco admitted that in December 2004, he used an online screen name to engage in an Internet chat conversation with an unknown individual also using a screen name. During that conversation, Ward admitted that he sent an image of child pornography depicting nude children engaged in sexually explicit conduct via his e-mail account.
Ward also admitted that he used the same e-mail account to distribute 15 to 150 images of child pornography to other individuals. These images involved prepubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, some with sadistic, masochistic or violent conduct.
Ward had hosted “The Bernie Ward Show,” a nightly ‘news talk’ show that ran weekdays 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., and the three-hour “GodTalk” on Sunday mornings. 8-28-08
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