Posted on 08/29/2008 11:32:05 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
SAN FRANCISCO – Bernie Ward, the popular radio talk-show host disgraced by federal child-pornography charges, was sentenced Thursday to seven years and two months in prison.
Ward, who is married and has four children, was fired in December 2007 from KGO-AM in San Francisco after a grand jury indictment accused him of actively uploading and sharing images of child pornography on the Internet. His KGO-AM shows included the Sunday morning “God Talk” program.
“I feel very sorry for you and your family,” Judge Vaughn Walker told Ward. The judge said he was troubled by Ward’s hypocrisy — while the former priest was lambasting the Roman Catholic Church for not rooting out pedophiles in its ranks, he failed to get help for his own predilections, Walker noted.
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He's sure he will get time off for good behaviour.
The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. The Lord raises up, the Lord removes.
Well on the bright side, Bernie the Hut will really enjoy all that prison rape.
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