The ex-chief of Virginia’s ACLUÂ has been sentenced to seven years for possession of child porn.Â
Not really surprising, especially when you consider the fact that the ACLU thinks possession and distribution of child porn is covered by theFirst Amendment:
A former Arlington County youth sports coach and civil rights lawyer who once headed Virginia’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison for buying child pornography that prosecutors labeled sadistic and masochistic.
Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, pleaded guilty in June to downloading hundreds of pornographic images of children as young as 4. Authorities said Rust-Tierney used a computer in his 11-year-old son’s bedroom to view the files, which included a six-minute video that depicted sexual torture of children, set to a song by the rock band Nine Inch Nails.
Seven years isn’t enough. This guy got his jollies watching the torture of four year old children. Throw him under the jail.
A federal magistrate who declined to release him in March described the images she viewed as “the most perverted and nauseating and sickening type of child pornography” she had seen in 10 years on the bench.
Ellis also refused to release Rust-Tierney, saying he posed “a serious risk of harm to the community.” The judge added that “the term ‘child pornography’ does not convey the depravity” of the images that were downloaded.
With any luck, he won’t last seven years.Â
