Waco minister arrested for child porn says it was for research

[Catherine Vincent]

Sept. 7, 2007, 11:42AM
Minister arrested for child porn says it was research

Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

WACO — A minister who was arrested on child pornography charges told authorities he was doing research to get some Web sites shut down, police said.

Henry Edgington, 63, of Chalk Bluff, was charged with seven counts of child pornography possession. He was released from the McLennan County Jail on $70,000 bond Thursday after he surrendered to police.

A relative found a box containing child pornography at Edgington's home and approached Waco Police's Crimes Against Children detectives last week, police spokesman Steve Anderson said. The Police Department has jurisdiction to investigate crimes brought to its attention, even though Edgington lives in a Waco suburb, Anderson said.

Edgington told detectives he downloaded the pornography to give to a congressman in an effort to have the Web sites shut down, Anderson said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5116192.html

Yeah, riiiiight!

[sarcasmo]

1. Larry Craig should use that excuse.

Religious Hypocrisy at work for the Millionth time this y ear.

[Initech]

2. Ha ha ha, what a load of shit!

Or to use a quote from one of my favorite movies, Super Troopers - "I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert."

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "I have sinned against you lord, with mendacity!!"

[EFerrari]

4. It's bad enough that these freeps are horrible but it's so much worse

that they're stupid, too.

:shrug:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. "And Officer..."

"I always surf one-handed, with my pants around my ankles, when searching for websites to get shut down"

Look, it's gonna be really easy for the cops to pin this guy, if they have his computer. All they have to do is come up with one login and password to somewhere that such crap is being distributed, on his machine, and then, he's Mr. Toasty.

[LiberalFighter]

15. While using a wide stance?

[C_U_L8R]

6. bong hits for research

should've tried that excuse in high school

[TomInTib]

7. The Pete Townsend Defense

Remember when Pete said he was only downloading kiddie porn to help himself deal with being molested as a child?

It worked, too.

[soothsayer]

12. Who?

[Richard Steele]

8. What a believable explanation, from yet another RWer caught with kiddie-porn.

[NOLALady]

9. Cool.

I'm all for research. Maybe someone can give him a lobotomy in an attempt to research his fracking head.

[hang a left]

10. Totally lame excuse...

But I gotta tell ya...

I have some family members right now that are facing some serious charges.

They are innocent.

The media has tore them a new one. Made assumptions based upon a press release by the district attorney. It is a bs case. However their reputations have been ruined, their names dragged through the dirt.

Based upon my current experience; I am more willing to not be as judgmental as I have in the past.

[NYC Liberal]

11. "I swear the coke wasn't mine! I was wearing my friend's pants!"

[CTyankee]

13. Squeezy McFeelpants

Can't wait for Stephanie Miller and Jim Ward to get back from vacation so I can hear Jim do another Squeezy bit!

Life imitates art.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. I know pedophilia is nothing to joke about but I had to post this here....

This is one of the many comments from the article:

USexpat wrote:
But Judge, I wasn't looking for "pedophyle", I was looking for ".pdf files"!
9/7/2007 1:15:50 PM

:rofl:

[canetoad]

16. lol That is fucking funny nt