It is usually a sad day when judges find themselves on the other side of the gavel, but this one is particularly bad. Judges are the societal bulwarks called to punish people who commit cruel crimes, especially those involving children. Judge James B. Gosnell failed to answer that calling in a major way. Wect covered the initial arrest:
A judge in South Carolina was arrested because he was charged with child sexual abuse material, according to the United States Department of Justice.
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Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about several financial transactions with a distributor of child sexual abuse material from the United Kingdom. The payments came from a peer-to-peer online money transfer account associated with his phone number, address and email account in November 2024…They found a flash drive containing numerous videos and images depicting child sexual abuse, which include videos and images of minors, infants and toddlers engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Child porn allegations aren’t the only time that this judge’s name were on the negative side of headlines:
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