GOP mayor arrested on kiddie porn charges

The mysterious Cipher directed me to a Brad Blog story about an Illinois mayor who was just arrested for distributing child pornography over the Internet. It's been a big year for busts of this sort-- and they always wind up being conservative politicos.

Ripples of shock spread from the little Village of Green Oaks, IL, through the Illinois political establishment on Monday as the news spread: Mayor Tom Adams, age 68, had been arrested at his home on Anderson Drive, and charged with distributing kiddie porn over the internet.

If convicted, Tom Adams could face 15 years in prison for each person who received child porn from him via the web.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Adams was being held on $100,000 bail. The charges against Mayor Adams were over a year in the making, according to the Tribune.

Adams used multiple screen names to send the child porn, and he was first snagged when in 2005 he sent several images of child pornography to an undercover police officer in Florida.

Tom Adams told authorities he was addicted to child pornography.

He was mayor of a town with less than 4,000 people, but Tom Adams had some pull in Illinois politics.

Isn't it accepted that people are never cured of that sort of thing? The post provides examples of Adams' political connections, and it's hard to imagine another explanation for letting him continue unchecked after having the goods on him for more than a year. As the Tribune article makes clear, he was still in possession of child porn when they raided his home yesterday.