by Et in Arcadia ego » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:47 pm
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-mayor25.html">www.suntimes.com/output/n...yor25.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Thomas Adams, longtime Green Oaks mayor and former chairman of the Lake County Republican Central Committee, was charged Monday with possession and distribution of child pornography.<br><br>Adams, 67, faces 11 counts of disseminating child pornography and two counts of possession. Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti set his bond at $100,000.<br><br>Prosecutor Patricia Fix said sheriff's and state's attorney's investigators first received tips on Adams' alleged illegal activities in March 2005. Adams allegedly sent child pornography, via attachments to e-mail, to undercover police in Clearwater, Fla.<br><br>The alleged pornography includes both still images and at least one explicit movie of a boy masturbating, Fix said.<br><br>Several phony names were used in his alleged pornography trading, she said, but all were tracked back to Adams' home in the 800 block of Anderson Drive in Green Oaks.<br><br>After being taken into custody, Adams acknowledged that all of the screen names were his and that no one else used his computer, Fix said, adding that Adams admitted he had "<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>a problem with addiction.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->"<br><br>Defense attorney Thomas Briscoe argued for a minimal bond, saying Adams "<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>has no criminal record, and these are all images, there are no live victims.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->" Briscoe added that Adams "has been involved with public service most of his life."<br><br>Sun-Times News Group<br><br> <p>____________________<br>hugh manatee wins: "This is called "mutual exclusivity." A dog is not a horse. Simple."<br></p><i></i>
