Charles Rust-Tierney
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Charles Rust-Tierney is a youth sports coach and former president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU from 2002 to 2005. Tierney also performed a role under Volunteers in Service to America for the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. Tierney has been an advocate for unrestricted use of the Internet in public libraries. On February 23, 2007, Tierney was arrested for possession of violent child pornography. Charles Tierney is currently a member of the Virginia ACLU Board of Directors and is a faculty member at the Benchmark Institute (an institution centering on social justice and "fostering change to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population").
[edit] Child pornography scandal
Rust-Tierney was arrested for possession of child pornography on February 23, 2007. While Rust-Tierney has been involved with coaching youth activities in Virginia, federal investigators tracked the use of Tierney's credit card and website pornography habits over a period of several years. According to police reports, Tierney is an avid consumer of pornographic films involving the violent rape of pre-teens - one video in his collection is a recording of the brutal forcible gang rape of three prepubescent Tibetan girls, who could be seen to weep in the videos while restrained with ropes.
Mr. Tierney's preliminary trial was held on Wednesday February 28, 2007, at an United States District Court in Alexandria. He was formally accused of receiving and possessing child pornography, and investigators offered evidence obtained as a result of searching his home. Investigators claim Rust-Tierney had video showing, among other things, the sexual torture of infants and toddlers. The judge overseeing the case said she’d never heard of child pornography that vile and said because of that, Rust-Tierney would stay behind bars until his trial.
Prior to this, Mr. Tierney had argued in court to allow unrestricted access to the Internet, including pornography, in public libraries.
