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Son of Yardbirds Drummer Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges
- Posted on Jan 11th 2012 2:00PM by Theo Spielberg
Simon Jasper McCarty, son of Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty, has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. He faces 15 to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced in June. McCarty is himself a musician as well, and ran a foundation providing musical lessons and concerts for orphans in other countries.
McCarty was first apprehended in 2008 at the Hilo airport in Hawaii when photos of nude children fell out of his bag while a TSA officer examined it. Further investigation uncovered more than 400 still images and 200 video clips of child pornography stored on his laptop and external hard drive.
McCarty admitted to having sexual relations with three children aged 11, 10 and 6. Two of the victims were from the U.K. and the third was from Nepal.
"All the production did happen outside the U.S. -- the U.K. and other places," his defense attorney William Harrison said. "The problem is you can't under U.S. law actually bring or transport those photographs and/or videos into the U.S. and possess them."
His attorney also had the gaul to deliver the non-defense that the encounters "were all consensual, although at that age you can't consent to it," and that, "There was nothing that was any type of physical type of duress."
Yardbird Jim McCarty gave no comment on his son's plea.
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McCarty was first apprehended in 2008 at the Hilo airport in Hawaii when photos of nude children fell out of his bag while a TSA officer examined it. Further investigation uncovered more than 400 still images and 200 video clips of child pornography stored on his laptop and external hard drive.
McCarty admitted to having sexual relations with three children aged 11, 10 and 6. Two of the victims were from the U.K. and the third was from Nepal.
"All the production did happen outside the U.S. -- the U.K. and other places," his defense attorney William Harrison said. "The problem is you can't under U.S. law actually bring or transport those photographs and/or videos into the U.S. and possess them."
His attorney also had the gaul to deliver the non-defense that the encounters "were all consensual, although at that age you can't consent to it," and that, "There was nothing that was any type of physical type of duress."
Yardbird Jim McCarty gave no comment on his son's plea.
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It's "gall" darling.
January 12 2012 at 10:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe author needs a dictionary. Gaul is an area of the ancient Roman empire, celtic people
January 12 2012 at 10:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyUGH, WHAT A CREEP
January 12 2012 at 10:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTheo Spielberg - take notice - I'm not the only one who noticed. GALL. Not Gaul. It's not so much the bad grammar that bugs me about the misspelling - it's the ignorance of history it suggests...
January 12 2012 at 9:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySon...SIMON should have stuck to beating the drums; like his father, instead of the other skins.
If he was not the son of Jim McCarty; this article would not have even been posted here and he would have been just another pedophile like all the other sick bastards that are taking over this earth.
The gall of this guy. Was he from the Roman province of Gaul?
January 12 2012 at 9:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDude is sic, the ages 10 11 and 6! Brought tears to my eyes, this is sic castrate him and shove it down his throat, these are innocent inocent babies.. Sic Sic sic...
January 12 2012 at 9:32 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyHis lawyer said consensual sex. And the scum of the earth has been licensed to protect this pervert.
January 12 2012 at 9:32 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply
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