© KAITFormer youth pastor Tony Waller
According to KAIT, an affidavit filed in Jonesboro District Court on Wednesday alleged that 39-year-old First Assembly of God Pastor Tony Waller "had tens of thousands" of photos and videos of "nude or scantily clad pubescent girls" on a laptop that he shared with his wife, Angela.
Waller's wife told detectives that she was searching for a file when she came across a folder that she did not recognize. The folder contained "thousands of images of prepubescent girls either completely nude or scantily clad," the affidavit said.
When he was confronted by his wife, she said that he admitted having a child pornography addiction for more than 20 years.
Comment: It's called pedophilia (not child porn addiction) and it's not curable.
The laptop and two hard drives were turned over to police, who arrested Waller.
Senior Pastor Matt Smith told KAIT that Waller was fired as soon as the allegations came to light. He had worked at the church since 1999.
"First of all to the best of our understanding, the allegations against Mr. Waller don't involve anything with our church as far as we know," Smith said. "I encourage the church to handle this with three prongs of love: focus on loving each other as a church family, show tremendous of love to his family and continue to love him."
Comment: Are you kidding? Churches and religious institutions are a haven for pedophiles. It's one of their favorite places to hunt for children. That sort of 'encouragement' is one of the biggest things that allows pedophiles to get away with what they do.
Waller was released on $2,500 bond. A court appearance was scheduled for June 29.
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In reference to the comments in the article from SOTT, paedophilia is a "sexual interest in prepubesecent children" not as is commonly ascribed, a sexual interest in teenagers. You can be a paedophile and not look at or be addicted to child porn. You can be sexually attracted to teenagers and not look at child porn. It really is a very rudimentary understanding of human consciousness that you seem to have that you put people all into the "good" camp and the "psychopath" camp without actually even beginning to try to understand why people do these things. Perhaps its becuase I've spent the past 15 years trying to understand my own mind, dealing with the consequences of having aspergers syndrome, ADHD and having been abused as a child and raped as a teenager, that I've faced a huge battle with intrusive sexual thoughts, and tried hard not to end up allowing these things to become pathological. Because THAT is how a psychopath is born, when you become disconnected from your heart, your spirit, your conscience, and are guided purely out of you ego driven subconscious desires, be they for power or money, or for sex. But every single time, you look into the past of people who committed crimes, became psychopathic, and there you will usually find some form of childhood trauma or another. So stop with the judgment and perhaps think about how we can stop these things from happening in the first place in the childhoods of these people.