The first radio talkshow host I listened to about religion was KGO’s Bernie Ward (in the mid eighties).
He’s been arrested for child porn.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The ABC7 I-Team has the inside story of what lead up to the arrest of popular talk-radio host, Bernie Ward, on federal child pornography charges. It’s an investigation you’ll see Only On 7. We warn you that some of the information is graphic.
Bernie Ward got indicted in December and got fired from his job at KGO Radio, effective at the end of last year. Now, police reports just obtained by the I-Team tell us who blew the whistle on Ward, and how he came to send the woman child porn, by his own admission.
The case against Bernie Ward began with a phone call to the Oakdale Police Department, just outside Modesto.
"We received a report from a local resident of Oakdale that she had gotten an e-mail message and pornographic material involving juveniles," says Chief Marty West with the Oakdale Police Department.
The woman gave police the photographs and a transcript of her online conversation with Bernie Ward.
It’s Christmas week, three years ago. Ward’s on his home computer using the screen name "Vincentlio." He begins the chat with "Good afternoon, mistress." The woman using the name "Sexfairy" answers, "How was your day, slave?" In explicit detail, Ward describes being humiliated sexually. At one point, he asks, "Are you going to make me feel dirty, mistress?" "Sexfairy" answers, "Yes, I am."
Ward discusses group sex he had at an infamous porn theater in San Mateo. Then, nearly an hour into the conversation, he brings up photographs, "I love trading pictures."
A source says: "The scuttle is that Senator Barbara Boxer had someone try to stop the investigation of Bernie Ward, the liberal talk show guy who’s been arrested on child porn. Check out Michael Savage’s reports."
