NEWS- Indecent future: White supremacist charged with kiddie porn

The message on the National Vanguard's voicemail notes the organization's objective: "We want a decent future for white children."

Kevin Strom, founder of the neo-Nazi group dedicated to protecting the rights and racial purity of white people, was indicted on January 3 in federal court in Charlottesville on charges of possession of child pornography and for intimidating a witness.

Two days later, a grayer, jailstripe-clad Strom pleaded not guilty to child porn possession, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years with no parole and a $250,000 fine, and witness tampering, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine. Strom is being held without bond.

According to the indictment, Strom has been into the kiddie porn since at least October 17, 2005, up until August 4, 2006, and kept it in a computer file called "Karen." 

The Southern Poverty Law Center notes that up until Strom's second marriage to Elisha Strom, his personal website "carried a gallery of alluring photos of young girls, many of them scantily dressed, and running to shots of a teenage Brooke Shields atop a horse."

Strom also "physically assaulted and mentally intimidated and otherwise threatened, harassed and intimidated Witness A in an attempt to prevent Witness A" from reporting his "ongoing criminal activity," the indictment declares.

His wife did not appear to be in the courtroom on January 5.

Strom is the ideological disciple of National Alliance founder William Pierce, whose book, The Turner Diaries, inspired Oklahoma City courthouse bomber Timothy McVeigh. In 2005, Strom was ousted from the National Alliance and formed his own faction, the National Vanguard. Strom is often reported as living in Earlysville.

Jerry Cauley Jr. with the National Vanguard's North Carolina chapter declines to comment about Strom's arrest, but denies that child pornography is espoused by the organization. "Anyone who has that value should not be associated with the National Vanguard."

A trial date has not been set.

According to his indictment, Strom has been in possession of child pornography since October 17, 2005.
KEVIN STROM

After entering his plea of not guilty, Strom was escorted out of court and back to jail on January 5.
PHOTO BY WILL WALKER

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