AFA Cadet Charged In Porn Site Investigation
7NEWS Investigates Broke Story With Hidden Camera Interview
POSTED: 7:26 p.m. MDT September 17, 2003
UPDATED: 9:46 p.m. MDT September 17, 2003
DENVER, Colo. -- Charges were filed Wednesday against a senior Air Force Academy cadet who is accused of misusing government computers and software to run a pornography
site on the Internet, 7NEWS reported.
Cadet First Class Sterling Barnes was charged with violating Article 92 -- which is failure to obey a lawful order or regulation.
The academy says he's specifically charged with using government computers to advertise and sell pornography and wrongfully store obscene material.
He's also accused of conduct unbecoming of an officer and for arranging for group-sex sessions.
The story was first reported in an exclusive 7NEWS Investigates hidden camera investigation.
The 23-year-old senior cadet has sent hundreds of e-mails to the Internet groups that he organized, 7NEWS reported.
The sites promote group sex among as many as two dozen men and one woman.
The cadet not only arranged the sessions, but participated in them and appeared in pornographic photos which are posted on the Internet, 7NEWS reported.
An Article 32 hearing is pending. Officials say he could get up to 14 years in confinement.
Previous Stories:
- May 1, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates: AFA Cadet Operating Sex Sites On Campus
- April 9, 2003: AFA Cadets May Face Sex Assault Charges
- March 21, 2003: More Changes Proposed At Air Force Academy
- March 14, 2003: Air Force Has Not Court-Martialed For Cadet-On-Cadet Assaults
- March 11, 2003: Report: Academy Cadets To Be Separated
- March 10, 2003: Bush 'Concerned' About AFA Rape Allegations
- March 6, 2003: Air Force Secretary: 54 Cases Of Rape, Assault, At AFA
- March 6, 2003: More AFA Victims Come Forward As Roche Speaks To Cadets
- March 1, 2003: Air Force Family Betrayed After Daughter's Rape
- February 26, 2003: Senators, Chairman Call For Independent AFA Rape Investigation
- February 25, 2003: 3 Senators Ask For Independent Investigation Of AFA Rapes
- February 24, 2003: Air Force Opens Phone Line For Academy Rape Victims
- February 17, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates: Victims Of Academy Rapes Speak Up, Punished
- February 13, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates: Honor, Code, Betrayal At Air Force Academy
- February 11, 2003: 7NEWS Investigates Alleged Rapes At Air Force Academy
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