A Rankin County grand jury indicted Tyler Swaggerd for two counts of exploitation of a child. Flowood police arrested Tyler Swaggard in December after several complaints were made by youth members of the church.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gray/ZNVMZJSGRVHFRHACARPICTBT4A.jpg)
The indictment states Swaggard:
between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2021.... did willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly send, transport, transmit, or receive photographs using his computer of actual children engaging in sexually explicit conduct to wit: on an iPhone belonging to the defendant in violation of....
and, based upon a series of acts connected together and constituting parts of a scheme or plan,..... between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2021..... willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly send, transport, transmit, or receive photographs using his computer of actual children engaging in sexually explicit conduct to wit: on a Dropbox account belonging to the Defendant, in violation.....
His bond was set at $125,000.
It appears the defendant was posting something online.
Attorney Andrew Stewart represents the defendant. The case is assigned to Circuit Judge Steve Ratcliff.
30 comments:
he's toast
See a pattern? Boy scout leaders? Youth ministers? Target rich environment for child molesters, but they are free baby sitters, right?
You steal you lose a hand. You molest you lose...
I used to go to Pinelake-not a lot of god to say about it.
Geez that looks like the twitter timeline of someone who got hacked and didn't know about it.
(Not saying he did or didn't....never heard of this person.)
Pinelake? Chip will summon Hugh Freezus to come lay hands on Swaggard and heal him.
It looks to me like he was dealing in child porn online, not creating it. Now he's been indicted for it. If found guilty, he will go to prison for it. Like I said before, he's toast.
Innocent until proven guilty?
I agree with the above comment, it looks like he was hacked??
This comment has not been removed by a blog administrator.
I don't think this perv can be fixed. But he sure can be dealt with.
The youth of today are so disgustingly insufferable that I find it difficult to believe anyone who ISN’T grooming them could even tolerate them! I was a 90s teen and as obnoxious and stupid as I was, today’s teens act like literal whores on TikTok and Instagram, while talking like they have an IQ of 65.
The Twitter posts don't add up for me. It's hard to fathom that someone with enough intellectual ability to obtain gainful employment as a youth minister at Pinelake would be dumb enough to post messages like that on a Twitter account associated with their actual name. Seems fishy.
It’s always the religious types. I bet he even found some Bible passages to support his views.
"Swag" as the kids called him, was posing as a female and getting kids to share naked photos with him. No one knew it was him. Once kids started getting suspicious, they notified the leaders of the church and the church turned it over to police. Immediately. While you can't weed all the sickos out, Pinelake does have a very thorough system of background checks and other processes people must go through before they can be anywhere around children. The church was very transparent about this with the youth, the parents and anyone involved and did all they could to hold him responsible.
Where there’s smoke? Why is this young man involved? Just saying, this fool did something!
Don’t diss Pinelake. It could or may be happening by/to anyone associated with a church. Background clearances prior to working with children or youth groups are standard requirements.
You can’t talk about how great Pinelake’s background check system is on this thread. Sure, maybe they did a good job snuffing it out while it was occurring but don’t start bragging on the background check. Clear Miss.
Define background check. What does it consist of and be specific. It is so easy to say "we did a 'background check'" and everyone gets warm and fuzzy.
Most of them are a joke.
I have never set foot on Pinelake property, but using the "logic" of Pinelake's critics, all public and private schools are havens of perverted teachers. There are a whole lot more occurrences of perverted teachers than of perverted church workers.
Pinelake learned of this infraction and dealt with it. No cover up here. No complicity.
5:04 - this is not the time to flex on how good their background checks and processes are.
The Lakers are not going to the finals this year
It's really ignoring when people defend a broken system.
Great background checks, hacked, pervs other places. Excuse, excuse, excuse.....
It could happen to any institution, quit making excuses/explanations and move on and learn from your mistake. The end. We all make mistakes
This looks really odd to me. Only ten tweets on his whole account and all were pr0n related? That just doesn't make sense.
Paul Mitchell - If he dressed and talked as if he were a woman, whatchu reckon he had multiple accounts? Use your head for something other than a hat-rack...as my dad used to say.
10:32 and used his actual name for the iffy account?
I know why your dad said that to you.
Anonymous said...
It’s always the religious types. I bet he even found some Bible passages to support his views.
July 12, 2022 at 4:27 PM
No, It's not "always" the religious types. Sadly there are way more of these sickos that you can shake a stick at from every.single.walk.of.life.
Looking at his Facebook profile, it appears that he was set up by his “friends”. He’s definitely the fall guy for these alleged crimes looking at the pictures in his page.
Nothing will happen to him in prison. The correction facilities in MS protect them. Keep them in secure areas not in general population unfortunately.
This whole thing is disgusting. A pervert working in a church and the kids were pretty stupid for sharing naked pictures of themselves (regardless of who they thought they were sharing them with).
You people make me sick. Defending the indefensible. You are of the same ilk as those in the sixties who clutched their pearls and said, "No way the deacon at my church would be trying to butt-fark little boys in a tent on camping trips...He's a deacon!"
Post a Comment