{"id":133529,"date":"2025-09-18T15:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/18\/dylann-roofs-judge-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-and-denied-bond\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:26:29","slug":"dylann-roofs-judge-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-and-denied-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/18\/dylann-roofs-judge-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-and-denied-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylann Roof\u2019s Judge Arrested On Child Porn Charges And Denied Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is usually a sad day when judges find themselves on the other side of the gavel, but this one is particularly bad. Judges are the societal bulwarks called to punish people who commit cruel crimes, especially those involving children. Judge James B. Gosnell failed to answer that calling in a major way. Wect<\/a> covered the initial arrest:<\/p>\n

A judge in South Carolina was arrested because he was charged with child sexual abuse material, according to the United States Department of Justice.
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Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about several financial transactions with a distributor of child sexual abuse material from the United Kingdom. The payments came from a peer-to-peer online money transfer account associated with his phone number, address and email account in November 2024\u2026They found a flash drive containing numerous videos and images depicting child sexual abuse, which include videos and images of minors, infants and toddlers engaged in sexually explicit conduct.<\/p>\n

Child porn allegations aren\u2019t the only time that this judge\u2019s name were on the negative side of headlines:<\/p>\n

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Judge James Gosnell, the magistrate in Dylann Roof’s bond hearing today, was reprimanded for racist remarks in court. pic.twitter.com\/GuRNLbuQay<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dr. Seema Yasmin is barely on here (@DoctorYasmin) June 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

That might fly as a famous Chris Rock bit from the 90s<\/a>, but that\u2019s hardly the language you\u2019d expect of a robed judge in court.<\/p>\n

Judge Gosnell made a move to be released on bond. While it is reasonable to think that a couple of the people put behind bars wouldn\u2019t take too kindly to shacking up with the judge that put them there, the awkward roommate defense only goes so far. Live 5 News<\/a> covered how it went for him:<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors requested that bond be denied. The bond court judge addressed the safety concerns, saying the Marshal\u2019s Office and Charleston County Sheriff\u2019s detention officers will keep Gosnell in appropriate quarters. But she set a detention hearing for Monday afternoon and ordered Gosnell to remain in custody until then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Things may change come Monday. Till then, he\u2019ll have a lot of time to think about the gravity of what he\u2019s been accused of.<\/p>\n

Judge Arrested After Being Accused Of Buying Child Sex Abuse Material From The UK, DOJ Says<\/a> [WECT]<\/p>\n

Judge Denies Bond For Charleston County Magistrate Facing Child Porn Charge<\/a> [Live 5 News]<\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Dylann Roof\u2019s Judge Arrested On Child Porn Charges And Denied Bond<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is usually a sad day when judges find themselves on the other side of the gavel, but this one is particularly bad. Judges are the societal bulwarks called to punish people who commit cruel crimes, especially those involving children. Judge James B. Gosnell failed to answer that calling in a major way. Wect<\/a> covered the initial arrest:<\/p>\n

A judge in South Carolina was arrested because he was charged with child sexual abuse material, according to the United States Department of Justice.
\u2026
Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about several financial transactions with a distributor of child sexual abuse material from the United Kingdom. The payments came from a peer-to-peer online money transfer account associated with his phone number, address and email account in November 2024\u2026They found a flash drive containing numerous videos and images depicting child sexual abuse, which include videos and images of minors, infants and toddlers engaged in sexually explicit conduct.<\/p>\n

Child porn allegations aren\u2019t the only time that this judge\u2019s name were on the negative side of headlines:<\/p>\n

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Judge James Gosnell, the magistrate in Dylann Roof’s bond hearing today, was reprimanded for racist remarks in court. pic.twitter.com\/GuRNLbuQay<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dr. Seema Yasmin is barely on here (@DoctorYasmin) June 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

That might fly as a famous Chris Rock bit from the 90s<\/a>, but that\u2019s hardly the language you\u2019d expect of a robed judge in court.<\/p>\n

Judge Gosnell made a move to be released on bond. While it is reasonable to think that a couple of the people put behind bars wouldn\u2019t take too kindly to shacking up with the judge that put them there, the awkward roommate defense only goes so far. Live 5 News<\/a> covered how it went for him:<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors requested that bond be denied. The bond court judge addressed the safety concerns, saying the Marshal\u2019s Office and Charleston County Sheriff\u2019s detention officers will keep Gosnell in appropriate quarters. But she set a detention hearing for Monday afternoon and ordered Gosnell to remain in custody until then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Things may change come Monday. Till then, he\u2019ll have a lot of time to think about the gravity of what he\u2019s been accused of.<\/p>\n

Judge Arrested After Being Accused Of Buying Child Sex Abuse Material From The UK, DOJ Says<\/a> [WECT]<\/p>\n

Judge Denies Bond For Charleston County Magistrate Facing Child Porn Charge<\/a> [Live 5 News]<\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Dylann Roof\u2019s Judge Arrested On Child Porn Charges And Denied Bond<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is usually a sad day when judges find themselves on the other side of the gavel, but this one is particularly bad. Judges are the societal bulwarks called to punish people who commit cruel crimes, especially those involving children. Judge James B. Gosnell failed to answer that calling in a major way. Wect covered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chris-Williams-2025-NrfZkj.jpg?fit=512%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}