Pennsylvanian Pedophile Aidan Harding accused of possessing child sexual assault material holds ‘extremist worldview,’ according to authorities.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Federal prosecutors assert that an individual from the Pittsburgh region, accused with possessing child sexual abuse material, also directed antisemitic fliers at the city’s Jewish community and had previously expressed a desire to execute a “high kill-count” attack.
On Wednesday, the U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh said that it effectively contested bail for Aidan Harding, 20, during a hearing earlier this month. Harding was charged with one count of possessing pornographic material, in the form of movies and photographs, involving minors under the age of 12.
His attorneys contended that Aidan Harding poses no flight danger, asserting that he has been in the Pittsburgh area his entire life and is employed at a family farm. In a document dated February 12, they stated that Harding is alleged to possess child sexual abuse material on his phone, but not to have produced such material or attempted to engage with a child.
Prosecutors assert that Aidan Harding adheres to a “racially-motivated violent extremist ideology” and possesses over 20 firearms. It is reported that Harding had previously been assessed as delinquent for making terroristic threats after expressing online his desire to execute a “high kill-count” strike.
To the degree that the government depends on claims… that the Defendant subscribes to a violent racist ideology or has accessed Internet sites linked to racially or ethnically motivated extremism, it may be reprehensible but it is not criminal’, stated attorneys Chris Capozzi and Casey Mullen in a legal filing. It was said that Aidan Harding’s firearms are legally possessed. Mullen refrained from providing a response on Wednesday.
Magistrate Judge Christopher B. Brown mandated that Aidan Harding remain in custody until trial, and the telephone system of Butler County Prison confirmed his incarceration there as of Wednesday afternoon.
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