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CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - The Charleston County magistrate judge accused of having sexually explicit material depicting underage children will remain in jail after waiving a scheduled detention hearing.
James B. Gosnell Jr., 68, faces charges of possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the United States Department of Justice. It is not clear how many charges he will face in total.
Gosnell was scheduled to appear before a judge on Monday afternoon to seek bond.
But Monday’s hearing lasted for only about five minutes. Gosnell’s attorney, Lionel Lofton, asked the court for two more days to prepare for a preliminary hearing. The judge said that hearing will be scheduled within the next 10 days.
Federal investigators filed a detailed 18-page motion opposing bond for Gosnell that detailed allegations that Gosnell not only possessed a USB flash drive with hundreds of videos of child sex abuse material, but that they found evidence that Gosnell communicated with another man “with a shared interest in pedophilia,” describing “unimaginably explicit conversations” that suggest the judge was romantically involved with the man and that “their romantic interests involved abusing children together.”
In one of those conversations, prosecutors allege that Gosnell and the other man plan a trip for Gosnell to visit him in Florida for the two to “jointly rape and torture” the infant son of a family member of the other man.
The filing also states that Gosnell’s conversations on the app Telegram “reveal numerous instances in which he raped and abused children.”
Prosecutors say in one conversation, Gosnell described abusing a five-month-old in public in his neighborhood and later sent a selfie of himself and a 2-year-old child with the message, “my new buddy.” Court documents allege that Gosnell claimed to have sexually assaulted the girl two weeks earlier.
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