A Takoma Park, Maryland elementary school librarian who already faced hate crime and vandalism charges after confessing to two June 2022 incidents in which he spray-painted “groomer” on the front doors of area public libraries over their support of LGBT Pride Month has been arrested again on charges of possession of child pornography after admitting he had images on his computer during a search of his residence following the “groomer” incidents, the Washington Post reports.
Charles Sutherland, 31, “made several comments expressing his disdain for the LGBTQ Community and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System while expressing no remorse for what he did,” according to a law enforcement report on the June 2022 vandalism and in 2021 had written a letter to a local public library system asking “humbly to reconsider celebrating pride month next year. Or at least refrain from making pride displays for small children… because, typically, they are too young to understand vital parts of sexuality, like the sex act, the differences between sexes.”
After the spray-painting incident, cops searched Sutherland’s home and found “numerous diapers, children’s dolls, and a child sized doll,” in his bed despite having no children, nieces, or nephews. “Sutherland also stated he had images consistent with child pornography on a laptop in his residence,” police wrote in the anti-groomer patriot’s charging document. #SaveTheChildren.