More from Baltimore Sun: GOP Activist Pleads Guilty to Child Porn
By Allison Klein
The Baltimore Sun
Thursday, April 24, 2003
A prominent Republican fund-raiser who once said President Clinton was "a lawbreaker and a terrible example to our nation's young people" pleaded guilty Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court to production of child pornography.
Richard Anthony Delgaudio, who was sentenced to two years' probation, admitted taking lewd photographs of a 16-year old-girl he met in East Baltimore's Patterson Park in 2001. In some of the photos, he was engaged in sex with her, court records show.
Delgaudio, 50, of Burke, Va., is a frequent talk-radio guest and national figure in conservative politics. He is president of the Legal Affairs Council, a group that helped pay the legal bills of former Reagan administration officials Oliver North and Caspar Weinberger after they were charged in connection with the Iran-contra affair.
In his pornography case, there was additional evidence that Delgaudio took erotic images of at least one other, younger teenager, but that evidence was not admissible in court because police improperly stopped and searched Delgaudio, a judge ruled.
Largely because of that, prosecutor Adam Rosenberg offered Delgaudio a plea agreement, rather than taking the case to a jury.
Delgaudio refused to comment about the case. |
