Kentucky principal who banned LGBT books arrested for child pornography

This is...certainly something:

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Philip Todd Wilson, 54, was busted Tuesday after state troopers received a tip that he was in possession of explicit images involving a minor, and possibly distributing the revolting photos, Kentucky State Police announced. Wilson, principal of the Clark County Area Technology Center in Winchester, was later hit with 15 counts each of distributing and possessing child porn, police said. He is no longer employed by the school, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Education told the Louisville Courier-Journal. In 2009, Wilson was the principal of another school in Kentucky when parents complained about several young-adult novels taught alongside classics like “The Canterbury Tales” and “Beowulf,” claiming risqué topics like sex, child abuse, suicide and drug use were unsuitable for some sophomore and senior students, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. The books that reportedly were challenged included “Twisted” by Laurie Halse Anderson, and “Lessons from a Dead Girl” by Jo Knowles, who couldn’t stop herself from noting the irony of the accusations now facing Wilson. Wilson successfully fought to ban Knowles’ work at Montgomery County High School for “homosexual and other inappropriate content,” she said. Putting her take bluntly, Knowles added: “As I said to some friends last night when I got the news, ‘You can’t make this sh-t up.’”

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