Celtic Fury was able to get his conviction effectively expunged. The comments running around about him failing to register is not quite accurate. He failed to register properly because he did not remove his old address from the county's list that he moved from but apparently had registered in the county he moved to.
Additionally, the mugshot and data sheet being circulated right now is an archived report stored on non-government or police systems. He does not currently appear on any Georgia state sex offender roles and there is no information regarding his case available on-line through any resource that would normally make sex offender information publicly available. The documents of his case were apparently obtained in person by one of his viewers and given to the group of mods who run Nova Broadcasting.
Because of my personal experiences I had a private chat with CF regarding the issue, and the initial case was based on child pornography pictures found on a cd in his computer desk at home after being tipped off by his ex wife. He maintains that she planted the cd and then wiped out his computer before the police served their warrant.
CF maintains that he was out of town at the time, and with no prior knowledge of the warrant would not have been able or inclined to wipe the computer. On the other side, his wife was notified when the warrant would be served because she had filed the complaint, and thus had access to the system with prior knowledge so she knew when to wipe it to further make him look guilty.
He says that he took a plea bargain for a lesser crime based on the advice of his public defender at the time. My understanding is that after a reconstruction of the data on the drive, there was no evidence of downloaded or hidden pictures on the computer itself, just one cd in his desk, which was not destroyed.
Because of my personal experiences, I have some understanding of the pysche of a predator and he was very forthcoming with his answers to all of my questions over the course of a conversation that lasted about 30 minutes. He didn't hesitate or give me any reasons to doubt what he said and I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt in this particular case.
Additionally, I have issues with the blanket comments that question how his ex wife could obtain the images that were found by the police because they are not easily obtainable... It is simply stupid and sexist to say that she had any less access to those kinds of images that he would have.
Big Mex on the other hand... with 2 convictions is simply a scumbag regardless of the age of his victims.