Kevin Alfred Strom: Difference between revisions

'''Kevin Alfred Strom''' (born August 17, 1956) is an American [[white nationalist]] and [[neo-Nazi]] from [[Virginia]] who founded the [[National Vanguard (American organization)|National Vanguard]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cronk |first1=Nicholas |title=Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780191512759 |pages=122 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klkjDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Kevin+Alfred+Strom%22+holocaust&pg=PA122 |language=en}}</ref> In 20092008, Strom pleaded guilty to one count of possession of [[child pornography]].<ref name="C-Ville Weekly"/><ref name="DailyProgress22"/>

| url=https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/greene-man-guilty-of-child-porn/article_fa3572c0-b9ba-56d3-b761-d9d771ca7d4f.html | title=Greene man guilty of child porn | last=Seal | first=Rob | work=[[The Daily Progress]] | date =January 15, 2008}}</ref><ref name="C-Ville Weekly">{{Cite news | url=https://www.c-ville.com/Strom_pleads_guilty_to_child_porn/ |title=Strom pleads guilty to child porn | last=Whitehead | first=Jayson | website=[[C-Ville Weekly]] | date=January 15, 2008}}</ref><ref name="DailyProgress22">{{cite news|url=http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/crime/article/white_nationalist_sentenced_in_child_porn_case/20639/s|title=White nationalist sentenced in child porn case|last=Tasha|first=Kates|date=April 21, 2008|access-date=April 23, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425055907/http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/crime/article/white_nationalist_sentenced_in_child_porn_case/20639/s|archive-date=April 25, 2009|url-status=dead | publisher=[[The Daily Progress]]}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbc29.com/story/8202320/strom-sentenced|title=Strom Sentenced|date=April 21, 2008|website=nbc29|access-date=April 21, 2019|archive-date=April 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421021525/https://www.nbc29.com/story/8202320/strom-sentenced|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was sentenced to 23 months in prison in April 2008.<ref name="DailyProgress22" /><ref name="hook">{{Cite news | url=http://www.readthehook.com/75966/i-am-not-pedophile-strom-gets-23-months | title="I am not a pedophile": Strom gets 23 months | last=Provence | first=Lisa | date=April 21, 2008 | website=The Hook | access-date=April 21, 2019 | archive-date=June 10, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610170027/http://www.readthehook.com/75966/i-am-not-pedophile-strom-gets-23-months | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Strom told the court before being sentenced that he was "not a pedophile" and was "in fact the precise opposite of what has been characterized in this case",<ref name="DailyProgress22" /> saying he had been "unwillingly" possessing 10 images of child pornography and that those came from an online forum he had visited which had been "flooded with spam", which included "sleazy, tragic" pictures of children that he deleted. The judge of the case responded: "Mr. Strom, you pled guilty to charges that now you're saying you're innocent. I prefer people plead not guilty than put it on me".<ref name=hook/> Strom was released from prison on September 3, 2008.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.readthehook.com/74679/neighborhood-watch-kiddie-porn-possessor-be-released | title=Neighborhood watch: Kiddie porn possessor to be released | publisher=[[The Hook (newspaper)|The Hook]] | date=September 2, 2008}}</ref>