I originally posted about 33-year-old Daniel Wayne Benner of Orangeville, California here. Back in 2019, Benner was arrested for possessing child porn that he had traded on the mobile messaging app Kik. You remember Kik, don’t you? It’s the preferred app of sex offenders, pedophiles, child porn collectors, and child traffickers. Anyway, while using the screen name of ‘hornylonely2005’, police found child porn on Benner’s phone in a folder marked ‘young’.
Benner owned a costume of Rainbow Dash from the My Little Pony cartoon, claiming that he and a few friends were going to have a company where cartoon characters would show up at kids’ birthday parties. Here’s how one of the ads read…
“Rainbow Dash is looking to come to you for your birthday party she brings candy with her and loves to get hugs and loves posing for pictures contact me for quotes,”
The business was never able to find any customers, for some reason.
Previously, I stated that there was no evidence that Benner was a Brony. However, the Fresno Bee reported that court documents state that Benner had an ‘affinity’ for Rainbow Dash. I wonder how many jars investigators found in the house. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, consider yourself lucky. Don’t Google it either, you’ll be much better off.
To complete the stereotype, Benner had a previous 2006 conviction for oral copulation with a person under 18, but that conviction was dismissed in 2012 after he petitioned the court.
Anyway, this past Monday, Benner pleaded guilty to federal child porn charges. He could be sentenced to 20 years in federal prison when he is sentenced on October 25th. I’m guessing they don’t allow MLP body pillows in federal prison. Or maybe he’ll become someone else’s body pillow.
All jokes aside, trading child porn is a serious offense. The children in the images were already violated by whoever took the pictures. To share them is to perpetuate the abuse they suffered at the hands of their assaulter.
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