Who is Sexfairy … and who she isn’t

I spoke to the woman known as “Sexfairy” last night. Linda Figueiredo turned in former KGO Radio host Bernie Ward for child porn. (She doesn’t live at the address in Oakdale noted on the police report any longer – good thing, because the unredacted report’s been posted on-line elsewhere. Given the national interest in the story, who knows what sort of attention she would have received.) Figueiredo is a thirty-three-year-old mother of three who told police in December 2004 that she sometimes logs onto the internet to discuss sex, using e-mail and live chats. Last night, Figueiredo declined my request for an interview, saying she’s been directed not to talk until the case wraps up.

From the transcript of the first chat session contained in the police report, it’s clear Ward and Figueiredo already had a relationship – he calls her “mistress”, she calls him “slave”. Ward looks to Figueiredo for approval and direction. (Ward’s lawyers argue he was role-playing as part of research for a book.) From the transcript, it’s Ward who brings up the issue of pictures, and he does so after nearly an hour of discussion about his own desires, fantasies and experiences. Ward uses the screen name “Vincentlio”: "I love trading pictures." Figueiredo as “Sexfairy” answers, "And why haven't I gotten any pics, slave? Send me some."

Ward sends several pictures – one of a woman and two children. Ward describes her as a mother in her late thirties, she's topless. He says the naked boy is 14, that the girl wearing clothes is 12. They're all touching in a sexual way. "Sexfairy" writes, "brb" – be right back. A half hour later, she's on the phone with police.

Now, Linda Figueiredo might not be talking, but her estranged husband told me an FBI agent came by their out-of-state home last summer, to confirm Linda would have to testify if the case went to trial. Chris Figueiredo said Linda’s experience with Ward and the child porn “scared us. I don’t know how people can sit on the internet and do what he did.” Chris Figueiredo told me after Linda contacted police (they told her to keep in contact with Ward, to help build the case), she received more child pornography from Ward.

Ward was a priest for less than two years in the 1970’s. Given the accusations against him, we were curious why he left the church. Ward was ordained into the Society of the Precious Blood’s Pacific Province, based at Santa Rosa’s Cardinal Newman High School at the time. I received an e-mail today from the Society of the Precious Blood’s headquarters in Dayton, Ohio:

“Less than two years after his ordination September 10, 1977 with the Society of the Precious Blood, Province of the Pacific, Bernard Ward came to the conclusion that he was spiritually and vocationally ill-prepared for the demands of priesthood and unwilling to accept those responsibilities. He also identified that he was not called to sacramental ministry in the church. He requested to be released from the Society of the Precious Blood. The Society of the Precious Blood granted his request. Mr. Ward married in 1981. While Mr. Ward struggled with authority in the Province, there is no record nor indication of inappropriate behavior with minors nor other adults. The Society of the Precious Blood, Province of the Pacific was suppressed as a province in 2006 due to lack of members.”

Some people from across the country criticized us for not identifying Ward as a liberal. Two points – viewers in the Bay Area know Ward and his political beliefs. It’s unnecessary to label him. Secondly, his political viewpoints are not relevant to the charges against him.

A few people who posted comments on the I-Team page apparently ran a search on Linda Figueiredo’s name, and came up with a writer/producer from television and film. That’s not the same person involved in this case.

As for his future at KGO Radio, it’s not looking good. General Manager Mickey Luckoff was quick to get on the phone with me in January to say he wanted Bernie back on the air as soon as possible. Now, Luckoff’s not returning my calls.

By the way, Bernie Ward’s friends and fans started a website when he was indicted in December, to support him and to raise money for his defense. Shortly after our investigation aired last week, most of the site was taken down. Now, it’s completely off-line.

Comments

[Wyatt Burp]

Re; Attitude, Sorry forgeting to mention something about Marv Albert. I think he's a great guy, too. OK, feel better? Bernie ward implicates his real daughter in his twisted sex fantasies and you make some retarded connection about O'Rielly and his daughter just cause the chick he talked to is in the same age bracket as her? Whew! And Limbaugh is still in the catagory of Bernie Warped 'cause he might of crossed a double yellow line under the influence of OxCoten (I like your spelling of that word better than mine. Guess you got it off you prescription bottle) and killed a mother, her daughter,her crippled son, her nephew Billy and the family dog, Sheba? Man, these guys are as bad as Bernie because of what they might of done? By the way, all college classrooms should have bowls of OxyCoten like M&M's for the students to gobble up if it'll make 'em think as clearly as Rush! Soggy cucumber dittos, buddy! Yours truly, Bern... I mean Wyatt Burp

[Wyatt Burp]

Re; Attitude, Sorry for forgeting to mention Marv Albert. He's a swell guy,too. OK, is that better? Bernie Warped has real fantasies involving his REAL teanage daughter and you make the retarded connection about O'Reilly 'cause the chick he talked to was in the same general age bracket as his daughter, so he's a pedaphile, too, kinda, by proxie, or whatever? Whew! And since Limbaugh could have crossed a double yellow line and killed a mother, her two daughters, her crippled nephew Billy, and the family dog while on OxyCoten (You spelled it better. Probably got it off your prescription bottle)that he's in the same catagory as Bernie who really did this sick s--t? Wow. By the way. All college classrooms should have bowls of OxyCoten like M&M's for the students to gobble up if it would make 'em think as clear as Rush. Soggy cucumber dittos, Buddy! Your's truly, Ber... I mean Wyatt Burp

[AttiDude]

Re: Wyatt Burp. There's another hemisphere in the brain where logic, reason, and problem-solving exists. You've got the irrational nutcake side down pat. Your attempt to defend deviant behavior along political lines is the same moral relativism the liberal apologists for Bernie Ward are dumping on the public. Saying YOUR sex offender isn't as bad as THEIR sex offender is to not only condone some criminal offenses, but make the BW klan's rhetoric more effective. As in: You protect your sleazy talk show scum the same way we protect ours. You have not yet figured out that ALL PERVERTS ARE BAD. Right? O'Reilly's sex harassment may seem fun to you, but not to his victim. Rush didn't kill somebody while on drugs because he was caught. The radio and tv industry coddles these scum. Panders to them. Looks the other way, as long they keep the ratings in the top 5. You do prove one thing Burp -- that SOME conservative talk show fans are denser than a box of detoxed shock jocks.

[Wyatt Burp]

Re: AttiDude, what makes you think I'm an O'Reilly fan? I happen to think he purposely triagulates above the political fray sometimes just to satisfy his own ego by trying to look smarter than the people he's critisizing at the moment. Did you say above Bernie Ward was YOUR talk show scum when you talked about protecting these guys? I'm still not going to put O'Reilly in the same catagory as your fat pedaphile hero Bernie. You can try to minimize his perverted antics by trying to ellevate other people's actions (who you coincidentily disagree with politically) But I ain't buyin' it. And I don't think people who are hooked on prescription drugs are "scum". Matthew Perry in't scum. Chevy Case is a political retard but he isn't scum. But you would consider these two guys scum if you disagreed with them politically or if it could somehow take the focus off Bernie. I might rag on bernie alot here but I've never said he, or Marv Albert for that matter should be off the air. You know Bernie's goose is cooked and you want to try to drag others down with him. You're using this forum to attempt to silence O'reilly and Limbaugh. And you're trying to use a bulls--t moral stance to pull it off. By the way, sorry for calling you a d--khead earlier. I might have to conceed the last word to you, 'Dude as I'm changing internet service etc. and might be unable to respond. We'll see.

[JoJo Star Dancer]

Go Bernie, Go! God Talk is all yours! You are the Man! Whatever bad comments these knuckle-heads post about you, they are wrong. I have listened to you for years. Especially on Sundays during your God-Talk show.
Forever it seems, the other radio "hosts", especially Pete Wilson (may he rest in peace) had nothing nice to say; nothing civil or half-way polite to say about you. Before all this bad press came about, I never knew you were an "ex" priest. Whatever the neocon phrase is for you, Bernie, I hold fast to your right to say the Catholic church has out grown its faith. I am not an ex-Catholic or a reformed Catholic or a recovering Catholic. I am a believer in God and I believe in you. I hear you, I trust you, I don't always agree with you, but after listening to all those fascists on KGO, especially the "dearly departed" Pete Wilson (who lost his morality and sensibility a LONG TIME AGO) I hope you go on and on and on. Grab some air on another station and advertise it. You have more faithful listeners than you know, Bernie. We believe, We trust and We Want You Back On The Air!!
Bernie's Wave

[brian]

uhhhhh..jo jo star dancer...have you read the Oakdale police report? You do realize that your hero involved his children in his sick fantasies???

[AttiDude]

Re: Burp, perhaps changing internets might help your train-of-thought. We'll see. However, referring to Bernie Ward as a world class dirtbag hardly qualifies as a defense. And encouraging Noyes et al to drum him into prison (for life if possible) is not quite support. Not on this planet anyway. The example was to illustrate how liberals use polemics to distort and confuse the degree of guilt of THEIR scumball icons -- and then you prove their strategy by minimizing conservative deviants (sex offenders, drug addicts) as not up as the BW deviancy, therefore, somehow, of lesser outrage. And explain how saying O'Reilly's cucumber attacks on an adult woman, without her consent by the way, as sounding like fun ISN'T defending the sleazey O'Rifice? My first and main point still stands: That broadcast tv and radio caters to and encourages psychopathic, bizarre, sick and criminal behavior amongst their 'poisonalities'. As for your remorse about name-calling. Don't fret Burp, you'll learn bigger words in the higher grades.

[Wyatt Burp]

Re: AttiDude, Hey, sh-tstain, I never once called Bernie Ward a world class dirtbag, even though, now that you brought it up, that's exactly what he is. Somebody else might have called him that. And who's encouraging Noyes to send Bernie anywhere? If Bernie goes to prison it's his own doing. And what do you got against Matthew Perry and Chevy Chase to consider them "scum"? O'Reilly and Limbaugh get great ratings and your hero Bernie Ward is, or was, an insignificant little fart on the radio. He's gone but the guys you can't stand are thriving and like I said before, stop pretending to base your argument on a fake moral stance. If it was genuine you wouldn't be defending a sick pedaphile which is what you'r doing. Stop this passive/aggresive angle and just defend him without trying to drag others down to his level.

[Wyatt Burp]

Hey, AttiDude, I was on my way to a McCain rally when I was kidnapped by members of Nazi Pelosi's Gay Gestapo and renditioned to an undisclosed splooge-splattered basement in the tenderloin district of S.F. and I was completely reprogrammed. I'm now a liberal democrat and think just like you! For example: Amerika should surrender to the terrorists now since we're the real evil in the world...Obama should be annointed king of the universe forever...O'Reilly, Limbaugh,and Marv Albert should be shot and hung upside down in the public square...All registered Republicans spayed and nuetered... Mandatory gay sex taught to all kindergarten students (you and Bernie can handle that dept.)...All marine recruiting offices closed and replaced with Planned Parenthoods(gotta get rid of those baby killers)...free flight lessons given to all middle eastern men at tax payer expense, take off,steering, navigation only, no landing skills needed... All Wal-Mart execs skinned alive and rolled in salt...Bernie Ward appointed day-care czar in Obama administration... and to prove loyalty to the Democratic Party all parents must take thier boys and girls, ages 4 to 14, over to Bernie's house and feed them to the fat sweaty beast. Now we're comrades,'Dude! VIVA FIDEL!!! LONG LIVE AL QAIDA!! DEATH TO AMERICA!!! there. now I'm a typical democrat. over and out

[AttiDude]

Re: Burp. You are too far gone to discuss the BW case with. For the record, the 'world class dirtbag' and encouraging Noyes to drum Ward into jail are my comments. You can't remember previous blogs. You can't hold a thought. You are exactly the extreme crazy which broadcasting, as an industry, encourages by their polemic-baiting "poisonalities". As you claim, you are interchangeable with the left-wing crazy extreme. Nuts. Just nuts. If you have any point, it is that Ward's crimes are far worse than O'Reilly and Rush. This is true, by degree. Pedophiles like Ward are not capable of rehabilitation. They must be locked up permanently -- or even executed (my words Burp, don't forget them). But you cannot defend the others as well. Broadcasting is a public domain profession. People (like you) key on their behavior. If the Poisonalities get away with perverse behavior (you, and many others impressionable like you) might try to emulate what they did. It contributes to the moral decay of society. It is a bad standard. My point is that such a bad standard is endemic throughout the tv and radio broadcast profession. To keep them on the air implies the tv/radio station condones their crimes and/or perversion. However, SOME stations, albiet reluctantly (like KGO), do fire when their talking heads get caught. Two examples: Liberal talk show host Mike Webb was fired from KIRO (Seattle) after being indicted --and later convicted -- for insurance fraud; conservative talk show host Jon Matthews was fired from KSEV (Houston) after being investigated -- and later convicted -- for indecent exposure to a child. The broadcast industry needs new, stronger oversight, a major policy change. The problem is deeper than this sordid soiree that is The Bernie Ward Luau.

[Wyatt Burpawitz]

zzzzz...snore..zzzzz...

[Attiwittier]

Stay asleep paw, as all good dogs do.

[Wyatt Burp]

Re: Attitude, Yeah. I backtracked and read where in a transparent attempt to hide the fact you're a Bernie groupie, you called Bernie a "world class dirtbag" and that Noyes comment is probably there somewhere. I might respond to your attempts to minimize Bernie's perverted antics at the expense of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, etc., but you're not rellavent enough that I hover over every word you excrete like Barrack Obama reading the Communist Mannifesto. Especially when the same conclusion is always so obvious. Bernie's gone and these conservative guys are still on the air! And it kills ya'! If you found out Sean Hannity got a parking ticket back in 1998, you'd lump him in with Bernie. If Limbaugh is scum, as you said, for being addicted to prescription drugs and should be fired, shouldn't Matthew Perry and Chevy Chase be blacklisted from film and T.V. for the same reason? They influence people by thier actions and the things they say. So answer that question. Do you demand movie producers and T.V. execs boycott these two guys, too?

[AttiDude]

Re: Burp. The spelling is "relevant", a word which baffles your small mind, because you are not -- relevant. Now we know the one book you have actually read, which makes you a confirmed communist. As I suspected, you are a closet left-wing extremist trying desperately to discredit traditional thought with your fecal mental toilet. Your typical leftist punk tactic is to ignore context and thug issues into the gutter of your stupid-yet-simple black-white idiot rhetoric. You want Bernie Ward to be free to stalk innocent children again Burp. As a devout communist you fight America by creating chaos and anarchy. Ward's release would serve your anti-American Marxist Castro revolution through trashing the moral character of good people by your closet leftist bashing. You don't fool me Burp. Your ploy to deny responsibility and trash the traditional conservative is not going to prevail. You're just another snotty two-bit leftist punk drone for Ward and Hollywood and other pedophile child-stalking ilk. Obviously, you agree with Ward and his lawyer that scumballs who do things like molest a four year old child should not be cause for keeping him off the air, you worthless pink wad of wuss dna. Go back to China with your girlfriend Hillary, and take your boyfriend Bernie Ward with you. And why should I answer a question by a pink Ward lover like you when you fail to address any of the facts and context of any blog, you valueless closet sex crime admirer? And why paint Matthew Perry and Chevy Chase with your pink brush? Are they talk show hosts Burp? If, by their high-profile influence, they have caused communist crypto-liberal fascists like yourself, then executives have a Public Interest obligation to ban them. And what about the Webb and Matthews firings. Your communist decency-hating revolutionary mind, no doubt, laments the gay Mike Webb and pedophile Jon Matthews being silenced from your covert Bernie Ward craving pink toilethead ears. And why drag Hannity into this, you sham flag burning lib? Why tarnish his reputation with your pedophile embracing America hate. Nice try Burp. Now flush.

[Jesaminute]

No one is picking up on the time he worked at a highschool up in Santa Rosa. I knew an underage girl that he propositioned. Back then, when she told me we were just two kids. Now... it all becomes clear. This is a man who is seriously ill. Hopefully, this will put an end to several decades of abuse of children. The public will hear the whole truth before this is over because, unfortunately he is choosing to lie about his pedophilia.

[Wyatt Burp]

Wow. What I wonder is.. How DOES someone use a computer in a straight jacket?

[Wyatt Burp]

My name is Dr. Hans Von Dingledorfer, head of psycology at Attascadero Mental Institute in Los Altos, Ca. It has come to my attention that one of our patients gained access to my personal computer and has been writing to this blog. He goes by the name "AttiDude". Apparently he got one hand free from his straight jacket. But physical dexterity does not a sane person make. Now we have to keep him for two more years at the request of his parents. His mother already converted his basement bedroom into a sewing room and sold his G.I. Joe collection on E-bay to pay for his medication. Makes sense since he's thirty four years old. If he writes back, just humor him. He's harmless except for the compulsive masturbation problem which causes excessive rawness. Sorry for any interference he has caused towards sane, normal debate.

[AttiDude]

Re: Jesaminute. Your point is well taken. Pedophiles are lifelong offenders. They can not be rehabilitated. Santa Rosa, for some reason, seems to be a sex offender magnet. As of 2007, there were 249 registered sex offenders in Santa Rosa. About one sex offender for every 600 residents. David Asimov, the son of famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, was caught with thousands of child porn downloads and video tapes. A Santa Rosa resident, he plea bargained to no prison time. No wonder the Santa Rosa police are famous for being trigger-happy.

[AttiDude]

Re: Burp. As a crypto-leftist communist using junk science and your sick sex fantasies is commonplace for you. All lib Ward-lovers who hate America will do anything to tear down the moral character of traditional conservative values. Keep supporting pedophiles Burp. See what happens to you.

[justice]

Why do we hear talk about the NY governor's behavior, Craig's behavior, etc, etc and yet are not allowed to discuss your own Bernie Ward 's hypocrisy on air? Why has this double standard permeated KGO talk radio?

[Wyatt Burp]

Re: AttiDuped, A while back (March 4, 7:06) you ragged on me for using an extra L in the word relevant. Being a hard core pedaphile defending "L"iberal, I can see why you expressed such anger at me for abusing the letter "L". That aside, I can see you believe everything else I said is true since all you could whine about is my spelling. Abusing kids is O.K. with you (if a liberal is doin' the abusin'), but abusing the alphabet is a different matter! Say hello to Bernie the next time you see his hot, sweaty flesh hovering over you.

[AttiDude]

Re: Burp. Your obsession with Bernie Ward's "hot,sweaty flesh" exposes you as a closet pedophile sympathizer. Perverse sexual references are in each of your sick anti-tradtional blogs because your depraved addiction to decadence. You protect your boyfriend Bernie Ward with faint criticism and attack those of us who demand his lifetime incarceration. You are no doubt a child stalker in spirit, if not in act. Your hatred for children is as evident as your desire to tear what is left of decent civilization down. We can only hope you are arrested , as your boyfriend Ward has been, before you commit a similar atrocity against innocent kids.

[Wyatt Burpcowski]

I went fishin' for a wide mouth bass and caught a big mouth ass. On my first cast! Just checkin' if the asylum still let you play with the computer. Jeez! Calm down. Take your Ritalin. God. That was so easy.

[AttiDude]

Drugs and filth, Burp. That seems to be you liberal's obsessions. Why don't you escort your boyfriend Bernie Ward to the Palm Theater? You can "go fishin'" with your Von Dingledorfer, in your element, you communist kid stalker skank. You also said you didn't want BW off the air (March 01, 5:31 am -- drugs wore off Burp?), well now you can go to his home and get a 'personal broadcast', trade pedo downloads, talk about the Revolution. Go back in the closet, Burp. And don't touch anything.

[Wyatt Burp]

It's 4 AM. As Bernie looks down on the sleeping form of AttiDude, The moonlight shines through the window. The beads of sweat on Bernie's massive naked form glisten in the moonlight. His quivering mounds of celulite jiggles with every beat of his heart as he starts to crawl into the bed next to his young admirer.Then he... How's that sound to ya' Attiduped? Notice how my great psychic abilities can read your darkest fantasies right over the internet and transform them into words? Man, sometimes I even amaze myself!