Bernie Ward’s “Sexfairy” Talks

In the story we're airing and posting today, Linda Figueiredo says it all started out innocently enough. She was a stay-at-home mom with three young kids, and she went looking for some excitement on-line. In a chat room, her friend had met a man calling himself “Vincentlio” who had expressed an interest in being dominated. Figueiredo used the name “Sexfairy” and struck up a conversation with Vincentlio with instant messaging or IM’s. She says their dominant/submissive conversations continued for two to three weeks during December 2004, and that her husband would sit on the couch next to her sometimes as she chatted away with Vincentlio on her laptop. She said they would make fun of Vincentlio.

Then, you can see in the chat transcript how it all changed. Vincentlio says he loves trading pictures. Sexfairy asks for some. He sends child pornography. Linda Figueiredo tells me she never expressed an interest in children with Vincentlio, and the photograph surprised her and made her physically ill. After she called police, they told her to keep chatting with Vincentlio to help build the case. It was very difficult – it was the Christmas season, after all. Figueiredo recounts Christmas Eve as her daughters asked her to track Santa using a website. As she tracked Santa, up popped an IM from Bernie Ward. She had to bounce back and forth from being a mother … to helping police in a child porn case.
Only after the police sent the case to the FBI did Figueiredo find out Vincentlio was, in fact, KGO Radio host Bernie Ward. Now, she has no regrets that Ward lost his career and faces years in prison. She says, “I’m just a normal girl that just tried to do the right thing. And no children should be harmed that way and no children should be taken pictures of that way. And I just had to do what I had to do.”

You can watch the entire interview here or read a transcript of it here.

Comments

[berkeley]

is it unreal that bernie ward's screen name is the name of two past popes, vincent and lio, am i right about this, how crude can this dude get

[Danielle O.]

First I would like to point out that Bernie Wards'credit card information is visible in the police report.

Secondly, I would like to say (as an avid KGO listerner) how digusted I am with Bernie Ward and amazed that people exist like that in society. That being said, I really dont think jail is the answer. This man needs psychological help beyond a jail pyschologist. Jail will only contain those perverse thoughts And don't forget he will get off on good behavior after completing 85% of his sentence.