Joe Seiders, the drummer of the independent rock group The New Pornographers, was arrested for possession of juvenile pornography, confirmed the Sheriff Department of Riverside on Thursday in a press release Thursday.
Shortly after the arrest, the group confirmed that Seiders, 44, is no longer a member of the group. “Everyone in the group is absolutely devastated by the news of the accusations against Joe Seiders – and we immediately broken all links with him,” the group said in a shared statement on social networks. “Our hearts go to all those who have been affected by its actions.”
The new pornographers were trained in the 90s and Seiders joined in 2014, playing drums and singing rescue voices on the last three albums of the group Whiteout conditions, in the Morse code braking lights And Continue like a ghost.
According to the Sheriff department, the authorities were sent for the first time to a Palm Desert company at the end of the afternoon on April 7, speaking with an 11-year-old boy who said that an unidentified man recorded him on his mobile phone while the boy used the toilet. Two days later, the authorities obtained a second report in the same place at 5 pm, after an employee said that a man “entered and came out of the toilets with juvenile men in the company”. The authorities identified man as seiders and placed him in police custody.
The authorities have obtained search mandates for the residence, the mobile phone and the vehicle of Seiders and found evidence which involved it in the two reported incidents, as well as other crimes, according to the press release. The authorities said that Seiders had been sentenced to the John Benoit of Indio detention center for possession of juvenile pornography, boredom / assaulting a child, an invasion of privacy and an attempted invasion of privacy.
