Arkansas?? Arkansas you say? /s

H.L. Moody Jr., who's been a political consultant and Pulaski County employee, appeared in federal court Tuesday on a charge using a video conferencing application to view and share videos of adults raping children, according to an affidavit filed in the Eastern District of Arkansas

He was named in a sealed charge Friday. The case was unsealed today.

Moody was a former Pulaski County Democratic Party chair and was communications director for the state Democratic Party from July 2015 until February 2017

He left his role as state party spokesman when current chairman Michael John Gray was elected, said Reed Brewer, current communications director for the party.

Since then, he'd been a special events coordinator for Pulaski County Youth Services. He also continued to do political work, including serving as campaign manager for Tippi McCullough's successful race for state House from Little Rock this year.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that he was fired from his county job Monday after the county learned of the investigation. The newspaper quoted a spokesman as saying Moody had an administrative job and did not work with children in that post, but organized fund-raising events.

A government release said an undercover investigation observed Mood in an online chat room where child pornography was displayed and he also was observed distributing it.

Moody pleaded innocent Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock and waived his right to a bond hearing, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas said. Moody will remain in federal custody.

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