Child Porn: Feds Arrest Novato School Bus Driver In Courthouse

The FBI arrested a Novato, CA. school bus driver and den leader for the Boy Scouts as he entered a Marin County courtroom on state charges relating to the same crimes. Novato school bus driver facing federal pornography charges

The man, McGinnis Benedict, 52, was making a required appearance at a preliminary hearing for state charges brought for his having downloaded child porn on his lunch break at work and when his wife was asleep at night at home.

Benedict was already facing 25 felony counts for possessing child pornography in the state court when the Feds stepped in.

Use of the Internet for child porn is both a state crime and a Federal crime, carrying heavy penalties.

After the FBI arrested Benedict they asked Marin County to hold him in its jail until they can get him before a Federal judge in San Francisco. Then the feds will let him come back to Marin to face the state charges.

Benedict’s Boy Scout membership has been revoked.