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Ex-Football Coach Admits Child Porn Addiction

Court Documents Reveal Ex-High School Coach's Obsession For Boys

POSTED: 11:56 am PDT June 19, 2008
UPDATED: 10:17 am PDT June 20, 2008

New details have emerged in the arrest of a former Centennial High School football coach who is charged with distributing and possessing child pornography.

Court documents obtained by ABC23 say federal agents started investigating Michael Turman, 29, in 2006 went they found he received a child porn movie on his AOL e-mail account.

According to court documents, after a months-long investigation officials with the Fresno Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served a search warrant at Turman’s Bakersfield home on Monday. He lives there with his wife of three years, his 4-year-old daughter and infant son.

Agents said Turman told them he knew why they were there and feared law enforcement would come to his house for a long time. Agents also said they found numerous pictures and hundreds of videos depicting child pornography on his computer.

In court documents, Turman admitted to sending child porn to others as well as getting it sent to him and saving it to his computer.

Agents said he told them that he is addicted to porn and is sexually interested in 8-to-9-year-old boys. In court documents, Turman told the agents he had been molested when he was 8 years old and had been addicted to porn since. Agents said he also compared his porn addiction to drug addiction.

According to agents, he said he looks at the computer like a drug: gets a rush looking at images, then feels a crash after looking at the images.

Truman also stated that he wanted to beat the demons of his addiction, but his addiction was too strong. "I don't think I have ever overcome that. I have moved on phyiscally, but mentally I am still 8 years old. If I knew how to beat my problem I would have a long time ago," Turman said in the documents.

Experts say that addiction to pornography is deeply rooted in the mind. Mental health experts said there isn't much help available to fight this addiction in Kern County.

Turman was an assistant walk-on football coach at Centennial High School for three years. The school district told ABC23 he never got any complaints while he was there. Turman is also the vice president of Turman Construction.

The Kern County High School District said that anybody who works with children goes through an extensive background check. They said that Truman had come up clean in those checks.

He is now in federal custody and pleaded not guilty in a Fresno Court on Wednesday.

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