Joe Seiders arrest: New Pornographers drummer arrested over little one sexual abuse pictures | EUROtoday

Joe Seiders, the drummer for Canadian indie-rock band The New Pornographers, has been arrested for possession of kid sexual abuse imagery.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office mentioned in a press launch on Thursday (17 April) that the 44-year-old musician, who’s American, was arrested on Wednesday, 9 April, after two stories of suspicious behaviour at a enterprise in Palm Desert, a metropolis in California’s Coachella Valley.

According to authorities, an 11-year-old boy alleged that an older male had tried to movie him within the toilet of a fast-food restaurant on Monday, 7 April.

Two days later, one other report was acquired by an worker who claimed he noticed a person getting into and exiting the toilet with underage boys.

Seiders was arrested on the scene and officers secured search warrants for his residence, automobile and telephone, the place “evidence was located implicating him in the two reported incidents, along with additional crimes, including possessing child pornography,” the assertion mentioned.

Seiders has additionally been charged with annoying/molesting a baby, invasion of privateness and tried invasion of privateness. Records present that he has pleaded not responsible to all expenses, Pitchfork stories.

He is being held in a jail in Indio, California, along with his bail set at $1m. He is due in courtroom on 22 April.

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The assertion from the sheriff’s workplace mentioned they imagine there could also be extra victims and have inspired anybody with info associated to their investigation to contact them.

The New Pornographers have instantly severed all ties with Seiders.

“Everyone in the band is absolutely shocked, horrified, and devastated by the news of the charges against Joe Seiders – and we have immediately severed all ties with him,” the band mentioned in an announcement.

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“Our hearts go out to everyone who has been impacted by his actions.”

Seiders joined The New Pornographers, who fashioned in 1997, in 2014, following founding drummer Fisher Rose and Kurt Dahle. He has additionally carried out with Case and different artists, together with John Oates and Juliana Hatfield.

Fronted by AC Newman and singer-songwriter Neko Case, the band are one in all Canada’s most acclaimed and standard indie-rock exports, with 9 studio albums, the most recent three of which have been recorded with Seider, to their title.

If you’re a little one and also you need assistance as a result of one thing has occurred to you, you’ll be able to name Childline freed from cost on 0800 1111. You may also name the NSPCC if you’re an grownup and you might be nervous a couple of little one, on 0808 800 5000. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) affords help for adults on 0808 801 0331