Kevin Strom, the founder of American white supremacist group National Vanguard, is facing further charges in relation to child pornography. As yet, none of the Australian neo-Nazis who have associated themselves with his operation (including, but not limited to, Australia First candidate John Moffat, AF activist Ben Weerheym, and disgraced ‘race professor’ Andrew Fraser) have disassociated themselves from NV.

From The Hook:

More porn? New charges against white supremacist
Published April 26, 2007 in issue 0617 of the HooK.
By LISA PROVENCE LISA

The Stanardsville white supremacist indicted in January on possession of child pornography and intimidating a witness has been charged with five additional counts.

A federal grand jury in Charlottesville indicted Kevin Alfred Strom, 50, for coercion and enticement of a minor, possession of child pornography, obstruction of justice, and four counts of receiving child pornography. The seven counts announced April 4 supersede the original indictment.

According to the U.S. attorney’s office, between January 2004 and August 2006, Strom allegedly tried to persuade a 10-year-old to engage in sexual activity. The indictment also alleges that he physically assaulted and mentally intimidated a witness to keep her from reporting his criminal activities.

Strom has been held in custody since his January 4 arrest. “We would oppose any bond,” says Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Gould, who is prosecuting the case.

Branded a neo-Nazi for his allegedly racist publications, Strom is a former protégé of William Pierce, whose Turner Diaries inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Strom split from the National Alliance in 2005, after Pierce’s death, and formed a group called the National Vanguard.

According to Mark Potok, editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, Strom’s interest in young girls was well known and his own website bordered on “soft-core” porn. In the mid-1990s, Strom had a section called “Feminine Beauty” devoted to photographs of young girls, and he seemed charmed by the teenaged Brooke Shields– especially on horseback.

“[I]f anything is sacred, our girls and women are, and they must be protected from the degradation and degeneracy that is inherent in multiculturalism,” Strom wrote on his site, Potok says.

Strom’s first wife, Kirsten Kaiser, says he had pictures of water nymphs all over their house, and that he often asked her to wear her hair in braids to appear younger, according to Potok.

His second wife, Elisha Strom, posted a notarized contract dealing with Strom’s alleged pedophilia on the anti-Semetic Vanguard News Network, Potok reports. Dated September 8, 2006, and signed by both Kevin and Elisha Strom, the alleged agreement says that “pursuant to concerns relating to pedophilia,” Kevin Strom promises to see a “qualified counselor” twice a month, and until he “has been declared free of pedophilia.” Elisha Strom has the right to inform any future wife of Strom’s of his sexual proclivities.

The National Vanguard initially supported Strom and claimed the charges were the result of a “fractious divorce situation” and politically motivated. On March 23, the organization’s website announced that the group had been “shut down by the Commonwealth of Virginia,” and referred those interested in “pro-European news” to other websites.

While known as an “intellectual” among white supremacists during his days with Pierce, Strom was nicknamed “Weenie” by his detractors, says Potok.

In an upcoming issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, Potok cites a widely circulated email from Strom in which he proclaims his innocence, pleads for money to use in the jail canteen, and complains that he’s being kept in solitary confinement.

His attorney, Andrea Harris, did not return phone calls from the Hook. Strom goes to trial June 20.