Football Coach Sentenced For Kiddie Porn Collection

By Margaret Lyons in News on Jun 6, 2008 4:21PM

"Dick Dickinson seemed like your typical youth football coach." A story that starts like that is destined to take a dark turn, sort of like how all episodes of Rescue 911 started with "it was a quiet day..." Anyway, Dick Dickinson "had a secret penchant for young boys and violent child pornography."

He was found guilty of downloading and sharing an extensive and violent child pornography collection - more than 1,300 computer images and an additional 11 disks with child pornography were hidden in a wall of the attic next to his home office - that included pictures and videos of boys being bound and beaten, according to prosecutors.

Dickinson, whose given first name is Lindsey, coached football for the Orland Park Pioneers for decades and was so beloved there's a golf tournament named after him. He was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday.

Dick Dickinson's not quite an aptonym so much as just a terrible name, but man oh man is that an unfortunate moniker for a porn hoarder. [Southtown Star]