07/01/08 Tricities.com
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/tricitiescom_exclusive_girlfriend_of_washington_co_tn_child_pornography_sus/11209/
Amber Hughes says she can’t believe the man she shared a home with could hurt any child. After all, Hughes and her boyfriend Jason Ford have five children between them both. But Friday local and federal agents came to their Washington County, Tennessee home looking for Ford.
Twenty-eight year old Jason Ford is accused of creating graphic child pornography. A federal court unsealed the indictment against Ford Monday.
According to charging documents, Ford met a Denver, Colorado girl online years ago. That girl is now 17-year-old. The warrant alleges Ford sent the girl a web camera, disposable cell phones and a computer.
Investigators say Ford would tell the teenager to perform sex acts for him right in front of the camera. This includes bestiality.
Hughes says she became suspicious of the relationship back in 2007. She said she could see her boyfriend viewing pornographic materials on the couples’ living room computer. Hughes says when she would ask Ford about the pictures he told her the girl in the pictures was not a minor.
“He told me that she was 18 and that they were broken up and that she was pretty much stalking him,” says Hughes.
Hughes says Ford has two little girls ages four and nine. She has three boys who she says adore her boyfriend.
“I never knew him to hurt my children. I never felt like they were unsafe around him,” said the 29-year-old single mother.
Hughes lived at least seven months with Ford in his Northeast Tennessee trailer. She says the couple shared a home “like a husband and wife.” Ford now stays in a Washington County Detention Center cell. Hughes is considering moving on. “I’m better off just by myself I’ve put myself in a bad predicament here,” said Hughes.
