Well, this is no laughing matter. An executive producer for Growing Pains has been sentenced to jail for distributing child pornography.
Steven Marshall faces seven and a half years of incarceration, says the New York Post.
Marshall was arrested April 15 on charges of distribution and possession of child porn and pleaded guilty to the distribution charge, but the possession charge was dropped.
Officials claim Marshall sent and received child porn and participated in online chats focusing on child abduction, bondage, rapes and murders.
U.S. District Judge J. Leon Holmes told press that Marshall's sentence exceeded the five-year minimum for distribution because of the severity of the pictures and the language Marshall used in chat rooms.
The sitcom Growing Pains, which aired from 1985 to 1992 on ABC, centred on a clean-cut family and starred Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Kirk Cameron, Tracey Gold and Jeremy Miller.
Late last month, Andrew Koenig, who played Cameron’s onscreen best friend Richard (Boner) Stabone, was found dead in Vancouver’s Stanley Park after he committed suicide. He had reportedly suffered depression before his death.
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