In 2016, Byrd Dickens was arrested and charged after committing acts of filming child pornography, possessing child pornography, child molestation, and acts of bestiality with three other women.
12 Facts About Byrd Dickens
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Byrd Dickens worked mainly in the electrical, camera, and rigging aspects of various film and television productions.
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Byrd Dickens used various names and company titles and registered some unlisted company names on his profile on The Internet Movie Database.
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Byrd Dickens is best known for his acting role and electrical work on the Canadian teen drama TV series Degrassi High.
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Byrd Dickens played Scott Smith, a jock attending Degrassi High School in Toronto and dating character Kathleen Mead.
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Byrd Dickens has appeared as Scott in background scenes throughout various episodes of the series, but did not appear in the 1992 television movie finale School's Out.
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Byrd Dickens denied the charge and was acquitted in November 1992.
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Byrd Dickens had acquired over 1,000 pornographic photographs and video recordings involving minor children.
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Byrd Dickens had been offered a minor child from London, Ontario, in 2003 after the then fourteen-year-old girl, identified to the media only as "DB", had nude photographs taken of her and mailed to Byrd Dickens by the girl's mother.
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Byrd Dickens entered a guilty plea to charges related to this matter and was sentenced in August 2022.
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Byrd Dickens pleaded guilty in 2018 to charges including possession and recording of child pornography.
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Byrd Dickens was released unsupervised, but was implicated in another criminal charge in 2020 relating to his 2003 offences.