Ex-Blaenavon book man pleads guilty over child porn (From South Wales Argus)
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Ex-Blaenavon book man pleads guilty over child porn
8:08am Wednesday 9th January 2013 in News
GUILTY PLEA: Ex-Blaenavon bookshop owner James Daniel Hanna
A MAN who led Blaenavon's attempt to become a town of bookshops has pleaded guilty in a US court to producing images of child sexual abuse.
James Daniel Hanna, 66, was arrested in Madison County, Arkansas in August.
The Argus reported in 2003 that New Orleans-born Hanna worked to launch Blaenavon as a booktown similar to Hay-on-Wye.
Seven bookshops were opened at the time and tens of thousands of books were stored in a Blaenavon warehouse ready for distribution to would-be booksellers keen to set up their own businesses.
But three years later a number of the bookshops had closed and Hanna left the area.
