Acting teacher faces
charges of child porn

A community theater actor who conducted singing, dancing and acting classes for children has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges.

Dawe Glover: The community theater actor ran classes at Show Kidz with his wife

Dawe Glover allegedly had images of child pornography stored on the hard drive of his computer. According to an indictment filed yesterday in federal court, the images found on his computer on April 22 include computer-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

An assistant U.S. attorney handling the case said he could not comment.

Glover and his wife ran Show Kidz, conducting classes in singing, acting and dancing for children ages 7 to 16.

Glover starred in Army Community Theatre's "Sayonara" in 2001 and acted in "Smokey Joe's Cafe" in 2002 along with his wife and daughter.

Derek Daniels, director of "Smokey Joe's Cafe," said news of the indictment was shocking. "As a person he's a very nice guy," he said.

However, Daniels also said Glover was difficult to work with. "He takes things very personally," he said.

Daniels noted that he had seen Glover only at the theater and never with children, nor had he witnessed anything suspicious.

Phone messages left for Glover last night were not returned.