Jackie O’s half brother back in court over child pornography

Published 5:03 am Wednesday, May 25, 2011

MEDFORD — A therapist testified Tuesday that the half-brother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis refused to acknowledge he has a problem with child pornography and was not ready to move into court-ordered treatment for his conviction on charges he kept a collection of pictures of naked boys.

The testimony came during a hearing in Jackson County Circuit Court on whether to revoke probation for James Auchincloss and send him to prison for up to a year and a half. He has already gone to jail twice in an effort to persuade him to cooperate more fully with his treatment program. He remained under house arrest at his home in Ashland.

Auchincloss, 64, pleaded guilty last August to two felony counts of encouraging child sexual abuse for having computer images of naked boys.

Pennie Farrell, a psychologist running group therapy sessions for people convicted of sex crimes, testified that Auchincloss failed to complete the steps necessary before taking a lie detector test designed to disclose all his past sexual deviances so a treatment program could be created for him. He regularly refused to answer direct questions, sought sympathy, viewed himself as a victim and tried to blame others for his problems, she said.

“He struggled a lot with what he did do and didn’t do, and what was pornographic.”