New Found Glory guitarist accused of adult video-chatting with minors

New Found Glory play a brand of pop-punk that is familiar to anyone who grew up in a post-Green Day world: bouncy, bass-heavy, nasally and, above all, aimed at adolescents. That makes the news that guitarist Steve Klein has been charged with chatting up minors online all the more upsetting.

Klein (far left in the picture above) was using an adult video chat service and allegedly interacted with several girls under the age of 18.

Klein was ousted from the band after pleading not guilty to 3 counts of lewd conduct with a minor under the age of 14, 3 more counts regarding a minor who was 14 or 15, 1 count of intent to commit lewd acts with a minor and a count of possession of child pornography.

"ALL charges against Steve are derived solely from online consensual video chats between Steve and some female strangers he met on an adult website. Steve believed the females were over the age of 18," Klein's attorney Debra White  told Alternative Press in a statement. 

White added that literally no one involved in the case knows who the girls are, so it is impossible to determine their age.