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Former owner of Tampa drag bar Southern Nights facing child porn charges - Richard Kowalczyk and his partner Eric Patrick ‘both very clearly engaged in predatory deviant sexual behavior towards minors – behavior [that] went on for years’,

The owner of popular Ybor City gay bar Southern Nights and his partner, a teacher, were accused of transmitting child pornography and conspiring to solicit a minor for sex acts.