Ark. judge posting online about Theron adoption ousted

The Arkansas Supreme Court ordered the immediate removal of Faulkner County, Ark., Circuit Judge Mike Maggio Thursday after he disclosed confidential details about an adoption involving actress Charlize Theron's child and made off-color remarks in an online forum, according to The Associated Press.

The Natural State's highest court accepted a lifetime ban agreed to by Maggio and a disciplinary commission, but rejected giving the judge any further pay and ousted him from the bench immediately. The recommended deal called for Maggio to be suspended with pay until his term expired at the end of this year.

According to AP, using the pseudonym "geauxjudge," Maggio entered an online forum of Louisiana State University sports fans and shared details from Theron's 2012 adoption of a baby in the same court division where he served.

Other off-color online remarks from Maggio include comments that he was tired of hearing divorce complaints that husbands work too much and wives withhold sex and that he desired to obtain a copy of evidence photos of a cheerleader accused of sex with a minor.

Maggio had been a judge since 2001.

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