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2003-11-25 - 8:09 p.m. An anti-pornography crusader has been arrested on a prostitution charge. Police in Louisville, Kentucky, took John W. Riddle into custody after seeing him in a car with a "known prostitute," according to the arrest report. Riddle, 65, is a vice chairman of the anti-pornography organization COMPASS. The organization, whose full name is Citizens of Metro for Property and Safety and Security, has been trying to stop adult bookstores and sex shops from opening near residential neighborhoods. Riddle resigned his post, with the group accepting his resignation soon after. Police said that Riddle and Mary M. Perry, 42, were each charged with one count of prostitution after they told officers that Riddle had picked her up to have sex for money. Riddle had a bottle of Viagra in his possession, according to the police report. His arrest "shocked me to the core," said Barbara Davis, another vice chairman of the group. She said Riddle has long been active in church and community affairs. "I've known Mr. Riddle for a long time, and this is the last thing that we would have expected to happen," Davis said, adding that if the allegations prove true, "it just goes to show that even good men ... can get pulled into this pornography stuff." � 
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