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Stephen Coronel, who contributed to several Kiss songs and was a member of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's band Wicked Lester, has beeen charged with uploading child pornography.
Billboard reports that 63-year-old Coronel was arrested in Beaufort County, South Carolina on Friday and charged with five counts of sexual explotation of a child. According to local reports, he was caught using a peer-to-peer web cam program inappropriately and his location was tracked through his IP address.
When officers arrived to arrest Coronel he was found to have four videos playing or uploading depicting children between 3-12 engaged in sexual acts.
Coronel co-wrote Kiss' 'Goin' Blind' from 1974's Hotter Than Hell which ostensibly focuses on a relationship between a 93-year-old and his 16-year-old lover. He also wrote 'She' from 1975's Dressed to Kill.