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It looks like the leftist partisans who violated Joe the Plumber’s privacy, rifled through Linda Tripp’s confidential records, and spent weeks literally navel-gazing at Bristol Palin’s real and imagined pregnancies have hit a new low: leaking an underage pornographic video to smear Carrie Prejean. By now, the media have ensured millions of people who never learned the names of Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, or Anita Dunn have heard that the former Miss California once made a solo sex tape -- or, as the seasoned gatekeepers of reliable journalism often report it, simply a “sex tape.” Prejean told Sean Hannity...

Note: Video and photo included. "Update: Child Porn Found On Suspect's Computer, Investigation: Police Match DNA To Monfort Christopher Monfort detained in the hospital, formal charges likely by the end of the week" Q13 FOX News Online 3:51 PM PST, November 10, 2009 SNIPPET: "SEATTLE - UPDATE: Sources close to the investigation have confirmed to Q13 FOX News that child pornography was found on the a computer belonging to suspected police officer killer, Christopher Monfort." SNIPPET: "Monday afternoon a King County judge found probable cause to detain Christopher Monfort. It is expected that he will be charged by the end...

A Seattle police officer was shot to death and another officer was wounded late Saturday night while conducting a traffic stop in the city's Central District neighborhood. The officer who died was a veteran of the department, and the woman who was wounded is a student officer in training, Assistant Chief Jim Pugel said

Carrie Prejean on Tuesday defended a recently surfaced erotic video of her as a youthful indiscretion and questioned whether it could actually be called a “sex tape” since no one else appears in it. Prejean admitted to making the video of herself and sending it to her boyfriend when she was 17 years old.

Paedophile websites are being used to pass information between terrorists. A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain. Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists. British security services are also aware of the trend and believe that it requires...

For A.J. and Lisa Demaree, the photos they snapped of their young daughters were innocent and sweet. But after a photo developer at Walmart thought otherwise, the Demarees found themselves in a yearlong battle to prove they were not child pornographers. "I don't' understand it at all," A.J. Demaree told Good Morning America Monday. "Ninety-nine percent of the families in America have these exact same photos." The eight photos in question were among a batch of 144 family photos the Demarees had taken to their local Walmart. The developer alerted the police and the investigation into child pornography began in...

Authorities have filed another 90 charges of possession of child pornography against a Martin County man who blamed the crime on his cat.

Onassis half brother accused of having child porn By JEFF BARNARD and WILLIAM McCALL Associated Press Writers AP Photo AP Photo/Jeff Barnard Advertisement Buy AP Photo Reprints Your Questions Answered Ask AP: New cars that don't sell, government czars ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Jamie Auchincloss is well known and well liked in this storybook town for his longtime support of local theater, his videos of Democratic political events, and being the half brother to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. So when authorities announced Tuesday that Auchincloss had been indicted on charges of encouraging child sexual abuse by possessing, duplicating and disseminating child...

You've heard the one about the dog eating the homework, now hear about the cat who downloaded the kiddie porn. Keith Griffin was charged Wednesday with 10 counts of possession of child porn after over 1,000 illegal images were found on his computer, and he claims it's all the work of his kitty. Cops weren't buying Griffin's tale, and busted him in his home. He's being held in Martin County Jail on $250,000 bail, according to tcpalm.com. Could it all be a sinister plot from a vindictive feline? Maybe. After all, cats have been known to play a smooth tune...

(San Antonio)-Sean Michael Block broke down crying, but it didn't help. Sean Block, the northside bartender who was convicted of trying to sell his girlfriend's five year old daughter for sex, today was sentenced to thirty years in federal prison, 1200 WOAI news reports. "It's thirty years that children will be safe from Sean Block," Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Thompson Braun said following the sentence. "There is no doubt that he is a sexual predator, and we can stop him from harming children for thirty years." Block, 40, tearfully told U.S. District Judge Henry Hudspeth that his problems stem from...

He was diagnosed with autism, had received counseling for an attraction to child pornography and lived in a group home. Still, a recruiter thought that Joshua Fry had what it took to be one of “the few, the proud, the Marines.” Pvt. Fry, who spent the last year in the brig at Camp Pendleton on charges of possessing child pornography, leaving base without authorization and concealing his psychiatric history, was discharged today from the Marines for bad conduct and sentenced to four years confinement. Although the case has been settled and a verdict handed down, disturbing questions about exactly how...

The head of a faith-based military academy for children in New Jersey is facing child pornography charges. Steven Baryla of Toms River is charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.

The Delaware County man convicted in the 2006 murder of a young coworker returned to court yesterday to plead no contest to having child pornography on his home computer. In November, William F. Smithson was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted of the murder of Jason Shephard, an intern with the South Dakota scoreboard manufacturer Daktronics. The body of Shephard, 23, was found in Smithson's basement in Thornbury Township on Sept. 21, 2006. Prosecutors said Smithson had drugged the young man from Cavalier, N.D., then strangled him after Shephard fought off his sexual advances. Police confiscated...

WASHINGTON — Child pornography was found on a computer belonging to the white supremacist charged with shooting and killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the FBI said in court documents.

Jamie Michael Overstreet sentenced to 240 months in prison. HUNTINGTON W.Va.-- Jamie Michael Overstreet, 29, of Huntington, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers to 240 months in prison for producing, possessing and trafficking in child pornography. Overstreet previously pleaded guilty in December 2008, admitting the federal charges. The conviction stems from an investigation in California of an individual suspected of possessing child pornography. Evidence from that investigation divulged that the target was sharing child pornography with Overstreet, who resided in Huntington, WV. Authorities in West Virginia were alerted and a search of Overstreet’s residence was...

Onassis half-brother facing child porn probe By WILLIAM McCALL Associated Press Writer Published: Thursday, Jun. 4, 2009 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Police in Oregon say they've found graphic child pornography at the home of the half-brother to the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The search at the Ashland home of 62-year-old James Auchincloss occurred in October, according to the Ashland Daily Tidings, which first reported the story. No charges have been filed. Calls by The Associated Press to Auchincloss were not returned. The newspaper said Auchincloss, who has lived in Ashland since 1995 and serves on the board of Oregon Stage Works,...

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today the arrest of MARIO MESCHINO, age 41, of 24950 Madison in Plainfield, Illinois. MESCHINO was arrested yesterday morning at his residence, without incident, by Special Agents assigned to the Chicago FBI's Innocent Images Task Force (IITF). MESCHINO, who is employed by the First Student Transportation Company in Plainfield as a school bus driver, was charged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Chicago with one count of Distribution of Child Pornography, which is a felony offense. According...

Just today we get:Ex-leader of Young Democrats sentenced in Child Porn case North Carolina Dem activist sentenced in child porn case-involving kids as young as 6 Earlier this month we got:John Kerry "Band of Brothers" member convicted for child Porn- was called on stage during the DNC national convention. ANDHigh-level aide to California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer convicted for receiving and distributing child pornography. Just last month:Child molester back at work at for Democrat in Hawaii Legislature Earlier this year: Democrat Wisconsin mayor charged with child-sex crimes Last Year: Famed left-wing radio personality Bernie Ward guilty of possessing and distributing...

ALBANY — Members of Albany County Young Democrats are "shocked and disturbed" at the revelation that the former president of the organization, Benjamin Jakes-Johnson, spent almost four years facing child pornography charges while rising through the ranks of the local group, as well as the party's state and national affiliates. Jakes-Johnson, 29, received a 57-month sentence in U.S. District Court Thursday after pleading guilty last October to one count of possessing child pornography. According to the office of the U.S. Attorney for New York's Northern District, Jakes-Johnson's computer and several discs were seized in October 2005 at his parents' house...

ALBANY — Members of Albany County Young Democrats are "shocked and disturbed" at the revelation that the former president of the organization, Benjamin Jakes-Johnson, spent almost four years facing child pornography charges while rising through the ranks of the local group, as well as the party's state and national affiliates.

DALLAS—Kevin Moake, 50, of Flower Mound, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 10 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum, following his guilty plea in January to one count of possession of child pornography, announced James T. Jacks, acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Judge Godbey also ordered that Moake register as a sex offender and serve a lifetime of supervised release following his release from prison. Moake, who has been on bond, was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service at the conclusion of the sentencing hearing....

PEORIA, Ill. — A federal court judge has handed down a prison sentence of more than 19 years to a Peoria man who allegedly downloaded and distributed 26,000 images of child pornography.

The groundbreaking court case uncovered Scotland's biggest paedophile network and revealed the shocking crimes of a "spider's web of apparently respectable men". A jury at the High Court in Edinburgh took ten hours to return verdicts on 54 separate charges. It emerged during the case that the ringleaders Neil Strachan and James Rennie befriended the families of the children they abused. Rennie, 38, was the chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland, a group dedicated to helping young lesbian and homosexual deal with their sexuality.Strachan, 41, a paint firm engineer who was previously jailed for molesting a young boy, was the...

Back in 2005, a WalMart worker in Pennsylvania reported 59-year-old Donna Dull to local authorities after Dull dropped off some film that included shots of her three-year-old granddaughter in and just out of the bath. Dull was arrested—roughly, she says—and charged with producing and distributing child pornography. The charges were dropped 15 months later when a Pennsylvania special prosecutor overruled the local DA. Only Dull, her attorney, and police and prosecutors have apparently seen the photos, which are now under seal. She's now suing. In this follow-up article from the York Daily Record, state officials seem to be trying to...

SAN DIEGO -- A former high-ranking Pentagon official snared in a child pornography investigation was sentenced to 37 months by a federal judge on Monday. Wade Sanders, 69, was arrested after an FBI agent identified him in October 2007 as one of a batch of suspects who were allegedly sharing child porn electronically. In December, he pleaded guilty, and prosecutors sought a 63-month prison sentence. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is an old friend. Like Kerry, Sanders commanded a swift boat in Vietnam and is a decorated veteran. And Kerry is one of dozens of powerful allies who have written to...

LUBBOCK, TX—Trey Dustin Taylor, 23, of Cisco, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison, to be followed by a 30-year term of supervised release, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Taylor pled guilty in January to one count of interstate receipt of child pornography. Judge Cummings remanded Taylor, who had been on bond, to the custody of the U.S. Marshals service. Taylor will be required to register as a sex offender. In documents filed in court when he pled guilty, Taylor admitted that...

Keith L. Bennett, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), of the Cincinnati Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney, Southern District of Ohio, announce that Marc Norman Greenberg, age 32 of Centerville, Ohio, was arrested without incident this morning at his law office in Kettering by FBI agents. Greenberg has been charged in a federal complaint filed at the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, Dayton, with 12 counts of violating Title 18, U.S. Code Section 1470 (Obscenity). Greenberg is the Girls Basketball Coach at Chaminade-Julienne High School in Dayton. The complaint...

WASHINGTON—Timothy Lantz, 57, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty today in Columbus to one count of transportation of child pornography and one count of failing to update his sex offender registration, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio Gregory G. Lockhart and Special Agent-in-Charge William Plunkett of the FBI in Cincinnati, announced. During today’s plea hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark R. Abel, Lantz admitted transporting and shipping child pornography from Ohio to New York through the Internet and to failing to update his sex offender registration. Lantz admitted that...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A former high-level aide to Sen. Barbara Boxer has been sentenced to five years in prison on child pornography charges. Jeff P. Rosato, 32, of Arlington, was sentenced Friday in a hearing before U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III. He received the minimum sentence allowed under federal guidelines and will have to register as a sex offender.

FEDERAL COURT — War hero, activist, former high-ranking Pentagon official – Wade Sanders has led a life full of peril and achievement, of great highs and deep lows. Just a few years ago, Sanders stood onstage at the Democratic National Convention as his fellow veteran, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., accepted his party's presidential nomination. That was a high point. Tomorrow afternoon in federal court in San Diego likely will be a low point for him. Sanders, 69, is scheduled to be sentenced after pleading guilty in December to possession of child pornography. He could face as much as 10 years...

Hickey says laws constitute censorship By DON MACPHERSON macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com A convicted sex offender told a court Friday that people should be allowed to look at child pornography. He made the comment at a hearing held to determine if he'll be allowed to have a computer and Internet access in his home. Gordon Thomas Hickey, 59, of 234 Rte. 4 in Harvey applied to the provincial court to have the conditions of his probation varied. He asked that conditions be dropped that preclude him from possessing a computer and going online, and that allow the police to enter his home without...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- A former aide to Sen. Barbara Boxer was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. Jeff Rosato, 32, of Arlington, Va., who was remanded into custody after pleading guilty in January, must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said at a hearing in Alexandria, Va. "He lost everything he worked so hard to achieve up to this point in his life. Rosato is keenly aware of the consequences of his actions and the new choices he must make for himself and...

San Jose council votes down porn filters at public library computers A year and a half of debate over filtering pornography out of San Jose public library computers came to a head late Tuesday when the City Council rejected spending money on the technology. After a lively debate that lasted hours, the council voted 7-3 to approve a proposal by the vice mayor and two councilmen that would remind computer users of existing policies to be courteous to others. Mayor Chuck Reed and council members Pete Constant, who led the push for the filters, and Pierluigi Oliverio were opposed, favoring...

NEWPORT [NH] – A police officer-turned-radio personality who fled to Florida last week with his teenage daughter is now wanted on felony child pornography charges. Police say former Newport officer Aaron Aldridge, 42, abandoned his 19-year-old daughter, Amanda, at Walt Disney World on Friday after abruptly disappearing with her on Monday. Orange County authorities found Amanda there and reunited her with her family Friday night. Aldridge is wanted on warrants for one count of possession of child pornography and one count of production of child pornography. Police said some of the photographs and video found by a member of Aldridge's...

A judge yesterday dismissed charges of possession of child pornography that had been filed against a Loudoun County assistant principal. Ting-Yi Oei, 59, of Reston, an assistant principal at Freedom High School in South Riding, was arrested Aug. 20 after law enforcement officials said that he was in possession of an inappropriate cell phone photo of a female student taken by another student. He was charged with the felony possession count and later was charged with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor. But Loudoun Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne threw out all the...

"Carlino stated that viewing child pornography became an addiction," the agent indicated. "Carlino further admitted to adopting false personas while online -- alternatively pretending to be a 13-year-old girl and a mother in her 20s -- so that men would be more interested in chatting with him, and sending him child pornography." "We are just saddened by the whole thing," said the Rev. Randy Sabella, pastor of the Malaga Assembly of God. "We feel very sorry for him and his family. We are praying for him and praying for his family." Sabella stressed Carlino is no longer youth minister. Ramirez...

Under President Obama, it was expected that porn pushers might find a sympathetic ear, given the smut industry's generous support of liberal politicians and causes. But the fox is no longer circling the henhouse. He's made it inside. On March 12, the "world's greatest deliberative body," the U.S. Senate, voted 65 to 28 to elevate porn attorney David Ogden to be deputy attorney general. Eleven senators from the "Party of Family Values"... joined a nearly unanimous Democrat roster in deciding that a man who defended child pornography during the Clinton years, as well as hard-core porn producers...is suited to be...

Lately the phrase "unlimited texting" is taking on a whole new meaning: "In Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah (at last count) minors have been arrested for 'sexting,' or sending or posting soft-core photo or video self-portraits," The American Prospect reported. Among the recent cases: Six high school students from Greensburg, Pa., were charged with possessing, manufacturing and distributing child pornography this month after nude pictures of several underage girls were confiscated from one of the boys' phones. The three 14- and 15-year-old girls who sent the self-made child porn and the three...

Now R Kelly’s been accused of stiffing the private detective he hired to recover incriminating evidence that could have could have been used to convict the R&B singer during his infamous 2008 child porn case. Private eye Charles Freeman is asking $300,000 for services rendered during that trial. Kelly was eventually found not guilty of 14 charges including having sex with a minor and taping himself having sex with a girl barely in her teens...

[image] Apparently, D.C. stands for “Disgusting Creep.” Last month it was a reporter for Fox News. This month it’s a former National Public Radio science editor. Legal documents (click here to view) say David Malakoff has been charged with possessing child porn between April and June, 2008. He had been a science editor and on-air correspondent for the publicly-supported radio network until he “resigned” in June, 2008. Interesting juxtaposition of dates, we’d say. Watch for more news as this dirt-o-rama develops in D.C.

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The press has been reporting that Bruns’ was a Fox producer covering the Hillary Clinton campaign. But Bruns’ twitter page makes it clear he was covering Joe Biden. The most surprising thing about the page is that Bruns’ tweets are so remarkably pedestrian. Mind-numbingly dull, in fact. We’ve only been able to make them interesting by taking them completely out of context and making it appear that they have some salacious meaning, which they didn’t. “Hey there! abruns is using Twitter.” “CNN has icecream!” “Biden said…”children are off limits.” “this is beyond disappointing. This is beyond disappointing. This is wrong.”...

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Russell Harding....... son of former Liberal Party boss ----a key ally of ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani---tried to keep his sick internet fantasies about sex with children under wraps but a judge ruled they were never placed under seal. Harding served 63-months for downloading kiddie porn and stealing $400,000 from the city as Giuliani's Housing Development Corp appointee. Harding's blog, rudyveritas.com accused the government of violating rules of criminal procedure.

Details of the child porn charges against a Fox News producer are even more disgusting than originally feared. Videos and photos on 29-year old Aaron Bruns’ laptop computer reportedly show “children under the age of ten being sexually abused by adult men and women.” Law enforcement officials indicate some of the children may be as young as five. Sadly, this isn’t Bruns’ first child porn problem. He had been sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to distributing child porn over the internet back in 1999. At the time, police said they had found 6,000 pornographic images of children...

On Thursday, Rosato, the collar of his red shirt peeking out above his blue sweater, admitted calmly to the crime. "Yes, your honor. I, simply put, received and possessed images of minors depicted in child pornography."

Tennessee -- Winchester authorities announced their success at shutting down a major international child porn operation in middle Tennessee this month that netted them one Gary Salles from Atlanta, Georgia. Salles is a long time gay activist and organizer of various charity operations for gays in Atlanta. He is also a self-professed pedophile. Salles claims he is a photographer from Atlanta and is well known as a dance club photographer in the Atlanta gay community. Instead of legitimate photos, though, what got Salles in trouble was child pornography. "To see the videos, firsthand, that he was sharing, that was exciting...

Atlanta gay nightlife photographer Gary Salles was arrested in Winchester, Tenn., over the weekend on allegations that he was part of an international child porn operation and sold crystal methamphetamine, according to a report from Nashville television station News Channel 5. Police said Salles, 57, and Mike Lattimore drove from Atlanta to Tennessee to sell drugs as well as sell computer files and images of children having sex, the station reported. Police also alleged the men were selling a boy, age 13 or 14, for $10,000. They were arrested Jan. 17 and were being held in jail on $1 million...

Remember Wade Sanders? He was one of the "band of brothers"--Swift Boat veterans who supported John Kerry's presidential campaign and appeared onstage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Sanders was one of Kerry's nastiest surrogates. In August 2004, he likened the president to a "trapped animal." In September, he compared Karl Rove and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth chief John O'Neill to Josef Goebbels. He repeatedly referred to the president and his men as "chicken hawks," an especially nasty term because it is slang for a child molester as well as a derisive term for a nonveteran who favors a...

SAN DIEGO – A former adviser to Lt. Gov. John Garamendi and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy under President Clinton pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Wade Rowland Sanders, 67, an attorney, entered the plea before U.S. District Judge Thomas J. Whelan, U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt said in a written statement released Monday night. According to court records, Sanders admitted that on or about May 2, he possessed a computer and computer media that he knew contained more than 600 images of...