Jackie Kennedy's half-brother James Auchincloss—the JFK Jr.-obsessed one being "investigated" for a huge stash of child porn, remember?—has now been indicted, for all that child porn. The timing could have been better. [Mail Tribune]
If anyone can get the scoop on a fringe Kennedy family member's creepy porny obsession with JFK Jr., and a very specific description of said guy's child porn collection, it's the New York Post. They've done it! Kennedy creepiness ahead.
James Auchincloss, the 62 year-old half-brother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is not in danger of overtaking his sis in popularity. He's currently being investigated for possession of child porn in Oregon.
Last month, the Justice Department charged former NPR correspondent and editor David Malakoff with possessing child porn. Now Malakoff has admitted it. The details are shocking primarily for their stupidity:
This isn't entirely surprising: Aaron Bruns, the Fox News producer who was arrested for possession of child porn, has been fired after an initial suspension without pay.
Note: We're redacting the prosecution's list of the two video files and three images they allegedly found on Bruns' computer because of their highly graphic descriptions of sex acts involving girls they describe in two instances as "under the age of 10," and in two others as "under the age of five."
Gawker has obtained the criminal complaint and arrest warrant filed by federal prosecutors against Fox News producer Aaron Bruns, including the affidavit of the detective who investigated him. Here's how they say it went down.
Aaron Bruns, a Fox News producer previously best known for following Hillary Clinton on the 2008 campaign trail, has been arrested for possession of child porn, TVNewser reports. The network has suspended him without pay.
By law, only lawmakers are allowed to look at child porn, but that's not enough for New York State's Net-crusading attorney general, Andrew Cuomo. He's demanded that Internet service providers Time Warner Cable, Verizon, and Sprint block access to sites that "disseminate child pornography". This is to be accomplished by preventing users from visiting Usenet newsgroups and a pet list of offending sites drawn up by Cuomo's office. According to News.com, nationwide, Time Warner Cable customers may not be able to visit Usenet at all, and Verizon customers will have the alt.* newsgroups blocked.
The New York attorney general's office ran a "sting" in which agents posed as customers and complained to the companies that they could see child porn. When the service providers ignored them, the agency threatened the companies with fraud. Now, according to the Times, the ISPs are paying over a million dollars to Andrew Cuomo's office and promising to block child porn sites as identified by the office — to all their subscribers across the U.S. As despicable and exploitative as child porn is, blocking it this way is a terrible move.
Note to the kids: I know you are not gonna stop sending each other naked photos of yourselves, but when your hot girlfriend becomes your ex, do not post those photos on MySpace with the caption "Yo tell me this bitch desurves this!!!!!!! This is HLK yall! Yo, U see how big her hole is! Its from me! TF gets my leftover's to bad she fucked." That's what Alex Phillips did to his 16-year-old ex, and now the 17-year-old boy is facing charges of sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography. Obviously he's a twat and deserving of the defamation charge that he's also getting. But is this really a child porn case?
In the original, the teddy bear's not there; there's just a crack obscuring the girl's vagina. This 1976 album cover from the Scorpions was banned in the U.S.; the German metal band used a shot of the band for the American cover of Virgin Killer. Now Wikipedia nerds are deciding whether it's child porn, and whether they should delete it from this Wikipedia page about the album. And if you clicked that last link, you might have just broken federal law.
San Francisco talk radio host Bernie Ward was instant messaging with a dominatrix around Christmastime a couple of years back when, about an hour into the conversation, he decides to send her a picture in which two underage kids are allegedly touching an adult "in a sexual way." Of course the dominatrix then called the cops, and now Ward is facing child pornography charges, and is claiming the whole thing was a misunderstanding because he was doing journalistic research for a book. The local ABC affiliate offered extensive coverage casting doubt on Ward's defense, then nearly ruined all that hard work by running this ad alongside their child porn reporting:
Our story so far: Kurt Eichenwald wrote some stories for the Times a while back (then he left the paper and went to Portfolio then left that mag!) about all the pedophiles on the internet and their multi-zillion-dollar-a-year business selling child porn and exploiting kids. And, well, beyond feeding the current "your children are at risk!" hysteria, some of his methods were kinda creepy and weird? Like donating money to his source before he was a source (a pornographer that he helped "free" from the kid's own porn ring) than he revealed to the Times, and, uh, also signing up for "an illegal porn website as a member and administrator." When asked why he didn't disclose any of this, he claimed to not remember the PayPal payments. Sketchy! Except that Kurt's finally going on NPR today to make everything about this story even more uncomfortable and terrible. Because his epilepsy has become so severe that, "according to his neurologist, he suffers from 'significant memory disruptions.'"
