Ex-ABC News reporter James Gordon Meek hit with child pornography charges
Former ABC News reporter James Gordon Meek was hit with a federal child pornography charge this week–almost ten months after the FBI raided his home and seized his laptop and other electronic devices.
If convicted, he faces a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years, the Department of JusticeIn an affidavit unsealed Wednesday, FBI Special Agent Tonya Sturgill Griffith explained that the investigation into Meek’s online activities started in March 2021, when Dropbox alerted authorities to child porn stored in the veteran journalist’s account.
“The iPhone 8 contained three chat conversations in which the username ‘Pawny4’ was engaging in sexually explicit conversations where the participants expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children,” Griffith wrote. In one particularly disturbing exchange with an unidentified user, Meek allegedly asked “Have you ever raped a toddler girl? It’s amazing.”FBI agents said they found horrific images and texts Meek exchanged on Kik and other messaging apps after seizing his laptop and other electronic devices.In another conversation dated to late winter 2020, Meek told a different unnamed Kik user about his fantasy of “abducting, drugging, and raping” her as a 12-year-old girl.
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