Fox 5 NY reporter faces child porn charge

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

A New York City TV reporter already accused in New Jersey of child sex assault faces an additional charge of possession of child pornography.

Authorities seized Charles Leaf's computer from his Wyckoff home when he was arrested last month on charges that he sexually abused a 4-year-old girl.

Bergen County prosecutors tell The Record newspaper that an analysis of the computer showed the award-winning Fox 5 reporter had child-pornography images on the computer.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/10/national/a054024S85.DTL&tsp=1

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More from the Bergen Record:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/110910_Fox_5_reporter_Charles_Leaf_charged_in_child_sex_assault_faces_new_charge.html

(Defense attorney Jack) Venturi said he will arrange within a few days for his client to live with friends.

(Judge Liliana) DeAvila-Silebi, however, said that while many people wrote letters in support of Leaf, none was willing to put up their homes to help him post bail.

“And the fact that he could not find a friend to live with… I have to take all these factors into account,” she said.

Unless Leaf manages to post the $270,000 bail, he will remain at the Bergen County Jail until another bail hearing is held.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicon Family Values. As usual.

Ptoooey. Finger-wagging Republicons can just take their faux moral 'superiority' and stuff it in their wide-stance, luggage-handling, credit-card partying diapers.

[RZM]

3. I don't like treating these types of stories as partisan issues

I think it's disrespectful to the victims, for one. Sexual crime (meaning pedophilia, rape, assault, etc.) occurs in all human societies, among all groups of people. My personal opinion is that like most sexual behavior, it's a biological thing. Granted, policies toward these issues can be partisan, but from my experience, it's actually often the hardcore evangelicals who are most zealous about treating child molesters etc. extremely harshly. I think this is certainly news, but I hesitate to connect it to politics. Besides, do you even know if the accused here even is a Republican? Maybe he is, I don't know, but I didn't see anything indicating that in the link. Local Fox operations are not always the same as Fox News.

[RavensChick]

2. Sicko!