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Washington Post journalist arrested for child sexual abuse material

FBI agents executed a search warrant on the residence of LeGro and seized multiple electronic devices, finding eleven videos depicting child sexual abuse on his work laptop.

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Pirro announced the charges, thanking the FBI and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, for the investigative work. File Image.

Thomas LeGro, a journalist with The Washington Post, was arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography, marking the second contributor to the outlet arrested on such charges in recent months.

 

FBI agents executed a search warrant on the residence of LeGro and seized multiple electronic devices, finding eleven videos depicting child sexual abuse on his work laptop, according to a release published last week by the Justice Department.

 

 

“During the execution of the search warrant agents observed what appeared to be fractured pieces of a hard drive in the hallway outside the room where LeGro’s work laptop was found,” the release added.

 

United States Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the charges, thanking the FBI and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, for the investigative work.

 

 

LeGro is the second contributor with The Washington Post to face child pornography charges this year. Darrin Bell, an editorial cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner whose work has appeared in the outlet, was found with 134 child sexual abuse videos in his home, as well as child pornography generated with artificial intelligence.

 

Bell had drawn a number of cartoons against Republicans which accused them of grooming children. The cartoonist has also been published in the New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times.

 

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