American journalist was arrested and accused of having child sexual abuse materials
The United States Department of Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Friday that a prize winner Washington Post Journalist, after a search at his home, was accused of having child pornography.According to a deoj Press releaseThe work of video legs depicting child sexual abuse materials was found in the laptop.The Department of Justice said, “On 26 June, FBI agents carried out a search warrant at Lego’s residence and seized several electronic devices. A review of his work laptop revealed a folder in which 11 video shows child sexual abuse materials,” said the Department of Justice.“During the execution of the search warrant, the agents noticed that the fragmented fragments of a hard drive appeared in the hallway outside the room, where the legs were found to be the laptop,” it said.The case against the Washington Post Journalist was brought as part of the DOJ project Safe Childhood, an initiative of February 2006 designed to save children from online exploitation and misuse. Project safe, led by the American Attorney offices, under the leadership of officers (federal, state, local) at various levels, detecting individuals who exploit children through the Internet, and identify and defend victims.Washington posts reactsIn a statement, Washington Post Stated This “understands the severity of these allegations, and the employee is placed on leave,” but refused to comment further.Since 2000, 48 -year -old Lagro, who worked in posts for 18 years in two stints, was part of his team, who won a Pulitzer Award in 2018 for exploratory reporting for coverage of Roy Moore’s Senate candidature.When convicted, they have to face maximum punishment of 20 years.
