{"id":1831883,"date":"2023-02-01T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1831883"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:20:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:20:52","slug":"former-abc-news-producer-arrested-charged-with-transporting-images-of-child-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-abc-news-producer-arrested-charged-with-transporting-images-of-child-sexual-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ABC News Producer Arrested, Charged With Transporting Images of Child Sexual Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-abc-news-producer-arrested-charged-with-transporting-images-of-child-sexual-abuse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1831883&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Federal prosecutors have charged an ex-ABC News producer with transporting images that depict the sexual abuse of children.<\/p>\n<p>James Gordon Meek 53, from Arlington, Virginia, was a producer who covered terrorist and major crimes for the network. The file hosting service Dropbox alerted authorities to five possible videos of child sexual exploit material in an accounts. The information was ultimately received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office\u2019s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>FBI authorities conducted a raid of Meek\u2019s residence in April 2022, and he resigned shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw enforcement seized multiple devices that allegedly contained evidence of the transportation of images of child sexual abuse,\u201d Authorities stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/man-arrested-transporting-images-child-sexual-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING:<\/p>\n<p>Former ABC News producer arrested for transportation of child pornography<\/p>\n<p>James Gordon Meek 53<\/p>\n<p>TW: Highly explicit descriptions of child sexual abuse in the arrest affidavit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C9kC7l2Jxg\">https:\/\/t.co\/C9kC7l2Jxg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/04pYUrOPmQ\">pic.twitter.com\/04pYUrOPmQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnOpenSecret\/status\/1620838272917458946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, devices belonging to the producer allegedly contained images depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct and multiple chat conversations with users engaged in sexually explicit conversations where the participants expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn two of those conversations, a username allegedly associated with Meek received and distributed child sexual abuse materials through an internet-based messaging platform,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/james-gordon-meek-warrant-1234672165\/\">reported<\/a> after federal agents raided Meek\u2019s home, prosecutors claimed they found pornographic images on the producer\u2019s iPhone 8, iPhone 6, an external hard drive, and laptop depicting the abuse of children as young as a toddler.<\/p>\n<p>Meek\u2019s iPhone 8 allegedly contained messages and child pornography exchanged with another alleged pedophile.<\/p>\n<p>In the messages, Rolling Stone reported, Meek allegedly appeared to confess to previously abusing children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you ever raped a toddler girl? It\u2019s amazing,\u201d he allegedly wrote in one exchange, Rolling Stone reported.<\/p>\n<p>Meek allegedly created a Snapchat account under the handle \u201choolijax,\u201d where he posed as a young girl to solicit pornographic material.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities who interviewed one of the children on Meek\u2019s Snapchat account found on his phone \u201cconfirmed that Meek and other men had approached her through Snapchat and had pressured her to provide pictures depicting sexually explicit conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Gorokhov, an attorney for Meek, said in a court filing reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/02\/01\/james-gordon-meek-journalist-child-pornopgraphy\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> that he could provide evidence proving his client did not put the community in danger, adding Meek could be eligible for bond while his trial is pending.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a new Justice Department policy last year which outlined that in order to seize materials from a journalist, authorities would have to believe that the reporter was working for a hostile foreign power, or terrorist organization, or involved in situations like kidnappings or crimes against children.<\/p>\n<p>Meek was working on a book about President Joe Biden\u2019s pullout from Afghanistan at the time of the FBI pre-dawn raid on his home last year.<\/p>\n<p>Meek was also a former senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee and worked on investigating the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He has four Emmy nominations, winning one in 2017 for ABC News\u2019 breaking news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Meek faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison, and a maximum penalty of 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors charged a former award-winning ABC News producer Tuesday night on allegations of transporting images depicting the sexual abuse of children. James Gordon Meek, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, who was a producer who covered terrorism and major crimes for the network, was arrested after the file hosting service Dropbox tipped off authorities about five &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1831886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7261,6599,4376,3649,6716,8750,4133,6333,4859,11507],"class_list":["post-1831883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-abc","tag-abuse","tag-arrested","tag-charged","tag-child","tag-images","tag-news","tag-producer","tag-sexual","tag-transporting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}