Airport passenger screener charged in distributing child pornography

[GunnyFreedom]

http://randysright.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/airport-passenger-screener-charged-in-distributing-child-pornography/


Airport passenger screener charged in distributing child pornography!!

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A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.

Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.

Homeland Security agents arrested the TSA officer March 24, and he is being held without bail.
Although the case was unsealed Thursday, neither the indictment nor the news release mentioned Gordon’s job searching airline passengers for TSA.

The arrest comes as TSA grapples with several other incidents involving screeners, including a YouTube video posted last week by parents angry about the pat-down their 6-year-old daughter received at an airport in New Orleans. TSA officials said the pat-down was proper; the parents said the girl was “groped.”

Citing privacy rules, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis would not say if Gordon has been suspended from his job, but noted that he had been in federal custody since his arrest.

“We can assure the public that he is no longer working at the airport,” Davis said.
Gordon began working as a TSA screener at the Philadelphia airport in December 2005, Davis said. The airport has 900 screeners, she said.

If convicted of the child pornography charges, Gordon, 46, faces a minimum mandatory sentence of five years. The maximum prison term is 250 years and the top fine is $3.2 million.

Gordon is paid $37,000 annually as a TSA screener, records show. He has no prior criminal record, officials said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Levy, chief of his office’s child exploitation unit, declined to comment Friday.

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[acptulsa]

So, what's going to happen when actual scanner images find their way out into the world, thus making the fedgov an accessory before and after the fact in child porn crimes? Will we then have laws against locating FBI precincts and post offices within a mile of any school?

[Icymudpuppy]

So, what's going to happen when actual scanner images find their way out into the world, thus making the fedgov an accessory before and after the fact in child porn crimes? Will we then have laws against locating FBI precincts and post offices within a mile of any school?

That could work out well. Shut down the Gov by putting daycares and private schools all over the place.

[GunnyFreedom]

Oops, missed the post by nateerb (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?11671-nateerb). please feel free to merge/destroy/obliterate w/e this thread. thanks!

Thread that beat me to the punch:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?288872-TSA-screener-charged-in-distributing-child-pornography

[Sola_Fide]

Sick and evil.

[dannno]

If this guy is dumb enough to upload the images to facebook and include a picture of himself, how many dozens of slightly more intelligent screeners are out there uploading them to more anonymous places and not getting caught??

[Anti Federalist]

Look to see more and more of this.

Pedophiles are naturally going to be attracted to a job where you get the chance to touch little children's genitals on regular basis.

[acptulsa]

Pedophiles are naturally going to be attracted to a job where you get the chance to touch little children's genitals on regular basis...

...while the government not only fails to prosecute them for it, but pays them for it.

Ain't government wonderful? Encouraging and paying sick thugs to be sick thugs all the world over, since time immemorial.

[dannno]

Oh, and since they didn't seem to mention the age of the girls in the article I wouldn't call this guy a pedophile if the girls he was uploading were or appeared to be in the 15/16/17 range, that would be a hebephile... but this guy should be in pretty big trouble no matter what age the girls in the picture were adult or not, however I can see reasons for a stiffer sentence if they are under 18, and a much stiffer sentence if they are actually children.

[Vessol]

But how could this happen. The government told us that the images were not stored nor were they accessible. Why would the government ever lie to us!?

[acptulsa]

Well, gee, danno, I expect he will get a stiffer sentence because they're under eighteen. Considering it would otherwise not be a crime.

Otherwise I couldn't give less of a damn about these finely split hairs.

Thug + uniform = tyranny.

[Anti Federalist]

But how could this happen. The government told us that the images were not stored nor were they accessible. Why would the government ever lie to us!?

Whoa, had to go back and read that story again and make sure that they were not actual scanner images.

And like danno said, what kind dork uploads kiddie porn through their myspacefacelinkedinbook page?

WTF???