S.F. gay rights advocate arrested over child porn

[Mogi67]

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-gay-rights-advocate-arrested-over-child-porn-3662138.php

San Francisco police have arrested veteran gay rights advocate Larry Brinkin in connection with felony possession of child pornography.

Brinkin, 66, who worked for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission before his retirement in 2010, was taken into custody Friday night. He spent the night in jail before he was released on bail, according to a spokeswoman for the sheriff's department.

The district attorney's office will decide Tuesday whether to file charges. "We're still reviewing the case," district attorney's spokeswoman Stephanie Ong Stillman said Monday.

Police say that Brinkin had pornographic images, some that appear to show children as young as 1 and 2 or 3 years old being sodomized and performing oral sex on adult men, in e-mail attachments linked to his account, according to a search warrant served by San Francisco police. The e-mail account also is linked to Yahoo discussion groups on sexual exploitation of young boys and girls.

Police seized two laptops, a desk top computer, videos, a floppy disk and thumb drives from Brinkin's Waller Street home.

During his 22-year tenure at the Human Rights Commission, Brinkin was best known for championing equal rights for gays and lesbians. He helped craft San Francisco's groundbreaking Equal Benefits Ordinance, which became a national model for workplace equality.

Upon Brinkin's retirement, the Board of Supervisors approved a resolution declaring the week of Feb. 1, 2010, "Larry Brinkin Week" in San Francisco, saying his "dedication to advance the civil rights of all people has never stopped."

The floppy disc gave him away

 

[DEATH eVADER]

The floppy disc gave him away

People still use those?

 

[Vegeta897]

People still use those?

Makes them all the more safe and secure to use!

 

[[Dragoon]]

Makes them all the more safe and secure to use!

I assume the police were mystified by the strange plastic tablet, until a passing wizard explained its archaic use to them.

I also assume we're going to see a big upswing in idiots conflating homosexuality with pedophilia.

 

[Dekstar]

"dedication to advance the civil rights of all people has never stopped."
Because kids should have the right to a cock in their mouth, right?

... Guys? Right?

 

[Stylo]

The floppy disc gave him away

I knew a lot of paedophiles were usually caught after they'd gotten sloppy but this is ridiculous.

 

[Stylo]

I dont see anything about a floppy disk,says something about atachments in his email accounts

email companies can see into that?

Executing a search warrant Friday, police seized two laptops, a desk top computer, videos, a floppy disk and thumb drives from Brinkin's Waller Street home.

There's Wally.

 

[Vegeta897]

Why is your English still poor after 8.5 years on this site?

We don't know, that's just the way it is.

 

[morgs]

He obviously hasn't realized that the market for them has flopped.

 

[Krynn72]

He likes to use them because it makes him feel like he's not the only one with a 3.5" floppy.