FNC Producer Aaron Bruns Arrested (kiddie porn, ohnoes)

[DainBramaged]

A TVNewser tipster tells us Aaron Bruns, a producer in the Fox News Channel Washington, D.C. bureau, has been arrested and charged with one count of possession of child pornography. A Fox News spokesperson confirms, telling TVNewser, "We are aware of the arrest and he is currently suspended without pay."

Bruns is in federal court in Washington, D.C. this afternoon appearing on the felony charge.

Bruns has been with FNC for more than six years. He was an embed producer with the Hillary Clinton campaign last year.

Developing...

> Update: FishbowlDC reports this is not Bruns' first run-in with the law. He dropped out of the University of Michigan in 1999 after being arrested on charges of distributing child pornography. So why wasn't Bruns checked out by Fox News? A network spokesperson tells TVNewser criminal background checks were not instituted until 2003. Bruns was hired in 2002.

> Update (2): The Smoking Gun has obtained the arrest affidavit. A warning that it is graphic in its detail.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/sort_of_serious_stuff/bruns_update_repeat_kiddie_porn_offender_108311.asp
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0210093foxnews1.html

Fox Newser In Kiddie Porn Bust
Feds: FBI search found vile videos, photos on producer's laptop
FEBRUARY 10--A Fox News producer who covered Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for the cable network is facing child porn charges after federal agents discovered photos and videos on his computer depicting "children under the age of ten being sexually abused by adult men and women." Aaron Bruns, 29, was apparently nabbed after a Pennsylvania state police investigator conducting "pro-active undercover investigations" on an unnamed peer-to-peer network determined that Bruns's computer contained illicit images. According to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in U.S. District Court, an FBI search of a Dell laptop in Bruns's Washington, D.C. home turned up several photos and videos showing the sexual abuse of children as young as five years old. A copy of the February 6 affidavit can be found below. The day before his P Street apartment was raided, Bruns, pictured at right, filed a Foxnews.com story about Clinton and Joseph Biden delivering farewell speeches on the Senate floor. This is the second time Bruns has been arrested for possessing vile images. In July 1999, Bruns, then 19, pleaded guilty in Michigan (where he was enrolled in college) to distributing child pornography over the Internet. He was sentenced to three years probation. Bruns was collared in the earlier case after a Florida law enforcement official discovered his illicit online activities. When police raided Bruns's University of Michigan dorm room, they discovered about 6000 pornographic images of children on his computer's hard drive.

GRAPHIC CONTENT at link (criminal complaint), strong stomach required.

[eleny]

1. another one bites the dust

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Look at Smoking Gun's link - it details what the FBI/MPD task force found

on his computer.

Truly disgusting.

Hawkeye-X

[TK421]

6. That is HARDCORE DISGUSTING....

:puke: holy shit, if this is true then they better lock this fucker up soon

[Barack_America]

7. Really disturbing. I would warn people against reading that.

Awful. Just awful.

[Janice325]

10. Thanks for the warning.

I ALMOST checked out the link (in spite of my better judgment), but your comment helped me say "no, don't go there" to myself. In certain instances, I'll trust someone else's judgment. This is one of those times.

Thanks again, Barack_America, for the heads up.

[Barack_America]

3. Oh, please, please let this be true!

This is true?!?!

ETA:
Although, my God, how can people do this to kids?

[DainBramaged]

4. This is true, Fair and Balanced true

[Barack_America]

5. So Fox News knowingly hires child abusers?

This guy was on three years probation for distributing kiddie porn BEFORE Fox hired him.

That's just great.

[DainBramaged]

8. So, think about this, the images were on his LAPTOP

who did he share them with at work?


Inquiring minds want to know who he will implicate to save his own scummy neck.

[FedUpWithIt All]

9. I so BADLY want to do harm sometimes.

Fucker.

[Mist]

11. And I ask the question yet again: what IS it with RWers and pedophilia? nt

[Hello_Kitty]

12. Why the FUCK wasn't he thrown UNDER the jail the FIRST time???

:grr: