Ex-director of nuclear programs at Oak Ridge National Lab arrested on child sex charges
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The now-former Director of Nuclear Energy Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been arrested following an investigation into allegations that he solicited explicit messages and images from underage girls.
Andrew Worrall, 56, faces charges of attempted coercion and enticement, sex trafficking of a child, and exploitation of a child for the purpose of producing child pornography. He is no longer employed at the US Department of Energy’s largest national lab, a spokesperson told 6 News.
An investigation began earlier this year after an 18-year-old woman emailed screenshots of text conversations between her and Worrall to an ORNL employee ethics hotline. According to the criminal complaint, she told Worrall that she was 16 years old and the text messages were sent from a phone number listed as his official ORNL contact. Dialogue included in court documents show he offered to meet her and went on to discuss possible travel arrangements.
Investigators reviewed Snapchat data from an account linked to Worrall and found sexually explicit communications with “many users” who stated they had not yet reached the age of 18. One user interviewed during the investigation said that Worrall sent her $20 in exchange for explicit images and videos according to court documents. Agents confirmed she was underage at the time by reviewing her driver’s permit.
The Snapchat account was traced to Worrall’s home in Farragut and investigators obtained a search warrant for the residence earlier this month.
Ex-director of nuclear programs at Oak Ridge National Lab arrested on child sex charges
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Maybe one of the men here can explain to me what makes some men willing to risk EVERYTHING to get inside the pants of a minor, and I apologize for asking you to go to that dark place. I was one of those female minors once and I was a typical silly girl who had nothing to offer an adult. I completely understand that the men want access to the body parts of these girls but, beyond that, all a teenage girl is is trouble. There are plenty of silly adult women who will more than happily get on their backs for some trinkets and cash, so why risk flushing your life down the toilet for, pardon the vulgarity, a tight vagina. Are their penises just so tiny that that’s the only way to feel pleasure? I’m trying to see what the reward is that would be worth that risk.
Senate Bill 1462: Putting Alexa in the Woods
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1462?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/senate_bill_1462_putting_alexa_in_the_woods.html
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Congress has already rammed the Fix Our Forests Act through the House. Now it moves to the Senate as Bill 1462 — and if there were ever a bill that deserved to be doused in cold water, it’s this one.
The premise sounds noble: early wildfire detection, faster response, safer forests. The reality? A nationwide surveillance grid dressed up in green camouflage. Cameras on towers, drones overhead, mesh networks buried in the soil, all feeding into proprietary artificial intelligence run by private companies and subsidized by federal tax dollars. We are being told to trade liberty for “safety” — again.
Colorado has already become a test case. Xcel Energy partnered with Pano AI to install 21 surveillance towers across the state, claiming to cover more than 1.5 million acres. Think about that: more than Delaware in size, scanned minute by minute, 24 hours a day. Colorado is an outdoors state. People move here — and visit here — because they want freedom. They want to hike trails, ride mountain bikes, fish streams, and pitch tents under the stars. What they don’t want is to wonder whether a spinning camera on a ridgeline is tracking them, whether their kids’ campfire songs are being recorded, or whether an AI system in Silicon Valley has logged their license plate on a dirt road. But that is exactly where we are.
The chief evangelist of this model is Pano AI, founded by Sonia Kastner, formerly of Nest cameras, and Arvind Satyam, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Satyam admitted that he was inspired to “fight wildfires” at Davos in 2020.
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A Republican Congress and Republican President gave us the Patriot Act and now a Republican Congress is trying to pass another law that wants us to trade liberty for ‘safety’.