...dude looks like he spends a lot of time in a darkened room hunched in front of a monitor....
Posted on 03/09/2006 3:59:54 PM PST by Westlander
A computer taken to Best Buy for repairs prompted the arrest of a veteran attorney on child pornography charges. The attorney told police he was researching a book on child pornography, but authorities are not buying that defense.
69-year-old Dennis Moffat was busted when he brought his computer to a Madison Heights Best Buy. Technicians trying to fix his computer found thousands of pornographic images and called police.
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"I'm surprised 'Worst Buy' even knew what history or a hard drive was."
LOL! You have to be a lawyer to afford to have them work on a PC. Isn't it like $100 to install an OS, plus the price of the OS?
At first glance, this sounded awful. But the article states that of 11,000 images, 3 of them were of children 13-15 (according to a medical examiner).
Clearly the guy's a porn-addict, but it's hard to say that if 3 of 11,000 images are of adolescents (and that's just one ME's opinion), he's a pedophile.
In fact, that there are so FEW such images suggests otherwise.
Lesson: format your hard drive before taking it in for repairs.
...dude looks like he spends a lot of time in a darkened room hunched in front of a monitor....
Yep, that surprised me too. What was more surprising was this:
On that hard drive, over 11,000 pornographic pictures were located. 3 of which were of children that we had a medical examiner view and he believed they were ages anywhere from 13 to 15."
That's not a lot, most of these pervs I read about have thousands of under age pictures.
I know, that's 3 too many.
This guy and Fat Ted Kennedy must have taken the same bar exam . You would have to be pretty stupid to be an attorney and take your computer to be fixed with kiddie porn in it.
Wow 3 out of 11,0000/ Sounds like he might have got these through a porn mailing list and didnt look at it very well. If he has only 3 out of that number he doesnt sound like a Child molestor to me. He might be a perv but not a dangerous one. The DA should take a look at this case closely IMHO
Also why was the best buy folks taking time out to look at all that porn.
I wouldnt be suprised if he had something like Kazaaa or something similar. Put a few porn words in the search engine and went to work. Came home and had massive amounts. Might have never even looked at all of it.
I'm betting he's going to refuse to pay this time.
"Also why was the best buy folks taking time out to look at all that porn."
I used to work at a repair depot for IBM and Dell laptops. During that time I saw a LOT of porn on laptops. I would look for MP3s to play and would sometimes stumble upon porn. Eventually, I began to look for porn just to satisfy my weird cuiosity as to how many people would actually send in their computers with porn on the HDD. Usually all I had to do was go to Start/Documents and they showed in the recents.
I don't know why, but a few computers I worked on had porn pictures set as wallpaper. Maybe it was supposed to freak us out or something. And jeez at the webcam self-portraits. People are raunchy!
"I wouldnt be suprised if he had something like Kazaaa or something similar."
Me either. I've downloaded what I thought were music videos or SNL clips only to find they were re-named porn clips.
Hell, they probably even took it at the same bar!
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