Ex-ABC News reporter James Gordon Meek facing minimum 5 years in child porn case following guilty plea

NY Post ^ | 21/7/23 | Priscilla Degregory

[Eleutheria5]

Disgraced former ABC News reporter James Gordon Meek is facing at least five years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography in a Virginia federal court Friday.

Meek, 53, admitted to transporting and possessing child sexual abuse material, which carries jail time ranging from 5-20 years.

Under federal sentencing guidelines that come with his guilty plea, Meek is likely to face far less than the max at his Sept. 29 sentencing.

Meek, a once-acclaimed national security journalist, was hit with the federal charges in February roughly 10 months after the FBI raided his Arlington, Va., home April 27, 2022, seizing his electronics.

Meek resigned from ABC News and went off the grid immediately after the raid.

On his phone, the feds say they found three conversations in which Meek allegedly expressed a desire to sexually abuse children — and they found he had both received and sent photos and videos of child pornography.

In one troubling message, Meek allegedly asked someone on a chat app, “Have you ever raped a toddler girl? It’s amazing.” And in another message he shared a perverted fantasy of “abducting, drugging, and raping” a 12-year-old girl.

The shamed journalist also kept child porn images and videos on his other devices that showed he’d chatted with minors on the internet, prosecutors allege.

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[FamiliarFace]

Sounds good to me!

[FamiliarFace]

Let’s tell Jim to close his eyes. That way it won’t hurt so much. I would guess that’s the lie he tells the toddler girls when he rapes them.

[Eagles6]

So, he pleads guilty to child porn and skates on child rape?

WTH?

[Liz]

[GailA]

btt

[dfwgator]

Bet he doesn’t serve even one year.

[Carriage Hill]

SPJNK.

[FamiliarFace]

For real.

Probably can’t prove that one. They’d have to find the little girl, and they’re probably not that interested in finding her anyway. It would take up *too* many resources.

[FamiliarFace]

Thinking about that possibility makes me sick to my stomach.

[Eleutheria5]

Not taking that bet.

[Eagles6]

Possible.

[FamiliarFace]

I’m sure they could find her if they wanted to. I wonder if they even tried.

[Eagles6]

Yeah.

[Craftmore]

So what “pizza” did he order?

[TheElectionWasStolen]

Did they not charge him yet for the infant-rape?

[FamiliarFace]

Sure doesn’t sound like it.

[Eleutheria5]

Probably don’t have a specific victim yet, just a text saying he dug raping toddlers. Likely nobody that anyone cared about, like a celebrity’s kids, just kids from the ghetto or barrio, or in a park somewhere.