Despite Kane’s assertions, no child porn in emails

LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: For three months, embattled Attorney General Kathleen Kane and her staff have said sexually explicit emails shared among state employees did not involve images or videos depicting child pornography.

But on national television Tuesday night, Kane told a CNN reporter that some of the graphic sex photos and videos did involve minors…

Some photos of children, under the message headline “men in training,” were emailed among the state employees, Kane’s agency spokeswoman Renee Martin said. But none of that material constitutes child pornography under Pennsylvania criminal law, Martin said… (more)

EDITOR: We thank the reader who brought this article to our attention. We appreciate that the photos were only “borderline pornography.” We also suspect that this type of casual attitude was part of the background of the delayed Jerry Sandusky invesetigation and prosecution.

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