Former ABC News Producer Faces Decades Behind Bars After Child Pornography Guilty Plea – Update
deadline.comUPDATE, 1:41 PM: Former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek today pleaded guilty to “transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material,” according to the Department of Justice.
First arrested in late January, the ex-newsman faces a mandatory minimum of no less than five years in prison on the charges with a maximum of 40 years behind bars.
Meek will be sentenced on September 29. The DOJ was graphic Friday in describing Meek’s vile crime: According to court documents, while visiting South Carolina in February 2020, James Gordon Meek, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, used an online messaging platform on his iPhone to send and receive images and videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and to discuss his sexual interest in children.
Some of the images and videos depicted prepubescent minors and minors under the age of 12, including an infant being raped. Meek brought the iPhone containing the child sexual abuse material back with him when he returned to Virginia.
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