Charles Leaf of Fox News is being held in New Jersey on charges of aggravated sexual assault on a four year old girl. He has been an investigative reporter with WNYW/Fox5 in New York and has also been featured on the Fox News Channel.
Brought to you by...
News Corpse
The Internet's Chronicle Of Media Decay.
KingOneEye's diary :: ::
This is not the first time Leaf has been accused of assault. He was previously alleged to have assaulted a councilwoman in Mobile, Alabama, where he was working at the time for a local news outlet. There were no criminal charges filed in that case, but there was reportedly a substantial settlement paid by the station.
I profiled Leaf in September in an article titled, "Charles Leaf: The New Most Repulsive Fox News Reporter." The article details his aggressive, dishonest, and unprofessional behavior in covering real estate developers associated with the Park51 project in Manhattan (the non-mosque that is not at ground zero). The coverage, featured prominently on Megyn Kelly's Fox News program (as well as The O'Reilly Factor, The Fox Report, Fox & Friends, On the Record, and Geraldo at Large) was based entirely on innuendo and unsupported, sensationalist, allegations. I described his reports at the time as not even providing enough evidence to start a rumor:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/8/908760/-Fox-News-Reporter-Arrested-For-Sexual-Assault-On-A-Minor