Air Pedophile

[marmar]

(Reuters) - A Utah college professor accused of viewing naked images of children on his laptop while flying first-class to Boston over the weekend pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of possessing child pornography, authorities said.

Grant Smith, a professor of material science and engineering at the University of Utah, was arrested on Saturday shortly after his Delta Airlines flight from Utah to Boston landed at Logan International Airport, state police said.

Another passenger who saw Smith's computer screen alerted the flight crew about what appeared to be child pornography and also told a family member who contacted authorities, police said.

"These weren't photos of a child in the bath that a parent might keep," Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley said of the images. "These were explicitly sexual and extremely disturbing." .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/28/us-crime-porn-flight-idUSTRE7AR2CQ20111128

[CoffeeCat]

1. Glad that someone had the sense to tell..

...on this sicko. Also glad that he was arrested after his plane landed.

The system worked.

[liberalmuse]

3. One instance where someone didn't keep silent...

For some reason it's more disturbing (to me, anyway) that someone entrusted to teach our kids is caught doing this. I'll never understand it.

[liberalmuse]

2. Damn, that's my alma mater.

:(

[arcane1]

4. Twisted AND brain-dead stupid

Damn, I can't imagine even watching regular softcore porn on a freakin PLANE!!

His only possible semi-sane answer would be "I was hoping to get caught"

[LadyHawkAZ]

5. Welcome to Utah!

GO UTES! WE'RE #1!! (in internet porn use).

[Glimmer of Hope]

6. Really? Utah?

[marmar]

7. Makes sense. In a culture with an emphasis on sexual repression......

..... people are going to seek some kind of outlet.

[WinkyDink]

10. Please. Enlighten me on the cultures that do not "repress" child porn.

[_eh]

12. I think what marmar meant was

that if you repress normal, healthy human sexuality, it comes out in perverse ways.

[izquierdista]

13. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome

Some of their ancient artifacts are.....NSFW.

[marmar]

14. I was referring to the stat about Utah being #1 in Internet porn use.......

..... follow the trail of subposts and you'll see it, n'est-ce pas?

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. Yep

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11821265

[saras]

9. If others disagree with the DA's evaluation of the pics, he's screwed anyways. Who needs a trial?

Yeah, sure, he'll turn out to be guilty. This time. Maybe a handful more, until everyone is used to just nailing them instantly.

Then, you'll start hearing people saying they didn't do it. They didn't have the stuff, they've never looked at it. But you won't hear it from anyone else than them, and no one will pay any attention. After all, it's child porn. Utter scum. The lowest of the low. Who needs to see to anything like a fair trial?

[WinkyDink]

11. Wow. Quite the defense when there's zero evidence for that position.