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Mike Davis, a meteorologist for Ohio television station WBNS, was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly selling or distributing an image of a young girl engaging in or partaking in sexual activity on August 5, WCMH reported.
Mark Gofstein, Franklin County Sheriff's Office public information officer, said law enforcement executed a search warrant on Davis's Upper Arlington home on Thursday morning before making the arrest on the charge, which is a second-degree felony.
A detective working with the sheriff's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force made the arrest, according to court documents.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on September 6 and is currently being held at the Franklin County Jail. Davis has worked as a meteorologist in central Ohio since 1987.
WBNS reported its own version of the story on its website, removing Davis from the roster of meteorologists as of Thursday afternoon.
The news station also had an addendum at the bottom of the story stating that it would cover Davis's arrest "with the same ethical standards that we would with any other case."
Reader Comments
But... I have legally defended two alleged 'molesters' (NOT people with 'images'); both were clearly innocent by the standard of beyond reasonable doubt. But, but the percentages? One guy was 99% innocent (the highest % I ever use on anything.) The other guy was about 55% guilty.
The result: The innocent guy is stlll doing his 25years, no good time, no gain time; the guilty guy we got acquitted.
And now they've got 'proof' but it was literally "planted" more than once to computers of people I know too well.
The war on kiddy porn images is little diferent than the war on pot users. (I'll get some shit for this - but when one of YOU get it remotely planted on an old hard drive that pre dated the internet, what are You going to do?"
Answer: Call a lawyer. Why? Because you're innocent and the cops (you then learn) are really 'out to get you.' And it happens, percentage wise, about the same as it does with drug crimes.
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