A former investigative reporter for ABC News has been arrested and charged with transportation of child pornography.
Federal authorities found evidence that James Gordon Meek sent and received child pornography images, according to court documents unsealed on Feb. 1 after Meek’s arrest in Virginia.
The evidence included an iPhone at Meek’s home that showed the phone involved in child porn distribution through Kik, a messaging application, Tonya Sturgill Griffith, an FBI special agent, said in an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint. It also included approximately 100 images of child porn.
Meek, 53, has been charged with transportation of child pornography.
He faces at least five years, and up to 20 years, in prison if convicted….