Considering that Aaron Bruns was charged with possession of kiddie porn once before in 1999, the question begs how Fox News overlooked that rather minor detail in hiring this guy.
[mediabistro]- TVNewser has learned from a source that Aaron Bruns, a Washington, D.C. producer for Fox News Channel, was fired this morning.
Bruns was arrested Tuesday after an undercover Pennsylvania state police investigator determined Bruns' computer contained illicit images of children. A Fox News spokesperson confirms the firing.
Bruns had been with Fox News since 2002. In 2008 he was the embed producer on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Back story: Fox News producer who covered Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for the cable network is facing child porn charges after federal agents discovered photos and videos on his computer depicting "children under the age of ten being sexually abused by adult men and women."
Aaron Bruns, 29, was apparently nabbed after a Pennsylvania state police investigator conducting "pro-active undercover investigations" on an unnamed peer-to-peer network determined that Bruns's computer contained llicit images.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in U.S. District Court, an FBI search of a Dell laptop in Bruns's Washington, D.C. home turned up several photos and videos showing the sexual abuse of children as young as five years old.
The day before his P Street apartment was raided, Bruns filed a Foxnews.com story about Clinton and Joseph Biden delivering farewell speeches on the Senate floor. This is the second time Bruns has been arrested for possessing vile images.
In July 1999, Bruns, then 19, pleaded guilty in Michigan (where he was enrolled in college) to distributing child pornography over the Internet.
He was sentenced to three years probation. Bruns was collared in the earlier case after a Florida law enforcement official discovered his illicit online activities. When police raided Bruns's University of Michigan dorm room, they discovered about 6000 pornographic images of children on his computer's hard drive.
