Police Apologize for Sending Child Porn

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police apologized on Thursday after inadvertently sending Internet images of child pornography to 1,800 schools while trying to warn principals about children at risk of abuse.

The mistake came during a police crackdown on child pornography that has so far resulted in more than 200 arrests, including police, teachers, clergy and the owner of a child-care center, after more than 400 raids.

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Morgan said the images of three young girls had been sent to the state's Department of Education. The photographs sent by police and found during the arrest of a man suspected of possessing child pornography, had been cropped to show only the girls' faces.

However, inadequate software had been used in the cropping process and the full images remained embedded in some files, which were later opened by a handful of recipients, he said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=6&u=/nm/20041126/od_nm/australia_pornography_dc

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on pornography.

I'll never forget the stupidity of that one. Symbolizes the entire Faux experience for me.

I wonder who's going to get fired...

If I understand the kiddie porn laws, intent doesn't have much to do with it.

This is from Friday. It was posted here at that time.