Larry Brinkin, S.F. Gay Rights Activist, Charged With E-Mailing Child Porn Images
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The charges came three months after Brinkin, 66, was first arrested by San Francisco police, who claim he had been using the e-mail address zack3737@aol.com to view images of children as young as perhaps 1 year old being sodomized by and performing oral sex on adult men, accompanied by highly racist commentary.
District Attorney George Gascón announced today that Brinkin was officially charged with two counts of distributing child pornography and four counts of possessing child pornography.
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Then on Aug. 8, the SFPD seized additional computers belonging to Brinkin, which allegedly contained dozens of images of child pornography, according to the DA. On Sept. 20, police arrested Brinkin again and booked him on child pornography charges.
"Possession and distribution of child pornography is a serious crime," said Gascón. "A guilty plea or conviction on any count would require the defendant to register as a sex offender for life."
Brinkin retired from the city's Human Rights Commission in 2010, and has been a beloved member of the gay community; the Board of Supervisors declared the first week of February as "Larry Brinkin Week."
The community was stunned after Brinkin's initial arrest; At the time, Theresa Sparks, executive director of the Human Rights Commission, told us this allegation is "beyond hard to believe."
"It's almost incredulous, there's no way I could believe such a thing," Sparks told us in June. "He's always been one of my heroes, and he's the epitome of human rights activist -- this is man who coined phrases we use in our daily language."
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