The life of a 65 year old attorney is about to change profoundly: he has been charged with using his Philadelphia law firm’s computer to access and view child pornography.
According to an affidavit, Lawyer Goerge Bock Ditter told investigators that it all began when he came across child pornography while researching material for his book. In his own chilling words, “this is where I would say I fell off the cliff … I discovered an unknown interest in these images …”
It all began when Ditter, a contracted lawyer, printed a sexually explicit image using the company’s copier which was later discovered by one of the firm’s partners. Later, an investigation began when the law firm called in a tech consulting company to deal with a computer virus that had infected the firm’s network.
Search Terms
The tech company dug in further into Ditter’s work computer and found more images as well as the search terms that Ditter used to access the porn including “really young teen boys” and other much more explicit terminology.
Lessons to Be Learned
Employees use work computers for personal activities: it is almost inevitable. Employees are known to check email, look at Facebook, and read gossip – all on company time. This culture is the birthplace of terms such as NSFW. However, if there is anything that is clearly NSFW, child pornography tops the list.
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- Upper Gwynedd Lawyer Used Law Firm Computer to Get Child Porn (The Reporter Online)
- Child Pornography and Selfies: What You Need to Know (FindLaw’s Learn About the Law)
- Gen X or Younger? Chances Are You’re Not Going to Make Partner (FindLaw’s Greedy Associates)
- Al Jazeera America Suspends Its GC on License Irregularities (FindLaw’s Greedy Associates)
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