{"id":49002,"date":"2026-04-12T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49002"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:46:10","slug":"award-winning-former-wapo-journalist-pleads-guilty-in-child-porn-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49002","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Former WaPo Journalist Pleads Guilty in Child Porn Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An award-winning former journalist for the <em>Washington Post<\/em> has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-eight-year-old Thomas Pham LeGro of Washington, DC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/journalist-pleads-guilty-possession-child-pornography\">pleaded<\/a> guilty Friday to a single count of possessing the material, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2042682955357712573\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreannaMorello\/status\/2042682955357712573\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeGro, a\u00a0video journalist, was arrested\u00a0June 26, 2025,\u00a0after\u00a0FBI agents executed a search warrant at\u00a0his\u00a0residence and seized several electronic devices. During the execution of the warrant,\u00a0agents\u00a0observed\u00a0what appeared to be fractured\u00a0pieces of a hard drive\u00a0hidden under a rug\u00a0in\u00a0the basement of the residence,\u201d the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office of the District of Columbia said in the news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA review of\u00a0LeGro\u2019s laptop revealed a folder that\u00a0contained\u00a011 videos depicting child sexual abuse.\u00a0These videos depicted adult men\u00a0sexually abusing prepubescent children and forcing them to engage in sex acts,\u201d the attorney\u2019s office continued.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2042954891958550965\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAO_DC\/status\/2042954891958550965\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LeGro in 2018 was on a team of the newspaper\u2019s reporters who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/thomas-legro\/\">awarded<\/a> a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Senate candidacy of Republican Judge Roy Moore in Alabama \u201cand a subsequent effort to discredit The Post\u2019s reporting,\u201d according to his profile on the newspaper\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">In 2017, the <em>Post<\/em>\u00a0published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/11\/09\/judge-roy-moore-responds-wapo-smears-will-never-give\/\">allegations<\/a>\u00a0that Moore had engaged in inappropriate conduct with four teenage girls over 30 years prior, including one who was underage, Breitbart News reported at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Moore hit back against the allegations, saying they were \u201ccompletely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0on this campaign.\u201d His campaign also said that \u201cthis garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Breitbart News report noted, \u201cThe newspaper formally\u00a0endorsed\u00a0Moore\u2019s Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, in the Senate race, describing Moore as \u2018unfit to serve.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division website, images of child pornography are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/criminal\/criminal-ceos\/child-pornography\">referred<\/a> to as child sexual abuse images.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, no area of the United States or country in the world is immune from individuals who seek to sexually exploit children through child pornography. The continuous production and distribution of child pornography increases the demand for new and more egregious images, perpetuating the continued molestation of child victims, as well as the abuse of new children,\u201d the site read.<\/p>\n<p>LeGro is scheduled to be sentenced on September 3.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2026\/04\/12\/doj-former-award-winning-washington-post-journalist-pleads-guilty-in-child-porn-case\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning former journalist for the Washington Post has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. 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