Probe now said to find no child porn in Pa. email scandal

    The office of Pennsylvania’s attorney general is now saying that a pornographic email scandal involving state employees did not include any child pornography.In a TV interview Tuesday, Attorney General Kathleen Kane said the emails included “hardcore, graphic” material that sometimes depicted children. The TV interviewer did not ask Kane to provide a more detailed description.

    Asked to elaborate Wednesday, Kane’s office said agents know of no child pornography exchanged in the email scandal that has cost some government officials their jobs.

    Kane’s spokeswoman, Renee Martin, said images that the attorney general referred to must be considered in the context of an unacceptable workplace culture created by the exchange of pornographic emails. One she singled out showed a boy peeking into a girl’s underwear.

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