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ABC personality charged over child porn
June 11, 2010, 1:06 pm
ABC personality Andy Muirhead has been charged with a child porn offence, the broadcaster's website said on Friday.
Muirhead has become a household name as the host of Collectors.
The ABC website said the Australian Federal Police had charged Andrew Robert Muirhead with downloading or accessing computer images of child pornography.
"The Australian Federal Police has confirmed computer equipment was seized from the 34-year-old's home in Hobart during a search on Tuesday," The ABC said.
"Muirhead, the host of popular ABC program Collectors, has been charged with one count of using the internet to access child pornography."
"The ABC was notified late yesterday by Muirhead's management that he had been charged with a serious offence."
"ABC Corporate Affairs says Muirhead has taken unpaid leave."
The Collectors website was taken off-line this afternoon and the ABC said Muirhead would not present Collectors on ABC TV, nor the breakfast program on ABC Local Radio in Hobart pending the outcome of the legal proceedings.
The ABC said the Collectors program on ABC1 would be off air until further notice.
Muirhead will appear in Hobart Magistrates Court on August 2.
I know doggie..
But...do you really think they would put it in the news..if they did not have enough
evidence? It does say charged!
And I am hoping they got it all wrong 
I really like him...but this will ruin him.
and if he is found not guilty...it has still ruined him..and that won't impress me 
I'm a bit confused by the assasination by media.
If he's innocent, his name is mud.
If he's guilty, well....
What about the rest of the Collectors folk? One of my favourite Oz shows.
and now for the bad joke-
This weeks Mystery Object is?
Andy's Hard Drive.
I bet he claims it was research!!!! Why would he get a suppression order?? Justice behind closed doors is only good for the conspiracy theory people.
A supression order does not mean it is behind closed doors, anyone can go in and listen a sper usual but it simply means the press cannot print their name.
They are only granted in exceptional circumstances and I can't think of very many
As of now, guilty or innocent, his career is over. If he is guilty then its no good but honestly the way its presented.... its as if he is worse than Hitler. Child pornography is obscene and disgusting. However why is the same not argued for movies displaying gratuitous violence including torture, sadism and murder? Some violent shows are on prime time TV.
If its untrue and he did not possess this material it doesn't really matter. His career is over and he is an unperson.
Don't know the law on this but if you googled something and clicked through a link and inadvertantly brought up some of this child porn are you immediately breaking the law 'cos it's now stored in the cache/internet history on your hard drive?
Or do you have to show intent and repeat behaviour? The report says "one count" - so does that mean a single web page viewed once? or what?
Anytime you go a google image search you always get dodgy stuff back buried amongst the intended stuff. Is that enough to turn you into a child pornographer?
I reckon it's 99% likely that he was looking at porn (not illegal!) and ended up somewhere more dodgy before he realised. It's a personal disaster for him whether he's innocent or guilty. Once it's reported no one cares whether it's alleged, charged or convicted. The masses get to vent their ill-considered outrage, the guilty witch is burnt at the stake and the masses go home happy that their children can sleep safe again. Sad but true.
The abc of tv and rad stars mostly seem a little limpwristed, a little sooky, and
somewhat perverted. Just cany handle most of them and that grandstand
group are up themselves to the bollics. They seemed to start turning about 20
year ago. Its all gone down the gurgeler big time, its basically crap, 
Sad sad news for all concerned.
If a (legally) child views or downloads child pornography, has a crime been committed?
Just a question on moral and legal issues.
Pornography gives me the ****s full stop. My house mate is an afficiando but knows my feelings. My explanation is that it is demeaning for any human being, in my opinion. People who argue soon shut up if you ask them how they would feel if it were their mum, their sister or any family member participating.
As for kids, it is abnormal in our society.
The frightening thing is that the guilty get sent off to one of those state universities/penitentiaries with little regard to why it is that they find it necessary to get their rocks off watching and so the problem persists.
I like to think that for every bastard caught on the internet so many kids are saved from a horrible expereince.
