Republican Judge kills himself to evade child pornography charges

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Republican Caroline County, MD, Circuit Judge Jonathan Newell killed himself this morning when agents showed up at his house to arrest him on child pornography charges. He was elected at the county’s chief prosecutor from 2003-2016 before being appointed to the bench.



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He swallowed the evidence, then as FBI went to arrest him in case of illicit images of a child,...
An Eastern Shore judge, who had been on a leave of absence for more than a month amid an investigation into illicit images of children, took his own life Friday morning as federal agents moved in to...
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3:31 PM · Sep 10, 2021

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-cr-judge-newell-caroline-county-20210910-i45tq5k6hjawfmcrjne3hiv4ry-story.html

An Eastern Shore judge, who had been on a leave of absence for more than a month amid an investigation into illicit images of children, took his own life Friday morning as federal agents moved in to arrest him.

Judge Jonathan G. Newell, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:43 a.m. from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. A judge since 2016 and before that Caroline County’s top prosecutor for more than a decade, he was to be taken into custody on federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child, prosecutors said.

A boy that Newell took on a hunting trip on Hoopers Island discovered a hidden camera in the bathroom on July 23, and his parents reported it to police, which The Sun reported last week. When confronted by investigators, Newell is believed to have chewed up and swallowed a camera memory card, authorities said in a criminal complaint unsealed Friday.

A neighbor of Newell posted pictures on Facebook saying the FBI was outside his Henderson, Md. home asking him to come out over a loudspeaker. The neighbor, Kimberly Keith, said that she heard flash bangs and what she believed to be gunshots, and later an ambulance.

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[Lovie777]

1. Lately it's been republicans that find a whole lot of interest in . . .

child porn.

[meow2u3]

10. Repukes have always found interest in kiddie porn

Why do you think they concocted the Qanon bullshit out of whole cloth?! To cover up their own perverted proclivities by falsely accusing Democrats of their own crimes.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Dude didn't have to kill himself. A high school classmate from 40+ years ago

was caught with 50 photocopies of nude children and is now institutionalized at a mental facility indefinitely.

[Haggard Celine]

3. He was a judge and had been a prosecutor.

He probably couldn't stand the thought of people talking about him in the same way that they had talked about others he had seen prosecuted. Hypocrites hate being revealed.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

8. Not to mention the dangers of

a judge being in prison among other convicts. There are some heavily Republican areas in Maryland and the Eastern Shore is one of them.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. I wish every pedophile would

Kill themselves.

[Talitha]

9. THIS

[tritsofme]

5. It's a shame he waited as long as he did.

[Carlitos Brigante]

6. "AHA!!! Gotcha "Demonrats" with your chil... Wait, what...?" nt

[Lunabell]

7. I'm sure there are Democrat pedophiles but

it seems like the only ones we hear of are republicans. I wonder what the actual breakdown of the percentages are. It's as if those perverted Qanon monsters are projecting.